[MOD] [0.33] (VIP) Vanilla Icons PLUS: Show Player Names & Alter Unit/Building Tints

[next kettle]

QoL mod which should benefit colourblind players, plus the ability to toggle player names on and off. (Player names appear above the aircraft triangle symbol in online matches, for better situational awareness of who is who.)

All is configurable in the BepinEx Configuration Manager by pressing F1 in-game. You must have that mod installed or it will be left as defaults.

Features include:

Retinting of firendly, enemy, and neutral units/buildings,

Retinting of friendly and enemy player names.

Retinting of enemy AA units separately.

On/Off Toggle to show player names in both HUD and MAP separately.

Download Link: Here

Original thread:
https://discord.com/channels/909034158205059082/1452350628155228342

[patent lintel]

Metal

[bold carbon]

Love the mod. Works great so far!
I have a suggestion though,
Would you be capable of having a setting to change brightness of the Icons too?
I would still like to use Red for the Enemies, but I have a hard time seeing red because it looks faded in the default game.

Did a Photoshop of what I'm asking about.

Left is Default
Right is Edited

Seems Yellow is also used for the Flashing of new units being spotted, and missiles heading your way.

[regal hamlet]

If I remember right that's an image material thing, the default material for hud elements is additive, which means that even at 100% opacity elements still appear somewhat transparent (by design)

[drowsy wedge]

Is it possible to also fix units hiding under road's textures on Ignus?

[next kettle]

Yes, the A slider is for opacity, they are all at max by default.
I can have a look at maybe trying to make the icons solid without transparency, so they no longer blend into the roads on the map, and look unsaturated in the HUD blending into clouds.

[bold carbon]

That would be awesome.

[patent lintel]

Do the opacity sliders effect maps or just units

[next kettle]

its only for unit icons and nameplates.

[patent lintel]

Darn

[halcyon heath]

Reminder for myself.

[sly ledge]

Is it possible to have an option to label the airfields with their name on the map @next kettle ? I am assuming if it is possible that it would only be for vanilla and not custom mission made ones.

At the moment the only way to see their name is to fly near them or to be on the spawn screen.

Thanks!

[next kettle]

i can look into it

[sly ledge]

Thanks!

One other small thing (maybe) for you/@turbid depot but is it possible to make Vanilla icons work with WingmanVisual?

https://discord.com/channels/909034158205059082/1468446703144271902

From my testing, setting your "Wing color" does change your own planes icon, but planes still stay set to whatever "Friendly units" is set to in Vanilla Icons

[turbid depot]

I've made a small adjustment to WingmanVisual in an attempt to be compatible with this. I haven't extensively tested it, but they seem to be cooperating for me at the moment.

[cyan linden]

is there any way to customise which vehicles change color for the enemy AA?

[thorny elbow]

It's my first time installing a mod for Nuclear Option, I've used BepInEx before. This mod seemed like a necesity!

Upon installing, if I join a multiplayer lobby I am unable to join a team. Have any of you encountered this issue before?

Error log, if it helps : )

[next kettle]

not currently, i can possibly add it to the config.

[next kettle]

oh odd, i will have a look into it.

[thorny elbow]

Found the issue on my end, I didn't change the "false" to "true" in the bepinex config, that's on me

[next kettle]

Easily done :)

[latent agate]

Thanks for the mod 🙂

[next kettle]

[MOD] [0.33] (VIP) Vanilla Icons PLUS: Show Player Names & Alter Unit/Building Tints

[next kettle]

i have put vanilla icons plus onto github now, not sure how the nuclear option mod manager intergration works.

[shy stratus]

late to this but it's nice to see! a manifest needs to be added to NOMNOM, i'm happy to help with that if you like, i just need you (mod author) to give the okay to get it approved by the Powers That Be

the github link is at https://github.com/xHellcat92x/NO-VanillaIconsPLUS for my future reference because i keep losing it

@next kettle upon reviewing, one change is required: the file in the release must be a .zip for mod managers to handle it correctly, no raw .dll files allowed. but you can just manually zip it and add it to the existing release

[next kettle]

would a .rar file work?

[shy stratus]

rar is supported!

as is 7z, the superior compression format, but anything works

@next kettle apologies my information was outdated, the raw .dll will work just fine

[next kettle]

then its all good, for all the mods.

[shy stratus]

manifests have been made and a pull request has been filed with the NOMNOM repository. as a courtesy you(r github account) has also been marked as a collaborator for that repository in case i get hit by a bus or something between now and initial approval

no action is required on your part, if there are updates i'll let you know

[next kettle]

Thanks Ashen ❤️

[shy stratus]

changes have been merged upstream and your mods are now available on NOMNOM. if you need to make updates in the future, simply make a new 'Release' in github with a greater version number and NOMNOM will automagically notice and update. anything else, contact me. ty for holding together the fabric of our little community with your mods and code

[solid dust]

why are areosentries not counted as AA?