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Need help with player/map icons for Nightfighter project. - Bee - 08.11.2007

Things were going so well too! Sad

I can't find how to modify the way the game displays the map icons for each nationality. I can change the size/shape of the icons, no problem. But no matter what, the game assigns a red or blue colour to each one, based on what side they belong to.

What I really need to find out is how to make the game assign a white colour to both sides, no matter what nation you select. This is pretty much the basis of the whole project. Without finding a way to fix this, the rest is just window dressing.

If anyone can find an answer Idea They will have my undying gratitude.
I can not extract any of the icons folder, but I understand that the contents is as follows. Presumably one of the .mat files in there holds the key:

icons/Bridge.mat
icons/Car.mat
icons/SelectIcon.mat
icons/antiaircraft.mat
icons/born.mat
icons/do.tga
icons/doBlast.tga
icons/doBomb.tga
icons/doCarpet.tga
icons/doFighter.tga
icons/doSeek.tga
icons/doSnipe.tga
icons/doSnipe2.tga
icons/doSupport.tga
icons/dobomb2.tga
icons/empty.mat
icons/empty.tga
icons/faractor.mat
icons/faractor.tga
icons/fieldgun.mat
icons/front1.mat
icons/front1.tga
icons/front2.mat
icons/front2.tga
icons/front3.mat
icons/front3.tga
icons/front4.mat
icons/front4.tga
icons/gattack.mat
icons/goland.tga
icons/gotakeoff.tga
icons/landing.mat
icons/normfly.mat
icons/objActAAA.mat
icons/objActAAA.tga
icons/objActAirstatic.mat
icons/objActAirstatic.tga
icons/objActBailed.mat
icons/objActBailed.tga
icons/objActBridge.mat
icons/objActBridge.tga
icons/objActCar.mat
icons/objActCar.tga
icons/objActCrashed.mat
icons/objActCrashed.tga
icons/objActGun.mat
icons/objActGun.tga
icons/objActLanded.mat
icons/objActLanded.tga
icons/objActPilot.mat
icons/objActPilot.tga
icons/objActPlane.mat
icons/objActPlane.tga
icons/objActShip.mat
icons/objActShip.tga
icons/objActTank.mat
icons/objActTank.tga
icons/objActTrain.mat
icons/objActTrain.tga
icons/objAirfield.tga
icons/objBridge.tga
icons/objFieldgun.tga
icons/objFighter.tga
icons/objHouse.mat
icons/objHouse.tga
icons/objV1target.mat
icons/objV1target.tga
icons/objaaa.tga
icons/objcar.tga
icons/objplayer.tga
icons/objreticle.tga
icons/objtank.tga
icons/objtarget.tga
icons/objtrain.tga
icons/objunknown.tga
icons/plane.mat
icons/plane.tga
icons/player.mat
icons/runaway.mat
icons/selecttarget.mat
icons/shipDestroyer.mat
icons/shipDestroyer.tga
icons/takeoff.mat
icons/tank.mat
icons/target.mat
icons/tdefence.mat
icons/tdefencebridge.mat
icons/tdefenceground.mat
icons/tdestroyair.mat
icons/tdestroybridge.mat
icons/tdestroychief.mat
icons/tdestroyground.mat
icons/tescort.mat
icons/tinspect.mat
icons/train.mat
icons/unknown.mat
icons/waypoint.tga

- fly_zo - 08.11.2007

Well i have extracted icon folder m8 .... with all that files .... you want the mail ?

Please PM ... i can't find your address !!!

Z

- Bee - 08.11.2007

Hell yes!

- fly_zo - 08.11.2007

PM me address please.....

Z

- Bee - 08.11.2007

Sent :wink:

- fly_zo - 08.11.2007

Bee Wrote:Sent :wink:

mail has been sent ... please confirm receiving


Z

- Bee - 09.11.2007

Got it Smile Smile Smile

Thanks Fly_zo for coming to the rescue!

Icon colours - anonymous tosh - 21.12.2008

I finally found a thread on changing icon colours bbbbut why so coy? No info for 'the rest of us'?

I'm talking specifically about a plane's range icon, (much as I would prefer to play without icons altogether, from an immersion factor POV). Red & Blue might be fine for good young eyes but not for some of us old codgers who still remember Spits taking off in anger ;-/

I play mainly offline single missions (so no colour choice like there is for online teams) and find the 'Blues' have a distinct advantage over the 'Reds' not only over the sea but also over forest...

Could some kind Modder please give us all a clue as to how we could choose our own icon colours for both sides, please?

- Bee - 22.12.2008

What do you mean coy?

Sorry that I have no information that can help you. Icons were the first thing I switched off when I bought FB and I've never used them since. This thread was about the colour of the aircraft-shapes shown in the map screen, not the ones you are thinking of.

- anonymous tosh - 23.12.2008

Look at the thread, Bee - no actual info, just PM references.

Sorry I misunderstood what you were looking for - wish there was a solution to my eyesight and range icon colours issue ;-) I don't believe it's insurmountable, as there's a whole raft of colours to fly with in online missions...

- Fisneaky - 23.12.2008

anonymous tosh Wrote:Look at the thread, Bee - no actual info, just PM references.

Sorry I misunderstood what you were looking for - wish there was a solution to my eyesight and range icon colours issue ;-) I don't believe it's insurmountable, as there's a whole raft of colours to fly with in online missions...

Here is the thread on changing fonts in the GUI http://allaircraftsimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10501.

If anyone knows which font is used for icons, the answer is probably there.
Arial Black.ttf would be a good choice for a bold font.

Other soulutions are as simple as changing your screen resolution (to something lower), fixing a fresnel lens to your monitor , or you could just throw bucks at it and get a bigger monitor.

This may help for missions you host.
setting custom icons, distance etc.

and

Custom Icons Part 1/4

- anonymous tosh - 03.01.2009

Many thanks for the links, Fisneaky - I'll check them out right now.