View Full Version : You know you're a modder when...
Dol Guldur
06-10-2006, 12:51
You look forward to getting into the code of a new expansion/version more than you look forward to actually playing the game...
Your turn.
Lentonius
06-10-2006, 12:59
You work for hours on end to acheive something that nobody actually is interested in.
Dol Guldur
06-10-2006, 13:47
OR You work for months on end whilst all the time blocking from your mind the reality that you have in fact accomplished less than 0.01% of the conversion...
your the only person in the house without a suntan.....
You actually know what a polycount is
Every time you watch a film with a battle in it, you work out how to get that in the RTW engine...
Dol Guldur
06-10-2006, 14:35
LOL@Bwian
The World Cup is on, your country is playing, but you just have to finish editing those Eastern portraits...
Geoffrey S
06-10-2006, 20:38
More for a FPS, but when walking through buildings you try to work out how best to represent them in-game.
You redo something because its just not quite right
Dol Guldur
06-10-2006, 21:20
you can divide all things in life into the softcoded and the hardcoded....
shifty157
06-10-2006, 22:31
You release your mod but never actually play it because youre too busy working on the next release.
You spend hours straight squinting at little blue dots on a grey screen before finally deciding to move one or two of them a pixel to the right or left.
The next day you move them back.
Seasoned Alcoholic
06-10-2006, 22:48
You know you're a modder when...
Hard CTDs don't send a shiver down your spine...
Excessive coding sessions give you nightmares...
You release a version of your mod, and realise that there was something critical that should've been included in the version currently being filehosted...
edyzmedieval
06-10-2006, 23:08
You want to mod every game because you don't like this or that.
...when you know the entire descr_strat.txt by heart ~D
...when you wonder how Kingdom of Heaven will look with the RTW engine....
Myrddraal
06-11-2006, 17:49
You release your mod but never actually play it because youre too busy working on the next release.
You spend hours straight squinting at little blue dots on a grey screen before finally deciding to move one or two of them a pixel to the right or left.
The next day you move them back.
Absolutely
Dol Guldur
06-11-2006, 19:58
When the game ceases to be a beautiful synergy of sound and graphics and is seen rather as never-ending lines of code Matrix-style...
Lentonius
06-11-2006, 20:23
You produce things other people want and do not make things that you actually want.
You can list every folder in the RTW directory.
Lord Winter
06-11-2006, 23:56
You spend hours writing a script, only to realize that it has to be rewritten because your mod's map will have different city names.
Dol Guldur
06-12-2006, 00:03
You spend hours writing a script, only to realize that it has to be rewritten because your mod's map will have different city names.
LOL. Ah yes, forum departments perfectly synchronised - working like a well-oiled machine... :laugh4:
Teleklos Archelaou
06-12-2006, 00:04
When you see that a certain poster (who always has great submissions) has made a new post and you get all excited even before you see the title or anything about it.
or
When you get wide-eyed and hold your breath after you see someone has posted something new in the "Member away/idle notices" thread for you mod. :grin:
Dol Guldur
06-12-2006, 00:14
You know you're a modder when you make a genuinely new discovery and really get far too much pleasure from something that really - all things considered - is not that important in the grand scheme of things...
IceTorque
06-12-2006, 00:49
some person other than you, actually downloads your mod. :inquisitive:
you create something original. :idea2:
you become indifferent to those that dislike your mod. :wall:
you see your mod in the mod downloads section (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=144) of the org. :2thumbsup:
you often ask yourself, what the hell am I doing this for ? :dizzy2:
instead of sleeping you stay up all night working on something,
5 minutes before you have to leave for work you are pleased as punch with your creation,
you go to work red-eyed and grumpy but excited as all "!" about what you created,
get home, look at it - and DUMP it...
...it's just not good enough...start over...
and stay up all night...
:fishbowl:
B.
satanea juda
06-12-2006, 02:57
When someone asks you "when will it be released" over and over and over......
When you haven't finished a campaign in years cause you keep on just tweaking things slightly.
You keep telling yourself its all worth while when doing something really really time consuming(unit cards)
It turns out to be worthwhile
R'as al Ghul
06-12-2006, 14:29
When you open your PM's and E-mails in the morning and realise that while you were sleeping, your mod colleague in another time zone has done a huge amount of work that's now filling your inbox. :grin:
When your english grammar worsens as a result of your conversations with people who don't speak english...
You care about the interactions of people you've never met and who live on the other side of the planet more than your friends...
You look at random objects and unconciously try to see lines of symmetry in case you need to model them...
You get giddy over a beta of your mod that crashes constantly...
Dol Guldur
06-12-2006, 17:35
You come to realize that whatever you do or say you cannot escape the eternal law that states that only 1 person in a hundred will actually read your mod installation instructions properly...
The one person who does read them does it wrong.
You try to include a new feature and the game does something completely different than you intended.
You ask people questions they can never really answer.
You tell a friend about a cool feature in your mod when you're drunk and he doesn't get what the heck you're talking about.
You think about a philosophic principle and immediately wonder how you could get that into the game.
You ask yourself which files you have to change in order to open the fridge.
You spend time wondering which traits the fine girl at the bar has, and whether she has a fat, ugly friend ancillary you have to get rid of.
wlesmana
06-16-2006, 19:10
You feel like the guy at the medicine counter at a drug rehabilitation center because you got a horde of people trying to swindle you to get a little bit of info, screenshot, screencap, OMG ANYTHING PLEEEASE out of you every single day.
You kept the Google page on search for "Vercingetorix Total War CAS exporter" refreshed every few hours in case a new CAS exporter is released.
You nitpick the models of CA's screens.
You spent hours, days, weeks, making sure the vertices are weighed properly at the arms so they don't look odd when animated, fully realizing that no one else except you would ever notice it in-game.
You have opened (or TRIED to open) every single file in RTW directory.
Woad Warrior
06-16-2006, 19:52
You can't actually play the game any more because as soon as you see something you don't like, you have to change it. Then once you start a mod, you think you have a better idea for one, then start it, then drop it again, and on and on......
Before I found the Guild I done loads of full campaigns on RTW. Since I came here I've hardly even played the game.
Dol Guldur
06-16-2006, 20:00
when you're convinced that you and your team of 3 can do a better job than CA - fill up all the factions with unique units, make faction-specific that which was merely cultural or make all the cultures distinct with no overlaps, ad, change all the artwork, music ad infinitum - even though the vanilla game alone took 30 full-time professionals 55 man-years to complete. :)
spirit_of_rob
06-16-2006, 21:47
not on ly convinced but when you know it for a fact hehe
You know ur a modder when you consider making a PR staement along the lines of
"As it is now apparently acceptable to charge for mods there will be a £1 price tag attatched to this mod"
just to see what the reaction of everyone is hahahahaha
UltraWar
06-17-2006, 21:37
You actually spend your time writing a readme file which no-one reads
You spend your time updating the latest version of a mod you have released
Dol Guldur
06-18-2006, 00:45
You start scouring the Internet, old TW games, sound bites, bits of music you've heard over the last decade, your friends' voices, your pets' sounds, and anything else you can find just to put it into the mod and make it unique...
You tell people computer files have more than just bmp's and jpegs...and they look at you like you're god.
when you're convinced that you and your team of 3 can do a better job than CA - fill up all the factions with unique units, make faction-specific that which was merely cultural or make all the cultures distinct with no overlaps, ad, change all the artwork, music ad infinitum - even though the vanilla game alone took 30 full-time professionals 55 man-years to complete. :)
..when the general consenssus is that what takes those 30 guys 55 man years to make...is surpassed in all aspects by what takes you and your team of 3 a couple months.
you understand you're a modder when you open RTW just to see if your scripts works properly.
you know you're a mdder when the longest campaing you play since months is 2-turns, to see how looks pretty the features you've included.
you know you're a modder when walking withfriends you get a marvellous idea and youwant to be on a pc to get just a stub; you looks absent for all the night repeating in your mind "yes, i could do it, an implementhing that", and when you get back home you switch on the PC and then you realize you've forget everything.
you know you're a modder deep interested in historical accuracy when in christmas time you get totally angry when you see some horrible outdated and wrong legionary stuff on people doing the "presepe vivente" (italians will understand).
you know you're a modder when you think "i will like to create a new mod"
Lentonius
06-19-2006, 11:15
lol yeah, once entering the world of modding you begin to tire of the game itself, becoming an ever hungry monster of mods, downloading every mod, and having fifteen RTW folders on your C drive.
You keep modding even on a computer that doesn't run RTW properly...
Duke John
06-19-2006, 12:27
Good ones!
You know you are a modder when you've got this: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/images/medals/editor.gif
Oh my god, that was lame! :grin:
...when you shout at a piket fence to "Lower spears & form Phalanx formation!"...well maybe that`s also true/truer for obsessed players of TW...anyways.....
You know you're a modder when the havnt played any game aside from your own mod for the last six months (or you play something for thirty minutes, get infuriated by it and promptly return to modding).
You know you're a modder when the havnt played any game aside from your own mod for the last six months (or you play something for thirty minutes, get infuriated by it and promptly return to modding).
:laugh4: I can relate to that. You simply can't play more than 30 minutes without quitting the game thinking, the unit needs to be rebalanced, this faction buildings need to take longer turns, this skins is simply not right, this BI feature can be added.. and so on....
:help:
Ilsamir Lord
07-20-2006, 04:22
You know your not a modder when you spend more time typing recruitment notices than meaningful updates. :embarassed:
You realize that you are indeed a part of a rare breed, you're a gamer that simply cannot be happy unless he feels miserably about certain aspects of a game he loves.
Dol Guldur
07-20-2006, 18:40
I eventually got around to playing Alexander today...well, let me qualify that: I played it for 30-45 mins to check out if it offered any advancement - be it oh so small! - in modding potential. I then looked at the files and tested a few things for at least twice the amount of time played.
Yes, I know I'm a modder. :idea2:
The Spartan (Returns)
07-21-2006, 21:25
when you know what a coder is, skinner, moddeller, animator etc.
when you post in this thread and give a reason
when you spend more than 2 hours on modding
Teleklos Archelaou
07-21-2006, 22:21
You can't take a vacation anywhere or just visit a friend or relative without checking on the forum a couple times a day and seeing if there are any problems or new screenshots.
Makanyane
07-22-2006, 20:17
There's no hard disc space left on your computer (which, err, was meant to be for business use) because of multiple folders of intermediate modding stage backups, and when desperate for space you finally remember to empty the 'recycle bin' its full with 100's of deleted map.rwm's
Comrade Alexeo
07-22-2006, 21:27
What the heck? I had a post in here! A big long one!
Come to that, it seems a lot of my posts are inexplicably disappearing!
~:confused:
:2thumbsup: You read this thread and can actually relate to these things.
You can't take a vacation anywhere or just visit a friend or relative without checking on the forum a couple times a day and seeing if there are any problems or new screenshots.
Hahaha, I'm doing that right now.... :laugh4:
You know you're a modder when the better your team gets the more unsatisfied you are with their work, and timescales can't be created for the list of things you want them to do.
Byzantine Emperor
07-23-2006, 13:29
There's no hard disc space left on your computer (which, err, was meant to be for business use) because of multiple folders of intermediate modding stage backups, and when desperate for space you finally remember to empty the 'recycle bin' its full with 100's of deleted map.rwm's
I can relate to that! :laugh4:
The Spartan (Returns)
07-23-2006, 14:56
I can relate to that! :laugh4: yes me too.
You are always waiting to a CA member, only for make questions about the game.
You are making guides about a things in the game who no-one understands.
You are talking about all the time of the mod.
Byzantine Emperor
09-15-2006, 20:38
Who dug this up? :lol:
Neon twilight
09-15-2006, 22:26
You're a modder when you think this word exists in the dictonary.
Thorn Is
09-16-2006, 00:15
you will not add your friends names to your game cause they aren't authentic enough
You almost miss your stop on the train as your mind drifts over an exciting theory you weren't able to test the night before.
Your team designed a t-shirt and you considered giving them out to people.
... you got fired because you yelled at your boss "When it´s done!" as he asked for a progress report for that project of yours.
Neon twilight
09-20-2006, 23:12
When you come home form work/studies and say "I'm happy I've have a lot of work to do now !" you start to think you're Stakhanovist.
Roman_Man#3
09-26-2006, 02:25
...when you wonder how Kingdom of Heaven will look with the RTW engine....
ditto to that. some one should try
That was CB's stated purpose in the mod Crusades.
You know you're a modder when you've never even released anything, and have a huge total revamp of RTW on your hard drive, but just can't stop tweaking and refining it until it's absolutely perfect! Or you see an idea in the forums that has frustrated you for weeks cause you couldn't quite figure out how to implement it...and then someone gives the clue out of nowhere, so you have to change 25 files, hundreds of lines of code cause you KNOW you can get it to work......
Neon twilight
10-05-2006, 16:57
You know you're a modder when you know by heart all your media library wich helps you urviving long loonely nights in front of your PC.
you browse a forum and and remark that they missed something.
When you die a little inside when you game ctds.
Riothamus
10-14-2006, 02:36
-When somebody finally tells you your mod sucks...:furious3:
-When on a friday night you are sitting in front of your computer and writing something like this.
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