A bug when assigning artillery?

[Suurajatollah]

Hi,

Sometimes when assigning an artillery mission, my mouse pointer changes to a crosshair finder for a fraction of a second when pointer is over some hex with no seen enemy unit. Even though my spotter do not see that particular hex. I suspect that this indicates that there is an enemy unit on that hex. That would be quite a spoiler. I'm not sure though.

Has anyone else noticed this happening?

[narwan]

Yes, I have. It is also present in the dos versions (and in spww2). Not sure what it is though.

[DRG]

It's the game getting confused very briefly as to which cursor to use and it happens more frequently when you first enter the bombard menu. The longer you stay the less frequently you will see this.
It is NOT an indicator of an enemy presence. We've tested that theory out before but I did it again just to double check. I placed a company of tanks in one area of the map with a geological feature I could easily identify then tried targeting that area with the other sides arty and although I did see a couple of flashes to crosshairs while moving the cursor over that area I ALSO saw it happen when I moved the cursour around an area that I knew with 100% certaintly had NO ememy troops. It's a game quirk.

Don

[Alby]

Speaking of the mouse pointers and crosshairs
I switched out the Mouse.shp file for my own preference, but I still see the Big clock and Big crosshair?????
Is there another SHP file that has these in it too?

[DRG]

Alby said:
Speaking of the mouse pointers and crosshairs
I switched out the Mouse.shp file for my own preference, but I still see the Big clock and Big crosshair?????
Is there another SHP file that has these in it too?

I guess I should have double checked to removed that SHP file. I remember doing it once but it got back in somehow.

The new cursor, gunsight and clock use by the game are in
Game Data\Pictures\Interface and are .CUR files so you'll need a program that will alter .CUR graphics.
If you decide to change them be aware that some Windows systems WILL NOT display them correctly in the game UNLESS they are 2 colour.

Don

[Alby]

Hmmm
can you recommend a program
thanks Don