Why same symbols for commerce and gold?

MerakSpielman · Nov 24, 2005

I got it working!

Now, the only weird thing is that for some reason you actually have to MOVE the original Gamefont files out of the "Program Files\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\CustomAssets\res\fonts" directory. Just renaming them doesn't seem to work (oddly). Also, unlike all other mod files, the game won't read the ones in CustomAssets by default. Weird.

Anyway, just unzip this into your CustomAssets directory!

Let me know if it doesn't work...

Stuporstar · Nov 24, 2005

Simetrical said:
Er, isn't this just in the alpha channel?

YES!!! Thankyou thankyou thankyou. I should have guessed. My new gold icon works perfectly now. :goodjob:

Here it is in case anyone wants to use it.

MerakSpielman · Nov 24, 2005

I'd just like to mention to people following this thread that these two mods don't work together - since they both modify the same file.

Shouldn't be too difficult to combine them, but I thought you all deserved a heads up before trying to install them both and wondering why things aren't working.

edit: I just combined them, since I could see it would only take a couple minutes. Here's the zip file for the new gamefonts files from both of our mods:

Stuporstar · Nov 25, 2005

I just edited my own zip file above as well. :lol:

I've added the individual icon files that can easily be inserted into a previously existing mod. You MUST remember to copy the apha channel as well though.

n003lb · Nov 25, 2005

I just installed these (from MerakSpielman's zip above) and it appears to work, except the icons on the land (when I turn on the yield view) still show as coins. In the civilopedia, commerce shows as arrows, and in the city screen, gold shows as the stack of coins, but the map still shows the old emblem. Any ideas? Could it be because I am doing this with an already saved game that I have going? I would not think that would matter here.

Jeff1787 · Nov 25, 2005

n003lb said:
I just installed these (from MerakSpielman's zip above) and it appears to work, except the icons on the land (when I turn on the yield view) still show as coins. In the civilopedia, commerce shows as arrows, and in the city screen, gold shows as the stack of coins, but the map still shows the old emblem. Any ideas? Could it be because I am doing this with an already saved game that I have going? I would not think that would matter here.

I installed the same file and it seems to work, even on the map view with the yield view enabled.

MerakSpielman · Nov 25, 2005

n003lb said:
I just installed these (from MerakSpielman's zip above) and it appears to work, except the icons on the land (when I turn on the yield view) still show as coins. In the civilopedia, commerce shows as arrows, and in the city screen, gold shows as the stack of coins, but the map still shows the old emblem. Any ideas? Could it be because I am doing this with an already saved game that I have going? I would not think that would matter here.

If you have the 1.09 patch, try holding down shift when you start the game to clear out your cache.

n003lb · Nov 25, 2005

MerakSpielman said:
If you have the 1.09 patch, try holding down shift when you start the game to clear out your cache.

I'll bet that's it. I'll try it tonight when I get home. Thanks

Stuporstar · Nov 26, 2005

Note: to anyone who downloaded my old custom gold file, there was some problem with it that caused other icons on the world map not to work. I've now fixed that and the new file is uploaded to the same location.

DrJambo · Nov 28, 2005

So, say I was wanting to use the new gold icon of Stuporstar. Can you give me a walk through of what to do precisely and what copying an "alpha channel" means?

Cheers

MerakSpielman · Nov 28, 2005

=DOCTOR= said:
So, say I was wanting to use the new gold icon of Stuporstar. Can you give me a walk through of what to do precisely and what copying an "alpha channel" means?

Cheers

If all you're doing is installing his mod so you can see the new graphics, you don't need to worry about the alpha channel. Just install the files, and all the piddly graphics stuff has been done for you.

But if you're going to be creating new graphics yourself, you should know some more about it.

But basically the alpha channel is an additional layer of information within the graphics file. It allows a program reading the file to know what part of the image to display on the screen and what part to leave transparent. Without the alpha channel layer, you'd have ugle white or black squares around your icons every time they were displayed on the screen.

I can only speak for Photoshop (not GIMP), but to look at the alpha channel you click the Channels tab, then select the Alpha Channel layer. White indicates an area of the image that will be displayed, shades of gray allow a bit of transparency, so the icon fuzzes out nicely at the very edge, and black indicates transparency, or areas that won't be displayed by the game.

DSChapin · Nov 30, 2005

IMHO, this should really go in "completed modpacks".

MerakSpielman · Nov 30, 2005

DSChapin said:
IMHO, this should really go in "completed modpacks".

I created a thread in Graphics Mods for the new commerce icon. It's progressed through several iterations by now.

DSChapin · Nov 30, 2005

Ah, cool. Thanks for the work put in on this. It's a great idea.

Vas · Apr 19, 2010

If I install this and play multiplayer will everyone else need it as well or is it just a graphics change on my computer.

Thanks
Gary

WilliamOfOrange · Apr 22, 2010

Shouldn't. It's just what your computer shows, so everyone else will see it as the old one. Welcome to Civ Fanatics!

Yxklyx · Apr 22, 2010

Wait, commerce doesn't look anything like gold. Are we talking about Vanilla here? Commerce _does_ look a bit like Happiness on my monitor though...

deanej · Apr 23, 2010

I wonder if one of the icons was changed in an early patch. If noone has noticed already, this thread is very old.

Sciguy001 · Apr 23, 2010

Yes, this thread is about Vanilla Civ, as this thread is from 2005. I think the gold/commerce thing was changed in warlords.

Vas · Apr 28, 2010

I don't have warlords, I play vanilla with whip cream (sevomod), and they are the same.

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