Look and Feel Mod

Eusebius

Eusebius

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Some people have been expressing a desire to have a mod with user interface enhancements and good unit graphics (including ethnic diversity) that does not contain any gameplay or SDK changes. I had already been working with the code from Ket's Unaltered Gameplay and loved the way he handled units. Then I discovered Ruff's Cobbled SG Modpack and just knew it was a match made in heaven. I integrated the Great Person Mod from Ket's code as well.

No original content from me on this one. I'm entirely endebuted to Ket, Ruff and all the people who developed the mods they used. Their sites give full references and credit to individual mod makers; I'm not going to try to reproduce it here.

I think this will work splendidly with BetterAI!

Eusebius

Download LookAndFeel Mod here.
 
Yep, this is exactly what I had been looking for. I butchered Ket's mod myself and took bits and pieces for my own custom mod, but it was definately a hack-job. I'm sure your is much more 'professional'.

I have encountered one problem so far with your mod. 'Alt-J' brings up the extra Options screen, but I cant find a way to close that screen. The 'Exit' button doesn't appear to work for me and no other key combo that I have found has worked either. I have to Cntl-Alt-Del out and close the application. Is this something I just doing incorrectly?

Thanks for your efforts!
 
Uncle_Joe said:
Yep, this is exactly what I had been looking for. I butchered Ket's mod myself and took bits and pieces for my own custom mod, but it was definately a hack-job. I'm sure your is much more 'professional'.

I have encountered one problem so far with your mod. 'Alt-J' brings up the extra Options screen, but I cant find a way to close that screen. The 'Exit' button doesn't appear to work for me and no other key combo that I have found has worked either. I have to Cntl-Alt-Del out and close the application. Is this something I just doing incorrectly?

Thanks for your efforts!
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I'll look into it; I didn't experiment with the options screen extensively. I have found that when a python error is occuring, the escape key will usually get you out of a broken screen.

E.
 
I'll look into it; I didn't experiment with the options screen extensively. I have found that when a python error is occuring, the escape key will usually get you out of a broken screen.
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Escape key was a no-go as well.

I tried using the .ini to flag the options that I wanted (they are all binary choices). But that didnt seem to work either. For example, I wanted to have 'Raw Commerce' displayed so I made that a '1' in the .ini. I launch the game, but Raw Commerce is not displayed. When I hit Alt-J to go to the options, I can see that that option is not checked (despite have been flagged as 'on' in the .ini). From there I can turn the options on, but I cant exit that screen.

Thanks for looking into it.
 
Morfydd said:
Better AI newest and main dl page is here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/civ4betterai/
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Thanks Morfydd.....
Thanks to you as well Lars Domus.....

Link to LookandFeel Mod is not working 11:40am EST from Florida...??

SSI

Lars_Domus said:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=191685
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Thanks to you as well Lars Domus.....
SSI

Eusebius said:
I think this will work splendidly with BetterAI!

Eusebius

Download LookAndFeel Mod here.
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Link to LookAndFeel Mod is not working, 11:43 am EST....? Is link down?
Thanks in advance.
SSI
 
Uncle_Joe said:
Escape key was a no-go as well.

I tried using the .ini to flag the options that I wanted (they are all binary choices). But that didnt seem to work either. For example, I wanted to have 'Raw Commerce' displayed so I made that a '1' in the .ini. I launch the game, but Raw Commerce is not displayed. When I hit Alt-J to go to the options, I can see that that option is not checked (despite have been flagged as 'on' in the .ini). From there I can turn the options on, but I cant exit that screen.

Thanks for looking into it.
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Bad news: This doesn't happen on my machine. Could you check the PythonErr2.log and PythonDbg.log files and post any python exceptions so I can see what is going on?

Thanks,
Eusebius
 
Here is a zip of all of the logs in the directory. Hope it helps. Its possible I screwed the pooch on something, but I dont see what.
 
Uncle_Joe said:
Here is a zip of all of the logs in the directory. Hope it helps. Its possible I screwed the pooch on something, but I dont see what.
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Nothing unusual in those files. That could be because I wasn't specific in my request. What I meant was that you fire up the mod, cause the error, kill the CIV app and then post the logs immediately (they are overwritten each time.)

If that is what you did, then they aren't telling us anything useful. If not, then please give that a try.

Also, check your ini file and make sure you have these settings...

; Set to 1 for no python exception popups
HidePythonExceptions = 0

; Enable the logging system
LoggingEnabled = 1

Eusebius

PS. Are other users able to access the options screen okay?
 
Hi, I have a simillar problem, changes to the INI file are not being recognised. However it is happening with every MOD.

The fact that CIV IV also does not find any MODs loaded into the ...\Program Files\...\MODS directory has lead me to believe that my initial installation of CIV may be at fault.

I changed the directory it said to install CIV from the default. I have not yet had chance to uninstall and start from scratch to see if this is so.
 
I like this mod...very cool. The modern flags are excellent. When you update this could you include the modern flags of France & the union jack for England. Yes folks, I know the English flag & British flag are representative of different things. :goodjob:
 
I tried installing the mod to My Game\Warlords\MODS\LookAndFeel and got the errors in the first 2 screenshots, the first upon a game start and the second when trying to exit out of the Alt-J options screen. You might want to incorporate Dr Elmer Jiggle's INI parser, which I have updated to Warlords compatibility in my jrayUGH modpack-- see my sig, so that this mod will work if someone puts it under My Games...\MODS or My Games...\CustomAssets.

Then I tried installing to Program Files...\Warlords\MODS\LookAndFeel and got the error in the 3rd screenshot upon each game start. It's the same error I get with Ruff's Cobbled SG Modpack (need to press OK exactly 13 times to get dialog to go away). I haven't heard anything back from Ruff on that issue.

FYI, I can exit out of the options screen just fine when it's installed to Program Files.
 

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You might also want to look into incorporating Gaurav's update to the Great Person Mod. He did some very nice work there, removing the necessity for the .bat file and delaying the Great Person screen so that it doesn't interfere with the action (among many other tweaks). He has some of the pieces of the INI Parser too, although you will still need to grab the CvConfigParser.py file from Dr Elmer Jiggle's Python Utility Library or jrayUGH.
 
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