Spring RTS Engine

In IW, one really needs to play with radar icon view distance set quite low. This makes it easier to tell your infantry apart, and make decisions easily.

However, it's not the same in other mods. I think it is important that players can change the view distance for icons dynamically in-game, just like they can change tree view distance, and so-on. Otherwise people who play IW and BA or some other combination will be forced to keep going into their settings and changing that.

Also, icons are necessary for a competitive player to make quick decisions. However, they don't look as pretty as units. Sometimes you want to enjoy the visuals a bit more, so it's nice to be able to pull back the icons and enjoy, but put the distance down again if things start to get intense all of a sudden.

Apologies if there is already a way to do this - I couldn't see any method.

You can also redefine icons on the fly using LuaUI.
AddUnitIcon(iconName, texname[, size[, distance[, unitRadiusAdjust]]])

Thanks trepan.