African Egyptians 2

[Kahotep]

Kahotep submitted a new resource:

African Egyptians - Switches the Egyptian civilization's ethnicity to African.

This simple mod switches the ancient Egyptian civilization's ethnicity from Mediterranean to African, since it is supposed to represent the indigenous pre-Islamic culture. So far I have been able to change the appearance of unit icons in the interface so they look darker-skinned, but I am not sure if the graphics of the actual units themselves have been affected as well.

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[Kahotep]

Kahotep updated African Egyptians with a new update entry:

Update #1: Managed to change unit graphics outside interface

So I figured out how to change the Egyptian civilization's "unit culture" by editing the Cultures.artdef file. Now they have more African-looking unit graphics (from the so-called "SouthAfrican" unit culture as defined in the file) to go with the interface icon changes!

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[Kahotep]

Kahotep updated African Egyptians with a new update entry:

Architecture changes and bug fix

Fixed a bug in which the mod inadvertently "whitewashed" the Kongo civilization's units to look more European (while reversing the process for the Egyptians, ironically enough). Also, changes to the appearance of Egyptian cities after you advance to the Middle Ages have been implemented at last!

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[Kahotep]

Kahotep updated African Egyptians with a new update entry:

Fixed a compatibility issue with the Poland DLC

After testing my mod with the Poland DLC enabled, I noticed that the architecture sets of all civilizations other than Egypt got screwed up. I observed that the problem was not in my original mod but in the files for the Poland DLC (specifically its Culture.artdef file). Therefore, I've included an unofficial patch for the offending DLC file that should make it compatible with my own mod.

What you must do is:

1) Move the Poland_DLC_Cultures.artdef file from this mod's Artdefs...

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[Paulus1980]

Does the mod also change back to vanilla in the Medieval period when Egypt does become Islamic? (because for some reason people get a lighter skin tone when they convert to Islam)

 

[Libermmucist]

What about a scalie civ?

 

[Kahotep]

Kahotep updated African Egyptians with a new update entry:

New, remade version for Gathering Storm DLC

I had to remake my mod from scratch after the recent update associated with the release of the Gathering Storm DLC. You can download it from the Steam Workshop here.

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[Patine]

Kahotep updated African Egyptians with a new update entry:

New, remade version for Gathering Storm DLC



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Ancient Egypt was actually a crossroads - culturally, ethnically, linguistically, and racially, of strong African, Middle-Eastern, and Hellenistic/Mediterranean elements. I don't think, personally, making them singular in appearance to just one or another does the civilization true justice, in a genuine way.

 

[Aparioss Frank]

I thought most Northern African people are not black? In fact they are quite light skinned.

 

[Patine]

I thought most Northern African people are not black? In fact they are quite light skinned.

Most are. ANCIENT Egypt was crossing road, and there Nubians and Kuhorsehockyes, but also Hellenistic Greeks, but mostly the tan-skinned, straight-black-haired people typical of the Modern North Africa and Middle East. However, though I don't want to assume for sure, or make allegations, there is a certain aspect of historical revisionism in Pan-African and Black Power called the "Black Egypt" thing, which is, if I didn't know any better, seemingly what this looks like here. But, I don't want to make an outright assumption on motive, especially outside the OT sub-forums.