Aluminium's AoK Unit Modifications

[Quasar1011]

Aluminum, I added a bunch of your units to my mod, and they look great! Nice work! However, upon play-testing it, I built a Mameluke, which looks fine. Next turn, I should have my first cataphract finished... but the game crashed! It says it needs the art/units/cataphract/cataphract.ini file. I didn't see one with the d/l, and none of the other units need it. Where can I find it, please?

EDIT: Please disregard. Stupid me! I simply forgot to take out the "AoK" from the file name. Did that, and it works fine! Good looking unit too!

 

[waldoa]

Hey Aluminum, I've been going along, updating the units in my mod with your much improved versions, and I wanted to thank you for the time it must have taken. These units look much, much better than the originals.
Oh and the link for the cataphract on the front page gives me a 'page not found' message- just thought you should know.

 

[Aluminium]

Thanks, waldoa. The link is fixed.

 

[Peter21Pan]

Is there a way to get the cleric's action to heal your units that the cleric is next to? Or can units only ever attack?

 

[ocedius]

Unfortunately they can only attack or defend. You can incorporate the cleric anyway you want, I personally give him a defensive bombardment so he can weaken oncoming attackers, kinda like boosting morale and demoralizing attackers at the same time.

Just my 12 rupees on the matter

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Ocedius... methinks your another fan of Zelda. Am I right?

Deciding how to use Priest-type units in game is challenging. In order to simulate the "convert" power featured in Age of Kings, the Enslavement flag works. Some(like Ak47) have had the "unknown nationality" flag checked as well, but I've found that the AI abuses this(Capturing cities without being at war for example). But to each his own I suppose.

 

[mrtn]

...(Capturing cities without being at war for example). ...

That's not possible in C3C, it was changed from PTW.

 

[ocedius]

Ocedius... methinks your another fan of Zelda. Am I right?

Deciding how to use Priest-type units in game is challenging. In order to simulate the "convert" power featured in Age of Kings, the Enslavement flag works. Some(like Ak47) have had the "unknown nationality" flag checked as well, but I've found that the AI abuses this(Capturing cities without being at war for example). But to each his own I suppose.

Whats a 'Zelda' ?

That's not possible in C3C, it was changed from PTW.

Never had this happen to me. But that hasn't stopped me from DL all of Al's AoK units and using 'em. Especailly the Sabatour ..

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

You know the Legend of Zelda...something tells me though that your playing me for the fool....

The Sabataur/Petard is another hard one to use....How do you simulate the "Suicide" ability?

 

[Ekmek]

make it like a cruise missle.

 

[ocedius]

You know the Legend of Zelda...something tells me though that your playing me for the fool....

The Sabataur/Petard is another hard one to use....How do you simulate the "Suicide" ability?

I use it like a cruise missle, with additional HP, and defense. A cruise missile with an attitude.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I never thought of that(I honestly have never played well into the Modern Era...I always got a cultural victory before that...pain when your trying to playtest a mod)...

 

[Ozymandias]

I never thought of that(I honestly have never played well into the Modern Era...I always got a cultural victory before that...pain when your trying to playtest a mod)...

So turn off Cultural Victory when you playtest

-Oz

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Thats what I'm doing now actually...Ive also increase the turn limit to 1000.....mhahaha!

 

[gorn]

Forgive me if I missed it, but is there a re-worked Crossbowman in here?

 

[Stonebear]

There is another AOK Conversion Collection post that has many more of the game's units. The units were also more recently updated there so they run a slight bit better, although you have to really look hard at some of them to tell the difference.

 

[Aluminium]

There is another AOK Conversion Collection post that has many more of the game's units. The units were also more recently updated there so they run a slight bit better, although you have to really look hard at some of them to tell the difference.

Believe me. They ARE better!



@Gorn
Here is the link .

 

[gorn]

Many thanx!

 

[Digger532]

Possibly, not the right Forum for this but Aluminum as you are such a prolific unit resizer...could you give me an idea how you an expert do it..

First I'll tell you what I'm doing and then maybe you can drop a few hot tips

I open the unit in FLCster and then export it to a Storyboard pcx.
I then resize the unit in photo editor and copy it to another pcx file.
I open the resized pcx in paint and copy the enlarged units over the original Pcx.

The problem is A. that the Alpha Blending always stuffs up
B. this is a very laborious way of doing it

Any help or advice would be appreciated as I surely cant take this long..

Thanks in advance

Digger

 

[mrtn]

Digger, use Steph's SBB (Story Board Builder).