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Ive unpacked the /Graphics files and cant find the little red & blue squares that indicate unit locations on the minimap. Anybody know where they reside?

Please not in the .exe !

Good question, sorry i cant answer.

simtek/S3T had a policy of moving everything poossible out of the exe and into more accessible files.... seemed to be going well for a while.

The last couple of releases by s3t/Blackhand have reversed this trend with new features being packed into the exe and thus virtually inaccessible to modders.

Damn sure hate to have to kludge my 'Limited Intel' mod and have make all the minimaps red so as to hide enemy (AI) unit locations

Looking at the ScrnGadg for WAR I see three files labeled STRBLUE_000,STRGREEN_000 and STRRED_000
I do not know if these are what your looking for as I have never edited them before.

P.S
You will have to scroll through several other files to find all three.
They are in alphabetized order NOT all three next to each other.


I don't know
Maybe not.
I added all three to a screen shot to compare.
of course I do wonder sometimes if the game magnifies images?
and the three files I mentioned have a drop shadow.

ORIGINAL: Andrew Williams

being packed into the exe and thus virtually inaccessible to modders.

Any chance that info can be posted?
I for one would like to have access to the Flares and the Night effect.

ORIGINAL: Platoon_Michael
Looking at the ScrnGadg for WAR I see three files labeled STRBLUE_000,STRGREEN_000 and STRRED_000
I do not know if these are what your looking for as I have never edited them before.

Thanks but those are similar indicators for BGs on the strategic minimap.



The graphics Im looking for should be in the game gadgets right next to the 3 minimap victory location flags (0098 MMVLAmerican etc)

Any chance that info can be posted?

here's a for instance.

the calculation that determines the number of BG team slots available is not editable as it has been placed in the exe.

I could easily have been placed in fpool or Bgroups txt by inputting a simple number from 1 - 15 thus giving the designer much wider options and making it much more easily editable for differing requirements.

eg. A BG with very few team slots available but a lot of reserves or a BG with all 15 slots available and no reserves and then any permutation in between... as it is now it is fixed to what the coder thought was appropriate whether correct or not.

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ORIGINAL: Platoon_Michael
Looking at the ScrnGadg for WAR I see three files labeled STRBLUE_000,STRGREEN_000 and STRRED_000
I do not know if these are what your looking for as I have never edited them before.

Thanks but those are similar indicators for BGs on the strategic minimap.



The graphics Im looking for should be in the game gadgets right next to the 3 minimap victory location flags (0098 MMVLAmerican etc)

What about the Blue?
Is that for another nation maybe?

Maybe they just use a formula and directx to draw them which would make it nearly impossible to find in the bitmap files or in the exe. See some coding examples here: http://www.gamedev.net/topic/259860-dra ... n-directx/

It could be possible in this case to 'outsource' the filling color as variables but I'm sure if it's a programmed circle that no one has thought about the fact that someone might to change it.

In LSA there are only the STRGreen and STRRed images. Dont know what the blue image might have been for.

I was hoping to change the red minimap indicators to white and so as to make them transparent (ie. invisible), along with removing the game clock numerals, force morale indicators & enemy icons on the overview map. All the VL icons (.MMM, .OVM & .BGM) are going to always show split control. Im also considering removing all the "health head" indicators to reduce potential info about enemy teams.

Now this would be a nice one xe5. Maybe a programmer will notice this and take a look?