Custom unit icons

[Argh]

Tried it with MinGW DLLs. No go, in Spring Client for Windows. After putting in a Sensors.tdf file into my mod (otherwise it crashes) I tested it, and it just plain doesn't work.

Remembering that Spring's file system seems to be broken right now, at least in the two current builds I have seen, I put colorblind's IconTypes.tdf into the Gamedata in Spring's root, and tried it out. No go. Put all the icon files into an Icons folder which I created in the root... no go. Very simply put, it doesn't work. Methinks it's due to the file system problems, which are very, very serious with these two builds - Spring literally isn't reading file paths and such correctly right now, or doesn't know what to do with relative paths.

Hopefully this will get fixed soon, so that I can test some of the other features

[zwzsg]

NOiZE got a point, maybe we should disable loading of archives from spring root on multiplayer games, or somehow include those files in the checksumming.

Yes, please include archive from Spring root in the checksumming. I keep forgetting test .ufos in the Spring root, and only remember them after I see the ingame flood of error message.

[colorblind]

Hopefully this will get fixed soon, so that I can test some of the other features :P

I suddenly remember I build my .exe against a different version of DevIL, so it's probably the wrong version of devil.dll that's causing the problem. When you stick to the dev build you shouldn't have this problem though.

[Argh]

Tried to install to my default Spring directory... no go.

[FoeOfTheBee]

I have icons working just fine in the dev release. I like them. Making icons for all units would be a real pain.

[Argh]

Well, good, at least they work. It's probably just my installation of the dev. release or something.

[AF]

aha I can see the units underneath their icons..... Aswell as what look like their shadows, shadows and models shouldnt be drawn for units shown as icons

[hawkki]

aha I can see the units underneath their icons..... Aswell as what look like their shadows, shadows and models shouldnt be drawn for units shown as icons

+1

[Das Bruce]

aha I can see the units underneath their icons..... Aswell as what look like their shadows, shadows and models shouldnt be drawn for units shown as icons

We've already been over that.

[AF]

And the answer was it doesnt do that, yet there's a screenshot showing that it does do it despite replies saying it doesnt.

[colorblind]

I don't where you've spotted the units AF, but there aren't any in the pic above.

Indeed, there are some things that still are drawn, like selection squares and shadows (which I'll remove when I get around to it), but there arent any units.

[AF]

Can you make the selected units glow when selected, not just a white-ish aura but a cyclical glow where they start to glow then reduce back to normal then start glowing again.....

[BvDorp]

This feature is awesome! Nice work, colorblind!

[BvDorp]

Can you make the selected units glow when selected, not just a white-ish aura but a cyclical glow where they start to glow then reduce back to normal then start glowing again.....

i'd like selection boxes more..

[AF]

Have ti as an option then, but when you're zoomed out you wont be able to see the selection boxes, they'll just show as they currently do as green iffy bits you cant tella s rectangles, and with the image otnop they'll be invisible.

Also make it darker on one of them cycles so that it works with white icons too

[Icebird]

I don't know if it is too soon to discuss that but i'll post anyway

maybe instead of having tons of icon, we should only have a dozen of them and put numbers to show the tech level ?


something like

= flash
= stumpy
= bulldog

etc
just an idea ..

[BvDorp]

I don't know if it is too soon to discuss that but i'll post anyway

maybe instead of having tons of icon, we should only have a dozen of them and put numbers to show the tech level ?


something like

= flash
= stumpy
= bulldog

etc
just an idea ..

This is mod dependant. Like the idea, though!

[colorblind]

I was thinking of having only a couple of icons. One for buildings, one for air units, one for water units, one for the commander, and one for other mobile units. When you keep it that simple you can actually gather some information in one glimpse when you're zoomed out.

And you don't want to make those icons too detailed like yours, Icebird. They will also show up on the minimap, only much much smaller. If they have too much detail they will become unintelligble. Sticking to things like circles, squares, triangles and so forth is a better idea.

But of course any modder is free to make their own set of icons.

[Argh]

Ah... wait... hmm...

Colorblind, have you tested this with NanoBlobs?

Just curious... it'd truely suck if this doesn't work properly with S3O mods...

[FoeOfTheBee]

I don't know if it is too soon to discuss that but i'll post anyway

maybe instead of having tons of icon, we should only have a dozen of them and put numbers to show the tech level ?


something like

= flash
= stumpy
= bulldog

etc
just an idea ..

I thought about this quite a bit, and I decided that as a player, I would prefer a unique, distinguishable icon for each unit. Although if I contribute icons to any mod, they will be like what you've suggested. I'd hope that the community might contribute the more detailed icons: 200 springers make 1 icon each, rather than 1 springer makes 200 icons.

Or maybe there is an easy way to create an outline-style icon from the model file...