This was discussed in the Graphics forum and maybe we could add that fix to CORE:
Posted by barrabas
Has anyone been able to find out what has happend to the sprites in 1.05. It seems as if most countries copy the sprites of larger ones. Like your Russian infantry for ex. If you add it, the Poles, Balts, Spanish (in greatcoates and furhats ) and some more I think, use them.
Same thing with planes tanks etc. China uses your B-25, National Spain drive around in German Panzers etc.
The whole point with new sprites is to create more diversity, not less...
I liked it when the minors had default sprites, so I copyed the 1.04 unit and pallete files into 1.05 to see what happend. Same problem so it must be coded.
I guess it can be worked around by giving each country it's own set of sprites (even if they are the default ones), but that means a lot of renaming work...
And then we have the plane sprites off course, but that has allready been brought up. 1.05 is a great patch. But not for sprite modders it seems...
This has probably been brought up elsewhere to. I'll head over to the bug forum to check it out.
Posted by nachinus
The MIN using majors sprites maybe is because Paradox has modificated the coutries.csv file giving those minors some majors sprites. It can be easily checked and corrected if you look at that file under the 'sprite' column for each MIN country. Unfortunatelly i havent installed 1.05 yet.
If this is the reason, you'll probably see this:
POL;(various columns);;;SOV(in the 'sprite' column)
And in 1.04 it was:
POL;;;;;MIN(uses MIN sprites)
Posted by barrabas
Ýes I do! And thanks for the tip. I'll have a look...
Edit: Just as you said, the file had changed. Pretty easy to edit though, perhaps something for CORE to have a look at.
Two questions: Will a country, say Sweden, recognize a sprite with SWE-code even if they have MIN in the country.csv file?
And if I label them SWE (because of the SWE inf sprite) will they use minor sprites for the rest of the units (as there are no more SWE-coded sprites)?
Edit 2: Question answered. I tryed it out, and the second example worked fine. SWE (and CHI, ROM and FIN) used the sprites coded to them and used the MIN-sprites for the rest of it's units.
Now I'm of renaming the I-16 so that SPR will use it!