Build 1868 facility icon issue

[Mgellis]

Just downloaded build 1868 and installed it. I've noticed ground facility icons seem to be very small, compared to ship and aircraft icons. Is this something I can adjust in the game, a bug, or simply the way the facility/ground unit icons now appear? If I use the icon zoom control in the Game menu, it increases the size of all icons, making ships and aircraft much bigger than they should be. Any advice on this one? Thanks.

[JFS737]

Try GAME-> Game Options -> MAP DISPLAY... you should see sliders to size the icons.

[Mgellis]

Yes, I found those controls. The problem is that the ground unit icons seem to be out of scale with the aircraft and sea vessel icons. They all slide up and down with icon zoom, but the ground unit ones are tiny, and getting to them the right size makes the ships and aircraft icons very large. This only seems to happen with the stylized icons...the APP6 ones seem to be all the same size relative to each other.

I didn't know if it was a bug or something I'm just doing wrong with the controls. Or if it's just the way it's going to be from now on. The game seems to work fine, it's just the ground unit icons aren't in scale with the other ones.

[schweggy]

I had the same issue. There's a new slider in the Game Options/Map Display called "IconZoom." It changes the base, ship, sub, aircraft and weapons size.

If moving that slider independently doesn't change the size of the icons then the Command.ini file that controls all the settings might need to be looked at.

[Mgellis]

The slider works. The problem is that the base icons seem to be out of scale with each other. Sea and air icons are normal, but ground units and facilities are tiny. I can adjust the ground icons, but if I simply use the Icon Zoom slider, the ships and aircraft end up being huge when the facilities and ground units are normal.

If I use the APP6 icons, the scaling problem seems to go away. It is mostly the directional stylized icons (naturally, the one I like using) where the problem is most severe.

Anyone have any ideas what I can do to get the icons to be at their normal sizes again?

(I mean, it's not the end of the world. I suppose if I have to, I'll get used to the APP6/NTDS icons again, but I did like the stylized ones.)

[schweggy]

The slider works. The problem is that the base icons seem to be out of scale with each other. Sea and air icons are normal, but ground units and facilities are tiny. I can adjust the ground icons, but if I simply use the Icon Zoom slider, the ships and aircraft end up being huge when the facilities and ground units are normal.

If I use the APP6 icons, the scaling problem seems to go away. It is mostly the directional stylized icons (naturally, the one I like using) where the problem is most severe.

Anyone have any ideas what I can do to get the icons to be at their normal sizes again?

(I mean, it's not the end of the world. I suppose if I have to, I'll get used to the APP6/NTDS icons again, but I did like the stylized ones.)

Maybe post something in the Tech Support thread?

Did you look at the Command.ini file in the Config directory? It appears the various ground units; SAM's, Infantry, Armor, etc. are controlled by 3 or 4 separate entries. But "icons" as in ships, planes, subs, weapons, bases are an "all in one" setting. It wasn't an issue until the full APP-6 NTDS icon implementation. FWIW

[Mgellis]

Looks like someone copied it over to the Tech Issues sub-forum. Thanks to whoever did that!

[boogabooga]

The slider works. The problem is that the base icons seem to be out of scale with each other. Sea and air icons are normal, but ground units and facilities are tiny. I can adjust the ground icons, but if I simply use the Icon Zoom slider, the ships and aircraft end up being huge when the facilities and ground units are normal.

If I use the APP6 icons, the scaling problem seems to go away. It is mostly the directional stylized icons (naturally, the one I like using) where the problem is most severe.

Anyone have any ideas what I can do to get the icons to be at their normal sizes again?

(I mean, it's not the end of the world. I suppose if I have to, I'll get used to the APP6/NTDS icons again, but I did like the stylized ones.)

+1 The icon slider works, but the ground unit slider and all of those per-shape sub-sliders do NOT, at least for directional stylized. As stated, the ratio between the icons is weird without the ability to tune this. It's a little bit of a frustrating bug.

[blu3s]

Thanks,

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