Fallout Advisors & new backgrounds
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Hi,
Well, I signed into Yahoo! and even signed up for Yahoo! Briefcase. No go. It shows that there are two files in your Mod Folder, but when I open it, it says "This Folder is Empty". I don't know what is going on.
I am sorry you are no longer working on the Mod. I have really enjoyed version 1.0 of the Mod. I only play Civ III on occasion, so I haven't gotten bored with it yet.
If there is another way I can get the Mod, I would love to get it. I know it would take a while by e-mail. Let me know what I need to do. If you are too busy, I will just stick with 1.0 and keep my eye out for other Mods. I do appreciate your efforts.
If you want to contact me directly, my e-mail is: ferretloverdc@earthlink.net and I am often on AIM: ferretloverdc.
Thanks,
Medron Pryde
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I also could not find it...the folder is empty when we look in it...
Medron Pryde
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BTW...if you want I can host the mod for you so others can dl it.
Go to my website and e-mail me if you are interested...
Go to my website and e-mail me if you are interested...
I thank you for letting me know Yahoo! Briefcase is not working correctly. I will try and find a new home for the mod. In the meantime, I am working on making sure it is compatible with the new patch.
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josefgiven
Chieftain
Hi, Skarecrow,
Nice to see your Fallout mod is thriving so well.
I've been scouting around all things Fallout and I've found that some of the guys over on the Vault 13 boards have managed to gather together some of the official fonts used in the Fallout games. I was certain you would want these fonts, so I've uploaded them here!
OK, I'm not really sure about how to use the file upload feature, so if I get it wrong, could you please give me a few pointers?
The first one is the font used in the credits that roll when the game first loads up. It's instantly recognisable; try using it to write 'FALLOUT' in white, large, block capitals on a black background and weep with nostalgic joy.
Josef
Nice to see your Fallout mod is thriving so well.
I've been scouting around all things Fallout and I've found that some of the guys over on the Vault 13 boards have managed to gather together some of the official fonts used in the Fallout games. I was certain you would want these fonts, so I've uploaded them here!
OK, I'm not really sure about how to use the file upload feature, so if I get it wrong, could you please give me a few pointers?
The first one is the font used in the credits that roll when the game first loads up. It's instantly recognisable; try using it to write 'FALLOUT' in white, large, block capitals on a black background and weep with nostalgic joy.
Josef
josefgiven
Chieftain
Skarecrow,
The famous, green Pipboy font is being worked on by Vault-13 board users, who are transforming a .bmp file of the lettering into a .ttf font. I don't think I should upload their hard work without their permission (which I am currently trying to get) so here's the link to the thread where they are discussing the fonts:
http://www.vault13.net/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17564
They've uploaded betas of their work for our downloading pleasure, the links to which are on the third page of the thread.
Best regards,
Josef
The famous, green Pipboy font is being worked on by Vault-13 board users, who are transforming a .bmp file of the lettering into a .ttf font. I don't think I should upload their hard work without their permission (which I am currently trying to get) so here's the link to the thread where they are discussing the fonts:
http://www.vault13.net/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17564
They've uploaded betas of their work for our downloading pleasure, the links to which are on the third page of the thread.
Best regards,
Josef
I already downloaded the Fallout font from NMA. When I replaced the orginal Civ3 font with it though, everything appeared out of alignment and did not fit correctly with the graphics. Sorry to say, we can't use the Fallout Font in the mod. Dang.
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Here is a still from the leaderhead animation of Set of the Ghoul Nation. They replace the French. I'm not bothering with making special units just yet. I think when I do make one, it would either be a Ghoul Defender/Sniper to replace the Musketeer.
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Here is a still from the leaderhead animation of Set of the Ghoul Nation. They replace the French. I'm not bothering with making special units just yet. I think when I do make one, it would either be a Ghoul Defender/Sniper to replace the Musketeer.
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josefgiven
Chieftain
D'oh!
Yeah, a lot of the boards that use the v-bulletin system have been a bit dodgy of late, although the V-13 board has been OK about the time I posted this. Hopefully you should have more luck, now.
Oh, Christ, go for it, mate!
I'd be honoured to have my work included in your mod. Although.. heh... a small mention of my name in your accompanying readme would be much appreciated. I had a look at your site on Nakedpeople, I really like the backgrounds and information boxes. Can you pass on a few tips on how you created the new windows, etc.? The resource window in particular is a real touch of class.
Would you consider doing a sister-mod which only replaces the windows and backgrounds without altering the advisors and civilisations? Perhaps you could even have a pick 'n' mix version of the mod where the user could take the elements of it that they wanted?
Best regards,
Josef
Josef, I forgot to answer this part of your question. Sorry. Also I apologize for spelling your name wrong in the last post.
Basically I took screen shots in Fallout 2 and mostly Tactics. Then I took elements that I liked and combined them to make a composite. Usually most of the elements that I cut and paste don't fit together very nicely - this is why it takes me a little bit of time to make new graphics. I end up having to draw many sections myself - not much mind you, but it is still time consuming... Having many of the basic graphical concepts already made makes things a LOT easier. After all, I'm mimicing the Fallout look. If I were creating a new look from scratch, I'd go nuts if I weren't get paid. Not that it wouldn't be fun - it'd just be way too much work just for a freeware mod.
Which reminds me, if anyone needs a graphical artists for an ambitious game project - I'd be happy to lend a hand. I like working on screen frames.
I took a look at the Upload button you were talking about. I didn't even notice it. I clicked it and it said that the maximum limit is 3 megabytes! I might split my mod in two and upload it here later in the day.
Basically I took screen shots in Fallout 2 and mostly Tactics. Then I took elements that I liked and combined them to make a composite. Usually most of the elements that I cut and paste don't fit together very nicely - this is why it takes me a little bit of time to make new graphics. I end up having to draw many sections myself - not much mind you, but it is still time consuming... Having many of the basic graphical concepts already made makes things a LOT easier. After all, I'm mimicing the Fallout look. If I were creating a new look from scratch, I'd go nuts if I weren't get paid. Not that it wouldn't be fun - it'd just be way too much work just for a freeware mod.
Which reminds me, if anyone needs a graphical artists for an ambitious game project - I'd be happy to lend a hand. I like working on screen frames.
I took a look at the Upload button you were talking about. I didn't even notice it. I clicked it and it said that the maximum limit is 3 megabytes! I might split my mod in two and upload it here later in the day.
MightyMaus
Chieftain
This looks like an excellent project, and I was wondering if there are plans to edit the terrain graphics... the current ones look far too lush for a Fallout setting. I was thinking that one could have a few varieties of "blasted landscape"... Moderate, Dry, Superdry. The hills , whatever. Mountains and hills could be rendered in brown, forests could look dead, jungles could look like city ruins that would have to be cleared out... oceans could be that sludgy dark tan color.
I would assume that most of these graphics could be retrieved through screencapping... the difficulty would lie in making it look okay when tiled.
I would assume that most of these graphics could be retrieved through screencapping... the difficulty would lie in making it look okay when tiled.
josefgiven
Chieftain
Sorry about this late reply, Skarecrow. My phone-line got severed in a lightning-storm and British Telecom have only just fixed it.
Could you, perchance, tell me how you managed to change the Civ III font to an alternative one, please? I'd like to have a crack at it myself, even if any of the Fallout fonts aren't suitable.
I'm pretty sure Photoshop could handle it...
All the best,
Josef
I had to go to the NMA site yesterday to get some patches to play Fallout 2 again. I noticed the font you're talking about, but that's the font the game uses for it's titles as opposed to the green one it uses as the 'pipboy' font.
Could you, perchance, tell me how you managed to change the Civ III font to an alternative one, please? I'd like to have a crack at it myself, even if any of the Fallout fonts aren't suitable.
Splendid!
Yikes, sounds incredibly labour-intensive. I remember there was a crew who made some sort of program that could rip graphics straight out of the Fallout 2 compressed data file and I managed to get it working before my Great Reformat. I'll have a sniff around the NMA and Duck and Cover sites and keep you updated if I have any joy finding it again.
I dare say it would be possible to make plains/grassland etc. look more 'blasted' by using a quality art program and mucking about with the contrast and colour balance of the terrain image files to 'brown 'em up' a bit.
I'm pretty sure Photoshop could handle it...All the best,
Josef
Hi Scarecrow,
I wrote you privately, but never got a response. I was just wondering if you would make the Mod Mac-friendly. We don't run .exe files. If you can, that would be great. If not, I will plug along with version 1.0 til I find a better mod. Thanks.
I wrote you privately, but never got a response. I was just wondering if you would make the Mod Mac-friendly. We don't run .exe files. If you can, that would be great. If not, I will plug along with version 1.0 til I find a better mod. Thanks.
Sorry for the late response. I've been wrapped up in other things lately.
<b>MightyMaus</b>
Regarding the terrain. I have been trying to make some new terrain. I ripped graphics from Fallout 2 but I had a difficult time with the palette and implementing it in the Civilization 3 format. It was far more work and I eventually gave up. I really like your idea about dead forests. I'll edit the pine forest - that other one really turns me off graphically. That would only be a day's work. I'll try it soon. The city ruins is a wonderful idea too, but I think goody huts will look odd on it. I'd have to experiment with it. Brown hills is great too.
Josef is correct, I can easily change the colors of the existing terrain. Hmmm. Next update you will probably see new terrain! Jungles are the only thing that really worry me. Maybe
I made the ocean bright green slime. Looked nice in the *.PCX files but it was pretty hard on the eyes in the game. Plus it just kinda puts you up sailing ships through green sludge. Brown sludge may not be a bad idea. I'll try it.
<b>Josef</b>
I know all about lightning storms! My computer just got hit through my phone line about a week ago now. Fried two PCI ports, a USB port, my graphics card, and my modem. Pesky thing lightning.
By the way, I'm going to be in the UK in June! Can't wait, I adore Europe. I lived in Germany last year. That was grand. I should have accepted admittance to school in London. I'd rather be there than here, right now.
Anyhow...
I didn't realize that wasn't the same font! I'll snag the pipboy font and see how that looks. Changing the Civilization 3 font is very easy; go to the root directory of Civ3. There should be a file there called LSANS.TTF - that is a true type font. All you have to do is back it up, then rename whatever ttf font you want to LSANS.TTF. Viola! Civ3 will now use that font instead of the generic Sans Serif one. Cool, huh? I've tried a few, just to jazz things up but nothing quite works correctly. Most fonts are out of alignment.
I have those Fallout 2 extraction files! It's a pain in the butt, although handy.
I have photoshop! I never use it, but I have it. Making the landscape blasted is a good idea guys. I never thought about that. I can probably cut and paste blasts from Fallout 2 and Tactics and then try and match it to the terrain in Civ3. This will be a bit of work, but I think I should be able to get on it by next week.
<b>Ferret Lover</b>
Bummer, dude. I feel so bad. I'll compress it in something a mac can use. I use a compression format made by a German company. The format is called ACE. I find it is the best for multimedia compressions.
I haven't owned a Mac since 1989 - so I'm a bit out of it. Back in the day it was: GZip and Tar formats. I can do either of them. There is also a format that WinACE supports called GZip Tar which I guess is a combination of the two? I'm sure just plain ZIP has come to the Mac by now if you think Mac users would prefer that. Not sure how big a ZIP file would be - worst compression ever. Oh, I can do Java JAR too.
I'll compress an archive as soon as I hear from you.
By the way, everyone can e-mail me at kiranpatil@yahoo.com
My old e-mail address doesn't work. Everytime I log in, hotmail freezes up.
<b>MightyMaus</b>
Regarding the terrain. I have been trying to make some new terrain. I ripped graphics from Fallout 2 but I had a difficult time with the palette and implementing it in the Civilization 3 format. It was far more work and I eventually gave up. I really like your idea about dead forests. I'll edit the pine forest - that other one really turns me off graphically. That would only be a day's work. I'll try it soon. The city ruins is a wonderful idea too, but I think goody huts will look odd on it. I'd have to experiment with it. Brown hills is great too.
Josef is correct, I can easily change the colors of the existing terrain. Hmmm. Next update you will probably see new terrain! Jungles are the only thing that really worry me. Maybe
I made the ocean bright green slime. Looked nice in the *.PCX files but it was pretty hard on the eyes in the game. Plus it just kinda puts you up sailing ships through green sludge. Brown sludge may not be a bad idea. I'll try it.
<b>Josef</b>
I know all about lightning storms! My computer just got hit through my phone line about a week ago now. Fried two PCI ports, a USB port, my graphics card, and my modem. Pesky thing lightning.
By the way, I'm going to be in the UK in June! Can't wait, I adore Europe. I lived in Germany last year. That was grand. I should have accepted admittance to school in London. I'd rather be there than here, right now.
Anyhow...
I didn't realize that wasn't the same font! I'll snag the pipboy font and see how that looks. Changing the Civilization 3 font is very easy; go to the root directory of Civ3. There should be a file there called LSANS.TTF - that is a true type font. All you have to do is back it up, then rename whatever ttf font you want to LSANS.TTF. Viola! Civ3 will now use that font instead of the generic Sans Serif one. Cool, huh? I've tried a few, just to jazz things up but nothing quite works correctly. Most fonts are out of alignment.
I have those Fallout 2 extraction files! It's a pain in the butt, although handy.
I have photoshop! I never use it, but I have it. Making the landscape blasted is a good idea guys. I never thought about that. I can probably cut and paste blasts from Fallout 2 and Tactics and then try and match it to the terrain in Civ3. This will be a bit of work, but I think I should be able to get on it by next week.
<b>Ferret Lover</b>
Bummer, dude. I feel so bad. I'll compress it in something a mac can use. I use a compression format made by a German company. The format is called ACE. I find it is the best for multimedia compressions.
I haven't owned a Mac since 1989 - so I'm a bit out of it. Back in the day it was: GZip and Tar formats. I can do either of them. There is also a format that WinACE supports called GZip Tar which I guess is a combination of the two? I'm sure just plain ZIP has come to the Mac by now if you think Mac users would prefer that. Not sure how big a ZIP file would be - worst compression ever. Oh, I can do Java JAR too.
I'll compress an archive as soon as I hear from you.
By the way, everyone can e-mail me at kiranpatil@yahoo.com
My old e-mail address doesn't work. Everytime I log in, hotmail freezes up.
Hi Skarekrow,
I can use Zip files, Stuffit files, Tar files and probably many other types of compression. I just can't use .exe files. There is a free installer program called VISE Installer that you could use if you are wanting to do an install. Otherwise, as long as you compress the files and give clear instructions on where to place them in the Civ III folders, I can do it myself. I appreciate it. I was kinda feeling left out. After all, I was the one that poked ya into getting it back up.
Thank you for everything.
David
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