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keldath

keldath

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Hello all of civ4 bts lovers,

its me again, keldath,

well, after years of silence,

i have taken on a new mod project for my self, so i give you:

Battle for barsoom - john carter.



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i have began working on the mod, on first stage, im working on the xmls total conversion, i will add all the art whn i finish first making al of the xml.

the mod will be a civ adaptation of the barsoom stories , ill try to be as much faithful to the books as i can be.

the mod is based on the great super mod of kmod.

so here is what ive done so far:

civilizations:
Spoiler :
helium - led by john carter and deja thoris
homrands - led by vor daj
lotharians - led by tan hadron
okrians - need a leader..
ptarth - led by thuvia
tharks - tars tarkas
therns - matai shang
zodenga = sub tan
gathol - led by llana


unit classes :
Spoiler :

light vehicles
heavy vehicles
war airships
escort airships
strike airships
iradiators (siege)

medium vehcles?

(no soldiers unit class (only as uu's).


resources:
Spoiler :
glorstra - plant
grasses - forest feature
nabtalia - plant
nuts - food plant
orluk - elephant like animal
palthon - ore
pimalia - plant
skeel - ore
somp - fruit
soraohus - tree
umpalla - plant
oosa - fruit
ulsio - rodent anmal
zitidar - animal
ersite - ore
red ersite - ore
darseen - lizardish animal
calot tree - tree
berries
forandus - metal
pink worm - animal
sorak - cat animal like
thoat - horse like animal
radium - metal


improvement:
Spoiler :
outflow canals - farm like
processor
woodpen
powermodule
mammel compound
reptile compound
excumarator
pllant compund
meltor
livepen
fish nets
encampment -> quarters -> towers -> domes -> district (cottagle- village type)
outpost
grasses preserve



i have a tech tree that i pulled from my moon mod - i need to change some names there for barsoomian like.
also got civics.

thats all what i have done so far on the xml,

no art is yet present.

i have to do the units ( i have made some already), buildings, specialists and so on.



i would welcome anything the community can offer, help, ideas, arts and a map script (for now i plat on making something like lakes map)


goodluck,

this will take some time to be completed, but everyday i put in some more.

:)
 
update:

new unit clasess:
light vehicles - city deff mainly and attackers
heavy vehicles - attackers mainly and some deffs
escort airships - some are helicopter like some are air missions
war airships - some are helicopter like some are air missions
pounders - siege and interceptors
assault - various units mostly for attack.

religions:
issus
tur
thuria
komal
jetan
tree of life
luud

and i got the tech tree done, new tech names over my sotm2 mod structure.

going to set up the units next.
 
I think it might be a good idea to write a summary of what you are planing and background on what Barsoom is. Perhaps it is only me that have no idea.
 
HI,

your right friend, i forgot to put on the headline of the post that its - battle for barsoom - john carter...

this mod will be based of the stories of john carter + the disney 2012 movie.

barsoom is the name of mars (its a fictional stroy that tells about a rich life going on on mars).

:)
 
I'm interested too! Really glad to hear someone is working on a new Civ4 total conversion mod :goodjob::cool:

I didn't know what Barsoom was before but it sounds very interesting. I liked your SoTM mod, it was a real inspiration for making the Colonization 2071 mod :scan:

I do have an extensive set of scifi building and resource nifs I'd been collecting for the 2071 mod; if you're looking for more graphics feel free to post anything you're looking for and I can try to upload a set of nifs you might use.
 
ha!~ hello!

really? my sotm was an inspiration?? thank you so much!

i wanted so bad to renew my sotm mod - but i had some ctd in it, and yesteray i doscovered what it was ! by working on my new mod ( i barrrowed some stuff from there, and also got the ctd, and found the cause ( forgot to put anumber between yield><iyield...)

so thank you very much for the offer - i too in the proccess of colletion of art, so if u got them, i need them :)

i decided to work first on all of the xml and let the art stage be the finla, i still have some more xml work so art is coming soon.

thank you for the nice words.
 
Sure you're welcome keldath! It seems true total conversion modding in Civ5 is just not feasible :sad:, so we always need more good total conversion modders working with Civ4 and Civ4Col! :goodjob:

Ok, its too big to upload to civfanatics, but I've uploaded a big zip of good scifi nif art files below:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/col2071/files/nifs/

If it won't let you download, register a free account on sourceforge.com and PM me with your username and I will grant you access.

It's mainly a set of nifs I've collected from here and other mods, some with modifications I've made using nifskope or minor dds reskins. :assimilate:

If you're looking for some nice terrain textures, check out Master of Mana which has some of the best terrains around. (And also Dune Wars, but you already knew that! ;))

If you're looking for unit nifs for Barsoom animals, download Caveman 2 Cosmos mod as it has a big set of animal nifs.
 
Glad to hear the work is progressing! As a reward for your hard work I made you a mainmenu screen to help out: :king:

It's the orbiting planets screen from Dune Wars; replaced with Mars, Phobos and Deimos behind a slideshow of scenes from the movie. For the music I chose "El Hai" by Asura. I haven't loaded it in game yet but let me know how you like it! :scan::cool:
 
OH HO HO,

wow, u got me so happy, i cant thank you enough for this my good man.

its great, just great.

(although - i got a pink background for the slides and the stars, probably i forgot a reference somewhere :) ill figure it out tomorrow).

this inspires me even more to work on it !!!



i did some nice progress over this weekend , im glad :)


thank you again, your very kind.
i guess i gotta ask, do you wanna come aboard and join? u probably have your 2071 mod to take care of, but i wont hurt to offer you :)


just a fun fact - "el hai" means in Hebrew(my native lang..) = "living god".


thanks !!!!!!!!!!
 
Great, that looks even better! :thumbsup: I was going to upload the FF star background but looks like u already found it. Here are dds slides with alpha channel fade effect along the edges which could look somewhat nicer. I couldn't find out how to add more slides than were in the original nif, but if you know how to do that there are some more images that could be added.

thank you again, your very kind.
i guess i gotta ask, do you wanna come aboard and join? u probably have your 2071 mod to take care of, but i wont hurt to offer you :)
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Sure I would be glad to help out a little, but I won't have lots of time though in the coming months due to work & RL. Maybe I could do some English text editing plus collect some nice mp3s for a soundtrack. Redeveloping the 2071 mod is stalled at the moment since I don't know c++ and would need to be able to merge DLL from the Tech modcomp with Religion & Revolution before making it; I still hope to make a much improved version 2.0 someday though :scan:

just a fun fact - "el hai" means in Hebrew(my native lang..) = "living god".
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Interesting I didn't know that! Is that song sung in Hebrew or another language, I couldn't identify what language that is.
 
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