[Warlords] Composite XL More of Everything!

[Colin]

Thanks for the quick patch. Isn't it funny how modders (working for free in their spare time) are so much more prompt and conscientious about patching than people who design games for a living?

I was thinking about flavour in the mod. I love all the little purely cosmetic changes, but one area which seems largely untouched is the music. Now I love the music in Civilization (especially in the Industrial age - go Dvorak!), but in the same way the mod diversifies units, I wonder if the same thing could happen for music. For instance at the moment, the medieval soundtrack seems appropriate if you are a European civ (or have christianity as your state religion), less appropriate if you are Asian (or Islamic for instance).

Now I'm not sure, given copyright, how much music could be found and incorporated, but I do have a longstanding dream of sending my hordes of cossacks screaming at the enemy to the sounds of the Red Army Choir!

 

[PatrickDockens]

Ok Point By Point...

Thanks Ket! I didn't know about that everyone gets a bonus against barabrians depending on difficulty level. I was playing on Prince. At some point I will have to look more closely at the combat system.

I don't mind the upgraded barbarians starting with bronze working, but it makes it so you almost have to go right for bronze working early in the game (I usually do this as my second or third tech researched anyways) and iron working if you don't have any copper nearby. So as a result of the early upgrades to the babarians, your early tech choices get limited somewhat.

It too bad you couldn't save that chariot, he looks like he would have been your best fighter!

Also, thanks for the quick patch work, we all appreciate it !

I've got the way to display the pedia information in the wonder pop up

This is a great idea!

a shiny new Shinto Shrine dds screen

Very nice.

 

[Aragorn7]

Hi Ket!

First of all, AWESOME MOD!!!

But are u planning on implementing Eusebius´ Religion Mod?

 

[Qvint]

Could someone upload this Mod to some other space than Filefactory? I can never download it from there completely I would really like to try this MOD out.

 

[brun58]

Hmmm...got something strange going on here, just downloaded 6.1, main screen comes up fine, options screen is fine, but when I start the game, I've got no interface, like I'm alt-I'ed out, but can do nothing to bring the interface up, which makes it a bit more of a challenge to play...lol, I'm going to re-download it I suppose, in case that one was corrupted somehow

 

[Ket]

did you download just the 6.1 patch? or 6.1 complete?
Was the main screen the globe?

 

[brun58]

Blobe was on the main screen, and I downloaded complete, I assume I'm the only one probably having this problem, cause I can see by posts that folks are already playing it, I could play .5 just fine.....I probably will redownload in case it was corrupted

 

[brun58]

Globe........

 

[Ket]

does the pedia say 0.6.1.?

 

[Ket]

Well i havent heard any reports back after .6.1. was posted so its possible there is a problem

 

[brun58]

Don't know 'bout the pedia, I'd have to remember the keyboard shortcut for it, cause of the interface not being visable

 

[Ket]

You can check it from the main menu

 

[brun58]

I do want to mention, in case I haven't before, that I know this mod is still in beta, so there will be bugs, but I'm having great fun with the directios your taking your mod in, and I want to let you know how much I appreciate the time and effort your putting into this mod, and really how much you help the whole community, 'cause i see you also posting on other mods trying to help out

 

[brun58]

I'll have to wait a few more minutes to check again, I went ahead and deleted the first instance of the download, and have about 15 minutes on redownloading, I'll check from the main menu then, and get back, I don't wanna keep hogging the thread....unless it's already too late...lol

 

[brun58]

K......redownloaded.......reinstalled mod, same problem, and it won't let me access the pedia from the main menu, it could be something I'm doing on my end, but I'm not sure what

 

[SkippyT]

Sorry, I may sound as a noob but when I've downloaded the Composite_XL_V .61.7z file to my Desktop I don't know what program to choose from the list to open this..
Can you help me

 

[Lachlan]

You can see yourself

No UI No City Screen No score No F1-F12 shortcut nothing !!!

Only external terrestrial view ...

 

[Ket]

Thank you for the compliments, it keeps me going when there are problems.

As far as the pedia and the no interface, thats bad....
So we have globe, which means the mod is installed. As thats dependent on new art, and new XML ok... We dont have interface.. Ok I'll puit the release on hold, and get a fixed one after I get off of work.
(I'm at work now and cant touch the files till this evening)


As far as how to unarchive the file, you need to use Winrar, Winzip or 7-Zip
I sugest 7-zip.....

Please check post #1 for install instructions.

 

[Roamty]

Killer news...
Thanks to Roamty's initial point in the right direction and Office Renee I've got the way to display the pedia information in the wonder pop up...



Yay! Heres to a better looking 1.0!!!

SpringfieldArmory.bik Wow!! how did you make it? and please teach, there are great minds out there we could get some great movies if more people know how to do this. what do we need to make a bik

 

[Ket]

Sure Roamty,

Here is what I did. I download the bik tools
http://www.radgametools.com/
And its the Bink Video that you want to download.
Then after you click download its "The Rad Video Tools" that you want to download. Ok so then we install that.

This tool will allow you to create .bik video from either normal video (.avi/.mpg) or convert images into a .bik video.

Ok so then I surfed google for the image that I used and then encoded with the tools we just downloaded (its a button that says BIK IT...) In this case I did not have to change any of the settings but the one to watch is the Hight and Width. So I encoded my video, its a one frame still image of the armory.
The game automatically pops the pedia information after the movie is done playing so in this case we get the still frame, and then the movie right on it.

Before we tested it in game, we went to ArtDefines_Movies.XML and changed the path from the .dds file to the .bik file we created.

Now to make a real movie from images, Windows XP comes with a movie maker "Windows Movie Maker" and obviously on the MAC there is iMovie but there's also Vegas Video, Adobe Premiere and a host of other video editing programs for those of us who have access to software. But once you export out the movie You then bring it into the Bik Tools and convert it.

So two methods the easy way with just a single static image and the hard way of creating a video and then converting it.