The way to add the rest of the map is to cut what you want out of the mesh, paint the .tga's/.dds's accordingly, Fix the camera, and then a whole lot of editing in startpos.esf and regions.esf.
Vicarius
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The way to add the rest of the map is to cut what you want out of the mesh, paint the .tga's/.dds's accordingly, Fix the camera, and then a whole lot of editing in startpos.esf and regions.esf.
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Semisalis
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Ho about new factions? when all of the map is unlocked, who is going to own it?
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please add antarctica
Decanus
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is it really possible to add more regions to empire? i thought it was impossible cause the right mod tools aren't out yet.
Vicarius
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We are trying to find out mod tools or not.
Decanus
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i hope that it will be possible! good luck!
Vicarius
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very cool idea guys hooray
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How is it going?
Vicarius
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I don't know, no one seems to post here anymore.I suppose you can check the mod workshop for startpos.esf and regions.esf progress...
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3 cheers for a world map!!!
Domesticus
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Unless we have someone with computer knowledge and parsing skills who wants to tackle maps, this project is dead.
Ordinarius
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Thats a very discouraging last post..... You can't possibly be saying that we won't ever see a mod for ETW the caliber of Stainless Steel. Why won't King Kong like focus all of his abilities, and all of his friends abilities into solving this? I mean it can't be that hard?
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Citizen
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It's pretty disheartening to see CA just completely forget about the modding community like this. Not even a hint or a tip on how to simply edit the strat maps, much less add new regions and expand the map. Unless you're sitting in the middle of Europe, the campaign is boring now. All you do is wander around in huge expanses of uninhabited land and fight tiny battles with raiders. The strat map needs some fresh new locations to extend the replay value of this game, otherwise it's dead in the water. And why the hell did CA not add in those Warpath Campaign regions into the Grand Campaign? Hell, that would've at least been something.
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Ordinarius
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It really is dumb. I hate SEGA. Hate it. Its just like Wal-Mart. It sucks the life out of everything.
This is all SEGA's doing. We never will have a Stainless Steel caliber mod for ETW because of SEGA.
Hopefully this decision, combined with the death of support for ETW will influence the sales of NTW, and hopefully it will be a negative. Then, maybe SEGA will realize that they just lost a lot of money and let CA completely control all aspects of the next game. But, alas, that probably won't happen. If NTW performs poorly sales wise..... who knows what the future of TW games will be. Maybe scrapped. Because of SEGA.
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Semisalis
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Yes, at least they have limited modding in purpose, to what purpose. There surely is a trend in the gaming industry to make DLC's.... But I'm not that surprised. In the end, Gaming companies are like any other company, it's only about profit. Making customers/gamers happy are only necessary because it gives more profit. Any company who states anything else are just hypocrites and full ofThey probably figure that the less modding the more cash for them from expansions/DLC.
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Would it be possible to convert the mapfiles in ETW to their M2TW counterparts' format, mod them, and then return them to the ETW format? I know little about modding, but I just wondered could that get around CA's failure to release mapping-tools?
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Vicarius
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Sadly no.
Primicerius
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Is there any way for people to crack open the files and start to do some research on it? It would be nice if we have a map research thread. Guess we have to do everything by ourselves slowly.
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