Roundels as unit country identifiers
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:13 pm
This mod has roundels which replace the circular flag country identifiers at the bottom left corners of the units on the map.
Please see the sample picture, posted below, for details. (The screenshot shows my personal game configuration, which has elements that this mod will not change. This mod will neither change your countries' unit colors, nor install the military-symbol unit counters, it contains the roundels only.) In the sample picture, Germany's units are black, Britain's are brown, France's are blue, and Belgium's is gold.
The roundels are based on countries' actual roundels (most commonly seen on aircraft), but some are different, for sake of clarity and aesthetics; they are always based on the colors of the country's (First World War-era) flag. I tried to make all countries conform to the usual basic pattern of using concentric circles of various proportions. Since the game was already using a round shape for a country's identifying symbol, I figured I'd plug in genuine round graphics. I use these in my own game. Unlike the original round flag graphics, these symbols have no black border around them. I experimented with using the borders, and found that the roundels looked better without them, and that this didn't conflict with the map graphics.
Please feel free to comment, to ask questions, and to make suggestions, if you see a way to better these graphics.
These roundels are .png files which go into your Commander: The Great War directory, into the folder \data\graphics\flags and please back up your original files before you install these. To back up your files, copy-and-paste (to a new, separate location) all the files in the \data\graphics\flags folder with the names beginning with emblem (or, simply back up the whole flags folder, by copy-and-pasting a copy to a new location, it's less than 4MB in size).
(The roundel of the United States, in order to not conflict with the colors of Russia, Serbia, France, or Britain, is a dark-blue circle with a white interior; this is reminiscent of the dark-blue-with-white-star that America really uses, yet the star looked too much like the general officer indicator, and is inconsistent (as it is in real life) with the international convention.)
Thanks, for taking a look.
Please see the sample picture, posted below, for details. (The screenshot shows my personal game configuration, which has elements that this mod will not change. This mod will neither change your countries' unit colors, nor install the military-symbol unit counters, it contains the roundels only.) In the sample picture, Germany's units are black, Britain's are brown, France's are blue, and Belgium's is gold.
The roundels are based on countries' actual roundels (most commonly seen on aircraft), but some are different, for sake of clarity and aesthetics; they are always based on the colors of the country's (First World War-era) flag. I tried to make all countries conform to the usual basic pattern of using concentric circles of various proportions. Since the game was already using a round shape for a country's identifying symbol, I figured I'd plug in genuine round graphics. I use these in my own game. Unlike the original round flag graphics, these symbols have no black border around them. I experimented with using the borders, and found that the roundels looked better without them, and that this didn't conflict with the map graphics.
Please feel free to comment, to ask questions, and to make suggestions, if you see a way to better these graphics.
These roundels are .png files which go into your Commander: The Great War directory, into the folder \data\graphics\flags and please back up your original files before you install these. To back up your files, copy-and-paste (to a new, separate location) all the files in the \data\graphics\flags folder with the names beginning with emblem (or, simply back up the whole flags folder, by copy-and-pasting a copy to a new location, it's less than 4MB in size).
(The roundel of the United States, in order to not conflict with the colors of Russia, Serbia, France, or Britain, is a dark-blue circle with a white interior; this is reminiscent of the dark-blue-with-white-star that America really uses, yet the star looked too much like the general officer indicator, and is inconsistent (as it is in real life) with the international convention.)
Thanks, for taking a look.
