@beelee What is interesting is that this not a problem using the Fast AI. A few months back, there was an issue with big transport fleets not landing that affected both AI's. The non-landing issue seems resolved.

Added
WW2-Alternate (1931-1945)
▪ G40 Alt Universe - "The war is the same, but occurs in an alternate universe"

Link 1st post
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3741/curated-best-top-maps-triplea-guides

The game.dtd file is now located at https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/blob/master/game-app/game-core/src/main/resources/games/strategy/engine/xml/game.dtd

@jkprince interesting

Ok so I put all the stuff I had into the UHD map making folder in the lead post. With the dark ocean stuff, the Units with their flips, and some of the extra stuff for layering relief clocked in right around 200mb zipped. Here is the file again, the one that has all the relief elements and such.

UHD map making stuff
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CAymUozYeQirEmsyl4wAV2Q70QunbpA6/view?usp=sharing

When I removed all the extraneous stuff from the UHD World War II Global folder for a lighter footprint file that one clocked in at about 81 mb. Here is the game folder...

UHD world war II global
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e1KU3n5lwPLLRWC5_3Vcdlo7NUj2mxrK/view?usp=sharing

It has no relief as a single image, but that should be easy to reconstruct from the reliefTiles folder. Provided the other Customizing package lives somewhere people should be able to get at what they need from that, like to edit the relief, do different borders or different styles, retint the units or whatever. I removed the v3 48px units, since those can be grabbed from the regular global download. They're still compatible, so you can switch the units from one map to another (48px mono tints or 54px duo tints), but it trimmed down the overall filesize so hopefully the install/load is a bit faster.

Let me know if that makes sense for ya

Have a fun weekend!

@wylie1070
Sounds good.

@jkprince said in How to change my forum user @:

@panther Thanks, now this topic can be deleted : )

You are welcome. I won't delete this topic however, because it serves as a good example for a case where a change of a forum username is unproblematic and sensible.

Contacting a forum admin in that case is helpful. An admin will take a look and act. 🙂

Oh also I just remembered, so for the smallMap image you can try just making that a solid blue swatch at the desired pixels instead of using "Other: Optional Things -> Run the Image Shrinker"

Just to make sure the white dots aren't coming in from that. If they only appear on the mini map it's likely from the tiny image there, where some white isn't being fully covered over by the HEX colors from the polys so they show as gaps.

Unless you have tiles that are unassigned and intended to show as white on the map, the smallMap doesn't actually need any white or black, since it's just painting stuff over from the polys there. For example the smallMap in UHD global looks like this...

smallMap uhd global.png

Only the arctic section at the very top was left white, since those polys weren't assigned in the game (to create the little ice sheet effect), but for everything else just needs a blue field to paint in the HEX colors on top. The white there was just me lazing out and not wanting to assign a ton of extra icy tiles, but if assigned and given a HEX they'll paint like all the other tiles and you just need the blue.
'
For 4:3 at 320 px, try using this for the smallMap jpeg... If the little white dots don't display anymore then you'll know they were just coming from that tiny image instead of the actual polys.

smallMap.jpeg

I totally forgot, but the same thing happened to me as well! lol

Hope that helps!

ps. oh and for the shape of the polys in the mini map display, I believe it will just stretch to match the aspect there when painting the polys into the mini if it's different than the main map. Probably not a big deal usually if the aspect is slightly off between the two rectangles when showing a squiggly world shape, although to hold a simpler overall shape like a circle, I think both need to match or the circle might get compressed and go oblong? I think you're already ahead of that one cause 4:3 is optimal for tripleA. It only sorta works at 16:9 cause the Mini and UI tab can kinda cover the unused area. I'd have done the UHD in 4:3 but the regular world war II global that bung made at 2:1 so I split the difference, but it was kinda wonky at 16:9/16:10 which I didn't manage anyway, cause ended up cropping at the margins a bit. Go figure! I'm still learning how all this stuff works myself, even after many years trying to puzzle it out haha. Best of luck dude! Let me know if you hit any snags

@thedog thank you

Short answer yes.

Using isAI and say rounds 4-5, 8-9, 12-13 or another condition

Have 2 or more turns give the AI a chance to assemble forces for the attack.

@black_elk love it!

@redanto thank you, good game as well.

Edited 1st post 2.6 can download maps with the latest versions.

Link 1st post
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3724/how-to-have-triplea-2-5-2-6-installed-at-the-same-time

It's not that bad to add the preview image, particularly now that it's standardized. This file:
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea-game.github.io/blob/master/maps/maps.html

With the below modifications (note the new img block):
6483066e-429b-4c1f-8e49-ef41406cf4ba-image.png

Looks like this:
b998cdcf-acca-4e08-bb9d-31ae6c4401ed-image.png

Is there anyone good with CSS that can style this up more nicely?

I don't have bandwidth to help here. The updates look good. Replacing the files in the map repository should be do-able with some googling and small determination.

@black_elk said in Contextutal unit sprite "animation":

reading a rulebook manual in the notes seems somehow less compelling than Victoria breaking it down for us.

Yes

Victoria should get the job