30-01-2004 06:20 | www	edit | quote	#92 | report |
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Okay, a little word of explanation about the unit key. I must have changed it a dozen times, spanning the minimalist to ornate spectrum. The pendulum's a little far over at the moment.

Psst! Don't criticize the middle key that's attached if you want VB utilities.

The text area is the minimum height to provide background for all the possible status letters that can appear (m,g,f are the 'biggest'). The 'Mercator meter' helps you estimate the degree of hp damage more easily. I wanted other indicators to show civ color and size, but may move them elsewhere — they're actually part of individual icons, not the unit key area. Catfish are you relying on masks in the unit sprites to show civ color? Almost everyone in the WWI Near East theater wore khaki, so civ color indicators are kinda important.

Most of Fairline's infantry icons stretch 45 pixels +3 from the bottom of the unit icon square. Merc, do you measure your distance from the top or the bottom of the unit key area? IIRC its a 32x10 rectangle.

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31-01-2004 03:14 | www	edit | quote	#98 | report |
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If I understand you correctly, Fairline, the answer's yes. Merc's utility allows you to pick any or all of your units to have a tall sprite (invisible unit key). However, the static.spr that it generates can have only two sprite heights: the ToT default (for visible unit keys) or a tall one (Either that or the new Static.Spr has no sprites at all for the default icons, and ToT just uses Units.bmp).

In this shot, the red balls and diamond-shaped depressions are keyless because of SpriteGen. The two combat units with conventional unit keys have no tall sprites. If you don't see this in the zip I sent, then either I failed to send the Static.spr, or you don't have Animated Units turned on. Both problems would be my fault.

[Edit: D**n! Slow on the reply. ]

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01-02-2004 19:42 | www	edit | quote	#103 | report |
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Here Curt, something to stare at for a while. Here's Nemo's original Matilda Mk II and two reskins. Don't expect the others in a rush. I'll post those at my site when I get around to them.



Edit: On later viewing along side some of the other vehicles, I decided that it was a touch on the blurry side. Here's a slightly sharper version:

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19-03-2004 03:00	edit | quote	#108 | report |
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@ Catfish: As you're great at making units, I hope you don't mind if I use some of your units for a scenario I'm making. I'm making it for Civ2 MGE though, so I got help to convert them.

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Yeah, that's why I thought you posted them on your webpage Anyways, please read my pm

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25-03-2004 13:47	edit | quote	#115 | report |
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@ curt: Here is my 1st try on the Pershing, now I have to go to class but I will sure give it another go when I come back in the evening! Hope you can use that babe

BTW, the Tiger is in the works ... stay tuned!

I hope it´s good enough to be posted next to all these fabulous work!

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25-03-2004 18:24 | www	edit | quote	#116 | report |
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It's grand!

Feel free to have another bash, but it's looking swift anyway!

Here's the other blighter - the Tiger!

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