Modding Request [Will pay!]

[Kres7787]

Hello,

So here's the thing. I need to be able to zoom out and still see unit icons individually. Like this guy has done:

But no one yet has figured out how he's doing it. I would be willing to pay to a modder to do it.

Thank you!

 

[Kres7787]

I've reposted this in the user mods category, sorry for the double post but I don't see a way to delete it.

 

[bitmode]

There is two parts to this:

• making the right UI elements stay or disappear at a far distance
• simplifying the zoomed-out unit counter to just the flag

The first part happens in common/defines/00_graphics.lua, section NGraphics:
UNITS_ICONS_DISTANCE_CUTOFF = 900,
MAP_ICONS_GROUP_CAM_DISTANCE = 90.0, -- camera distance at which the icons begin to group up
MAP_ICONS_STATE_GROUP_CAM_DISTANCE = 180.0, -- Camera distance at which the icons begin to group up on state level
MAP_ICONS_STRATEGIC_GROUP_CAM_DISTANCE = 350, -- second camera distance at which the icons begin to group up

Raising all of these cutoffs to the maximum camera distance (3000) makes the map look like this:

There are also various other cutoffs in the same section, e.g. to make airports and task forces disappear earlier etc.

The second part happens in interface/mapicons.gui, the very first containerWindowType called unit_counter. The most important element is "large_flag", which needs to be scaled down a bit so the flags don't overlap at the desired zoom level. The counter elements appearing to the right of the flag need to be removed. I changed the containerWindowType to this:

Spoiler: unit_counter

    containerWindowType = {
        name = "unit_counter"
        position = { x=0 y=-24 }
        size = { width = 29 height = 24 }
        clipping = no

        iconType = {
            name = "counter_ideology"
            spriteType = "GFX_onmap_unit_counter_ideology"
            position = { x=37 y=0 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
        }
      
        iconType = {
            name = "counter_overlay"
            spriteType = "GFX_onmap_unit_counter_overlay"
            position = { x=3 y=3 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
        } 
      
        iconType = {
            name = "count_selected"
            spriteType = "GFX_onmap_unit_counter_selected"
            position = { x=0 y=0 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
        }     

        iconType ={
            name ="type"
            spriteType = "GFX_tiled_window_transparent"
            position = { x=3 y=3 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
        }     
      
        iconType = {
            name = "bar_org"
            spriteType = "GFX_mapicon_unit_bar_org"
            position = { x=14 y=8 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
            rotation = 1.5708
        }
        iconType = {
            name = "bar_str"
            spriteType = "GFX_mapicon_unit_bar_str"
            position = { x=14 y=12 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
            rotation = 1.5708
        }

        iconType = {
            name = "flag"
            spriteType = "GFX_mapicon_unit_flag_stripe"
            position = { x=5 y=15 }
            Orientation = "UPPER_LEFT"
            alwaystransparent = yes
        }
      
        iconType = {
            name = "large_flag"
            spriteType = "GFX_mapicon_unit_large_flag_stripe"
            position = { x = 10 y = 9 }
            alwaystransparent = yes
            scale = 0.35
        }
    }

Making the map look like this:

If anyone wants to turn it into a mod, go for it.