Suggestions for MapView

I bet you are running under low-color settings  Unless you PC is really old there really is no reason for doing so these days.  Right-click on your desktop and select “Properties” -> “settings” -> “Color Quality” and set it to 32 bit.

I imagine to whole module would have looked a bit funny if you were running a subset of the colors.  I’m curious to see how it looks to you after the change.

Mot

I’m already running 32 bit with widescreen.  Laptop’s less then a year old.

I’m using the mod with the intial piece set up.  Unless you have a better one I can use.  Maybe something got screwed up with that module?

Maybe try uninstalling mapview then reinstalling it?  When I dragged and dropped units it showed the unit the whole time.

installing…funny. hehe.  All I did was drop the program into the specified folder.  Was there something else I should have done?  It was not a self extracting file or anything.  No real “installing” in the conventional use of the word.

Though, my familiarty with this program is VERY limited.  I more then likely did cause some error.  Should I delete and redownload the file, drop it into the directory, or whatever?

I don’t have a clue what you could do to cause that effect.  I assume that you installed the original MapView and then just dropped the new exe in the same folder.  That should work.

I think it just doesn’t like you  :wink:

Are all of the other modules broken too?

Mot

the rest seem to work fine.  Seem being the opperative word, since I wouldn’t know if they were NOT working. Tee-hehehe

Just redownloaded it and reinstalled it.

Here’s what I’m noticing, it still says version 2.16 not 3.18.  Could that be the reason?

Okay, fixed that.  But they don’t auto stack anymore. (as in if I drop it right on top of the other, literally lining it up so that there is no exposed border from the other unit)

This another ID10T error on my part?

I fixed that in build 18 (the overlap detection code needed to be adjusted for such small units).

I’m re-uploading the module and build 18 just to make sure I didn’t do someting stupid (upload the wrong file perhaps).

Does anyone else have the merge-drop problem?  (Mine seems to work OK).

Mot

By the way, any comments on the Russian Infantry?  I’m thinking about applying that effect to all the unit of each country.

Mot

Can we swap colors for Russia and Japan?  Kinda confusing to see Japan as Red.

Actually, Japan as dark yellow would be better, and Russia as Red.

Anybody else notice Ver 3 is opening a lot faster then Ver 2?  Or is it just because I hate it less now I have transferred less negative energy on the program???

My actual Japanese pieces are bright red for AA Pacific.  I assume they are the same color for AA Revised?

As for the dark-yellow, my only concern was that the color may be too close to the Japanese home territories.  I’ll try it out with the double-outline style though and see how it looks.

And I’m glad to see you noticed the speed up :)

Mot

In my games the Russians are Red, the Americans Green, the Germans Grey, the British brown and the Japanese dark yellow.

Perhaps you can lighten the japanese territory colors and darken their pieces to an amber color?

It’s just a suggestion.  Many of us, I’m sure, are used to the Russians being red/reddish-brown.

Also, you can feel free to lower the topographical detail on the map if you wish.  It’s neat, but if you think it might help with speed or something, then it’s not going to make me cry if you take it out. :P

And finally, any way you can put in an icon to list currently controlled territory values?

Quick question, are you still having that problem with the drag-drop apperance?

Mot

Nope.  Deleted version 2 and it went away (after reinstalling version 2.)