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Old June 1st, 2008, 12:34 PM
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Default Re: Icon0099.shp

No one ever said, or even suggested, you needed to keep track of the third party mods. Obviously its our, the modders, job to do so. They are our mods after all. My point is it wouldn't hurt to have had, or better yet to have, a little bit more space for new .shp files.

Those of us who are doing big projects need extra space; which by the way don't just benefit ourselves but the community as a whole as the icons and things we create get used (if we decide to release them, which we invariably do) by others including yourselves; otherwise thats the end of the line for development right there.

I personally have used and created a large amount of icons. I am sure that I am not the only one.

Now of course I could go and find the BMPs etc that were already in-game and replace them with newer altogether better looking ones or I could dig around and replace every single piece of German kit still in the game with newer more colourful and accurate versions but then that would be terribly laborious and very limiting.

Limiting, of course, because if, like me, you insist on having a field grey, camo, desert and winter scheme for as many of your vehicles as possible and if you insist on trying to portray something approaching evolution in the design of your vehicles then thats a whole load of space used up right there.

What you are both basically saying is that its not your problem and we can go to hell, for the time being. What do you suggest, we start hacking up the in-game shape files?As it is the extra icons I have added on were always, well almost, tacked on to the end to avoid having to ruin anything that SPCAMO had produced. Now I can't do that anymore and soon enough other people will encounter smilar difficulties.
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