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."


Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address
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