WinSPWW2 Infantry Icons Mod - Cross Infantry 1.0

[Cross]

Originally Posted by Rosollia

Thank you for this great mod Cross!

Some questions:
- Why not change the gun crew graphics too?
- Any plans for a similar mod for WinSPMBT?

You're welcome.

I just haven't got around to gun crews. I may do them in the future, but I usually mod what I'm interested in at the time, and I sometimes prioritise.

I don't have any plans to mod SPMBT infantry. I rarely play MBT. However, if anyone would like to take my WW2 infantry icons and use them to make MBT SHP files, I would support it with one or two minor conditions.

I believe MBT uses the same file numbers and uniform colours, but the setup of different icons within the files is different.

If you put this mod into MBT, it will 'work', but 8 men sections will have the 12 man icon and other errors. And a couple of the weapons would need adjusting, like the Panzerfaust should be changed to something a little more generic.

Cross

[Rosollia]

I thought I´d finaly share with all of you the version of Cross infantry icons mod that I use for WinSPWW2.

This version has a one pixel wide black border added to all the graphics to make them stand out more from the background graphics. This is the same thing I did with the WinSPMBT versions of the infantry icons here: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=48393

For someone like me who has a poor eye sight this really helps.

[Rosollia]

For winter battles we have nice winter camo for vehicles but infantry still uses the summer camo.

So I thought I'd try to rectify this deficiency. Here are winter icons for the infantry. These are based on Cross infantry icons again I just repainted them white.

Usage:
First backup your original infantry icon files so you can restore them for summer camo!

By default the winter icons are for German/Axis forces only. (Icon0010.shp and Icon0028.shp)
However you can make copies and rename them to give winter camo to the other factions.

For USA/British rename:
Icon0010.shp to Icon0011.shp
Icon0028.shp to Icon0029.shp

For Russia rename:
Icon0010.shp to Icon0012.shp
Icon0028.shp to Icib0030.shp

[Elephantasy]

er... personally I think the horse units look like the soldiers are mounted on giant rats. Maybe the rear end should be reduced and the horse's tail shouldn't be sticking out like that.

[Cross]

Originally Posted by Elephantasy

er... personally I think the horse units look like the soldiers are mounted on giant rats. Maybe the rear end should be reduced and the horse's tail shouldn't be sticking out like that.

Welcome to the forum!

err...are you saying my horse has a fat butt?

Check out the rump on this horse called Sockpuppet:



You could always use the original horses:



cheers,
Cross

[Elephantasy]

Lol, that was actually me trying oh subtly to get you to re-edit the horse units--> failed. Anyway, they really look like giant rats.

[Cross]

Originally Posted by Elephantasy

Lol, that was actually me trying oh subtly to get you to re-edit the horse units--> failed. Anyway, they really look like giant rats.

Well your horses look like a violin in a violin case that has been run over by a truck.

It's actually quite a bit harder than you may think to replicate horses from above with so few pixels.

Here's some actual size horses:


The third section are some modded horses by Welk I believe.
He does good art work. The rumps of his top and bottom horses are actually the same size as mine, but his use of shadow makes the rumps look smaller.

Once you put the icons in the game it adds shadow which I think makes my icons look better.

His cart horses might be what you are looking for. They have slightly smaller rumps, but I don't like the heads, the tails, or the manes which are too big and black.


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