WH Discussion Thread

[fe3333au]

thanks for answering the barb question.

The healing thing was mainly to do with the fact that the Kraken do not heal.

 

[LMR]

LizardmenRule!: Looks like the Necropolis towns from Heroes of Might & Magic 3?

thanks

and welcome to CFC

 

[mmmrrrr]

Long time lurker

 

[mrtn]

I got it at a Hungarian site called Heroes Tower, but if that's the name of the game or just the site I don't know, my Hungarian is very rusty...

@mmmrrrr: Welcome out of lurkhood.

@fe: Ships need a city to heal in, it's just that there are no barb cities.

 

[LMR]

Only one Skaven unit to go...

How'd the BoC game finish up, mrtn?

 

[mmmrrrr]

I got it at a Hungarian site called Heroes Tower, but if that's the name of the game or just the site I don't know, my Hungarian is very rusty...

@mmmrrrr: Welcome out of lurkhood.

Thanks, no guarantees I won't go back, though

This is a pic of the Necropolis in HoMM3, it looks kind of the same, no?

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/screenshots/images/803.jpg

 

[LMR]

suspiciously similiar...

are we still wanting to make the barbarians tough, like the skaven were? coz if we gave all barbarian units the enslave ability, that'd be a big problem (for me at least)

 

[mrtn]

suspiciously similiar...

are we still wanting to make the barbarians tough, like the skaven were? coz if we gave all barbarian units the enslave ability, that'd be a big problem (for me at least)

The barbarian Rat Ogre already had enslavement, but that doesn't work for barbs.
I posted the barb stats already...

I haven't played more on the beastman game, I started an assassin test game, and then I was busy all weekend.

I have just added the first era skaven units. And badgered aaglo into making tech icons and building icons for the tech Lords of Decay that gives the Cauldron of a Thousand poxes small wonder.
Spawn Censer Bearer every 5th turn
2 culture per turn
50% research
400 shields

Censer Bearer 10/2/2 blitz

 

[LMR]

Sweet. that's a good idea

where is Lords of Decay gonna be on the tech tree?

 

[mrtn]

After (above) Nature Lore, where the elves have techs.
I haven't decided if the Screaming Bell is gonna be added or not, did anyone have a good idea for it's game effects?

BTW, LMR!, you've made your units_32 icons the wrong way; they should be made with red civ colour, you've used blue, so I've had to redo them. Not a big problem, just to let you know for later units.

 

[Stormrage]

Why can`t they be red? You know, in case I make a unit someday?

 

[LMR]

i think he said they should be red, and mine were blue

Screaming Bell:
if its a Wonder - increases chances of leaders appearing, Forbidden Palace
if its an improvement - reduces corruption, 1 happy face, 2 culture

??

 

[mrtn]

You mean blue.
The units32 has a palette that's quite similar to the unit palettes, i e a number of colours are turned into civ colour in the game. All these colours are red, so if you want a unit to be civ coloured you have to make those parts of the unit red, otherwise you'll only end up with blue patches on the unit. And that's ugly, unless you play Sylvania.

 

[Stormrage]

Yeah, I meant red

So when I make the unit_32 pcx for my mod, I have to make every unit with red civcolor?

 

[LMR]

Just so i have this straight

MY units had BLUE colouring
i SHOULD'VE made it with RED colouring

is this right? please tell me it is right...

 

[mrtn]

Yes, you have it right.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Actually, I checked the Units_32 pallette in Flicster, and surprise, surprise, the red civ colors in the Units_32 pallette coincide EXACTLY with the civ colors in all unit pallettes, so to make creating Units_32 icons easier, I exported a BLUE units_32.pal (i.e the civ colors are blue instead of red), which I then use to convert the truecolor raw image (with the blue civ coloring) into a proto-units_32.pcx, and to complete the process, I load the actual Units_32.pal with the "maintain color indexes" option selected, so that all the blue (that's actually civ coloring) is now red I used this to keep from messing up my units_32 icons in all my recent units (as opposed to my early units where Vuldacon had to fix all my Units_32 icons).

I could upload this Blue units_32.pal for others to use, if they want to....

 

[LMR]

might as well

thanks

 

[mrtn]

I discussed the mod with aaglo a bit, and we think that it would be good to make a "clean start" for the mod.
This means calling it 2.5 (probably), start a new thread, and only have the 2.0 as prerequisite. That should keep folk from posting "I'm too lazy to read the whole thread" for a couple of hours, at least...
What would be a good way to package the mod, self extracting rar?

Half the skaven units added now.

@LMR!: Thanks for the bilge rat text in the other thread.

 

[Stormrage]

Rar is good And I like the idea of a new thread