Factory Icons!

Ashbery76 · Post by **Ashbery76** » May 29 2005

I'm not a fan of the cartoony look of the icons.Looking at the old screenshots, i prefer the more basic looking and clearer icons that suite the map better imo,are they still available to use?

Decimatus · Post by **Decimatus** » May 29 2005

The interface looks absolutely nothing like that...

Wait, you mean you want your interface to look like that?

Going from "cartoon" to 8 bit nintendo.

Post by **Balthagor** » May 29 2005

We have not made the old graphics available, those where always intended as "placeholders" until we got something nicer. You can however do what Deanco has done and adjust the Unitbits sheets in the \Graphics\Units folder. Just be sure to keep the same # of frames, even if they are identical.

Ashbery76 · Post by **Ashbery76** » May 29 2005

Decimatus wrote:The interface looks absolutely nothing like that...

Wait, you mean you want your interface to look like that?

Going from "cartoon" to 8 bit nintendo.

Who said anything about the interface.

Decimatus · Post by **Decimatus** » May 29 2005

I meant interface to include the icons, and basically all graphical representations on the map.

Bluesman · Post by **Bluesman** » May 29 2005

Btw, i like that hex map better too. Any chance of a mod doing that?
And I agree with the first poster. The initial screens looked a bit cleaner.

Maybe BG can make them available later

(for those of us who want 8-bit Nintendo). Rather it looks more like a traditional wargame.

BM

deanco · Post by **deanco** » May 30 2005

Hmmm...

You *do* know you can turn hexes on, right?

As for the generic icons instead of buildings thing, it's doable. It would be useful to know the height and width of the icons in pixels. Most of those icons are 'cutouts', they are no bigger than they have to be, and that makes finding the upper right corner where the game calculates them to be a little difficult. A lot of trial, and a lot of error.

DeanCo--

Bluesman · Post by **Bluesman** » May 30 2005

But they do not look like those hexes. I think the one in the screenshot looks better than the one in the demo.

BG could release it as a "classic" style mod

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Even more ambitious would be the addition of counters instead of unit icons. NATO style counters are much easier to read than sprites.

BM

Post by **Balthagor** » May 30 2005

To use NATO counters, all that is required is to open each of the unit pictures and replace it with the NATO symbol you want.

deanco · Post by **deanco** » May 30 2005

"all that is required...'

He forgot to mention there are over 300 unit pictures, each with multiple frames. That's "all".

DeanCo--

Post by **Balthagor** » May 30 2005

Hey, I didn't say it woul be quick, just easy