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FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:36 pm
by EasternWind
If you get bored with original counter's art style in FPSS, now you can try this mod to improve that!
I had made about 240+ colored counters in game, and may update it slowly in the future...
All original pic materials used in this mod are from:
1. Tank Encyclopedia:
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/
2. Airliners:
https://www.airliners.net/
3. Another websites if cant find any suitable pic in both above sites.
Attachment:
How to use that:
Download the attached file, unzip that then put it all into fllowing path:
..\Modules\Common\Data\Common\Custom
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:39 pm
by EasternWind
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Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 2:59 pm
by Tagüeña
Spectacular. Bravo!
P.S: Personally, in the units inspector I might put a real photograph, not a silhouette.
There would be more variety.
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 4:32 pm
by CapnDarwin
Very nice work. Thanks for sharing.
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 8:22 pm
by WildCatNL
EasternWind wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:36 pm
If you get bored with original counter's art style in FPSS, now you can try this mod to improve that!
I had made about 240+ colored counters in game, and may update it slowly in the future...
Great job! I'm also happy the game's "silhouette halo" works nicely with your colored counters.
Suggestion:
These colored silhouettes only display correctly when players use the default 'Black on White' unit counter color scheme. You may want to inform other players about that in your first post here, to avoid confusion / disappointment when they don't immediately see your colored counters.
Question:
Did you run into any problems creating these silhouettes? Any suggestions, that would make it easier to create and add silhouettes?
Looking forward to additional counters.
William
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:02 pm
by EasternWind
WildCatNL wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 8:22 pm
EasternWind wrote: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:36 pm
If you get bored with original counter's art style in FPSS, now you can try this mod to improve that!
I had made about 240+ colored counters in game, and may update it slowly in the future...
Great job! I'm also happy the game's "silhouette halo" works nicely with your colored counters.
Suggestion:
These colored silhouettes only display correctly when players use the default 'Black on White' unit counter color scheme. You may want to inform other players about that in your first post here, to avoid confusion / disappointment when they don't immediately see your colored counters.
Question:
Did you run into any problems creating these silhouettes? Any suggestions, that would make it easier to create and add silhouettes?
Looking forward to additional counters.
William
thks for encouragement!
One question:
I found that the relationships between units and their associated image files is stored in a same datafile together with other data.
It's not good since if I would like to modify some relationship between pic&unit, I have to change the
orginal database. but as you know, these changes may cause conflict with offical database's update.
I suggest that you can separate the data representing the relationship between images and units into separate files.
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:29 pm
by CapnDarwin
Since the Modding docs are still in work, The datafiles contain the filename for the images, and changing that for new images is not a good idea as it can break things for users. What you can do and what we provide is a folder called Unit images in each nation's data folder. Place your custom images for each nation here, using the same name as they have in the game data, and the game will use these first. You can also include additional pictures (not counter sils) that can be seen in the Subunit Inspector by adding those into the Unit Images folder as well, with a "-S" added to the name of the image and using a BMP format. See my pic below for an override for all T-80Us in the Soviet national folder. These are located in Modules/Common/Data.
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Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:58 pm
by EasternWind
CapnDarwin wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:29 pm
Since the Modding docs are still in work, The datafiles contain the filename for the images, and changing that for new images is not a good idea as it can break things for users. What you can do and what we provide is a folder called Unit images in each nation's data folder. Place your custom images for each nation here, using the same name as they have in the game data, and the game will use these first. You can also include additional pictures (not counter sils) that can be seen in the Subunit Inspector by adding those into the Unit Images folder as well, with a "-S" added to the name of the image and using a BMP format. See my pic below for an override for all T-80Us in the Soviet national folder. These are located in Modules/Common/Data.
Screenshot 2022-11-30 082705.png
This is exactly what I want!
You have considered everything for modders.
I will try it then give you a feedback.
thks!
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:11 pm
by CapnDarwin
Glad to help. Game is very mod friendly. I just feel bad that the documents are behind.
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:47 pm
by 22sec
EasternWind wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:58 pm
This is exactly what I want!
You have considered everything for modders.
I will try it then give you a feedback.
thks!
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:56 am
by Rosseau
CapnDarwin wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:11 pm
Glad to help. Game is very mod friendly. I just feel bad that the documents are behind.
Don't be too hard on yourselves, folks! As an example, it took WiTE2 several months to get full editor functionality. And not complaining - they could have blown it off, but to their credit, they did not.
So not having all the mod docs yet is not a big deal, imho. The game as a whole seems very stable, including the editor. So, great job!
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 6:47 am
by cristianwj
Great job and I love this mod!
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:21 pm
by reynt
Very very nice work. Thanks!!!
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2022 3:29 pm
by ctcharger
very cool!
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:41 pm
by Jarosak
Great job this is what i wanted those counters are amazing
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:05 am
by Hellway
Superb...thanks you so much for this...
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 11:30 am
by Grouiiik
It's great ! Thanks !
Re: FPSS Colored Counters Mod
Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 6:23 pm
by alnigor
We need full version! Pleeeease!