Team based border line style

[ffm2]

I wanted to make a mod where the teams have a different line style. I spectate a lot, but never toggle team colors as it is clumsy and one has to untoggle soon enough anyway. I tried different line styles like dashed, dots and diamond. I think only the default + dashed works really well enough in my short tests. But in 99% of the games its just 2 teams anyway. Would be nice to just join a game and tell at first glance where the fronts are.

The problem is art/textures/misc/territory_border.png is loaded in source/simulation2/components/CCmpTerritoryManager.cpp.

So it's fixed in c++ code. I don't want to build a custom version. Would it make sense to move the path out in the future to be modifiable?

How you like different line styles for teams?

[guerringuerrin]

I think it's a cool idea, and would be nice to have a way to configure it so player can choose use them or not, or maybe assign each style to desired teams

[Obelix]

Thank you for your approach! Is Issue #3695 (team border styles) related?

[ffm2]

good find. Yes, i thought I had this idea before.

[Stan`]

I don't understand, even if I made the path not hardcoded it would only point to one place, so that would be the same as just overriding the file no?

[ffm2]

As I see it, your right. It not that easy to load externally.