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Map Mod - 7/17/2012 3:21:04 AM   
LiquidSky


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Okay..I am playing around with the graphics, and have some questions.

In the graphics folder you have DC2, DC2BIG, DC2SMALL

Which contain the graphics for the map. I also notice that you have dccmodgraphics etc. Which I assume is for modders to put their changed graphics.

My question is, how can I keep the original graphics in DC2 etc, and put mine in DCCbmodgraphics etc and have them used?

As a side note I notice the file defaultmod.txt which looks promising....but I don't know how to use it. Unless it is for setting up different mod folders to be used for different mods. Which begs back to the original question, how do I load my custom graphics, without resorting to overwriting the orginal DC2 etc folders?







Just a taste of what I am working on, just a quick test...here I have only changed the plain green of the clear hexes to something more colourful

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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 7:13:54 AM   
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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 9:36:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Liquid,

Check 7.6 and 7.7 in the editor walkthrough.

The walkthrough isnt complete so I will answer questions here as well.

Basically all the graphics the game needs are in the systemgraphics directories. The dccbmodgraphics directory can overload some of those and adds the nato graphics.
If you want to create a scenario using different graphics without overwriting i would copy the dccbmodgraphics directorieS and rename them liquidmodgraphics. In this directory you can than place anything to override the normal systemgraphics. If you want to change the landscapegraphics just put a any new directory inside the graphics directory go to 'LT' and reload the graphics in question from that location.

As for the defaultmod.txt you can do the following little experiment. Create a directory called 'mods' inside the same directory as the 'defaultmod.txt' file. Now add a copy of defaultmod.txt inside the 'mods' directory. If you now start up the game you will be able to chose which startup script you want to use. This can be usefull if a modder wants to make a mod that changes everything including the main game menu. Basically you can make a whole new DC game with this setup.

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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 12:12:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice work technically but the landscape you've created doesn't look very "Soviet". It looks very Western. In the SU in those days land wasn't divided into neat private parcels of the sort shown in your mod. Much of the area covered by Case Blue was still undifferentiated steppe, and cultivated areas were typically plotted on very large scales.

I'd like to see gfx modders work first on woods and cities.

Best,

Tim

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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 1:21:50 PM   
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Nice work technically but the landscape you've created doesn't look very "Soviet". It looks very Western. In the SU in those days land wasn't divided into neat private parcels of the sort shown in your mod. Much of the area covered by Case Blue was still undifferentiated steppe, and cultivated areas were typically plotted on very large scales.

I'd like to see gfx modders work first on woods and cities.

Best,

Tim



+1 but good to know that it's modifiable and that someone is willing to spend the time doing it! I would suggest that you keep a DC or WitE 'feel' to whatever you do - improve but don't radically deviate. Just an opinion...

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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 1:32:02 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: TJD

Nice work technically but the landscape you've created doesn't look very "Soviet". It looks very Western. In the SU in those days land wasn't divided into neat private parcels of the sort shown in your mod. Much of the area covered by Case Blue was still undifferentiated steppe, and cultivated areas were typically plotted on very large scales.

I'd like to see gfx modders work first on woods and cities.

Best,

Tim


I kind of like the cities and forests - its just the glaring pure green of the open ground I dont much care for

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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 1:47:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		the bigger cities could do with a different city center hex. but that's probably hard to do.

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RE: Map Mod - 7/17/2012 5:42:48 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: TJD

Nice work technically but the landscape you've created doesn't look very "Soviet". It looks very Western. In the SU in those days land wasn't divided into neat private parcels of the sort shown in your mod. Much of the area covered by Case Blue was still undifferentiated steppe, and cultivated areas were typically plotted on very large scales.

I'd like to see gfx modders work first on woods and cities.

Best,

Tim




:) the graphics I took from a google earth picture of the steppes :) Granted, it is 70 years later. I did the same for cities (random russian cities) and marsh (using the marsh around stalingrad - err volgograd ) when I decided playing the game was more fun then working. At the moment, all I have done is changed the colour of the florescent green to a darker, less saturated one, and made all the water a deeper blue, so my old eyes can see the streams/rivers/volga.

The big thing with the cites and woods is the way they 'bleed' into the adjacent hexes....not sure if I like that or not as it makes all the cities look kinda multihex blobby. As well, it will be a fair bit of work, as I have to take every possible combination graphic to create a selection so that I can 'stamp' out terrain from an photograph.

As for making a mod and assigning its own custom graphics, I am pretty sure I know how to do that based on the manual and my own random experiments. What I would like to do is leave the original in-game graphics alone, and have my own which override them when playing the vanilla game. I was hoping there was going to be an ini/txt file somewhere (or perhaps the game automatically searches the dccbmod folders first, then dc2 folder second when looking for a graphics file).

I do like all the different choices you provide us for modding..and will probably spend days and days doing it...but not now, not while I am enjoying the main campaign so much :)




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RE: Map Mod - 7/18/2012 11:16:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		I like your first attempt although I understand the steppe was not that developed so long ago. I look forward to your next offering!

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RE: Map Mod - 7/18/2012 1:57:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		remember the soil had a pink red tone aswell I believe not brown..I'd have the current open green hex's more a subdued pink colour...try it it might work.

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