Native city

[Chamaedrys]

requested by Sword of Geddon, a city set for the Native Americans:

longhouses, tents and totem poles



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[hrochland]

Very, very, very Nice, Chamaedrys. I like it. I cannot make it well as you

 

[woodelf]

That is super. The cottages look awesome.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

beautiful.

 

[ClassicThunder]

This will work perfectly for my Urgial civ. Excellent job.

 

[GeoModder]

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[Dom Pedro II]

I like this for a "Native American" civ, but I would actually like to implement both a Sioux and Iroquois civ in my mod, so the merger of the two styles of Native American housing wouldn't really work.. how hard would it be to make a separate city style with just the longhouses (there's already a teepee-only city style, no?)

 

[GeoModder]

You can "split" a single cityset over 2 artstyles. There's no need to request a new .nif file. It isn't that hard, you just need to check which building has what reference and xml it to the right artstyle.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

You can "split" a single cityset over 2 artstyles. There's no need to request a new .nif file. It isn't that hard, you just need to check which building has what reference and xml it to the right artstyle.

Oh.. ok, then. Great! I haven't really poked about the graphics much obviously...

 

[seZereth]

great work!

 

[Ambreville]

This looks awesome!

I'm new at dealing with graphics/modding. I did figure out (I think) how/where to add the new native ARTSTYLE entries and how to reference the .nif file. On the other hand, I don't know where to reference the two .dds files. Where do these come into play if I may ask?

Thanks!

 

[GeoModder]

This looks awesome!

I'm new at dealing with graphics/modding. I did figure out (I think) how/where to add the new native ARTSTYLE entries and how to reference the .nif file. On the other hand, I don't know where to reference the two .dds files. Where do these come into play if I may ask?

Thanks!

.dds files are embedded in the .nif file. There's no use xml'ing .dds files.

 

[Ambreville]

.dds files are embedded in the .nif file. There's no use xml'ing .dds files.

Thanks. That solved the problem. The .dds files must however be located in the folder with the .nif file anyway, right?

 

[Ambreville]

Well darn. I updated CityLsystem.xml, PlotLsystem.xml, CivilizationInfos.xml, GlobalTypes.xml, and the current scenario's WBsave file in the scenario's publicmap folder, but I still end up with generic city graphics (nothing crashed upon loading at least). Any ideas what I might have forgotten?

 

[GeoModder]

Try your changes out as a mod first. See if that works. When I xml a new cityset in, I don't even need to adjust anything in globaltypes.xml

 

[Ambreville]

Try your changes out as a mod first. See if that works. When I xml a new cityset in, I don't even need to adjust anything in globaltypes.xml

That didn't make any difference (it shouldn't since I had modified the map file accordingly). I just loaded the mod itself, without the scenario.

Would you mind terribly having a look at these xml files? Maybe I missed something...

 

[Chamaedrys]

That didn't make any difference (it shouldn't since I had modified the map file accordingly). I just loaded the mod itself, without the scenario.

Would you mind terribly having a look at these xml files? Maybe I missed something...

Hi, there

Your xml seems to be pretty clean. I load it and everything worked. The only thing is that a lot of anicient eu stuff appears in the ancient age. A lot of these building have xml only for classical era till renaissange.

E.g. this one:

<ArtRef Name="generic:native_city.nif::2x1_02">
<Attribute Class="Era">ERA_CLASSICAL,ERA_MEDIEVAL,ERA_RENAISSANCE</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="ArtStyle">ARTSTYLE_NATIVE</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="Scalar">iBatchGroup:1</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="Rotation">0,180</Attribute>
</ArtRef>

add an ERA_ANCIENT:

<ArtRef Name="generic:native_city.nif::2x1_02">
<Attribute Class="Era">ERA_ANCIENT,ERA_CLASSICAL,ERA_MEDIEVAL,ERA_RENAISSANCE</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="ArtStyle">ARTSTYLE_NATIVE</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="Scalar">iBatchGroup:1</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="Rotation">0,180</Attribute>
</ArtRef>

happy that you like my work

Chamaedrys

 

[Ambreville]

(...)add an ERA_ANCIENT:

<ArtRef Name="generic:native_city.nif::2x1_02">
<Attribute Class="Era">ERA_ANCIENT,ERA_CLASSICAL,ERA_MEDIEVAL,ERA_RENAISSANCE</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="ArtStyle">ARTSTYLE_NATIVE</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="Scalar">iBatchGroup:1</Attribute>
<Attribute Class="Rotation">0,180</Attribute>
</ArtRef>

happy that you like my work

Yeah! I love what you've done with this. It's right in the style of the scenario I've been working on.

I'll go ahead and add the Ancient Era material above. Can't wait to see it work as intended! I plan on releasing that in my scenario's next update, if that's OK with you. Thanks a bunch for taking the time to look over my coding!

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EDIT

We got Teepees in AD1640!

Now... you wouldn't by any chance have a smilie popping a cork out of champagne bottle, would you?

 

[woodelf]

I thought you'd like this Ambreville. I kept forgetting to point you to it though. Looks great in your screenshot.

 

[GeoModder]

Oh, I see the problem is already solved.