Changing the movies

[SailorLazarus]

Alright, I have changed the pictures displayed for the era changes without any problems. I can't get the rest of the movies to change though.

In theory, I should be able to either place a new movie into the "mods\XXXXX\Assets\art\movies\Victory\" Directory with the same name as the original movie (victory.bik)

or

make a new .bik movie with any name in the movies directory of the mods folder and redirect the path values in the "CIV4ArtDefines_Movie" file.

Check?
or am I way off.
Does the .bik file have to be something special (aside from just a Binked video file)
Has anyone figured out how to do this?

 

[SailorLazarus]

Anyone? Hello??

 

[Wei-Yan]

Anyone? Hello??

err i have no idea what youre talking about.....

 

[SailorLazarus]

err i have no idea what youre talking about.....

Its ok, it looks like no one else does either.

 

[RogerBacon]

So far no one has been able to replace any of the movies. I hope this will change eventually. I'm getting a little tired of seeing the Buddist movie everytime I discover Shintoism.

Roger Bacon

 

[SailorLazarus]

Okay, I have found a bit of an odd way to do it, but it works. Sort of.

Go to the directory
C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Assets\Art\Movies

NOT your mod folder.
Create a new folder
C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Assets\Art\Movies\HP movies\

and dump your movies in there.
Then change the CIV4ArtDefines_Movie file in your mods folder to reflect the changes. For some reason the game will only find movies in the original movie folder. You still don't have to replace the original movies, you just have to put the folder in the same directory as the old movies.

 

[Gordon Farrell]

Nice discovery, SailorLazarus! Hopefully we'll get some movies with mods now that actually go with the altered religions, wonders, etc.

But can you tell me... how did you get the era picture to change? I have new artwork but I can't find the right folder, or else I'm not modifying the xml directory correctly... any hints?

 

[SailorLazarus]

You don't really need to modify the XML to change the era pictures. Just create a new directory in your mod folder to match the one in the original. I believe it is:

\Assets\Art\Movies\Era\

Then just place your new DDS files in the new folder. Be sure to name them the same as the originals and they should replace the era pictures in the game.

I have actually been working on this problem alot. So much so that I wrote a Tutorial on it.

Here is the Link to that Tutorial

 

[Gordon Farrell]

You don't really need to modify the XML to change the era pictures. Just create a new directory in your mod folder to match the one in the original. I believe it is:

\Assets\Art\Movies\Era\

Then just place your new DDS files in the new folder. Be sure to name them the same as the originals and they should replace the era pictures in the game.

Hmmm... I thought that was the protocol I was following... musta made a mistake.... will follow your tutorial! Thanks!

 

[SailorLazarus]

Cool. If you have any questions feel free to PM me.

 

[Kael]

So far no one has been able to replace any of the movies. I hope this will change eventually. I'm getting a little tired of seeing the Buddist movie everytime I discover Shintoism.

Roger Bacon

I changed all of the religious movies in FfH. its not to hard to do, the only real bad side was the size the new movies add to the download. They are some hefty files.

 

[SailorLazarus]

I changed all of the religious movies in FfH. its not to hard to do, the only real bad side was the size the new movies add to the download. They are some hefty files.

I haven't worked on the religion movies yet. Did you use .bik files?

 

[Kael]

I haven't worked on the religion movies yet. Did you use .bik files?

No, used .dds's. It looks like it would be easy enough to change. All movies, even the religous ones, are passed to the same function just with a different tag number. Then depending on the tag it goes a couple ways (displaying a *.bik or a *.dds).

 

[Kael]

I haven't worked on the religion movies yet. Did you use .bik files?

Do you still have the problem not running *.bik movies out of the Mods directory? Are you having to put the movies in real assets folder? And if so do you have a mod where I can see that issue? I want to see whats going on with it.

 

[SailorLazarus]

Do you still have the problem not running *.bik movies out of the Mods directory? Are you having to put the movies in real assets folder? And if so do you have a mod where I can see that issue? I want to see whats going on with it.

I haven't finished the mod yet, but whenever I put a movie into the mod folder

\YADAYADA\Assets\art\movies\Wonders\ASKHGS.bik

then I update the CIV4ArtDefines_Movie file to reflect the change.

<MovieArtInfo>
<Type>ART_DEF_MOVIE_BROADWAY</Type>
<Path>Assets/Art/Movies/Wonders/ASKHGS.bik</Path>
</MovieArtInfo>

It won't play the movie. Is there another file that I would have to alter?

 

[SailorLazarus]

I could punch togather a quick mod if you want to see what I am talking about.

 

[Houman]

@SailorLazarus

That would be great if you could write a little guide or so.

I would be very interested how I could take a picture, take a little sound file and compress it all as a BIK movie and show it instead of a Confucian Religion movie.

Do you think you could do that?

Cheers
Houman

 

[SailorLazarus]

Sure thing Houman, I have already started a Tutorial on making the movies work in Civ4. Here is the Link.

i am working on the religion mods right now.

 

[Houman]

Thank you sooooo much!!

 

[SailorLazarus]

You are so welcome. I will probably update the tutorial with the religion section on March 8th.