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Originally Posted by Eddie
I assume since you're using military graphics, you're attempting to make them doctrinally correct?
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Kinda. My original goal was to recreate (and perhaps Improve) the maps from the V2 T2k rule book.
I used FM 101-5-1 (October 1985 and September 1997) as the source for most of the symbols. I am using a font that I built to make the unit graphics. Fonts have some limitations but scale nicely so I chose those instead of overlaying images. I made some adjustments to the text around the units (vertical rather than horizontal) to allow for greater clarity when dealing with the complicated inner Poland map I expect will be my grand work. The problem is all my maps are dynamically generated. Overlap of symbols is going to be a problem. By reducing the unit footprint I minimize the issue a bit.
Here is a example of what I am going for.
http://games.juhlin.com/maps/map_unit.html
The cluttering/readibility gets better as you zoom (top left) but gets worse on most of the other map options (top right).
This is very much a work in progress. If you have any comments or suggestions I would appreciate hearing them.
(edit oh you can click on the units for more information)
(edit2 Another note I suppressed 4 small units which were collocated with larger units. Eventually that info will be accessible from the popup)