Removing Great Wall graphic

[deanej]

My mod is based off of Final Frontier. Just one problem: I have a wonder that prevents barbarians from entering the borders of the civ that creates it, but for some reason the game insists on having the great wall graphic. There is no reference to it in the art defines, and I even removed all references to the nif files for it in the misc art defines! Now I have a pink border show up whenever it gets built. How do I fix this? I don't want the game to put any graphic on the screen when it is completed - having a wall is just ridiculous in space!

 

[Thorn]

One idea might be to let it draw the Great Wall but change the art files so that everything is transparent?

 

[bmarnz]

check the city LSystem file

 

[deanej]

How do you make it invisible? I tried to make the dds textures have an all black alpha channel, but it didn't work.

I don't think the problem is in the Lsystem. I'm using L_SYSTEM_3x2 on this building as well as many others which don't have the problem. I suspect that the XML tag that causes the building to have the effect of barbarians not entering the borders causes the wall to appear. It wouldn't be surprising - many times Firaxis is very lazy in how they implement things. Just look at their scenarios - no SDK changes even for things that any modder here would use the SDK for - it's all python.

 

[bmarnz]

How do you make it invisible? I tried to make the dds textures have an all black alpha channel, but it didn't work.

I don't think the problem is in the Lsystem. I'm using L_SYSTEM_3x2 on this building as well as many others which don't have the problem. I suspect that the XML tag that causes the building to have the effect of barbarians not entering the borders causes the wall to appear. It wouldn't be surprising - many times Firaxis is very lazy in how they implement things. Just look at their scenarios - no SDK changes even for things that any modder here would use the SDK for - it's all python.

Once you make it transparent, you have to go back and undo the deletion of the pointers to artwork, as a pink border means the artwork is missing.

If that's not it, the alpha channel may not be active and would require editing NIF file with NIF viewer.

 

[deanej]

Unfortunately, I'm not a modeler. How do I do it from working with the model?

 

[Thorn]

Ok, I'll take a look at this. I've unpacked the Art files but where did you find the Great Wall files? I see the folder with the Wonders in it but the Great Wall images are missing.

 

[deanej]

Should be Warlords/Assets/Art/Structures/Cities/Great_Wall. If you're looking for art in the mod, it won't be there as I never messed with the graphic as of the last uploaded version - even so, I deleted the two files I did modify after they didn't change anything.

 

[Thorn]

deanej,

By replacing the original Great Wall graphics with the attached files I was able to make the Great Wall invisible in my current BTS game. It should work for your mod as well. Let me know if it doesn't.

 

[deanej]

That worked. I guess I missed the third file when I did it. Thanks.