Non-animated leaderheads mod?

[Mr. President]

I made a half-assed workaround for my black map problem that I posted in the bug report thread, but it doesn't, of course, apply to the animated leaderheads. Which are still barely functional, weird-looking, and in the case of Elizabeth, downright creepy. Is there a way to replace the leaderheads with static portraits?

[Skanky Burns]

Yes.

[Cambo67]

The exactly the most helpful of replies.... ;-)



Cambo

[Aeson]

Edit ..\Assets\XML\Art\CIV4ArtDefines_Leaderhead.XML

		<[i][/i]LeaderheadArtInfo>
			<[i][/i]Type>ART_DEF_LEADER_BISMARCK<[i][/i]/Type>
			<[i][/i]Button>,Art/interface/LeaderHeads/Btn_LH_Germany_Bismark.dds,...,5,13<[i][/i]/Button>
			<[i][/i]NIF>art/LeaderHeads/Bismarck/bismarck.nif<[i][/i]/NIF>
			<[i][/i]KFM>art/LeaderHeads/Bismarck/bismarck.kfm<[i][/i]/KFM>
			<[i][/i]NoShaderNIF>art/LeaderHeads/Bismarck/bismarck_noshader.nif<[i][/i]/NoShaderNIF>
			<[i][/i]BackgroundKFM>art/LeaderHeads/Bismarck/bismarck_bg.kfm<[i][/i]/BackgroundKFM>
		<[i][/i]/LeaderheadArtInfo>

can be a dds (say the leaderhead for a really ugly pixelated look ). Haven't done anything with the others so far.

[Aeson]

That XML is a bear to include in posts. Is there a way to get it to easily display correctly? At least I learned about on Poly because of it...

click here for really coolness!

[evizaer]

Replacing the dumb videos with static pictures would be an awesome idea. This would probably allow me to play without significant video lag for a much longer time.

Has anyone tried just leaving the tag empty?

i.e. replace filename with

[ChaotikVisions]

Yeah, replacing them is easy, it accepts a 256x256 or 512x512 dds file in that spot. It might even accept higher quality images but I haven't tested that. I made a mod with performance in mind that changes all the animated leaderheads into static pictures of them. The link is in the mod thread here: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=141770

I also have a Portrait mod, but like I say in the thread I need to re-do them into 512x512 images(for better quality) and find more pictures/paintings/etc.. to be used(some aren't that great. But the Still Leaderhead Mod already uses 512x512 and looks the same as the original leaderheads, just frozen in place.

[Mr. President]

Looks good. Thanking you muchly!