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RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:37 pm
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
BTW there is also a file called "mapiconsFF_P1" with a French flag, do you know where that is used?
It is not used in-game unless you want to use it. It is an identical set of map icons BUT without the crossed sword combat and based information (exclamation points in yellow and red) icons. To use them, you would changed the name of the current "mapiconsFF" to something else and rename the "mapiconsFF_P1" by removing the "_P1" from the filename.
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
I wonder what else is hidden in the depths of the WitP folder.
Well, a few more things.... There are stock WITP land unit buttons included incase anyone didn't want to use the new expanded set for AE. These show up at the bottom of the screen when you click on a base. An example of these files is "Buttons6_A_stock.bmp". If you want to use them, same renaming process as mentioned above.
Also, there are 5 different colors for buttons and map icons that are listed as "spares" incase you wanted to change the color of a nation's units.
The only thing you would have to do is copy the desired flag into the new map icon set and pick the appropirate Button4 spares to get the correct aircraft symbols for the nation you are changing the color on. For example, you wouldn't want to use the British aircraft symbols if changing the color of the US buttons. So there are multiples of the aircraft buttons for each color to get the right aircraft symbols with the new color you want. Make sense?
Then there are also spares for the other buttons: Industry, Land Unit symbols and ship symbols which are generic in the shape of the icons across the board. So on these, you just pic the new color you want and rename the file. There aren't variations of the symbols on these buttons as we had to do for the aircraft buttons.
The alternate colors are Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold, and a Khaki Green. Examples of these files are in the pic below.
TOMLABEL
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:17 am
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
BTW there is also a file called "mapiconsFF_P1" with a French flag, do you know where that is used?
It is not used in-game unless you want to use it. It is an identical set of map icons BUT without the crossed sword combat and based information (exclamation points in yellow and red) icons. To use them, you would changed the name of the current "mapiconsFF" to something else and rename the "mapiconsFF_P1" by removing the "_P1" from the filename.
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
I wonder what else is hidden in the depths of the WitP folder.
Well, a few more things.... There are stock WITP land unit buttons included incase anyone didn't want to use the new expanded set for AE. These show up at the bottom of the screen when you click on a base. An example of these files is "Buttons6_A_stock.bmp". If you want to use them, same renaming process as mentioned above.
Also, there are 5 different colors for buttons and map icons that are listed as "spares" incase you wanted to change the color of a nation's units.
The only thing you would have to do is copy the desired flag into the new map icon set and pick the appropirate Button4 spares to get the correct aircraft symbols for the nation you are changing the color on. For example, you wouldn't want to use the British aircraft symbols if changing the color of the US buttons. So there are multiples of the aircraft buttons for each color to get the right aircraft symbols with the new color you want. Make sense?
Then there are also spares for the other buttons: Industry, Land Unit symbols and ship symbols which are generic in the shape of the icons across the board. So on these, you just pic the new color you want and rename the file. There aren't variations of the symbols on these buttons as we had to do for the aircraft buttons.
The alternate colors are Orange, Turquoise, Purple, Gold, and a Khaki Green. Examples of these files are in the pic below.
TOMLABEL
Has anyone tried any of these yet?? Anyone??
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:09 am
by BigDuke66
Question is why should you?
The normal colors seem to fit perfectly so I guess one would only change if there is a problem with seeing a specific color.
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:47 pm
by eloso
ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL
Has anyone tried any of these yet?? Anyone??
I use them.
I changed the colors all around to suit my tastes. I use orange for the Dutch, grey for India, tan for Canada, and aqua for New Zealand. I also use your FF flag.
Thanks for providing the options.
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:25 pm
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
Question is why should you?
The normal colors seem to fit perfectly so I guess one would only change if there is a problem with seeing a specific color.
No, not really. As released, India, Canada and the British use the same color. I would like to know the difference between my Indian units and Canadian units on-map as well as the bases ownership.
Therefore, I changed my Indian units to the golden color and the Canadian units to the khaki green colors icons. Now, with just a glance, I can tell who is who.
TOMLABEL
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:27 pm
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: OSO
ORIGINAL: TOMLABEL
Has anyone tried any of these yet?? Anyone??
I use them.
I changed the colors all around to suit my tastes. I use orange for the Dutch, grey for India, tan for Canada, and aqua for New Zealand. I also use your FF flag.
Thanks for providing the options.
You're welcome OSO. This is exactly what I was talking about. I'm glad someone besides me is liking these alternatives!!!![:)][:)][:)]
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:36 pm
by BigDuke66
Indeed now that you say it that orange set would fit perfectly to the Dutch.
The sub-factions(Philippine, Commonwealth, Communist China) don't have their own sets or?
And does the Allied player ever get to see the Japanese set? I thought about using that for Canada.
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:07 am
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
The sub-factions(Philippine, Commonwealth, Communist China) don't have their own sets or?
No, unless you change India and Canada. The Aussies and NZlanders were released with their own colors if I remember correctly. Not worth the effort for PI and CC.
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
And does the Allied player ever get to see the Japanese set? I thought about using that for Canada.
Yeah, just look in the ART folder. There are no other color options for the Japanese except RED for the button icons. The only change you can make here is for the national flag with the map icon set. Tried white, but didn't work out.
Anything else????
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:06 am
by BigDuke66
Thanks.
Just looked thru the buttons and saw that some have letter & symbol set off by one pixel so I guess that the letter and symbol have been copied over the colored field, now I wonder if we have a "blank" sets of icons without color in the background so one could use his preferred color.
Oh and do you know why on all mapicons sets the symbol with the two ships(forth from the top) is always in green no matter what color the rest uses?
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:41 am
by eloso
I believe the double icon of 2 ships represents a spotted task force. I would imagine that it's the same color for all nationalities for FOW purposes.
A decent photo editing program like photoshop could be used to modify any of these to get the desired color. The most important part is to maintain the background pink color since this is transparent in game.
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:50 pm
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
I wonder if we have a "blank" sets of icons without color in the background so one could use his preferred color.
No we don't. Not at this time.
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
Oh and do you know why on all mapicons sets the symbol with the two ships(forth from the top) is always in green no matter what color the rest uses?
ORIGINAL: OSO
I believe the double icon of 2 ships represents a spotted task force. I would imagine that it's the same color for all nationalities for FOW purposes.
Correct. This is exactly why.
TOMLABEL
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:25 pm
by BigDuke66
And it seems to be used if there are to many TFs in a base, at least in Soerabaja I see that the symbol is being used although all TFs are Dutch.
I wonder what map icon set he uses if there are several TFs with different nationalities in a hex, at least for the LCUs it seems to simply use the color of the first unit or a corresponding darker shade if more troops are in a hex.
Airfield map icons look strange don't seem to work that way, first unit in Singapore is an Australian AG but airfield map icon uses British color, OK maybe because its a CW base but an Indian base(Madras for example) still us the British map icon color for airfields despite having only Indian air groups there & being an Indian base.
And Industry icons at the bottom use also British color instead Indian color.
BTW attached are modified red & yellow boxes to fit with the unit icons so there is no icon color outside of those boxes like it is now.
RE: Ship Art update
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:13 pm
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: Big B
To all,
On behalf of TOMLABEL and myself, I am happy to announce that our joint USN&RN ship art project is finished and may be downloaded at RogueUSMC's website here:
http://witp.tylerroguedesigns.com/new.htm
The project consists of 232 direct replacement ships for stock AE (232 sides and 232 matching shils), as well as the complete set of 519 for modding your own scenarios.
There are also several variations of combat screens.
Sorry it took so long, and thank you for your patience.
B
See here:
tm.asp?m=2759968
RE: Art mods
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:46 am
by TOMLABEL
ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
ORIGINAL: Halsey
This is great!
We can always use the help, since there's only 2 or 3 of us working on these now.
You take the Japanese forces, do whatever you want to them.
It'll be awesome to see the Japanese in there glory!
Sure lend me your sources & talent and its done in a minute.
BigD, can you give us an update on your progress on these or if you need any help?
Thanks for jumping in on the deep-end!!! [&o]
TOMLABEL
RE: Art mods
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:22 am
by BigDuke66
Unfortunately I wasn't able to dig out anything useful just again and again and again[:(]:
-Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy
-Seal of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Not even something for such famous ships as the Yamato.
RE: Art mods
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:28 pm
by Major SNAFU_M
ORIGINAL: Dixie
Badges for the Royal Navy CVEs in the Pacific. Badges for destroyers, cruiers, battleships and fleet carriers are made but waiting for permission to use some of the images.
Royal Navy Escort Carriers
This link has expired. Can some one please make it available again?
RE: Art mods
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:40 pm
by Major SNAFU_M
Do you still need to install the add-on to make this work, or is it incorporated into the i, j and k patches?
Thanks
RE: Art mods
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:29 pm
by Smeulders
ORIGINAL: Major SNAFU
ORIGINAL: Dixie
Badges for the Royal Navy CVEs in the Pacific. Badges for destroyers, cruiers, battleships and fleet carriers are made but waiting for permission to use some of the images.
Royal Navy Escort Carriers
This link has expired. Can some one please make it available again?
I hope this hasn't happened to all of Dixies files. He posted a lot of nice badges. The RN CVE badges are attached to this post. Credit is very likely due to FleetChief at the worldnavalships forum who made the badges. The RN CVE were resized to the AE format by Dixie.
RE: Art mods
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:39 pm
by Major SNAFU_M
Thanks!
RE: Art mods
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:08 am
by drw61
Here is an update for the latest LCU patches so they work with the DaBigBabes Mod. (These work properly only with the DaBigBabes Mod) Thanks to Halsey and LesBaker for the wonderful art.
First is for the CW