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Ormand wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 12:20 pm I tend to like the one with him holding the rifle. Although, I also tend not like the writing. It seems busy to me. I also like these images better than the earlier ones. They have a better overall look. Somewhat more realistic but also an illustration.

If you do decide to go without the writing, I would also tend to suggest a transparent background. The reason being that in the game you can load two images for the SFType. Thus, you can load in a single colored image for the background, and still have the opportunity for the image to be transparent and show the terrain image, if you want. Two options can be available.

What I need to check is if with an event you can load images for the various peoples as well as the main image. I suspect so, but I am not 100% sure. If so, the process of assigning images can be automated with an event rather than having to do it manually for each and every subformation and people type. A process that is rather tedious and boring. Since it is likely that there will be on more patch, I'll check and make sure that it can be done.

I confess that the one thing in the editor that I found to be the most mind-numbingy boring thing to do was to set the graphic overrides for Landscapes. It had to be done for each override. Thus, I set it up so that you can select more than one at a time, indeed all of the ones you want to override.

GaryChildress wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 12:43 pm

I can get rid of the writing. It's not essential to the game, just a little extra tidbit of info about the weapon the soldier is using for hardcore military enthusiasts or something.

Ormand wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 1:33 pm With these event functions, it will be reasonably simple to load the graphics. One has to make a stringlist that conatains things like the sftype #, the extragraphic #, names for pic1 and pic2, name for the extragraphic, etc. Then loop over them and let the event do the work. The tedium is making the stringlist, which can be a text file that then gets loaded. If there is a mistake in it, all you have to do is fix the mistake and run the event again.

Ormand wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 3:46 pm I like it better.

ernieschwitz wrote: Sat May 11, 2024 10:54 pm I like them. I like their site too. I like the one with out the dedication most But I understand why you would want it there...

ernieschwitz wrote: Sun May 12, 2024 8:53 am Very nice Battleship!

I think that the worst part of the graphic is actually the flag. I wouldn't mind generic graphics for things such as battleships, so for me, losing the flag is no biggie. Also makes it so that you don't need to make ships with different flags, for all the nations. And what happens if someone makes a nation not yet represented, but wants to use the graphics. So in my mind you'd need to make a generic version anyhow.

GaryChildress wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 9:32 am Here they are as they appear in the game sizewise.

Ormand wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:34 pm I decided to go back and look at Blender again, and what I did with aircraft and to make a stab at tanks. It was a bit arduous as I basically forgot everything and the code evolved from 2.9 to 4.1. So, I had to relearn just about everything and watched videos from a guy that goes by Arijan, where I picked up a lot of tips. I tried my hand with a T-34 Model 1941, which might have been a bad first choice as the turret is a bit challenging to get the curve and not make some funny geometric shapes and not use triangles. Also, I put a bit more into it than I should have since I see that the holes that I had to cut into front and back sprockets aren't that visible in this view. I am also not that happy with the renders. They are a bit flat since it has a single color, and I am not that sure how to put some textures. I did find a way to cavity shading (as a filter on the render), which adds some highlights to edges, but also wound up using a line in the Cycles engine, which makes a bit cartoony, but has contrast, which I couldn't really get.



The view is a bit better than sideways, where the image pretty small. In DC, the view uses the full image in the SFT info window by not showing readiness, APs etc there. The 4:3 format is a little limiting.

Note that the image is 576 x 432, which can be brought into ATG, as it is scaled down.T34.png