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Changed Squad Images in Vietnam? - WargameGeneral - 12-26-2021

In the screenshots of the SB Vietnam title, it looks like the squad profile images have been changed with the latest update:

https://wargameds.com/collections/squad-battles/products/vietnam

Are these new images?

Are the original graphics still available?


RE: Changed Squad Images in Vietnam? - Xerxes77 - 12-26-2021

(12-26-2021, 07:37 AM)WargameGeneral Wrote: In the screenshots of the SB Vietnam title, it looks like the squad profile images have been changed with the latest update:

https://wargameds.com/collections/squad-battles/products/vietnam

Are these new images?

Are the original graphics still available?

Hum, I think you're right, they seem to be new? Nothing in the online changelog for 4.00.
Don't know how I feel about them. The art itself looks good, but the old portraits showed a bit of the uniforms... these new ones are apparently just the heads.


RE: Changed Squad Images in Vietnam? - -72- - 12-26-2021

(12-26-2021, 07:37 AM)WargameGeneral Wrote: In the screenshots of the SB Vietnam title, it looks like the squad profile images have been changed with the latest update:

https://wargameds.com/collections/squad-battles/products/vietnam

Are these new images?

Are the original graphics still available?

They're still in there (as in the original, original graphics).  Under the Map folder those are showing as 2DUnits50 (and 100)-old.

There are 2 other versions in the Info folder as well  (Units-2.bmp or Units-old.bmp).  I'm looking at the Tour of Duty (ToD) title, but Vietnam should probably be the same set up (if not the ones from the ToD update has the original files).

In order to use those other files, just have to change around the file name so it doesn't have the '-old' part in the file name. (or '-2' if interested in that file).

Yes those ones were new (sort of); I imagine those were a draft that I'd done - they probably aren't even centered (leastwise I don't recall ever getting to that point).  If you do check out the uniforms of the older files, they are generic, and sometimes their image was reversed. I didn't actually ever recall sending that over (it would have been some years ago) -the 'new material' actually pre-dated the top down work.