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Original Squad Battles Artwork - Warhorse - 01-05-2021 Ok, so many folks are complaining about the new top down, I like it, to each his own. Someone supplied the original files to me, so am making them available here. I can't vouch for if they will work with everything, they certainly won't work with my mod, but if you want to stick with the crappy old graphics, here they are. If they aren't good enough, feel free to make your own. I didn't receive the ones for FWW, Falklands or Grenada so if anyone has them, send them to me will post the here. AoTR-Stock AoTR graphics Dien Bien Phu-Stock DBP graphics Eagles Strike-Stock ES Graphics Falklands-Stock Falklands graphics First World War-Stock FWW graphics Grenada-Stock GR graphics Korean War-Stock KW graphics Modern War-Stock MW graphics Pacific War-Stock PW graphics Red Victory-Stock RV graphics Soviet-Afghan War-Stock SAW graphics Spanish Civil War-Stock SCW graphics Tour of Duty-Stock ToD graphics The Proud and the Few-Stock TPTF graphics Vietnam-Stock VN graphics Winter War-Stock WW graphics This explanation provided by Embis, thank you! Reducing The Impact Of The Top Down Mods On The Squad Battles Series Background This solution wont suit everyone, it is a compromise that works for me and I am sharing it with the community so other people can decide for themselves. The most recent update of the SB series included a lot of new graphics. These significantly improved the appearance of many features and introduced a new way of presenting the fighting units and leaders as plan or "top down" views rather than profile views. There were mixed responses to this. Most people welcomed the graphic improvement to the game's map and terrain, some people disliked the top-down view of the units. A backup of the original graphics was included with the update for each game in the Squad Battles Series, an oversight meant this was not included in just one game, Eagles Strike. I am providing some of those graphics in the Zip file at the end of this post. You probably don't need all of the old graphics and by providing what i think are the essentials makes the file much smaller and the installation straightforward. What these files will do and what they will not do
I have not modified any artwork in these files these are all original stock artwork made by the original artist I am not claiming any credit for creating the artwork I simply making it available to the community. Why don’t you replace the vehicle graphics as well? When the update was produced lots of new vehicles and weapons were added to the database. This might have sounded like a good idea at the time, but it had one drawback for which no solution was offered. Anyone who wanted to revert to the old profile view of the vehicles could no longer do that because the new vehicles had not had any profile views created for them. This meant that if you reverted to the old graphics for the vehicles then in some scenarios featuring the new units some counters on the map would appear blank. I have a load of other games in the SB series, how do I get rid of the top-down mod for them? The current download and the updates for the SB series on the JTS site all include a new folder in the root directory of the game called "Notes" inside here is a zip file that includes all the original graphics for that game. Follow these four steps to replace the infantry and leader top-down views with the original portrait views.
No, I am afraid not; he only offers the top-down mod and does not provide any alternative graphics. The different opinions on the top down mod V the original graphics have been aired ad nauseam on these forums so please don't restart that discussion here. I hope you like this, but if you dont like it, I don't mind you not liking it. I am not trying to convert anyone to my point of view. I am not belittling or being rude about the work of any of the original artists all of them are more skilled at their art than I am. All I am doing is making an offering to the community in the spirit of co-operation and friendship and without prejudice. Have fun! RE: Original Squad Battles Artwork - stanfc - 01-07-2021 (01-05-2021, 08:49 AM)Warhorse Wrote: Ok, so many folks are complaining about the new top down, I like it, to each his own. Someone supplied the original files to me, so am making them available here. I can't vouch for if they will work with everything, they certainly won't work with my mod, but if you want to stick with the crappy old graphics, here they are. If they aren't good enough, feel free to make your own. I didn't receive the ones for FWW, Falklands or Grenada so if anyone has them, send them to me will post the here.I am trying to get the stock graphics and get the following error. "This item might not exist or is no longer available" Is the problem on my end or yours? Thanks RE: Original Squad Battles Artwork - Compass Rose - 01-08-2021 (01-07-2021, 03:28 PM)stanfc Wrote: I am trying to get the stock graphics and get the following error. "This item might not exist or is no longer available" Is the problem on my end or yours? Thanks I am seeing the same thing that you are seeing. Let me look into it. RE: Original Squad Battles Artwork - Warhorse - 01-08-2021 (01-08-2021, 06:58 AM)Compass Rose Wrote:(01-07-2021, 03:28 PM)stanfc Wrote: I am trying to get the stock graphics and get the following error. "This item might not exist or is no longer available" Is the problem on my end or yours? Thanks Sorry folks, my bad, I had forgotten to zip them up, will repost here in a little bit, again, my apologies! RE: Original Squad Battles Artwork - Warhorse - 01-08-2021 OK, they are back up with an explanation of optimum use by Embis, thanks for that man! RE: Original Squad Battles Artwork - fadelman - 06-01-2021 I personally only use the unit icons, the rest I use the new graphics. The old unit icons use faces instead of top down and there are some pretty neat looking faces in the old graphics. Everything else is the same including the heavy weapon, engineer, pinned/demoralized indicators if you copy the unit in Map and Info only. SB has the old icons in the Notes directory. Fran RE: Original Squad Battles Artwork - fadelman - 06-01-2021 I looked and what Warhorse provided are slightly different than in the notes directory of the games. Fran |
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