combining modders

[paleeagle]

This is probably a silly question. But has anyone ever thought about combining mod with each other to make a super mod. With the Mod Medieval Total Realism probably a long way off, surely there are mods which can be combined and the modders themselves work together?

There are many many fantastic mods for this game but we are limited to playing them separately.

[Malachus]

I doubt that'd serve much purpose. A lot of the mods modify the same things, like making battles longer, adding new provinces, tweaking the trait system, etc. And often enough, the tweaks to one aspect for one mod cannot coexist with the changes to the same aspect of another mod.

So, essentially, combining all these mods would more or less result in a "supermod" that is nearly the same as any of the individual mods.

Nonetheless, you can manually extract the parts you like from each individual mod and make your own bigmod of sorts I suppose. It's what I'm doing since no single mod is fully appealing to me.

[ZaPPPa]

Combining teams of modders often leads to problems with too many people being in charge. The mods that evolve the fastest are mods that are led by one or two people. Medieval: Total Realism has way too many people coming and going and I can't even start to count the number of lead changes.

Keep mod teams small and the mods will reach supersize faster than with a big team.

The community has been quite generous when it comes to sharing certain parts of mods, which is how small mod teams can quickly integrate huge amounts of external work without having to deal with the internal squabbles of big teams.

[Unspoken Knight]

Personally I am interested in combining a large number of other modders custom campaign maps into a new version of my released Custom Campaign Mod (currently contains 7 maps). As long as all modders can agree on the same core data changes, we can add a virtually unlimited number of additional campaign maps. Since I haven't added any new factions, there is still plenty of space available to add some new factions for maps that require them.

Hopefully when I have time available, I will request the cooperation of some other modders to create some form of super Custom Campaign Mod.

Unspoken Knight

[Velocitas]

Combine modders is a good idea, but I still prefer to combine mods or I take some new units of a mod to create my own faction.

[Lusted]

Yeah, never going to happen. Differet modders have different ideas, it's why they make seperate mods instead of combining their work.

[Ralendil]

see that:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=102318

Unfortunately I don't think that the majority of the authors would let their mod be combined in an another mod, but you can always do it for you..

personnally I use the Sky mod, 2 sets of Byzantine units, the English redressed mod, the arrow mod and several other minor changes... + several personnal additions.

It is not hard to combine several mods, especially with the program I use (see the thread I linked above)

[Mike13531]

ya, raledil is right, like lusted said it's not gonna happen. You can do it for yourself, but ya, for texturers, skinners and AI mods, they might let ppl combine them. However lets say SS and LTC, i don't think KK and lusted would ever want to make them together

[tornnight]

It works better when people with different talents work together.

E.g. Scripter/Coder + Skinner/Art + Designer / Balance