Some new graphics for HTW review panel

[macsen rufus]

Hi everyone - one thing I find hard in HTW is seeing how developed my provinces are - you know, having to right-click an icon to get the parchment to see whether it's basic, a workshop, or a guild etc. This means you can't flick through quickly looking eg for your +3 valour bowyer when you forget which province it's in!

So here's my solution, and if anyone else likes it feel free to download. It is a new set of graphics for the review panel showing the upgrades buildings have... here's an example, I'm sure you'll see the difference.



For more info: See the readme page

You can download a 90k ZIP from there.

Enjoy...

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Good one Rufus,

It seems a good solution, I can't test it for now, but someone can post some comments?

[Mujalumbo]

I downloaded the graphics this past weekend.

I'm running MTW:VI 201, HTW 3.1 beta. The graphics showed up fine for weapons, armour, brothels, drinking dens, archers, horse-breeders, and shiprights upgrades. Additionally, little "parchment" icons showed up in the review panel for buildings which granted titles to bestow.

I've only tested with the Greek factions, and haven't tested with the barbarians or Persians, but they seemed to work for those factions as well. (Clicking on the province when I owned an adjacent province with watchtowers, for instance.)

Any questions, please let me know.
Happy to help.

[macsen rufus]

Hi and thanks Mujalumbo - I'm also working on an HTW unit guide, which is basically stripping out the stats and basic unit info from the hellenic_prod2 files into HTML, hope to have that up over the weekend.

Unit Guide

I've only done the two "title" buildings so far as I tested it on the Lax, and they only have the two titles (Lohagos and Dikastis), and I'm not sure that will ever show titles accurately for every faction.

I'm currently playing HTW3.1 with the economy patch and BA add-on, and making cumulative corrections to names and text as I find them, too. I hope to end up with Bronze Age through to the Wars of the Successors (though it may take a while.....)

[Mujalumbo]

Good to hear people are still working on this mod. There are people who haven't immediately jumped on the RTW bandwagon, and mods like these greatly enhance MTW's replayability. I know next to nothing about modding, but I have free time and would be glad to help with testing and the like.

[macsen rufus]

I started learning about modding once I downloaded HTW.... it's not so frightening messing about inside a mod as on the original game The various modding forums here are very informative, too (Thanks everyone!)

At the moment, I'm just smoothing over some of the rougher bits in HTW, and will continue to make available anything I do. I'm NOT aiming at a complete re-mod, but it would be nice if someone else was testing my stuff, too.

I don't have RTW - my machine is too slow and clunky, though it copes with MTW. Once I found Hellenic, I stopped saving up for the new computer for RTW. It's a really nice mod, and nicely fills the 'ancient' slot in playable eras, imho.

[dimitrios the samian]

Rufus well done !! I have just downloaded your review panel update and will be tying it out soon . Its good to see somebody apart from the makers put in a little effort to make a great game better and quicker with simple modifications to portray vital information .
I look forward to your next update and also perhaps some new castle pictures on those parchments ! as some of those flat grey one's are hardly noticeable and something more Grand would be nicer .
All i can say is brilliant I also like your unit guide very much .
You have just re-ignited my passion for this awesome game , So it will be less time on the golf course and racetrack and more time out on the battlefeild !!

cheers
Dimitrios

[macsen rufus]

So it will be less time on the golf course and racetrack and more time out on the battlefeild !!

Well, that has to be good news


I've been making progress on the Bronze Age too, finishing off some of the unit graphics etc, and I've also sorted the dreaded "Spartan crash" and I can now play all factions in BA Early. I will make new files available when I'm happy with the results, but for a quick and easy try I'd suggest this:

open the Bronze Age heroes file, and delete all the famous kings and heroes from each faction. I'm not sure WHAT the problem was yet, but I suspect a formatting error somewhere (I had an error showing a King Achilles the -1st, which MTW didn't like).

I'm making some extra faction shields so that all 25 BA factions have unique shields and colours; I have issues with the names files for each culture (All Greek Kings are called Achilles, for example); the unit_prod file needs some work so that units are spread around the tech tree (currently everything comes from muster field, so valour upgrades etc don't work - but this is ok, the original mods left it in easy condition to work on). Basically, I'm just trying to finish off the BA add-on.

Let me know if you spot any more review panel graphics that could benefit from a change. At present I have my eyes on the trader+ line, with maybe piles of coins, and something for estate+, maybe crowns.

BUT my laptop screen has died, and I can only get on with it when I can borrow a monitor.... doh!

PS: I also have pre-battle shields and battle banners working in BA, too

[dimitrios the samian]

Hi Rufus
Good to hear from you but , badluck with your screen , I hope you get it working again very soon So you can continue your work refining this great Mod .
I haven't downloaded Bronze Age yet , but will do so so in the coming weeks .
Its fantastic to hear you have made heaps of progress on that as well .
Ok ... 1st I will import your graphics into my game and start a fresh campaign and then I will start taking notes and idea's for further refinements .
I have many ideas but absolutely no knowledge on how where to start or if they are possible .
I will talk to you again very soon .....