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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP] V35 (P36)

Postby thenobodies80 on Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:03 pm

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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR]

Postby cairnswk on Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:38 pm

^^ thank-you tnb80
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:59 pm

another 14 days, and this will have been out there for 1 year.... :sick:
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby natty dread on Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:25 pm

Congrats on the stamp and the coming anniversary ;)
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby Industrial Helix on Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:00 am

=D> About time!

Sometimes I think the foundry out to be renamed the Sarlacc Pit... ;)
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby ender516 on Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:37 am

Industrial Helix wrote:=D> About time!

Sometimes I think the foundry out to be renamed the Sarlacc Pit... ;)

Thank goodness for Wikipedia. I haven't seen Return of The Jedi in decades, and I doubt I ever knew the name of that thing.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby lt_oddball on Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:05 am

congratulations !
Hurray !
fantastic effort of yours
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:23 pm

natty_dread wrote:Congrats on the stamp and the coming anniversary ;)


Industrial Helix wrote:=D> About time!

Sometimes I think the foundry out to be renamed the Sarlacc Pit... ;)


lt_oddball wrote:congratulations !
Hurray !
fantastic effort of yours
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Thanks guys for your feedback. :)
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby MrBenn on Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:31 pm

cairnswk wrote:another 14 days, and this will have been out there for 1 year.... :sick:

Let's hurry up and get some XML done then :P
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby ender516 on Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:57 pm

Are you looking for an XML coder, cairnswk, or are you handling it yourself?
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:30 am

ender516 wrote:Are you looking for an XML coder, cairnswk, or are you handling it yourself?

No Ender516, saraith has already done the first pass on the xml as you can see from previous page 88 map.

There is just finalisation of centering etc, and xml check to get done as soon as saraith has it in hand... ;)
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby ender516 on Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:58 pm

cairnswk wrote:
ender516 wrote:Are you looking for an XML coder, cairnswk, or are you handling it yourself?

No Ender516, saraith has already done the first pass on the xml as you can see from previous page 88 map.

There is just finalisation of centering etc, and xml check to get done as soon as saraith has it in hand... ;)

Oh, sorry, I hadn't noticed a post with the XML. I've got Napoleonic Europe 1812 in solid shape and was looking for something else to chew on.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby army of nobunaga on Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:11 pm

this looks great. will be an instant classic I believe.

I read somewhere in this theme about the "want" of more snow... I kind of agree. But I like it how it is as well.

This was a dirty hungry COLD battle. Very cold. Your map kind of reminds me of springtime =D

Anyway. Goodjob and thanx for the map.



before I hit submit, I might need to look it up, but you might be right... Maybe the battle of stalingrad did start in spring, but im pretty sure it ended in the winter of the next year and it was the cold that helped it.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:06 pm

V35.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:27 pm

army of nobunaga wrote:this looks great. will be an instant classic I believe.

well thank you aon, something more in your line rather than a map that less than 5% of the world's population plays eh? ;) (yes I did read that rant)

I read somewhere in this theme about the "want" of more snow... I kind of agree. But I like it how it is as well.
This was a dirty hungry COLD battle. Very cold. Your map kind of reminds me of springtime =D
Anyway. Goodjob and thanx for the map.
before I hit submit, I might need to look it up, but you might be right... Maybe the battle of stalingrad did start in spring, but im pretty sure it ended in the winter of the next year and it was the cold that helped it.

yes the invasion started in July which is summer in the north of course and ended in winter, and yes this portrays more of the beginning of the battle, but with opportunity to move to towards spring and winter.
the overall colour theme started more darkly, but has grown a little more springish due the constraints of finding colours for the colour-blind that are dissimilar enough to allow good receognition.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:05 pm

I've just spent a couple of hours trying to enhance this map, but alas, i like it's clean style...yes cluttered but still readable, and i don't think it needs anything else.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby chipv on Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:08 pm

It does need something - to go straight into BETA, this is an awesome map on a par with Waterloo.

This will be an instant hit, what a map.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Sun May 02, 2010 2:55 am

chipv wrote:It does need something - to go straight into BETA, this is an awesome map on a par with Waterloo.

This will be an instant hit, what a map.


Thanks chipv
i only hope that it is enjoyed. :)

I have changed the grey to ghost green on S2 Sheykin, i think this colour works better overall with the yellow and purple and is also still quite distinct for the CB. :)
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby neanderpaul14 on Sun May 02, 2010 3:58 am

Looking awesome Cairns. Glad to have you back.
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby MrBenn on Sun May 02, 2010 10:03 am

As soon as the XML is done, I'll happily send this one straight to the turtle.... tell your coder to get their skates on :P
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby MrBenn on Sun May 02, 2010 10:12 am

While I'm looking at it, I can see a couple of minor nitpicks... The colours on the legend appear to be very slightly different to those on the main map. This might be an optical illusion, but the purple of Goemark (just seen it as Goemrak on the map) looks richer on the main map and slightly more muted on the legend. Same for Rynok.
The other thing that I just wanted to query was that Rynok is the only area which has soldiers facing different directions. I don;t think this has any relevance to the gameplay, so it may be more aesthetically pleasing to have all four of them facing the same direction.
Other than that, I think that's it!
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V35 (P36)

Postby cairnswk on Sun May 02, 2010 11:50 am

MrBenn wrote:While I'm looking at it, I can see a couple of minor nitpicks... The colours on the legend appear to be very slightly different to those on the main map. This might be an optical illusion, but the purple of Goemark (just seen it as Goemrak on the map) looks richer on the main map and slightly more muted on the legend. Same for Rynok.

Fixed. Please refresh
The other thing that I just wanted to query was that Rynok is the only area which has soldiers facing different directions. I don;t think this has any relevance to the gameplay, so it may be more aesthetically pleasing to have all four of them facing the same direction.

Not so. there was one soldier facing left in the Lazar Chemical Plant, and another in the R 1077 units.
I don't agree with you on that "aesthetic", and yes, it has no reelvance to gameplay.
To this degree, i have left the existing ones as be, and turned a couple more facing left in the city, to give the sense of resistance fighting.

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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V36

Postby cairnswk on Sun May 02, 2010 1:27 pm

OK, this is V36 for testing and opinion.
I have changed the harsh straight outline of the sniper terts to a dotted line.
I like it myself as i think it doesn't overalod the color scheme and stick out too much like dogs' b...s, but still allows identification of the terts.
What do others think?

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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V36 (P39) Opinion?

Postby MrBenn on Sun May 02, 2010 3:47 pm

I preferred the solid lines; the dotted ones look a little bit more cluttered.

The territory name of Goemark Station is still misspelt as Goemrak Station
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Re: WWII-Stalingrad [D,GP,GR] V36 (P39) Opinion?

Postby cairnswk on Sun May 02, 2010 4:00 pm

MrBenn wrote:I preferred the solid lines; the dotted ones look a little bit more cluttered.

OK

The territory name of Goemark Station is still misspelt as Goemrak Station

so what are you saying it should be?
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