Blue Lotus: Total War

[LeftEyeNine]

I could make a bigger one, but I had to care about the sig limit, you know. My Turkish themed sig already takes away most of it.. Anyway it looked simple and good enough to me, that's why I got it pasted over there..

Thanks for your comments..

[Gubook Janggoon]

You could simply use a trident or peacock for a symbol for the Indians. Possibly a cow?

http://kipukatrading.com/necklaces/in-nk13.html

http://murugan.org/pix/3coins.jpg

I like the peacock idea. I think that would go better with the idea that they're the richest faction.

[Whoami88]

I know its a little late to make civilization suggestions but what do you guys think about adding a Malaysian/Indonesian side? We got a good assortment of different "cultures" and adding them will give them the game a islamic culture.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

i was actually thinking that but i was also thinking: more factions more time longer to wait for it to come out but maybe hoggy could add them in an expansion or something... it is really him making all the final stuff so it would be up to him

[randomhero210]

Same here, I really can't wait for this mod and Hoggy already has enough in the way of factions. I mean if he was turning out models of bland knights or peasants ( like middle ages mods ) I would want plenty of different factions. But when they all have this much personality and depth, no thanks. Hoggy has MORE than enough for me.

[randomhero210]

We had mentioned it a while back hoggy, but I wanted to know what you were thinking about battle maps. I'm sure it's really far from your mind right now, but I'm still very interested in maps for custom battle in Blue Lotus that feature villages, fields, other geographical features, choke points, and a bit more structure and
interest to them than the standard Total War maps. If possible, it would be nice to add these features into the Campaign too, with random villages and more interesting terrain.

[al'Callaendor]

this mod is for RTW oe BI?

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I think it's for BI. He may make it compatible for both though.

[hoggy]

We're going to hopefully make it for BI but we're still looking into what the limitations are. If it turns out BI won't support BL we'll stick with the version we've got but BI is looking the most probable. It's an awfully large amount of work and as usual Blindfaithnogod will bear the brunt of it if we do it. So, jury is still out...

[al'Callaendor]

ok, do you kow if I can play BI with a ati 64mo?

[blindfaithnogod]

if you can play RTW you should be able to play BI... as i understand it.

[al'Callaendor]

ok.

[zukenft]

The berzerker swing, swimming bubbles and level-up sparkies will actually look good in this mod....or actually, because of...

[zukenft]

Oh,yah, another thing. How will you release the mod for download? I know that this will take a hunderd Megabyte-ish...will you make a torrent, or uploading small parts each time, or just the whole thing? I want to know because I hate long downloading time. especially for this (greatest) mod.

[Moros]

if you can play RTW you should be able to play BI... as i understand it.

but with a big lag they say. Someone, I believe it was Prometheus (not sure), posted somewhere that BI battles lag. And that he couldn't play huge battles anymore and he had to turn lots of video options lower...

So it might be slow but I don't know much about computers.

[randomhero210]

Oh,yah, another thing. How will you release the mod for download? I know that this will take a hunderd Megabyte-ish...will you make a torrent, or uploading small parts each time, or just the whole thing? I want to know because I hate long downloading time. especially for this (greatest) mod.

good things come to those who wait

A torrent is not necessary, just a straight a simple download with multiple mirrors would do.

[hoggy]

Not sure how we're going to be releasing it yet but it is going to be big as we're replacing alot of files. We'll sort something nearer to the time.

On a different note I noticed that BL is a year old today! ... ! (d@#n that went fast!) As an update I'm currently doing animations with the help of Bwian and Blindfaith is converting BL to RTW 1.3 which is the version I think we are going to go with. I am estimating roughly a January release at the moment... but don't quote me. Thanks to everyone for your support over the past year, I hope the product lives up to your expectations

[the_mango55]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUE LOTUS!!

[GiantMonkeyMan]

drinks are on me! well done hoggy!

now you have said a rough release date i am really really really wanting this to come out!!! is there anything you need help on? coding wise though

[BasketCase]

Hi, I've been following this mod for a very long time but this is my first time posting, anyways this mod looks great and the units are beautifully made. I especially like the dragons.

[The wise Penguin]

1.3? Nooo! What about the AI? And the hordes? And religion? And night battles? I guess I can live without them, but it would certainly be nice to have. Night battles against demons would be so cool :(

[Moros]

1.3? Nooo! What about the AI? And the hordes? And religion? And night battles? I guess I can live without them, but it would certainly be nice to have. Night battles against demons would be so cool :(

what AI???
and that religion thingy isn't really that much. The night battles are quite nice to see but don't add that much to gamemplay. I think that the only "cool" addition are the hordes really. But If I have to choose tiny battles for a lil' light affects and that one horde option or giant battls with ots of beautifull models. I'd choose the latter.

1 year? So that means that not only EB is slow

nah just kidding. happy birthday Hoggy...err...BL!!!

[randomhero210]

1.3? Nooo! What about the AI? And the hordes? And religion? And night battles? I guess I can live without them, but it would certainly be nice to have. Night battles against demons would be so cool :(

The patch includes the AI improvements, all the other stuff is really just fluff.

[moreb_benhk]

Heh. Haven't seen any AI improvements in the BI thusfar. However. How is the mod going? I've been excited about this one for a goodly long while now.

[hoggy]

Hello, sorry about the shortage of posts lately. We're still plugging away at it. Parts of the conversion are proving tricky but we're getting there.

here are a couple of message images. we're mostly using period art for the messages but in some cases where we can't find good reference we'll make them ourselves.

assasin screen

prebattle (japanese) screen

[dark_shadow89]

great stuff, as usual hoggy!

[DragoonXXIV]

Hoggy great stuff as usual. Just wondering, but do you plan to replace all the backgrounds in R:TW?

[Ilsamir Lord]

All the message art is superb!

[hoggy]

Dragoon - what do you mean by backgrounds?

here is the generic 'exterminate populace' message art (again we couldn't find good existing art for this):

[GiantMonkeyMan]

sweet! keep it up hoggy!