Mod Idea: The Wild West

[cfkane]

I'm not sure about replacing the FF's with technologies. If that gets placed, then that would mean only one faction would know how to use a cotton gin. It just doesn't seem that realistic.

 

[i_diavolorosso]

A long you doesn't make a money from it, it isn't illegal i think.

 

[Flintlock1415]

I'm not sure about replacing the FF's with technologies. If that gets placed, then that would mean only one faction would know how to use a cotton gin. It just doesn't seem that realistic.

I don't follow your logic. The technologies would look like Civ, but be gained in a similar way to Col.
Each faction can choose what to get as a tech. Its not like I'm making each resource require a tech.
The bonuses would be much the same, with the exception of railroads by tech. The era was full of technological advances i.e. steel plow would give +1 food to plains, steam thresher would improve pioneer build speed, etc.

I guess I could place a name to each technology, but I don't know for sure and I'm still open to suggestions.

 

[Modeltrainman]

Your locomotive is here. I got permisson. http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=12106

 

[Flintlock1415]

Thank you very much, this will save me a lot of time!

 

[Modeltrainman]

I just hope it'll work in Colonization, supposedly, Railroads! assets are hard to get into Civ4 engine games. That's probably because Railroads! wasn't built on the Civ 4 engine,(I don't think,)What's the purpose of the locomotive going to be? Transport? Here's it in motion:

 

[Ekmek]

I wonder if you can make this unit only move on tiles with railroads

 

[Flintlock1415]

Well, its a nif, so it should work, even if it needs a little coaxing. I'm wondering about how high the poly count is though. I'll import into Blender, reduce the count if needed, and export for Civ 4.

I guess we'll have to see how it goes.
Edit:
@ Ekmek
I know that someone (I think Jeckel) made a modcomp that did this.

 

[Modeltrainman]

Can you use the animations from Railroads? And maybe train sounds, so it moves and sounds like a train? What's its purpose anyway? Transport?

 

[Flintlock1415]

I'm pretty sure the animations should still work. I will add train sounds, but probably not for the first release. (I don't play with sounds on, so if I can get a team together, I'll get someone else to do that. )
The train will be a faster, higher capacity version of the Wagon train, and hopefully I can make railroads a part of the victory conditions.

 

[Modeltrainman]

Wow, this might be my dream mod. Also, I uploaded a file for Railroads! that changes dates and speeds of locomotives. Feel free to incorporate that:http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=12110, I learned limited XML from it. Also, would it be possible to rebuild Railroads! on the Colonization engine in this mod?

 

[Modeltrainman]

Flintlock1415, I'm not an artist, but I'd like to offer these textures for your wild west mod.

 

[Flintlock1415]

Hmm, looks interesting. I'm not so sure what you're asking; are you trying to make a railroads mod with Colonization? I've never played Railroads, so I'm not so sure as to the mechanics that you'd need to introduce.

I would guess that it would be possible, but depending on the differences in the game, I'd guess that you'd need to know your way around a C++ file (or find another person who is good at using the SDK).
EDIT: Just saw your new post. I'm assuming your working on getting those up?

 

[Modeltrainman]

Yes, here they are: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=my. I was curious abut Railroads! in Colonization because it sounded like what you were trying to do. Hope the textures wotk well. I made them myself. No, I'm not trying to make one.
I should add that they're under Colonization Downloads.I made them specifically for this mod.

 

[Flintlock1415]

Thanks for the terrain textures, but I think that I'm going to use the railroad terrain from Civ 4. I may need to make a new river terrain, pending on whether I use bridges or not. This won't necessarily be a Railroads! mod, but it will make railroads a major part of the gameplay. Once again, I've never played Railroads! so any similarities are purely coincidental.

FWIW, I've reduced the poly count from 2271 faces down to 1824, so -447 faces. (The wagon train has 1506, so I think the game can handle 1824.) I'll try to add it in to Colonization, and see if it works or not. It has a nice shader, so it might just work right off the bat.

Thanks for your help and interest in this mod, Modeltrainman!

 

[Modeltrainman]

You're welcome, Flintlock! I can't wait to play it!

 

[Modeltrainman]

Once you get the loco in Colonization can you post a screenshot? I want to see how it looks outside of its intended game.

 

[Flintlock1415]

You must've read my mind, I was just coming here to put it up. The unit went in with minimal resistance; I only had to make a few changes to get it to look right.

So here it is, in all of its glory!

I think I'll upload this in one unit pack with my other Wild West units, ie the pistoleer, ranger, and cavalry.

 

[Modeltrainman]

It's awesome, one question though, why is it gray? Shouldn't it be red? Or blue? Do you want me to paint it? That I can do. Is it animated?

 

[Flintlock1415]

Gray was the color of the texture in the file you gave me. It looks better/more realistic than a blue or red train would imo; I don't think that trains were red or blue during those days. I think gray is best, unless you would like to put a little teamcolor on it.
Yes it is animated, but it looks a little funny since it goes even when you don't move the unit. Its not a big deal, though.