Hey all, I am relatively new to some aspects of modding, I have had alot of experience with photo and image manipulation though so some parts of it I already know.  What I am trying to do is use some of those skills and improve the ability to see certain things on the cloth map and the close strategic map images.  I started this off intending to make roads more visible and then to work on some of the other items but am having trouble even locating where these images are.  I have found certain images which I can adjust but none of them seem to appear in game in any way I have been able to determine.  The files that it appears I want to work with are the ones located in   ...\Gfx\HKB\Roads but according to what I currently understand there is very little I can do to convert these into a usable format for me to work with (https://forums.elementalgame.com/384302) unless I have several hundred dollars to spend on a program.  If anyone can point me in the right direction to go, or if anyone has located XML references to the cloth map and perhaps the transparency of decals and overlays on it as that could be another approach to the same issue I'll work it from that angle instead then.

Thanks for any pointers and here to hoping that Elemental becomes the game we have all hoped it could be.