Warhammer FB Mod

[Civmansam]

Hey I know I haven't contributed anything, but that's because of SW just getting ready for release. After it releases, I'll have some time to do stuff.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Hey I know I haven't contributed anything, but that's because of SW just getting ready for release. After it releases, I'll have some time to do stuff.

No problem. I followed your progress in the SW thread and could think my part. as soon the forum's online I'll welcome you aboard right after you knocked on the door. We're not in any haste (We won't release anything in the next week and a half for sure) so do what must be done for SW first


Btw:
a nice fantasybuilding that has to be in the mod:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=163272

Oh and Ganart made some more nice buildings:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171926

 

[woodelf]

It's good to see Dual's building going into the mod.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

It's good to see Dual's building going into the mod.

Yes!
Sadly he hasn't been around for quite a while. I have been waiting for his custom assets folder to be loaded up. That must be the one with the most wondrous content ever!

 

[Ploeperpengel]

@all team
we're online. read your pm

If you didn't receive a pm but want to contribute something, request to join via user CP->groupmemberships and write me a pm what your skills are and what you'd like to do.

 

[Duke van Frost]

Hey I know I haven't contributed anything, but that's because of SW just getting ready for release. After it releases, I'll have some time to do stuff.

OK, that´s fine with me (looking forward to a good SW Mod ), just tell me if I should continue then to do the buildings and wonders in the XMLs, or how long you will take.

EDIT:
Since you said you were missing some buttons that I already made, I had alook at the files I forgot to post - and here they are, including some reskins and new buttons for wonders.

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I had to upload two zips, because I had some time yesterday evening and did a new titlescreen - to boost teamspirits!



@Ploe: could you put the Griffon (available on the forums) on top of the national-epic in the NIFViewer (Griffon without animations)? that way we´ll get a model for the Griffongate - I`ll do the skin if you don´t mind.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Sure can do that. Good idea!

 

[Rabbit, White]

I had to upload two zips, because I had some time yesterday evening and did a new titlescreen - to boost teamspirits!

This is a great a title screen but if I may offer some constructive criticism...

First thing that jumped at me was the mod title - it's hard to read. It's not a very good font in my opinion. I would try to find something that has more variation between the letters, maybe you could even use the warhammer font (i.e. the one that Games Workshop uses for their titles), or something similar. In any case though, I think the current font is a bit "monotonic", if that makes any sense.

The second thing are the pics on the sides. These are beautiful illustrations and maybe they should be a bit bigger, there's a little room on the side, so they could wider by 20 or so pixels, and they could also be taller to show more of the scene. Now, I realize these pics, in a way, frame the title itself so making them taller might ruin that, of course you decide if that's a bad thing or not, but I do think that they should be at least a bit bigger to show off more detail.

The other thing about them is that the pics themselves stand out too much from the paper around them, i.e. it looks more like there's an extra picture on top of a piece of paper instead of it looking like it's an illustration on the paper itself. Now, to be honest I'm not sure how to fix that -maybe you could try blurring the edges, or make them a bit more torn/burnt, like the paper itself. Another way would be to "monochromise" the pictures and make them blend into the paper but of course without the colors they wouldn't be quite as beautiful.

Last thing, something I noticed just before posting this, but the map in the background seems slightly misaligned - notice the thin dark strip on the right edge.

Anyway, I hope you realize I'm not criticising just for the sake of it but because I think it's a great title screen and could be made perfect.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

On my screen all that flashes of light it made a cool effect:




Yet I agree with Rabbit. The main title font is a bit boring and the paper on second sight not perfect but it's still a fantastic job! The size of the pics is fine with me but this may be because I got a large screen.

I wonder if we could get a burning fireeffect behind the pic instead of that moving sun.

Do you guys think that'll be possible?

apropos critizism: Rabbit why haven't you requested to join the forum yet? You don't really want to keep freelancing on it's birthday don't you?

 

[Rabbit, White]

apropos critizism: Rabbit why haven't you requested to join the forum yet? You don't really want to keep freelancing on it's birthday don't you?

I was gonna do it yesterday but got distracted. I guess I could do it now, it's a lunch break.

Edit: Um, where's the link? How do I join?

 

[woodelf]

That screen looks awesome Duke, but I agree about the font on the Title as well.

 

[DutchJunkie]

Finally found myself a nice mapping tool .. in Excel

I'm making a map of the oldworld .. quite small, just to give it a try. I'll upload it as soon as it's ready so you can judge it. If we all like it we can talk about serious mapmaking ..

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Finally found myself a nice mapping tool .. in Excel

I'm making a map of the oldworld .. quite small, just to give it a try. I'll upload it as soon as it's ready so you can judge it. If we all like it we can talk about serious mapmaking ..

That sounds nice! Can't wait to see it

 

[Duke van Frost]

@Rabbit:

hm.. with that black line to the right you seem to be right.

and all the other things will be worked on, I found the font myself some kind of boring, but it was the best one i had at hand - that will be replaced with the original WH font. And the pictures will get some work done with the smudge finger, i think.

EDIT: that suneffect is a left-over from the vanilla-background, wanted to delete that also, but the picture looked really strange after that.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

@Rabbit:

hm.. with that black line to the right you seem to be right.

and all the other things will be worked on, I found the font myself some kind of boring, but it was the best one i had at hand - that will be replaced with the original WH font. And the pictures will get some work done with the smudge finger, i think.

EDIT: that suneffect is a left-over from the vanilla-background, wanted to delete that also, but the picture looked really strange after that.

Think we could change that effect not just delete it? Otherwise we can keep it, np.

 

[Duke van Frost]

Think we could change that effect not just delete it? Otherwise we can keep it, np.

Didn´t give it a try yet, I really don´t know - And I´m not that comfortable with the NIFViewer - otherwise I would have done the Griffongate myself

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Didn´t give it a try yet, I really don´t know - And I´m not that comfortable with the NIFViewer - otherwise I would have done the Griffongate myself

Can you tell me what files are involved? Is this Lighteffect a nif?

 

[Duke van Frost]

The whole Titlescreen is a .nif with skins!

have a look @ assets/art/interface/mainscreen (or main menu?!?)

actually that´s a good idea, so the game can be played in different resolutions with just one file (as the whole rest of the game)

 

[Ploeperpengel]

The whole Titlescreen is a .nif with skins!

have a look @ assets/art/interface/mainscreen (or main menu?!?)

actually that´s a good idea, so the game can be played in different resolutions with just one file (as the whole rest of the game)

I'm not at home right now. Is the Light effect(the sun within a nif really?). If so I might be able to modify it a bit(in size and orientation maybe even colour if it has environment light dds) but I won't be able to change animation. I'll check it out and ask Chalid about maybe.

 

[Duke van Frost]

I'm not at home right now. Is the Light effect(the sun within a nif really?). If so I might be able to modify it a bit(in size and orientation maybe even colour if it has environment light dds) but I won't be able to change animation. I'll check it out and ask Chalid about maybe.

It´s in assets/art/Interface/main menu (not mainscreen!) And I think it´s an animation (the sun) not an effect.

EDIT:

oh, and I did a new titlescreen (new fonts and some other things, mostly what Rbbit mentioned):
But I couldn´t change the black border to the right, the pictues was align in the right way.



You have to put these files into "assets/art/interface/main menu", they will overwrite the old ones.

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