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1) Took swatter555's cities and made the city border darker so they don't stand out so much.

2) Took Bleck's idea about changing the hex grid to black and setting opacity to 35%.

3) Changed the hard to see port symbol into something that stands out a bit more.

4) Changed the main supply source symbol into a standard depot symbol for easier visibility.

And here is the actual others.png

update: updated the PNG to further reduce gray city borders
update2: moved depot and port symbols outboard for easier visibility when hex occupied by unit

Hey, very nice.

Thanks for taking the time to make this mod.

I am using it, everything is much clearer!

Help...[&:]

How is this installed??

What file is it copied too?

Hey Carnifex, is it possible to design cities so the VP cities have a little star or VP indicator with them? Not sure how that works. I'd like to be able to easily see what are the main cities to capture.

Just replace others.png in map skin you are using.
data\gfx\[MapSkin]<skin name>\others.png

You should find an others.png in your data\gfx\[MapSkin]Normal folder. Rename this others.png to OrgOthers.png, just in case, and then copy the new Others.png in there.

Chuck

Thanks all...i got it to work.[&o]

ORIGINAL: Joram

Hey Carnifex, is it possible to design cities so the VP cities have a little star or VP indicator with them? Not sure how that works. I'd like to be able to easily see what are the main cities to capture.

As far as I know the VP cities use the same icon as the regular cities so there's no way to mod that.

If you feel up to it, you can always add "(# VP)" after the city name for all VP-places. Instead of just "Paris", as an example, you write "Paris (5 VP)". I did that in my old RtV-scenario for marking PP-values, but it took a while to do and wasn't exactly funny. It was a great help, however.

As there are already some changes in others.png for patch, i will try to also change drawing cities. Probably city parameters will be defined as in unit's appearance.csv

Ah, swell! You mean all the changes we do now, will have to go?? [&:]
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But you're not going to change map and units, surely? [:)]

I'm sure not all of them will go.

On the other hand we have got something like 80 position on the changelog already.

All I've changed so far in others.png is hex highlight graphics (rearranged, because there are new).
Now in others.png are only city sprites (like unit sprites in unit.png). If i will change drawing cities, there will be also (separately, not in city sprite) icons for port, depot, VP and PP (like star when unit has commander) and fortification level graphics (as tech level of unit). So all you need to do is to prepare those graphics, insert them to others.png and write in csv where are they and where should be displayed (or not if you don't want them to be visible) on map in particular zoom level.

Well, this sounds very good!