aob86
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I'd like to see the beta, too.
It will be a few more days before he replies Dumanios, they have very slow internet in chicago so thats why it sometimes takes dacubz145 days to reply
I'd like to see the beta, too.
The problem is when my computer is starting up i am impaccient so I check threads on my ipad...then the computer loads and I click my account and nothings there and clicking "subscriptions" is all to much efforts...beside didnt see a reason to respond to the last oneIt will be a few more days before he replies Dumanios, they have very slow internet in chicago so thats why it sometimes takes dacubz145 days to reply
Thought you wouldI'd like to see the beta, too.
I didn't use guides while learning xml (which you are trying to learn) I messed around with ROM. Idk what you have on your computer int he UK but Im asuming you are using notepad, I would suggest notepad ++ because when you have an error in xml it tells you the line number and notepad ++ tells you the line number
Anyway once you get notepad ++ (free), pick a mod you want to mess around with the units stats etc (I chose ROM b/c I wanted to remove all future stuff). Figure out how to change movements, cost strenghts all important stuff like that, go through the modiki and figure out how to change more complicated things like combat on a certain terrain or vs a domain. Dont worry about art cause thats a bit more complicated and I actually didnt fully learn that till after 3 or 4 versions of TTT was out. Then try to remove a unit, then try to add one (copy and paste another one and then edit one ) just use the art of the one you copied.
Personally if you do this you will learn it 100 times better than a tutorial. Its pretty common sense once you get use to it (ex. changing <combat>3</combat> to <combat>4</combat> changes strength from 3 to 4, dont need a tutorial for that). Once you figure out how to do everything in the units file, then you can worry about art, which if you cant find a good tutorial I could create one myself it wouldnt take to long
Update of mod: Found several crash errors that are now fixed, I am on Yemen right now of leaderheads so theres only a couple civs left to do so 15 minutes and leaderheads are done. Also I chose Reagan as the US leader not FDR - Personally feel he should be in it since Cold War signified US was the power of the world without a doubt, and Reagan was the #1 president during the cold war, and actually is #1 of #2 overall in history (usually behind lincoln) in severall polls
Just curious assuming you learn xml and all what do you plan on modding?
Ehh xml doesnt take to much time really, if you make a mod based on just xml isnt really time consuming, its when you get into art or python or a really really large mod where it redose so much (modern alliances) taht its time consumingwhat you say makes sence to me get the basics down and then go from there
I'm downloading notepad ++ as we speak. i havent had time to spend days learning stuff of late due to work and like i said next year im planning on learning more modding, how well that goes is another matter of course
Ive been trying a few things. i converted the 1936 scenario from GEM to work on my ROM with modmods installed, nothing major i know but not something i had done before so.
i hadnt really planned on doing much if anything on unit arts if im being honest but who knows lol.
if you think it should be Reagan then thats cool with me, like i said before your the american so you know your country better than i do.
if you mean what made me ask about it, well having converted that scenario from GEM to ROM, its missing units which you have in your mod like frigate or light crusier or armored crusier or ww1 infantry etc etc and so i thought i would try my hand at adding them in my self.
the first unit i downloaded came in mostly KF files and from what i could see any units added to mods as Modules are mostly XML files so i was assuming there was some converting to be done to add it but i couldnt find a tutorial on how to do that.
if you meant what are my plans after i learn more long term. well other than maybe helping you out with modding if you need any help nothing really. ive seen how much time and effort it takes you to make your mod and i dont fancy that my self lol.
i maybe make some changes to ROM to make it abit more to my taste but that would only be for my own personal use
Yes that looks right, i skimmed it looks good - only thing I would suggest is getting nif viewer, you can do minor art things with this but more importantly you can see what the nif is - it is pretty important if are working with a file with more than one nif file in it so you know which one to link to (leaderheads have tons). Only thing is when you download nifviewer it also makes kfm files default to the nifviewer and renames the type of file to NIF something so you cant tell the difference between kfm and nif files - open one in nif veiwer, if its empty then set it so that type of file always opens in something random (ex. notepad) so you can tell them apart
Also do you have a .dds reader? I think there is a way to get GIMP to read .dds but I use DXT BMP (I posted a file for that) because it is based for DDS, extremely easy to use and you can make the editor be paint or gimp or whatever you please. If you dont know what dds it its basically 2d art - if you want to create a button or something you just open the file with dXT BMP and save it as a dds.
Still would like you to get the beta or new version to see what you thinkwell im surprised to hear your working on it, knowing how passionate you are about politics i thought you might still be crying that obama got re-elected
but im not surprised he was re-elected as they said on UK news that usually you have to be a really bad president to not get a second term. romney shot him self in the foot by saying 47% of americans wouldnt vote for him as they dont pay tax. that sandy give obama 5 days on tv and took the wind out of romneys campaign and now that white americans are in the minority for the first time the republicans are out dated and need to change.
well as ive said before due to work i wont be able to do much scenario making until january now, i may have time to do abit because its abit quieter than last year but im assuming your gonna be busy with your other mods so unless you want to do some the WW2 scenario may have to go on the back burner until jan.
I've never heard anything about your texas story, doesnt matter really to me just seems like another one of your silly stories to degrade america (like the slavery, which was said by someone in a small town government...nothing like a governer), joke but you do love those stories but Texas is republican, was last 4 years, will be next 4 years so definatly not a big story in america as it doesnt matteroh yeah i would def like to try it.
i watched the news coverage on UK tv for a few hours that night and what i got from what i saw was america seems really divided looking at which states voted for who, looking from the outside it all seemed complicated to me, electoral college and votes that only get counted if its a close call.
and what was that someone posted in the forums on here about complants to the UN about voting in texas, so the UN monitors that went were told by attorney general of texas that being there was against the law and threatened criminal prosecution if they do. is texas in russia or USA? i cant tell.........
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=478673
like ive said in the past, i dunno if its just this age we live in but there never seems to be any great leaders in any countries anymore, there all average at best. plenty of bad and evil ones tho, somethings are always the same
People responded negative to attack ads, and Obama had a lot of them - couldnt tell you bout Romney since im in chicago and illionois is gonna be democrat no matter what so he barely advertised there). Im glad its over too thoughPersonally, I'm glad the election is over. Tired of calls to the house at odd hours in the morning, political ads everywhere, and political partisanship everywhere. Personally, I'm holding out for Christie 2016. Seems like he's the best politician out there in America.
As for the attack ads, they're wimpy compared to the ads of our forefathers.
I've never heard anything about your texas story, doesnt matter really to me just seems like another one of your silly stories to degrade america (like the slavery, which was said by someone in a small town government...nothing like a governer), joke but you do love those stories but Texas is republican, was last 4 years, will be next 4 years so definatly not a big story in america as it doesnt matter
I think america has had recent ones. Reagan was great in many people opinions, he was the 80's. the problem in the last 20 or so years is globalization, leaders become less and less important to the world so harder to be famous for being good, but theres always been evil leader, a lot more in the past then now. I think clinton was actually not that bad of a president for us, and if it wasnt for his sex scandals he would actually have a very good reputation (last balanced budget...impossible for Obama or bush to do). Obama has the opurtinity to be one (1st black president comes in the middle of the 2008 crisis), but so far he aint taking that opurtinity
Gotta keep in mind, great leaders arent great untill years later...No one was talking about how great Churchill was as a leader in the middle of WW2