[REL] Kriegsmarine career insignia
 

Hi dear people,

as a tribute to TheDarkWraith and all the modders, I hereby release my puny little mod. :D

In place of the officer portraits, you get historical career (trade) insignia, in line with the usual u-boat crew ranks.

previews:

crew management screen:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7...eview04.th.jpg

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/270...eview03.th.jpg

periscope stations:
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/406...view01a.th.jpg

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4...view01w.th.jpg

someone went overboard:
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8...cichunk.th.jpg


Edit 9-4-2012:Alternative "CrystalClear" version with transparent backgrounds here *Works with latest TDW TDC UI

Edit 7-4-2010: A more complete version; 'portrait paintings' are eliminated and substituted by trade insignia at all stations (including crew management screen). Captain's icon at users' discretion ;)

Since XO should equal WO, I had to differentiate by replacing the WO's icon with a fähnrich's badge.

That's all folks :)

P.S.: If anybody knows if there was a speciality badge for the 'smutje' (cook), please let me know. I searched and found no reference. Here in the greek navy, we do have an EM's cook qualification (+insignia), but I don't know if that's -or was- the case in other navies, so I just used a bosun's summer tunic badge, just to go with how a true chef should look like :D

will have a look at it:)

i think this will be a very cool mod. thank you!:rock:

Yup, I like this, cool little tweak.

Don't like their mugs on screen all the time.

Thanks for this one T||B, and welcome to the forums m8 :up:

Nice :up:

Hello again,

For those who found my little mod interesting, I have made some little tweaks.

First post updated with new download link.

have fun,

T||B

Up to version 1.0022! :haha:

Check first post :)

T||B

I like that KIA icon.

I would suggest blackening out that watchman.dds completely (using the same dark black used outside of your star frame (your star was framed with a lighter black), so that it matches the tdc/scope background, and isn't seen at all (pretty much deleting it from our memory - woohoooo!).

Note, people have been annoyed with Depp's mugshot in other threads, so this can easily be done by anyone, even if they aren't using this mod.

Other than that, good job! :up:

Edit: The only problem with doing that with the watchman.dds is that it shows up as dark in the the full crew icon bar too, overriding OfficerA.dds. I wonder why it does that? Any way around it?

Edit 2: Please disregard my first edit. Suddenly, it's fine. The star icon from OfficerA.dds is displayed. Strange stuff!

KIA? You can't lose crew members anymore, can you?

very nice :up: v1.2.0 of the UIs mod has provisions for 'dead' officers.

S! Kaleuns,

As I've been using the "no TDC" option (I prefer the HTML-style TDC better; too much on-screen clutter otherwise IMO), having just a blackened icon would give me a hard time finding where to click to bring up the TDC interface :) Besides, once the interface in place, having a "black hole" in the corner just wouldn't look right.

Strange indeed. :hmmm: Not only these are completely unrelated files, they bear different art even!

Ah, the master himself :salute:
Great to hear about the update. Here's hoping that the upcoming patch doesn't break yours and everybody's work. Maybe it'd be wise to wait until the 12th?

Anyway, I noticed that in the OfficerB.dds there are mipmaps. Do they serve any purpose? It would seem strange if they did.

Finally, here's an alternative OfficerB.dds; a more morbid version, which I think fits better those of you that play on the Xbox. :O:

preview:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8562/kmcichunk.jpg

Download

Happy Easter everyone!

T||B

I just came back from a short break :dead: and noticed that the download is no longer valid, so for whoever cares, I updated the link in the first post.

Have fun.

Thanks. I will definitely give it a try.