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Anyway to remove the Icons just for the masses of mines one can set up? it really gets cluttered up. I'm just looking to remove the icons for only the mines.
If it can't be done I would suggest to the devs that in a future update the ability to turn off the mines Icons, EXACTLY like how you can do so with the trade ships might be a good idea.
You can turn on cinematic mode. This will turn off the icons for mines, but it will also turn off the icons for everything else.
I'm sure he already knows that. He just wants a way to turn off only mines. It would also be nice to have each mine group be 1 pip instead of 1 minefield making it look like (at a glance) you have a moderately fortified planet on your hands.
I would 2nd this. I really dislike having the mine icons show up. All the grav walls are now very clutterred
Actually i would also like the ability to turn all unit icons off but leave them on for phase lane travel.
The game looks really good and for me is more enjoyable without the unit icons but you cant really play
without them because then you lose the ability to see ships travelling along phase lines eg the intel you gain from sensor tech research that shows ships jumping into your systems.
It would also be nice to disable icons but leave the fleet tags in place.
so ideally what would i like to see is
show mine icons - on/off (or maybe just a small faction coloured dot when you turn them off)
show unit phase travel icons - on/off
show fleet tags - on/off
So i would like to request some more flexibility in the user interface for the next update please devs !
(Deleted some not well thought out points on cinematic mode)
But i would like to see the BUG fixed where the customisations to the cinematic mode do not stay enabled when you toggle the CIN mode on and off.
You might have to do a little experimenting with this.. I don't have the entity files for the mines here, but in general each entity has this:
hudIcon "HUDICON_FRIGATE_PHASECARRIER"
smallHudIcon "HUDICONSMALL_FRIGATE_PHASECARRIER"
infoCardIcon "INFOCARDICON_FRIGATE_PHASECARRIER"
minZoomDistanceMult 1.250000
(this is taken from the Vasari carrier). Either the hudIcon or the smallHudIcon should be what shows when you zoom out. You can try blanking it out ("") but the game *probably* would not like it and crash. The other alternative tweaking the minZoomDistanceMult which I think controls how soon the icons appear as you zoom out?
I haven't done much with icon modding so I may be off a little bit here..
The min zoom distance sounds interesting. I might do some experiementing. What is the file called ? and what directory is it located in ? Thanks for your help. If it works out Il be very happy.
You will have to download the forge tools (click the Downloads link on top of the page). It contains a Reference Data/GameInfo folder where the files are. From memory, the files should be something like SpaceMine_Tech.entity. You can open these in Notepad.
You should also read the sins_modset.pdf in the Documentation folder there as it tells you how to get your mod to show up in-game.
Anytime 
If you run into issues feel free to post and I'll see what I can do!
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