Icon display

[Georgie]

I would like to have the ability to select the type of icons that are displayed, vehicle vs infantry. There are a huge number of icons displayed in a large battle and it would be faster to be able to see if a tank or tanks were a threat to your tanks or infantry and it would be faster to locate your own vehicle assets. It would help a great deal in RT play. Are there any other forum members that think this would be helpful?

[Erik Springelkamp]

In CMSF and CMA I use a floating icon mod by Bill Lockton that uses very small icons for infantry, and larger icons for vehicles.

But because even the larger icons have outlines with transparent interiors, they are very non-intrusive to the general picture.

[nathangun]

Hey Erik, is that screenie from CMA ? I ask because the Russian's are dressed a lot like the VC from the Vietnam war, I wonder why no has done a Vietnam mod.

[Erik Springelkamp]

Yes, that is a CMA scenario, 'Combing the Green Zone', conditions are warm and damp, so the Soviet Army troops will be wearing tropical helmets.

They are not always wearing those, here in another scenario the troops are wearing normal helmets:

[Georgie]

Hello Erik, That mod might do the trick, Do you know if it will work in CMBN?

[Erik Springelkamp]

Hello Erik, That mod might do the trick, Do you know if it will work in CMBN?

I have not yet seen one for CMBN, and anyway, one would not want to use Soviet icons for German or US troops.

But one should make a similar one using WWII diagrams. I have tried working on such a mod, but I don't have tools to make good transparent pictures.

Or I don't know how to do it with GIMP, because my products show ugly artefacts when they are made smaller at larger distances.

Bill Lockton is here the master, maybe he is working on it at the moment.

[MeatEtr]

There is a period based unit icon mod from Bill Hardenberger here: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=1142

But I thought you were referring to the contact "question mark" icons. In which case there is no way to distinguish AFVs from infantry. I wish there was. There's just one kind of a contact icon. But there is a mod for German and Allied contacts here from DeutschRitter: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314&func=fileinfo&id=1111

[Georgie]

Thanks MeatEtr, I'll give Bills mod a try.

[Erik Springelkamp]

Interestingly many of the US symbols are very similar to the Soviet symbols:

MG, AT, Tank, AC, Sniper.

I still think the outline symbols with transparent background are the most beautiful and least gamey. But they may be just a little too modest for RT play.