FWII NATO Counters - Version 1.4

[PHalen]

Me too! I use to play a ton of Europa way back when...

Cool! [:)] We had all Europa Series titles between three guys & pretty serious plans about trying to combine them.
Luckily that never happened or we'd probably be somewhere around mid 1940 by now...

[Taxman66]

N/P and best of luck.

[PHalen]

Thanks!

Meanwhile, you might wanna try your hand at making some of the adjustments you prefer.
It's quite fun and not that hard.
But a bit tedious...

Veteran modders have provided gems of generous advice in various threads around this forum.
Freeware such as "paint.net" (intuitive & easy to use) & "Incscape" (steeper learning curve but good for vector graphics) will enable you to do all the graphical editing you'll ever need.

[Taxman66]

I'd be starting from ground zero, and really don't have the time to invest in it.

[SIPRES]

Really good job PHalen
Its nice to see you improve and keep alive this counter Mod.

Thx for that.

Maybe for heavy tank you could use this Nato symbol



Christophe

[Philippeatbay]

ORIGINAL: PHalen

A sample of SIPRES “Unit activation sprite mini mod” - that I recommend - can also be seen on the Romanian unit in this pic.

Where exactly should one go to find the mini-mod? There doesn't seem to be a download link anywhere that I can see.

[SIPRES]

Where exactly should one go to find the mini-mod? There doesn't seem to be a download link anywhere that I can see.
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Here is the link

tm.asp?m=4335260

[PHalen]

Its nice to see you improve and keep alive this counter Mod.

Thanks for encouragement & the heavy tank SIPRES!
Your mod is very much alive.
And has given birth to offsprings![:)]
A testament to how good your initial concept was.

Where exactly should one go to find the mini-mod?

It’s currently on page 2 in this forum.
Check for for SIPRES as Thread Starter.
I’ll add links to my recommendations into my initial post.

[PHalen]

Updated version 1.3 is now available in my initial post.
Version 1.3 feature new & improved heavy tank symbols generously provided by master SIPRES. Thanks!

[Hairog]

Love your ship silhouettes and using your NATO counters.

Made a few changes to the counters and added Cyrillic alphabet to soviets for my WWIII1946 Mod.

[PHalen]

Thanks Hairog!
Glad you like'em.

And a very nice application for your WWIII1946 mod!

[ivanov]

@PHalen - I just wanted to thank you for this mod. This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen!

[PHalen]

@ ivanov: Glad you like the FWII NATO Counters!
(Although I hope you’re exaggerating a bit...) [:)]

Note that SIPRES created their basic design. I basically just added the air & naval silhouettes.

Also note that the pic in my initial post shows a combination of several mods. (E.g. the ”Historical Flag mod” by Philippeatbay.)
That’s the beauty & cool thing about this forum!

[HimAgain]

ORIGINAL: Taxman66

Close. My suggestion (and I have no idea if it is possible) would be a smaller box just around the white '10', not a complete stripe across the lower quarter.

Hi Guys,

I've been looking at this thread and I think that I may already have what you are looking for.
I called it a Higher Contrast Strength Value and made it part of my Hybrid Counter set.

You can see the results in post 107 of this thread tm.asp?m=4214416&mpage=4&key=

The attached file below just needs to be placed in the Bitmaps folder to give the desired effect.
I hope you find it of use.

Good luck on your counter project. It's looking good.

Cheers,

Angus

[PHalen]

Thanks HimAgain!
Much appreciated! [:)]

Your shaded strength value indicators will make the FWII NATO Counters look like on this pic.
I'll stick a pointer to your post #54 into my initial post for people who prefer the increased contrast.

Good luck with your cool Hybrid Counters!
That I can hardly imagine how much work you must have put into...

[Wolfe1759]

PHalen - thanks for the update, apologies my internet has been down since my last post and only got fixed a few days ago so couldn't say thanks sooner.

[PHalen]

Updated version 1.4 is now available in my initial post.
Version 1.4 feature some adjusted unit facings, and slightly larger silhouettes on Transport, AV and AVL units. Thanks SIPRES for sharing their svg files!

[Happycat]

Just curious why I see "Major Power 6" in my game bitmaps but don't see an analogous folder in the zipped download of your 1.4

TIA

[PHalen]

Hey Happycat,
That's because Major Power 6 isn't actually used in SC3 WWII War in Europe. I suppose bitmap folder "Major_06" has been prepared for some future SC3 release. Perhaps for Japan or China in a future Pacific version? So I didn't include any "Major_06" folder in my zipped file.

[Happycat]

ORIGINAL: PHalen

Hey Happycat,
That's because Major Power 6 isn't actually used in SC3 WWII War in Europe. I suppose bitmap folder "Major_06" has been prepared for some future SC3 release. Perhaps for Japan or China in a future Pacific version? So I didn't include any "Major_06" folder in my zipped file.

That makes sense---hopefully this will expand into a global game at some point. Personally, I really enjoy Pacific Theater for the naval ops.

Thanks,