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ETHNICAE 2011
DECEMBER 2011 : Ethnic Mix More becomes ... ETHNICAE !!!
This is a major update which is named Ethnicae 1.0 2011 "xmas special" ( to avoid the confusion with the oldy Ethnic Mix More )
Let's say right now, there will be another major update in the next weeks which will be named : Ethnicae 2012 1.1 "Apocalypse Project" because, despise the fact I worked hard to this mod, I haven't been fast enough to complete ALL units of ALL civilizations ...
As already said here and there, Ethnicae units are not only a pick of other great modders units, it's a huge selection of the best units around and a huge work of texturization and creation of new models based on many different meshes. Some works have been made in Blender but of course, more to come soon !
Civilizations which are complete ( or almost complete ) today with new skins, new heads, new textures, etc ...
Many new units ! And many many new textures !! ( around 750 units )
- Babylon
- Carthage
- Celtic
- England
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Japan
- Mali
- Mongol
- Native
- Netherlands
- Ottoman
- Persia ( more or less )
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Sumer
- Viking
- Zulu
This doesn't mean that there are no units related to the other civilizations, but they are not yet updated ( from the ancient mod ) and they will be updated in the next update ...
Brand new skins for all african units has been created and almost all textures are now 256x256 !!! ( I know some people prefer 128x128 ... But I had to make a choice. For everyone who's playing to Civ 5 and still play to Civ 4, it won't be a problem at all and since computers are more and more powerful ... )
A new complete civilization is arrived : Pacific/Polynesia/Maori civilization with a complete set of units, a leader : Tama Te Kapua, a specific music, a unique unit, a special building.
What's included too ?
Different leaders :
- Aelia Pulcheria ( Byzance )
- Cetshwayo ( Ethiopia )
- Cochise ( Native America )
- Harald ( Viking )
- Hiro Hito ( Japan )
- Knut Innriki ( Viking )
- Louis XIII ( France )
- Martim Sousa ( Portugal )
- Mustapha Kemal ( Ottoman )
- Pontiac ( Native America )
- Sejong ( Korea )
- Tama Te Kapua ( Pacific )
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( Japan )
- Zenobia ( Arabia )
- Isabella Del Castillo ( Spain )
( it is another Isabella I named a bit differently to avoid to suppress the basic Isabella from game )
And what's more ?
- Ethnicae is now modular ... ( at last )
- GeoModder's great Cultural City Style last version 0.99 is included and I added some buildings ( much more to come ! )
- NEW Terrain Graphics ! ( between Civilization and Colonization styled )
- New Buttons ...
- Some new wonders ( Tsentom ones ) such as : The Sphinx, the Cheomseongdae and the Copernicus Observatory wich both add events to the gameplay, the Great Bath, the Eden Project.
I would like to add much more but I didn't have enough time ... But asap the civilizations units are all completed, I'll begin to work on adding interesting and brand new stuff ! And it will be very soon !
GUINEA PIG PART
The mod is no more in beta testing and has already been tested on both single and multiplayer games on both Mac and PC ... And reported working fine. If any mistake is encountered, just report, I'll do my best to help. So, don't worry, everything is done to get ETHNICAE a great mod with your help !
This is a mod for BTS 3.19 ( and surely playable on BTS 3.17 too )
This mod doesn't change the basic gameplay
If this mod is not enough for you, well, rip whatever units you want ! ( as far you add a little credit for the hard work of your beloved Coffe Junkie )
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
1) Unzip the Ethnicae folder into your Mods directory ( ../Applications/"yourciv4beyondthesword_install_folder"/Mods/ )
2) Load the game and play as normal by first loading Mod option
CREDITS
Bakuel, Danrell, Charles88, Chuggi, Polycrates, AlazkanAssassin, AsioAsio, Sepamu92, Mechaerik, Ambrox, Millenia, Achilleszero, Deliverator, Sakhr, Buddy3101, Gagonite, SaibotLieh, Bernie14, tsentom1, melcher kürzer, walter hawkwood, etc ... etc ...
To everyone who is not listed : just tell me : I'll add your name !
A Special think and thank to AlanH who provided a great working Nifskope on Mac, Xyth for all his precious advices, Keinpferd who supports me in unit creation, FlyingToaster for her patience to play the beta release until every correction has been made ...
WHAT'S NEXT ?
- New sets of units and/or updated ones for : America, Arabia, Aztec, Byzance, China, Egypt, Inca, Khmer, Korea, Maya, and Holy Roman Empire
- Modern ethnic foot units for each civilization ( from musketmen to paratroopers )
- Naval units ( new boats for everyone )
- Tanks for every civilization
- New wonders
- New civilizations : Tibet and Slavic Federation ( based on Magyar/Hungary and Poland )
DOWNLOAD
Ethnicae is 180 MB compressed and 600 MB uncompressed
Here : http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=18158
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2009/2010
ETHNIC MIX MORE IN BLUE :
What is it ? It's Ethnic Mix More with ColdFever Blue Marble terrain graphics ...
The only differences between Ethnic Mix More and Ethnic Mix More in Blue are ColdFever fantastic Blue Marble grahics ... As I couldn't make the Blue Marble graphics working fine in multiplayer when simply added to CustomAssets, I put the files in my mod and this way, it worked
It's just the BlueMarble "core" files ( only BM terrain, without BM mousepointer, without BM fonts, etc ... ) from pure zip package for highres supplied by ColdFever ...
- Tested working fine in both single and multiplayer on MAC
- Tested working fine in single on PC
- Not tested in multiplayer on PC ( sorry : don't have 2 PC at home ) but, if it works on Mac multiplayer, it should work fine on PC too ...
ColdFever Blue Marble thread :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=295876
ALL credits for Blue Marble go to ColdFever !
- - - - -
ETHNIC MIX MORE 1.2 UPDATE :
Here the second update of Ethnic Mix More and I numbered it 1.2 ( Valentine Special )
What's new ? Well ... As I try to progress with Nifskope, I tried to enhance many many units ...
One point of weakness of the mod was maybe the lack of difference between the Minor Asia civilizations ( Sumer, Babylon, Persia, Arabia, Ottoman ). As a good wizard, Bakuel made some fantastic Berber units a few weeks ago and so, I used them for Arabia and began to re-create and touch some pixels on Minor Asia units until I have enough diversity between them. Then, I used Bakuel Berber meshes to make too some Ottoman units and worked a lot on Nifskope to get some new Sumer/Babylon units. Related to Persia, I used both Bakuel great persia units and some of my own to propose a complete set.
So ...
- Almost all India units are re-created, including a new settler and a new scout ( instead of the MidEastern style of BTS who's really not accurate for India ! )
- Almost all Sumer units are re-created.
- Almost all Arabia units are re-created.
- Almost all Ottoman units are re-created ( including a new explorer )
- Almost all Khmer units are re-created ( added new ones )
- Almost all Korea units are re-created ( added new ones )
- Enhanced too some Mongol and China units
- Enhanced and updated almost all Nihon units
- Created a new Africa settler and created 8 new textures for all African shields ...
- Enhanced many Knights of several civilizations, mostly the horse part with a new 256x256 texture ...
- I re-create a new carriage for War Elephants ( a 256x256 texture ) and then worked on War Elephants to get a more visual diversity.
The carriages are a bit empty to let some other creators to add whatever they want ( weapons for example, which is not my best knowledge )
- Added several cuirassiers more etnically diverse.
At last, as pointed by Mamba, I finished to get some crash after many multiplayer tests so, as GeoModder updated its great Cultural City Style to 0.95, I included it. This version ( 0.95 ) doesn't crash the game. I had no problem at all with it ...
And the Eden Project ( wonder mod ) of tsentom1 is still there !
Tested both on Mac and PC ( single and multiplayer ) and remember : this mod is for Civilization IV Beyond The Sword 3.1.9
- GeoModder's Cultural City Style version 0.95 :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=328300
- The Eden Project ( wonder mod ) from tsentom1 :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=7060423#post7060423
Total : 490 Units ... Each unit has its own dds button.
Compressed ( .rar format ) : 130 Mo
Compressed ( .zip format ) : 135 Mo
Uncompressed : 330 Mo
ETHNIC MIX MORE :
This mod is for Civilization IV Beyond The Sword 3.1.9 only and it works on BOTH MAC and PC ( single and multiplayer - I named it Ethnic Mix More as a tribute to White Rabbit EDU's Mod which inspired me
This mod is still a work in progress and I continue to go further with it, with a little bit of patience. It intends to bring to Mac players a bit of units flavor you can find in other mods only available for PC users ...
This mod is not modular. The units are not "FPK" packed for those who want to make their own changes. But not unpacked slow down a bit the Mod launch I suppose.
This mod doesn't include any .dll
The 5 languages of the xml files are written in english ( except for some french parts ) but there are : so, no missing text.
I could add more units ( for example, the same number of units for each civilization ) but my purpose is not only adding any flavoured units but only add quality units. And units creation is like coding : a work always in progress
So, added a complete set of African units ( which is missing in BTS ), some animals units, and of course, many units for almost all civilizations ...
It has been tested both in single and multiplayer games : both on Mac and PC
Units creation credits : Bakuel and Danrell ( I use many of their units ), Chuggi, Polycrates, AlazkanAssassin, AsioAsio, Sepamu92, Mechaerik, Ambrox, White Rabbit, Bernie14, Millenia, Achilleszero, Deliverator, Sakhr, Buddy3101, Gagonite, SaibotLieh, etc ...
A special thanks to Flintlock1415 who pointed me towards a great utility for Mac : SquishDDS which does a great job and spared me a lot of time !!!
To everyone who is not listed : just tell me : I'll add your name !
I did it only because I think that there are not enough Civilization mods really available on Macintosh or Macintosh compatible ...
EASY INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS :
1) Unzip the Ethnic Mix More folder into your Mods directory ( ../Applications/"yourciv4beyondthesword_install_folder"/Mods/ )
2) Load the game and play as normal by first loading Mod option
VERSION HISTORY :
- Version 1.2 (14/02/10) --> This is the current and 2nd version. Tested working on Beyond The Sword 3.19 multilingual ( both Mc and PC )
- Version 1.1 (01/01/10) --> This is the current and 2nd version. Tested working on Beyond The Sword 3.19 multilingual ( both Mc and PC )
- Version 1.0 (01/10/09) --> This was the 1st version. Tested working on Beyond The Sword 3.19 multilingual ( both Mc and PC )
Work still in progress - So, please, enjoy !
- - - - -
There are not modern units pictures because they are already posted in another thread here :
Modern Units Thread
This is more or less the screen used for the mod :
DECEMBER 2011 : Ethnic Mix More becomes ... ETHNICAE !!!
This is a major update which is named Ethnicae 1.0 2011 "xmas special" ( to avoid the confusion with the oldy Ethnic Mix More )
Let's say right now, there will be another major update in the next weeks which will be named : Ethnicae 2012 1.1 "Apocalypse Project" because, despise the fact I worked hard to this mod, I haven't been fast enough to complete ALL units of ALL civilizations ...
As already said here and there, Ethnicae units are not only a pick of other great modders units, it's a huge selection of the best units around and a huge work of texturization and creation of new models based on many different meshes. Some works have been made in Blender but of course, more to come soon !
Civilizations which are complete ( or almost complete ) today with new skins, new heads, new textures, etc ...
Many new units ! And many many new textures !! ( around 750 units )
- Babylon
- Carthage
- Celtic
- England
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- India
- Japan
- Mali
- Mongol
- Native
- Netherlands
- Ottoman
- Persia ( more or less )
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Sumer
- Viking
- Zulu
This doesn't mean that there are no units related to the other civilizations, but they are not yet updated ( from the ancient mod ) and they will be updated in the next update ...
Brand new skins for all african units has been created and almost all textures are now 256x256 !!! ( I know some people prefer 128x128 ... But I had to make a choice. For everyone who's playing to Civ 5 and still play to Civ 4, it won't be a problem at all and since computers are more and more powerful ... )
A new complete civilization is arrived : Pacific/Polynesia/Maori civilization with a complete set of units, a leader : Tama Te Kapua, a specific music, a unique unit, a special building.
What's included too ?
Different leaders :
- Aelia Pulcheria ( Byzance )
- Cetshwayo ( Ethiopia )
- Cochise ( Native America )
- Harald ( Viking )
- Hiro Hito ( Japan )
- Knut Innriki ( Viking )
- Louis XIII ( France )
- Martim Sousa ( Portugal )
- Mustapha Kemal ( Ottoman )
- Pontiac ( Native America )
- Sejong ( Korea )
- Tama Te Kapua ( Pacific )
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( Japan )
- Zenobia ( Arabia )
- Isabella Del Castillo ( Spain )
( it is another Isabella I named a bit differently to avoid to suppress the basic Isabella from game )
And what's more ?
- Ethnicae is now modular ... ( at last )
- GeoModder's great Cultural City Style last version 0.99 is included and I added some buildings ( much more to come ! )
- NEW Terrain Graphics ! ( between Civilization and Colonization styled )
- New Buttons ...
- Some new wonders ( Tsentom ones ) such as : The Sphinx, the Cheomseongdae and the Copernicus Observatory wich both add events to the gameplay, the Great Bath, the Eden Project.
I would like to add much more but I didn't have enough time ... But asap the civilizations units are all completed, I'll begin to work on adding interesting and brand new stuff ! And it will be very soon !
GUINEA PIG PART
The mod is no more in beta testing and has already been tested on both single and multiplayer games on both Mac and PC ... And reported working fine. If any mistake is encountered, just report, I'll do my best to help. So, don't worry, everything is done to get ETHNICAE a great mod with your help !
This is a mod for BTS 3.19 ( and surely playable on BTS 3.17 too )
This mod doesn't change the basic gameplay
If this mod is not enough for you, well, rip whatever units you want ! ( as far you add a little credit for the hard work of your beloved Coffe Junkie )
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
1) Unzip the Ethnicae folder into your Mods directory ( ../Applications/"yourciv4beyondthesword_install_folder"/Mods/ )
2) Load the game and play as normal by first loading Mod option
CREDITS
Bakuel, Danrell, Charles88, Chuggi, Polycrates, AlazkanAssassin, AsioAsio, Sepamu92, Mechaerik, Ambrox, Millenia, Achilleszero, Deliverator, Sakhr, Buddy3101, Gagonite, SaibotLieh, Bernie14, tsentom1, melcher kürzer, walter hawkwood, etc ... etc ...
To everyone who is not listed : just tell me : I'll add your name !
A Special think and thank to AlanH who provided a great working Nifskope on Mac, Xyth for all his precious advices, Keinpferd who supports me in unit creation, FlyingToaster for her patience to play the beta release until every correction has been made ...
WHAT'S NEXT ?
- New sets of units and/or updated ones for : America, Arabia, Aztec, Byzance, China, Egypt, Inca, Khmer, Korea, Maya, and Holy Roman Empire
- Modern ethnic foot units for each civilization ( from musketmen to paratroopers )
- Naval units ( new boats for everyone )
- Tanks for every civilization
- New wonders
- New civilizations : Tibet and Slavic Federation ( based on Magyar/Hungary and Poland )
DOWNLOAD
Ethnicae is 180 MB compressed and 600 MB uncompressed
Here : http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=18158
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2009/2010
ETHNIC MIX MORE IN BLUE :
What is it ? It's Ethnic Mix More with ColdFever Blue Marble terrain graphics ...
The only differences between Ethnic Mix More and Ethnic Mix More in Blue are ColdFever fantastic Blue Marble grahics ... As I couldn't make the Blue Marble graphics working fine in multiplayer when simply added to CustomAssets, I put the files in my mod and this way, it worked
It's just the BlueMarble "core" files ( only BM terrain, without BM mousepointer, without BM fonts, etc ... ) from pure zip package for highres supplied by ColdFever ...
- Tested working fine in both single and multiplayer on MAC
- Tested working fine in single on PC
- Not tested in multiplayer on PC ( sorry : don't have 2 PC at home ) but, if it works on Mac multiplayer, it should work fine on PC too ...
ColdFever Blue Marble thread :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=295876
ALL credits for Blue Marble go to ColdFever !
- - - - -
ETHNIC MIX MORE 1.2 UPDATE :
Here the second update of Ethnic Mix More and I numbered it 1.2 ( Valentine Special )
What's new ? Well ... As I try to progress with Nifskope, I tried to enhance many many units ...
One point of weakness of the mod was maybe the lack of difference between the Minor Asia civilizations ( Sumer, Babylon, Persia, Arabia, Ottoman ). As a good wizard, Bakuel made some fantastic Berber units a few weeks ago and so, I used them for Arabia and began to re-create and touch some pixels on Minor Asia units until I have enough diversity between them. Then, I used Bakuel Berber meshes to make too some Ottoman units and worked a lot on Nifskope to get some new Sumer/Babylon units. Related to Persia, I used both Bakuel great persia units and some of my own to propose a complete set.
So ...
- Almost all India units are re-created, including a new settler and a new scout ( instead of the MidEastern style of BTS who's really not accurate for India ! )
- Almost all Sumer units are re-created.
- Almost all Arabia units are re-created.
- Almost all Ottoman units are re-created ( including a new explorer )
- Almost all Khmer units are re-created ( added new ones )
- Almost all Korea units are re-created ( added new ones )
- Enhanced too some Mongol and China units
- Enhanced and updated almost all Nihon units
- Created a new Africa settler and created 8 new textures for all African shields ...
- Enhanced many Knights of several civilizations, mostly the horse part with a new 256x256 texture ...
- I re-create a new carriage for War Elephants ( a 256x256 texture ) and then worked on War Elephants to get a more visual diversity.
The carriages are a bit empty to let some other creators to add whatever they want ( weapons for example, which is not my best knowledge )
- Added several cuirassiers more etnically diverse.
At last, as pointed by Mamba, I finished to get some crash after many multiplayer tests so, as GeoModder updated its great Cultural City Style to 0.95, I included it. This version ( 0.95 ) doesn't crash the game. I had no problem at all with it ...
And the Eden Project ( wonder mod ) of tsentom1 is still there !
Tested both on Mac and PC ( single and multiplayer ) and remember : this mod is for Civilization IV Beyond The Sword 3.1.9
- GeoModder's Cultural City Style version 0.95 :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=328300
- The Eden Project ( wonder mod ) from tsentom1 :
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=7060423#post7060423
Total : 490 Units ... Each unit has its own dds button.
Compressed ( .rar format ) : 130 Mo
Compressed ( .zip format ) : 135 Mo
Uncompressed : 330 Mo
ETHNIC MIX MORE :
This mod is for Civilization IV Beyond The Sword 3.1.9 only and it works on BOTH MAC and PC ( single and multiplayer - I named it Ethnic Mix More as a tribute to White Rabbit EDU's Mod which inspired me
This mod is still a work in progress and I continue to go further with it, with a little bit of patience. It intends to bring to Mac players a bit of units flavor you can find in other mods only available for PC users ...
This mod is not modular. The units are not "FPK" packed for those who want to make their own changes. But not unpacked slow down a bit the Mod launch I suppose.
This mod doesn't include any .dll
The 5 languages of the xml files are written in english ( except for some french parts ) but there are : so, no missing text.
I could add more units ( for example, the same number of units for each civilization ) but my purpose is not only adding any flavoured units but only add quality units. And units creation is like coding : a work always in progress
So, added a complete set of African units ( which is missing in BTS ), some animals units, and of course, many units for almost all civilizations ...
It has been tested both in single and multiplayer games : both on Mac and PC
Units creation credits : Bakuel and Danrell ( I use many of their units ), Chuggi, Polycrates, AlazkanAssassin, AsioAsio, Sepamu92, Mechaerik, Ambrox, White Rabbit, Bernie14, Millenia, Achilleszero, Deliverator, Sakhr, Buddy3101, Gagonite, SaibotLieh, etc ...
A special thanks to Flintlock1415 who pointed me towards a great utility for Mac : SquishDDS which does a great job and spared me a lot of time !!!
To everyone who is not listed : just tell me : I'll add your name !
I did it only because I think that there are not enough Civilization mods really available on Macintosh or Macintosh compatible ...
EASY INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS :
1) Unzip the Ethnic Mix More folder into your Mods directory ( ../Applications/"yourciv4beyondthesword_install_folder"/Mods/ )
2) Load the game and play as normal by first loading Mod option
VERSION HISTORY :
- Version 1.2 (14/02/10) --> This is the current and 2nd version. Tested working on Beyond The Sword 3.19 multilingual ( both Mc and PC )
- Version 1.1 (01/01/10) --> This is the current and 2nd version. Tested working on Beyond The Sword 3.19 multilingual ( both Mc and PC )
- Version 1.0 (01/10/09) --> This was the 1st version. Tested working on Beyond The Sword 3.19 multilingual ( both Mc and PC )
Work still in progress - So, please, enjoy !
- - - - -
There are not modern units pictures because they are already posted in another thread here :
Modern Units Thread
This is more or less the screen used for the mod :