STW corpses LBM file

[Puzz3D]

I took a look at the deadpage.lbm file in Shogun with Ultimate Paint, and it certainly would be nice to use those corpses in STWmod, but Shogun doesn't have the deadpagecoord.txt file used in MTW/VI. The coord file which seems to be an index into the lbm file is quite complex with 4 lines of 6 numbers for each corpse, so I don't think a trial and error method would work to figure this out. The 4 lines might be 4 different orientations of the corpse, but I'm not sure. Transfering the corpse images into the main MTW/VI lbm also would be a problem because the STW corpses have a larger image size than MTW corpses. However, there is a smaller deadpage2.lbm which is the same size and has nearly the same layout as the deadpage2.lbm introduced in STW/MI which I'll try to utilize if I can figure out which deadpage coordinates access it.

[R'as al Ghul]

Before I forget this idea I'll post it.
Yuuki, can we perhaps create a new deadpage.lbm which contains only the dead images of the units we use? And can we import those images from Shogun?

I'll put this on the todo list for beta_8.


R'as

[Puzz3D]

Before I forget this idea I'll post it.
Yuuki, can we perhaps create a new deadpage.lbm which contains only the dead images of the units we use? And can we import those images from Shogun?

I'll put this on the todo list for beta_8.

Yes we could use the STW deadpage.lbm, but we would have to figure out the indexing to each corpse image within that file, and make a new deadpagecoord.txt file. STW doesn't have a deadpagecoord.txt file.

[R'as al Ghul]

Yuuki,

your inbox is full.

I dug up this old post by Wellington:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...9&postcount=36

There should be all the info we need to make a new deadpage. It seems that the size of the lbm is not fixed. The coordinates can be adjusted. We'd have to create an lbm with all the "die" pics for our units and then adjust the coordinates.
Looks promising.
We'll probably end up with a "most beautiful dead" award.

R'as

[Puzz3D]

Thanks R'as. I wasn't aware of that post by Wellington. It does explain how the system works, and I have Ultimate Paint which can handle LBM files. So we can certainly fix all the corpses to match the death animations and have them be the proper size as well. I don't plan on working on this until we have a couple of sets of maps (a small set and a large set) with which to play the campaign.

[Tomisama]

In the original game there were pools of blood with the dead bodies.
These went away at some point, most likely to allow sales to younger players.

I was just wondering if you remembered, and if you had considered replicating that early game?

Not that I am necessarily recommending the above, but somehow feel that something important was lost in the sanitizing.
So just thought I’d ask