@Tuddley: I know you have been spreading the word in other forums before. Once this is released, I would need someone to take this to the UBI and other forums, would you be the man for that job? Normally I neither have the time nor the energy to advertise, and it's also much nicer if users recommend mods among themselves.
@ctown: Nice submod! It looks like you are the first person in this thread who knows how to make use of the viewers advanced features, queries and stuff. It would be nice if you stayed around and helped people who have questions about using viewer, in case I am not around.
Your mod should work fine. I noticed you got the referencing of the bitmaps right - in the beginning I sometimes created references like:
"C:\\\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\\\Standard\\\\Desktop\\\\Sh3Gen\\\\ UserData\\\\Lütjens\\\\1942\\\\flags\\\\Finland.bm p"
which of course can only be resolved on the same machine, but not when deployed to another computer.
Another thing I noticed is that you should be able to reduce the size of the bitmaps drastically without losing any quality.
Btw I am still looking for some help with adding ship silouettes. It can be done, but requires patience, experimentation and love for detail, and tbh I am a bit tired of it at the moment ..
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Would it be possible to just generate the terrain and just add the layer with your sinkings and/or reports?
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More on that later. There are some considerations to be taken, and it would require some new stuff, but I would like to have that, too. For now suffice to say that it won't make it into this release. I will however post my ideas how this could be done, and I'd be glad to hear your opinion.
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Will the final release have the new theme?
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Yes, and it's not difficult to have several alternative themes in your template folder. ctown was very quick at understanding how it can be done.