[REL] Transparent Strategic Icons V4.1 (Galactic War)

well now you have put these ideas in my head and I will test it anyway damn you

I did a small "tutorial" in tha past - I think it was version 2? - on the first page with some pictures of the icons but I did not have the time to do that again yet. I also need to change the big screenshot to a version 3.3 one.

So if anyone is in the mood to make some nice panorama screenshots, this would be very welcome *g*

cheers,
Moldez

1110 downloads so far. I highly doubt it's just six guys.

(Oops Quitch already said this, never mind)

.. that´s pretty cool and somewhat frightening, last time I checked it was about 800 - but I often don´t use the modmanager when I'm messing around with my icons.

seems that most of them don´t visit the forums then - or uninstalled after testing

We're your high maintenance relationships.

"Quickfix" Version 3.3.1

- the flickerin borders shall be banned once more .. until I make a mistake again
- update to the vehicle scout
- some tweaks to the transport icon
- forgot about the rest

thx @proeleert

have fun

hi there,

so version 3.3 is out for a while now and all of you have tested it ..

Are there any problems you would like to see an update for?

@Quitch : I´ve tested the second border for gunships and the transport and it just didn´t add to the readabilty, in fact they become somewhat harder to spot when mixed with t2 bombers and t2 fighters.
Hope you noticed the small changes to the inferno and the spinner?

things I noticed:
- T2 eco icons are hard to spot sometimes, but I don´t want to add the small `` to them to keep them apart from t2 defence and the t2 bots/air/vehicle (maybe make them bigger again?)
- some icons seem to be too small when playin the (at least at the moment) standard "small" planets .. however I really love the scale when it comes to bigger radius planets (and personally I hope for those to become "standard" in the future!!!)

any thoughts?

cheers,
Moldez

I haven't noticed the changes to the Inferno or Spinner, though they're not units I tend to see. I did notice the awesome change to the Skitter

All I can say is that every time I have to watch something which uses the default icons it pains me because these ones are so much better. Haven't had any issues since 3.3, nor do I recall mentally complaining about anything to do with them.

Thank you!
Without this mod, I wouldn't have a clue where my fabbers are.
This mod colors them with a nice white outline, whereas the combat units (and "combat fabbers") are left with a black outline.
As there is no key binding to just "select all fabbers" (also the busy ones), this is a MUST HAVE.
Even better, you don't have to select them with your mod just to discern them, as you have to micro them anyways.
This should become vanilla.

There is a key for select all idle fabbers. I think the default is f.

Thanks, I know, but most of them are indeed helping something so it's not helping me as much.

This looks much better than the original icons!!!

I agree the icons are really good. I think the mod should be renamed really, transparent icons is a bit misleading. I think many people are interested in better strategic icons, even if they don't care about transparency.

Strategic Icons You Could Take Home To Mother

Strategic Icons You Could Take Home To Mother Uber

yeah already thought about a better suitable name any suggestions ?

cheers, Moldez

Moldez Strategic Icons
Zedlom Strategic Icons
Better Strategic Icons

I really like the current name actually. It describes what this mod does very well.

keep an eye on this mod when PTE goes live. They were messing around with strategic icons and this mod may not work anymore after the next patch.

thx .. after what I saw I will have to at least delete my healthbar in this mod.

hopefully they are working on better icons for all units right now !

Even if they are working on icons, it will be really hard to do better than this mod. I can't play pa without it anymore!