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* Description: Alternative Cursors and KM Map Tools v 2 for Silent Hunter 5
* Author: gap
* About this mod:
I always thought that the ugly pointers used in vanilla game are anti-immersive, not looking like one would expect from a WWII interface. This small mod addresses the problem, by replacing the stock cursors with new ones, more in tune with the main UI mods released for the game so far. Moreover, it replaces the small vanilla map tools with bigger ones, with 1 deg apart marks, calibrated for high precision plotting.
* Mod features:
- Base Mod: contains the core files with a default set of cursors and map tools; compatible with the main SH5 UI mods.
- Alternate Tool Graphics: for different plotting tools styles. Available in three alternative versions: Wooden Handle (featuring a set of compass, ruler and protractor advanced tools and NewUI’s double compass with wooden handles); No Markings (all the tools without markings of any sort, for cleaner look); Wooden Handle, No Markings (a merge of the above optional mods).
- Shadowed Cursors: makes default cursors to cast 2D shadows, for better legibility against any background.
- Alternate Dialog Cursors: replaces the speech balloon-shaped pointers, used in game for denoting interaction with crew members and officers in bunker, with hand-shaped ones. Available in two alternative versions: Default (for non-shadowed hand-shaped cursors) and Shadowed (with shadowed hand-shaped dialog cursors, better used together with the ‘Shadowed Cursors’ optional mod).
- EQuaTool patches: should you like to use this mod without giving up the EQuaTool plotting tools, this set of optional mods provides compatibility with various versions of the aforementioned mod, including different combinations of its core and add-on mods.
* Changelog: > v 2.0:
- ensured compatibility of the base mod with the main SH5 UI mods (see the ‘Compatibility’ section below for details);
- added etheberge’s No Damn Bubbles, No Damn Halo Mod - No Dialog Indicator to the main mod;
- added several new ‘move’, ‘drag’ and ‘dialog’ pointers that were previously sharing the same textures;
- hue, saturation and luminosity of all the pointers further enhanced, for better look in game;
- changed basic tool cursor with new ones, with smaller tool miniatures;
- replaced the big Nazi markings, displayed on some advanced tools, with smaller and more historically correct KriegsMarine markings and historical ‘Faber-Castell’ markings;
- added KriegsMarine markings to the version of the nomograph featured in NewUIs;
- added Alternate Tool Graphics add-on mods for different advanced tool styles;
- added Shadowed Cursors add-on mod;
- added Alternate Dialog Cursors add-on mods;
- added EQuaTool patches for compatibility with the homonymous mod.
> v 1.1:
- fixed a bug with basic compass tool, caused by wrong offsets; now the plotted line is drawn starting from the tool’s crosshair as it was supposed;
- changed basic course plotting tool texture with a different texture featured in version 1.0 (pencil + flag) but actually not used;
- changed hue and saturation of drag icon, to match better the color of other pointers.
> v 1.0 first release:
- changed pointer, drag and resize cursors with new hand style cursors, both in main menu and game interface;
- changed basic tools cursors to follow the style of big map tools icons coming with vanilla game and used by “IO StrategicMap” and several UI mods;
- changed extended map tools graphics by using Multiple UIs compass tool as base (changed Kriegsmarine historical emblems; added 1 deg. and cardinal points marks, plus some minor touches).
* Compatibility:
- Compatible with the stock UI and with NewUIs with TDC, CSP Magui Interface and UI-Boat custom UIs.
- Compatible with any EQuaTool version, by means of a set of compatibility patches included in the package (see below for instructions).
* Known bugs:
- When moving the cursor on top of a button or menu item, cursor is overlapping slightly with relative tooltip texts.
- Feel free to report any other issue that might be related with this mod in its dedicated thread.
* Installation:
- install JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler if you have not done it yet, and configure it to the SH5 installation path (detalied instructions on how to configure it found here);
- open the <Alternative Cursors and KM Map Tools v 2> package using WinRAR or 7-Zip;
- drop the folder named <gap - Alternative Cursors & KM Map Tools v2 - 1. Base Mod> into the <MODS> folder (inside the main SH5 directory);
- enable the mod within JSGME, on top of any custom UI you are using;
- optional: follow the same steps for enabling add-on mods numbered from 2 to 4 you may want to use, taking care to enable them in the same order suggested by their progressive numbers. Sub-mods with the same number are alternative version of the same mod (only one of them should be enabled);
- optional: enable any reasonable combination of EquaTool’s mods and add-on mods after the base and add-on mods contained in this package, and enable on top of them all the appropriate patch from the list of available patches (numbered from 5.a to 5.n). Their names should be self explanatory on EquaTool’s mods and add-on mods that they should be used with.
* Acknowledgements:
- thanks to TheDarkWraith for permission to use the compass tools graphics coming with his UI mod, used as base for my own extended tools;
- thanks to Urbijan for the permission to use two of the cursor icons coming with his ‘MouceHandModSH345’;
- thanks to etheberge for usage of his No Damn Bubbles, No Damn Halo Mod; I hope he won’t mind, as I forgot to ask for mermission
- special thanks to Sjizzle and Sepp von Ch. for their extensive beta testing and bug reporting
- historical Kriegsmarine and Faber-Castell markings used for this mod are reworked versions of pictures taken from the web. I would acknowledge their original posters if only I could remember their names or the websites where the original pictures were published.
N.B: big tools in the above previews were reduced in size for making them to fit on screen. Actual tools are 25% bigger. Here is an example of full resolution protractor:
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