Leaderheads?

[Frostyn]

How can i use a downloaded leaderhead to replace the ones in the game permenltly or in a scenario?

[pdescobar]

Re: Leaderheads?

Originally posted by Frostyn
How can i use a downloaded leaderhead to replace the ones in the game permenltly or in a scenario?

Well, they should say in their documentation For example, below is part of the readme from some leaderheads I have helped to make. It would be fairly easy to translate that into adding a different leaderhead to a scenario as the directory structure is always the same; note that my example uses a different file-naming convention from the standard game, however. To permanently change the ones in the game, an alternative to modifying the BIC and text files as I outline below would be to simply name the files from the downloaded leaderhead the same as the game-supplied ones and then save them in the main game assets directories. You definitely want to back up any files you replace to a safe spot first, though.

Contents
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This Zipfile contains the following: 
 - File: "VortigernOfPowysLeaderhead.txt" ; the file you are reading.
 - Folder: "Art" containing 4 subfolders
   -- Folder: "Advisors" containing file "Powys_Advisor.pcx"
   -- Folder: "Civilopedia" containing 2 files in the "Icons\Races"
      subfolder; "Powys_Civpedia_Large.pcx" and "Powys_Civpedia_Small.pcx"
   -- Folder: "Flics" containing 4 FLC animation files, one for each
      era ("Powys_Ancient.flc", "Powys_Medieval.flc",
      "Powys_Industrial.flc", and "Powys_Modern.flc")
   -- Folder: "Leaderheads" containing 10 PCX files



Installation
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The files in the "Art" Folder should go in their same locations in the
Civ3 folder. If you installed Civ3 to the default location, the main Civ3
Art Folder would be 
  "C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Art\" 
and so the File "Powys_Advisor.pcx" from this archive would go in
  "C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Art\Advisors\" 
If you have PTW, the leaderhead can also be installed to the PTW Art
folder if you only intend to use it with PTW or to a subfolder for a
scenario if you only intend to use it with that scenario.

Once this is done, in the editor for the Civilization with which you
want to use this Leaderhead, you must specify the FLC animations for
all four eras. Since this is a static leaderhead, the forward and
backward animations would reference the same file. So, for example,
under the ancient era, you would set both entries to
"Art\Flics\Powys_Ancient.flc"

Then, you must modify the Text\PediaIcons.txt file to point to the
appropriate PCX files for your civ. The filename convention used in
this archive is different from the standard naming conventions but
should still be quite self-explanatory. As an example, if your civ is
Powys and has the civilopedia key "RACE_Powys" in the editor, you
would make the following entries in PediaIcons.txt:
- Under the section #START LEADER/RACE ART 
  #RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Large_Neutral.pcx
  art\advisors\Powys_Advisor.pcx
- Under the section # Happy Icons  (conquer/domination/space winner)
  #HAPPY_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Large_Happy.pcx
- Under the section # Small Happy Icons  (defeat)
  #SHAPP_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Small_Happy.pcx
- Under the section # Large Kiss Icons  (Culture/diplomatic Winners)
  #LKISS_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Large_Kiss.pcx
- Under the section # Small Kiss Icons (diplomatic losers)
  #SKISS_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Small_Kiss.pcx
- Under the section # Small Angry Icons (domination/space losers)
  #ANGRY_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Small_Angry.pcx
- Under the section # Small loving Icons (Cultural Victory Loser)
  #ILOVE_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Small_Heart.pcx
- Under the section # Small loved Icons (Cultural Victory Winner)
  #LOVED_RACE_Powys 
  art\leaderheads\Powys_TinyCircle_Heart.pcx
- Under the section # Large Beaten-up Icons (defeat)
  #LHURT_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Large_Beatup.pcx
- Under the section # Small Beaten-up Icons (conquered/eliminated)
  #HURTN_RACE_Powys
  art\leaderheads\Powys_Small_Beatup.pcx
- Under the section #START CIVILOPEDIA ART, subsection #Start Races
  #ICON_RACE_Powys
  art\civilopedia\icons\races\Powys_Civpedia_Large.pcx
  art\civilopedia\icons\races\Powys_Civpedia_Small.pcx

[Frostyn]

Great, Thanks