Your own banners

[Celtiberos Shimazu]

Look this:
http://pub40.ezboard.com/fforoceltiberos11660frm17.showMessage?topicID=27.topic

[oZoNeLaYeR]

Right... so how do we exactly make our own banner??? care to share??

[PSYCHO]

http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/eek.gif http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif !!

Are you suggesting what I think your suggesting ...or is this the product of graphical manipulation !?

Cheers

[theforce]

Someone was playing with photoshop http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[TosaInu]

Konnichiwa,

It could be photoshop, but those could be original ingame graphics.

Maptextures are TGA files, so are the backdrops and thus editable. Flags are LBM files, thus editable, FacShields ('familycrests') are TGA files. It wouldn't surprise me if the very stratmap can be edited too, or that we are able to make a map of Asia and assign provinces to it.

That could mean that we can make a Sengoku mod and finally play STW as it should be.

Edit: Flags are in the Battle folder, textures in textures/Ground.

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[This message has been edited by TosaInu (edited 07-03-2002).]

[Celtiberos Shimazu]

It´s easy. You have to go to this directory:
Medieval - Total War (Demo Version)\Battle\Flags
Here are all the flags. You can create your own flags in photoshop instead of the banners of the game. Yoy have to limited to...
1) The name of your banner have to be identical to one of the game.
2) Must to be a 32 x 32 pixel image, in TGA format, of 16 bits/pixel and a resolution of 72 ppi.
-If you want that your banner fits perfectly in the flag, add a new layer in photoshop, and paste the little scuare banner of the “Flags.tga” image. Add some contrast, and fuse it (multiply mode), with the rest of layers.

-You can also, change the graphics of battle shields. But remember, your image must to be same name, and format of the originals ones.

I think that all players must have the same banners to play in multiplayer. But we can to do a pack of flags, to multiplayer. Each clan could have their own flags.

[oZoNeLaYeR]

lol... i cant use photoshop... any link for tutorial??

[MagyarKhans Cham]

but how does teh programm know what banner i have? esp in multiplay?

but it would be nice to have a banner just for your general unit, if each clan makes his own general banner, than we combine them into one file and add them....

is that possible?

[Celtiberos Shimazu]

The program only loads a few names. Load the banners of the Flags directory, but only recognognice a banner per faction.
I thinks the answer, is no, Magyarkhan. The banner for the units, it´s the SAME banner for the general (at least in the demo). They use the same grafic, but general use a square flag, and rest of units apply that graphics to their flags (a long vertical flag).
I dont´t know too much about programation. Perhaps, in the future, someone could make a banners selector. That´s could be cool. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/tongue.gif

[Vanya]

You probably see your flags, and the enemy sees whatever his computer says yours are. So, if you have a black flag with pirate skull on YOUR PC, your MP allies and enemies will see the basic/original flag for your clan/unit/whatever.

Unless, of course, they changed their flag name for your unit as well to match yours...

he he

[JAG]

kool!

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and the other would accept war rather than let it perish,
and the war came."


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4 March 1865

[Orda Khan]

I can't take much more of this. The possibilites seem endless. Clan banners, map of Asia, fusion of MTW and STW.....just a feww more weeks
.........Orda

[Hirosito]

so even more reasion to have data sharing over the internet so that everyone sees the proper banners?

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Hirosito Mori

Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

[PSYCHO]

Well ... just imagine MP.. the Clans could go into battle showing their own coat of arms!!!
Now that new feacture would add a whole new dimension to the online community!!!
Surely, in the connectup in MP, Creative could program in a banner swap thingy!?

http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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PSYCHO HOJO / PSYCHO SO

[theforce]

This has been said before. I mean there will be some guys that will put inapropriate pics for their banners.

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[Krasturak]

Quote Originally posted by MagyarKhans Cham:
[B]...if each clan makes his own general banner, than we combine them into one file and add them....[B][/QUOTE]


This sounds like fun.

[Sir Kuma of The Org]

Quote Originally posted by Krasturak:

This sounds like fun.[/QUOTE]

It does but wrong forum. Moved to the edit and mods forum.

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[This message has been edited by TosaInu (edited 07-04-2002).]

[tootee]

Shim, what tool did you use to generate the .gif file? I wanna generate the lighting effect. Some 3D modeling .exe and then export as .gif?

Thanks.

[FasT]

makin own banners for clan would be nice......
I like this idea very much http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
Make it possible some how plzs...

[Jochi Khan]

Perhaps us newbies could use our national flag as a banner until we are experienced enough to be invited into a clan???????
It's another idea to consider
.............JochiKhan

[Celtiberos Shimazu]

Excuse me for the delay of this repply.
- I made the Text, and the light effect, in 3D, with 3dStudio Max 4.
- I save the animation in AVI format. After, I convert the .AVI to animated GIF. using Adobe Premiere.
- This GIF, was optimized to a right size, and cutted some keyframes, to publish in internet, using Adobe Image Ready.

[tootee]

Ah thanks Shim. Me think me also go try out for fun.. but I use Coreldraw 10.. maybe it has similiar function of importing avi and converting to gif?...

[Kraellin]

my coat of arms and flag will be a squirrel running around in one of those running wheel things.

as for banners, flags, et al, remember, unless you send them to someone else and have them install them on their computer, you'll be the only one who can see them. graphics are local to one's own machine.

K.


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[KafirChobee]

Banners - flags - ACK. Make mine white, I surrender to all the tech geeks.

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David

[Celtiberos Shimazu]

I don´t know if CorelPhotoPaint have that option....but, you could try this:

- In 3d Studio (or other), save the animation in jpg, or bmp graphic. This will create one graphic for each keyframe.
- After, with Corel, or Photoshop (or another program that let you work with animated gif), build your own animated GIF.

[tootee]

thanks Shim.. I don't have any 3d graphics tools installed. Is 3D studio a freeware or shareware? And the starting letter 'C' in the words, what is the font you use to write them?

[Celtiberos Shimazu]

3d Studio, it´s a profesional program of 3D graphics. A lot of games have been made with this program (Half Life, for example). Also has been used in cinema (Lost In the Space).

I think that you could get a demo limited of this program. Try to get it in the Discreet oficial web.
But don´t worry, there is a lot of 3d programs....

The capital letters of the celtiberos banner, it´s a font type. 3d Studio, charge it, and after, you can work with them.
The font I used for capital letters is:
Gothic Leaf

There is another fonts that you could find useful:
GothicI, Apollyon™, Ariosto Regular, Asphodel™, Beckett Regular, Berliner, CarrickCaps Caps:001.001, Celticmd Decorative w Drop Caps, Emerald Isle, Floral Majuscules, 11th c., Florimel™......

[NARF]

Or we could get a volunteer to take emails of ideas, make them, and send them back to the original with the idea, but the question is, is anyone nice enough