Star Wars: The Mod Strikes Back

[mrkingkong]

Checking in again.
Happy birthday chris for the other day!

What can i do then folks?
Im trying to learn OpenFX, i know a bit of Gmax (although id still have to learn the ins and outs of importing and exporting with that, and obviously i have things like PSP and the GIMP). Your suggestions?

Regards,
mrkingkong

 

[odintheking]

Well, right now, the most useful thing you can do is fourth our request in Kinboat's lottery,
BTW, a "Death Star" Wonder was just made. This inspired me to make a wonder/building list. Unfortunately, I counted only 7 things, so I'll put that off til' later .

 

[Chris85]

Yet again I'm one step ahead, here's a preliminary list of Improvements & Wonders.

@mrkingkong - I'm thinking of a quick list of things to do off the top of my head.

*Civilopedia Text and Graphics
*You can try add some new resources graphics to the ones I posted a couple of pages back
*BuildingLarge.pcx and BuildingSmall.pcx needs work
*Wonder Splashes
*City Graphics
*Leaderheads
*A ton of Units (If you can find my unit list on Page 7, any unit in italics needs to be done.)
*Tech icons even though we haven't got a tech tree yet.
*We could always use new terrain graphics.

 

[Olorin0222]

@Chris85: I put in a question on the OpenFX Tutorial page. Hopefully someone will be able to answer how to make good lasers.

Another question: I was placing resources on my galactic map, when I came upon an interesting dilemna. Since my planets are only one tile, which Bonus resource should I put on Naboo: Gungans or Nubians?

 

[Chris85]

Maybe we could combine those two resources into a single "Naboo" resource which gives you both Gungan and Nubian units.

 

[Olorin0222]

And would you like each planet to have a specific resource, or are some planets okay to not have resources?

 

[Olorin0222]

Maybe we could combine those two resources into a single "Naboo" resource which gives you both Gungan and Nubian units.

That would work.

P.S.

"Sorry! The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 30 seconds."

oops.

 

[odintheking]

Thanks for the list, Chris. I'll go ahead and make some.
@mrkingkong- we need a tech tree, really bad. We can finally make some techs if you do,

 

[Chris85]

Alright I've got another list, I guess I love making these things. It's a detailed Things to do List. Here's what needs to be done:

.BIX
Build Tech Tree - We still need to agree on a more permanent tech tree
Governments
Improvements & Wonders - Improvements & Wonders List
Units - Complete Units List


GRAPHICS

Add Units - Complete Units List
Airspeeder/Snowspeeder - Polyphemus (WIP)
ARC-170 Fighter
AT-RT
Banking Clan Frigate
Commerce Guild Destroyer
Droid Gunship
Droid Lander
Dwarf Spider Droid
Early Space Transport
General Grievous Leader Unit
Geonosian Sonic Cannon
Geonosian Warrior
Heavy Tank
"Home 1" MonCal Cruiser
Hoth Soldier
Hover Tank
Imperial High Guard
"Invisible Hand" Providence-Class Destroyer
Jedi Interceptor - Bjornlo (WIP)
Landspeeder
Magna Guard
Mandator-Class Dreadnaught
MC-40 Cruiser - Varlin Saliptor (WIP?)
MC-80 Cruiser
Mon Calamari Trooper
Orray Trooper
Rebel Commando
Republic Cruiser
Sandtrooper
Swoop Bike
Tauntaun Rider
Techno Union Ship
Theta-Class Shuttle
TIE Crawler
TIE Droid
Tri-Fighter
TX-130 Fighter Tank
V-19 Torrent - Olorin (WIP?)
V-Wing Fighter
Venator-Class Star Destroyer - Bjornlo (WIP)
Light Turret
Medium Turret
Heavy Turret
Dooku King Unit
Mon Mothma King Unit
Palpatine King Unit
Army
Flag

Yuuzhan Vong Units
Amphistaff Warrior
Coralskipper
Grutchin
Koros-strohna World Ship
Miid Roi'kk Star Fighter
Razor Bug Warrior
Tsik-Seru
Uro-Ik V'alh
Vunduun Crab Shell Armor
Yorik-trema
Yorik-Stronha Spy Ship

Some Older Units Need Fixing (palettes, resize, animations)
*These are units with obvious flaws, most of them were extracted from the game SW: Galactic Battlegrounds, If you have the game SW: GB you can find a tutorial on extracting units here*

ARC Trooper - (Center)
AT-AT - (Resize, Center)
AT-TE - (Re-extract, Resize, Palette, Center)
Bounty Hunter - (Attack.flc, Palette, Center)
Republic Bulk Transport - (Resize, Palette)
Dark Trooper - (Re-size)
Death Star - (Re-extract, Re-size)
Droid Control Ship - (Re-do)
Droid Fighter - (Re-extract, Re-size)
Hailfire Droid - (Re-extract, Re-size)
Homing Spider Droid - (Re-extract, Re-size, Palette, New Attack)
Imperial Star Destroyer - (Re-do)
Jedi Starfighter - Polyphemus & Bjornlo (WIP)
Lambda Shuttle - (Re-extract, Re-size)
Medium Transport - (Re-extract)
MTT - (Re-extract, Re-size)
Nebulan Frigate - (Re-do)
Probe Droid - (Re-extract, Palette)
Rebel Trooper - (Re-extract, Center)
Slave I - (Re-extract, Re-size) - Polyphemus (WIP)
SPHA-T - (Re-extract, Re-size)
T-16 Skyhopper - (Re-extract, Re-size)
Tank Droid - (Re-extract, Re-size, Palette)
YT-1300 - (Re-extract, Re-size)
YT-2400 - (Re-extract, Re-size)

Civilopedia Icons

Make Tech Tree Icons - Star Wars Tech Library

Buildings Graphics - Improvements & Wonders List

Wonder Splashes

City Graphics

Improve on the Resource Graphics - You can find the Resource.pcx in this .zip --> StarWars.zip

New Terrain Graphics - although not neccessary

Animated Leaderheads
*The Incomplete Leaderheads already have Static versions made*
Darth Vader - Complete
Chancellor Palpatine - Incomplete
Mon Mothma - Incomplete
Count Dooku - Incomplete


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Civilopedia Text
Pediaicons Text

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I reccommend downloading the Clone Wars Beta Mod and The Galactic Civil War Beta Mod, because we can build off of those mods by using the graphics and stuff from them.

Does anyone else here own Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds? Because we can extract stuff from that.

I'll update this list as we make progress or if I find more stuff that needs to be done.

 

[odintheking]

Should we make a seperate "Unit Request Thread" do that people don't have to dig through all these pages to look for this stuff?

 

[Chris85]

That might not be a bad idea

 

[odintheking]

Very well, then.

 

[mrkingkong]

Odin, why not put the unit request thread on your site as a list instead of a thread. It can be updated as and when needed then. It would also be a suitable place for the other lists (resources, etc) that we need.

Otherwise it seems such a shame to waste it.

Im gunna c if i can rustle up tech tree- what sorta techs do we want in it?

mrkingkong

 

[odintheking]

Sure, I'll put it on the site as well, but we also need a thread for people to add suggestions, volunteer to build them, etc. . As for the tech tree, just make something you think feels right. We'll fix it later. 4 or 5 eras, maybe?

 

[SheepMonster]

Maybe we could have more generic techs like 'energy tech 1-8' or something and this leads to new laser technologies, leading to new forms of laser cannons, and it also leads to like different vehicle engines, starting at repulsorlifts and going up to high power fusion engines or something... have one tech as 'frigates', another as 'heavy frigates', another as 'crusiers', another as 'heavy cruisers' and another as 'command ships' or something...that kind of thing. Make suer there are also techs for the different resources that have been mentioned - like construction gives durasteel, and 'mining' for tibanna gas collection. Each civ will also have one special tech, that gives them their government, like 'New Order' for the Empire, 'Martial Law' for the Rebels, ''Emergency Powers' for the Republic and... something else...for the confederates. Seeing as there will be little change in the governments from here, it will not be important to create and that are attributed to technologies, as this could lead to rebels taking Emperor's New Order as their government.... which would be wrong... and stuff like that.
For different scenarios, like The Battle of Endor, which i have half done with my beta mod, there will be other new governments, like tribal council for the ewoks, but these don't need to be included in the current mod.

About the mod - i know you all want it, but its like 28MB, and theres only 16MB on the site, so it doesn't fit. I have found a site with 1GB of space, so might i suggest moving the site there? It would give us much more space to play with...

 

[odintheking]

Well, I don't have the patience to upload everything again on a new server, . If you e-mail it to me, I can put it in rar or ace format, and dramatically reduce the size. Alternatively, I can set up a new site solely for downloads,

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

I can make any tech Icons you may need.

 

[mrkingkong]

Well i cant physically put all the tech tree together yet until ints finalised (obviously) but over the weekend il put together a maybe version of it (in writing).

Any good sites for resources etc that need to be included, because i dont know of much about tibanna gas, crystals, etc

 

[odintheking]

Well, we can put in the resources later. Just come up with it un text, and we'll figure it out later. All we need right now is a skeleton.
@Varlin- sure, we can use all the help we can get,

 

[mrkingkong]

No i mean literally the information about it. I dont know when tibanna gas was discovered ,by whom, how you extract it, etc. And the same for the other techs.

Perhaps if you showed me a link to the site with the background in it, i would sift through the reams of information and pick out what a good tech tree would include.

Oh and a question on the mod itself:
Is it going to have more emphasis on war, or building up an empire aswell (i.e. do i need to include similar types of things as granaries, cultural buildings, etc)?