Welcome to the Star Wars Mod Devolopment Forum!

This forum was designed so that this mod can go faster, be better, and to have it more organized.

I'm really excited about this mod and I hope that it will be a great mod once it gets to its final version.

I really appreciate every idea you give and even though I may not accept them I still am glad you contributed!

Anyway, Let's get started and make the Star Wars Mod a great mod for Sid Meier's Civilization 4!

Thanks,
Civmansam

Hope this gets off the ground running, good job so far.:goodjob:

Its nice that you guys got your own forum! Any ETA on your next version? And maybe a list wof what it will include?

Very nice to see a Star Wars mod in development.. I love the movies :)

Præcis, Magma :D sådan skal det lyde ;) Jeg ville utroligt gerne få lavet en masse til Civ4 da kravene ikke er så høje til modellerne og lignende ting, men jeg har bare aldrig moddet et sådan spil før ang. programmeringen... DET er jo lidt stenern xD men jeg tror bare jeg vil modellere og animere.
umiddelbart vil jeg sige at det er et fedt mod, men der er ALT for mange ting og sger som gør det samme LIGE ved siden af hindanen... ALT for uoverskueligt: men selfølgelig har CivManSam sagt at dt bliver reguleret senere :D

Just a few personal comments for Danes and other scandinavians ;)

I see my name, I hope you arent spreading rumors about me :p

just saying how busy you are :P And that there are so much to do so it might be the reason that it's difficult to know what's what ;) remember what I said about too many stuffs? :P

Just a request is all, i suggest you have a thread for these areas, dont know if you have them yet or not, just jogging them down is all: Bug Report/What would you change/update log/where to find current copy/suggestions, etc.
These are a few areas i would have, but its just me.

What? You don't think we've got that? :rolleyes:

and Today's update :D

Sunday I bought Civ4: Warlords :D

nothign new otherwise except that I'm gonan punk Woodeld until he/she actually SEND me the files I need, which I've been 'promised' for 1½ month :/

other than that at least I've got my health... oh, wait - I'm sick today :rolleyes: lolz

Can you add a date next to your update, would make it easier to keep track is all, thx.

yeah or just a guess when u think u have the next update

Well, the next update will hopefully contain some models made by me xD lol

Unfortunately, Woodelf promised me 1½ month ago that he'd send some important files I need before I can do anything 'productive', but after I've send like 8 pm's over almost 2 months I haven't recieved any files yet.. :/ and what annoys me is that those files are EASY to get and send, and that also bugs me a ton. He seems to be ignoring me now - lol :p So what you all can do instead would be to simply PM Woodelf and remind him of sending me those files, hehe

I know Woodelf is a busy fellow, and I've got no hard feelings: I'm just getting a bit impatient :)

The faster I recieve those files the faster we can update... ;)

I see my name, I hope you arent spreading rumors about me :p
We are *mad laughter* Errr, nevermind :crazyeye:

heh - så kunne du måske spamme lidt til træelveren? :)

but seriously, I'm gonna finish alot of projects here in the following weeks, and will start on a bigger one, so I'd appreciate to get the files soon...

But of course, if anyone's got 3ds Studio Max or Maya and is willing to send me the files it'd be REALLY appreciated :p All I need is in short: a unit or two along with the skeleton. Maybe even an animation as well if possible. Also a vehicle such as a tank and/or an 'improvement' building.
All of it sent in .FBX* is all I need :D

@civmansam
I loved the movies and i found it was a great idea to make a mod with that stuff
very difficult ,indeed.:crazyeye:
BTW :I'm sorry i m french but could you make it compatible with french version?
I could help you translate some things if you can't but cannot help you with coding;)
Good job anyway

well we could have an update on what we need to do and what we need for it at the moment i think.
Qdin waits on woodelf for some filles.
what could there be done without the filles or could somebody els send them?

Anyone who can import a unit into 3ds Studio Max or Maya as well as a Vehicle :) That's actually all I need to start doing my part of the mod. it's all essential for me. the most perfect would be if anyone could send it to me in .FBX* Kaydara format. That was it keeps everything :D

WoodElf don't seem to respond on anything, and havent' sent me anything in more than 2 months now... :'( So if anyone of you could get me those files it'd be awesome :D then I'll owe you a beer ;D

hey should i make a thread on how to install this

install what?

The mod itself? There aren't that much into that part... :rolleyes:

install what?

The mod itself? There aren't that much into that part... :rolleyes:
took me 10 minutes how to figure it out and a thread in c and c to get it in:blush:

lol

That's why I usually read the 'installation Guide' usually made along with a mod.. :P

if he thinks players could find it dificult to instal the mod i would say u mkae a thread about it. just i case.

any progres on getting the file's?

So what's the latest status?

well i think were a bit stuck.
qdin is waiting on woodelf sending him some file's

yeah - and I JUST got a 'reply' as well as an 'excuse' :/ it seems like he 'lost interest' and haven't opened Max or Civ for 2 months' - like I hadn't noticed that >.>

He ended the PM and sounded like he WAS gonna send me sometihng.... but I'm still waiting :/ maybe I'll get a friend to retrieve it xD one I know has Max. so Woodelf: You've got 1 week or you'll just be the guy who has wasted my time!

please keep it nice to him.
i understande that ure angry at him cus he made u wait for an long time.
but he made us all wait for an long time. i am really exited to help make this mod complete but we need woodelf to do that and making him angry doesnt solve anything! so please be nice an swear a few time's out loud or somthing but keep ure posts an bit nice. so i hope that woodelf send u the file's soon so we can go on with modding :D

heh - I doubt you wanna listen to me swearing ;P

All I hope is that he will be ashamed of himself and hopefully will think further than just saying he'd do someithng. It's an important lesson, because if you lack on the job you won't keep it that long...

youre right about that and i hope he gets the lesson :)

and why dont i wanne hear you swearing?

lol - if I did it right it'd be wither in Danish, or probably-banning-reason sentences xD

okay i dont wanna hear u swearing :P
i cant understand danish i think... :)

yep - anyways xD

Back on topic: Welcome! :D

I have a feeling this mod has come to a halt... :(

I have a feeling this mod has come to a halt... :(someone could make a galaxy map *hint* *hint*

well we have already a few galaxy maps but not included in the game or somthing just check it out few topics below

What I personally would prefer would be to recreate scenarios from the movie, starting with Geonosis. With the exception that this is no developing scenario, but a battlebased one. So we could make new 'improvements' which instead would add to the 'secureness' or 'security' and 'moral' :D There won't be more but 2 factions or whatever. Therefore the reason I say a battle-based one ;) We could and can have tons of different unist with different abilities. Most of the job would probably be reskinning and adding a few more models. nonetheless I think it won't be that difficult. what instead WILL be difficult will be to decide what the possibilities are for the team(s). Maybe adding events would help? i.e. 30 rounds started LAAT's appears and lands with troops and such.

I'm still waiting to get all I need. But soon I will aid with new models :D and animations if that'll be fine ;)

Maybe I should then instead just make my own Star Wars Scenarios? :) lol - if I just had any idea of how to make a scenario... -_-'

Anything else? :P

well perhaps we could make our own scenarios and i would like to help u with that i cant make any unit's and i cant do any programming stuff but i can help u write an scenario idea. the special unit's and programming stuff needs to be done by others. tell me if ure intrested in somthing like that and i will try to make somthing in the style u like. just need some points. like the style and poseblities the scenarion can have :)

(btw any progres on getting the fille's?)

yeah - I will most likely get access to it al myself :P

Let's all celebrate with wanking all day and night!! :p

I DID manage to get a short hold of CivManSam yesterday, though. He said that he ain't gonna work on this mod for some time. Nonetheless it will mean that I will do alot of stuffs so when he gets back he's got a totally improved mod ;)

I guess I could continue with the Star Wars mod with scenarios and such like mentioned before. So if anyone think that they can help me or is interested i've got Xfire and MSN :P if not just mail me - lol.
Xfire: qdin
MSN and Email: Qdinsmail@yahoo.dk

This way we can all easy get in touch with each other :)

I hope we can make a unofficial progress until the next version gets out :D

- Q

if this mod is still alive and being worked on, i would be happy to do some modeling or anything for this mod. i use MAYA 8 and 3d studio max 8

I havnt checked out the mod yet as i dont have civ IV (i will in a few days) but ive been playin it since Civ I and i love it

just let me know by PM or something

if this mod is still alive and being worked on, i would be happy to do some modeling or anything for this mod. i use MAYA 8 and 3d studio max 8

I havnt checked out the mod yet as i dont have civ IV (i will in a few days) but ive been playin it since Civ I and i love it

just let me know by PM or something


I gues it is still being worked on and welcome to CivFanatics!

im just wondering if theres any news on when this project will pick back up, (and i pray that it is). id love to help with some modeling but unfortanetly i dont know what program i should use to do so, if i have to pay for one (which would be fine aslong as its not really expensive) if anybody could just let me know what to get or do i would really appreciate it. and if i cant do that, then id help out by trying it out and giving my input.

I agree, what's going on with this? There hasn't been any word for ages, and we're all really anxious to get our hands on the completed mod :) . Any word?

I dunno - ask CivManSam.

sent him a message earlier, waitin for a response.

this mod is at the moment on standby.
if you have some questions about modeling i would ask qdin.
there is no way we can predict when this mod comes up again.
so keep praying guys ;)

I'm not even sure if I'll keep any interest in this.. ._.'

I'm busy with other stuffs - lol. Modding another game, modelling for it also.

I guess starting a new Mod wouldn't harm alot?

no perhaps it wouldnt. :P
i think this one is dead :(
how sad it sounds i think it really is.
to bad i liked the idea so much. well lets pray that an other modder comes by and say he wants to pick this one up again :)

my bad day just got a whole lot worse, ugh. no star wars mod, wut am i to do. o well, onto my ffh2 game i guess.

Why Don't You doit?

because I don't know the first thing about modding.

Heh - me n'either :D

I just know how to model and animate and all that - haha

I guess we could make some Scenarios based on the movies. This way we will get all the models and all that ready for everything until we've got enough to actually make a 'full Star Wars Mod'.

WGW is making a list, which I unfortunately haven't checked on lately, which will contain all the units/classes which were in the Battle of Geonosis. We can easily reskin, and the models themselves probably wouldn't be much of a problem either.
i currently don't have photoshop (but annoying thte parents until we get it :p)

This reminds me; Does anyone know if it's possible to get custom animations in this game..? or do we need a new skeleton - wouldn't be a problem either ;)

First i would actually only need 2 things to make a Scenario: one willing to fiddle and try out all my odd theories and a coder to help and do all the things we want :)

Remember, people - the more the better, and the more you work with something the better you'll be ;)

anyone is interested? and anyone has an idea?

P.S. I'd wonder if this is kind of 'hijacking' this forum? Considering we aren't really considered in the Star Wars Mod, but IS making a Star Wars Mod w/ Scenarios? xD

sounds good. i really need to start on the tutorials for my modeling program. im willin to help in testin the game out or whatever else like that that could be done without havin to be a computer scientist. so far i havent had much time in practicin or messin around with modelin yet, but hope to do so soon.

how do you get your custom avatar?? i have over 30 posts but in the "user cp" screen i dont see anything for "custom avatar" help appreciated, thanks.

It requires a bit more than thirty... i think i got mine at one hundred, but i may be completly wrong:)

@Qdin: do you like/know of Lord of the Rings... the arda mod really needs some modelers, so if you want to help us, please click on the link in my sig and post in that forum, or PM me! thanks alot

oh, i read in another thread that it was 30, maybe i read it wrong or remember incorrectly.

I really don't care about a custom signature for me :P

And to be honest, I'm not sure if this mod is.. well - able to live on..

qdin i maild the list for the senario to you a long time ago month or 2.
so you must have it. and yes i think there an minor odd that we can bring this mod back to life (10% i guess) so guys please dont give up and help us. dont let the star wars mod die!!!!!

well we need the modders to get re-interested in it again for it to come back alive, would but i dont know the first thing bout modding or anything of the sort really :( i really dont want this mod to die tho either but dont know much of what to do if the modders aren't willing to mod this mod.

Learn to mod... i'd do it, but i'm busy with the Arda/Lotr mod

as in Lord of the Rings?? hmmm, that could very well make up for the loss of the sw one, could u post a link to the thread if there is one please???

and what exactly is Arda?? forgive me if its a stupid question, it miteve slipped my mind or i just never heard of it??

i know youre doing the arda mod (cant wait for it to come out :P)
but if you can manage it could you help here to?
and i want to learn modding so i can take this mod back to life.
so can you please put up some links here were to learn modding?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=183703

thats the link to the mod.
and the arda mod is about all the era's there have been in the lord of the rings world!
its not only about the war for the ring but all that has happend.
thats probably the meaning of arda

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=183703

thats the link to the mod.
and the arda mod is about all the era's there have been in the lord of the rings world!
its not only about the war for the ring but all that has happend.
thats probably the meaning of arda

Right: that is what we are doing

this is actually the only tutorial i used:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=148507

most of the things aer really self explanatory, once you start sort of learning how it works. any text editor works, but the one i use is:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm ( it is in the tutorial)

Hope that helps, and if it looks long, don't get discouraged, it is rather easy.

thanks for it.
i will make some time ( i unfortunaly dont have much :( ) and see what i can do.

the link only says how to add an civilization to the game.
i dont think i am ready with modding if i add some civilizations

I started with a civ... it tells you most of the important stuff about XML, and you can figure out the rest from looking at the original files and some already existing mods.

While we're talking about programming :p

My teacher asked me yesterday if I was interesting in amking a game all by myself... I was like: "hmm... sure :)" Mainly because I HAVE experience with games ;)

I can easily use all the prescripts and all that ****, but to be honest, I wanna proove - at least for myself - that this hasn't been totally waste of time, so I'm thinking of trying to look into all the scripting. it'll probably be C and C++ but I also think some XML will come in too :D

so if you will send me some 'samples' of the codes before and after - lol - it would be appreciated so I can then 'follow' up abit too :)

YOu seem to have a fun school!

How in depth are you planning on going?

I don't know.

I've spent all today with learning C scriptings :p lol

So will probably add some healthbars, attach some actions to some buttons here and there and create some AI. ya' know, the small stuffs here in the beginning.

Any idea if you are going to be able to do the good and evil alignment idea you had?

Probably not :P

WGW, can't you learn programming or something? lol

i will :P
but i dont know how soon its ready.
i just founded out i have next week 2 days out with school.
and 2 tests.
the week after that i have 3 tests.
and 2 weeks after that (4 weeks from now) i have test week -.-'
so i want to learn it soon but i think school needs lots of time again :(
(those dammed people out there thinks we dont have anything beter to do than study :S) and what kind of programming do you want me to learn? (A)
btw i am bussy with the stuff of adding an civilization ;)

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=166935 - dunno if it helps, and I am working on victory conditions right now on http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=204465

I am trying to get the old unit files that were with the Star Wars MOD, ie: Wookie, but the new download doesnt have any of the OLD files, i need as much as i can get, PLS.

i could send you what i have only i dont have any idea how to uploade 25 mb up here its an .rar and if i try easy upload system button and upload the file i get an tekst that says no file selected.
need help on it tough i dont know if it is the one youre looking for

i could send you what i have only i dont have any idea how to uploade 25 mb up here its an .rar and if i try easy upload system button and upload the file i get an tekst that says no file selected.
need help on it tough i dont know if it is the one youre looking for

PLS send to goodbar007@hotmail.com , thx.

i put the file on fileshare
http://www.savefile.com/projects/1075969

you can downlode the .rar at the botom of the screen.
just click the orange button.
if it doesnt work please say it to me and i try an diferent way.

i put the file on fileshare
http://www.savefile.com/projects/1075969

you can downlode the .rar at the botom of the screen.
just click the orange button.
if it doesnt work please say it to me and i try an diferent way.


This file is the same as the current file, I need the OLD files of Star Wars, the one that has the WOOKIE ART files and OLD ART files, thx.:rolleyes:

sorry ;)
i didnt know that :P

yes....

anyways.
What do you need the Wookie files for? are you gonna recreate the Star Wars Mod or something?

yes....

anyways.
What do you need the Wookie files for? are you gonna recreate the Star Wars Mod or something?



http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=157016&page=58

Has this re-died?

Nah - we just drugged it into coma! :P

I know C, and even though I have not modded before, I still can program in C well. can i join:mischief:

if you want? :)

Just expect to get some.. difficult tasks :P I'm the kind of guy who either want the results, or the closest result through workarounds... heh :)

You could start with looking into the files there are in the Assets... I haven't got it successfully extracted either :rolleyes: but then again, I'm not gonna! :D *yay for me*

So there's some tutorials and guides somewhere in these forums <.<

- Q

P.S. can you create a possibly liiiiiittle larger Resume/CV and/or a brief presentation? :p you might as well make it look professional so you get prepared for later in life :)

Here is my presentation. Just change the file extension from .txt to .ppt and open it with a power-point viewer or power-point. By the way, I made the attached power-point with Microsoft Office XP, just in case the power-point viewers aren't backwards compatible.

The utility to unpack/pack the .pak files is attached. What do you want me to do with them?

I've got no idea! :p

try to look into the files and see what is required for the units, buildings and everything.

Unfortunately I can't help you with anything on this area... :/

A nice presentation btw ;)

First, you might want new build and action icons, etc. which are done in .dds files (direct draw surface). As far as actual unit animations, we need a file labeled (unitname)freeze.nif, (unitname)weapon.nif, (unitname)idle.kf (unitname)die.kf, and a file named (unitname)death.kf. an example with actual files would be:

archerfreeze.nif
archerarrow.nif
archeridle.kf
archerdie.kf
archerdeath.kf
--------notes----------

kf files are moving 3d animations.
nif files are stationary 3d graphics that can be created with 3ds max or Gmax.
dds files are 2d pictures with more than 1 layer.By the way, is there a higher person that I should be reporting to?

lol Rothn.

Thanks for clearing that up... but I guess You don't mind telling me more of HOW to do it? :p

interesting with the (unitname) but I guess we should have it (unitname)_(Animationname)

the 'stationary' files (lolz - nice description for it) Are usually reffered as a BasePose.

A thing I don't get, is whether we should have this skeleton and unit animating. That would all be good. But what about the (unitname)weapon.nif? I'm pretty sure I've read that the weapon just 'needs' to be a part of the normal mesh. So what's this for? Is it for the 'bullet' model so it knows what to shoot?
I guess it is :)

So maybe you can help me here... I've got whichever software needed to do this, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Now, do you have a tutorial or a link to one (unless you're fresh for writing a brief one yourself) on how to export your own meshes/models for this game, and probably more importantly: How to get custom skeletons exported too.

Hey, do you think YOU could be in charge of making units work in the game? >.>

and about that 'higher person' I would appreciate if you at first just 'reports' to me :) Since this is more my area and I haven't found a good tutorial to get units in-game and such...

first of all a good finding :)

tutorials can be found here
http://forums.civfanatics.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=5417923
and here
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=161099

and as far as the skeleton:
here
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=176460

P.S. You had better have 3ds Max
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char[5] you = tank;
char[9] me = spearman;
(I know this is not how you declare character variables)
:spear:[pissed]

I'm abit dissatisfied with that I gotta use 3dsMax... since I prefer XSI and/or Maya xD Weren't there a plug-in exporter for Maya released too? And before giving me any link or something, I just wanna know if it works as 'good' as the Max Plugin?

I've spent some time reading it, except for the 1st one as it was a direct link to a 'reply'... And when I looked up the number it had for the topic it said there was no topic..
So the 1st link is broken xD

I've also read this odd tutorial which should work too... but I've got this annoying problem with I can't find the .max scenes which the tutorial reffers to -_-'

So basically it would be best if I work through 3ds Max with the skeletons and such? I can live with that :) will probably texture in XSI, switch with modelling in XSI and Maya and rig it up in Max - heh. (unless... I can just make the skeletons and everything in Max without thinking of putting the meshes on? Wasn't that done through the NifViewer thingy?)

Thanks for the links again, Rothn! :lol: I owe ya one more!

I spent 3 hours searching, and no such thing exists. As far as your missing animation problem, that is just to make sure that nobody gets a free copy of the game, which they could with the SDK, which, by the way, was not supposed to work.

Civmansam!!!!! Do you have any idea how hard it was to find this forum, just to find a current beta version of this mod??? I had to search through pages upon pages of the original Star Wars Mod thread before finally finding it on page FIFTY-SIX on post #1103!!!!!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4588434&postcount=1103

You need to include a link to this forum in your Signature rather than the original thread.


P.S. Some of you guys must need a life if you're going on about getting the 1,000th post or 1,000th reply. Wow. Really. Just W-O-W.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=157016&page=51

I think you've been searching for a little long: Civmansam isn't the mod leader any more. I am. And we're rererestarting the mod. But I can't undrestand why you couldn't find this otherwise. It's in the Civ4 - Project & Mod Development forum, like other mod projects with sub-forums.

Ah, yes, I never got that far to see that Civmansam wasn't in charge of the project anymore. Sorry about that.

And I never really looked in that portion of the forum. D'oh! I usually just jumped straight into the Subforum of Modpacks (which is where I found the Star Wars Mod thread by Civmansam).

Hi Im new, but dont think that means im not good at this stuff. It looks like y'all have alot of people helping you here but if you need any help, just let me know.

Welcome to the forums! I'm not using this place anymore; instead, the mod has it's own modpack thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=297868 What are you good at? Designing and python would be appreciated the most, but I also have plenty of XML! I also don't actually have anyone working for me now. I'm all alone.

I'm good at designing and xml, im okay at python.

Alright, well for designing I'm A little stuck for buildings, so if you have any ideas there, don't be afraid to say them. As for python, do any of these sound possible for you to do?
Making it so that a unit gives a bonus to strength (or a promothion, which would probably be better) to all units on the same and surrounding tile
Adding recidge
Adding levels (so that land and space are independant)
adding a unit settle mod
I just want to know what you can do, as these are the python I'd like for the finished version

Ok i think i can do all that...:)

You can? Nice! I personally think that the unit settle religion mod (settlers carry their religion) would be most important for now. The main reason is because in the current mod, races replace religions. It doesn't make much sense for cities to be populated with droids :). I think there are some old mods that have stuff like that in them, so if it's easier to convert, I would look at some of them. Also, it would probably be a good idea to move the conversation in the modpack forum. Just easier.

Use different kinds of space docks as buildings
And this thread we aren't using anymore

This mod runs in the last version patched of Civ4????