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ATTILA-Style Building Icons

Replaces all building icons with ones in the style of Total War: ATTILA's (made through a mixture of ingame screenshots and digital painting).

A big, big thank you to CA for nominating my mod as a best graphical finalist contender in the TOTAL WAR: 2015 Mod Awards. A link to the 2015 Mod Awards is above in the gallery (check 3:12 to see the "BEST GRAPHICAL FINALISTS" section). I would also like to thank everyone who has left positive comments, liked and subscribed so far - it's really encouraging to see something that I've created receive so much positive feedback, and inspires me to do more. After I've finished this mod, I guarantee that I'll stick around to make more (ambitious) mods in the future, especially after my time at university is over (May 2017).



I've started working on this side-project of mine for vanilla Rome II with the goal of replacing every building icon with new ones in the style of the building icons in Total War: Attila. This will require a lot of time and effort, due to the sheer number of the required art to replace the existing ones with unique artwork for each, but I'm up for it.

Each icon has some keys on them to give the player the ability to quickly glance at a building icon and immediately understand what it does (e.g. red food = negative food, green happiness = positive happiness, coin + border colour = wealth income to that respective form of income etc). I will provide an key list once I have finished all of the icons and corrected a few which have outdated keys.

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 my Steam profile 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 / heavily photoshopped / 3D modelled by myself, since some icons may have no ingame representation.

Once I have finished all of the icons, I will also be making another version of the mod without the little symbols, just incase people don't find them appealing. I will also be making this mod compatible with other, bigger overhaul mods as well (e.g. Divide et Impera) with new icons for the buildings that they have added.

All of the culture groups now have their icons, but there are just a few Greek level 5 icons and a few Barbarian religious icon trees (Germanic, Iberian, Nomadic, Baltic) left to do. Once those are done, the mod will be 100% finished. I also plan to replace some icons which I'm not quite happy with - please share your own opinion on some icons you don't like as well, as I may also revisit those. One building tree I definitely plan on revisiting are the Punic (Carthaginian) religious buildings.

I hope you enjoy this mod, as it took up quite a bit of my free time to create it.

Consider that enabling other mods, which change the building icons, will make this mod not work correctly. Disable any other mod that alters the same fields and it should work. Other than that, it will definitely work with any other kind of mod. However, if you experience any issues / have any questions, post a comment below and I will happily try and help you out / answer your questions.

• Grudge's Total User Interface Compatibility - If you use both my and Grudge's UI mod, you will get different coloured selection boxes based on which culture UI you are using (e.g. if you are playing as the Romans (using the Greco-Roman UI texture), then you will get red selection boxes). This is just a complementary feature to make it compatible with Grudge's mod, as I had to change the UI slightly to make the colour-coded borders of my icons visible.