Increase of the unit’s visibility

[bongo]

Here is a Steel Panthers typical confuse situation…



Hard to know who is whom and to have a synthetic vision of the battlefield.

I consider that in this game we play the role of staff officer rather than a ground commander, thus it is more logical, for me, to have a representation more clearly of the battlefield than the one that we could have by observing it simply binoculars.

It is necessary to admit that the great work of pixel art on thousands of vehicle’s icons of the game is remarkable both at the level of the details and of the camouflaging painting.
As a result, it can be difficult to see vehicles when these are spread in the map’s decorations…

I asked myself the question to know how to return these units more visible.
The solution came from what is made in the world of boardgames :



Draw a white net around the vehicle to contrast it with the bottom on which it is put. Simple, but very effective.



Also, I replaced the infantry’s icons by wargame’s style counters with different colors to be well able to see who is to whom. While being at it I took advantage of it for differentier ATGM and SAM infantry of the standard unit as well as the machine guns.

Certain vague battles became clearer now.
Obviously, there is a small "plastic toy" effect but it is not to displease me.

If some of you are interested in this modification, I could assemble files to make a MOD and post it in the appropriate section.

Let me know…

Bongo