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Hi everyone,
I know I've come pretty late to this platform, but I'm hoping someone can give me a little advice on my first custom civ for BNW.
I'm planning on making the Bretons (not from Skyrim, the real Celtic people), and I've had a lot of fun working out the AI flavours and creating a cross between a heraldic Ermine and the ancient Celtic Awen symbol for the civ icon that I'm really proud of, but there's still a lot of things I'm confused about.
I'm new to programming and modding in general, so I apologise if I don't know the right terminology.
Question 1: Is there a good technique to make good-looking civ icons that scale well? I made my icon using Irkalla's tutorial, but it's way bigger than the atlas template I found in the Civ5 program files, and when I scale it down in GIMP to fit, it gets kinna fuzzy. Does anyone have any tips for making and scaling icons (preferrably using GIMP or Inkscape)?
Question 2: Does anyone have a blank Gods and Kings + BNW civ mod file with all the entry places you need to make a functioning mod? I went through my program files and I got a lot of them but I'm afraid that I might miss something. Can I borrow the format (but not the input values) from someone else's mod that I download?
Question 3: What color format is the civ player color coded in? I can tell it's based on RGB but I've never seen anything use decimals with RGB before. I assume that black is 0 0 0 since white is 1 1 1?
Question 5: Where do you indicate that a leader uses feminine titles (Lady, Empress, etc.)? I assume it works similar to spy names with <gender>feminine</gender>, but I'm not sure where to put it on future projects.
Thank you in advance for your responses!
I know I've come pretty late to this platform, but I'm hoping someone can give me a little advice on my first custom civ for BNW.
I'm planning on making the Bretons (not from Skyrim, the real Celtic people), and I've had a lot of fun working out the AI flavours and creating a cross between a heraldic Ermine and the ancient Celtic Awen symbol for the civ icon that I'm really proud of, but there's still a lot of things I'm confused about.
I'm new to programming and modding in general, so I apologise if I don't know the right terminology.
Question 1: Is there a good technique to make good-looking civ icons that scale well? I made my icon using Irkalla's tutorial, but it's way bigger than the atlas template I found in the Civ5 program files, and when I scale it down in GIMP to fit, it gets kinna fuzzy. Does anyone have any tips for making and scaling icons (preferrably using GIMP or Inkscape)?
Question 2: Does anyone have a blank Gods and Kings + BNW civ mod file with all the entry places you need to make a functioning mod? I went through my program files and I got a lot of them but I'm afraid that I might miss something. Can I borrow the format (but not the input values) from someone else's mod that I download?
Question 3: What color format is the civ player color coded in? I can tell it's based on RGB but I've never seen anything use decimals with RGB before. I assume that black is 0 0 0 since white is 1 1 1?
Question 5: Where do you indicate that a leader uses feminine titles (Lady, Empress, etc.)? I assume it works similar to spy names with <gender>feminine</gender>, but I'm not sure where to put it on future projects.
Thank you in advance for your responses!