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It will be great honor and pleasure to take part in betatest for me. Then if you need one more I am here ready.
BTW Any chance to see dead bodies in new version?
If I remember correctly someone on formum TWC make a file with dead bodies. Non for all units but better than none. Any cance to see something like that?
If there will be any dead bodies it will be repared only for one campaign. Simply there are over 10 different unit files (4 campaigns, each with MP version so 8 + historical battle file + ECW and Armada = 10) at the moment.
Because I am inclined to have two installs this time it might be possible to add two such files + a separate one for ECW/Armada. We will see.
I should produce something worth showing in the next week. Back to work...
I think there will be a small release before the main one i.e. 2.0.
I'd like to test some ideas in practice for some time before beta testing.
The minor improvement pack would include reworked historical battles (I have some new data, much more detailed than earlier) + perhaps one or two new animations and new music (I have almost prepared an Orthodox music set so it might be relased separately just like pack nr 1 available now).
Other than that it won't be much different so not too impressive, but it shouldn't affect your campaign saves in any way.
I will try to post it in time of one week - depends how long it takes to convert those blasted animations from CivIII.:juggle2:
Greetings.
This is great news to hear that you continue your work with this mod.
This is indeed good news.
But if I cn speak honest(and I will speak) I see many other things that need be fixed than animation. New unit animations is last thing that come to my mind.
If you asked me(you dont ask but details like that never bother me) things that are needed more that will be description for units and biuldings. Some dont have any and this hurt both gamepley and fun.
Aso I see that you are proud from tons of unit and nations but this isnt work well for AI. Especially that AI dont retrain and reform their army. And some nations cant even train their national units(like german infrantry for german minor nations).
Anyway good news to hear.
Good Luck and Godspeed.
I realise there are several problems, though AI is always a bit unreliable. The most certain thing which affects its decisions is the valour bonus. That is why dividing the next release into two installs - one for earlier period and another for later centuries should ensure AI choices will be a little more interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarissofoi
When it comes to te descriptions - I certainly agree. English is not my native language so I might struggle with that for some time, but from experience I can say it could take as little as three days of writing to finish them all.
At least more important structures and units will receive them for sure.
When it comes to other news I've just found more detailed description of some very interesting battles during the Italian Wars between France and the Habsburgs (among other sides) - can add some diversity to the boring Polish-centred part of the mod. ;)
I will try to prepare a number of these during the weekend.
BTW Cegorach do you have meybe somewhere 2.0beta version?
I mean this version from this
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=97738
I see that this use better map. If you still have it can you make this version aviallable from somewhere?
It was never released, but OF COURSE I have it in working condition on my HDD and using it right now to implement new thing and correct old mistakes.
I'd better return to preparing those historical battles. Very exhausting...
Greetings again Cegorach.
Thx for reply.
You still have this treasure?And you dont want to share?
Ah that is so evil!!!!
:wall:
My heart is burning from desire for this mod.
I even buy another graphic card to play this.
Yes thx again cegorach for fun but you know that I know that you have something better and you know now that this kills me.
:laugh4:
Actually I have some time, some knowlegde and even some awesome hacking skills(okey meyby I dont have but I can catch up fast) and I offer some help to you and this project.
I can do some work with descriptions but its waste of time to doing this on 1.5 version becoze I dont know what you change in 2.0.(I think I know how to do it.).
But ofcourse i will need 2.0(yeah this is my chance) version and some your help.
I know that you prefer work alone but this should make your work lighter and you know meyby I can give you some new idea(not very high chance but still).
Anyway choice is your.
BTW Do you know how to edit and change Vices and Virtues?
I think about remodeling this but I lack knowledge to do it(and I dont find filr with this either).
If you can share your knowledge with me thank you very much.
Good Luck and Godspeed.
It is in working condition, but not in releasable condition. A smal part is not ready, but an important part which is also time consuming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarissofoi
I've reactivated my presence here to finish the project.
2.0 is supposed to be TWICE as good as patched 1.5., but hopefully will be much better.
Yes, I have it, but after fighitng two dozen of custom battles one after another just to see if a certain unit beheaves as supposed to...Quote:
My heart is burning from desire for this mod.
I even buy another graphic card to play this.
Yes thx again cegorach for fun but you know that I know that you have something better and you know now that this kills me.
:laugh4:
Believe me that is a killer.
If you are able to prepare a map for a historical battle and provide all the necessary backgroud that might be a start. This is a think which can be added VERY easily and leaves a recognisable footprint in the mod.Quote:
I can do some work with descriptions but its waste of time to doing this on 1.5 version becoze I dont know what you change in 2.0.(I think I know how to do it.).
But ofcourse i will need 2.0(yeah this is my chance) version and some your help.
I know that you prefer work alone but this should make your work lighter and you know meyby I can give you some new idea(not very high chance but still).
Descriptions are another thing, but take time and sometimes are written in a way to help a player.
If you want you can write some for a country you enjoy the most. Almost all units existing in 1.5 are still here and I was rather writing descriptions for NEW units rather than for those which are already in patched 1.5.
Descriptions are placed inside file - DESCRIPTIONS in folder
Medieval - Total War\Loc\Eng
You can easily add a description, save it and test that in game. Descriptions cannot be too long because only a couple of lines is desplayed correctly.
Names can be changed, but not the qualities. Unfortunatelly.Quote:
Anyway choice is your.
BTW Do you know how to edit and change Vices and Virtues?
It is almost arcane knowledge. many things are never described and numerous others I discovered on my own.Quote:
I think about remodeling this but I lack knowledge to do it(and I dont find filr with this either).
If you can share your knowledge with me thank you very much.
Good Luck and Godspeed.
Just (for now) try doing something with the descriptions - easy and rewarding and historical battles - time consuming, but even more rewarding.
For the second the most important thing is a good idea and finding a battle which is a challenge.
The best thing is that in 2.0. I can ADD new units available ONLY in historical battles without affecting anything else in the game.
So as long as there are animations which can be used to represent a unit it can appear.
BTW I wonder if you ever tried the Multiplayer package. A separate install for that of course, but it gives some other options to explore.
In 2.0 some of MP only units will be present also in campaign so there are descriptios which can be added there as well.
In my opinion the best way people contributed in the past was by providing critical rewievs and research results, especially about their own countries.
Since I am not a native speaker in, say, Georgian I wouldn't ever been able to add so much about this country.
I guess you can try something with your country - unless it is not in the game, of course.
May I contribute for Western powers like Spain and France? I have access to important academic material, like Geoffrey Parker, Contamine and Lynn. Or will have for some of them :P.
I see no reason why not.
Descriptions and historical battles (that includes also MAP MAKING with the editor) are the easiest ways.
I am opening a separate thread for unit descriptions you might all want to write.
I will post names of some of many units which will appear in the mod.
I am finishing another music pack for the game. I think I will release it in a couple of days.
It will of course include modified campaign setup files otherwise this new musical line wouldn't work at all.
Ok. Then I will do some description.
Good Luck .
I've just acquired over 300 music tracks for Orthodox factions music pack.
I am trying to make it as good as possible, but I am certain it will be ready to the end of the week. It will be released in such a way that you will be able to use it in your patched 1.5 PMTW.
Frankly I always enjoyed Orthodox choirs. :)
In addition I am working on a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth music pack.
Sample - a Lithuanian song I received some time ago, prety decent for a battle track.
http://w397.wrzuta.pl/audio/58GC5xP1zxS/track1
Because of multinational and multiconfessional situation of the Commowealth I will attempt to use not only Polish, but also Lithuanian, Jewish, Belorussian etc music as long as it suits the purpose of this game.
If you have proposals just post links.
I was really busy this weekend, so the music pack will be ready to Tuesday. I need to convert some files, test it and upload it.
I was wrong. I will be ready much earlier.
Tracks are converted and should work fine (I woke up at 5.50 a.m to be sure). I will upload it at work.
There are just 11 tracks overall, but were chosen from over 300 so please be lenient. ;)
All right here it goes:
http://rapidshare.com/files/36055664...Music_pack.rar
It is larger than before because Rapidshare allows upload of larger files.
Just extract the files to your MTW VI. This time there is no selfinstaller mostly because the pack will be obsolate when the 2.0 is available.
In addiiton I hope to expand it because there can be up to 6 tracks per each phase - the beginning, movement and the battle itself.
Victory and defeat music doesn't require anything new..
The package is built on Russian and Georgian music with two odd additions (e.g. one Greek track for battle) and those factions (+Montenegro) will use it. Balcan orthodox countries will be given a different music package.
I think I should add a couple of words about the music in the MTW.
There can be 6 different music settings. 5 are currently occupied:
0 for Arabic,
1 for European,
2 for Viking,
3 for Tartar/Mongol
and 4 for Orthodox.
One entry is unoccupied. I will use it for Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Balcan states including Hungary, Moldavia and Wallachia.
Now, what can be done?
I am planning to expand the European set which will be used by western Europe, especially catholic nations. Viking set can be expanded as well - currently used by Denmark and Sweden could be expanded and applied to all protestant factions.
Tartar set is ok, so is the Arabic, though might be expanded if there are any interesting proposals from YOUR side Dear User.
Orthodox set is ok, but more battle tracks would be great.
The last set is a challenge, but should be interesting to use some Hungarian, Romanian and other music.
Again if you think you can contribute something don't hesistate. There is enough space to add more music, especially shorter tracks.
This is another way you can leave your footprint contributing to the project. Possibly the easiest.
One of problems faced in the mod is that the number of provinces is not infinite, worse it is relatively small so some events cannot be recreated properly.
Unification of Germany or Italy, although difficult is possible - you just need to defeat 6-12 countries and it is done. Civil wars in France or in other, larger countries also can be implemented, but smaller states are in less favourable situation.
You've seen the ideas for Switzerland recreating somehow expansion of the cantonal state and various events in its history. Colonial adventures are also here, in a way. The last country which should see some improvements is Georgia - unification of the country should bring some benefits for sure and since there is only one area called Georgia there is only one choice.
Here it goes:
https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b...istqaosani.jpg
The Knight in the Panther's Skin or Vepkhist'q'aosani is a famous epic poem which starts here a line of improvements leading to full unification of glorious Georgia. That should open some options for example making certain units available.
Sadly events cannot be implemented in the game so I had to improvise.
Oh heavens, Cegorach, are you really going to finish this godly mod? Or is it dead again....but could it be true? THE devourer of my free time, some three years ago, and I enjoyed it all. And maybe soon again? This would be awesome, to say the least! Please keep us posted!
(I knew there was some sense in peeping into this forum every couple of months :balloon2:)
I am more active on TWC because the ORG is somehow... not very active.
THis thread -
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...=56415&page=19
But if there will be something new to release I will post it. I've just transferred to my new computer and I bought a couple of books about 30 Years War and Scottish army so it is far from dead. Quite the opposite - after all Orthodox music pack is the downloadable upgrade which was released recently.
There will be some, small changes in the factions available in certain scenarios. One thing for certain - Scotland disappears from Lion of the North and is replaced by something new, something with this flag:
https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b...owafrakcja.jpg
the list of the factions currently looks like this:
https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b...zutnaliste.jpg
Since two installs are planned - one for earlier period, one for later - I might still use some slots to add something, but the main idea was to save some unit and animations slots and adding new scenarios will delay any release so factions might stay just this way as shown above.
Reading latest book by Witold Biernacki (excellent source about 30 YW) I am thinking about one, major change in units' statistics.
I believe that pikemen in the game are not prepared the way they should so I will most likely reduce mobility of musketeer units with exception of light infantry and forlorn hope type of units.
Musketeers and pikemen should form large battlefield formations supposed to support each other and I am going to rethink certain ideas in the mod hopefully bringing the full value and strenght of tertios, dutch and swedish brigades.
There is plenty of sources which deal with the subject and I have several of them - it looks like the perception of Spanish tertios is changing among historians dealing with this subject.
I will run a could of simulated battles with new statistics after I design simple, yet complete system to include all types of infantry in the game. Each of them must still retain some value and remain unique in some aspects.
Most likely it will be something along those lines:
- relatively slow, but strong tertios with high morale,
- faster moving, but more vulnerable Dutch brigade,
- as fast as Dutch, but with better firepower - Swedish brigade,
- faster then earlier model and with better firepower, but weaker in h-t-h combat - late Tertio,
- relatively fast and with decent firepower, but weaker morale and no pikemen - Haiduk type infantry,
- good firepower, some bonus against cavalry, but with flaws - infantry with berdishes,
- good firepower, fast moving, but with weaker morale and little protection vs. cavalry - light infantry and most of muslim infantry types,
Busy time, but I should something around the 10th - so after the 4th July which is this time rather important day in Poland.:book:
Hello! I am a big fan of this mod, despite that graphics in MTW are quite dated. However, I find the feeling better in this mod than in several newer historical strategy games. A truly great work Cegorach! I only hope you will be able to finish it now. :)
Regards
/A Swedish Lion, haha
I am currently starting my new bussiness so my attention is a wee bit occupied.
Nevertheless I am starting reworking exisiting historical battles this week using most recent data I received in latest months and days.
For example this great study about the battle at Klushino -
http://www.wanax.pl/index.php?p1152,...zania-o-bitwie
a work of a befriended historian Radosław Sikora.
Actually there's been a minor flood of new books about the subject of XVI-XVII century warfare in recent weeks and I have almost all of them. :dizzy2:
I have more data about German armies, Scottish one and local troops in Bohemia.
I'd like to start releasing independent packs which would be possible to apply to 1.5 PMTW to test them while I am working on other improvements.
This way there might be no 'true' betatesting, but the new imrvements would be downloaded and tested by players while the project is continued.
Quite cunning, isn't it?:laugh4:
Okej, good luck with your new business! I will regularly come here to see if those independent packs have appeared :) Looking forward to it.
Books are nice, aren't they!? :P Expecially historical ones. Anf it is amazing how much information you gather.
However, good luck!
It takes a little longer to start a new enterprise these days, but I am almost done with the majority of work.
In a week I am resuming work on this mod.
As promised revisited historical battles will be first - over time I've accumulated much data about the subject and the current setup is horribly outdated.
Is there any chance to see new version of this mod before new year? Maybe beta or something? My new/old PC is ready and waiting.
P.S. It was a time when I was playing this mod at work on pentium MMX 233MHz, 128MB RAM, 16MB voodoo3 2000 and win98. Aaaaach.. good old days. I still have my precious voodoo3. There is no better graphic for old games!