The thread that started it all

[Gigantus]

Rise of three Kingdoms

The title is still a WIP as well . Some of you may be familiar with the "Three Kingdoms - The Fight for Supremacy" a mod for RTW-ALX that never made it into TWCenter because the developers felt the need to include a modified EXE file as well as the complete game (RTW, BI, ALX). The mod itself is quite impressive but I failed to make it a "legal" mod due to several issues (known and hidden) that were raised by the modified EXE. Instead I am attempting now to port it over to M2TW-Kingdoms. A few impressions of the work so far:

Factions involved


Faction Map


The Selection Screen



Map Screenshots

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Stratmap Models

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Princess

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Priest

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Merchant

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Assassin

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Navy

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Siege

The previous Wonders

I will have to restrict the number of wonders to three as I have to bind them in with trade resources and four of those trade resources are already taken by 'the Great Wall' (see next pic). I think I will use 'sleeping', 'palace' and 'spires'.

The Great Wall


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Credits for original Work

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Organizer：寒奔

Team Leader：老新

Team planning and co-ordinator：wmh1980

Code：老新

Map：寒奔、lanson、老新

Text and informations：老新

Units and Textures modder：lanson、水岸 and so on

Environment：lanson

Units and Textures artist：cinyokun

2D art：九道、老新、ldwcool、专诸

Music and dub：freefen

Computer Graphics：昔暮、xszyjzh、h1w1、staryun1335、静竹屋

Advertisement：wmh1980、戒指

Uploader：快乐些、老新、wmh1980

Pact：【柱子工作室】(Pillar Mod Team)

Special thanks to：

Dub：王涛（A Famous TV Presenter of CCTV sport programe）

柒儿、草野、冰镇哈啤、鳕鲟奉贤、牛肉烩大头菜、小超、
达里赫尔、月夜无痕（深蓝dubbing Union）

紫郢、大地绝响（怀旧dubbing Union）

九霄大帝（Sichuan Conservatory of Music）

六翼守望（火凤燎原dubbing Union）

Thanks to everybody who made outstanding contributions to version（1.0—1.8A）：
水岸（founder of the model of Zhanguo andf Sanguo Mod）、阿奇（Texture and Buildings）、射手龙（Buildings）、BON、GM、1974、 sephodwyrm(CPL)、认得你、use、九保、findmyself、winner7788、妖王哥哥、 花海、automan、Zboot、 From Hell、D-boy、北王、穆先生、锋·刃、几度夕阳 红、彼彼、蚊子、一声叹息、卧室大地瓜、wwwfman、枫叶、liu1412 、猪油貳爷 、暴力爆栗、eisenhower and many other comrades
And 德拉克拉、宇文寒、飞舞的黄油、老猪（天蓬元帅）...Which made foundatiuon of Pillar Mod Team

Credits for current Work

Strat Models
riczu74 - siege, blockade and trade wagons models

Script
GrnEyedDvl - multiple turns per year

Battle Models
All the kind souls helping a noob, like here, here and here

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[Gigantus]

Progress and other stuff

The strat map is nearly finished, I just have to add the three wonders and assign\convert more strat models for the named characters (leader, heir, weird ranks etc).

Right now I have started converting the battle models (+- 300 I think) after which the mod should be playable as the EDB is finished already.

The traits will need a good work over as a lot of text is still in Chinese and some simply won't fire due to the syntax of conditions and effects. The most obvious have been corrected, like 'belief' --> 'religion', but that sometimes simply messes up the purpose of the trait.

There is no script at all in the original version and I would like to script events of that period - but so far I haven't had the time to look up the history of that period. 194 AD onward is the time frame and I have already set it to 12 turns per year - anything beyond 230 AD (432 rounds) will be too late.
Assistance with that (links to articles, period pictures related to events etc) will be most welcome.

The Map Teaser

Trailers are so yesterday! If you have some bandwidth to spare download the map teaser!

The small installer (60MB) will provide you with a 'playable' map. Due to size it does not include all characters or factions, but the lay out is complete - including

• - complete EDB (text\pictures) for the building browser
• - new ground textures
• - all resources (RTW retro) and the Great Wall
• - complete placement of named settlements
• - new strat models for settlements and trade boats
• - multiple rebel symbols for settlements
• - complete user interface
• - pressing ScrollLock will remove the interface for larger screenshots

What are you waiting for? Here is the link at Mediafire

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[oppaiO_O]

like the idea of a china total war so this might be good... keep up the good work

[Toho]

SWEET! any units done?

[Alkimachos]

Looks great! Well Done G.!

+rep!

[Gigantus]

So far only a few cavalry models (riders only). Check this pic from my help cry:

The riders are floating a bit over their saddles, but I have been given to believe that that is a generic problem which I will have to address via descr_mounts. Still have to get some crisper banners as well - my templates are simply too small scale to be of decent use here.

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[karaislam]

so nice.i may contribute for this as well.lets see.

[Gigantus]

so nice.i may contribute for this as well.lets see.

You are more then welcome - what area did you have in mind?

[karaislam]

nothing yet gigan uncle.i ve been installing m2tw-kingdoms and my modding programs.we ll see.

[lekseus]

Gigantus, gut gemacht! Can help with researching issue and translating text fragments (at least I'll try) from Chineese.
By the way, did you see the submod for previous version of three kingdoms? Here it is http://bbs.3dmgame.com/thread-2805705-1-1.html Probably, there is something usefull there
And last thing, which AI do intend to use? Chineese modders mixed up nit classes for the best Ai performance))

[Gigantus]

Well, my Chiinese is non existent and Google isn't exactly the answer if I look at some of the translations I put together for the export_buildings file. didn't help that it contained three sets of descriptions....
Having relevant files distributed over a couple of installations (ALX, BI and RTW) in the same download isn't making the converting easier, eg the descr_model_battle is in alexander and the relevant model and textures are in BI - relatively easy to get lost in the wrong directory.
But I am used to that by now after doing my 'easy installation' bit for Call of Warhammer.

Editing what I have done there (export_building) and correcting where necessary would be great. I have attached the original, the alphabetically sorted original and the new file.
The size reduction is due to there being only the necessary entries.
Assistance would be much appreciated.

There is no plan yet which AI to use. The implementation of it doesn't take too much time, so I will keep it for later.

[BM309K58SMERCH]

This is beautiful! My dream come true!

[frozenprince]

Excellent work G! Love the faction selection, though I do admit having Zhang Yan as a faction head is a little weird, I can get behind it.

Edit: Nevermind, no point in helping with the history if its just translating base files lol. Still, good luck though.

[Gigantus]

Thanks for the offer!

So far I haven't had the time to look up the history of that period. 194 AD onward is the time frame and I have already set it to 12 turns per year - anything beyond 230 AD (432 rounds) will be too late.
Assistance with that (links to articles, period pictures related to events etc) will be most welcome.

Proof reading was just a thought if you are familiar with the language. There are no historic events or any scripting, I am more interested in that.

[GrnEyedDvl]

I will pile on here as well, especially since you need scripting and I have sort of returned to modding.

[Firey the Unorthodox]

Awesome mod! Definitely one I will try out. I see some historical inaccuracies.
-Liu Bei was staying with Tao Qian at this time
-Han Xian and Meng Huo did not rule those areas until a later time.
What kind of historical battles are you going to use, such as Guan Du, Mount Dingjun, and Wuzhang Plains?

[Nelduin]

Great idea ! Will you be able to do something with their custom battlemap buildings ?

[Pazu the Kitsune]

Cool

[Gigantus]

I will pile on here as well, especially since you need scripting and I have sort of returned to modding.

Your help is most welcome indeed.

Awesome mod! Definitely one I will try out. I see some historical inaccuracies.
-Liu Bei was staying with Tao Qian at this time
-Han Xian and Meng Huo did not rule those areas until a later time.
What kind of historical battles are you going to use, such as Guan Du, Mount Dingjun, and Wuzhang Plains?

Nothing planned so far as I still have to read up on the background of the set up (period) of the mod.

Great idea ! Will you be able to do something with their custom battlemap buildings ?

It is a hope of mine, but that is about the most convoluted scripting\editing so far. Having a nice pagoda instead of a catholic church would sure be a cherry.

The general plan is to release a beta version once the porting is complete. Then the trait system will require a good work over and a script is needed to relieve the boredom. The battle buildings will be pretty much at the bottom of the list unless someone with know how would like to help.

[Ixor_Drakar]

Simply amazing, I would help with the history but my knowledge is limited to Romance of the Three Kingdoms which is more fiction than history.