Border graphics

[djrusson]

Is there any way to remove , or reduce the brightness , of the border graphics - either or both of the dotted border line and the red and blue nation icons.

[Dan]

Oh man, I'd really like an option for this too. You can hit G to hide the whole GUI, which hides the borders, but also everything else, so you can't actually play the game.

I think it'd work far better if the border graphics were projected onto the terrain itself, didn't show through hills, and matched the lighting, so they weren't super-bright at night. That presumably wouldn't be trivial to implement though...

The simplest solution would probably be to just give a transparency slider in the options, so you can set it to taste, and have maybe a 10% opacity "ghost" border.

[bajecznie nawdychany]

I would also like to see it there fence or have those stars projected onto terrain.

[Dan]

Aha... I've worked out a workaround. The textures for the border graphics are plain .png files in the main game folder, with an alpha channel. Unfortunately, they're using stencil masking for the transparency in-game, so you can't "fade" them... anything above 0.5 alpha is solid, anything below 0.5 vanishes completely.

I have however made some edits to make them far less intrusive - basically I've shrunk them to 25% scale (actually increased the texture size to pack them into a smaller space, to preserve the detail).

Assuming it'll let me post a link here, grab them here, and overwrite the three .png files in the SovietRepublic\media_soviet\ folder in steamapps:
https://we.tl/t-h8BpZsRoHs
(expires in a few days - any interest after that, let me know and I'll find somewhere better to put them)

I might chuck this up in a guide or workshop entry or something... or if anyone else wants to do it, feel free to save me the effort :-P

[djrusson]

Dan,

Many thanks.

I have downloaded and installed the 3 files you have produced. I certainly do not have the expertise to work out graphic technicalities. The border graphics are now much less intrusive and I thank you very much for producing them. I shall save these files in case any updates change them. Perhaps , as you have suggested , these files might be offered to a wider audience.

[Dan]

Great, glad I could help. I'll try and get around to putting them up on the workshop at some point, but yep, best keep a copy saved for now.