Where Are The Icons?

[Beebop]

At first I thought I did something wrong and maybe I did but....

When I loaded the Moscow Autumn map into the ME I made sure I had the correct GUI map and Terrain presets.  But when I started adding template objects (from data > Templates) for the map, I didn't get the green icons for the various groups (towns/cities/bridges/airfields etc.).  But I did get a ton of icons around Moscow.

A friend suggested that in one of the recent updates when a map is populated all the imported template groups are automatically grouped together like when you group 'Lapino_ALL'.  However I could find no central map icon I could ungroup.

I selected all the icons around Moscow and deleted them but I still have the towns/bridges/airfields etc. populated and no way to remove those that I don't need.  Moscow is a pretty big map and removing un-needed objects allows for quicker load and rendering times.

Attached is what I am seeing.  all towns/airfields etc. have objects.  I have not attempted to group anything.  The only text tags that show are for things I have added.

 

Interestingly enough when I added bridges/airfields/towns on the Stalingrad map the icons peppered the map as expected.

 

So, the question is, is there something I should have done differently? 

 

Enquiring minds want to know.

TIA

[Zooropa_Fly]

I can't check the editor just now, but I think it's under 'Draw' menu - make sure draw items in group is selected.

On some maps, city's / bridges etc. are grouped in sub folders, so it's a case of making active the right group.. and dealing these groups one at a time.

It would be helpful if you could fully zoom out the maps, not to mention if you could crop out the map area you wanted from the full map.

Incidentally, selecting / dragging map 'objects' is when I get most of my appcrashes.

But good luck anyway S!

 

[Beebop]

Viola!  "Draw Icons In Group" was the trick.  It was unchecked and when I checked it there they were.  Gazillions of green group icons!

 

THANKS Zooropa_Fly!??