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Need some tech help
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:09 pm
by Przemcio251
Hi is there any tutorial how to change color of the units showing on the map??? i remember doing something like changing Allies to US - Light Blue, Dutch - Orange, Indian - Purple, Australian - Dark Green. Haven't played this game for years and i like to give it another shot
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:26 pm
by geofflambert
Don't want to be przumptuous but here's what you'll find in the ART game folder.
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:01 pm
by kbfchicago
I do not recall a specific tutorial on this. There is guidance for making art mods in the "Art Mods" sticky thread in the Mod Forum.
As the Gorn has posted the file is easy enough to find, I've not tried to update the colors in it myself. For my $ there are way too many high quality art mod efforts done by others far more skilled than I. (I think...I've used many over the years) the one I'm currently using came from (
https://sites.google.com/site/bigbsshipyard/home). Am using with LST's game mod and have all the cool nation state related rainbow of colors for units...[8D]
Happy Gaming,
Kevin
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:37 am
by Przemcio251
Hmmmm wonder how to change them....
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:06 pm
by kbfchicago
ORIGINAL: Przemcio251
Hmmmm wonder how to change them....
May want to move that question over to the Scenario Design and Modding forum, it is quite active. I just benefit from those good folks art work and game updates, not a competent contributor, so could not provide a specific answer.
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:27 pm
by Nomad
If you look in the ART folder you will see a number of different Button bitmaps. Some of them are listed as spares. You can do some renaming of them to change
the color scheme.
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:21 pm
by Shellshock
To change the colors of the on-map icons you'd probably need a graphic program to either change the unit colors or substitute a flag on one of the existing colors. A lot of the spare color map-icon files in the ART folder have blank flags.
For example, overlaying the US Flag into the French flag in the map icon file for the Free French and saving it as mapiconsA.bmp will give you blue on map ship and unit icons for the U.S. Of course, they'll be the same colors as the French units, but there are not many French forces in the game that it's worth worrying about. Either that or you'd have to change the French to another color altogether.
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:44 pm
by RangerJoe
You could change the French to a white cross in the upper left with a white background. White stripes alternating with white stripes for the rest of the flag. [8|]
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:18 am
by Przemcio251
ORIGINAL: Shellshock
To change the colors of the on-map icons you'd probably need a graphic program to either change the unit colors or substitute a flag on one of the existing colors. A lot of the spare color map-icon files in the ART folder have blank flags.
For example, overlaying the US Flag into the French flag in the map icon file for the Free French and saving it as mapiconsA.bmp will give you blue on map ship and unit icons for the U.S. Of course, they'll be the same colors as the French units, but there are not many French forces in the game that it's worth worrying about. Either that or you'd have to change the French to another color altogether.
Thanks that helped
used plain old paint to do it
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:32 am
by LargeSlowTarget
ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
You could change the French to a white cross in the upper left with a white background. White stripes alternating with white stripes for the rest of the flag. [8|]
Isn't that the Italian flag?
Bad jokes aside:
France lost about 210.000 soldiers and Italy about 330.000. The US lost about 407.000 - from a population base more than tree times larger than either France or Italy. Civilians included, France lost about 610.000 people or 1,44% of its pre-war population, Italy about 500.000 or 1.2%, and the US less than 420.000 or 0.32% of its prewar population. Just to put things in perspective.
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:42 am
by inqistor
I'm not sure PAINT can fix this. That pink is alpha.
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:06 am
by RangerJoe
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
You could change the French to a white cross in the upper left with a white background. White stripes alternating with white stripes for the rest of the flag. [8|]
Isn't that the Italian flag?
Bad jokes aside:
France lost about 210.000 soldiers and Italy about 330.000. The US lost about 407.000 - from a population base more than tree times larger than either France or Italy. Civilians included, France lost about 610.000 people or 1,44% of its pre-war population, Italy about 500.000 or 1.2%, and the US less than 420.000 or 0.32% of its prewar population. Just to put things in perspective.
I know that the french lost a lot of people in WWII, quite a few by Allied bombing as well. But I read about that flag in a book . . .
RE: Need some tech help
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:42 am
by Shellshock
ORIGINAL: inqistor
I'm not sure PAINT can fix this. That pink is alpha.
Blue Hawaii. It seems to be working so far.
