Slight changes with a few more unique icons added. Default FAF, and larger sizes.

Unfortunately the larger unscouted icon sizes via Advanced Strategic icons.nxt is longer allowed, but you can still use it in offline mode, just not on the FAF client. So I've left those in the zip files.

Readme instructions are in the download.

Default Size

1200 Size

2K Size

The Following includes versions with black and white selection icons, if you want to distinguish unit selections even more. There are two variants each for Default and 2k sizes.
Black and White Edition

Easy enough to experiment with different combinations by moving versions around.

Icon mods don't always seem to load the first time you select them. Usually closing and reopening does the trick. I have seen where selecting the icons in offline mode works, and then you have to repeat the procedure in FAF client before they start loading there.

I've been asked by a couple of people if they can use my icons. I have a feeling most are only interested in the ACU icons. Consider this a blanket authorization to whoever wants to use them.

Updated this so it would work with any UI scaling, with other misc changes.

Also added additional buttons to change Share Mode and Balance without going into options menu.

For those who've never used it, it's simply shows the Teams separated into two columns with each team rating and game count to more easily see the balancing.

there is a drop drop down menu with different sort options so the proper opposing slots are matched up. This unfortunately will not line up slots perfectly in all maps, but it still makes it easier to balance the teams if not the slots.

It reverts to default single column for non team games, or if you disable it from Team Sorting Menu. It will also do so for Survival Games.

Readme.txt has more details on install, and other changes. Click the the download button in upper right to download the zip file.

Nov 27th - added quick swap from current patch and other misc changes

Dec 22th - renamed file to kyros.nxt to work with new patch

May 8th - 2022 - currently works. added in what I could from current lobby.

Sep 9th - 2022 - Survival Maps with unusual Team placement would fail to load. Disables for any survival maps. Now also saves Map AutoTeams setting.

Septh 11th - 2022 - Moved Magnify Down so it doesn't block corner slot. Added Different Languages where able.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iLzboy6N6AHiSoTA-EEHi2ZWosSu2OsF/view?usp=sharing

It would be nice to have control over which icons would take precedence in foreground focus. i noticed when modifying files, that sometimes the wrong thing would overlap, e.g. the mass storage would block out the mex, but i'm not sure what caused it.

Or at least a notification that the units went to you, sometimes you are deep in battle and not paying attention.

Or a lobby option that splits units equally so as to not give one person crazy eco, but maybe that is too much to implement since this is meant to be small suggestion.

while i use the advanced strategic icons mods, with the medium icons and in higher resolution, the overlap can be an issue in certain situations. A big thing I didn't like with them was that the white border could be obnoxious with a lot of units, and other items such as storage around mexes was less discernible when zoomed out.

which is why i modified the icons to make them a little less garish. Where possible, I adjusted some icons to be slightly different size to differentiate tech levels, etc. other icons such as t3 gunship and t3 bomber, i changed the tactical icon because i couldn't tell them apart when zoomed out.

here is my take for anyone that wants to give it a try, just backup your original file in case you don't like. all based on medium set, since i run a higher resolution.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BztpHQoY-zDCZccRLE_zJ370G9kwl-fX/view?usp=sharing

As much as I like the draggable queue (and i understand it has bugs) sometimes i really just want a build this unit right now, and then go back to the previous queue, without fiddling with it. Yes i know you can stop all but one current unit and then add unit, but then there goes my queue. Would be nice to have a hot key (alt maybe?)- click unit, and then back to more important things.

While the borders are probably intended to help differentiate it at a glance, I agree that these borders aren't really necessary, or there is simply a better way to go about it. Maybe I'll try and modify the default icon set to bridge the gap between the two to find a happy medium. I wish the icons were vector based.

You can do what I do, which is modify the Scaled Resource Panel so that it is in the middle of your screen, along with the other multifunction panel.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Q2aN-L8VXiPax4H1iDeI5FGWYEg_EYJ/view?usp=sharing

in hook\ui\game\layouts there is economy_mini and multifunction_mini. Search for --LayoutHelpers (there are several different ones that need updating), which are the orig values, and below you will see the updated values. You will see the larger value is the updated value to bring it closer to center.

Use UI-party to move the main menu to the right so it doesn't interfere. You can also modify it to be less further right if needed.
You can do the same with SupremeScoreBoard if you want to find and tinker with the values. It has its own copy of these it uses as well, if you prefer a smaller economy panel, but I delete that file in SSB so it doesn't interfere.

The engineer panel on the right, i'm not sure about. Good luck.

I don't mind taking a crack at putting together a different set of icons, though it would take time, i've already done it for my own amusement on the medium set of ASI but like others have said, the visibility of units is still quite a bit hit or miss.

It seems that many players are fine with how the general units/tanks/arty and such appear, and many of the complaints stem from the other icons just being "TOO MUCH" visually, which is a fair complaint. I felt the same way when I first used them and while I did get used to them, many times its just a wash of icons.

So I think perhaps just starting out with like others have said with TML, nuke, acu vs sacu ( which i already did for myself) but also perhaps the TML, radar, are still not subtle enough.

what are thoughts on what a good compromise should be? I personally like having the mexes a little more distinguishable, but maybe ASI design just isn't it. I changed my Engies to have 1, 2, and 3 visible because I can't see the little tech lines zoomed out, but maybe that is also too much. I linked that above.

Perhaps people can provide their own versions to find something that could become a new default if it's popular enough. No reason we can't crowdsource this.

We discussed this a bit one the other thread. TML, sacu and nukes are obvious choices.

I changed both the t3 gunship and t3 bomber to use the armored t3 bot x emblem instead of the + because it was easier to see at a glance. The T2 and t3 gunships are especially hard for me to distinguish zoomed out but this small change helps.

Making some icons, a pixel wider, while subtle helps to differentiate tech level.

I would personally like to have kennel drone engies be able to have different icon from default engineers.

I plan to test the default icon set to see what pixel size starts to cause overlap issues, and to test different sizes to increase visibility without adding clutter.

I would also like to point out that some of ASI issues is that the white borders are just too pronounced in some cases and making them thinner worked for me.

Cptant. I put a sash over sacu. Simple but easy to spot.

oh yeah. i was messing about with the LOC values because originally there were none used by the column labels, but it didn't work for the chinese characters. it was mostly me just seeing if it worked. i had forgotten completely about it and am not even sure the translation is correct.

otherwise thanks for putting up the github. i wasn't really sure how to go about it, or even make use of it, but hopefully this gives others an avenue for fixing it properly.

Temporary gifting of units that return back after a set period of time.

you may want to try eco ui tools instead, you'll have to set it up in the ui mods tools options for it to work, but it's pretty close , with exception of no single click to upgrade, but assisting with engies will work same way, and you can just click unpause button to start the upgrade after selecting it if not doing it via engie.

or you can try this version with the ECO throttling and nuke overlays stripped out. it only does mex upgrades.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJUNAbRUvRKI2KkmeVbtqD2OLfU9pXT9/view?usp=share_link

actually this one has EM with everything but the throttling is disabled

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kwiu0xYTecEVPdge4nLHkw5XhqDF93Pl/view?usp=share_link

I'll have to take a look as I'm not sure what you mean. I didn't notice anything myself. I wasn't even aware anything changed on the mini map.

If it is a size issue then using the new link above rather than vault uses default size as opposed to what is in vault.

If you mean something else i need to know what that is.

which size were you using? i thought i had made them all gold for non selected, and white for selected, but perhaps i only did that on the 1440 size. But let me know which size regular, 1080, or 1440 and clarify if you wanted the selected to be red, or the non selected icon to show red, or both. Can't swear i'll get it to it immediately, but i'll throw up a link when i do.

make sure always render strategic icons is enabled in gameplay options.

this is partially preference. I prefer to be able to see Antiair and Point Defense at a glance. It is less of a concern which enemy they belong to, and more ( don't fly your asf's over the pink sams, they do have the player color as an outline ).

I have tried similar approaches that other mods do, with simple color outlines, but the issue that I find is that due to how the icons are compressed, the colors will look funny, or bleed into each other, OR they look great on one player color, but not another.

or they work great at larger size, but terrible at another size. It's a balancing act. I find that more pastel colors, such as lighter pink, and light tan for PD's do not look overpowering, but are prominent enough to show up. Some colors such as RED, i ran into issues using, or they don't contrast well when you have 16 player colors across the screen.

I don't have the best eye acuity, so having to zoom in just to see a tac, PD, antiair, etc was an issue for me.

For editing, consider using GIMP with dds plugin, or Photoshop. If you don't edit the channels/mask properly, you can wind up with artifacts that won't show up in the file, but will when the file is converted, depending on how you saved/edited/converted.
It took me too long to figure that out.

You would preferably want the uncompressed versions, and use a conversion program to go to bc3/dxt5 after the fact. If it's gray, that is placeholder of player color. If you want an actual gray color, there is a RGB value that can be used, but i forget it at the moment.

If anyone wants the uncompressed files in various sizes, i would be happy to provide them. This is a blanket permission to use any of my icons how you see fit, but provide credit where credit is due. The T4 icons are from IKIT, so those are credit to him, with a few exceptions of my own.

the texture file itself is in textures.scd\textures\ui\common\game\ping_marker\ping_marker-0#.dds but that is just for the web looking icon, the color created is simply a square. I made mine with just a simple white border so the color stands out more.

you would have to add whatever you make to something like advanced strategic icons.nxt for it to show up. For an example of mine.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IGXIW-wFNz-9FSTgO1BwnOzRzYIwIqG9/view?usp=sharing

note this would override that file in c:\programdata\faforever\gamedata if you are using another icon mod. If so you would need to copy that texture folder over to the existing file using a zip editor, or backup the file first if you just want to test it out.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/

Is the download site. Simply install it, and look for configurator in apo equalizer section on start menu.

When you run it, you'll see a list of every audio device. You should see steel series gaming headset or similar. Select it, by clicking the box to the left. I think you also need to highlight the connector name or the troubleshooting box won't show at bottom. Once it does check the box and select Install as SFX/EFX from the drop down menu, and then apply and restart.

Now you still need to ensure all the other stereo settings are correct and 3d settings are disabled where applicable.

Something that was problem for me was installing the Sonar App in the steel series control panel. It creates a sonar Virtual audio device that supposedly mimics 8 channel stereo, which is also not good for FAF, but the problem was it would default to that audio device instead of the default Steel Series Gaming audio. Disabling it from the steel series had no effect, it would just reenable itself even if i disabled the audio device in device manager. So just uninstall Sonar.

Also make sure the steel series control panel isn't defaulting to 7.1 audio.

I have the same issue with a steel series arctus 7. What works for me is APO equalizer. But you have to run the configurator, select the audio device, click troubleshooting and install as SFX/efx. This fixes it for me. There is a peace gui that can also be downloaded for a graphical equalizer that is nice. The downside is that nearly any Windows update forces you to rerun the configurator app.