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[phoenix]

+1 on that, David. The last one (though the middle one is a massive improvement on the first). Thanks for asking!

I will also mod the hex edge files and colour out the hex edges, which (to me) make mere contours look like cliffs. I can go with a 'true' map look and only normal optional contours quite happily. If the colour scheme is nice then mostly I don't even need the contours either to be able to see the gradients sufficient to play.

Would love any files you have, BigDuke66 which use the Jison graphics for the JTS VERSIONS of the games (I haven't any HPS versions and the graphics files are a different size between the HPS and JTS versions). At the moment I use a real mish-mash of mods. I use Jison's beautiful unit portraits. I mostly use the Devine symbols. I use the the Jison features files as modded very kindly by Strela, I believe, so that they work with the JTS versions. And with several of the features I've also tampered with the files myself.

I think David's new features, as posted above, are the very best I've seen. Really great, map-like and clear.

I'll PM you, BigDuke66.

Peter

You want me to test the new graphics, David? Would love to. I have Kharkov 42, 43, Smolensk, Mius, Kursk 43. Would love, in particular to try Kursk 43 with the new features and colour scheme (though without embedded hexes and edges!). For me that is the most cluttered and unclear map of all, in need of a nice rational overhaul. One of my objections to the hex edges and non-optional hexes is that in maps like Kursk, which are, I would say, very busy maps, there is just too much there to be able to read it easily if the hexes and the hex edges are on.

I see there's been some nice work too on rivers, streams (and possibly roads) to make them more natural looking!