P_L's Guild of Architects

[Ploeperpengel]

Firsat of all. Have you been playing with or without the python/SDK?

 

[Arexack_heretic]

Eh...what?

If you are refering to the folders that are stashed under assets, I am. Otherwise, I don't know what you mean.

*DL-ed warlords, DL-ed WL_WFB latest beta, looked at warlords vanilla for 5 minutes. Started up WFB to look at Woodelfs.*
Which is much more rewarding than playing with undead, that only gets special units in the third age, after the "all-out warfare with warriors and no money for tech" phase.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

I'm sorry. I mean first: Did you play in debug mode (howto is TGAs pythontutorial-just a few changes in the civini) and receive the bugs mentioned? If you applied the debugmode correctly your comp should be able to log errors and those logs we can use to hunt down bugs.

 

[Arexack_heretic]

okay, I did not run debugging on.

Trying to figure out how now.
found TGA's tut-thread. scanned it.
searching for civilization4.ini file

Did some nice skaven icons by the way.
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I have them converted to dds naturally.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

@ Ploe: did you DL my buildings yet?

@ Chamaedrys; how do you do textures for your city art? whats the most efficient way of doing everything? i need to know this stuff if i want to actually be of help instead of an annoying noob

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Yes I downloaded and passed on the links for the dds textured versions to Chamy as well.

 

[Chamaedrys]

@ Ploe: did you DL my buildings yet?

@ Chamaedrys; how do you do textures for your city art? whats the most efficient way of doing everything? i need to know this stuff if i want to actually be of help instead of an annoying noob

Unfortunately, we're using different programms. My programme (Blender) drops the texture in a .tga file. I edit this file or load another tga and put the "faces" of my model on the places that I want.
The UV-map after I placed the faces:

Editing the tga with a photoshop-like programme:

Reloading the edited tga:

When it's done, I export the model as a nif and convert the tga to dds. Than I put nif and dds in the nifviewer and make the model use the dds instéad of the tga.

The result in the nif viewer:

btw: the 2 palaces, the tree city and a lot of the houses are very useful. ;-)

EDIT: I will use smaller screenies, next time .

 

[Chamaedrys]

An inspiration for Lizard men and Amazons:

I have found that pic on a game site.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Yes that looks cool and also check the new FFH version for models. They got some awesome ancient templeart there. Tommorrow I will have a detailed look at it and hopefully upload a new buildingartfolder by evening or nighttime as xmlplayground.
till tommorrow

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

Ok, well thats basically the same as what i do to my textures, except i skip the .tga part and go to a .bmp, then .dds.

in youre tutorial on putting city art into the game, you said something about all the buildings using the same texture. what do you mean there? how do you do that?

EDIT: thats quite a cool looking building. what game was it? i want to see if theres any more buildings that i could use

 

[Chamaedrys]

Ok, well thats basically the same as what i do to my textures, except i skip the .tga part and go to a .bmp, then .dds.

in youre tutorial on putting city art into the game, you said something about all the buildings using the same texture. what do you mean there? how do you do that?

That is a weird story: if you have one city set like the med_eu.nif and use several texture files, the game uses just one of them for all buildings of that set.
To do this you put the texture for all buildings in one big file (e.g. 512 x512) open your 3d programe, open your model, load the texture file and place the faces of the uv-map of where you want.

EDIT: thats quite a cool looking building. what game was it? i want to see if theres any more buildings that i could use

Sorry, I forgot it

EDIT: I have found two palace or fortress-like buildings at rise of nations:

http://www.microsoft.com/games/riseofnations/sst_057.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/games/riseofnations/sst_056.asp

 

[Ploeperpengel]

The style of those buildings would be really nice for amazons-lizards I agree.

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

OK thanks chamaedrys. i understand now, sorry about being a pain. im going to have a play around today and see what i can do. Thanks

those aztec buildings are brilliant by the way. thanks, i might just start skinning my lizard buildings now