Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: Drivingguy
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> WarPlan >> MODS and Scenarios >> Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 10:35:52 AM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Basic features of this NATO countes mod:
• Bigger shields on ground units.
• Round air units with types indicated by symbols.
• Flags as HQ shields.
• Nationality indicators on all counters.
• Plus some other stuff.

I tried out black naval unit silhouettes the other day and instantly fell for them so here’s a further adjusted version 3.1.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9fh1u7dbtqtrco/Packed%20WP%20NATOs_v3.1.zip?dl=0

Installation instructions:
Simply drop the “units.png” file from the Dropbox link above into the folder of the campaign you want to play. (The Excel file is primarily for me to keep track of what I’m doing.)
For example into: ..[user]\Documents\My Games\WarPlan\Campaigns\Europe 1939\..
The vanilla “units.png” file is located elsewhere. Modded “.png” files placed in campaign folders will be used instead.

Changed in version 3.1:
• Changed color of all naval unit silhouettes from white to black.
• Changed facing of naval units for the following nations to West: Germany, Italy, USSR, Morocco (Vichy), Turkey, Vichy France, Vichy North Africa & Vichy Syria.

Changed in previous version 3.0:
• Changed several air unit silhouettes to better reflect what minor nations actually flew (or perhaps could have flown if they’d had an air force.)
• In addition to UK, US, Japanese & Indian Marine Divisions, German, Italian, French, Free French & USSR Marine Divisions now also have a Special Forces flavor…

Cheers, happy gaming/modding & STAY SAFE!

A screenshot from the west front in 1940:



Attachment (1)

< Message edited by PHalen -- 4/5/2020 8:38:46 PM >
Post #: 1
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 10:38:22 AM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Another sample from Ukraine 1942:



Attachment (1)

< Message edited by PHalen -- 4/5/2020 8:40:37 PM >

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 2
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 10:39:35 AM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		And a final sample from D-Day 1944:



Attachment (1)

< Message edited by PHalen -- 4/5/2020 8:42:21 PM >

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 3
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 11:49:43 AM   
Barthheart


Posts: 3191
Joined: 7/20/2004
From: Nepean, Ontario
Status: offline 		These look great! Thanks for sharing.


_____________________________

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty & well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside, totally worn out & proclaiming "WOW, what a ride!"

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 4
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 12:04:18 PM   
ncc1701e


Posts: 3321
Joined: 10/29/2013
From: Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
Status: offline 		+1 like it. So many great mods out there!!!

_____________________________

Chancellor Gorkon to Captain James T. Kirk:
You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.

(in reply to Barthheart)
Post #: 5
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 12:05:00 PM   
mroyer

 

Posts: 686
Joined: 3/6/2016
Status: offline 		Sweet! I was looking at adding cross/roundels on the counters but was worried they'd conflict with the special ability indicators - nicely done how you've squeezed them in to the left.

quote:

ORIGINAL: PHalen

I would also like to increase diversity & historical accuracy of air unit silhouettes for minor nations so any suggestions about that would be much appreciated!



I've found this site to be useful for getting silhouettes/drawings of all sorts of WW2 stuff:
War Drawings

It takes some copy-n-paste then extract from white background and resize. Blacken, whiten or whatever else to suit your desired end product needs to be. It's painstaking (as you surely know) but can be rewarding in the end.

(The author wants users to request permission - I've tried unsuccessfully to contact him, but will keep doing so. Also, our end product on these counters is so tiny, it may not be a true infringement.)

-Mark R.




< Message edited by mroyer -- 11/17/2019 12:08:37 PM >

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 6
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 12:08:38 PM   
gwgardner

 

Posts: 5946
Joined: 4/7/2006
Status: offline 		They really do look great. Thanks for making them available.

(in reply to Barthheart)
Post #: 7
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 12:29:12 PM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Glad you like them!
But I just noticed that I’d forgotten about a WP bug that picks the wrong US infantry counter…
I’ve mitigated that in an updated version 1.01 in post #1.

(in reply to gwgardner)
Post #: 8
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.0 – Counter Mod - 11/17/2019 12:48:36 PM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Thanks for the link mroyer!
I stumbled across this roundel website only yesterday, so I’ll probably revisit & adjust some of my roundels based on it.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roundel

I’ll post it in your “Modding Tips & Pitfalls…” thread as well.

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 9
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.1 – Counter Mod - 12/7/2019 2:49:38 PM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Updated to version 1.1 as indicated above.
Primarily to make the all-important Fighter units a bit easier to distinguish.

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 10
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.1 – Counter Mod - 1/11/2020 1:23:51 PM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Updated to probably final version 2.0 in post #1 above.

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 11
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.1 – Counter Mod - 1/12/2020 5:13:46 PM   
mroyer

 

Posts: 686
Joined: 3/6/2016
Status: offline 		Sweet! Nice job PHalen.

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 12
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.1 – Counter Mod - 1/13/2020 11:22:18 PM   
Magpius


Posts: 1504
Joined: 9/21/2007
From: Melbourne, Australia
Status: offline 		Great work thanks.

_____________________________


(in reply to mroyer)
Post #: 13
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v1.1 – Counter Mod - 1/13/2020 11:46:35 PM   
Tejszd

 

Posts: 3368
Joined: 11/17/2007
Status: offline 		Thank you PHalen!

(in reply to Magpius)
Post #: 14
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.0 – Counter Mod - 2/15/2020 1:18:07 PM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		Updated to what should be a final version 3.0 in post #1 above.

Glad some of you appear to like the Packed WP NATO counters!
Cheers!

(in reply to Tejszd)
Post #: 15
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.0 – Counter Mod - 3/18/2020 7:06:57 PM   
AlvaroSousa


Posts: 6994
Joined: 7/29/2013
Status: offline 		Looks nice

_____________________________

Games worked on

Designer of the Strategic Command 2 products
- Brute Force (mod)
- Assault on Communism
- Assault on Democracy

Designer of the Strategic Command 3 products
- Map Image Importer

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 16
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.0 – Counter Mod - 3/31/2020 11:28:10 AM   
Nachtmahr667

 

Posts: 24
Joined: 11/1/2019
Status: offline 		Outstanding work!! Thank you very, very much!! I love it! Do you have patreon or something? I feel like I should give something in return...

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 17
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.0 – Counter Mod - 3/31/2020 2:10:24 PM   
srd5090

 

Posts: 18
Joined: 6/2/2017
Status: offline 		I have tried putting the png file as described in the first post here but it doesn't seem to be working. I am using the Steam version of the game now, maybe that is the issue.

(in reply to Nachtmahr667)
Post #: 18
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.0 – Counter Mod - 3/31/2020 2:36:20 PM   
AlvaroSousa


Posts: 6994
Joined: 7/29/2013
Status: offline 		It should work for steam as the scenario directories are the same. But I will test it.

So if you want to use the files for Europe 1939 plop them in this folder.

C:\Users\"your user name"\Documents\My Games\WarPlan\Campaigns\Europe 1939

They might have been renamed to something else in the mod download. The game looks for specific file names for mod images.

Like one nato mod I grabbed to test had all the wrong names.

borders.png
control.png
flags.png
logistics.png
movePath.png
ocean.png
resource.png
rivers.png
supply.png
terrain.png
tileFill.png
tiles.png
units.png
weather.png

_____________________________

Games worked on

Designer of the Strategic Command 2 products
- Brute Force (mod)
- Assault on Communism
- Assault on Democracy

Designer of the Strategic Command 3 products
- Map Image Importer

(in reply to srd5090)
Post #: 19
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.0 – Counter Mod - 3/31/2020 11:16:34 PM   
srd5090

 

Posts: 18
Joined: 6/2/2017
Status: offline 		Ahh I think I figure it out.

I was putting the modded unit file in my game install directory, not the folder under my documents (didn't realize the folder existed with the Steam version installed). For some steam games mods go into the game install folder, but not so for WarPlan I see!

I got it to work by following directions, go figure. :)

(in reply to AlvaroSousa)
Post #: 20
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod - 4/5/2020 8:48:26 PM   
PHalen


Posts: 111
Joined: 12/26/2016
From: Sweden
Status: offline 		@ Nachtmahr667: Wow! (I had to Google Patreon.) Thanks A LOT! But no thanks.
Just post any issues you may spot with the Packed WP NATO counters please. (Hopefully none by now).
As well as any suggestions for further improvements.

@ srd5090: Glad you got the file location sorted!
As you’ve already noticed, developer Alvaro Sousa is fully committed & lightning fast to help any gamer/modder out with any queries/comments/issues they may rise!
So we’re in exceptionally good hands!

I tried out black naval unit silhouettes the other day and they instantly felt better.
So I’ve posted a further adjusted version 3.1 in post #1 above.

Cheers, happy gaming/modding & STAY SAFE!



Attachment (1)

< Message edited by PHalen -- 4/5/2020 8:49:02 PM >

(in reply to srd5090)
Post #: 21
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod - 4/7/2020 1:21:58 PM   
AlvaroSousa


Posts: 6994
Joined: 7/29/2013
Status: offline 		The fleet and sub counters look great. Everything does though.

_____________________________

Games worked on

Designer of the Strategic Command 2 products
- Brute Force (mod)
- Assault on Communism
- Assault on Democracy

Designer of the Strategic Command 3 products
- Map Image Importer

(in reply to PHalen)
Post #: 22
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod - 11/19/2020 3:47:55 PM   
OxfordGuy3


Posts: 875
Joined: 7/1/2012
From: Oxford, United Kingdom
Status: online 		Still my favourite counter mod, clean and simple

(in reply to AlvaroSousa)
Post #: 23
RE: Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod - 12/3/2020 9:19:45 PM   
OxfordGuy3


Posts: 875
Joined: 7/1/2012
From: Oxford, United Kingdom
Status: online 		Phalen - I've noticed a problem when using your counter mod with the beta for the latest game version (Beta 1.00.09U17) - most of the British and Canadian Infantry counters seem to be missing the cross, the NATO symbol is just displaying as an empty box, which rather spoils the appearance - any idea why this might be?

It's a real shame, as this is by far my favourite counter mod, can this be fixed?



But a few are okay:



This didn't use to happen!



< Message edited by OxfordGuy3 -- 12/4/2020 7:35:34 AM >

(in reply to OxfordGuy3)
Post #: 24
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> WarPlan >> MODS and Scenarios >> Packed WP NATOs_v3.1 – Counter Mod Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.180