Some information for the Sprite Lovers..

[Johan]

HoI3 will ship with over 100 unique sprites for various types of ships, infantry, tanks, planes, cavalry etc..

The moddable system allows every single type of model for a unit to have a unique sprite if desired.

 

[Nikolai]

Wow, I imagine the modders out there is drooling as we speak.

 

[Baneslave]

You are making waiting painful, Johan. Also, why are you trying to corrupt my counter using habits?


Thanks for the info.

 

[Moogel]

Yeah. Sounds cool even thou i only use counters

 

[Sovereign]

HoI3 will ship with over 100 unique sprites for various types of ships, infantry, tanks, planes, cavalry etc..

The moddable system allows every single type of model for a unit to have a unique sprite if desired.

w0000t!

All other war-games are now unnecessary.

 

[LeeDub]

Improvements all around. And that's not even counting the patches!

 

[Will Lucky]

Hee Hee, good good. I look forward to marching across Europe with them.

 

[Sovereign]

ps- if anyone ever wants to start a thread about counters with lots of counter players turning up to speak about counters, just title the thread "For those who like Sprites".

 

[Phelan]

I am one of the sprite using guys, so I'm really happy to get some variety on my screen.

I appreciate your efforts.

 

[ALordaB]

The moddable system allows every single type of model for a unit to have a unique sprite if desired.

Wait, so that means that, for example, I could have a Type VII submarine sprite for the German 1938 submarine model and a Type IX sprite for the 1940 model?

 

[Baneslave]

Wait, so that means that, for example, I could have a Type VII submarine sprite for the German 1938 submarine model and a Type IX sprite for the 1940 model?

Yes.

 

[Alex_brunius]

HoI3 will ship with over 100 unique sprites for various types of ships, infantry, tanks, planes, cavalry etc..

The moddable system allows every single type of model for a unit to have a unique sprite if desired.

Thanks for the info!

Does this include nation specific sprites possible for ALL nations or just the major nations you have chosen?

 

[Baneslave]

Does this include nation specific sprites possible for ALL nations or just the major nations you have chosen?

Why would it be limited to majors only? It doesn't make any sense logically thinking.

 

[Alex_brunius]

Why would it be limited to majors only? It doesn't make any sense logically thinking.

Depends on how the game is written. If they only plan to include sprites for say the same 7 nations (+1 default for the others) they don't have to support individual sprites for minors too. All nations not specified could just be assigned the default one per auto hard coded to limit loading times.

Got me worried since Johan didn't mentioned nation specific at all.

 

[unmerged(54763)]

That is good news.Though using counters is cool,I allways loved more those artistic representation.

 

[kunadam]

Even in HoI2 it was possible to have distinct spirtes for minors, it was just not implemented in the original release, but could be modded.

 

[Kaelic]

Bah, I hate that this community confuses Sprites with Models, they're MODELS! Can we modify the NATO tokens as well?

 

[Baneslave]

Bah, I hate that this community confuses Sprites with Models, they're MODELS! Can we modify the NATO tokens as well?

Model is in game unit determined by its components. Sprite is the graphic that is shown to players.

Yes, counters can be modified.

 

[Polarisan]

Woots!

I thought that I would have to use counters this game, and in fact, the counters look great, but with this news, I'm goign sprites all the way

Cheers;
Nick

PS: Johan, is there a way to have a mixture of COUNTERS and SPRITES? Like, having land counters and air sprites?

 

[Xendance]

Model is in game unit determined by its components. Sprite is the graphic that is shown to players.

Yes, counters can be modified.

Sprite is two dimensional, the units shown on the map are not two dimensional. They are 3d models
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_modeling

"Many computer games used pre-rendered images of 3D models as sprites before computers could render them in real-time." Now the units you see on the map are rendered in real time, hence the need for better gfx card. Also I might imagine that the huge texture for the landscape might have something to do with the 256 MB requirement