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AMSwift -> ATG-anewdawn NATO Icon mod-swift [v227g, mod V01] (2/27/2019 10:30:41 PM)
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The Model Builder in ATG-A New Dawn is one of my favorite parts of the game. The set of NATO icons included with the base game would, however, benefit from some tender loving care.
The purpose of this thread is to:
1. Offer a partial set of replacements, and
2. Broach the notion of some - hopefully minor - changes to the Model Builder interface.
I've uploaded a "scenario" containing these icons as "ATG-anewdawn NATO Icon mod-swift, v01". For details, see the text file included in the zip file. Briefly, the replacement icons are larger, and consistently positioned. Markers are more consistently aliased (smoothed) and sometimes enable more NATO-standard details to be shown, or shown with more clarity. In order to allow the NATO box to expand, within the limits set by what the game shows on a formation counter, the formation size indicator marks have been moved to the left (medium) or top (small size icons). I would prefer them to be on the top consistently.
The project of improving NATO icons has also run up against some limits in the Model Builder interface, and I hope to spark a conversation about them.
At the bottom of this post is what I see in the Designer and Choose NATO graphic windows.
NATO unit icons are built in steps. Speaking crudely, there is the unit type (infantry, artillery, etc.), various unit type modifiers (mountain, paratroop, marine, etc., and also light, medium, heavy, etc.), the transport type (foot, horse, truck, wheeled, etc.), and the unit size (platoon, regiment, division, etc.).
In addition, game-players are also fond of colored NATO icons; for example Soviet Guards in white on red, Nazi SS as white on black, and the like. In the .zip file, I provide an example of how such an icon can be pieced together, flexibly, from limited slots, as opposed to having to provide hundreds of specific instances.
So, my requests are as follows:
1. In the Model Designer, under the unit counter picture, have five boxes, perhaps named as follows: NATO base, mod1, mod2, mod3, text?
One base icon and up to three modifiers will do wonders for our ability to use the NATO (or, indeed, any other) symbol set to represent our units.
2. The above change means we don't need a thousand different icons, but the UI appears to crash if asked to show more than 100 (image indices 18 through 117), and that's terribly limiting. How about a image-selection window with 16 rows, 25 columns, and room for 400 icons? Combined with #1, this would open a lot of doors.
I hope that these requests are considered both worthwhile and practicable, and look forward to providing additional NATO icons and icon modifiers in future.
[image]local://upfiles/62542/403D31DA7F0E442BA50E35D379B77717.jpg[/image]
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