HOW TO: Create a Civilization

[BvH]

I cant save my alpha channel . I keep clicking save in paint AND in Dxtbmp but everytime i reload it it is just white

I may or may not have found a way around this. What I did was I copied a .dds file that already had a black alpha channel (I think I used Greek World/Assets/Art/Interface/Leaderheads/Btn_LH_Empty_D.dds), then (after stretching the image to the desired proportions) used MS Paint to replace the image with my civ's flag. I went back to Dxtbmp and refreshed both the image and the alpha channel, and the alpha channel remained black. I've yet to test the new flag out in my mod, though.

Forgive me if someone else already answered your question, I haven't read every post in this thread yet.

 

[BvH]

Sorry didn't mean to post here at all so I deleted my post

But ahem, since I'm here... anyone knows how to change the existing leader's traits?

Yep. Go to Assets/XML/Civilizations/CIV4LeaderHeadInfos
Scroll down (wayyy down) until you find the leader you want to edit (Frederick, for instance)
Scroll down yet further until you come to what looks like:
<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_PHILOSOPHICAL(or whatever trait)</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>
There should be two of these for each leader. Change them to whatever you want, using all caps and leaving the TRAIT_ part of it unchanged.
See if it works!
PS: Since you posted your question a while ago, forgive me if someone else answered your question first.

 

[crowman1993]

how do you start making a civ?

 

[germanshepro]

Is there a tutorial on how to create a civilization in BTS, or is it exactly the same?

 

[The_J]

Details are different, most of them you'll probably not even notice, but the total setup is the same. The obvious thing is, that this tutorial doesn't cover unique buildings, but if you're able to do the rest, then this shouldn't be a problem at the end.

 

[Awesome825]

how do you put an image into a border???

 

[The_J]

Welcome to CFC, Awesome825.

What exactly do you mean? For a button? Please rephrase your question.

 

[Awesome825]

yes, for a button
How do I put a image in a button?

 

[The_J]

You might want to take a look at my tutorial for button making.
It's not a complicated thing and completely sufficient when you begin with modding.

 

[KrisButtar]

i am stuck on the step to make buttons, i am new at using a pc and to this site. could you explain the creating buttons a little better? where to i get a civ4 border?(or make one?) do i con't to edit the pic and flag to 64x64?

thanks
pretty excited to get my own custom civ up and running

 

[The_J]

Welcome to CFC .

Take a look at the post above yours .

 

[KrisButtar]

from the next war mod, as i like the flag and then just add my own leaders, but i can not find where sid hid all the files for that civilzation or even the asia one. if anyone could point me in the right or give me a download link?

 

[The_J]

Most of the art is packed in 4 big files, the .fpk files, in the Civilization4\Assets folder (Civ4, not Warlords or BtS).
You can use the program pakBuild to extract the files, so that you can work with them and look at them (for which you again need some other programs. For the 3D files, nifSkope is an easy usable tool for just looking at them, for 2D files (.dds), i suggest DXTBmp, also because it's easy to use).

 

[Awesome825]

<LeaderHeadInfo>
<Type>LEADER_WASHINGTON</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_LEADER_WASHINGTON</Description> <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_LEADER_WASHINGTON_PEDIA</Civilopedia> <ArtDefineTag>ART_DEF_LEADER_WASHINGTON</ArtDefineTag>

This is in Civ4Leaderheadinfos.xml in the civilizations folder which is in XML. Now what is ArtDefineTag?

 

[The_J]

the ArtDefineTag is a link to an entry in Assets\XML\Art\ArtDefines_Leaderheads (in this case; if you were looking at a unit, then it would be in ArtDefines_Units, if it was a civ then ArtDefines_civilizations), etc.
In the ArtDefines the actual graphics are then linked.

 

[Awesome825]

Every time I try to laod a downloaded mod which was from "http://civilization4.filefront.com/file/;60986" it shows up with an error that reads

Failed Loading XML file XML\Art/CIV4ArtDefines_Leaderhead.xml.[.\FXml.cpp:133]Error parcing XML File-
File: XML\art/CIV4Artdefines_Leaderhead.xml
Reason: End tag 'KFM' does not match the start tag 'LeaderheadArtInfo'.

Line: 229, 6
Source: </KFM>

anybody know why this might happen??

 

[Awesome825]

?????

 

[The_J]

You must have actually deleted or added a partial XML in there.
Please show us the whole new/changed entry.

 

[Awesome825]

<LeaderheadArtInfo>
<Type>ART_DEF_LEADER_Syndicalist_Committee</Type>
<Button>,Art/interface/LeaderHeads/buttonalpha3zi1].dds</Button>
<NIF>Art/Interface/Leaderheads/SC_2nd_rev.dds</NIF>
<KFM/>
<NoShaderNIF/>
<BackgroundKFM/>
</LeaderheadArtInfo>

I got the bottom from the tutorial

 

[The_J]

Is that really the exact text in the file? If yes, please also show us the parts before and afterwards, or better directly attach the file.

And remove the comma before the button, that will lead to problems (don't put a comma there if it's only a single button and not double entries like for the standard leaders), and i'd also say you should rename the button so that there's no ] in the name.