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ORIGINAL: HimAgain

Hi SIPRES,

Below is a summary of all the Generals listed in order of appearance and in text form just for clarification. (I always get the French Generals mixed up myself)
I did not necessarily stick to the HQ rosters as provided in the game. Clearly there will need to be some compromises made.

As discussed earlier, what should have been done was to lump the Poles in with all the Minor Allies instead of the Canadians. I’m not sure how elaborate your Mod will be but if you wanted to utilize the empty Major 6 slot or move around the Poles as discussed above, I can create the other minor country generals. Or if you want to swap out some of selections I’ve made, please let me know and I will try to accommodate you as much as possible.

A point I was thinking about which you may already considered; would not all the HQ units have to be predefined in a one player game? Having the ability to change the profile yourself is great but in a one player game, you can’t very well be changing the enemy’s HQ attributes during play.

As it is now it will be much like the Allies D-Day spoof of Patton controlling a fictitious army and appearing everywhere at once!

HQ/Generals in order of appearance and Tech Level in my screen shot below

Major 1 Britain:
Lord Gort
Montgomery
Alexander
Auchinleck
Brooke
O'Conner

Major 2 France:
Gamelin
Hutzinger
Besson
Billotte
Weygand
De Gaulle

Major 3 USA
Bradley
Hodges
Eisenhower
Patton
Truscott
Clark

Major 4 Russia
Timoshenko
Zhukov
Chernyakhovsky
Konev
Rokossovsky
Tolbukin

Major 5 Poland
Ridz Smigly

Major 7 Germany
Guderian
Rommel
Von Manstein
Von Rundstedt
Kesselring
Model

Major 8 Italy
Graziani
Garboldi
Balbo
Guzzoni
Giovanni Messe
Annibale Bergonzoli

Allied Minor (mostly Canadian)
Harry Crerar CAN
Guy Simonds CAN
Andrew McNaughton CAN
George Kitching CAN
Leslie Morshead Australian (of Tobruk fame)
John Hamilton Roberts Can

Axis Minor
Mannerheim Finland 0
Jozsef Heszlenyi Hungary 0
Petre Dumitrescu Romania 0
Ivan Marinov Bulgaria 0
Dezso_Laszlo Hungary 1
Leonard Mociulschi Romania 1

(I had this in chart form but it did not paste well into post)

Cheers,

Angus

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ORIGINAL: cataphract88

Hi Angus, I followed your instructions exactly, but still no luck with the Russians, I'm afraid.

I am using Windows 10.

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ORIGINAL: Hairog

I often forget when using paint.net to switch from .pdn to .png when saving. Could something like that be the problem?

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ORIGINAL: HimAgain

Hi Christophe,

I'm thinking that we should drop the latter two minor Axis generals and replace them with perhaps a Swedish and Spanish general. They are the most likely to join to Axis with a little arm twisting? This would better fit your idea?

Ok I will change campaign file according to the following:

Axis Minor
0 Mannerheim Finland
1 Jozsef Heszlenyi Hungary
2 Petre Dumitrescu Romania
3 Ivan Marinov Bulgaria
4 Swedish general
5 Spanish general


I'm not sure which Minor Allied countries we should include that will have HQ units. We need to include Turkey here I’m thinking. Could you list which you would like to appear and I'll do my best to get them created.

Here is a proposal for Allied Minor
0 Harry Crerar CANADA
1 Greek General
2 Dutch/Belgium general
3 Turkish general
4 Yugoslavian general (Tito)
5 Maybe a generic general portrait for remaining allies.

I would also like to understand what will happens when you combine the Rockets with the Heavy Bomber research. If it means that both advance together, it could be exploited.

Rocket upgrade disapear (becomes "CHD"), to compensate this I did allow the Rocket units (V1, V2 ect) to be upgradable via heavy bomber tech.
Need some playtesting to see what happens.

I understand that you will need to reserve a 5 level Tech tree for this. Is there a better choice?
Choice was difficult as I didnt want to change too much the gameplay, I think Rocket upgrade was the best choice, its actually used by Germany only and to be honest after few play as AXIS I must recognize that I never use them.

We should also create another thread. All this talk might confuse the casual player about the scope of the original vanilla graphics mod.
Agree, I can start a new one with the campaign file attached

Let me know what you think on each item.

Thanks again,
Angus.

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ORIGINAL: HimAgain

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ORIGINAL: cataphract88

Hi Angus, I followed your instructions exactly, but still no luck with the Russians, I'm afraid.

I am using Windows 10.

Hi Richard,

I’m still not sure what's happened. Let’s have a look at the unit_sprites_nato.png file.

Please locate the downloaded Mod file and unzip/expand it again. Then browse to the \Bitmaps\Major_4 folder and try double clicking on the unit_sprites_nato.png located there.

It should open in a viewer of some sort. Please confirm that the correct Mod icons appear by zooming in few levels. If it does not look correct then try downloading the mod file again. Something may have gone wrong with the download.

If it appears OK, close the viewer, right click on the file and select copy.

Then browse to the saved Campaign and to the same \bitmaps\Major_4\ folder located there.
There should be about 4 files there. Double click on the unit_sprites_nato.png and take note what of what appears.

Close the viewer again and then right click on the same file and select rename and add -old at the end of the file.

Then right click on an empty space in the folder and select paste. This will copy the file from the unzipped folder.

Then try restarting the game.

If it still fails, please try restarting the PC and then test by restarting the game again.

Please let me know the results.

Thanks,

Angus.

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ORIGINAL: SIPRES

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ORIGINAL: HimAgain

Hi Christophe,

I'm thinking that we should drop the latter two minor Axis generals and replace them with perhaps a Swedish and Spanish general. They are the most likely to join to Axis with a little arm twisting? This would better fit your idea?

Ok I will change campaign file according to the following:

Axis Minor
0 Mannerheim Finland
1 Jozsef Heszlenyi Hungary
2 Petre Dumitrescu Romania
3 Ivan Marinov Bulgaria
4 Swedish general Olof Gerhard Thonell (only grainy pics avail but i will do my best)
5 Spanish general Franco


I'm not sure which Minor Allied countries we should include that will have HQ units. We need to include Turkey here I’m thinking. Could you list which you would like to appear and I'll do my best to get them created.

Here is a proposal for Allied Minor
0 Harry Crerar CANADA
1 Greek General Papagos
2 Dutch/Belgium general Winkelman (Dutch General for both?)
3 Turkish general Toydemir
4 Yugoslavian general (Tito) I checked and there is no Yugoslav General in the game. Did you intend to create him? I would prefer not to and suggest we put in Generalissimo Franco again on the Allied side. A frustrated Germany might try the Gibraltar thru Spain gambit after diplomacy fails.
5 Maybe a generic general portrait for remaining allies. I suggest Guy Simonds. He has the de rigeur mustache, typical beret and can be purchased as the second Canadian HQ.

I would also like to understand what will happens when you combine the Rockets with the Heavy Bomber research. If it means that both advance together, it could be exploited.

Rocket upgrade disapear (becomes "CHD"), to compensate this I did allow the Rocket units (V1, V2 ect) to be upgradable via heavy bomber tech.
Need some playtesting to see what happens. OK, lets see what your tests uncover

I understand that you will need to reserve a 5 level Tech tree for this. Is there a better choice?
Choice was difficult as I didnt want to change too much the gameplay, I think Rocket upgrade was the best choice, its actually used by Germany only and to be honest after few play as AXIS I must recognize that I never use them. OK

We should also create another thread. All this talk might confuse the casual player about the scope of the original vanilla graphics mod.
Agree, I can start a new one with the campaign file attached
Yes, please make it so.
To avoid confusion. I would like to keep the same files for both your Mod and this one above so this one will need to be updated once we're done.
Thanks.

Let me know what you think on each item.

Thanks again,
Angus.

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ORIGINAL: HimAgain

You say the that file immediately reverted back to the original after copying it without even relaunching the game?
This bizarre behavior may be more related to the Windows OS and not the necessarily the game, but I did have the same thing happen to me when you first pointed this out. The game may also be somehow 'locking' up this file.

Please launch the saved game and switch to the 3D icons, re-save and then end the game. This might 'unlock' the file.

Then try deleting both the 'old' backup and your recently copied unit_sprites_nato.png file from the Major_04 folder in the campaign folder. Then recopy the modded unit_sprites_nato.png to the campaign folder once again. Check that it remains correct then relaunch the game and deselect 3D icons.

Please let me know the results.

Thanks,

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ORIGINAL: cataphract88

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ORIGINAL: HimAgain

You say the that file immediately reverted back to the original after copying it without even relaunching the game?
This bizarre behavior may be more related to the Windows OS and not the necessarily the game, but I did have the same thing happen to me when you first pointed this out. The game may also be somehow 'locking' up this file.

Please launch the saved game and switch to the 3D icons, re-save and then end the game. This might 'unlock' the file.

Then try deleting both the 'old' backup and your recently copied unit_sprites_nato.png file from the Major_04 folder in the campaign folder. Then recopy the modded unit_sprites_nato.png to the campaign folder once again. Check that it remains correct then relaunch the game and deselect 3D icons.

Please let me know the results.

Thanks,

Tried all of the above, but still no success, however, strangely enough, Spires '1939 HQ' version Soviet counters work fine on my pc, so for the time being I will stick with that.

hello Richard
check the content of your campaign.ini file (open and edit with any text editor)
If your campaign name is "my campaign test" then you should have a folder called "_my campaign test"
campaign.ini is located in this folder

#CUSTOM_BITMAPS= 1
#CUSTOM_INTERFACE= 1
#CUSTOM_SOUND= 0
#CUSTOM_MUSIC= 0
#CUSTOM_FONTS= 0
#CUSTOM_LOCALIZATION= 1

you must have #CUSTOM_BITMAPS= 1 (if 0 then game engine will continue to use vanilla Nato's)
Not sure this is the problem you met, but could be

Christophe

On a smaller note, if you were looking at developing your mod further, I thought you might like to know that the British and German naval ensigns are reversed (like mirror images). At least they are on my machine!

Hope this helps, and thanks for all your help.

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ORIGINAL: cataphract88

Hi Angus,

I'd say that the changes are a step in the right direction.

Thank you for continuing to work on your mod.

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ORIGINAL: RussW

12Best thing that's happened to the game for me..I started wargaming in the 70's and still like my counters over pictures makes it easier to see what's going on,,,good work and thank you

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ORIGINAL: Bill Runacre

Great work!