Lefty

Ok, after searching trough the engine.sga file to learn about some stuff.
I found a couple of files named template, after opening them in photoshop I had seen that they were screenshots of old stuff.

The feature I am highly intersted in is: that you could name your commander
There is also an pattern selector but I am not sure about what it does maybe for different chapters like the Omega Marines?

anyway the screenshot:

Deathorglory

yep also note the 'blood raven red' lol

Tyconius

I think Tranj mentioned this was a mockup. It never was ingame, it was just concept.

A7X

i remember people mentioning to me (before the game came out) that you could name and equip your own commander with whatever you wanted weaponwise, which looks like this idea for the painter

i like it... the background kicks ass..lol.. i wonder if there is a way to make this work in game atm... ie. when your cursor moves over a enemy commander, you could see what theyre called.

recon its fiesable?

mecha_manic

damn relic and them choosing an inferiour painter!

Finaldeath

They never build the layout like that. It was a mockup. That background is in the engine.sga file, but I see no reason why you'd use it - it looks odd if you turn models upside down (and you can also see area's where someone has brushed the texture with a tool, oddly).

havoc

heh that sm looks funny
but I have to tell that I like that naming your FC thingy

fneep

I prefer that army painter to the one thats ingame...

Hands_of_Fate

The overall layout feels more like Homeworld 2. It does look cool, but I bet people wouldn't think it superior if the actual painter was more transparent, like that concept one. I often wonder if it would be possible to implement a zoom function in DoW painter because the sides are way too close together for my liking. It seems a bit, no, a lot, confined.

Oh well, we could be worse off. That darn scroll skull might be still in place there.

IBBoard

You wouldn't be able to get it perfectly identical, but if you really wanted then you could make the interface fairly close to the mock up. You'd just need to change the UI TGAs and possibly tweak the .screen file in a couple of places

Shinryuu

People always want what they can't have :P

IBBoard

That's because if you want what you can have then you usually get it and you're happy

deggy

Lefty

After looking trought some the .TEAMCOLOUR files I saw an little reference to the pattern option.

fneep

What I really want is naming commanders. are there any files that relate to that or make it possible. that could become a hugely popular feature it we could get it ingame!

Rollnon20s

hmm is there any chance of adding this feature to the game

IBBoard

We've known for ages about the pattern in the .teamcolour file, it just doesn't do anything. Change it all you like and it won't make a difference. You can have things other than _default for RTX files though, as Telboy found when he did his Lamenters. They can basically be [unit_name]_[anything].rtx and as long as you correctly reference the [anything] in the campaign file, it'll work.

Also, I doubt the FC naming will be implementable without Relic working on it. If you can choose it in the Army Painter, it'd probably be stored in the .teamcolour file, and since it isn't in the .teamcolour file then it probably isn't implemented anywhere.