How to add Population Heads ??

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

How to add Population Heads in the City view- I added seven new Specialists and have no idea how to make them show up in the game ... can somebody give me a hint??

 

[Willem]

There's a very good chance your game will crash if you add new specialists, at least as of 1.29f. They may have fixed it in PTW, I'm not sure. I haven't had a chance to get to that yet, and I'm a bit nervous about trying.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Oh yes, I forgot to add I got PTW now... is the Smallheads file hardcoded or could one make it bigger like the units_32 file ???

 

[Kal-el]

All you need to do is add rows to the bottom of the popHeads.pcx as seen below.

There is a problem, however, and I don't think there is any way to fix it. When adding new citizen popheads the European Civ's Citizens will get messed up in the City Screen. Its hard to describe so you will just have to see what I mean for yourself. But the DyP team has tried everything we could think of to fix the problem and haven't come up with anything.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Ah, Kal-El- just the Civver I was hoping for to get some advice ... hmmm will the added specialists turn up alright in the game ?

 

[Kal-el]

For everybody but the European Culture group they work perfectly. Not sure why this is the case, but they read the file differently than everybody else and there doesn't seem to be any way to accomodate them both. To be honest I don't find it to be that big of a problem. It would be nice if Firaxis would fix it, but its not a game breaker.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Okidoke- so that one is about solved ... how come so many good ideas that were in SMAC were not optimized in Civ3 *sigh* aparently the people that left Firaxis took a fair ammount of knowledge with them...

 

[Syrus_Knife]

Hey Winter, did you get my PM?