[Beyond the Sword] Necro Cristi

[Colin]

Hmmm, I guess it would be possible to do some check for global population and tie this into undead spawn rates which could help the early game. The only problem with this is that thematically it wouldn't make sense for more zombies to appear as society became larger and more developed, in fact the undead should become less of a threat as this happens! When the Destruction civic is fully implemented it will destroy city ruins which should help. What map size are you playing on btw?

And if x0diak or anyone wants to help with some modding without getting their hands dirty in python might I suggest having a look at this

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=181119

which details how to modify the gamefonts.tga. It involves lots of tedious and careful maneovering but is purely graphical and would save me a lot of time! Basically I need the icons for the new undead specialist and religions added to the two gamefonts files.

 

[x0diak]

Hmmm cool! Thanks man! Tell me what you need Colin. I will attempt to make new units, just need to know what im creating. Send me a list or whatever you would have me do man! Send me an email at x0diakx@gmail.com.

 

[Colin]

http://www.4shared.com/file/E2xhN54v/artreqs.html

This download contains the religion and undead icons as well as the two gamefonts files in case anyone wants to tackle this very fussy bit of art editing. Please read the tutorial a few posts up for guidance. And while the 5 religions should replace existing ones in these files, the zombie is an additional great specialist.

 

[Sifaus]

Where we will extract it? =)

 

[Colin]

For editing the gamefonts files it doesn't matter where you extract things, though to test if everything is working in game they would need to be in the Assets/res/fonts folder of the mod (which may need to be created). If cities religions are showing up correctly on the main screen, and the zombie specialist is showing up on the city screen, then things are working as they should!

 

[mamba]

http://www.4shared.com/file/E2xhN54v/artreqs.html

This download contains the religion and undead icons as well as the two gamefonts files in case anyone wants to tackle this very fussy bit of art editing. Please read the tutorial a few posts up for guidance. And while the 5 religions should replace existing ones in these files, the zombie is an additional great specialist.

Just so we are on the same page, for GameFont, the icon has to be 21x20 (width x height), for GameFont75 it has to be 16x16.
While I can resize them, you might not like the result as there obviously is some loss of detail involved, esp. since the icons have more detail than the regular civ icons. So if you rather provide something 'cleaner' (less detailled) in the correct size, than have me do a resize, feel free to do so.

For the religious icons, I would expect that the color icon is the one where in the current file the symbol has a star, while the grayscale icon is the one without the star. If this assumption is wrong, let me know.

And now for the great specialist, there is no need to add that icon, as the other great specialists are not in the GameFonts either

Will be gone for the weekend, but will give this a go next week.

EDIT: here are the icons resized to 16x16, I used some filters to preserve detail and sharpness, but at 16x16 there is a limit to how much can be accomplished that way. Sharpness is clearly better than from a simple resize, detail is slightly better.
I also included two gamefont religous icon samples, upscaled to 64x64, to show you how little detail is in those compared to yours (which is why they work better at that small size). If you rather have something else than these resized versions, please provide it.

 

[Colin]

Thankyou mamba, these icons are perfect. Are there any takers to get them into the gamefonts file?

Yes, having just re-checked it's obvious the specialist icons aren't in this file, they must be somewhere else, I'll have a root around.

 

[mamba]

Thankyou mamba, these icons are perfect. Are there any takers to get them into the gamefonts file?

Yes, having just re-checked it's obvious the specialist icons aren't in this file, they must be somewhere else, I'll have a root around.

I can do that, just wanted to be sure you are ok with the resized icons first

 

[Randomness]

If you want an example of code for terraforming linked to religion(or in general for that matter) check out RiFE(FfH modmod). The Fellowship of Leaves makes forests grow in your cultural borders, the Illian, Matazl, Culai, Malkim, and D'Tesh civs have auto terraforming in their borders too.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=360

 

[techathon]

OkI have 2 things related to this mod to say:
1. I like this mod
3. Happy Zombie Cultural Appreciation Month

 

[jlbasestar]

Hi friends, i´m new in this forum, and i´d like to say that i love civ4. I should like also to make a question about this NECROCRISTI mod. In the factions screen only appear three of them. Is it right or do i have something wrong with my game and/or installation? There are only three leaders into "art" folder, too. Thanks a lot and apologies!

 

[Tssha]

Hey jlbasestar.

This mod is still in development. While I can assure you I've seen more factions than this, right now the mod is a little more stripped down at the moment to test key features. Rest assured, there'll be more than three factions in the final release. The game will also last longer as the middle and late game are currently not implemented.

Again though, I'm not involved in the making of this mod, this is just a summary from someone who's been paying attention to this mod for awhile. If I have made any errors in this recounting, please don't hold them against Colin.


Cheers
Tssha

 

[mamba]

Thank you mamba, these icons are perfect. Are there any takers to get them into the gamefonts file?

Give these a try and let me know

 

[Colin]

mamba, the download on this link seems to be broken, could you re-upload please?

Yes Tssha is correct, fations and leaders are slowly being added back into the game so when the next version comes out there will be 4 to choose from.

Will investigate Randomness, thanks for the link.

And Happy Zombie Appreciation Month to everyone

 

[mamba]

mamba, the download on this link seems to be broken, could you re-upload please?

Hm, the link works for me (just tried), in any case, here is a second upload

 

[Colin]

Tested and working perfectly, thanks again for your help!

 

[Colin]

0.33 now out:

http://www.4shared.com/file/V4avhtLT/NecroCristi33.html

Main highlights - another new faction, more python events related to the Undead, and religions. Full changelog below

Spoiler :

Necro Cristi 0.33

Added 4th civ, The Pale Hand, their leader Ariadne Zeboim, new believer trait, and unique unit
Unhealthy cities spawn Undead: more bad health = higher spawn rate!
Added Evangelism, Construction, Defensive Structures, Idolatry, Espionage and Hedonism Techs
Flesh of Vodoun, Florentine School, Breath of Gaia and Sunya Religions added (only Vodoun can be discovered though)
Gamefonts.tga edited so new religious icons show up correctly
Religion screen dimensions modified to account for longer religion names and fewer religions
Added temple for Word of Solomon and Flesh of Vodoun
Added Daughter of Light and Houngan
Added Spy unit and missions
Added Security Civic
Destruction Civic now slowly removes city ruins fom your cultural borders
Removed Fishing Boats from Farming, which may have been causing some crashes
Worship civic moved to Spiritual Death
Non-State Religions now cause unhappiness
Disabled Spiritual Re-appraisal for Pale Hand and Spiritual Death for Foundationists to cause civs to found in-character religions only
New Resource - Black Angel
New resources added and others removed
Changed mapscript setting to account for this and make starting positions fairer
Added abattoir and processing plant buildings
Undead can be built w. Vodoun state religion
Added promotions for Undead
More appropriate beacon art
Undead now hidden nationality and always hostile
Increased road building time
A few more civipedia additions

Thanks to testers giving feedback and those other modders, especially The_J and mamba who have contributed.

 

[TEAM HORN]

I'm not sure if I'm doing something stupid but my game keeps getting stuck on "waiting for other players" after a certain amount of turns. Are there any tricks I can do to get past this point? I've loaded my save a few times and it keeps getting stuck in at the same point.

I'm running the steam version of BtS and version 33 of the mod.

 

[Colin]

TEAM HORN, by 'certain number of turns' do you mean this happens every time you play? 'Waiting for other players' - does this mean you're playing multiplayer? If so I've not tested the game in multiplayer. You could upload the save file, though my version of BTS isn't steam so I don't know if it would be 100% compatible. Are you sure you have the latest patch i.e. downloaded it manually?

 

[TEAM HORN]

TEAM HORN, by 'certain number of turns' do you mean this happens every time you play? 'Waiting for other players' - does this mean you're playing multiplayer? If so I've not tested the game in multiplayer. You could upload the save file, though my version of BTS isn't steam so I don't know if it would be 100% compatible. Are you sure you have the latest patch i.e. downloaded it manually?

It was a single player game - I was using autosaves which have since been overwritten. Everything is also patched up to 3.19. I may be off on the message but it was message that shows up when the computer is doing their moves. I'll try it again tomorrow and if it happens again I'll upload the saves for you.

Aside from that it sure seems like a promising mod!