A little help with resource icons.

[Ur Mum]

i have sucessfully made new resources for civ 3 PTW, the game works and the civopedia works. the only problem is the new luxuary resource i;ve made shows up with the wines icon in the city screen. it works fine on the map and in civiopedia. just not on the city screen.

thanks in advance.

 

[WildWeazel]

AFAIK if there are more than 8 luxuries, it always uses the wine icon for the extras. You can replace the wine icon with another one if you want though. The icons come from Art\City Screen\luxuruicons_small.pcx.

 

[Ur Mum]

there anyway to have more than 8 unique icons tho?

 

[WildWeazel]

Not that I know of
But the file has 2 lines of the same icons, which is suspicious...

 

[mrtn]

Just enlarge it to the side (in the same row). The second row is meaningless.

 

[Ur Mum]

thanks a lot. made the change. resized the icon to 22x22 and pasted it to the right of the top row next to the gems. i will test it soon. hope it works . thanks

 

[Willem]

there anyway to have more than 8 unique icons tho?

There is but I'm not sure of the process in PTW. The file you want is Luxuries.pcx in the City Screen folder, I believe. Someone came up with a convoluted way to fix the problem but I'm not sure what it is now. Maybe a search would dig up the appropriate post.

If you get Conquests it's much easier, you just add icons on the graphic in the order that they appear in the editor.

 

[Ur Mum]

yeah. hopefully getting C3C in the new year. but until then i'm stuck w/ PTW.

(still barrels of fun tho)

 

[Master Kodama]

Isn't there some additional problem with having more than 8 luxuries? Like no more than 8 luxuries can effect citizen happiness in your cities at one time, or something like that? I think the city screen luxury-box is too small to accommodate more than 8, but I could be wrong....

 

[Ur Mum]

yes u cant see all 8 in the city screen at once on PTW. does this change on C3C ? not sure about if they still affect the citizens however.

 

[WildWeazel]

They still affect citiizens, and they still overflow the box. The problem is that if you have much more than 8, it becomes too easy to manage happiness.

 

[Willem]

They still affect citiizens, and they still overflow the box. The problem is that if you have much more than 8, it becomes too easy to manage happiness.

I have 16 in my game, but I've given them all a low appearance number, 65, so I usually end up with about 4, with lots of opportunity to trade with other civs. It works out fairly well. Sometimes I luck out and get 7 or 8 but I have yet to go over that.