Here is a mod to the menu graphics. Hope you like it!

I've made a few things for my mod, and I wanted to release these things separately.

Here's what it looks like:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/flamepic.jpg

Here it is:
Flaming Menu 1.0 (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/flamesmenu1.0.zip)

I just tried it out. It looks pretty cool. How did you make the fire?

i took a googled pic of fire, then used GIMP 2.0 in told it to make all edges match so that it didnt have the 'tiled' look

i took a googled pic of fire, then used GIMP 2.0 in told it to make all edges match so that it didnt have the 'tiled' look

Can you be more specific?

ahh.. se how you did it. Ive been trying to make my menus look different but I like this one, well done :D

Rabbit Alex,

I opened JPEG of flames I got off of the internet. I did this in free graphics editor GIMP 2.0 (get it:goodjob:) and then use from the top menu Filters-->Map-->Make Seamless. This will make the object edges match if it where tiled against itself. Make sure you have the .DDS file plugin so that you can specify to save as a .DDS pic file and name it stars.dds in put it in your <your dir>\Assets\Art\Interface\Main Menu.

There ya go....phew

I cant seee a picture

I can see it now

A burning planet! Cooool! :lol:

Or should that be hot? :hmm:

Rabbit Alex,

I opened JPEG of flames I got off of the internet. I did this in free graphics editor GIMP 2.0 (get it:goodjob:) and then use from the top menu Filters-->Map-->Make Seamless. This will make the object edges match if it where tiled against itself. Make sure you have the .DDS file plugin so that you can specify to save as a .DDS pic file and name it stars.dds in put it in your <your dir>\Assets\Art\Interface\Main Menu.

There ya go....phew

Nice thank you. I'm pretty good with GIMP but I just didn't know how to do this. I have the .DDS plugin and use it all the time for the SW mod.

Thanks again :goodjob:

youre very welcome.

btw, i myself and a couple of other padawans i know would be interested in the starwars mod. :)

Call me a , call me a n00b, but either way tell me where to unpack the files, cause I can't find the directory! :cry:

Scotty Doesn't Know,
SilverKnight

unpack the "stars.dds" file to:

drive:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\CustomAssets\art\interface\main menu

Now just cahnge the "baba yetu" to some war song and we got the thing that Civ is all about
Razin' burnin' an' destroyin'

Now just cahnge the "baba yetu" to some war song and we got the thing that Civ is all about
Razin' burnin' an' destroyin'

oh i know that one: go to assets\sounds\soundtrack and save ANY MP3 FILE AS OpeningMenu.mp3

I really like how you did that and added sleep now in the fire for the opening music. Thanks for telling us how to do this stuff. now, can you change the Earth part of the menu?

lol that song is in my mod too

I really like how you did that and added sleep now in the fire for the opening music. Thanks for telling us how to do this stuff. now, can you change the Earth part of the menu?

Sure it's possible, check the moonmod to see what globe revolves around the sun there. ;)

thats the way

lol that song is in my mod too
That's waht I was saying, I liked how you combined the two to set a mood for the mod. Too bad It's unplayably slow, I really want to try it out.

you know, second revolution runs really nicely on my system, and i thought i had a crapper. its just like playing a large map in the modern area really, and im sure people have done that. let me tell you after the first 2 turns it speeds up nicely, but you have to wait the minutes for the AI to ruin the pretty arangements of the units i made

well, I can't get past the first turn.

BTW, waht kind of system do you have, so I can compare.

2.8 P4 ht; 1.5gb ddr pc 2700; Geforce 5200 Fx 256 by BFG

does that make sense?

i am new here:confused:, i've read the post hwere u can change the name of the opening menu, i did that: OpeningMenu.mp3, but i still get the Baba Yetu,:cry: how do i fix that so i can listen to my new song:sad:.

You need to be more specific. Is this the menu change for BTS/Warlords/Core Civ and other information.

EDIT: Wow, this is an old thread. Not to be mean or offensive at all, but posting in old threads (called thread necromancy) is somewhat bad ettiquet.

A burning planet! Cooool! :lol:

Or should that be hot? :hmm:
It's global warming.

It's global warming.

LOL!!!!

yet another of my threads ressurected through the dark arts of necromancy!!!

I'm cool with it though. can always use more zombie servants to dress me in the morning

I fell for it Garret... but I'll put the proper image here now...

http://www.game-warden.com/starfox/Non_SF_related_stuff/JS47/Thread_Necromancy.jpg

Sorry bout that, the Game is the Origional Civilization IV.

Hey, how do i uninstall this. Say i didn't like it and i wanted it back to the original background. How would i uninstall this, without having to uninstall the game?

just go to the file directory and delete it.

Bravo for the picture. Sounds really nice :)

okee dokee ... I tried by myself to change an intro screen for a mod I'm writing.

I'm half successfull and half unsucessful :crazyeye:

My intro screen is ok and the rendering ( in .dds 5 ) is quite as I wished. But ... I still need the .nif file ( CIV4MainMenuBG.nif ) from Warlords ( 2.0.8 ) otherwise, no way to get the picture.

here it is :

http://hpnimbus.free.fr/civilization/intro1.jpg

It is not obvious because of the size of the picture but I still have some elements of the warlords .nif file such as the spares, the fire, the brightmoon, the grass, etc ...

I tried to import it in Blender ( both on Mac and PC via Parallels ) but maybe because the file is quite big, I can't. I mean after a while, Blender is stopping :( ( if i try with some other smaller .nif file, it's OK )

So I try to use some CIV4MainMenuBG.nif files I found around from guys who already changed their intro screen. But then, my game is quitting :(

Still need a clue ! thanks :)