Bmp Icons for Land Units?

[pad152]

Bmp icons for Land Units:

1. What determines which land units gets which bmp icon?

2. Any way to add to new bmp icons for land units?

[CobraAus]

there is a MAPICON sheet for each nation in the art dir have alook for them and yes you can alter them - have a look at Spookies for Cobra's MApIcons v2 zip to see what I did ages ago
the icon are very small so there is only so much you can do

Cobra Aus

[rhohltjr]

My compliments to you CobraAus. Your avatar has a distraction factor almost on a par with Large_Slow_Targets' artwork. .

.......Just one more thing. In the scenario loading screen art work you(?) submitted to Spooky a while ago...., the left bottom pic shows a scene where there are landing craft milling about and a destroyer shining a search light at the water, in the background. What is that picture.....title.......about....?

[&o]

[CobraAus]

...Just one more thing. In the scenario loading screen art work you(?) submitted to Spooky a while ago...., the left bottom pic shows a scene where there are landing craft milling about and a destroyer shining a search light at the water, in the background. What is that picture.....title.......about....?

It was a while ago now but if memory serves - it was an oil painting I found on the net depicting a night rescue of a stricken destroyer in THE SLOT

Cobra Aus

[rhohltjr]

Thanks for posting the big version of that. The small one does the detail no justice. Yes, those are sailors bobing up and down. The landing craft look to have the same number as the DD/APD in the background. Have never seen an APD before so don't know if that is one. Thanks again.

Really nice avatar.

[Don Bowen]

ORIGINAL: rhohltjr

Thanks for posting the big version of that. The small one does the detail no justice. Yes, those are sailors bobing up and down. The landing craft look to have the same number as the DD/APD in the background. Have never seen an APD before so don't know if that is one. Thanks again.

Really nice avatar.

The lines and hull number show her to be a converted DE - too late in the war for Guadalcanal. I think this is the ship that rescued some of the Indianapolis survivors - that is probably the subject of the painting.

[Ron Saueracker]

Yeah, I think it's USS Tabberer.

[pad152]

Cobra Aus

What I'm looking is info on the GroundUnits.bmp, any one know that mapping, which units map to which icons. Is there anyway to get a ground unit to use a specific bmp.

[CobraAus]

hi pad have a look at sample below - this is my map icon sheet for us icons
at the bottom you will see the troop icons they are the one that the progrom picks up and displays and as you can see you can change -resize slightly - the is a sheet for each nation in the game each sheet covers a multitude of icons for game

Cobra Aus

[pad152]

CobraAus

I'm looking for info on the groundUnit.bmp, NOT YOUR ICONS!!!!

1. Anyone know the mapping of the groundUnit icons (land unit to which bmp)?

2. Any way to add new ones?

[rhohltjr]

CobraAus this must have been the site. Yeah, I went looking for it.
-------------------------------------------------------------- [&o]
Looking for United States Navy Warships - Paintings and Prints?
U.S.S. Bassett APD-73 on patrol in the Pacific Ocean
U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS
Sunk By Japanese Submarine
- RESCUE AT SEA -
'JAWS' 1945
Naval History Giclee Art Prints By Mark Churms
WWII United States Navy Crew face shark attacks in Pacific Ocean

USS Bassett APD73 launches LCVPS to rescue 150 crew members of USS Indianapolis CA-35, sunk by a Japanese submarine, having delivered components of the Atomic Bomb. Of nearly 1200 crew aboard the Indianapolis, only 317 survived five days at the mercy of the sharks and the Pacific Ocean!

U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS SINKS, KILLER SHARKS ATTACK CREW!

On August 2nd, 1945 the USS Bassett APD-73 was on Anti-submarine patrol offthe coast of Leyte Island. The Bassett received orders to investigate a groupof men in the water some 200 miles away. The ship set course and steamed tothe scene. The ship and crew had no idea that the men they were about torescue were all that remained of the USS Indianapolis CA-35. The Indianapolis had been sunk by the Imperial Japanese submarine I-58 on the evening of July 30th, 1945 while returning from Tinian Island after delivering the components of the Atomic Bomb. The crew of the Indy was leftto the oil polluted and shark infested waters. Little did the survivors know it would be almost 5 days before help would arrive.

USS Bassett Rescues 150 Survivors
The USS Bassett began the rescue just after midnight on August 3. TwoLCVP landing crafts were launched into the dark rough waters to retrieve thesurvivors. The rescue continued throughout the night and into the dawn hours of morning. Of the nearly 1200 men aboard the Indianapolis, only 317 survived. The USS Bassett was responsible for saving 150 of these crew men.

Text By Thomas Hines
Dedicated to the crew of U.S.S. Indaianapolis CA35 and U.S.S. Bassett APD73
With special thanks to USS Bassett LCVP veteran Peter Wren

[CobraAus]

I'm looking for info on the groundUnit.bmp, NOT YOUR ICONS!!!!

sorry mate went down totaly wrong path -to change finr art you want to use resize then cut and past to change it been a while since I had a look at these but I think each nation hase 6 pics of - ground troops - command- tanks - engineers - anti air and coastal guns
I printed out panal the did comparison check againt each nation to find what pic did what
sorry did not keep results now hope this helps

Cobra Aus

[Reg]

There appears to be two rows for each nation and the relative position of the unit types is the same for each nation. The above post should give you a clue to which picture represents the unit types.

For anyone else who wants to have a go at updating the images, the file you are after is \War in the Pacific\ART\GroundUnits.bmp

Use your favorite graphics editor to paste your desired picture in the appropriate panel of the above file. Make sure you stay within the boundries of the existing picture as the locations are fixed in code!! (The individual panels are 150 by 60 pixels in size).

Feel free to experiment and see what you can come up with!!
(Maybe the rest of us could use your efforts as well!!!).

Just remember to back up the original file.

[Reg]

Note: Image shrunk for display...

At a guess:
INF, ARM, ART, ENG
CD, AAA, HQ, Marines

and:
USA
ANZAC
British/Indian/Dutch
Japan
China
Russia

I suspect these allocations are set in the code.