Unit Buttons Standardization

Sparth · Jun 7, 2014

Whisperr said:
Is there any chance to move the spear on the spearman over a smidge? When the unit is highlighted the spear is under the yellow glow.

I play medium graphics and the gatherer is coming up as having no facial features except for two black eyes. Also there is some fuzziness on the other buttons.

I love the uniformity to the units that is coming through and look forward to seeing the rest. But why is the Neanderthal captive still that horrible black and white head? All the other captives are similar types. If this has been changed please ignore this comment.

Ok i move spear, tnx for feedback.
Please post screenshot of gatherer and buttons with fuzziness. Ill try to fix it.

I only upload some buttons now. In this week ill try to send all of them.

strategyonly · Jun 7, 2014

One thing to remember is that when putting in these buttons, the OLD ones need to be deleted. Otherwise we going to have duplicates again.

Sparth · Jun 7, 2014

strategyonly said:
One thing to remember is that when putting in these buttons, the OLD ones need to be deleted. Otherwise we going to have duplicates again.

Yea I know that. To make life easier Ill start upload new buttons to new directory
Caveman2Cosmos\Assets\art\Interface\Buttons\Units\Sparth\
Then I carefuly remove old buttons

strategyonly · Jun 7, 2014

Sparth said:
Yea I know that. To make life easier Ill start upload new buttons to new directory
Caveman2Cosmos\Assets\art\Interface\Buttons\Units\Sparth\
Then I carefuly remove old buttons

Sounds like a GOOD plan!!

strategyonly · Jun 8, 2014

When you have time, can you check out the "bulldozer" the red is :yuck:

thx but only when you get time, thx.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=13262717&postcount=853 second pic

Sparth · Jun 8, 2014

Tons of new buttons in SVN. Tested and should be not any pink icons.

Sparth · Jun 9, 2014

Got new idea for Culture units buttons. See atached image.

timschuett · Jun 9, 2014

I like it, sparth. I can see an issue arise if the culture's color is similar to one of the new group colors you've established, but the samples definitely differentiate the UUs from the other units.

Hydromancerx · Jun 9, 2014

Oh that's a good idea! :clap:

The only problem I see is if they ever get assigned to another culture. Such as the Koa use to be Polynesian until we added Hawaiian culture. Note Polynesian now has the Outrigger.

Also if the flags ever get changed too. Which has happened from time to time.

Thunderbrd · Jun 9, 2014

I like it provided you'll be around for a long time to come due to H's valid points. (And I hope you will be too because you do great work and have really become a very valued team member!)

Sidenote: My wife was saying the Orange behind the Throwing Units made some of the weapons a little hard to see correctly so I don't know what you'd want to do with that.

And keep in mind that Strike Teams and Criminals are different unit types (albeit similar and crossing paths at the Assassin) so it might be nice to differentiate the backgrounds in a way that allows for the two to blend if the unit is both but be different if only one of the two. Could help to point out the difference to newer players. Something to consider anyhow.

Sparth · Jun 10, 2014

Thunderbrd said:
I like it provided you'll be around for a long time to come due to H's valid points. (And I hope you will be too because you do great work and have really become a very valued team member!)

Tnx TB

Anyway when culture will be chaing in some units just send me PM and then I change the button.

Thunderbrd said:
Sidenote: My wife was saying the Orange behind the Throwing Units made some of the weapons a little hard to see correctly so I don't know what you'd want to do with that.

Which particular units? I want to stick with orange colour which is between red melee and yellow ranged units (which throwing has something between of these two type of units

Thunderbrd said:
And keep in mind that Strike Teams and Criminals are different unit types (albeit similar and crossing paths at the Assassin) so it might be nice to differentiate the backgrounds in a way that allows for the two to blend if the unit is both but be different if only one of the two. Could help to point out the difference to newer players. Something to consider anyhow.

Which units should be strike teams? Sniper, Sharpshooter, Modern Sniper, Ambusher and Assassin?

Thunderbrd · Jun 10, 2014

Sparth said:
Which particular units? I want to stick with orange colour which is between red melee and yellow ranged units (which throwing has something between of these two type of units

She mentioned the atlatlists and I'm wondering if the Javelineer might also. I do LIKE the orange so if you do something like a slight glow around the weapon to generate a bit of line contrast it could help.

Which units should be strike teams? Sniper, Sharpshooter, Modern Sniper, Ambusher and Assassin?

Yes... and more after like the Special Forces - it's one of their sub-combats so you can search the units for UNITCOMBAT_STRIKE_TEAM for an easily generated list.

Sparth · Jun 10, 2014

Ok tnx for feedback TB. Ill try to redone these buttons today.

Sparth · Jun 10, 2014

Sparth said:
Ok tnx for feedback TB. Ill try to redone these buttons today.

Ok uploaded new buttons for snipers/assassins and javelineer and atlatl

Thunderbrd · Jun 10, 2014

I'll take a look here in a minute.

strategyonly · Jun 10, 2014

Can you pls make a new btn for this Hero thx.

Lyrrix · Jun 10, 2014

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Could someone take the time to make a copy of the old unit icons and keep them on the forums in the C2C mod section? Honestly I prefer a lot of the old icons compared to a lot of what I'm seeing. (No offense, Sparth.)

Sparth said:
Got new idea for Culture units buttons. See atached image.

Love this idea, and the circular hero buttons though.

Sparth · Jun 11, 2014

Lyrrix said:
Could someone take the time to make a copy of the old unit icons and keep them on the forums in the C2C mod section? Honestly I prefer a lot of the old icons compared to a lot of what I'm seeing. (No offense, Sparth.)

For now unpack and copy this file to Caveman2Cosmos modmods\Assets\XML\Art\
Should work. But this file is one of the most changin file in mod and I think I prepare just modmod with old icon files with my new names. This solve problem with XML compatibility.

strategyonly · Jun 11, 2014

Lyrrix said:
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Could someone take the time to make a copy of the old unit icons and keep them on the forums in the C2C mod section? Honestly I prefer a lot of the old icons compared to a lot of what I'm seeing. (No offense, Sparth.)

Love this idea, and the circular hero buttons though.

No offense to you then either, but if thats what YOU want then YOU need to be the one to do the work, and not us modders, thx. . .. SO

Sparth · Jun 11, 2014

For now all heroes buttons are in cirles. Also many heroes got better and more accurate buttons now.

BTW Gladiator (not Spartacus!) should be moved from Hero section to normal unit section.

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