WinSPMBT version 7.0 Upgrade patch

[DRG]

The patch is now available.. see the first post


Don

[Rich]

Hi, thank you for the patch. It looks like nothing was done about the font size. Or did I miss something?

[DRG]

No we didn't touch the font size this time because we changed the screen backgrounds and found that made the text noticeably sharper to our eyes. We haven't had a "font size" comment since I posted a mini fix for that which none of the patches would have overwritten.

Don

[Rich]

Heh, the reason there have been no more comments is because you guys said you would address it in the next patch so we've all been waiting. I do think the text is sharper and will help some. After trial and error I settled on 1024x768 which is about right for my eyes and, I suspect, for others too. I'll just keep it there but it would have been nice to be able to use a higher res.

[Kenny]

To Don and Andy:

Thank you for U.S. IBCT Pl,Javelins +(9 men squad with a shotgun weapon), and the Lt Mech Pl(9 man Stryker squads).

Dead on the money,gentlemen! Bravo.

This ain't going to be my last thank you,BTW,just the preliminary one.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Kenny

To Don and Andy:

Thank you for U.S. IBCT Pl,Javelins +(9 men squad with a shotgun weapon), and the Lt Mech Pl(9 man Stryker squads).

Dead on the money,gentlemen! Bravo.

This ain't going to be my last thank you,BTW,just the preliminary one.

Thanks ! Still waiting to hear from the jarheads... that's the oob that had a lot of re-organization and major picklist changes.

Don

[Kenny]

My thanks for you for stepping up and doing it,Don.

I am a fiddler by nature,sometimes to a fault. This new U.S. OOB might just have my tweaking down to non-existence before this night is out. Once again,very well done,Sir. I couldn't be happier so far.

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by DRG

Thanks ! Still waiting to hear from the jarheads... that's the oob that had a lot of re-organization and major picklist changes.

Don

Still looking the revised OOB in detail (haven't gotten to the formations yet) but it looks VERY good.

Of course I may be a tad biased because it seems a goodly number of the unit changes were taken from my revised USMC OOB

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

Still looking the revised OOB in detail (haven't gotten to the formations yet) but it looks VERY good.

Of course I may be a tad biased because it seems a goodly number of the unit changes were taken from my revised USMC OOB

Long ago I decided not to re-invent the wheel. If I can find useful information that advances the OOB's I'll use it.

Look at it this way... your last revision was DL'd by 22 people. There are a lot more using what I liberated from it now.

Next year I'll add your name to the OOB file credits ( for that I need your real name... send me a PM ). I had intended to this time but I had a brain fart and missed changing the OOB comments in both games this time around...


Don

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Rich

Heh, the reason there have been no more comments is because you guys said you would address it in the next patch so we've all been waiting. I do think the text is sharper and will help some. After trial and error I settled on 1024x768 which is about right for my eyes and, I suspect, for others too. I'll just keep it there but it would have been nice to be able to use a higher res.

The original mod I produced went out two years ago. Last year just before that patch went out I said

However, next year we will be doing some reorganization of the game screens and those new fonts and the required changes to the code will be included

That "reorganization of the game screens" didn't happen. We had seriously considered getting rid of 640x480 res and going with 800x600 screens and one reason that didn't happen is both Andy and I noticed a real change in text clarity with the new backgrounds that just started off as a casual experiment that we developed further when we noticed now much clearer the text looked now

The temp mod I produced still works but there aren't a lot of people who have used it and to be quite frank I thought the whole issue had faded away. Have you tried the mod with the new screens ?

Don