Bts "DUNE WARS" {Development Thread}

[johny smith]

Well I whipped this up fast let me know I can do some more adjustments if needed.

 

[Ajidica]

Nice job. They look good.

 

[johny smith]

Here are the buttons if anyone wants to try them.

I will work on the Gamefont if everyone agrees to them.

 

[Phoenician]

Johny we need a lot of things done. Good to see you helping us.
I love the icons!

You will probably have to make religious buildings for those icons, i.e. like pasting your icons onto Gods of Old temples/monasteries, etc.

You seem eager to help us, and that is good. Keldath is working his butt off, I'm doing as much as I can but its not enough. I designed all the buttons for the buildings, perhaps you can do icons for the military units and apply all the buttons made into format. It will save Keldath a lot of time. See Keldath. Yeah, go ahead and work on gamefonts if you want, no one is stopping you.
Also if you want to do the terrain, go for it. You can delete any work I did and I won't get offended. You seem skilled on game graphics, I'm not a graphics guy, I'm a painter (fine-arts) trying to do graphics lol.

btw, you are quite the skilled artist. Are you using photoshop to make those icons?

 

[keldath]

hey guys,

johny, beautyfull buttons!

i really like the style!!

thasnk for the themes ill check it out when ill get back from work.

Phoenician,
yeah dont worry about the techs, its a speed issue,
it will be taken care of later.

in the next few days ill do the religions,
i stumbled on a ctd in a very late stage of the game and i cant tell why, but, when you load, its ok, i hope its somthing to do with the autoai.

 

[johny smith]

I have a fair amount experience in photoshop. I have something that you guys might like to have for buttons. I made this a while back. It is a photoshop file though. The idea is you drop in whatever you want for a button under the border. Then flatten the image and save it and your done. I think it actually looks better than the default borders.

But anyway if you guys want some different style to the buttons for entire mod I could whip up a button automater of sorts. So we could go through each button fairly quickly. I will check out the buttons a little more.

The terrain is not bad at all. Sure probably it could always be improved, but I would not worry with so much if I were you guys. It looks very good. Even the mushrooms I would not care about. I mean if it is holding up getting something else done.

Thanks for compliments. I can do minor touch ups on these religion buttons as well if you guys want it. I have a photoshop file ready for them as well. I can swap the background colors around, fade out the symbols, give the block a 3d effect whatever you guys think if wanted.

 

[johny smith]

If you are experiencing problems with the Autoplay I removed some things in case in this python file. You can delete the older python folder and use this one anyway.

This is for the WoC Lite version of course.

 

[johny smith]

One more thing. I do not have the latest buildings. Just let me know by PM please with the other stuff.

And I would like to make sure we are set on the WoC Lite. glider is going to try to look at a possible RevDCM WoC merge this week. So if you want to wait it is ok as well.

 

[johny smith]

I put the buttons on the font. Religion buttons in with xml changes to match. I also threw in the FF cursor if you want to take a look.

 

[johny smith]

I updated the Gods of Old Atlas if that is what you guys intend to use. But maybe you want the symbols swapped around for different buildings to match better. I just left in the order as Zensunni, Zenshiism, Zensufism, Mah. Christ., Navachirst., Judaism, and then Muadru.

 

[keldath]

wow johny,
superb job,

i saw the brightinterface youve made, it look really good!!!
i really like it, but, perhaps you can cnage its color a little? i want to have a yellow sandish one...but, for now ill use yours as the basis.

tell you what,

ill send you the lateset version ive made - mostly buildings and improvements, not so much work there, also added one unit class,

if youll update it to woc,
i will continue the work on this mod, with woc build,
but ,
i would like to keep using the revdcm inquisitions and uts super spies, also, if you can remove the double interface files so the mod wont wight too much,

))

 

[keldath]

well,

beatufull work johny,
i saw the whole deal, and its great.

pheonician did also a really good dune icons, perhaps you can do somthing with those,

also , corporations would be nice,
guys, any suggestions for corporations?

 

[johny smith]

Glad you like it. I forgot one button I think for religion symbols.

I am working on the interface I got it yellow already, but looking at tweaking even better. Will see what I can do.

I will post it when I get it done.

 

[keldath]

awesome buddy,

ill soon send you the latest dune version,

hope you can get it with the complete work you did up till now,

maybe even you can help trace the ctd,

basically, it happens at late stages,
i ran autoplay with these:

small world
9 civs
continents
one of the fast speeds,
i ran it to 1000 turns,
sometime along the way,
theres a ctd, i dont know from where it is coming im afraid, but, the good news is that when you load (last autosave), and stop the autoplay, the game will continue to run, so i set a new auto for a few hundred turns, and no ctd comes.

it drives me crazy, i cant continue developing until i figure this out!


one more thing,
guys,
the ai, just wont use the aerial transports/gunships, so if your on an island , no other civ will come to you, once the ai is set to allterrain, it just wont go over ocean to kick you,
right now, i have two options:

1. ignore allterrain and base the game as the vannilla - units for land and units for sand sea.

2. remove the sand see, so youll have one chaotic land mass, i can increase desert size though, so there will be larger desert , then atleast the ai attacks alot.

3. option, someone with sdk knowlegde can fix this and make a true allterrain code, or someone then can do a good map script that will know how to use land terrain and spread it on a map just like ocean.
does anyone know someone like this?


but still, i gotta find the ctd causeeeee

 

[johny smith]

Well tell me if looks ok or not please. I am not still finished. I am actually touching up tga files that part of the interface. And there is a lot.

I thought I ran a whatever the new biggest size map is on continents, at the slowest speed and it ran fine. So maybe it is related to the speed. But how would that be?

I know some people of course, and so do you on the SDK. Just I don't anyone who will help out really on it.

Well anyway sorry. I have not got a CTD but of course have not played it as much.

And let me know what you think of theme look please.

 

[keldath]

ahhh the theme look swelll buddy

maybe yello it a bit, or make the dark shade a bit more bright,

genrally i like it alot, though what do you think?the last dark bright you sent is also really nice,

we need more oponions huh? ..

the blue buttons doesnt really go well with the yello


glad to know you didn had a ctd so far.

 

[johny smith]

Honestly I like the one I sent you better. I think the yellow looks ok but not as good as the other. And we should save yellow for maybe the buttons borders instead or anything else that might be able to use it.

It is ok. But I just like the first one I did a lot. And this is taking a lot more work to be done I mean.

 

[keldath]

yeah i know what you mean....

can you link pheonician on the woc you sent me with the interface? id like to hear what his thoughts,

i kinda prefer the bright dark aswell.

 

[johny smith]

I can send him the link real fast for the first one I sent you. I hope he can understand the changes I made. I will go ahead and do that.

I will put all of the stuff together for the rest of stuff when I can. I can not at the moment but will.

 

[Phoenician]

yeah I dont understand the changes you made.