(Download Now Available - v3.0) Yet another counter/weather mod

[escorpion]

Thanks Mark, I work with Paint, however thanks for your offer.

-J.R.

[mroyer]

ORIGINAL: escorpion

Thanks Mark, I work with Paint, however thanks for your offer.

-J.R.

Paint!?!?! Holy crap - if you can accomplish that with paint I can only imagine what you could do with GIMP!
-Mark R.

[Rosseau]

Thanks to both of you for the mods. Hoping to see some scenario mods, too. Maybe something a bit ahistorical?

[PanzerMike]

Round Air / Rectangle Naval / Square Ground Units (v2.0) looks fabulous. Just one minor issue: if an air unit has its "prioritize for reinforcements" checked, the green + symbol is positioned over the letter on the counter (M, F, T, etc). No biggie and perhaps unavoidable.

[Queeg]

This is really outstanding work. Actually prompted me to pull the trigger on buying the game.

[mroyer]

ORIGINAL: Just one minor issue: if an air unit has its "prioritize for reinforcements" checked, the green + symbol is positioned over the letter on the counter (M, F, T, etc). No biggie and perhaps unavoidable.

Yes [:(]... Noticed this myself a couple days ago. I already fixed it by moving the FTMS letters above the air unit strength. I haven't posted the update yet - I hate to go wild with willy-nilly updates so I was waiting a while to see if anything else surfaced.



-Mark R.

[budd]

How about putting the cross under the other wing opposite the dots totally in the lighter color space.

[mroyer]

ORIGINAL: budd

How about putting the cross under the other wing opposite the dots totally in the lighter color space.

Budd,
The game engine positions the numbers, the action dots, the reinforce priority plus, the mission triangle and the unit size ('xxx') - the mod has no control over that. Everything in the mod image has to work around those fixed positions.

-Mark R.

[mroyer]

Version 3 of this mod is uploaded. Description of changes and link for download is on opening post of this thread.

-Mark R.

[PanzerMike]

Absolutely love your units.png

[PanzerMike]

I have been a cheeky little monkey and tinkered with the German Armor in your mod:





I want the German Armor to stand out a little more (and yes, I would like them black if at all possible, hehehe), so I can easily see where they are.

Maybe there are better ways to make armor stand out more, but this is what I came up with.
What do you think?

[MOS96B2P]

It sure helps when they are partially covered by an air unit.

[mroyer]

ORIGINAL: PanzerMike

I have been a cheeky little monkey
I want the German Armor to stand out a little more (and yes, I would like them black if at all possible, hehehe), so I can easily see where they are.

Maybe there are better ways to make armor stand out more, but this is what I came up with.
What do you think?

PanzerMike, looks pretty sharp!
I put a link in the opening post for the GIMP source .xcf file if you want to take that further.

-Mark R.

[PanzerMike]

Thank you for that! I said I wanted black armor, well black it is:





Work in progress. Not sure about this yet.

[MOS96B2P]

The corps marking (XXX) is along the right side of the armor unit. I wonder if this will conflict with the priority supply cross (green +). My panzer corps often have this green cross. [:D]

[PanzerMike]

Or with the Corps marking to the left to make room for green +


How I wish we had more control over some stuff. The hardcoded green + and the strength numbers (always black), etc. do get in the way sometimes. Alvaro, please fix or do sumfink [:D]

[Uxbridge]

I thought in exactly the same way; having a white border under the figures on a black counter. [:)] But I came to the conclusion that it would probably look the way it does in your former example. Apparantly, you thought about it more than I, and the outcome is rather nice.

[PanzerMike]

How about something like this:

[Uxbridge]

Think the green plus is visible without the dot background. And also prefered the slightly odd corps designation of the former example. Maybe that is superflouos anyway, since the armour is alwas the same size anyway. I'm thinking about some red/white stripe as backgrund for the "XXX". May have a go tomorrow.

[PanzerMike]

I have been slaving away at the excellent unit xcf file so kindly supplied by mroyer. I am doing a lot of tidying up (some pics are a few pixels off for example and some other minor things). But the major change (if you can call it that), is that I enlarged the icons with 2 pixels both in breadth and heigth. It now looks something like this:

The effect is subtle, but you get just that little bit of extra space to accomodate for instance the triple X corps symbol. I think it looks just that little neater (is that a word?).
I still have some ideas I am trying right now, but the unit.xcf is coming along nicely!

@Mroyer: if you want the changed unit.xcf let me know. It will always be your mod ofcourse, but you can't blame a guy for improving it a little bit here and there now can you