The Competition & Teaser Thread

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As we started the conversation yesterday regarding different victory point icons, I thought it worthwhile to show you the different variants of graphics that will ship with the game.


There are a number of different graphics included to allow players to customise the look of the game. These are also included to allow modders to see what could be done.

Previously, I had shown you the three different types of counter graphics. Side-on, Top down and NATO. These are all switchable in game and work at two different zoom levels. Switchable in game means that the player can change a setting and the game will load the appropriate graphics set. Importantly this is the only set that is automated. All other graphics that are shown in this post requires the player to overwrite files to adjust.


As a reminder here are the three counter types that can be changed in settings;




The next area that players can choose to adjust is the Unit box. There is both the traditional one colour set as well as the default 'background' box. These are in the nationality directory.





Under each nationality/unit directory is a default and alt directory. These contain unit pictures for 'transported' units. The default set has the vehicle behind the figure. The alternate set has the transport in the corner;




The victory point icons have been updated after the discussion yesterday and there is now three sets. The new default is 'sunken' like the traditional Tiller VP counter but has the embossed symbol in it. The first alternate has the embossed symbol but is not sunken. The second alternate is a plain sunken set - similar to the original set (for Compass Rose!). These are under each nationality in the 2DSymbols directory. You can chose to have different types by nationality if you like;




Also included in the Info directory are a range of 'BlankboxV' & 'BlankboxH'. These have been setup for the most common screen sizes. The BlankboxV's are optimised for a 1080 vertical screen. That said, it's long enough to handle the latest 1440 resolutions. The BlankboxH's are long enough to handle a 2560 width without wrapping. If a screen has smaller resolutions than the above it will just truncate the image. You can see the defaults that will come loaded in game.

Here are the BlankboxH variants;




And the different BlankboxV 's;




David