New Units/Stuff

[alien_t]

Thanks mate.

[alien_t]

Little update.
The early alpha of walls & main buildings placement. The terrain is still vanilla/flat.

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[AnthoniusII]

Is this a battlemap model?

[alien_t]

Yep, but the render above is still not from game.
I managed to import so far only part of it for testing purposes.

[alien_t]

A little update after the long and lazy summer.
All walls are imported. Terrain and other buildings in shots are still vanilla.

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[gogo t]

perfect, congrats

[alien_t]

Thanks mate

[AnthoniusII]

If we would live in that era a letter like the one that follows would be delivered by a messager.

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Nottification.
To: Dux of Messia Alien-t .
From: Megas Domecticos ton Sholon

Subject: Fortifications throught out the world of TGC mod.

Strategos...
By the Grace of God we have been informed that you have improved
the fortifications in the Thema of Messia.
We wish you to report to the Empire's capital to shear your knowlege with the rest of the imperial enginears.
For your achievments from now own you will have the title of Megas Stratopedarches of the Empire.

Megas Domecticos ton Scholon humple serveant of God.
AnthoniusII

[alien_t]

Thanks mate, if you have recruited other "engineers" for TGC I'll be happy to share what I know about the tool although it's no too much so far. I managed to import only the walls and one basic new building(little church, in the upper left corner), everything is still vanilla(from start up kit)



I started working on terrain but a nasty error does not allow me to import it in game and test it. I should ask somebody with more experience what's wrong with it.

[AnthoniusII]

Start is half of everything...No worries you will succeed!
Any way in TGC we do not seak for extreme makeover of settlements.
Just a tower replacement with those of castles and new gates.
After all we have only cities.

[alien_t]

Start is half of everything...No worries you will succeed!
Any way in TGC we do not seak for extreme makeover of settlements.
Just a tower replacement with those of castles and new gates.
After all we have only cities.

Then it wont be difficult at all to replace them. I guess new textures will be needed too. Like this one, more Byz like.

Let me finish what I have started and I'll join and make a try with your settlements. But with Constantinople will be a hard work.

[AnthoniusII]

Thanks mate!
Constantinople wont be that dificult as it seams.
KK and makayane gave me some infos and i have a good idea to make atleast a city with two lines of walls!
Everything else will be vanilla.
The texture looks wondefull.
I asked help from them also.

[alien_t]

Thanks mate!
Constantinople wont be that dificult as it seams.
KK and makayane gave me some infos and i have a good idea to make atleast a city with two lines of walls!
Everything else will be vanilla.

That's great, because I (still)have no idea how to set-up the settlement to be surrounded by sea/water(except from one of it's sides as it's in our case).

The texture looks wondefull.
I asked help from them also.

They have some beautiful things!

[alien_t]

A little progress...

[AnthoniusII]

Little?
Then how the "huge" should look like?

[danny X]

I assume you guys know about this type of thing, but just in case:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=359622

A good way for more variation and the like!

[alien_t]

Little?
Then how the "huge" should look like?

Unfortunately the terrain needs a lot more work to become realistic. Working on terrain is the easiest part, but it's the most time consuming.
Also I should add some civil buildings(some re-skinned vanilla houses, beside the custom churches I'm planing to add), because the city looks too "empty" so far.
So in general I estimate the overall progress at ~40-50%.

I assume you guys know about this type of thing, but just in case:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=359622

A good way for more variation and the like!

Thanks mate, I'll check this out.

[2Shy]

Great model ! +rep

[alien_t]

The city is growing...





P.S. Unfortunately the game keep saving my screen-shots in 1024x768 despite I'm running it on Full HD(1920x1080) both on campaign and battle map.

[AnthoniusII]

I have the same problem since i changed W XP and use W 7 64bits.
You must go to your mod's preference.text and where it has video settings change values.
Here is what i have done to mine.

[video]
tga_width = 1440 [this is the tga size]
windowed = false
movies = true
anisotropic_level = 16
anti_alias_mode = off
antialiasing = 8
assassination_movies = 1
autodetect = 0
battle_resolution = 1600 900
bloom = 1
building_detail = high
campaign_resolution = 1600 900

There you can also select the grafics values too.