Black_Elk Black_Elk
1 Jan 2023, 08:11

@thedog said in Proposed Map: Domination 1941:

@Black_Elk
Please look at the map colours for Italy and Britain, on my mini mapl they are not easily distinguishable?

Also look at the mini map, Italy owns most of the Horn of Africa and Britain a strip of countries down to South Africa.

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The color scheme there looks like it may still be following the Iron War hex colors. Just from the quick glance around mini map, seems to be the case. Frostion's color scheme works alright in Iron War, the way he did his relief for that, with the details turned on, but wouldn't be my first choice for a new one. I agree it's pretty easy to confuse the Brits and Italians there, also would probably be a bit off for some of the national unit hues we did. I'm partial to the Hex's from the earlier draft map samples myself, since I thought they held up pretty nicely even without a relief. These were the values I used for the earlier paintjobs...

Americans: 026400
ANZAC: 5ba399
British: 9e7035
Chinese: 533c69
Dutch: e77600
French: 0063a5
Germans: 656565
Italians: 6c4513
Japanese: e19521 (Something more orange tinted might work better to match Japan's new units. The color the Italians are using above in that detail you posted might be pretty decent for Japan actually hehe)
Mongolians: a13030
Russians: 940000

@thedog said in Proposed Map: Domination 1941:

@Black_Elk
Request for an Oil-Field / Oil Rig / Nodding Donkey/Pump Jack icon.

To represent an Oil Field, this is my temporary version
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In game it looks like this
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Could you either beautify this one or do another icon to represent the above?

On the reliefTiles I think we need to make the Panama & Suez Canals clearer/bigger?

Code-wise these are the canals

Danish Straits     112-113, Juteland & Copenhagen-Denmark
Gibraltar Straits  091 A-092, Gibraltar
Bosporus Strait    100 A-129, Ankara & Istanbul
Dardanelles Strait 099 A-129, Istanbul & Smyrna
Panama Canal       064-089D, Panama
Suez Canal         081-098, Cairo-Egypt & Sinai

How best to represent canals? (Frostion's barriers don't do it for me)
On the reliefTiles we could have a layer with;

  • On the border of the two SZ we could have a deeper blue dashed or dotted border
  • On the land TT we could put light houses like this,
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Thoughts?

I'll see what I can cook up for an oil derrick icon

We can look around for a Canal alternative if you're not feeling the Frostion icons. Dashed SZ border sounds good. To me the bollards seemed pretty recognizable, though perhaps some sort of drawbridge motif would be better? Lighthouses make me think more of like cliff rocks and fog horns rather than canals per se. The international symbol for waterways like that is a pair of wavy lines right? Or maybe something like this...?

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Also, Happy New Year!
And great work!!!