New Sprites

[Bonny]

I have recently figured out how to make sprites for RTW. It wasn't very hard, and so i decided to make the missing eb sprites for 0.74, to make the battles in my current makedonian campaign more enjoyable.

At the moment i have done (almost) all missing sprites.
To make things easier they are now in one pack.

new sprites


The pack has to be unzipped into your EB folder,



edit:
there was bug with one hayasdan unit here is the latest corrected
dmb

please download it and paste it into your EB\data folder.

[GMT]

Sweet!

Thanks!!

[Radier]

What is a sprite?

[Bonny]

When you zoom out, your 3d Polygon solidiers will be replayced by 2d textures, these textures are called sprites.

[Ptolomey]

nice job

now the EB Beautys look amazing at distance too .
I`ve wating for this

that mostly white sprites at all weren`t really nice

[Avicenna]

Thanks a lot for this, Bonny! I'm sure the EB team will greatly appreciate it.

@Ptolomey: Welcome to the org, and may you have a great time here!

[Proper Gander]

Thanks a lot for this, Bonny! I'm sure the EB team will greatly appreciate it.

duh! the ones he did are already done.
in fact, all the .74 sprites are done.

damn, now i've said that i have to port them for 0.8.

*leaves forum, swearing profanities*

[stalin]

Anyone tried these yet and lived to tell?
BTW the dowload sort of stops after a while...
EDIT: got mit on the 8th try, brrr

[stalin]

extract the rar file into your "EB/data" folder, some files have to be overwritten, play.

Is that the
C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Eb-Installer-Backup\data folder
or the
C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data folder?

[Bonny]

It is the

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

[stalin]

thank you. I'll try them now

[edyzmedieval]

Plan on doing more sprites Bonny?

[stalin]

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

[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.

@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]

@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]

@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]

There are some missing Pahlava sprites.

I want the Getai ones.
What about skinning? Know any skinning?

[Bonny]

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

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?


@obelisc

i have done them (and iberia, karthadastim, rome, iberia, sauromatae, bactria, too), but i didn't change the tga files to .dds yet (this take some time, after you have converted them,you have to rename all .dds files to .tga.dds manually), and i didn't tested them all (if i had made a typo in the descr_model_battle.txtl, you get CTD's instead of usable sprites)

@edyzmedieval
maybe i'm doin the missing getai/german/gaul/aedui ones, too

[Jarardo]

Thanks Bonny!

[Bonny]

updated

[edyzmedieval]

Thank you Bonny, very very much!

I shall use the sprite packs in my MapMod.

[edyzmedieval]

Bonny, I can't download the sprite packs. Invalid session. Tried again and again.

Help?

[Obelics]

it's strange i can download it, pheraps you have some problem with filefront, if you have problem again i can upload it with rapidshare.

anyway @bonny: could you be a bit more explicative eheh? what is the difference from the two downloads? and what does it means updated? it means the sprite are completed now?

greets

[edyzmedieval]

Downloading now. Yesterday it didn't work.

[Proper Gander]

@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.

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

not at all, no worries

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.

[Ludens]

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.

IIRC there were some problems with "sunken soldiers" in 1.2 as well, which Player1 fixed with the Bug Fixer. Or is this another problem?

[Proper Gander]

IIRC there were some problems with "sunken soldiers" in 1.2 as well, which Player1 fixed with the Bug Fixer. Or is this another problem?

sounds like the one.
but we've found a way around it now anyway.

[stalin]

any chance of you EB people releasing unit cards to 0.74 then?
Oh by the way great work Bonny it really made a difference

[edyzmedieval]

I might do some unit cards because many of them are outdated.
Will be included in the MapMod.

Not now, as I have exams.

[Obelics]

Bonny ive just installed sprite1 and sprite2 pack on a backup copy of EB, but when i load EB (just in the load screen) it say "generic error: unable to find skeleton 'fs_1h_axeman_big' "

help (id like very much to have those sprites!)

thanks!