Civ 3 Unit FLCs to be converted Part 2

[SMIFFGIG]

That won't be too hard, it is just replaceing one more file, finally I would like to have also the civ3.ldl included so we could mod the UI like the rest of the game.

Could someone explain to me what this is and what it does please

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by SMIFFGIG
Could someone explain to me what this is and what it does please

The file contains some information about the UserInterface, e.g. button locations, which art to use for the UI, the size of the windows and most improtant it contains includes of other *.ldl files. This file is the script.slc and the gamefile.txt for the UI instaed for slic and text files.

-Martin

[Pedrunn]

eg. I have a modified choose advance to research screen where the list is bigger showing up more advances, Or a battleview without the retreat button, etc...

Shouldnt be a big change just add one more file in the gamefile list to replace the civ3.ldl with a *_civ3.ldl.

[Pedrunn]

Yeah, Paul is still around. But it will make all the downloads bigger, or force them to include instructions for manually copying sprite files.

why?

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Pedrunn
why?

I think the civparth.txt is like a the game file a list, instead of files it contains parths. Like the the gamefile.txt it does matter in which line you find an entry. If you now change a directory name then the game will search the sprites in a different directory. If it doesn't find there all the sprites then you know what happens and it is very unlikely that it will search for sprites in subdirectory even if it could be possible, otherwise I couldn't explain the odd effect I saw in an corupted scenario based game.

-Martin

[Pedrunn]

Cant you make a prefernce issue.
Go to CRA_sprites directory if nothing was found, got to sprites directory. If still nothing was found you can crash.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
I think the civparth.txt is like a the game file a list, instead of files it contains parths. Like the the gamefile.txt it does matter in which line you find an entry. If you now change a directory name then the game will search the sprites in a different directory. If it doesn't find there all the sprites then you know what happens and it is very unlikely that it will search for sprites in subdirectory even if it could be possible, otherwise I couldn't explain the odd effect I saw in an corupted scenario based game.

This is true - but I suspect that the only mods which would need this feature wouldn't actually be using many of the original sprites, so it wouldn't make the file sizes much bigger. If it is a problem, perhaps Modswapper could do the copying of the sprites itself. I also noticed that changing civpaths.txt would allow for individualised tile files if any mods required radically different terrain that couldn't be supplied in the ApolTileFile.

[ahenobarb]

Originally posted by Caranorn


What exact format should the shadow files be in? I have them as RGB TIFF with an white alpha channel.

I haven't had time to read through everything here, but Does anyone know what .tif format is compatible with CTPII?

Should the tiff be uncompressed or compressed (& what type of compression if any; I've heard LZW is not right).

What color space, (CMYK or RGB) should the .tiff file be saves out as? Above it looks like RGB.

Thanks in advance.

[ahenobarb]

Doh! I'm using PSP 7.0

[Immortal Wombat]

I use (the default?): LZW compression, RGB

[Ekmek]

Has there been any step by step instructions for this? there are lot of good units that the civ3 community made that would be great to add like Balou's Modern Infantry.

[Ekmek]

is a sprite for the privateer/pirate ship posted somewhere?

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by E
Has there been any step by step instructions for this?

Only the ones I posted on page one.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by E
is a sprite for the privateer/pirate ship posted somewhere?

No, i think thats just the image i edited to make the skull and crossbones more clear. Unless Caranorn completed it somewhere in this thread.