Static Leaderheads and Movies Pack

[Houman]

Hi Nevermind,

I am planning to add the Static religions to the Realism Mod. Since we have Zoroastriansm as an additional religion I would be able to make a dds file for that. Unfortunatelly I cannot open your dds file with the DDSConvert. I need to know the exact size of these pictures, so that my dds has the same size as well.

Many thanks,
Houman

 

[NeverMind]

Hi Houman,

I use DXTbmp utility (http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/download/dxtbmpx.EXE) for dds conversion and consider it more suitable than DDS Convertor.

As for static religion images, here is my plan.

1. Get the basic picture (in my case it's a 720x480 crop of in-game screenshot).

2. Resize it to 768x512, and then bump it to 512x512. Note: Simple 720x480 to 512x512 resizing makes a less quality picture after dds conversion, I have no idea why.

3. Convert 512x512 image to DDS format. I used DXT1 (no alpha) and I prefer DXTbmp but DDS Convertor also can do the trick.

Hope, it will help. And good luck in making your mod.

 

[Houman]

What do you mean with bump it in 2) ?

Resize it again to 512x512?

Thanks
Houman

 

[NeverMind]

Oh, yes. Exactly.

 

[NeverMind]

The Static Pack updated for Warlords!

 

[Rhye]

link for warlords version is broken

 

[NeverMind]

I checked all the links. Everything works fine for me.

 

[Tekee]

WOW this is the best Good job I'ts true it it is better then noting =)))

 

[Impaler[WrG]]

I like consistency between Original/New materials and Enjoyed SMAC leader portraits which were static, I quite like this idea. It would be good if this static content could be included with everything and switched to using a high level game option (rather then the 'turn movies off' option) which is the only current option.

 

[NeverMind]

"Static Pack" updated for Beyond the Sword.

 

[Cyrus_the_Great]

I am at a loss as to where to put the dds files in the CustomAssets of Beyond the Sword. No matter where I put them I still get the distorted leaderheads.

 

[Cyrus_the_Great]

Since no one is here anymore, I decided to keep trying different places and I finally go the static leaderheads to work. The only thing I didn't count on was it made all the animated leaderheads static. I hope that was the intended effect.

 

[dutchking]

Don't completely understand, what are you doing? Trying to make Final Frontier Leaderheads? Easy, take the ArtDefines_Misc.xml from the final frontier scenario and plug it in your mod. Still not sure what your doing though...

 

[Cyrus_the_Great]

Don't completely understand, what are you doing? Trying to make Final Frontier Leaderheads? Easy, take the ArtDefines_Misc.xml from the final frontier scenario and plug it in your mod. Still not sure what your doing though...

I had down loaded the BtS Static Leaderheads for the standard game. My video card can't handle the animated ones. This was not for any scenario.

 

[krille]

So, does this boost in-game performance? Because my BtS is VERY sluggish. Even on Tiny maps!

And I'm running a 2.6 Ghz A64 dual-core, 1GB RAM, 2600XT.

 

[Acedia]

I installed this thinking it would help me with the lag I encounter when an AI sends a trade request, or some other type of diplomacy.

Nothing has changed at all aside from the obvious static leaderheads I now encounter, the game still lags when their window pops up and now I can't play online games without my game crashing every ten turns.

I have no idea how to uninstall this mod. I completely uninstalled the game and all the expansions and the static leaderheads still exist, does anyone know how to uninstall this?

I didn't find any information on how to do so on any of the download pages and I'm a bit frustrated....

 

[Acedia]

I installed this thinking it would help me with the lag I encounter when an AI sends a trade request, or some other type of diplomacy.

Nothing has changed at all aside from the obvious static leaderheads I now encounter, the game still lags when their window pops up and now I can't play online games without my game crashing every ten turns.

I have no idea how to uninstall this mod. I completely uninstalled the game and all the expansions and the static leaderheads still exist, does anyone know how to uninstall this?

I didn't find any information on how to do so on any of the download pages and I'm a bit frustrated....

Well as it turns out, I'm dumb.

Windows had saved the mod into the "Games" folder, and when I deleted that the mod went away. Sorry if I came off as irate

 

[Elenhil]

I did not manage to get this pack loading with the mod I use (RFC). No matter where I place it, animated leaderheads still load. Is installing static leaderheads any different when running a mod?

 

[The Ponce]

I did not manage to get this pack loading with the mod I use (RFC). No matter where I place it, animated leaderheads still load. Is installing static leaderheads any different when running a mod?

I'm having the same problem. It'd be nice to get an answer to this.

 

[xainlich]

While I have downloaded this mod, the file only unpacked 1 leaderhead, that of Alexander. Is there an updated version of this mod somewhere? The animated leaderheads continually make my game crash.