With these step-by-step instructions you shouldn't fail. If you do somehow and can't get civ3 to work or it appears as corrupted use your back up files to resurrect it. You can try to do it again - if you are doing this for the first time it's possible you've done something wrong. But I tried to write this for the first timers, since people experienced with civ3 modding probably just get bored reading this as they already know the procedure, some may have developed better techniques or even programs to help. This is how I do it. It may be confusing at first but after couple of times you'll probably learn to do it in two minutes.
Note: You will find these instructions for vanilla Civ3 and Play The World in CFC. The link:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48558&pagenumber=1
Sorry about possible typos and grammatic errors. My English is not always as good as is might be.
Anyway if you somehow ruin your files or/and blow up your computer with my graphics I will NOT take any responsibility. Remember to back up.
1.Add the building in Civ3Edit
2.Copy images to folders
3.Add the Wonder Splash to PediaIcons.txt
4.Add the building icons to PediaIcons.txt
5.Difference between Era specific building and Single building
6.Add the Civilopedia entry
7.Copy and paste the buildings.pcx's
8.Troubleshooting
PRECAUTION! BACK UP FOLLOWING FILES:
Civ3\conquests\text\PediaIcons.txt
Civ3\conquests\text\Civilopedia.txt
Civ3\conquests\Art\City Screen\Buildings-large.pcx
Civ3\conquests\Art\City Screen\Buildings-small.pcx
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I've used the Ziggurat wonder, Brothel and Gallows improvements as examples, you can download these files from Civ Fanatics Forum Graphics Modpacks thread:
Ziggurat:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47773
Brothel:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47787
Gallows:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47306
1.Add the building in Civ3Edit
Add a building in Civ3edit Improvements and Wonders tab, name it Ziggurat, in civilopedia entry menu BLDG_Ziggurat appears automatically. Roll the list and choose it. This will be it's civilopedia.txt & pediaicons.txt name. Give the Ziggurat wonder charasteristics of your choice. If you are unsure how to do it study the way the original Civ3 buildings are marked.
2.Copy images to folders
Copy Zigguratlarge.pcx and Zigguratsmall.pcx found in the zip package into your Civ3\conquests\art\civilopedia\icons\buildings folder.
Copy Zigguratsplash.pcx into your Civ3\conquests\art\wonder splash\ -folder.
3.Add the Wonder Splash to PediaIcons.txt
In the zip package there's ziggurat.txt with lines:
#WON_SPLASH_xx
art\wonder splash\Zigguratsplash.pcx
Delete two x's and type BLDG_Ziggurat instead. Like this:
#WON_SPLASH_BLDG_Ziggurat
Add the lines to your Civilopedia.txt after lines battlefield medicine lines in #WONDER_SPLASH_ART begin -section. After the lines for Battlefield Medicine splash there is a long row of #'s. The Ziggurat part should be added in between.
So, the result should look like this:
#WON_SPLASH_BLDG_Secret_Police_HQ
art\wonder splash\forbidden city.pcx
#WON_SPLASH_BLDG_Ziggurat
art\wonder splash\Zigguratsplash.pcx
################################################## ##########################
Wonder splash is the image Civ3 shows when you build a wonder, therefore Zigguratsplash.pcx is the pic Civ3 shows when you build the Ziggurat wonder. Your Civ3\art\wonder splash\ -folder is the place these images are located. By adding lines to PediaIcons.txt you will tell Civ3 where it can find images for this purpose.
_Now Civ3 is able to play the wonder splash during the game._
4.Add the building icons to PediaIcons.txt
Next locate line #Start buildings in your PediaIcons.txt file.First line after it is #ICON_BLDG_Airport for Airport improvement. Vanilla Civ3 buildings are in alphapedical order, then comes PTW buildings and then Conquest buildings. The last lines for a building will be for Knight's Templar wonder.
#ICON_BLDG_Knights_Templar
SINGLE
81
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\knightstemplarlarg e.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\knightstemplarsmal l.pcx
Again look at Ziggurat.txt file in the package, and add following lines after the last Knight's Templar line and before #HomelessIcons line.
#ICON_BLDG_Ziggurat
SINGLE
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Zigguratlarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Zigguratsmall.pcx
In C3C buildings are numbered, so you must give a number for Ziggurat too. When this is your first self added building you will give it the next available number which is 83. Number 82 is used by Secret Police HQ, and not Knight's Templar which is the last in the file and uses 81. Type number 83 on a new line between the lines SINGLE and art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Zigguratlarge.pcx.
The result should look like this:
#ICON_BLDG_Knights_Templar
SINGLE
81
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\knightstemplarlarg e.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\knightstemplarsmal l.pcx
#ICON_BLDG_Ziggurat
SINGLE
83
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Zigguratlarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Zigguratsmall.pcx
#HomelessIcons
etc.
etc.
_Now you are able to see appropriate icons and images in science advisor screen and when viewing civilopedia._
5.Difference between Era specific building and Single building
In era specific building graphics may vary when changing the era. Then you must make it appear four times, once for every era. My Gallows graphics are era specific. Different image and different name for the image for every era (gallows for ancient times, guillotine for middle ages, electric chair for industrial and firing squad for modern times. Gallows improvement needs following lines:
#ICON_BLDG_Gallows
ERA
84
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Gallowslarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Guillotinelarge.pc x
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Electricchairlarge .pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Firingsquadlarge.p cx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Gallowssmall.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Guillotinesmall.pc x
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Electricchairsmall .pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Firingsquadsmall.p cx
Note that: Again you gave new number for the Gallows improvement. This time it was 84, since Ziggurat uses 83.
Let's imagine that the Brothel improvement is available from the industrial era. There's only one icon but you choose to do some art work and make it look different for modern ages - and name your civilopedia icons Bmodernlarge.pcx and Bmodernsmall.pcx. Then the lines should look like this:
#ICON_BLDG_Brothel
ERA
85
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Brothellarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Brothellarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Brothellarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Bmodernlarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Brothelsmall.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Brothelsmall.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Brothelsmall.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\buildings\Bmodernsmall.pcx
With improvements there are no need for Splashes. In my ---.txt file in the package there are always needed additions for both civilopedia.txt and pediaicons.txt.
Now you have made the all important additions to Pediaicons.txt!
6.Add the Civilopedia entry
Civilopedia entries are not necessarily needed, since Civ3 works well without them. But if you want to add them for gameplay's sake I have usually taken the trouble to write the civilopedia entry for you. Or sometimes taken the trouble to copy parts of texts found in the internet ;-) Wikipedia is a excellent source for texts.
In Civilopedia.txt file found again in your Civ3\text\ folder there are sections for City Improvements, Spaceship Parts, Small and Great Wonders. Ziggurat is a Great wonder so find great wonders section. Last of the great wonders is the Secret Police Headquarters. Entry looks like this:
#BLDG_Secret_Police_HQ
^
^
^Gives the benefits of a second $LINK<Palace=BLDG_Palace> in the city that builds it. Cumulative with $LINK<Forbidden Palace=BLDG_Forbidden_Palace>.
^{Requires:} Only civilizations under Communist government can build the Secret Police HQ.
#DESC_BLDG_Secret_Police_HQ
^
^
^Totalitarian governments virtually always rely heavily on secret police forces to enforce ideological and political reliability in the populations they govern. Secret police headquarters are often innocuous and bland, and usually contain not just offices and meeting rooms but interrogation and torture facilities, prison cells, execution chambers, and so forth. The Soviet KGB's headquarters was made in the Lubyanka, a tsarist-era office building located over an underground prison complex.
Across the street from the Lubyanka was a toy store for children, to take away from the sinister image projected by the building.
NOTE: The #BLDG_Secret_Police_HQ part is for the screen when you click Seti Program icon to view it in civilopedia. #BLDG_Secret_Police_HQ program is viewed when you click the description button in that screen. So, we will give the Ziggurat wonder similar entry to just below Secret Police HQ. In Ziggurat.txt you will find next lines:
#BLDG_Ziggurat
^
^
^Doubless the happines of a temple in your every city on the continent.
^
^
^
^
^May trigger $LINK<Golden Age=GCON_Golden_Age> for Religious civilizations.
#DESC_BLDG_Ziggurat
^
^
^
^Ziggurat is a Sumerian word given by the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians to their temples around 2200 until
500 BC. The word means "terraced pyramid," and ziggurats were precursors to the Egyptian pyramids. Found in
many ancient Mesopotamian cities, ziggurats were step-shaped, representing the ascent into the heavens where
the gods reigned. The outside was constructed of materials that were resistant to the elements, and the terraces were often landscaped with shrubs and trees.
When giving charasteristics and effects for Ziggurat in Civ3edit I gave it the douples happiness of a temple Oracle effect and religious charasteristics. If you give it different effects, like 'adds one happy face in every city on the same continent' then change the following line:
^Doubless the happines of a temple in your every city on the continent.
to this one:
^Adds one happy face in every city on the same continent.
--
If you gave it militaristic characteristics for some reason then change:
^May trigger $LINK<Golden Age=GCON_Golden_Age> for Religious civilizations.
to:
^May trigger $LINK<Golden Age=GCON_Golden_Age> for Militaristic civilizations.
If these were your choices then Ziggurat wonder entry would look like this:
#BLDG_Ziggurat
^
^Adds one happy face in every city on the same continent.
^
^
^
^May trigger $LINK<Golden Age=GCON_Golden_Age> for Militaristic civilizations.
#DESC_BLDG_Ziggurat
etc. etc.
NOTE: If you are adding an improvement or minor wonder instead of a great wonder then put it in correct place (although I've I've had no problems so far if I've had
improvements in wonder section etc.). If you are adding an improvement put it as the last improvement before spaceship components start line. In civilopedia.txt sections are divided with lines like these:
; City Improvements______________________________________ ________________________________________City Improvements
; SPACESHIP COMPONENTS________________________________________ __________________________________SPACESHIP COMPONENTS
; GREAT WONDERS __________________________________________________ __________________________________ GREAT WONDERS
; END GREAT WONDERS __________________________________________________ _______________________ END GREAT WONDERS
7.Copy and paste the buildings.pcx's
This will sound harder than it actually is.
Ok, then the all important buildings-large.pcx and buildings-small.pcx. You will need some kind of image editor for the purpose - make sure the editor you use works with pcx-files. Paint program which comes with windows will not work, at least one with windows XP I'm using doesn't. I can't exactly tell you how to do it since different programs use different ways. But copying and pasting should be available in the simplest image editor and commands are often similar. Learn from a help file or something how to copy and paste in the program if you don't already know. This is how it can be done usually:
a. In the program open my buildings-large.pcx and then Civ3's buildings-large.pcx found in Civ3\Art\City Screen\ folder. In my file there is usually one building graphics or if era specific there will be four of them in a row. In Civ3's file there's the whole building list as images ment for game's city screen queue list and build button.
b. Select my single icon.
c. Copy it by pressing ctrl-c keyboard shortcut or with copy command in edit tab or something. My icon is now in the clipboard to be used soon.
d. Select civ3's building-large.pcx, zoom in until you see few icons appearing larger. Roll down until you seen empty slot under the last Spaceship Component icon.
e. Paste my icon in the first empty space immediately under the last Spaceship Component icon. Be sure that green lines are symmetrically joined in every corner and it looks to be in its right place compared to original Civ3 icons.
f. My icon may view as selected, so unselect it (learn how to from your program).
g. Save it as building-large.pcx into Civ3\Art\City Screen\ folder.
h. Repeat the procedure with buildings-small.pcx
NOTE: If the building you are adding is era specific (like most improvements), not a single building which will look the same in every era (like most wonders) and poor me have supplied you with only one icon you have to make a horizontal row of four icons in your buildings-large and -small.pcx's.