Battle for Barsoom - mod Developmet

[keldath]

hi friend,

heh awesome, i was sure youll be busy to help, great that ur willing to join with what you can.

ill send you the xml files so you can work on what ever you can.

anything you can come up with, text, xml work, ideas, feel free to add in stuff and change.

for now - there is no art at all, im focusing on the xml first, but you can do some work with it if u wish.

and thanks for the missing dds -il add it, also - i think i can add slides with nifscope.


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i guess that tech tree for col is kinda complicated to add in. but i looked a bit on your work there, it seems you brought life into colonization, which i never played - maybe ill try your mod
it comes and goes, i didnt mod for more then a year ...so maybe in the future youll get back to it.

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wel the song is not in hebrew, maybe its just gibberish who knows.

also - i got the soundtrack of the john carter movie - i thought ill use it at some point.



sweeeeet.

 

[Blueblood]

If this is anything near the quality of your old Star Trek mod, there's a lot of reason to be excited about your new project.

 

[keldath]

hi blueblood,

star trek was and is great, but its not mine...its of a modder names deenaj.


my modsare - visa mod (warlorss), world of cvilization (partially), overlord2(dawn of the overlords), dune wars, song of the moon 2.

im putting a lot of work into this one and i do want to bring out a quality mod with refined tweaks and arts.

 

[orlanth]

Well I've been working on a graphics project that I hope will help all Civ4 mods including this one..
check out the Terrain Textures pack just uploaded; should have some good ones in there for your mod!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=487022

 

[keldath]

hey,
yeah i accidently stumbbled upon your post there, its realy amazing,
when ill be home il check it out dude, thanks.

 

[Blueblood]

hi blueblood,

star trek was and is great, but its not mine...its of a modder names deenaj.


my modsare - visa mod (warlorss), world of cvilization (partially), overlord2(dawn of the overlords), dune wars, song of the moon 2.

im putting a lot of work into this one and i do want to bring out a quality mod with refined tweaks and arts.

My mistake, you two have similar avatars and I confused them. Dune Wars is quality work as well so my comment stands.

 

[keldath]

hi,

yeah your right he has the same avatar hehehe
thanks you friend.


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anyways,

more xml work:
civics arranged on tech tree.
tech costs
added in 1 more civ : torques of the green martian clans.
added lotz more buildings.

currently adding and changing buildings,
giving religion wonders, and more
doing some cool stuff with the xml.


after im satisfied with the buildings, ill go back to the units.

soooo much to do !

 

[keldath]

hi,

ok got most of the buildings i think,
added a unique religion wonder that does cool stuff for each religion.
also fixed a the promotions a bit.

tomorrow im starting on with adding special units.

see ya!

 

[keldath]

update report:

added fixed and balanced buildings.
did 3 unique building per civ.

next is the unit section - uu, adding more supporting units.

 

[keldath]

business are slow on the mod,
having a rough week,

on the week end ill do lots of progress i hope.

cheers.

 

[keldath]

hi all,

didnt work a lot on the mod,

ive started working on 2uu per civ, did half now.

after i finish the units, ill add a few more unit types,
and then more tweaked to speed, handicap and so on.

im close to moving on to start adding art.

 

[keldath]

HI,

i was thinking on giving each 2 factions a unique corporation, so there will be 5 unique corporations that will give unique bonus that will be used for special units and buildings.

and on top - to have 5 other common corporations that will change commerce and such.

10 total corps.

so each player can get maybe 1 of 5 unique corps, and 1 of 5 regular corporations.

so a player can have a total of 2 corps - or none

or:

link corporation to a religion - with a building that needs a specific holy city.

ideas anyone?

 

[keldath]

HI ALL,
i started working on the arts, heres a first draft of the terrain of barsoom.

still working on the colors and models:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=343191&stc=1&d=1361022423

 

[keldath]

heloooo!

ive finished the mars terrain ill do the ocean it wil be reddish:
its red!

 

[keldath]

helloo all,

an update - i got almost all of the bonues arts,

im making some new ones - looking cool.

also the terrain is looking so nice!!!

 

[orlanth]

Wow that looks really redd Glad to see youre progressing!
Don't forget to check out my nif pack for any unit/building/bonus arts you want:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/col2071/files/nifs/

I see Master of Mana is making a cool new Mushroom Forest feature.. if there are strange forests on Barsoom, maybe could ask tesb if you can borrow it, or feel free to use the alien forest features from my mod

 

[keldath]

hi man,

thank you i will check this out friend

ill also see your other suggestions.

ive almost completed the resources arts,
im doing every day 1-2 hours of work, ill finish it someday, but i will

 

[orlanth]

Also, here are some really great scifi unit nifs from LeBashar for Dunewars:
http://www.aeriesguard.com/forum/co...611688/file/Dune Wars graphic patch units.zip

 

[keldath]

hehe thanks bro...

i know it

im using ur nifs package - great thing!

heres a photo of the latest work on the bonuses - ive finished the core list of them with new arts and some barrowed from other mods, now moving on to civilization arts.

 

[orlanth]

Looks nifty, I like the murky water

BTW here is an easy trick to easily stretch or squash part of any nif if you want to make it look more alien or distorted:

open the nif in nifskope, then select any of the NiTriShape elements (can simply left-click on the image and it shows the selected wireframe). Then right-click the image and select Transform -> Scale Vertices. You can change the X Y or Z dimensions to stretch the selected shape along that axis.

If you play with it a bit that can transform the vanilla nifs with some pretty interesting effects. That's how I made the "Native Beetles" resource in my mod, they are actually flattened Sheep!