After hard work Thelordz roman mod is finaly coming.This is gona be our beta version. Our soldiers are coming equipt with helmet, armour,roman sword,javelin and shield.When Lordkrazy is back from his cruzade he will aprove upload.
LBA
Elephants hmm?
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After hard work Thelordz roman mod is finaly coming.This is gona be our beta version. Our soldiers are coming equipt with helmet, armour,roman sword,javelin and shield.When Lordkrazy is back from his cruzade he will aprove upload.
LBA
Elephants hmm?
Do you have it hosted elsewhere in the meantime?
So it's been released is it, and LK is on a cruscade aye....
Thelordz Roman mod is still in testing mode, graphic vise
we got one unit fully done. LKrazy is working on RomanCav.
Guys it took as months to do this so be litle patient.
I was bussy making icons for 60 units and LKrazy making units and answering to your questions. Roman mod rests between all of this.Few more days maybe weeks. Then they are Hanibal elephants which i cant waite to get my hands on.
I got to go back to work. TheLordz
Great work you guys I've been waiting for those units since you and LK first wrote about it.
I'm guessing you meant path to the dark ages did you not? (When saying roman mod rests between this.)
Take as long as you want to realease, never release unfinished stuff.
If anyone can help with some elephant images?
It is to be, an elephant with diferent angles, size of image is not important, best are GIF,JPG or BMP formats.
Thanks LBA
LBA,
I sent LK a few Elephant images some months ago (extracted from AoE). Never headr anything more so I presumed it was a no-no.
A few points
- 2 different Elephant images in A0E (one with Howdah, one without)
- they are a bit too small to use in conjuction with existing hi-res MTW units but could probably be expaned for the basic outline (a bit of detail touching up would then be required)
- AoE uses 8 camera angles but not quite the same angles as MTW. They would look a bit like Shogun units on an MTW battlefiels.
- There are several actions available for these elephants. The basic 4 actions for mounts (stand/walk/run/charge) are available.
- each AoE action (for each of these 2 Elephant types) comprises a variable number of frames (between 7 and 15). You'd have to pick/select which frames to duplicate or omit for the 12 frames required for MTW BIFs.
There was a longish dicussion on Elephants in LK's "Request to community" thread. Personally I think representing Elephants in MTW poses problems - not so much from an imaging viewpoint but more in terms of the MTW battlefield engine.
Still, if you want more details let me know.
Wellington thanks for your interest in elephants And yes please any images will help, including your skills. About 6 month ago I replaced 2 camel images on frame one and added elephants as standing ones. Run the game and my elephants where nicely displayed in game, captured in pause. This was Lordz only try.I cant say it will not work till I test it all trought 12 frames but i do consider your point about engine limitations.I been so bussy, and i havent read TheOrg
posts for months be in touch.LBA
LBA,
Just looked at the ZIPs I sent LK - I was wrong - I never sent him the AoE Elephants (I sent him some AoE chariots - and other AoE figures). I'll extract the Elephant images from AoE and send them to you in a ZIPped format. Are you ok with my sending them to your E-mail address? If you think these images may be suitable for your purposes I can also send you the Chariot images (3 different types from what I remember).
I'll only send you the basic images (AoE uses 'Direct Draw' which means there are 'negative' images as well - presumably you won't need these for MTW) as opposed to all the images AoE requires for imaging these Elephants. If you decide to use them but have palette problems let me know - there are a couple of 'tricks' that may be convenient for direct draw images
Personally I'd love to see Elephants and Chariots in the mod your doing, and whilst some problems (re the MTW engine) are circumventable, other problems appear (at present and only IMHO) to be almost insurmountable.
BTW - if you have a copy of AoE it's pretty straightforward to extract these images if you have the right utilities. I gave LK some details re- what/where/how and I'll include this E-mail in the send (for future reference).
Let me know if your happy for me to E-mail you directly.
regards,
Welly
Wellington posting to my @ will be fine.
I reashure you, that you will get first glimps of El in BIF
And thanks to your help again. LBA
Roman map is nearly ready with Roman provinces in MAP TEX2. I dont know how long it will take to rename all countries in MTW folders or is it posible yet. I did run map in game and it displayed nicly. My home country is finaly caled ILIRICUM how it was for hundred years. Croatia name only exist since last century so we are close to more historical acruatcy. Sorry for English writing I newer thought I will be stacked IN Britan for that long
are you guys modifying the LUKmap as well?
sounds like a good mod...
Yes it would be nice to have all package, It is cool to see Macedonia in her full glory. LBA
LBA,
Elephants ... you have mail .. and quite a bit
You editting the campaign map too huh. Good luck to you.
Dear Nagatsuka I am responsible mostly and only for graphich art work on MTW mods. Adding Province names on map is simple proces but like I mention early Changing names in folders is diferent story.Surly LK or Wellington can work that out quite quickly.Another easy option is to keep original names on map with new Roman ones, for easyer cordination but that is open to yours opinion.LBA
I've yet to see a new campaign map (with different provinces/areas) that works with the MTW Engine. A few people have been working on this (Giskard, Barocca and others) and there has been a lot of progress ... but to my knowledge no one has yet cracked this 100%
Note there is a vast difference between producing a new campaign map via some graphic editing program, and being able to incorporate this map within MTW (with all of the additional considerations).
If anyone has cracked this please let me know - and point me to the appropiate download.
LBA,
Why does someone who resides in the "Elephant Free State" want Elephants?
Hhmm ... anyway, I sent you the images in 4 E-mails, around 500k each, but one of them keeps coming back to me (Mail SYstem Error - Returned Mail).
"Reason: Requested action not taken: exceeded storage allocation"
Does your ISP restrict your storage allocation? Maybe you have to get the ones I sent before I can send any more?
I'm the one that resides in the EFS http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by [b
You can send your stuff to:
wellington@thelordz.co.uk
Elephant Chariot minor detail http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif
As far as I know the reason no map changes yet
is that nobody has completed all the tasks.
LK http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif
Confusion reigns
Am I talking to LBA or LK now? I presume it's LK ... so ...
Did LBA get the images I sent him? There were 4 E-mails containing Elephant images from AoE - each was around 500K. I "think" he must have received the 1, 3 and 4 E-mails. I'm still not sure about 2 one. I split the 2 one and sent it in two E-mails (each around 300K). Have you these now?
LK, (if I'm talking to LK now!http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif I can do a bit more with these images in terms of placing them in several BMPs that align the various images over several frames correctly. Unlike MTW, AoE has different size rectangles across frames. I can correct this to provide equal sized rectangles for all images in a sequence (you know what I mean). This will make things a lot easier in terms of alignment. Otherwise it's a pisser trial and error job. Let me know and I'll do this for you - it WILL take a week or more however.
Also, do you want chariots? AoE provides 2 chariot images - a spearman and an archer.
Let me know.
Hi Welly,
Yes you doing all the work sounds like a great idea http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif
LBA got your stuff alright, I was just giving you
a more central pickup point for us.
hold the chariots for know
The elephants will be fine for now.
I'm away for the next week or so anyway
and LBA has pleanty to do so your help
as alway bla,bla,bla ect,ect,ect http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/pat.gif
LK http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif
Hhhmmm,
LK - nice to see your back However, why is it that nowadays you sound more like a Manager than a Moderator
Oh dear ... God forbid http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif
Thanks,
not back for long alas http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif
My time has been scarce of late,
hence more asking than doing on my part.
This will be rectified in the new year.
I know I'v not been much of a moderator
so far http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif Nobody told me what I'm suposed
to do http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/joker.gif
I'v just figured out what hhhmmm stands for
happy happy happy me me me
I can't keep up with this newspeak http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
LK http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif
Welly hi
They are no managers in Lordz team I have been greatfull to LK to share knowlege of MODing, since he was doing hard workTHINKING
I was holding Paintbrush in one hand and tea in another, We have to combine our skills , With out a general you can hardly won a battle. Thanks for elephants I be in touch. LBA
Mybe one day we can create our own engine and game an learn
a living.
"I know I'v not been much of a moderator
so far http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/frown.gif Nobody told me what I'm suposed
to do"
ROTFL
Don't worry about it LK. Thats par for the course for any new job http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
I once worked for a Software house in Germany (who shall remain nameless!http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif. I had a nice desk in my managers office. Every week I asked him what he wanted me to do - the reply was always the same "just settle yourself in". It was SIX MONTHS before he found me something to do. It's TRUE
At first I was'nt sure whether he did'nt like me, did'nt trust me or just did'nt give a damn I eventually ascertained he had employed me just to fill head counts (to ensure he got the same dept Budget next year), and I was being paid to do NOTHING - simply because there was NOTHING TO DO
God, I have some fun stories about THAT company http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
LK's back Excellent.
Anyways, I've just recieved the images for some Romans, lets just say http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif .
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/idea.gif Nag http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/idea.gif
Thanks they will be
even better when they are finished http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif
txt files soon http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif
LK http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ons/smokin.gif
Excellente neighbourino.
A beta version of a Roman unit can be downloaded
from the testpage
TEST_Lordz_Beta_Bif.zip
Test_More_Roman_Bits_Bobs.zip
This is just a sample
but works enough to give you an idea http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif
Happy Christmas http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif
The Lordz