MOD to help distinguish friend from foe?

[MuppetGank]

Hi, I play a lot of Darthmod/Empire and I have no trouble in that game distinguishing in that game friend from foe due to large unit flags/icons above each unit...

My question is, is there a mod or a way to do that in this game? I know there is a button you press to flash units which works quite well but I only play on minimal HUD as full HUD is ugly and annoying..

any suggestions? thx .

[PapaRosario]

What I do if a battle gets too chaotic and I can't tell friend from foe is just select my entire army with Ctrl+A. That will highlight all of your units green so you can easily tell what is highlighted and what is not highlighted.

[Chazz1225]

pressing your faction icon is another way of distinguishing your troops from your enemy's, even though it doesn't last long

[MuppetGank]

pressing your faction icon is another way of distinguishing your troops from your enemy's, even though it doesn't last long

Is there a hotkey for that? Can't use it unless you use full HUD

[King-K.LoL]

pressing your faction icon is another way of distinguishing your troops from your enemy's, even though it doesn't last long

what i do is spamm that icon a lot so it last longer

[PapaRosario]

^He said he doesn't like playing with the full HUD.

[Chazz1225]

i think so, press F1 during a battle and check

[Ichon]

Easiest is just to highlight your army. Its too bright to use the faction button and probably makes using minimal HUD pointless.

[k/t]

SS has unit flags too...

[sandymoo]

you can get the big floating flags from vanilla in Stainless Steel, but I completely forget how since I dont like them.

[Vissewalde rex de Gerzika]

you can get the big floating flags from vanilla in Stainless Steel, but I completely forget how since I dont like them.

Your comment makes me wonder, because i have them there by default, how do i turn them off?

Also, what is so bad about full HUD?

[MuppetGank]

you can get the big floating flags from vanilla in Stainless Steel, but I completely forget how since I dont like them.

That will probably work, anyone know how to enable them?

Because I play a lot of empire darth mod as well and the larger HUD is just so different and lame, the onoly feature it has it's the flash all units option, which I wish I could just hotkey or use in minimal HUD.

[k/t]

SS config file.

[video]
show_banners = 1

[MuppetGank]

Thnaks... but where do I fond the config file? o_0 can't find the show_banners entry......

[PapaRosario]

Medieval 2 Total War\mods\SS6.3\default.cfg

Open it up in Notepad.

Edit: And if you can't find the show banners entry, then simply add it in.

[Rushwithoutmercy]

All you need to do is click and hold the banner - the one surrounded by other icons - like group toggle etc...

It will highlight your army/friendlies and keep them highlighted.

[MuppetGank]

Medieval 2 Total War\mods\SS6.3\default.cfg

Open it up in Notepad.

Edit: And if you can't find the show banners entry, then simply add it in.

Can't seem to get it to work? I have :

[video]
show_banners=1

In the default.cfg file where my SS launcher is...no change Can anyone confirm?