Daytime view cone: one flat green wedge across a village yard

About this game

Developer: Mimimi Games · Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Shadow Tactics has almost no HUD, so its view cone has to do the work of one, and it does it as pure ground paint. A guard's sight is a single translucent green wedge with its point at his feet: where he looks is a coloured shape in the world, wide, flat and impossible to miss, and the grass inside it brightens as if lit. Nothing competes with it. There is no portrait bar or ability row in this frame at all; the player reads the tactical situation, who watches what, where the blind ground is, entirely from wedges like this one and the coloured uniforms inside them. Later stealth-tactics games inherited the cone wholesale; this is the frame that shows why it needed no improvement. Frame at about 0:26 in the Gameplay Trailer 2 (Steam; manual extraction, the shot is one long held pan, so the scene-change pass never fired inside it).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

heatmap-overlay hud-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Portrait Minimap

Screen inventory

• the view cone is one flat translucent green wedge laid on the grass in front of the large house: its apex sits at the guard standing by the loaded cart at frame right, and its wide end reaches the fence line, vision is a shape on the ground, not a line or an icon
• inside the cone the grass renders brighter and flatter than the yard around it, so the watched ground can be picked out at a glance even where the wedge crosses carts, sacks and shadow
• there is no HUD chrome anywhere in frame: no portrait bar, no ability row, no minimap, the cone and the small figures moving around it are the entire interface
• three patrolling guards in blue stand outside the cone at frame right, readable only by uniform colour and the spears they carry; the cone's owner is the fourth, half hidden behind the cart he watches from
• the yard the wedge crosses is dense diorama detail, a cart piled with covered bodies, barrels, a red strongbox against the far fence, and the green still reads cleanly over all of it

Top 3 colors

#312116 21%#826541 20%#694a2f 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Mimimi Games / Daedalic Entertainment, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun screenshot: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Gameplay Trailer 2 (Steam), Daedalic Entertainment, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Daedalic Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: manual extraction manual-gt2-26.png @ 26s in the Gameplay Trailer 2, MD5 eacd382d91f2fd43e325add1aed2fc33, from the Steam download (135,823,883 B, MD5 1b82936c6b4ab372b6335f505c62de05, 1920x1080, 184.8s); a full scene-change decode of the file reproduced the pipeline's candidate frames byte-identically, inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the green view-cone wedge with its apex at the cart-side guard, the three blue patrolling guards, the body cart and the red strongbox all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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