World War II 1939 - A Civilization IV Modification

[asioasioasio]

i think hitler wanted war with england, he apparently wanted room for the Germans to expand, as if france and half of eastern europe wasnt enough...

Yup he wanted to conquer whole europe and make Berlin the cultural capitol of the world, but as was said couple of post earlier he wasn't capable to conquer it mostly of supremacy of allies navy and aircraft and each day after the battle of britain made his dream even more unrealistic

but asides from that, lets get on to my question... is there a version compatible with vanilla yet, i didnt have time to look through 26 pages of posts

Nope - only warlords. In future would be also BtS version.

Those previews look GREAT!!!! Good Work!

Thx -> I moved to bombers section now so much needed val is near finish

Are you saying there will be a BTS version of the mod out by September or just the Warlords version/update?

I think asioasioasio want to say that the probable release date staying with Warlords version is 1st september but there's a possibility to switch to Beyond the Sword.

In the latter case, I personnally think it will take a good amount of time to integer all the new features and take the best part of it so the release is more likely to be delayed.

I'm focused to release it on warlords previously and than make asap BTS version.
But if the BtS would be revolutionary (and paratroopers doesn't make spring so firaxis need to puts there real revolutionary things - like much better ai) we could consider to make it earlier on Bts.

But most possible is Warlords and around 1st September (this month after the release BTS might be useful to improve some parts of the mod )

 

[amaterasu]

How do I take the video out?

 

[asioasioasio]

Delete intro1939.bik located in \Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Mods\WW2 1939\assets\Art\Movies\Intros

 

[Shiggs713]

Nice planes Asio Another idea I previously thought of and tried, was actually raising the elevation of which the planes fly. In my opinion the planes fly to close to the land, it looks like they flying at 3000 ft to do bombing missions... I have changed the level at which they fly with no problems, its actually really easy, makes it look a little better in my opinion. Anyhow great work so far.

 

[arithegreat]

Nice planes Asio Another idea I previously thought of and tried, was actually raising the elevation of which the planes fly. In my opinion the planes fly to close to the land, it looks like they flying at 3000 ft to do bombing missions... I have changed the level at which they fly with no problems, its actually really easy, makes it look a little better in my opinion. Anyhow great work so far.

That sounds nice

Is it long time left for update 2 ?

 

[asioasioasio]

yup around three months

 

[Castor_Troy]

I dl your mod and started changing in it things like realism,units,new countrys.And I need some new skins for units for the countrys like and at this Im not good at all.So my questions for you :
1.Where did you got the skins for the tanks and units cause I need some for the new tanks or you just made them and if you made them what is the easiest program to do them?
2.I dont get any error when loading or so but when I start playing it simply crashes after a few turns ?Could it be because of my changes?(added new units and countrys and deleted some of your units)

 

[asioasioasio]

I dl your mod and started changing in it things like realism,units,new countrys.And I need some new skins for units for the countrys like and at this Im not good at all.So my questions for you :
1.Where did you got the skins for the tanks and units cause I need some for the new tanks or you just made them and if you made them what is the easiest program to do them?

Most of units is maded by my team or founded on this forum - the mayority of units are made by me, snafusmith and sharick and nautil. From what i know all we use 3dsmax - there's also free alternative - blender
But it isn't easy task to make unit (i mean make completly new model).

If you need just to reskin model (both unit and leader) - all 2d programs would be good - for example
photoshop with .dds plugin
gimp with .dds plugin
paindotnet ot Ms paint with dxtbmp (to convert .dds files to .bmp and .bmp to .dds)

Checkthe tutorials section for more infos.

2.I dont get any error when loading or so but when I start playing it simply crashes after a few turns ?Could it be because of my changes?(added new units and countrys and deleted some of your units)

I don't know.
If you don't any error it should be ok (unless it's something wrong with graphics of new unit) - where this happens - any specific moment when it crashes?

 

[Castor_Troy]

Not specific moment but I also unblocked custom maps and when starting a new one it simply crashes after a few turns (1-2-3-4 randomly)and the debug send dont send screan appears.If you say is that hard gine do just the math part with strentgh moves etc. and when the new version comes out I'll start introducing them then.

 

[asioasioasio]

yes more nations and units will appear.

If you want to learn - nothing isn't hard, but it needs time to learn - and modelling takes (especially in the begining) a lot of time to make model of unit.

with reskining is simplier and faster, and with time you'll be also able to learn it.

BTW would you like to work in the team? I would have some xml (read very boring) job - mostly civilopedia.


This bug - I don't know whatm might be - i played couple of games and it worked ok every time (i don't count the trials before 1.15 patch). It might be still graphical problem - if AI starts to build crappy unit.

 

[Castor_Troy]

Ok ill reinstall the mod and start changeging again after you release your new version(septemeber right?).About the second part with helping you I need some information because forgot how to deal with the civilopedia ,but not right now as i have to collect the data that I wish to change and remove (make it more realistic) and finish STALKER so if you`ll be still intrested in 2-3 weeks I will be up for the job.As I will also finish school.

 

[asioasioasio]

Yup september - so it isn't rush i can wait . I'm glad you would like to help.

And i'm open to propositions -if you'll find the way to make mod more balanced and ai more aggressive i would like to put it to mod if it isn't problem

 

[asioasioasio]

For all who likes experiment and tweak:
Added SDK in mods forum
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=5169508&postcount=1

 

[Canabrava]

Very good mod! I liked so much. But 1933 map is too slow here, around 50 sec to change turn. I can't play this map

My pc:
- Pentium D 915+
- 1GB DDR2 667
- 7900GS 256mb

Is too low to play huge maps with 24 civs? Or is mod too "heavy" ? A warlords huge map isn't too slow, aroun 7sec - 12sec (playable)

How a can improve my performance to play this maps? More cpu or ram?

About the maps:

- 1939 need more war. AI dont fight against another AI. Maybe US-UK-France could be a permanent aliance, German + italy could be another aliance. And always on war.

Another idea is make a new mod is 1933/39 until 2050, like europe mod. Would be a nice mod, from wwI /wwII units until modern units


Nice work, and sorry very bad english.

 

[asioasioasio]

Thx for ideas )especially always war option is interesting) and i'm glad you like the mod For modern units - i'm afraid it will make mod run much more slower - and it's a lot of work - i don't see this possibility for now.

I think both CPU and more ram would help (i think that on first place RAM will help).

The problem is that mod is heavy - the number of units and countries in 1933 slows down game much.

For the next update in september some graphics would reedited to lower the needs - but it won't be great change. I hope we would be able to incorporate Speed Mod by Kael - it cut the time that turn last by half.

For me (i have overclocked GF 7800gt and Athlon 3500+, RAM 2 gb) the turn times are also long - around 40 sec - the game runs faster later but in the begining it might be problem,

 

[Shiggs713]

Wow I feel lucky... My time in between turns is usually like 10-15 seconds with the heaviest mods out there (ww2 1933 map, visa with 24+ civs)...

If you didn't already know, the best thing you could possibly do is get windows XP media center edition, at least 2GB of ram and min. 2.8 ghz cpu if you want this to be playable... My system is beefier than that, but it should be playable if you get to those levels of pc power.

 

[JungleIII]

Wow I feel lucky... My time in between turns is usually like 10-15 seconds with the heaviest mods out there (ww2 1933 map, visa with 24+ civs)...

If you didn't already know, the best thing you could possibly do is get windows XP media center edition, at least 2GB of ram and min. 2.8 ghz cpu if you want this to be playable... My system is beefier than that, but it should be playable if you get to those levels of pc power.

Same here... about 8-12 sec to change turns... but I also have XP Media Centre Windows with 2gb ram. Has anyone tried it on Windows Vista yet??? I have Vista sitting in a box for 2 months and have been to scared to try it...

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

You vista cultist ? or is this the new Pandora box ?

 

[JungleIII]

You vista cultist ? or is this the new Pandora box ?

Definately NOT a Vista cultist... that's why it has been sitting in box for 2 months. FYI... Civ4 works fine, although font is slightly different in the Civ games with Vista. I DID install it and after 8 hours of problem solving, finally checked to see if the Civ's still worked. At the moment I am just coming out of a very aggravated state with MS on the bottom of the fecal roster... why can't they migrate platforms without even their own MS Outlook working correctly???

 

[asioasioasio]

the best thing you could possibly do is get windows XP media center edition, at least 2GB of ram and min. 2.8 ghz cpu if you want this to be playable... My system is beefier than that, but it should be playable if you get to those levels of pc power.

Hmm it shouldn't so bad for me - i have win xp professional instead of media center and cpu - athlon overclocked to 2.5 ghz, but the rest is almost passed. Maybr my comp needs good nice "format c:\"

Same here... about 8-12 sec to change turns... but I also have XP Media Centre Windows with 2gb ram. Has anyone tried it on Windows Vista yet??? I have Vista sitting in a box for 2 months and have been to scared to try it...

I didn't tried Vista and i don't want to buy it - i heared opinion it's something like Windows Me - it appeared shortly, was very buggy but it was some kind test for some possibilities of xp. Vista has many problems and disturb user with hundreds click "yes/no/cancel/ok" (i don't know how it's called in english and couldn't find suitable word in dictionary). And as jungle noticed to much bugs and problems - instalaation should be quick and easy, but it isn't, and still many programs even don't work on vista.