level and sprite ?

[Greywolf]

I am considering using sprites from your great team but I dont agree with some of the level setting. I understand how to adjust this by renaming unit but I have a trouble :

- Exactly how many levet of tank/planes/ship are there ?

- What is the relationship between tech and level ?

Prewar is 1
Basic 2
Improved 3
Advanced 4
Rocket ??

??

Am I wrong ? Right ? is it a way to set a tech level to a sprite level ? more than 4 ?

 

[nachinus]

Tank levels: 4
L1: All light tanks (p.e PzI + II)
L2: All medium tanks (p.e PzIII + IV)
L3: All heavy tanks (p.e Pz V + Tiger)
L4: Superheavy tanks (p.e. Maus, Kingtiger)

Fighter Levels: 3
L1: Prewar fighter (p.e. Gladiator, I-16)
L2: Basic+improved+advanced: (p.e. Me109, Fw190, Hurricane, Spitfire, Mustang...)
L3:Jetfighters

We are not very sure about the fighters because it seems to have changed. NewU365 reported that in 1.04 L3 was advanced+jet and in 1.05 its only Jet. More logical, i think because it wouldve been weird to see a Fw190 model using Me262 sprite or viceversa.

 

[Greywolf]

Hum so basically for planes :

Level 1 useless for major power ( or nearly )
Level 3 nearly useless too....

Tha

 

[Greywolf]

Hum so basically for planes :

Level 1 useless for major power ( or nearly )
Level 3 nearly useless too....

That's not a great news...

Too bad to be sticked to play 90% of the game with only 1 plane sprite, I will have to choose it better than I thought...


Thanks.

 

[nachinus]

Well, fortunatelly there are good L1 and L2 sprites to choose, so it shouldnt be very problematic

 

[Greywolf]

Originally posted by nachinus
Well, fortunatelly there are good L1 and L2 sprites to choose, so it shouldnt be very problematic

in fact there is too many of them it is a shame not being able to use them all at once

 

[nachinus]

Originally posted by Greywolf
in fact there is too many of them it is a shame not being able to use them all at once

Yep, just one consideration that you should have: Not all of them are fully animated, in fact are very few fully animated plane sprites. If you go to Nighty's Sprite Archive you'll find fully animated sprites marked as FA, while most of them are PA (partially animated), with very limited animations.

 

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Stoney Road Sprite table - AA?

A previous post says that PA is partially animated and FA is fully animated.

I have also noticed "AA", ie.Elephant. What does this mean?

Thanks

 

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AA means that the sprite does NOT move, but an arrow shows the direction it is travelling.


On another note, I downloaded Shep's Tech mod and in it, it has level 2+ for airborne tanks (still paras, though). How can I change a tank sprite to be this L2 Para?

 

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I wish Paradox would just add more sprite levels to all unit types.
I reckon it's not possible to do a mod which adds more levels. So we are stuck with too few sprite levels. I would like to have 10+ tank sprite levels and prolly +-10 fighter sprite levels. It would be best to have n-levels for any unit type.