Hello there dear ALiVE community, long time no see :)

I'm fiddling about creating a WW2 scenario for Iron Front and would certainly be using ALiVE for that large scale feeling that any WW2 scenario naturally needs!

But has anyone seen a WW2 version of that Spyderblack's commander tablet? Can one be quickly made by me or by someone else...or maybe one does already exist??

I think even changing that modern style frame to something closer to 1940's would go a long way for getting that authentic feeling of the time.
Any thoughts/hints on the matter at hand?

Well I'll be damn Tupolov! I'll certainly take a look if I could come up with something WW2-themed :)
Thanks for sharing the template!

I have prepared a map case that could possibly be used in lieu of the original commanders tablet for more "traditional warfare" scenarios.

Couple of things:

• the map case portrayed here is not from WW2-era if even Cold War (still, could be)
• is probably of Swedish or Finnish origin but no certainty about that (could be anything else too)
• I shrank the map case edges "over" the black screen a bit so there might be some overlapping issues with the data shown in the tablet interface for now
• the "ALiVE" logo is still there but it is in it's original shape and size. Naturally the logo would fit in there a bit better if it looked liked it had been stitched in

I have the .psd version readily available should this spark any interest?

Oh yea thats great!

@Tupolov something the like?

Though I'd certainly like to see the case put to use with the default interface. Would probably make it available sooner than having to wait for a specialized UI.

But the most important question to me is what are the next steps if there is any? Those two models are ready to be shared.

@Tupolov well I can provide what I have ready now. It is up to ALiVE team to finish the interface area as they see fit. Since, they (you guys) got the best idea of how the layout can or should be done in the first place.

Anyways, the model I provided was received with mild interest but apparently there is no actual interest to include at least that version in the game.. so why offer an opportunity to create one in the first place?

Thus I can only urge ALiVE team to create a more contemporary version since, I at least have an urge to get one in use anytime now.

Does anyone care to give a crash course in GitHub? :) Do I need to create a repository of my own for the PSD-file here and then somehow add a pull request to Alive.os or should I fork Alive.os and then something simsalabim?

Complete newbie with GitHub but for some reason I already had an account in there :D

Done!

Thank you Spyder for that short instruction. With that I was able to quickly create a pull request for the mapbag model. Took waaay less time than having to figure out on my own what I would need in the first place to reach the state to be able to make the pull request.

Since there already is a PNG-file for the original tablet I provided one for this 'optional' tablet version. Though I don't know what's with the filesize (5,65 MB vs the original version's 691 KB). I didn't see any quality or compression settings when I was using Photoshop to save the PSD to PNG *shrug*

May I inquire now that the optional model displayed here was merged to master, is there any way to put the model to use already now or does it require additional framework or somesuch that comes hopefully someday soon? :)

@SpyderBlack723 As long as the black screen portion is the same size as the original tablet, it shouldn't be too hard to implement. Otherwise, all of the interface elements will have to be moved.

Create a ticket so it doesn't get lost.

I tried to make sure that the screen area would stay the same size. There might be needed some small adjustments but only small!