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Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-12T07:41:01+02:00

Also her destroyed will have direct fire icon... like a tech two battleshipi

Statistics: Posted by FunkOff — 12 May 2012, 07:41

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-12T05:04:55+02:00

FunkOff wrote:
okay, in the next patch uef field engie will have intel icon

FAF is awesome.

Statistics: Posted by Veta — 12 May 2012, 05:04

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-12T00:10:53+02:00

okay, in the next patch uef field engie will have intel icon

Statistics: Posted by FunkOff — 12 May 2012, 00:10

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-11T17:43:31+02:00

I'm not updating my UI mod anymore (anyone is free to take up the throne though).

However, I dont think the strat icons are controlled by UI mod. I vaguely recall the category of the unit is defined in its blueprint or something. Very vaguely.

However, the strat icons are pregenerated so you can't invent new ones on the fly from a border+inside like you suggest.
A sim mod could probably define a new icon for a new unit category though.

Anyways, it's been years since I've looked at supcom code so I have no idea what I'm talking about. The active modders here should know more.

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In my general theme of "how supcom should have been in the first place", the strat icons should have been resolution independent (or at least have multiple available sizes) and the internal graphic of the icons should have been chosen for clear recognition. (the plus and the dot always look the same to me, for starters).

This is something that FAF can fix one day

Statistics: Posted by AdmiralZeech — 11 May 2012, 17:43

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-10T14:00:44+02:00

n00blet wrote:
While we are at it, can we get different icons for the UEF torpedo boat and the destroyer. Really annoying to pick targets from a high zoom level and it would be more useful than sparkies getting new icons.

Also +1

Statistics: Posted by noobymcnoobcake — 10 May 2012, 14:00

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-10T13:56:42+02:00

n00blet wrote:
While we are at it, can we get different icons for the UEF torpedo boat and the destroyer. Really annoying to pick targets from a high zoom level and it would be more useful than sparkies getting new icons.

Statistics: Posted by Zock — 10 May 2012, 13:56

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-10T04:01:41+02:00

FunkOff wrote:
This would be relevant if field engineers were useful for anything.

lol

Edit: for context i thought of this after this post - viewtopic.php?f=11&t=703&start=230

Statistics: Posted by Veta — 10 May 2012, 04:01

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-09T22:56:18+02:00

While we are at it, can we get different icons for the UEF torpedo boat and the destroyer. Really annoying to pick targets from a high zoom level and it would be more useful than sparkies getting new icons.

Statistics: Posted by n00blet — 09 May 2012, 22:56

Re: Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-09T22:00:09+02:00

This would be relevant if field engineers were useful for anything.

Statistics: Posted by FunkOff — 09 May 2012, 22:00

Give UEF T2 Field Engineer Bot Hexagon Strategic Icon?

2012-05-10T20:53:54+02:00

Since the UEF's Field Engie is supposed to be used primarily in combat and as support for an attack force (radar jamming) it would definitely be helpful for its icon to be slightly distinct from the regular engie icon. So why not give it the bot icon?

Or if anyone that knows AdmiralZeech could bring it up with him for his UI mod that'd be pretty cool (although I'm not sure if he's updating it anymore) and I'm not sure how hard this would be to implement. Basically it would look like a Bot Hexagon with an engineer m instead of a +

Thoughts?

Statistics: Posted by Veta — 09 May 2012, 18:50