Counters

[Ken7]

Hi friends. I looked around and didn't see this question so I will ask it. Do we have a choice of which COUNTERS we use or must we use just the Standard Nato COUNTERS? Thanks in advance for the reply.

[Tamas]

It's NATO counters only. We have left the old 3D unit icons in as well, but that's simply a legacy feature we have not removed, but not actively supporting either (hence no mention in the feature list).

[ralphtricky]

Although if someone were ambitious, it's pretty easy to create new counters. They are basically just stencils on top of the counter. I think they're called CounterUnit, s_CounterUnit and h_CounterUnit.

Since they support full Alpha channel, an artist could probably do all kinds of neat things.

Ralph

[JPJ]

Hi Ken7,
It happens there is currently another discussion about this in the modding forum:

"Change Graphics to Non-Nato Icons"
tm.asp?m=4382706

[Dr. Foo]

ORIGINAL: ralphtricky

Although if someone were ambitious, it's pretty easy to create new counters. They are basically just stencils on top of the counter. I think they're called CounterUnit, s_CounterUnit and h_CounterUnit.

Since they support full Alpha channel, an artist could probably do all kinds of neat things.

Ralph

Yes, but I loved the old bitmaps you could edit just with MS Paint and edit the color, icon and create a bigger flat counter all in one.

[Ken7]

Thanks for the site JPJ. I kinda like the little men and little tanks and little airplanes icons. I'm too freaking old to learn the nato counters. (whimping out) I would probably buy the game if I could just click on Icons and change them to the little guys I mentioned earlier.