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I've been struggling to spot the vanilla formation highlight, so I've created a red one. This works in Zoom levels 3 and 4, but not in maximum Zoom-In, as I never use that.

FIRST BACKUP THE ORIGINAL FILE, then unzip to your graphics folder (e.g. in my install it's C:\Matrix Games\The Operational Art of War IV\graphics).

Here's a preview

Have now added the Max zoom version and also changed the selected unit higlight to a brighter colour than vanilla.

Deleted - one file was missing I believe. See posts below.

Hey Redmarkus,
Just an FYI there's a graphics override folder in the my documents TOAW4 folder you can drop this stuff into, no overwriting is needed.

Nice mod, I will use it

I think I forgot to include one of the files in the Zip

Hey Bud,

Good to see you here - but not a surprise as this has always been the gold standard in wargames!

I'd forgotten all about that folder. I just like doing things the hard way!!!

I also find the default frontline markers a bit tricky to spot, depending on the background map being used. I've modded these to make them stand out a bit more...

My alt borders

These are so much better, and so much easier to see! Thanks, j

ORIGINAL: joey

These are so much better, and so much easier to see! Thanks, j

[8D]

Great work dear redmarkus4! As always!

I'm using my modded dashed red frontline borders BMP from TOAWIII. BMP terrain/map graphics (EXCEPT unit counters) in the Graphics Override folder do work... note that the zoomed out map will look very messy though

Awesome just what I: was needing

Aha, redmarkus4, this is great! A definite improvement, and one I sought to make on my own as well!
For some variety in the color options, I've got white(ish) and slightly-pale green options. [:)]

White:


Green:


Get the white rings here: https://www.systemshift.net/files/Alt (white) formation rings.zip
Aaand the green rings here: https://www.systemshift.net/files/Alt (green) formation rings.zip

White, definitely white. I'm sold.

Some good stuff here - I also like the white ones. My slight red-green color blindness makes the green ones hard to tell the difference between selected and formation.

I like the brighter borders too, nice job!

ORIGINAL: aperfecturkel

Aha, redmarkus4, this is great! A definite improvement, and one I sought to make on my own as well!
For some variety in the color options, I've got white(ish) and slightly-pale green options. [:)]

White:


Green:


Get the white rings here: https://www.systemshift.net/files/Alt (white) formation rings.zip
Aaand the green rings here: https://www.systemshift.net/files/Alt (green) formation rings.zip

Very nice! It would be great if we had a set of switches in the game options that let us alternate between options like this; white highlights on a green map, red ones on a winter map, etc.

ORIGINAL: Shadrach

Some good stuff here - I also like the white ones. My slight red-green color blindness makes the green ones hard to tell the difference between selected and formation.

I like the brighter borders too, nice job!

Nooo... My red ones are definitely better lol