(10-11-2020, 09:27 PM)Alpha Zwo Wrote: I see there are a lot of different map mods available for download in the 3rd Party Art Mods Forum. Some are pretty old. Do all the mods fit with the newer JTS Napoleonic battles?
If someone can guide me to a map mod somewhere else, where terrain heights can easily be distinguished and can be used in all Napoleonic titles I would be very thankful.
One of the issues in the series that complicates things, is that there are basically 3 different combinations of sides in titles with the Napoleonic series.
The 2 Peninsular War titles, and RBR include sides that are used for different sides in the other titles - so at a minimum it would mean there would be 3 different sets of graphics, even if the map itself were kept exactly the same.
Terrain heights being easily distinguishable can be a direct result of monitor settings- or in other words, it is possible for monitors to show graphics differently with just the settings being changed around - you get that with print graphics ... I'm not sure if they still have these things, but you used to be able to get a calibration device that you could strap on to your monitor to calibrate them - I never had any as I didn't want to spend the money, but they were mostly for printing photographs and the like- but the same sort of principle would apply to any type of graphic...
In other words, there isn't really any guarantee of a universal fit (or that what I see on my screen is exactly the same thing that you see on yours, if that makes sense)--- in my case, I tried to get there (not counting the winter graphics yet ... those still need work) -and make the elevations easily distinguishable.
By and large, outside of the files showing sides - you can use the graphics from Musket and Pike and Napoleonic Battles interchangeably. And with the Napoleonic series- the same idea holds, you can use them interchangeably apart from the graphics showing sides (technically they'd work even if you did not make any changes to the sides' graphics - but it might show the wrong sides for some nations).
I'll have a units/symbols set out shortly - technically I have the download up now, but I want to make some changes to it (however it doesn't include the map yet, I haven't worked much within the newer zoom in size yet apart from coming up with units and hexes -so there is more to do there...).
The 'SDC set' is pretty old -and were not the latest set that I had worked on - what I have right now is far closer to Seven Years War, but with some changes that would have made it as stock into another formal project -excepting that I decided I really would rather work on stuff that I chose. Anyways there will be an History Design Center (HDC) set out soonish.
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