Step by step tutorial for leader art?

[TheWaWPro]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to add leader art into this game.

I want to do an alternative leader for America how do I get a picture from photoshop/gimp to the .dds/.tex files

Can anyone link a tutorial or write a short step by step tutorial. Thanks.

 

[RFormica]

Install the .DDS plugin for gimp; you can export files as .DDS files from there. Once that's done, launch the Asset Editor (in ModBuddy, tools>Launch Asset Editor) , click "new," and choose type Texture. For plain leader art, use type UserInterface. For a leader fallback, use type "Leader_Fallback." (ClassType or something of that ilk, a box in Asset Editor.) Those saved files are the .TEX files.

 

[Deliverator]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to add leader art into this game.

I want to do an alternative leader for America how do I get a picture from photoshop/gimp to the .dds/.tex files

Can anyone link a tutorial or write a short step by step tutorial. Thanks.

Modbuddy has a template called "Starter - New Civilization and Leader". This adds static leader art to a new Civ/Leader - see the texture files FALLBACK_NEUTRAL_JASPERKITTY.dds and LEADER_JASPER_KITTY_NEUTRAL.dds. Try replacing that with different art then building out the mod as a first step.

 

[Daerenil]

@Deliverator, worked alright for me, but what if I want to make different civs ?
I mean ok, it works when you build 1, but what if I want to build 5 or 6 ? Will it still work since every civ has the same .dds files as leader fallback and leader art ?

 

[Deliverator]

@Deliverator, worked alright for me, but what if I want to make different civs ?
I mean ok, it works when you build 1, but what if I want to build 5 or 6 ? Will it still work since every civ has the same .dds files as leader fallback and leader art ?

Obviously you are going to have to duplicate the database entries and have different .dds files for each new leader.

 

[Daerenil]

Do you mean different name ? Like having LEADER_XXX_NEUTRAL.dds and LEADER_YYY_NEUTRAL.dds for my leader arts (and same thing with leader fallbacks) ?

I've tried the thing out, using Assets Editor and following what I understood (almost everything) from ReichAdler's post, but can't manage to have a working mod ... If I don't try to have arts, my mod works, but I don't have my icons and all, and when I try to have my arts using ModBuddy template but changing the names, or inserting new arts with Assets Editor, the game just freeze on the "Loading, Pleas Wait..." at the start of the game, and after some long minutes (about a douzen) I can see in the middle of a Black screen "Game Start" and then I'm back on the main menu !

I don't think I'm a noob at this (I'm web developer and I have a lot of tries developing on other than just web platforms), but I can't understand why something as simple as adding art is so complicated for modding on civ.