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ORIGINAL: Telumar

Sorry. The link is fixed now.

You're a good man [&o]

muchos garcias. Very nice work. Very nice indeed.

I love the look of the counters

Thank you guys. Any comments on the GUI? Feldgrau and Eastern Rust are my personal favourites.

I'm kinda leaning towards Pacific or one of the camo ones. Still have not decided yet.

Two more GUI Mods. Download links at the end of post.

Grey III:




Blue III:
- leaned on the default TOAW III interface -




This comes quite with some extras:

I customized the TOAW III standard background graphics for the news, the era-specific reinforcements and replacements screens. These backgrounds are the default of the Mod (as in the screenshot) and in their era-specific folders which should be extracted to AltGraphics - don't overwrite your original files in the Graphics folder. There are alternative WWII versions of cwnews.bmp, cwreplacements.bmp and cwreinforcements.bmp in the .zip (with the addition ALT in the file name) that can be used instead.

In the screenshots, the equipment items are silver. However, the standard is gold:



The silver version of equipment256.bmp is also included in the download.


Two different background textures (neutraltexture_1152.bmp) - standard (blurred):



Grainy:




Frames and buttons are also compatibel with the default TOAW III background texture:




Download Links:
(Dropbox)

Grey III

Blue III

Great work as always. You are the GUI Monet.

Looks nice. I already have the Redux 2 mod, and I switch GUI styles depending on which scenario/side I am playing. I notice this one also has the terrain graphic removed from the unit window. This is a good change because as everyone probably agrees, the terrain graphic makes the text in that window harder to read. Hopefully the development team is paying attention to this for the future.

Just curious, what resolution those latest screen shots taken at? I've been having trouble deciding on a resolution to play TOAW at. I usually run my desktop at 1280x720 (24 inch monitor) since reading is easy. But when I play TOAW at this res, the large counters are a bit too small for my liking and the huge counters are a bit too big. I like the way the map looks at 1600x900 with the huge counters, plus you can see everything on the panels on the right side of the screen, but the text in the various information windows is a bit too small. I guess there's just no pleasing me! [:)]

What resolution do others like using?

Wow. I did not realize what crazy stuff you can do till I got hold of Telumar's work.

The background picture becomes the background for everything. Even some windows. But to get the background picture to display properly you have to set this in the Opart 3.ini. I think you can put any screen resolution, just so it's set to something otherwise the game stretches the picture so it's all screwed up.

ChangeScreenResolution=y
ScreenY=900
ScreenX=1440

@ SCAF where can i find those unit info pics from your post http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1161658&mpage=7&key=# post nr 198

ORIGINAL: Ruppich

@ SCAF where can i find those unit info pics from your post http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1161658&mpage=7&key=# post nr 198

Yeah, where are those? The JTCS style unit info would be bloody marvellous!

Klink, Oberst

Hello everyone, Black Steel UI is now available!



Installation:

A. Manually Install
1. Always make a backup first. [:)]
2. Simply unzip and copy-paste overwriting all the relevant files in the directory: C:\Matrix Games\The Operational Art of War III

B. Ready for JSGME install (Plz refer to the relevant installation)

*Also STRONGLY recommend to go with my fonts to have the best visual effects.

Screws_Optional: There is an alternative logo for the optional install in the" Screws_Optional" folder, simply copy and replace the default in the directory: Black Steel UI\Kiddytoto's Black Steel UI\Graphics if you wish. (The default is none/removed)

Have fun! [8D]

Download https://www.dropbox.com/s/o72mureq9hp8y ... l%20UI.rar

Please re-download for a small correction if your download before this correction announcement!! THX! [8D]

SCAF post with new icons for units is awesome. is it already available?

This is what i am currently working on. It's not yet fully finished, but almost:

ORIGINAL: Telumar

This is what i am currently working on. It's not yet fully finished, but almost:

Nice work, Telumar! Looking forward to final version [:)]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Nice work, Telumar! Looking forward to final version

Thanks. It's almost finished. It still requires some finetuning, but is 99% done.

ORIGINAL: Telumar

I changed some tiles in the meantime - this is how it looks now:

There will also be a second Mod as a separate download. I think both will be finished by the coming weekend.

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

Anyone realize that the railroad PNG graphics have an error?
5th row and 7th column should have instead of the south running line a south-west running line.
This is so in:
h_Tiles_damaged_railroad.png
h_Tiles_railroad.png
h_Tiles_railroad(YELLOW).png
h_Tiles_railroad_damaged_bridge.png
s_tiles_damaged_railroad.png
s_tiles_railroad.png
s_Tiles_railroad(YELLOW).png
s_Tiles_railroad_damaged_bridge.png
Tiles_damaged_railroad.png
Tiles_railroad.png
Tiles_railroad(YELLOW).png
Tiles_railroad_damaged_bridge.png

Did you ever post your fixes anywhere?