Attila-Style Building Icon Mod

[Benjin]

UPDATE 25/08/2016: Eastern building icons have now been added

I've started working on this little side-project of mine for vanilla Rome II with the goal of replacing every building icon with new icons in the style of Attila's. This will require quite a bit of time and effort, due to the sheer number of new icons required to replace the existing ones, but I'm up for it. The beta is now out, featuring the Roman and Barbarian building icons. I will be continually updating this with more building icons and adding them to this first post.

Each icon has some keys on them to give the player the ability to quickly glance at an icon and understand what it does (e.g. red food = negative food, green happiness = positive happiness, coin = wealth income etc). I will upload a list of the keys I've used for the icons once I've finished all of the icons.

As for the graphics for the new icons themselves; most will be altered and resized screenshots, taken by me, from Rome II (I'll post the screenshots to Rome II's pictures archive over time). I will be reusing a few graphics from Rome II and Attila (e.g. resource settlement branches). However, some of them I plan to be hand-painted, such as the Greek Level V buildings - they have no representation in either game. When I have painted a completely unique icon, I will make it known.

EDIT (25/08/2016)
Gonna take a break for a few weeks on this. When I come back, I will then go on to finish some of the Barbarian religious tree buildings that were left as they were and then start work on some of the pre-Emperor Edition building icons (e.g. Roman Nymphs, Roman Mercury etc). Once all of the icons are complete, I will re-do some of the building keys from the existing icons since I have worked out a good, consistent formula for them to use.

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Below are some images previewing what the game looks like with both my and Grudge's UI mod enabled. When you hover your mouse over a building icon, you will get a different coloured selection box depending on which culture group you are a part of (e.g. Latin = Red, Hellenistic = Light Blue etc). It's just a complementary feature in my mod to make it compatible with Grudge's UI. I have in no way included or edited any of Grudge's work.

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=511056968

[Linke]

Man that's a really nice idea. Everyone hates the normal building cards

[Benjin]

Finished the Roman - Religious tree. I'll update the original post when I have the ability to edit my own posts (apparently I need to make 25 posts before I'm able to edit stuff).

And this is what some of them look like ingame.

[markhampas]

Very nice work. Cool to look at.

[simon0812]

It's awesome,I can't wait.

[Litharion]

nice

[AstroCat]

Nice work.

[Benjin]

Still on my holiday in Switzerland, when I get back I'll finish off the last few icons for the Roman - Agriculture, Military, Provincial Capital and Minor Settlement (including resource) trees which I was working on before I left, and then there will only be the Port and Industrial trees left to do. Once they're done and ingame, I'll release an early version of it on the workshop and then start work on either the Hellenistic or Barbarian trees.

[GnaReffotsirk]

This is wonderful.

[Kirra]

Love your work Benjin.

[Nimble]

Amazing! Keep up the good work!

[Benjin]

Thank god Attila have grain pits and silos featured in their cities, otherwise I'd have had to paint/model my own. The next one will be minor settlements + military.

[DeathtoEgo]

Looking good, eager to see it in game.

[NevadaDE]

Any news ?=)

[Benjin]

Any news ?=)

I'm still on holiday, I'll finish the other two (Military + Minor Settlements) when I get back.

[NevadaDE]

I'm still on holiday, I'll finish the other two (Military + Minor Settlements) when I get back.

Have a good vacation!
We will wait =)

[Dicanio35]

this is just what I have been looking for.
started to mod the icons my self so I know how much work is involved.
Just my suggestion though would be not to bother about the small effect icons. Think they reduce the look of the icons and the tool tips serve the same purpose.
Keep it up and hope the Roman icons are out soon.

You deserve mass credit.

[Benjin]

Thanks all for the words of encouragement, I am now back from holiday and will start work on it again.

this is just what I have been looking for.
started to mod the icons my self so I know how much work is involved.
Just my suggestion though would be not to bother about the small effect icons. Think they reduce the look of the icons and the tool tips serve the same purpose.
Keep it up and hope the Roman icons are out soon.

You deserve mass credit.

This is a really good bit of crit and I agree with what you said about the symbols. The reason I wanted to include them initially was because of DeusEx010101's "Better Building Icons" mod, which had happiness and food symbols on the icons. This made it easier for me to quickly identify its immediate effects when built. However, I do agree that they diminish the quality of the icons a bit; they make the images seem more crammed to the top right. I could also make a separate version which have no symbols on them if you'd like, that way people have a choice as to whether they want symbols or not on their buildings.

[Goofy]

Fantastic work so far. Keep it up!

[Hoplite of Ilis]

+ rep!