Request: More Text, Less Icons - UI Mod

[Daichi]

I haven't seen any other mods for this yet and I know I'm not alone with this problem, so...

One of the most annoying interface problems I've seen about this game is the overuse of Icons everywhere. The Civilopedia is next to useless because of this. At the very least I'd like to see some text on the icon's themselves (Even the first letter or three would help a lot). Anyway to do this as Text overlays on the Icon's "Pythonicly"? That way it could be Multilingual Friendly.

Although, Ideally I'd like to see everything replaced with Text Lists with the small Icons (like seen a few other places in the game, like when your selecting a new Tech to research). I think there should be individual mods for both of these solutions actually.

-Daichi

 

[abj9562]

I agree. What would be really nice is a view button similiar to Explorer that wouls allow switching between small, large, thumbnail, and list views. That way anyone can have what they want. I think the icons are vector drawings so thwy would not even need to be redrawn, They could be reused in all views. It is only a matter of 3 new screens and buttons or a listbox to switch between them. Unfortunately I am tied down in a massive program right now and won't be able to get to it until the spring of '06. Maybe someone else can jump start this.

 

[Rayanth]

This is already being worked on by a competent modder. The problem he's having is that the civilopedia's layout coding is very picky about the order of objects... however he is making good progress. stay tuned for a published modpack soon.