This mod changes the Stonehenge to Great Sphinx. I choose the Sphinx and not the Ishtar Gate ( another suggestion ), because a Shpinx is something more ample ( it's still make sense if build by Greece or Babylon or China ).

It doesn't make the Egyptian UHV more harder, because if you want the 500 Culture of the first UHV you need to build the Stonehenge ( Am i right? :confused: ) so this will only add to the "roleplay" of the game!

Donwload Here <V1> (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/92651/Decipher_me_or_I_ll_devour_youV1.rar) ( just download and past it on top of your Rhye's and Fall of Civilization folder )

http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/5910/civ4screenshot0079jw9.jpg

Donwload Here <V2> (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/92651/Decipher_me_or_I_ll_devour_youV2.rar) ( just download and past it on top of your Rhye's and Fall of Civilization folder )

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9971/civ4screenshot0078iw3.jpg


Donwload Here <V3> (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/92651/Decipher_me_or_I_ll_devour_youV3.rar) ( just download and past it on top of your Rhye's and Fall of Civilization folder )

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/2575/civ4screenshot0074zv9.jpg


Screens:

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/417/civ4screenshot0070yc4.jpg

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/9084/civ4screenshot0071ka4.jpg

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/9954/civ4screenshot0072nq2.jpg

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/4154/civ4screenshot0073nf4.jpg

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/2575/civ4screenshot0074zv9.jpg

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/6203/civ4screenshot0075rh5.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1881/civ4screenshot0076fk1.jpg

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1238/civ4screenshot0077gt8.jpg


I can make a version without the temple under the Sphinx, what do you think?

I think the temple looks good!!

I think the whole thing looks good!!

Thanks Thanks Thanks.

If you like, I could design a different Mysticism icon (Current one has Stonehenge on)

I would apreciate it! maybe just make a grapich with some incense and ligth dots... that's the base of mysticism! :)

I like it!

How's this? It's just incense, do you want me to add more to it?

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I think better, i don't believe that changing the Mysticism Tech Icon is necessary, because it represents the Pagan Religions, like the Religions of the Celtic People. That is not because that tech able the building of the Stonehenge .

So i'm won't changing it. ( but if you want i can put a version of a alternative Mysticism Icon )

It's ok, it was just a passing thought.

Can someone help me finding a representation of the Sphinx when it was build? i just find modern pictures of the Sphinx ( that is all cracked and broken >_< ).

You mean like, artistic representation?

Yes.


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I found these so far:

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I like the cat!
if you change it I will keep the cat

I've always loved this painting:

http://ascendingpassage.com/approach-of-the-simoon.jpg

If you use it you'll make my day!

I was unable do find good pictures of the full Sphinx, so i will use this two versions: ( is someone find a good "full Sphinx" can post here )

Decipher me or I'll devour you V1
http://img469.imageshack.us/img469/5910/civ4screenshot0079jw9.jpg

Decipher me or I'll devour you V2
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9971/civ4screenshot0078iw3.jpg


Links in the first post

Question: How is spelled Sphinx in Russian?

Yeah, I am keeping the cat :p

According to wikipedia:

Гизæйы Егъау Сфинкс

I will add Егъау Сфинкс so, thanks!

Гизæйы Егъау? Sphinx in Russian is spelled Сфинкс, with no Гизæйы Егъау stuff. In fact, Гизæйы Егъау means nothing in Russian. Where did that come from?

My babylon traduce like: "Egau Sfinx"... that to me seens like Great Sfinx... o_o' or my babylon is entirely wrong.

btw, what do you think about the modcomp?

I know no Russian so my apologies. I just copy and pasted from wikipedia!

Arabian Unaltered Warlords Start:

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Wrong thread? :D

ACK!!

Yes, wrong thread =[[

wow, that's a great idea (although the actual Stonehenge is still a better wonder imo ;)... henges, although much unused in English these days are just a cool abstraction (like the Torii gates in Japan)! BUT since we don't even know which prehistoric peoples built it (megalithic-yeah, so, and... hehe), it thus should probably not be a Great Wonder of well-known civilizations, right?

also, great graphics/presentation- it should be implemented- GO GO history!

Hehe, thanks blitzkrieg!

The main porpose its that Stonehenge can't be build in its historical place ( London ), so it is better to have the Shpinx in Egypt or Babylon than Stonehenge... =p

And i think it should be implemented! XD

Гизæйы Егъау? Sphinx in Russian is spelled Сфинкс, with no Гизæйы Егъау stuff. In fact, Гизæйы Егъау means nothing in Russian. Where did that come from?

Apparently from the Ossetian language version of Wikipedia...
http://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B7%C3%A6%D0%B9%D1%8B_%D0%95%D0%B3% D1%8A%D0%B0%D1%83_%D0%A1%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BA%D 1%81

I will post a new version of the MODCOMP in a couple of hours, to add the new splash of the Wembley...

I love the kitty!
Maybe the Sphinx with a "Hello Kitty" face on it would be even more brilliant! Although that should only occur when the Japanese build it. :D

will you do a cat version again? I will be sad to let it go :(

Okay, i will make 3 versions of it xD

Hey! Great work! I'll download it right now! I just have only a question: on the screenshots you have posted, when they grew up, the sphinx moved from one side of the river to another! It sure got a lot of work! Imagine:

RAMESSES II: Master Builder Imhotep, have you completed the work I did comissioned you?
IMHOTEP: Yes, son of Gods. Now thou will be remembered forever by our people.
RAMESSES II: OK, OK, it sounds great to me, but... why can't I see it from my bedroom?
IMHOTEP: Huh? From thy bedroom? What are thou talking about?
RAMESSES II: I'm talking about the hill in front of the river, that covers me its vision!
IMHOTEP: Hill? Wasn't it suppoused to be built on the left side of the river? -Imhotep looks at his maps, and realizes he was watching them upside down-.
RAMESSES II: NO!! YOU SUCH IDIOT!! THAT WAS THE PYRAMIDS!! I want you to take that Sphinx and bring it to THIS side of the river, NOW!!
IMHOTEP: D'OH!!

I was just kidding! :p . It just looked a little weird to me.

Hey! Great work! I'll download it right now! I just have only a question: on the screenshots you have posted, when they grew up, the sphinx moved from one side of the river to another! It sure got a lot of work! Imagine:

RAMESSES II: Master Builder Imhotep, have you completed the work I did comissioned you?
IMHOTEP: Yes, son of Gods. Now thou will be remembered forever by our people.
RAMESSES II: OK, OK, it sounds great to me, but... why can't I see it from my bedroom?
IMHOTEP: Huh? From thy bedroom? What are thou talking about?
RAMESSES II: I'm talking about the hill in front of the river, that covers me its vision!
IMHOTEP: Hill? Wasn't it suppoused to be built on the left side of the river? -Imhotep looks at his maps, and realizes he was watching them upside down-.
RAMESSES II: NO!! YOU SUCH IDIOT!! THAT WAS THE PYRAMIDS!! I want you to take that Sphinx and bring it to THIS side of the river, NOW!!
IMHOTEP: D'OH!!

I was just kidding! :p . It just looked a little weird to me.


Yeah, that happens a lot in Civ :lol:

Updated :) ( Wembley fix and others things that Rhye may have changed that i don't know :P )

3 versions now xD

Very cool.......

Very cool.......

thanks :)


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Any chance of a BTS version soon?

Shouldn't be too difficult, if we just cosmetically alter Stonehenge to have the right art files etc...

EDIT: I was right, I got it working!

Hope you don't mind if I post this, Edungeon...

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/105825/Decipher_me_or_I_ll_devour_youV2_BTS_.rar

Shouldn't be too difficult, if we just cosmetically alter Stonehenge to have the right art files etc...

EDIT: I was right, I got it working!

Hope you don't mind if I post this, Edungeon...

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/105825/Decipher_me_or_I_ll_devour_youV2_BTS_.rar

no prob :)

*i'm still alive!!! \o/ ohhhh*

http://macteens.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10104/zombie.jpg

wow really great job on the graphix it looks great my fav has to be the painting

Is there a BtS version out yet? I assumed that when I downloaded the first version and tried implementing it in RFC. When the outcome was a miserable failure that I had no idea of how to fix, I thought I should come back here.

Any chance us BtS users might get to enjoy that idea anytime soon? :P

After I download this where do I save it??
(is this for RFC BTS or Warlords??)

haven't seen Edungeon in a while.
I guess it is for Warlords

My last version is for Warlords... i quit playing normal RFC :) I am just waiting for the RAND... and i can't update this because i don't have the needed files anymore =P

Shame. :undecide:

Personally I like this idea, very much.

My feelings exactly, is it that hard to change it from Warlords to BTS version?

My feelings exactly, is it that hard to change it from Warlords to BTS version?

Probably not but who am I to say? The most I've done to alter the game mechanics is switch around a few letters in the XML files. But then again, if it was as easy as it should be, I'm sure we would have had a BtS Sphinx for a good while now.

Any chance anyone else would want to make this BtS-compatible? Logical choice would be me or The Turk but I'm sure neither of us knows how to. :/

If it doesn't involve C++:mad:, I might try but there's no gurantee because of how much free time I have.

Please could you do that:D, because i'm not very good when it comes to modding

Sorry I won't be able to do this until next sunday. Really Sorry, will definetly try then.

Here's ver.1.0 for BTS. I need beta testers as I currently haven't tested it. It should work, the only problem might be the text. Same installation as in post one. Once this one has been tested I'll upload the other two.

:D! I'll volunteers as one of the beta testers right now.

If it wouldn't be too much of work, could you tell us exactly in which folders do the newly written information need to go or are we to figure that out by ourselves?

Right now the most I could do was try to sort out the files the best I could and then started the game as Egypt, Worldbuilt myself some improvements and the knowledge to use them... but when I tried to build "Stonehenge" (the civilopedia entry and name is still of the old wonder) the game crashed. :badcomp: I could see its graphics from Civilopedia though and it looked wonderful. :)

Anyway, any tips regarding what goes where? You'd get more detailed beta-testing on the spot if I only knew that much.

Where do we put the file?

Ooops, I forgot to tell you to install it, sorry.:blush:
My bad. Anyway, Civ4GameText_Sphinx.xml goes into RFC/Assets/XML/Text. Civ4ArtDefines_Building and Civ4ArtDefinesMovie.xml go into RFC/Assets/XML/ART. All the art files go into the corresponding file directories in the RFC directory. As soon as we get this to work with RFC I'll upload vers. 2 and 3. Also if it works for you guys with RFC I'd like for you to try it with RFC Random, same installation instructions since it should work.

P.S.-There was an error with my naming of the text file which I re-uploaded in my previous post. A.K.A. don't worry about it, all I'm saying is it may have been causing Cethegus's error. Also, thanks guys, your all I need in the way of Beta-testers though anyone's welcome to help.

thanks Metal, your last update is more user-friendly (simply unpack the files in the RFC main folder) and it works perfectly with RAND.

So no problems? I'll upload the other two later today when I've got time. All I have to do is copy and paste 2 XML files(ArtDefines_Building and _Movie) from v.1 into the other two. Thanks for the feedback guys.

I'm going to try if the Sphinx functions properly now.

Added Ver 2+3 to the original post(#51).

Tried it, it's working excellently now! Graphics click, wonder building works spot on, the civilopedia article is there, everything's clear. Excellent work, Metal Alloy Man. :D I thought I'd never see the day Sphinx would be transferred to the BtS RFC.

Everything works now. Albeit I just played as far as I need to build both Sphinx and Pyramids as Egypt, I don't see how this wouldn't work. If problems arise with my new game though, I'll keep you informed.

PS: One thing I'd like to add, something I found rather surprising - it's backwards compatible with earlier saves. My current Roman game worked perfectly and Great Sphinx (Stonehenge) was where it was built (Thebae) like it should be. One sidenote, though: the update includes only with graphics and names. Backwards completed Sphinx will give off no culture, didn't bother checking the other details.

after you download all the files, how do u get it to work?:(

Extract them to your Civ 4 > BTS > Mods > RFC folder. Easy enough.

If you have other modcomps installed on RFC, be careful. You'll have to extract them one by one that way and modify the newly installed files a bit when needed.

When you say RFC folder do you mean the 1181RFC folder becaues that's all I have I don't have just an RFC folder?

:king:Yes, it's the 1181 folder, hope you like it.:king:

ya, i put it their, but nothing happend again, in the civilopedia it still says stonehenge and no sphinx. Here's where I put it:

My Documents
My Games
Beyond the Sword
Mods
RFCB1181
Rhye's and Fall of Civilization

And then all the documents are inside another folder called "Decipher me or I’ll devour youV1". Do I still need to put it in my assests folder?

Oh, that's an easy mistake. Sorry, didn't make it clear enough.

Copy all the files inside the "Decipher me" folder and extract them in the same folder "Decipher me" is currently at. Then you can delete the DMOIDY folder, but only after extracting the data.

Hope it works now. ;) If you have any problems, just come by here.