Trying to find trees (forests) to mod

[CautiousChaos]

Hey folks,

I'm an inspiring modder and was first considering making a change to how trees/forests appear in the game. Right now, they are animated and wave in the breeze. I've found that this sucks up ** a lot ** of framerate and want to keep the trees as static images (non-animated). I've scanned the XMLs but haven't found anything concrete. There was one file that contained definitions for forest tiles, jungle tiles, etc with a bAnimated tag in place. I assumed it's a boolean and so set the value from 1 to 0, but didn't see any change.

Any helpful pointers or hints anyone can spare?
-cc

 

[LAnkou]

I'm an inspiring modder

think "inspired" would be better, because you inspiring me nothing

by the way, wrong forum

 

[CrazyMrLeo]

I believe he's looking for aspiring

 

[CautiousChaos]

think "inspired" would be better, because you inspiring me nothing

by the way, wrong forum

Thanks, Professor. Very insightful. Great advice. I'll try that out right away. BTW, "because you inspiring me nothing" is not a complete or valid sentence.

 

[Civrules]

Moderator Action: Moved to main C&C forum.

Some of the sarcastic comments weren't needed, BTW.

 

[CautiousChaos]

Can you go ahead and just close or delete this thread? It's really just taking up space right now. I'll invest a bit more time and figure out the question on my own.

-cc

 

[Mercade]

The animations are in the mysterious NIF files, which are in the Gamebryo File Format, Version 20.0.0.4. To edit them, you need the NIF editor (for this file version) that will be released with the SDK when it is released. Until that time, I think you'll have a very hard time changing the actual animations.

The jungle animations are in the following 15 files:

..\Assets\Art\terrain\features\jungle\jungle01_01.nif (till jungle15_01.nif)

M.