Possible Expansion for HTW- if anyone's interested

**Iustinus** · 05-27-2005, 04:15

I've been a huge fan of HTW for months now, and have made a small expansion if anyone is interested. The problem is getting it to people, since it takes up TONS of space.
What I did, is create a night and dusk mod that takes over the Rock Desert and Sand Desert (I don't think there are very many Saharan landscapes in, for example, Crete or Macedonia!) The night mod is a darkened lanscape with various star studded skies, some with the moon. The dusk lanscape is reddish and slightly dark, I borrowed the sky pics in this from the ones from METW from Mordor (I know, you see the mountains of Mordor, but they equally can be, let's say, in Thrace.) I will put screenshots up when I get the chance.
I have modded accompanying night sounds to go with it, and have changed many of the bird sounds to more european ones.
I have modified some of the sounds for the campaign map (wedding,etc) to short clips of ancient music.
I fixed some of the names that didn't seem to be there (barbarian warship, myc_chariots, etc.)
And, last but not least, an optional mod- I put elephant sound effects for small groups of camels and made the elephant mount into a camel instead of a horse. Thus, Medianite Cameliers should probably flee before enough of them die to get to the elephant sfx. And the elephants trumpet as they charge into battle.
I have done a couple other things, I have to go for now,
Laus Deo,
Iustinus

**Iustinus** · 05-27-2005, 04:21

Oh, besides my expansion, I have a question that's been troubling me.
Suddenly, I am getting very, very random ctd's in the campaign map for apparently most campaigns- Bronze Age, Persian Wars, and Classic era are what I have tested with it. I have never had ctd's in HTW, (or in any other mod for MTW) like this before. They are so strange and seem to have come out of no where.
Sometimes it ctd's as soon as the campaign starts. I start over, and the game seems to be running smoothly. I may be surveying troops on the map, or messing with taxes, or reading about hoplites, etc, and suddenly it just shuts off. I am fairly experienced with ctd's and these are the strangest and most random I have ever seen. I don't know what it's from (everything worked fine yesterday!) because the only think I worked on today was turning the Battle Tutorial into part of HTW, i.e. Macedonian Companions versus Persian Archers instead of knights, bla bla bla.
Well, I would appreciate any help, if anyone knows what this is from!
Thanks,
Iustinus

**Iustinus** · 05-27-2005, 16:25

My apologies, the ctd is fixed now- I still don't know what it was from, but I restarted my computer and cleaned it of spyware and the ctd stopped.
Once I figure out how to post screenshots I'll put them up.
Thanks!
Iustinus

**Radier** · 05-30-2005, 15:44

Sounds very interesting Lustinus. May I ask if you add more units in your mod?

**Iustinus** · 05-31-2005, 02:22

There are no new units that I have created-
But I am also working on an expansion on the Macedonian wars and Roman invasion- I am no expert on this time period and any help would be appreciated. However, using graphics already in HTW (with weapons and shields that don't seem to be used by any units in the game) I've made for the Romans Velites and Equites, and made Galatian Warriors.
With summer here I'm not going to have much time on the computer.....
But all this mod does is fix a few things in HTW, and optionally add night and dusk landscapes, and possibly an expansion campaign with some new units. And lots of new sound effects.
Thanks!
Iustinus/Justin