It's absolutely amazing to be able to a) select from the full list of troop graphics without modding and b) see a visual representation of them in the editor, to help with color coordinating flag and military uniforms. Thanks so much for this great feature!
I know you'll probably have your hands full dealing with a lot of Emperor post-patch stuff, but the final and ultimate evolution of this feature would be the ability to manually select different sprites for each individual troop type and tech level. Aside from the personal taste factor of loving some parts of sprite packs and disliking others, it'd be a neat way to deal with the headache of stacking those packs that only affect certain tech levels, and it'd allow us to truly visualize the cultural story of our custom nation - picture a 'Vinland' that has some of the Scandinavian sprites for early tech, but then adopts Americanized influences later, or an alt-history resurgent Byzantium that expanded westward, making the Purple Phoenix's Turkish-inspired late game units feel weird and out of place.
I know you'll probably have your hands full dealing with a lot of Emperor post-patch stuff, but the final and ultimate evolution of this feature would be the ability to manually select different sprites for each individual troop type and tech level. Aside from the personal taste factor of loving some parts of sprite packs and disliking others, it'd be a neat way to deal with the headache of stacking those packs that only affect certain tech levels, and it'd allow us to truly visualize the cultural story of our custom nation - picture a 'Vinland' that has some of the Scandinavian sprites for early tech, but then adopts Americanized influences later, or an alt-history resurgent Byzantium that expanded westward, making the Purple Phoenix's Turkish-inspired late game units feel weird and out of place.
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