Changes to the next version of TripleA to consider…

Personally I redrew battleships to distinguish them more from cruisers.

There are also 2 different images for cruisers.  The less used one is often far more distinguishable, especially if you find the normal one too similar.

So how does one switch to the other cruiser?

Also now that i look at it again german subs and destroyers about look the same :P

Here are some examples of how unit images can be redone to help make everything more distinguishable.

But if you are trying to do it yourself then you can go to the Triple A development forum and find the thread that has the entire repository of unit images (more or less) made for Triple A.

Once you have that file you can simply open the map folder for your favorite game then open the unit folder and go into each team and replace any units you feel you’d like to see different.

Important!!! Any units you replace must have the identical name of the original.  If the name is not the same as it was then your game will crash every time Triple A tries to draw the image for that unit.

Take a copy of the image you like and save it somewhere on your computer.

Go into your Triple A.  You can either change it for one game or you can change it for all the games.

If you want to change it for one particlar game you can replace the image in the “units” folder inside the Map folder.

If you want to change the image for all games then you can go into the “assets” folder in triple A and go into the “Units” folder.

It all depends on whether the game you are playing has its own “unit” folder or not.  If a game has its own unit folder then the unit images have to be changed in that.  If the game has no units folder it will draw images from the Triple A unit folder.

The changing of unit images is also dependent on how the games you have, have been installed.  If all your games are still zipped then there may be other steps involved.

everything in a map’s folder, except for the XML file (in the “games” folder) can be changed WITHOUT affecting your games

it is all client side stuff, meaning you can change out your pictures and unit art and it won’t affect your game or your opponent or your opponent’s computer, in any way

so have at it

Ahh OK thanks I know how to change the icons now.  I did it for Global 1940 this way:

1. unzip the World War II Global file in c:/users/YOURNAME/trimple/maps
2. change the names of the icons in c:/users/YORNAME/triplea/maps/WorldWar II Global/units/Americans
3. did this for all the powers
   I found that changing “cruiser” to “cruiser_x” and the “battlecruiser” to “cruiser” worked great.  Thanks!

It would be cool if the new version included the LH sanctioned 1942 setup:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=30910.0

(Yes, I’m too lazy to adjust everything manually, but it would also be necessary to adjust the turn order.)

In any event, thanks Veqryn for all the work so far!

@2xAxe:

It would be cool if the new version included the LH sanctioned 1942 setup:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=30910.0

(Yes, I’m too lazy to adjust everything manually, but it would also be necessary to adjust the turn order.)

In any event, thanks Veqryn for all the work so far!

The setup has been changed; here is the corrected game setup as provided on Larry’s site:

http://smo63.fatcow.com/pdf/G42setup2013424.pdf

But I think this is not a matter of a new version of TripleA but just another game.xml to add to the Global1940 map.

Yes.  It would just need to be set up as a new XML so that it is selectable as a different mod.