[Graphic Mod] Varietas Delectat v9.2 [civ specific unit sets]

[Lemon Merchant]

Ok. What would be useful is of course the actual city stats: which civ, what era and what buildings.

Thanks.

Oh goodness, just ignore me.

It turned out to be a Crossfire driver error. Sorry.

 

[The Capo]

Timur Lenk (Tamerlane) optimized (and some small corrections and enhanchement): http://www.filefront.com/16799445/Tamerlane_optimized.7z

I will be including it in Leaders of VD, too.

Interesting, do you have a screen shot? Also what civ will he lead?

 

[avain]

Interesting, do you have a screen shot? Also what civ will he lead?

It's your version of Timur. He'll lead the Mongols.
There's a correction to the bg, since there was a red line visible on the bottom part in game, also I made really minor texture change to the sword's accessory (that rope part)

 

[avain]

Oh goodness, just ignore me.

It turned out to be a Crossfire driver error. Sorry.

No prob!

 

[Lemon Merchant]

No prob!

Yup. Lemon the Dope strikes again.

On a nice note, BAT loads faster with VD 9.1. That's always a cause for celebration.

 

[avain]

Yup. Lemon the Dope strikes again.

On a nice note, BAT loads faster with VD 9.1. That's always a cause for celebration.

Just to let you know, even thou I did not plan it, it turns out that I'm doing even more optimizations to VD. (Along with adding Bakuel's and Bernie's new units. I did spot some sloppy old units and then there was no stopping )

PS: BTW, Urban Dict.:

dope
A word that describes something that is extremely cool, such as music, clothes, people, etc.

 

[avain]

You might remember I called the previous version a "Performance edition". Not much later I realized that even thou the mechanical
units and the most offending figure units are optimized, there is still a lot I could do to optimize the figure units further.
So I continued with removing the not needed meshes, optimizing texture usage, etc. I cut 25 more Mb, but more important is the
fact that in several cases a unit now uses half the triangle count and half the texture size than previously.

Take a look at the extent of optimizations I've done below and you'll understand why I'm calling this one the "Cheetah edition"

CHANGELOG

v9.2

- added Bakuel's brilliant Ottoman units
- added Bakuel's Celtic chariot
- added Bernie's Me262, Vbl Dingo, Pzkpfwivausfg
- changed Barbarian Knight to Khazar Heavy Cavalry

Optimizations to units:
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- Ottoman machinegunner optimized
- Zulu Ibutho optimized
- Zulu archer optimized
- Zulu cannon optimized
- Zulu crossbowman optimized
- Zulu grenadier optimized
- Zulu javelin optimized
- Zulu longbowman (greatly) optimized
- Zulu knight (greatly) optimized
- Zulu pikeman (greatly) optimized
- Zulu war elephant - pointing to skull texture corrected
- zulu spear chariot - added missing string.dds (zebra style)
- Finnish cavalry optimized
- Finnish jaegers optimized
- Finnish machinegun optimized
- Finnish marines optimized
- Finnish sam infantry optimized
- Swedish cannon optimized
- Swedish cuirassier optimized
- Swedish modern inf - removed not needed nif
- Viking warelephant optimized
- American sam infantry optimized
- American warlord optimized
- Captain america archer - removed not needed files
- Captain america maceman optimized and removed not needed files
- Captain america pikeman - removed not needed files
- Sumer cataphract - removed not needed files
- cleaned up Russia folder a bit
- Falxman removed (not used)
- Roman cannon optimized
- Roman cavalry optimized
- Roman chariot optimized a bit
- Roman grenadier optimized
- Roman heavy footman optimized
- Roman knight removed (not used)
- Roman musketman optimized
- Roman rifleman 1805 removed (not used)
- Portugal cannon optimized
- Native american archer removed (not used)
- Native american axeman removed (not used)
- Native american cannon optimized and removed not needed files
- Native american cavalry removed (not used)
- Native american chariot optimized
- Native american horsearcher removed (not used)
- Native american knight removed (not used)
- Native american maceman optimized and removed not needed files
- Native american machinegun optimized
- Iroquois warrior removed (not used)
- Native american warrior removed (not used)
- Native american crossbowman removed (not used)
- Aryan warrior removed (not used)
- Meso America/prophet optimized
- Korean lance cavalry heavily optimized
- Khmer cannon optimized
- Vietcong machinegun optimized
- Japanese cavalry optimized
- Japanese explorer optimized
- Japanese saminfantry optimized
- Italy cavalry optimized
- Indian cavalry optimized
- Indian rifleman optimized
- Indian cannon optimized
- Indian knight optimized
- Indian maceman optimized
- Indian marine optimized
- Indian settler optimized
- Indian spearman optimized
- Indian warelephant optimized
- Incan axeman optimized
- Incan crossbowman optimized
- Incan grenadier optimized
- Incan longbowman optimized
- Incan spearman optimized
- Incan war elephant reshufled
- Holland cannon optimized
- Holland crossbowman optimized
- Holland knight optimized
- Holland longbowman optimized
- Holland pikeman optimized
- Holland spearman optimized
- Greek cannon optimized
- Greek cavalry heavily optimized
- Greek grenadier optimized
- German axeman optimized
- German cannon optimized
- German cavalry optimized
- German great general optimized
- German machinegun optimized
- German paratrooper removed (not used)
- German pikeman optimized
- German spearman optimized
- Waffenss optimized
- French axeman optimized
- French pikeman optimized
- French swordsman optimized
- European cavalry optimized
- European explorer optimized
- English axeman optimized
- English cuirassier optimized
- English longbowman optimized
- Egyptian cannon optimized
- Egyptian grenadier optimized
- Egyptian horsearcher removed (not used)
- Egyptian pikeman optimized
- Egyptian saminfantry optimized
- Egyptian war elephant optimized
- Chinese crossbowman optimized
- Chinese heavy swordsman optimized
- Chinese knight optimized
- Carthagian musketman optimized
- Barbarian antitankinfantry optimized
- Barbarian axeman optimized
- Pirate musketman optimized
- Buryat optimized and retextured the shield
- Conan optimized
- Barbarian spearman optimized and retextured the shield
- Babylonian cataphract removed (not used)
- Babylonian mouted maceman optimized
- Aztec spearman optimized
- warrior_south_america removed (not used)
- aztec warrior removed (not used)
- Asian explorer optimized
- Chinese saminfantry optimized
- African explorer - removed not needed files
- African warlord_ancient optimized
- African warlord_middleage optimized
- African warlord_modern optimized

 

[NotSoGood]

That's lots of optimized units!
That's just amazing how you can optimize the units.

 

[riddleofsteel]

Avain is an optimizing machine, apparently. Will the recent changes to Varietas Delectat (and Leaders of Varietas Delectat) be appearing in Quot Capita? Thank you again.

 

[avain]

Thanks guys!

Yes, both the new VD and the Leaders will be in QC's next version.

 

[The Capo]

Awesome work on the optimization, time for some pillaging.

 

[GeoModder]

So, will there be more optimization in the future, or are about all units screened now?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

OMG avain! I can't keep up!!! I am not a "fast" girl!

I can't wait to try out the new graphics when I get home next week!

Oh yes, from "Mrs. Lemon's" (my partner) Dictionary:

"Dope: A video game playing nitwit that doesn't pay enough attention to what is going on around her, and posts before she thinks."

I think she has me pretty well summed up, wouldn't you say?

 

[avain]

@The Capo: thanks, and just suit yourself

@GeoModder: I had enough of optimizations for some time now, almost all units are checked (I probably missed a couple, but the vast majority is checked and optimized if needed)...

@Lemon Merchant: glad to hear!
"Mrs. Lemon" is pretty critical, ain't she?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

"Mrs. Lemon" is pretty critical, ain't she?

Yup. She can be harsh, but she keeps me in line when she needs to.

(Lord knows that's a full time job. )

Btw, I'll be folding the Cheetah edition into BAT 3 tomorrow to test it. And if you stop tweaking Varietas, I'll be able to release the new BAT before Christmas.

Nice job though.

 

[avain]

And if you stop tweaking Varietas, I'll be able to release the new BAT before Christmas.

Oh, how subtle! Ok, it seems I'll have to drop all activities now, sorry guys!
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Unless there are quality unit releases in the near future, I'm done with tweaking it, I've now moved to QC. (right now I'm merging the latest RevDCM with the latest Better AI...)

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Oh, how subtle! Ok, it seems I'll have to drop all activities now, sorry guys!
...

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Unless there are quality unit releases in the near future, I'm done with tweaking it, I've now moved to QC. (right now I'm merging the latest RevDCM with the latest Better AI...)

You'd better be done, mister...

j/k

Wonderful. Then I shall commence to stabilizing the new BAT.

 

[avain]

Quot Capita v7.0 uploaded
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http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=261143


Changelog

v7.0

• merged RevDCM 2.8beta(rev522) + BetterAI v1.01f+(rev591 + "AI refuses to take empty cities" fix) + BULL v1.2+(rev200) + BUG v4.4+(rev2236)
• added Varietas Delectat v9.2
• added full v3.2 Leaders of VD (huge kudos to AbsintheRed and The Almighty dF!)
  -> comes in two packs - if you are getting MAFs I suggest installing only 1 or 0 pack. (Pack 1 also contains Improved Graphics LH + improved Alexander LH)
• added Events with images (renegadechicken, EmperorFool, smeagolheart)
• added Europe and Earth maps for QC by Ronyboss
• added Thomas SG's solution to make the Manhattan Project a National Project and to allow nukes for a single civ
• removed some terrainImpassables from Gorillas (thx riddleofsteel)
• Pioneer Aviation set to Industrial Era, Radar and Ceramic Armour set to Modern Era (thx NDCSPURS)
• Prototyping does not give Nukes anymore (thx vivictius) (BTW, no more sea units if capital is not coastal)
• Possible correction to Choose Religions options giving 2 religions at once (please check and report back)
• Civic screen reverted back to Vanilla (I just like this one much-much more)
• Optimized and corrected the Plasma Infantry units

 

[RPG]

Wow...I've been away for a while & I come back to find a new version of QC! AWESOME!!! Can't wait to download it when I get home & play a game again.

 

[avain]

Wow...I've been away for a while & I come back to find a new version of QC! AWESOME!!! Can't wait to download it when I get home & play a game again.

Glad to see you back!
Don't forget the patch for QC