New Sprites

**Bonny** · 05-20-2006, 19:59

It is the

C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data folder

stalin · 05-20-2006, 20:30

thank you. I'll try them now

**edyzmedieval** · 05-20-2006, 23:26

Plan on doing more sprites Bonny?

stalin · 05-21-2006, 11:41

The ones i tried work and look fine. Thanks! Now if someone could do the missing unit cards...

**Bonny** · 05-21-2006, 11:41

@Proper Gander

why haven't they been included into .074? It doesen't take very long to make them, and they aren' very big.

@edyzmedieval

i have already done the sprites for all factions except getai, gaul, sweboz, averni, yuehze; at the moment i'm considering if i upload them (have to convert them to .dds first to make them smaller, that takes some time)

**Proper Gander** · 05-21-2006, 12:25

Originally Posted by Bonny

@Proper Gander

why haven't they been included into .074? It doesen't take very long to make them, and they aren' very big.

i did after the release.
i'd've done them sooner but i had alot of work and final exams to do. along with some bit of private life to take care of.

**Obelics** · 05-22-2006, 11:24

@bonny
are there sprite for pahlava too? when i take pictures of battlemap from long distance, some unit appear to be white sprited, it could be nice to have sprite complete for this faction too, thanks bonny.

@proper grander if there are already done sprite for 0.74, why you nice people dont relase an 0.74c version with sprites? it should be very nice for people out there

**edyzmedieval** · 05-22-2006, 11:39

There are some missing Pahlava sprites.

I want the Getai ones.

What about skinning? Know any skinning?

**Proper Gander** · 05-26-2006, 17:22

Originally Posted by Obelics

@proper grander if there are already done sprite for 0.74, why you nice people dont relase an 0.74c version with sprites? it should be very nice for people out there

many people work on EB in all sorts of ways, and it takes a lot of organisation.
sprites are the last priority. the porting is the top priority at the moment.

Originally Posted by Bonny

@ proper gander
thats a good reason, sorry for my stupid question

not at all, no worries

Originally Posted by Bonny

just anotherone:

1. If models have different skins (one normal and one merc) for the same faction, like Praetorians and Cohors Evocata (lybian speaman early, late / Liby-Phoenician Infantry early, late....), the game uses the merc sprite for both units. The tga files are different, and the path in the descr_model_batle.txt for both both files are corecct, i checked it again, again and again......
Do you had the same problem, and do you found a solution for that?

errrm, that's weird i never saw such a thing.

i am only making one for each unit that all the factions share. colours vary a little bit, that's true, but it's hardly noticable.

above all it takes up less space. there is also a different problem that can my minimalised this way.
some sprites for some units don't work, whereas they do for the same unit for a different faction. when i say they don't work, i mean that they sink into the ground when you zoom out.
we've tried to solve this and had a lot of discussion on this topic, but we couldn't really solve it. many assume that it has something to do with alpha channels IIRC.
if we only use one sprite for every unit we can use one of the ones that work.

sorry for the late reply, i wanted to reply immediately but was distracted, then i forgot all about it.