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[Pettingson]

Hello my fellow tankers! If you, like me, have been confused since 0.8.0 came out you'll like this. I found a mod that made the tech tree more compact, and i started going through the files. I noticed I would be able to make them vertical :o

After i had started working on it i looked if someone else had done the same, and they had. But what they lacked was the pretty lines(The hardest part about the whole thing)

Thanks to a post EW_ did in his topic i finally was able to solve the problem I had been having these last days!
The one i wrote about here!

Screens:

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High Resolution version(1920x1080)


Low Resolution version (1366x768)


High resolution version: (The other nations)
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1222.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1223.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1224.jpg
Low resolution version: (Viewed at 1920x1080)
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1229.jpg

The reason why there's only lines and no arrows is because the arrows points in wierd directions sometimes. So instead i made the lines easier to understand, by going down, side, then up to the tank beside :D

Sadly... This does not affect the research areas of the tanks. That would be a much bigger effort.. And seeing how many dislikes as it is now perhaps WG will do it themselves. Until then, enjoy :o

Tech Tree Styles: (Not high contrast, Yet. But rightclick working)

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The Tech Tree Styles should work with any Tech Tree

Original look, only changed Unresearched tanks/modules to not lit:

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Download:
Mediafire

Pettingson's Preferred Style v1.0 (Not fully Preferred yet, will continue on it after i've made other styles!)

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This is how i want my Tech Tree to look(kinda, not fully done yet), i know you won't all like it. But I learned alot about how the file work in doing this. So making others in different styles should be fairly easy!


Note! The button on the SU-85 for experience unlock is Green, it's just the GIF that didn't seem to like it and wanted to make it orange xD

Download:
Mediafire

If you find any bugs, be sure to tell me about them :D

DOWNLOAD V1.5.2:(Vertical Tech Tree)
High and Low Resolution:
Mediafire

Changelog:

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V1.5.2: Fixed non-working Soviet Tree for the non premium Tree!

V1.5.1: Added missing Black Prince premium to UK Tech Tree, my bad...

1.5: Added UK tree. The old styles (NodesLib.swf) does still work! And merged the High and Low res downloads.

1.4: Fixed scrolling while not having the mouse over a tank. Also added a file to remove the scrollbar. (You can still scroll if needed with the mousewheel or hold down left mousebutton and drag)

1.3: Added files to remove Premium Tanks from the Tree!

1.2: Edited to make the first collumn smaller!

1.1: Switched sides of premium tanks to the right and moved all others towards the left.
     I still have a wierd problem where if i put a tank in the first collumn to the left it hides the whole tech tree...
     Will look into it!

Edited by Pettingson, 03 November 2012 - 01:22 AM.

[Diego5194]

Great job!I'm so confused when I'm looking at the tech tree,it's easier to look a vertical tree than a horizontal one.

Keep up the good work!

Edited by Diego5194, 03 October 2012 - 09:54 PM.

[Morty_Jhones]

nice work, I dislkie the Hoazontal tec tree As well but the main resion WG did it was so as to slip the prem tanks into the apropreate lines. if you could find a way to slip them into the tree great

if you look there are plenty of tanks out there that they ant done yet and i suspect many more prem tanks and hopfully normal tanks for them to fill in the blanks with.

[minifighter4300]

yeah very good idea maybe wargaming will, make one that looks like, if you show it. maybe they even will use the one you made dont think it happens but GJ ;)

[JauneDasie]

OMG thanks so much for this!!! Can't wait to use it

Edited by BSDrelent, 03 October 2012 - 10:11 PM.

[Pettingson]

Diego5194, on 03 October 2012 - 09:53 PM, said:

Great job!I'm so confused when I'm looking at the tech tree,it's easier to look a vertical tree than a horizontal one.
Keep up the good work!

Thank you heh! Same :D

Morty_Jhones, on 03 October 2012 - 10:03 PM, said:

nice work, I dislkie the Hoazontal tec tree As well but the main resion WG did it was so as to slip the prem tanks into the apropreate lines. if you could find a way to slip them into the tree great
if you look there are plenty of tanks out there that they ant done yet and i suspect many more prem tanks and hopfully normal tanks for them to fill in the blanks with.

Well i can put the premiums anywhere i want, or remove them compleatly from the Tech Tree. I put them beside so you won't get confused by them clogging up the real deal. Perhaps they should be on the right side instead, so they wouldn't push the Tree out for those with low res :D

minifighter4300, on 03 October 2012 - 10:08 PM, said:

yeah very good idea maybe wargaming will, make one that looks like, if you show it. maybe they even will use the one you made  dont think it happens but GJ ;)

Hah, i doubt that xD But thank you anyway. I simply took a mod i went a step longer with heh :o

BSDrelent, on 03 October 2012 - 10:11 PM, said:

OMG thanks so much for this!!! Can't wait to use it

Me neither D:

[AN225]

Dude, you just made my day. If u ever come to Belgrade, Serbia; you have a drink from me

EDIT: French tree looks awesome
Germans, well still way better then horizontal thing, althou lines looks a bit complicated, still they were complicated back than
After a year here this won't be a problem

Can't wait for the rest Great job man

Edited by AN225, 03 October 2012 - 10:25 PM.

[Pettingson]

AN225, on 03 October 2012 - 10:17 PM, said:

Dude, you just made my day. If u ever come to Belgrade, Serbia; you have a drink from me

EDIT: French tree looks awesome
Germans, well still way better then horizontal thing, althou lines looks a bit complicated, still they were complicated back than
After a year here this won't be a problem

Can't wait for the rest Great job man

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I think they are a bit complicated too myself. Now that i've fixed the problem i had, perhaps i can make them easier to understand.

[Eddy__]

Keep going! Can't wait ;)

[Pettingson]

Okey, did a sublte but still effective change:
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1205.jpg

This clears up alot of the confusion for my own part. Thoughts?

Edited by Pettingson, 04 October 2012 - 11:05 PM.

[TigrisPanthera]

+1 and fantastic work.

Was about to suggest similar around the 3001H but you are too efficient clearly!

Do you think you should increase the distance lines drop down before going across slightly? Just thinking that when the lines are faded due to lack of research, then junctions can be hard to see (maybe I am just a bit blind). To take an example, the VK3002DB. perhaps dropping them a few pixels will make them easier to see when they are not possible but you are planning ahead. Just a suggestion and hope you dont think I am critisising. Edit : separating them has helped already but see what you think.

Edited by TigrisPanthera, 03 October 2012 - 10:46 PM.

[SpiderXoo7]

Awesome! thanks for this! ..... Why the hell WG couldn't just originally do the tree like this in 8.0 is beyond me... who the hell thought the horizontal mess they made was a good idea I wonder...

[MK1palmer]

Why realy. its not hard to read.  Comon.

[Pettingson]

TigrisPanthera, on 03 October 2012 - 10:45 PM, said:

+1 and fantastic work.

Was about to suggest similar around the 3001H but you are too efficient clearly!

Do you think you should increase the distance lines drop down before going across slightly? Just thinking that when the lines are faded due to lack of research, then junctions can be hard to see (maybe I am just a bit blind). To take an example, the VK3002DB. perhaps dropping them a few pixels will make them easier to see when they are not possible but you are planning ahead. Just a suggestion and hope you dont think I am critisising.

Yeah... Someone should mod the SWF to remove the damn research/credits buttons from the Tech Tree xD

They do indeed get hidden at the DB. They aren't compleatly in the middle yet! So 3-4 pixels i could put them down :D

Don't worry, as long as you don't sound like a prick i'm happy ^^

EDIT: There, now that's "fixed"(better atleast), it's in the middle between now!
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1208.jpg

Edited by Pettingson, 03 October 2012 - 11:08 PM.

[Koptor]

+1 Excellent work on the tree  

Edited by Koptor, 03 October 2012 - 11:10 PM.

[TigrisPanthera]

Pettingson, on 03 October 2012 - 11:00 PM, said:

Yeah... Someone should mod the SWF to remove the damn research/credits buttons from the Tech Tree xD

They do indeed get hidden at the DB. They aren't compleatly in the middle yet! So 3-4 pixels i could put them down :D

Don't worry, as long as you don't sound like a prick i'm happy ^^

EDIT: There, now that's "fixed"(better atleast), it's in the middle between now!
https://dl.dropbox.c...0/shot_1208.jpg

<sounding like an angel> ^^

That looks great for my blind eyes

[VirtusPro_PashaBiceps]

Try this one

http://forum.worldof...е#entry13442313

[AN225]

That german tree looks awesome can't see a damn thing i would add on it great work man WG should hire you :P

[Pettingson]

TigrisPanthera, on 03 October 2012 - 11:19 PM, said:

<sounding like an angel> ^^

That looks great for my blind eyes

Hihi, there you go! <3

Shadowhachi, on 03 October 2012 - 11:36 PM, said:

Try this one

http://forum.worldof...е#entry13442313

I didn't even try that one because the lines looked hideous xD I did take a look in the XMLs though, in which he had barely done anything about the lines.

AN225, on 03 October 2012 - 11:38 PM, said:

That german tree looks awesome can't see a damn thing i would add on it great work man WG should hire you :P

Hah, not quite! ;o

[Popovic123]

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