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DeadInThrench -> RE: JM's TOAW III mod (12/27/2007 10:03:05 PM)
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I recently DLed your set and in general find it superior (the terrain set that is) to what was there before. However, some comments for what they are worth.
I preferred the snow-covered alpine, so that these impassable hexes stick out clearly (so, I just renamed the impassable.bmp file to .bm and, voila).
Also, as far as the numbers in the excluded zones, in Double Eagle - Rising Sun, Eric Nygaard has the entire Koren/Mancurian/Russian coast in an excluded zone and those big 1's stick out like a sore thumb. Also looked at a couple other scenarios with exclusion zones and did not like the numbers. Now, on this one just renaming the misc.bmp to .bm will lose me your clear terrain which I definately preferred so, played around with the classic graphics and ended up using misc.bmp from the classic terrain set (yeah, have to put up with the circled Bs for the port symbols).
I also perferred the water and roads from the current set though this is a minor thing. I had a problem sometimes differentiating between the improved roads and the railroads and with your railroads the roads are thiner and thus no problem now. But, your roads are a bit wider and thus not as good, for me.
The nice thing is with the TOAW3 set, the classic set, and your set, one can always mix and match to suit their own taste.
As far as the gui set, I checked much of that out and, well, I prefer the brass colors <g>. However, the borders set, was major as previously much of the time I could not see the borders and now no problem.
As far as the counters are concerned, I prefer the thicker numbers. But, I kinda like your yellow better. So, I can always rename the numbers bmp file to bm and take another look and, add what I like.
Yeah, IMO some of the counter color combinations in TOAW are hard to see or are quite garish... and could definately use some work... mainly with more pleasing color combinations.
In any case, now I have much better hills, mountains, forests, urban, dense urban, rocky, marsh, railroads, etc.... and all from your set!
Many thanks!
DiT
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