(7a) Promotion Icons for VP

[Asterix Rage]

Here is where you can tell things about (7a)
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Current version: 4

Spoiler What does (7a) do? :

Bonus​

Defence​

Barbarians​

Territory​

Pillage​

Mystic Blade​

Eight Virtues of Bushido​

...About 250 new icons
See all of them in Civilopedia​

 

[Asterix Rage]

(7a) Promotion Icons for VP comes with more promo icons you can use in your own Modmods.

64 Extra Icons :
\MODS\(7a) Promotion Icons for VP\Extra Promo Icons.png


It can be risky to make changes in mods to get new promo icons.
To make things safe and easy, the mini mod attached bellow "Zz_Extra_Promo_Icons" allows to assign any icons from the IconAtlas named "ExtraPromo_Atlas" to any PROMOTION_

Follow the instructions in Extra_update.sql (text file) :

-- Replace dots '.......' below with promotion names to assign.
-- Delete '/*' and '*/' front and back.

e.g.
"PROMOTION_UNIT_JAPAN_YAMATO" > icon #59

/*
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET IconAtlas = 'extraPromo_Atlas' WHERE Type = '.......'; --     => 58
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET PortraitIndex = '58' WHERE Type = '.......';
*/


UPDATE UnitPromotions SET IconAtlas = 'extraPromo_Atlas' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_UNIT_JAPAN_YAMATO'; --     => 59
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET PortraitIndex = '59' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_UNIT_JAPAN_YAMATO';


/*
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET IconAtlas = 'extraPromo_Atlas' WHERE Type = '.......'; --     => 60
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET PortraitIndex = '60' WHERE Type = '.......';
*/

Tutorial: How to replace Promotion Icons

 

[Asterix Rage]

(7a) is in charge of all the Promotion Icons in Vox Populi base game only.

To have new Promo Icons for Enlightenment Era for Vox Populi, copy this minimod below* in your mod folder

Enlightenment Era for Vox Populi :

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EDIT:
* : Minimod link deleted
Promo Icons are now integrated in Enlightenment Era for Vox Populi (v 3)

 

[Enrico Swagolo]

Just came to say it's great to see this being included in base VP, that's awesome.

 

[Asterix Rage]

And please welcome (7b) UI - Promotion Tree for VP ( Thx civplayer33 )

 

[Gazebo]

Seriously, though, it's super duper awesome and humbling that VP has attracted such top modmod talent. What a world we live in! I hope that we can continue folding in features like this.
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[Kars]

The promotion icons update paired with the latest UI improvements are very pleasing for the eye. A work of art, thank you!

 

[Kim Dong Un]

Congrats @Asterix Rage! I've been enjoying this as a modmod for quite some time, but with the new UI update, is the mod "Flag Promotions (for VP/EUI)" redundant? What about "Promotion Overhaul" and "Improved City View (for VP/EUI)". Thanks G'Zebo for including this.

 

[civplayer33]

Congrats @Asterix Rage! I've been enjoying this as a modmod for quite some time, but with the new UI update, is the mod "Flag Promotions (for VP/EUI)" redundant? What about "Promotion Overhaul" and "Improved City View (for VP/EUI)". Thanks G'Zebo for including this.

Only the mods VPPI (Vox Populi Promotion Icons) and Promotion Tree are made redundant if you choose to install 7a and 7b with the newest version, so you should delete them; the others you mentioned are separate mods that are not included; you should be able to keep using those normally without issue.

 

[Asterix Rage]

"(7a) Promotion Icons for VP" replaces "VP Promo Icons" (VPPI) and is included in VP installer.
Make sure to delete all versions of VPPI from your mod folder.

"(7b) UI - Promotion Tree for VP" replace all previous version of "Promotion Tree" and is included in VP installer.
Make sure to delete all old versions of Promotion Tree from your mod folder.

"Flag Promotions", "Promotion Overhaul" and "Improved City View" are modmods you can copy in \MODS
They are great and furiously compatible.

 

[Kim Dong Un]

Thank you both for the clarification.

 

[Asterix Rage]

. Unique City-States V4 .

 

[dpshw]

mad props for this, i love it! <3

 

[Asterix Rage]

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TUTORIAL - How to replace Promotion Icons
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Here is what you can do with 64 Extra Promo Icons included in (7a) Promotion Icons for VP.
Mod used: LastSword's Khmer for Vox Populi by hokath

There are 2 promotions in LastSword's Khmer: Bokator and Rice Farmers.
Look for the "xml/sql name" of these promotions in LastSword's Khmer folder.

TIP : Find "Bokator" or "PROMOTION_" text strings go strait on it ​

In: \MODS\LastSword's Khmer for Vox Populi\KhmerEmpire\Game Text Mod.xml

'PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR' is for Bokator
'PROMOTION_KHMER_WORKERDUMMY' is for Rice Farmers

Let's pick 2 icons: ExtraPromo_Atlas
And let's say Icons #3 and #59 look good.

Open: \MODS\Zz_Extra_Promo_Icons\Extra_update.sql (with Notepad2 or Notepad++)
Make the change in: \MODS\Zz_Extra_Promo_Icons\Extra_update.sql
(Line25 is to set Icon#2)

UPDATE UnitPromotions SET IconAtlas = 'extraPromo_Atlas' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_KHMER_WORKERDUMMY'; --     => 02
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET PortraitIndex = '2' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_KHMER_WORKERDUMMY';

UPDATE UnitPromotions SET IconAtlas = 'extraPromo_Atlas' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR'; --     => 59
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET PortraitIndex = '59' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR';

The result:

 

[Cat-du-fromage]

May i ask if adding new promotions icon have heavy or small performance impacts? really want to try it in multiplayer since it adds more visibility when you are at war, and can potentially made people avoid some mistakes.

En gros, est-ce que les icônes demandent beaucoup au jeu en terme de calcul^^?

EDIT: i suppose the UI Panel for promotion is quite heavy^^'

 

[Asterix Rage]

May i ask if adding new promotions icon have heavy or small performance impacts? really want to try it in multiplayer since it adds more visibility when you are at war, and can potentially made people avoid some mistakes.

No. Zero performance impact on "adding new promotion icons"
Actually, promotion icons are not added. When a promotion is created, it gets automatically the yellow "spark Blitz Promo" Icon.
After that, whatever the icon you assign to the promotion, the weigh is the same.

In the exemple above (Khmer) hokath gave to PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR the icon #13 from PROMOTION_ATLAS to avoid the "spark" (xml) :

        <Row>
            <Type>PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR</Description>
            <Help>TXT_KEY_PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR_HELP</Help>
            <Sound>AS2D_IF_LEVELUP</Sound>
            <OrderPriority>1</OrderPriority>
            <CombatPercent>10</CombatPercent>
            <PortraitIndex>13</PortraitIndex>
            <IconAtlas>PROMOTION_ATLAS</IconAtlas>
            <PediaType>PEDIA_MELEE</PediaType>
            <PediaEntry>TXT_KEY_PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR</PediaEntry>
            <CannotBeChosen>true</CannotBeChosen>
        </Row>

and we change it again with the icon #45 from extraPromo_Atlas (sql) :

UPDATE UnitPromotions SET IconAtlas = 'extraPromo_Atlas' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR'; --     => 45
UPDATE UnitPromotions SET PortraitIndex = '45' WHERE Type = 'PROMOTION_KHMER_BOKATOR';

This process is executed during the Mods Loading sequence. It takes a few ms.
The game runs properly with a nicely updated icons database. No impact

All icons in (7a) follow this mechanics.

 

[Asterix Rage]

JFD's The Empire of Japan (Meiji) for Vox Populi

By HungryForFood​

 

[broken0sword]

Question: would it be possible to make this compatible with only the Community Patch and not reliant on the CBO? I would like to use this mod but at this time I only use the CP mod, not the CBO, and do not plan to change that anytime soon.

EDIT: I scrutinized this mod's SQL files as well as the promotions XML files from both the stock game and CBO, and the game's core database "IconTexturesAtlases" table. From what I can see, it appears that there should not be any reason that this mod won't work with just CP installed. The way the SQL is written, the commands that attempt to update a promotion type that doesn't appear in the base game + exp/DLC simply won't execute because there isn't a matching field value to the WHERE clause. The IconTextureAtlases updates should work because they are simply creating new rows, not referencing anything that the CBO creates.

Unfortunately I can't test this at the moment, as I'm at work. Will test when I get home tonight.

 

[Asterix Rage]

compatible with only the Community Patch

It should work partially. (Most of the icons will be properly updated)
You'll need to delete Dependencies from .modinfo

Since the very beginning (7a) is dedicated to VP. My only plan is to improve it and deliver more icons for VP modmods

 

[broken0sword]

So yeah, it works fine (so far), and it works with Promotion Tree. All I had to do was comment out the dependency line for VP. I am still testing and probably will be for a while. The forced dependency on VP doesn't appear to be necessary, at least not with how the mod works at this time. You did a great job in writing the SQL so that it doesn't require anything that VP creates or changes, and since there are only changes to UI icons and no LUA code in the mod, it's unlikely there will be conflicts with other mods. I'll post back if I encounter problems.