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Yup Dietrich, that's exactly it. I just opened the terrain.png in Gimp. Dragged down some guide lines (drag from the outside ruler onto the image and a little blue line will appear) to select each counter area. That then allowed the Select Tool to snap to that grid for easy selecting. So just change the image in those specific pixels to be whatever you wanted. Then Overwrite the file or Save as an XCF so you have an original with layers to adjust later and Export out as a PNG file. I just used whatever the default export settings in Gimp were. :)

Works the same in Photoshop but i think you can just save as png instead of having to export into png.

Attached you'll see what the screen looks like in Gimp.
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Thank you very much! Works like a charm!
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Thanks for doing these mods, adds quite a bit to the game. Made it an automatic purchase.
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One thing that I've changed with this mod and the ASL one is making the Fire Counters much smaller. That way don't entirely obstruct the unit counters so you can still see what unit had fired. I did leave the 1 pixel edge on the bottom and right sides so that you can tell at a glance if units in a stack fired. Changed this for all the 'full size' circle things like Fire, Final Fire, Close Combats and Tired. Still debating if I like the banners of the ASL mod or the letters of this one though for things like Pinned and Broken.

Basically just cut the counter out (sans the 1 pixel edges bottom and right), pasted it right back where it was and shrunk it down to 30x30 and nudged it into the top left corner. Attached you can see how it looks.

This is a awesome MOD Making "FIRE" counters smaller , can I just drop it in the file folder and it works?
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Hi JMass,


Love your Counters and Markers [:)] , .. not too keen on the Map tho .. [:(]

I prefer the more 'textured' look of the original map .. [:)]

Your Counters/Markers would look great on the original map .. [;)] [;)] [;)]

Keep up the good work .. [:)]


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Thanks JMass, great mods.
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I uploaded a version with small markers, the link is in the first post.

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I like best this latest version.[:)]
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Great mod .Thank you very much . How easy would it be to add in more phase/effect counters like Pin , Residual Fire , PrepFire etc ?
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I prefer latest version, with former it was difficult to tell a unit under the marker
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Thanks so much JMass. And to the other modders - fantastic stuff.
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Love this mod, feels like I'm working with cardboard again. I'm actually torn between all the mods so far, they are all great.

The only thing I'm tweaking are the info markers, trying to get them smaller and more out of the way yet allowing them to be useful.

Thanks for sharing.
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I uploaded a version with small markers, the link is in the first post.

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Great MOD JMAS. Could you just provide the markers/ Counters so I could use the current game terrain?

thanks!
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Could you just provide the markers/ Counters so I could use the current game terrain?

No because all the graphics are on a single .png file, however I did another mod with original terrain, VASL counters and small markers.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161 ... d_v1.1.zip
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Oh geez, I nearly teared up when I saw the screenie for this!

A dream of finally having an ASL analogue on my PC was finally coming true.

Ka-ching! The Matrix store made another sale. Kudos to the solo dev, testers and the "retro" modders as well. I can see it now...scenarios, maps, oob's and artwork...YES!!!
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ORIGINAL: Punisher007
Could you just provide the markers/ Counters so I could use the current game terrain?

No because all the graphics are on a single .png file, however I did another mod with original terrain, VASL counters and small markers.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161 ... d_v1.1.zip

Thank you!!! This is the Perfect MOD VASL Original Counters & Small markers with Original Terrain!!
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this Mod makes the game worth buying thx, I actually feel like I'm playing ASL on a PC .
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check when you can, I put diff stuff on now and then
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No because all the graphics are on a single .png file, however I did another mod with original terrain, VASL counters and small markers.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161 ... d_v1.1.zip

Attached is a version of this (Originals with Smaller Markers), with Richie's Broken/Pinned tags, the 'edges' of the Markers so you can see fired status in stacks and fixed American MMG/HMG counters.

(Splitting these counters into separate image files would really help customization. :) Might be worth refactoring, even if it's just the terrain, marker and unit counters to prevent screwing with LOS assisting alpha masks.)
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ORIGINAL: JMass

No because all the graphics are on a single .png file, however I did another mod with original terrain, VASL counters and small markers.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161 ... d_v1.1.zip

Attached is a version of this (Originals with Smaller Markers), with Richie's Broken/Pinned tags, the 'edges' of the Markers so you can see fired status in stacks and fixed American MMG/HMG counters.

(Splitting these counters into separate image files would really help customization. :) Might be worth refactoring, even if it's just the terrain, marker and unit counters to prevent screwing with LOS assisting alpha masks.)

This sounds great you have a screen shot of how it looks?
thanks!!
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Sure, here ya go (attached). Can't post links yet. heh
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