Tutorial Thread Index - WIP

[woodelf]

In an attempt to decrease the number of "how to" questions I'm going to create an index for all of the CFC tutorials. Some will easily go into categories, while others will be lumped into an "other" grouping.

Graphical

Skinning -

• Skinning for Beginners - Saketh
• Skinning and other - Master Lexx
• Skin Mod - How to - jak08

Nifviewing -

• Nifviewer Tutorial part one, part two, part three - Rabbit, White
• Creating noshader units from units with shaders - C. Roland
• Adding Team Color, Changing Units Shading with Nifviewer - Refar

Blender stuff -

• Import Custom Model in Civ4 - C.Roland
• How to make a unit in Blender - The_Coyote

3ds Max stuff -

• 3ds Max Importing/Exporting - GarretSidzaka
• Merging Animations to your model - sharick
• Complete guide to making units in 3ds Max - sharick
• Neener's 3ds Max Unit Creation Guide - neener
• Import NIF file to 3ds Max - kodzi
• Civ4 Guide to getting your units into Civ4
• Making dds for Max unit - Duke van Frost
• Damage States for Custom Units - Refar

Leaderheads -

• Import/modify/Export LHs - C.Roland
• Creation of Shaded LHs - Ploeperpengel
• Leaderhead Animations - Chamaedrys
• Managing nif files to adapt animations to LHs - ambrox62
• Simple rig/assign vertices with bones - bernie14
• How to make LHs - Ekmek

Buttons, flags, ect -

• How to make Buttons and Icons - Robo Magic Man
• Invert civ colored flags - 0d1n3oo3Broad
• Modify Gamefont.TGA for free - Eusebius
• Increase size of Icons - frenchman
• Making flag buttons - 0d1n3oo3Broad
• City Bar icons for new units - Shqype
• Create a decalc flag - LAnkou
• Non-distorted Flags - Raize
• How to make units use different effects - Rabbit, White
• How to make full-sized, non-blurry buttons in PS - OzzyKP

 

[woodelf]

XML

Basics -

• XML 101 - Yakk
• XML Tutorial part one, part two, part three - BrentRichie

Reference Files -

• Civ4 XML files - Quick Reference - Max x fire
• XML load order - Gerikes
• Cleaned up Formations XML file - n003lb

XML How-to's -

Civilizations -

• Create a Civ - Jecrell
• Add a Civ - Charcoal

Units -

• Adding new Units - sovarn
• 6 easy steps to adding new units - Rabbit, White

Buildings -

• Adding a new Building - Chamaedrys

Religions -

• Modify the Religions - Ralendil
• How to modify the Religions - KingTux

Civics -

• Modifying Civics, a crash course - ArbitraryGuy
• Add a Civic Option - Ralendil

Leaderheads -

• Installing custom LH in BtS - Wolfshanze

 

[woodelf]

Python

Basics -

• Let's learn how to mod in CIV...today - Gingerbread Man
• TGA's Python Tutorial - The Great Apple
• How to call the function at the end of a turn - Lord Olleus
• Exposing new functions to python - jdog5000

Sample Code -

• Sample Python Code - Kael

How-to's -

• Add a Pop-up - Kael

SDK

Basics -

• Installing and Using the SDK - Kael

Sample Code -

• Sample SDK Code - Kael

Reference Info -

• Using Microsoft Visual C++ - Chazcon

SDK specific tutorials-

• Making multi-domain units - Kael
• Add new Missions for units - zafzo
• Calling from the SDK a custom python module -Gerikes
• How to: Add custom health or happiness modifiers -isau

 

[woodelf]

General How-to's -

• Design a Mod - Kael
• Get your mod to load faster - Kael
• Final Frontier System and Planet editing - JeBuS27
• Add Civ/Unit/Building in BtS (modular loading) - Teg Navanis
• Run a Mod - Saketh
• Add Custom Sounds - purplexus
• Create .bik files for movies - Shiggs713
• Change the Movies - SailorLazarus
• Adding Intro Movies - Dale
• Windowed Mode - Rayanth
• 2D wave sound into your mod - DireAussie
• Force AI to build new buildings - MaxRiga
• Downloading, Installing, and Playing a new Civ - Wyz_sub10
• Design a Tech Tree - Maniac
• make minor animation changes without 3DMax - The_Coyote

 

[woodelf]

Misc -

• In depth look at WBS - Dale
• Guide to Event modding - Solver
• Map Making for Mods - thamis
• Updated LeaderPicker - AlphaBeta
• Leader Picker for BtS - Onagan
• Original LeaderPicker - Zhahz

 

[woodelf]

If anyone feels there are some other important ones let me know. I'll keep scanning over the four pages and see if I've missed one.

 

[Solver]

Thanks woodelf, excellent effort!

 

[Jean Elcard]

Thanks a lot woodelf for giving us some insight into your knowledge about the gems of this forum's almost infinite number of tutorials. I may even delete all my bookmarks to the threads I was visiting regulary in the past now amd just keep this one.

 

[woodelf]

Thanks guys.

It must be working as I haven't had to move a "How to" thread in a while.

 

[Calavente]

in python you may have forgotten

Gingerbread Man 's tutorial
Let's learn how to mod in civIV... Today!

as it's quite an old thread

but maye it was voluntary

 

[woodelf]

Not intentionally forgotten, but overlooked since it's in another area. Added now.

Thanks.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Thx for that one! Didn't notice zafzo's excellent tutorial before I got a link here
Now do the units

 

[C.Roland]

You can also add my nifskope no shader version of your unit converstion (look at my signature)

 

[woodelf]

Got it Roland. Sorry about the omission.

Ploep - Do the units?

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Got it Roland. Sorry about the omission.

Ploep - Do the units?

I meant a similar page for the units... (and of course not seriously, err forget about)

 

[Silver_Sword]

Is there any tutorial out there for combining Mods? I am particularly interested in added FexFX's BLD and Chiyu's EXTRA...

 

[eromrab]

do any of these tutorials go into modding terrain improvements?

 

[woodelf]

do any of these tutorials go into modding terrain improvements?

Using max or blender you can create new improvements that can be put into the game. If you have specific questions you can ask them in the main C&C.

 

[BoydofZINJ]

I have probably missed this... but the "how to add completely new techs and disable all the original techs" is not included?

 

[LittleRedPoint]

One question. Is thare any tutorial or options to get error log while the game crashes on loading and the crash is caused by invcalid cvGameCore.dll ?

I incorporate some modcomps, game crashes on loading and i can't understand whats wrong..