[Mod] Better Civilopedia

[Sevo]

Sevopedia ver 1.93

(Scroll down to second post for latest screenshots!)
Please let me know if there are any problems or suggestions!

- Compatible with Civ4 version 1.52
- Includes all 1.52 vanilla pedia upgrades
- Multiple interface enhancements
- Includes Vovan's outstanding Unit Upgrade Chart :goodjob:


Authored by: Sevo
sevotastic.blogger.com
sevotastic@yahoo.com

Unit Upgrade Chart by: Vovan
vovansim@hotmail.com



About SevoPedia
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Greetings. I love cIV, but we all know that they dropped the ball with the civilopedia. It's impossible to navigate easily and non-intuitive in design. So this is an improvement. Sevo's Civilopedia (or...Sevo-lo-pedia, or even Sevopedia, but I digress...) This mod turns the civilopedia into a nicer, user-friendly, easy-to-navigate reference.


Features
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* Menus moved to left, with main menu on far left, sub-menu next to it
* Main menu list reordered into groups with icons
* Sub Menu organized into an easy to read list.
* New in this version: Pictures included in list!
* No more hopping away from the top screen when you select a page. The page comes up
in the available to space on the right
* Includes previously hidden entries (check out the barbarian leader...)
* Will easily integrate with almost all existing mods
* Can disable animations if desired

* Vovan's Unit Upgrade Chart: Will automatically produce upgrade chart for units, even when modded!


Installation
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Unpack the archive. It will automatically create the correct folder tree.

For the vanilla cIV, you can do this in either /My Docs/My Games/cIV/CustomAssets or you can add it to /civ4/mods/customassets and use it as a loadable mod.

To incorporate this into any existing mod, just add the files to your /Assets/ directory. That's all there is to it. (I'd request that you give me a shout out and include this readme file with your mod archive! Thanks!)


Disabling the Animations
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Per requests, I have included a way to disable the animations on the civilopedia screens. It will disable the unit, building, resource, and improvement animations; the leaderhead animation will stay. It's easy.

Using any text editor (notepad, e.g.), open the "CvPediaMain.py" file included in the archive. A few lines into the file there is a clearly marked section with the line "self.animations = True". To disable all of the animations, change this line to "self.animations = False". You can't miss the section if you're in the correct file, and the directions are repeated there. Please DO NOT change the indentation or the file may cease to work all together!

By default the animations are left on.


Version Info
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1.91, 1.92, 1.93 -- Multiple minor bug fixes
1.9 -- Fixed two small bugs
1.8 -- Compatible with cIV 1.52
-- Upgraded to include all vanilla 1.52 page upgrades
-- Added icons to sub-list
-- Added group icons to main list and re-ordered
-- Included Vovan's Unit Upgrades Chart
-- Fixed Selection errors; fixed re-load 'pedia errors
1.2 -- Allowed for disabling of animations in pedia screens
1.1 -- Fixed 1st item select bug, ? fixed history select bug
1.0 -- Original release


In progress
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-Include History index pages
-Include Promotion upgrade chart


DOWNLOADS:
Sevopedia-1.9 is compatible with civ-4 version 1.52 and the preferred d/l
Sevopedia-1.2 is compatible with civ-4 version 1.2

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ScreenShot of new 'pedia ver 1.8



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Vovan's Page

[Stone-D]

Re: Better Civilopedia

Nice, nice, nice, nice, NICE job there sevo!

Just to be annoying, I'd prefer a leaner far-left main menu (content doesn't change, right?). Or, better still, have just a single-column menu, at the top of which is a drop-down combo box with the contents of the current far-left main menu.

Originally posted by Sevo
* Will easily integrate with almost existing mods

Phew! I've got quite a few mods that don't exist yet, glad this potential issue has been already resolved.

[mook85]

Re: Re: Better Civilopedia

Originally posted by Stone-D
Phew! I've got quite a few mods that don't exist yet, glad this potential issue has been already resolved.

*snicker*

This mod looks great!

[Gramphos]

Please follow the instructions for posting files:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141733

I've added a [Mod] tag, but you'll have to post your mod to the directory yourself if you concider it stable ennough to go into the directory.

[Optimizer]

Great! Firaxis should steal the code for their next patch.

[Axxaer]

Wow! That is honestly one of the best mods I've seen yet!

It fixes a feature frequently complained about by many players into a comprehensive, well-functioning feature. Good as new!

[ghen]

Very nice functionality, would it be too much to ask for added content as well? I was thinking of adding all the little stuff myself by just taking the best explinations I can find on the forums.

[Sevo]

Originally posted by ghen
Very nice functionality, would it be too much to ask for added content as well? I was thinking of adding all the little stuff myself by just taking the best explinations I can find on the forums.

If you mean more 'pedia info by "content", then that's all in the XML files and pretty easy to add to. I hope people will include entries for their mods as well.

I do want to make the historical data more accessible...will probably try to mod that in shortly.

[Tiberius]

This mod is definitely a must! Great work Sevo

[rjmatsleepers]

Great stuff.

Well done.

RJM at Sleeper's

[Sevo]

New Version:

Fixed the first item selection bug. You can now click the first item in a sub menu without having to click something else and come back to it. This also seems to have fixed the history button bug. Let me know if there are any more problems.

[Sevo]

Sorry...rapid updates here. A couple people have asked to have the pedia animations disabled. I assumed not everyone wants this (well, I like 'em, anyway), but to give the option I've added an easy way to disable them. See the instructions in the readme or first post.