Time for a well overdue project update!
@Metro Polis has been travelling and I've been recovering from some surgery but plenty of progress has been made in the last couple of months and we're pretty much finished now and just doing final touch ups and play testing.
Throne Room:
Metro has replaced the entire throne room with HoMM2 castle screens broken up into puzzle pieces. As each area is upgraded you'll go through several castle types. So if you choose to upgrade one particular area a few times it will lead to some rather funny results and mixed matches lol. While we would have loved to have done a castle with individual buildings being built (similar to what Tom did with his
HoMM3 Civ3 mod) the positioning of objects in the throne room is hard coded and not something we can access to tamper with. So castle image puzzle pieces was the best we could do!
Diplomacy Herald Videos:
Metro has successfully replaced and tested all of Civ2's heralds with video animations of top tier HoMM2 units (eg Dragons, Titans, Crusaders, Phoenixes etc). They look awesome and its a real thrill when the leader you're talking to gets angry and the creature does its attack animation!!
![Smile :) :)](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif)
I might post an example video of this here soon...
Genie for our 7th neutral faction
Happy HoMM2 Warlock Herald:
Angry HoMM2 Warlock Herald haha:
New intro video and title screen graphics:
Metro replaced the Civ2 intro with a short piece from HoMM2's intro and I've replaced all the DLL graphics in the main menu screen and start on customized world images. Once again we suffered from severe size limitations of the original Civ 2 DLL image files so the colours aren't too brilliant in some images sadly! Also we don't know of any way to change the brown main menu background either!
Intro Video
Main Menu Screen
Wonder Videos:
Metro has also completely finished all of his wonder video conversions. These are really impressive and use a number of different videos (mostly from HoMM2) such as a Dragon breathing fire or a camera pass in a medieval library while HoMM2 music plays all leading to a frozen image with the details of our custom wonders all in the actual video! I might post an example video of this here soon as well...
Screenshots from new wonder videos...