Skymod + Night Battles in RTW =

[LordSaradain]

Sorry archer, I know this is offtopic, but where can I find your 'burning' mod? It didn't appear when I did a search...

[HorseArcher]

Sorry archer, I know this is offtopic, but where can I find your 'burning' mod? It didn't appear when I did a search...

here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...2&page=3&pp=40

I forgot to move it from the animations subforum, but now it's here. The download link is there somewhere the last page of the thread along with instructions how to install it.

Warning : I never tested it with RTW 1.3, you are on your own. Make sure you make a backup copy of whatever my mod overwrites (bunch of text files) so in case if it ruins your game somehow, you won't come after me.

[SpartanCaesar]

Hey Archer!

I want to download your skymod (still have like, two versions previous...), but I was just wondering how the night battles looked... Got a screeny lying around?

[HorseArcher]

Hey Archer!

I want to download your skymod (still have like, two versions previous...), but I was just wondering how the night battles looked... Got a screeny lying around?

dark and scary! I'll edit this post soon with a night=battle shot. This will be also a preview for my upcoming burning mod for BI! :original:

this is WIP for the new burn mod, but i'm just showing the night settings for the skymod.

[Feldspar]

you could have just linkied him to www.horsearcher.net for the burnin mod



OMG SHAMELESS PLUG!!

[HorseArcher]

you could have just linkied him to www.horsearcher.net for the burnin mod



OMG SHAMELESS PLUG!!

it's no good for BI or RTW 1.3 neither shows any night skies.

[DEMETRIOUS II]

Hey Archer,

I have a vanilla BI installed and during night battles the ground near the units looks white like there is snow on it or something. I am planning on downlading you current version but have you corrected this? I noticed that there is less glow from the unit torches during battles in your screen shots. I think that the vanilla settings are horible as the torch glow is too bright. Any plans on reducing it further? Also I am no too crazy about the vanilla weather effects do you plan on doing a weather mod? That would be awesome. As I recall a while back you had a crazy hurricane like condition in one of you sky mods. I loved it.

Cheers!

[HorseArcher]

Hey Archer,

I have a vanilla BI installed and during night battles the ground near the units looks white like there is snow on it or something. I am planning on downlading you current version but have you corrected this? I noticed that there is less glow from the unit torches during battles in your screen shots. I think that the vanilla settings are horible as the torch glow is too bright. Any plans on reducing it further? Also I am no too crazy about the vanilla weather effects do you plan on doing a weather mod? That would be awesome. As I recall a while back you had a crazy hurricane like condition in one of you sky mods. I loved it.

Cheers!

white stuff in vanilla? Hmm. don't know, i played with the vanilla BI for about 10 minutes before i modded it :laughing:

I still have the hurricane and some nasty blizzard and nasty sandstorm (3 types) in there, but i put less chance for them to occur.

you can spice it up to happen more often if you like nasty weather..though..... i'll can tell you what to edit to have them more...

[DEMETRIOUS II]

Well from what I can see in your screenshots the "whiteness" bleach washed terrain is gone so I will download. Looks much better now.

Let me know how to increase the frequency of sandstorms. I usually play the ERE and Sassaninds since I love fighting in the desert.

By the way I had stopped playing BI also but picked it up after the new mod and skins of Attila. Combined with your sky mod BI will be more enjoyable.

[HorseArcher]

Well from what I can see in your screenshots the "whiteness" bleach washed terrain is gone so I will download. Looks much better now.

Let me know how to increase the frequency of sandstorms. I usually play the ERE and Sassaninds since I love fighting in the desert.

By the way I had stopped playing BI also but picked it up after the new mod and skins of Attila. Combined with your sky mod BI will be more enjoyable.

ok the following weather tutorial only applies to my mod! I have about 3 times more weather types than vanilla, so if you want to edit the vanilla, you are restricted to edit those, you don't see the following entries there!


to change weatherevents, do this:

open up descr_daytypes.txt - notice that i made it a lot simpler and yet still rotates 3 skydomes around-

scroll down to your climate, in this example daytype_desert_summer (last entry before sound_test)


see this line:

daytype	desert_summer

	climates		sandy_desert rocky_desert 
	seasons			summer winter spring autumn
	weatherevents	calm_two 0.20, calm_one 0.18, clear 0.18, calm 0.18, dust_storm 0.05,dust_storm_small 0.05,dust_storm_medium 0.05 
	next_day		desert_summer 1.0

Notice, i have small dust storm, medium, and regular. (my idea )

ok,
see the number after the entry : dust_storm 0.05 that is the chance to happen in percenatage.

so, let's say you want them to happen often you would up those numbers something like this:

 dust_storm 0.12,dust_storm_small 0.17,dust_storm_medium 0.13

basically, you make their percentage higher to happen more often. Watch out though, don't go higher than the rest (calm, calm_one etc) othewise , all you going to see is nothing but dust storms and no chance of having a clear weather!

If you would look at the other entries, you'll notice that there is the hurricane and blizzard and my custom medium snow fall etc. you can change them similarly for each climates.

good luck !

[DEMETRIOUS II]

Thanks for the tips. Worked fine. I just tweaked it a little.

Cheers!

[LordSaradain]

Archer, once again I'm going offtopic...
whos that blond hottie you're currently using as avatar?

[therussian]

Archer, will you be updating this mod for the 1.5 patch?

[Richard the Lionheart]

Archer, will you be updating this mod for the 1.5 patch?

I don't think it will need an update for 1.5.

[HorseArcher]

I don't think it will need an update for 1.5.

Lookin at the readme file for 1.5 it doesn't change anything about the sky or interfere with my latest version. We'll see. If it needs updating I'll do it, but otherwise i think it will work fine.

Question: Any of you have seen the Moon yet in campaign battle?

It suppose to be close to the horizon. I have seen it only once, it's a shame it won't show the rotation of the new moon- full moon thing in the game. At least I didn't see it, even though the .dds file is there.

[Richard the Lionheart]

Question: Any of you have seen the Moon yet in campaign battle?

Yeah I've seen it several times. Sometimes there's the moon on one side of the sky and the sun on the other .

[fox]

He archer i like your sky Mod's what your next version and when will it come out

[therussian]

Can someone confirm that the 1.3 Skymod is compatible with 1.5?

[Richard the Lionheart]

It should be....

[therussian]

Alright, I'll download it then