[REL] Kriegsmarine career insignia

[T||B]

Hi dear people,

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

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:




periscope stations:




someone went overboard:



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

[Barth]

will have a look at it

[thruster]

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

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

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice

[T||B]

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

Originally Posted by T||B

Edit: I made some tweaks, as well as adding an (untested) KIA crew member's portrait, displaying the "Verwundetenabzeichen" in Gold. I also got rid of "Depp's" mugshot on the scope stations, replacing it with the familiar line officer's star

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!

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!

[kylania]

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

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by T||B

Hi dear people,

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

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

previews:





Download

Edit: I made some tweaks, as well as adding an (untested) KIA crew member's portrait, displaying the "Verwundetenabzeichen" in Gold. I also got rid of "Depp's" mugshot on the scope stations, replacing it with the familiar line officer's star

Edit 2: Because I find the "verwundetenabzeichen" extemely kitsch I made another change which you can see in the second preview.

Now JSGME ready!

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

[T||B]

S! Kaleuns,

Originally Posted by 7Infanterie19

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!).

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.

Originally Posted by 7Infanterie19

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!

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

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

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

Ah, the master himself
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.

preview:


Download

Happy Easter everyone!

T||B

[T||B]

I just came back from a short break and noticed that the download is no longer valid, so for whoever cares, I updated the link in the first post.

Have fun.

[LemonA]

Originally Posted by T||B

I just came back from a short break 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.