Can't get the idea of this mod off my mind...

[Kaidonni]

Okay, been thinking a bit over Christmas about this mod, and have worked a number of extra things out...

How about the implementation, for review panel images, of the building designs from Rome: Total War? It'll save me A LOT of work at the end of the day, and the building info scroll could have the info scroll pics from RTW, too (both a colour and more grey-scale or brown-scale or whatever version, like in MTW for the building info scrolls - the colour one would apply to when the building was completed, the more monochrome one just for the info pic where the writing is overlayed). Same for units (at least for the info pics). Also, what of the character portraits, is it possible to implement them somehow?

I'm going to allow six 'Cultures' (NOT to be confused with the building architecture usage of the same term), basically re-logoed and re-named Religions.

1) Catholicism > Roman
2) Orthodoxy > Hellenistic
3) Islam > Eastern
4) Judaism > Egyptian
5) Paganism > Barbarian
6) Heretical Cults > Carthaginian

Although agents will not spread Culture, they will reinforce Zeal for the Roman and Barbarian Cultures because of renamed Crusades and Jihads. Crusades now become Conquests, which can be called for by the Romans on the enemies of Rome (there are to be two Roman factions - SPQR and another one whose name is somewhat elusive - the Army of Rome or something, I dunno what will be the most appropriate). Hordes are accessible by the Barbarians, allowing them to unite against a common enemy and reclaim lost territory.

The map will be inspired somewhat by Macsen Rufus' map in his Alexander campaign for ATW - in that, instead of the original MTW map (or the DATW map, as kindly offered for lending by the DATW team), I want to opt for an actual map from an atlas, preferably of a similar time period. Or the same time period.

Now, would I be right in assuming I can't somehow attempt to implement the campaign map pieces (settlement pieces, not armies or agents) from RTW? And what about the faction symbols, somehow, from the various modifications (if I can get permission)? Might hopefully be a matter of getting the files from one game to the other and modifying them slightly so that they work in MTW's game engine...

And on the renaming of Piety to Ethnicity, and the re-wording of the descriptions of character stats, such as how 4 Command might be described? Is that possible?

[dimitrios the samian]

Hi K ,, The implementation your referring to is possible ... See my thread importing images ,, So its good news ..
As for those peices of the campaign map from RTW into MTW .. As a newbie i would say that those can also be imported and used ,,
I honestly beleive it can all be done ..
We just need somebody to start on it .
I have no data, script engine skills at all but have messed with tga's , review panels , unit icons etc etc with some archaic success .
Should your mod ever start you can count me in as a helper .

[Kaidonni]

Thanks for the offer. :)

Updated the faction list...however, not sure about going with historical names now, maybe gonna stick with SPQR and Republic of Rome rather than their historic names, also listed.
1) SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus) (R)
2) Res publica Romana (Republic of Rome) (R)
3) Kingdom of Epirus (H)
4) Kingdom of Macedon (H)
5) Greek City States (H)
6) Seleucid Empire (H)
7) Ptolemaic Empire (Eg)
8) Galatia (B)
9) Kingdom of Pontus (Ea)
10) Kingdom of Armenia (Ea)
11) Parthian Empire (Ea)
12) Carthaginian Empire (C)
13) Kingdom of Numidia (C)
14) Gallic Tribes (B)
15) Germanic Tribes (B)
16) Britons (B)
17) Celtiberians (B)
18) Kingdom of Dacia (B)
19) Odrysian Kingdom (B) (Thracians, but 'Odrysian Kingdom' sounds cooler )
20) Caledonii/Picts (B)
21) Sarmatia (B)
22) Kingdom of Pergamum (H)
23) Kingdom of Etruria (H)
24) Kingdom of Illyria (B)
25) Syracusans (H)
26) Rebels (-)

As for the map, I must do some intense searching, but online I found a NASA satellite map...http://homepage.mac.com/msb/163x/maps/europe-small.jpg. I could see what I can do with that map for the mod...but I really need to get my hands on a proper atlas of Roman Europe, plus some of the extra areas I want...

[ULC]

Well..I could offer this

Unless your more specific about what you want, I can't help, which I want to by the way .

[macsen rufus]

Hi Kaidonni - have you seen this thread? https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...t=26839&page=2 Duke John has posted up a resource pack that includes some very nice unit animations you might be able to use