Visual Enhancement - Good and Evil menu packages released

[Punisher1024]

For evil it could be the orcs waiting for the corsairs on the beach... or ugluk killing that one gob- oh wait... improved... yea...

lol yeah the orcs waiting sounds good or maybe when rhun is walking into mordor unless that is for something else.

[colm_ose]

Anyone having trouble with CTDs when there's a loading screen? Not everytime, but regularly when there's a loading screen, I get a CTD.

I had to manually install all the files as I'm using the Steam workaround of changing the mod folder to teutonic so I might have put something in the wrong place, but I don't think so. I followed the folder hierarchy from the TATW folder that was installed, so I reckon that should be ok?

[Louis Lux]

The Harad and Rhun generals pictures still shown the vanilla object... Any idea how to fixed it on the script? They should be wonderful

I haven't made a new release yet, waiting till I get more stuff done for new version

Actually you could do it without a background at all with the use of Alpha channels. Which is what I was suggesting.

I will test it, but it makes me wonder why wasn't it done with the stainless steel loading bar (that black backgroung really put me off while playing)

Anyone having trouble with CTDs when there's a loading screen? Not everytime, but regularly when there's a loading screen, I get a CTD.

I had to manually install all the files as I'm using the Steam workaround of changing the mod folder to teutonic so I might have put something in the wrong place, but I don't think so. I followed the folder hierarchy from the TATW folder that was installed, so I reckon that should be ok?

Have you replaced the loading screens? Perhaps there is a problem there try replacing the loading screen folder with vanilla's and see if the CTDs keep happening.

[LeBons83]

No, dude, I mean ... I wanna fixed it soon by my own ... any idea how to fix it? perhaps I need to place the 'middle_eastern' culture portraits (for generals, young/old/dead) from 000 to 200? Or is there just a scripting issue? If it is, which txt. files should I edited? thank's bro...

LeBons

[colm_ose]

Yeah, I replaced the loading screens but I didn't save the original TATW ones.

I can't seem to find the vanilla MTW2 ones either.

Maybe I need to reinstall from the top.

[Danny_K_1]

And the human eye can only distinguish between a few million.

[JonSnow]

Hmmmm.... perhaps try adobe reader instead? Version 9.0 can get some pretty high quality stuff in...

[LeBons83]

For Rhun and Harad general vanilla/TWdefault portraits, I wanna fixed it soon by my own ... any idea how to fix it? perhaps do I need to place the 'middle_eastern' culture portraits (for generals, young/old/dead) from 000 to 200? Or is there just a scripting issue? If it is, which txt. files should I edited? thank's bro...

LeBons

[2-D Ron]

For Rhun and Harad general vanilla/TWdefault portraits, I wanna fixed it soon by my own ... any idea how to fix it? perhaps do I need to place the 'middle_eastern' culture portraits (for generals, young/old/dead) from 000 to 200? Or is there just a scripting issue? If it is, which txt. files should I edited? thank's bro...

LeBons

The Age Limit is Hard Coded 0 -100 I think, maybe less.

[MadTiest]

Any idea how you're going to handle Harad&Rhun? Will you use a mix of Rhun and Harad screens, or somehow attempt to find pictures that fit both at the same time? (sounds rather impossible)

All my pictures are from the dvd's. Northmen will be hard, maybe I'll take a look at another movie for something useful.


Spy


War declared/Alliance?


Son!


Besieging?


Defeat good faction/Victory evil?


Defeat Isengard


Death general


Alliance/Relationship improved


Alliance/relationship improved evil


Relationship worsened

BONUS:

Defeat Mordor/Relationship Worsened


Council mission

If you don't like 'em, go F- yourself, let's see if you can do a better job :/

Sorry, DG has a bad influence on me ;-)

You probably won't have much use for most pics, and some are for some reason the wrong size (by 1 pixel ) But I thought I'd post it anyway, and let you decide.

[Louis Lux]

For Rhun and Harad general vanilla/TWdefault portraits, I wanna fixed it soon by my own ... any idea how to fix it? perhaps do I need to place the 'middle_eastern' culture portraits (for generals, young/old/dead) from 000 to 200? Or is there just a scripting issue? If it is, which txt. files should I edited? thank's bro...

LeBons

If I understand correctly you want to have only my wicked men portrait? To do that you will have to repeat them from 000 to 200 otherwise you will have the default vanilla as well. There is no need to make an old folder. If you wait a few more days I will update with new portraits and you won't have to go through so much trouble.

These event pictures are almost done, just need some minor tweaks. Since Gondor and Orcs have a decent amount of event pics I'm giving priority for the other good factions.

Council missions Elves/Dwarves/Men

Mission failed Elves/Dwarves/Men

War declared/alliance declared/alliance broken

Relations improved/relations worsened

End of turn report/victim of assassination

Most advanced faction/most advanced faction other

Largest faction Elves/Dwarves/Men

Army ambushes/army ambushed

Retinue expands Elves/Dwarves

Noble death Elves/Dwarves/Men

Bride presented/Marriage celebrations/Son

Army sallies/enemy army sallies


edit: tomorrow Maxmazi will preview unit info cards, Madtiest I added you're son event pic cause I forgot to make mine (same concept)

[JonSnow]

Epic. You are seriously doing a great job.... can't wait till you release this.

[MadTiest]

Looks really great. I think I'll leave doing the events pics to you


Only things I think could be better: 'War declared/alliance declared'
I like the War declared the least. The previous ones (dwarves, Northmen, elves) were nice though.
I think my sword pic looks better (for alliance declared)
I also think the death picture from my last post is better than your current one.

But obviously I'm biased and it's just a matter of personal preference. Besides that, the even pictures look very good, and a massive improvement over vanilla to say the least.

[Louis Lux]

Looks really great. I think I'll leave doing the events pics to you

Even if I don't use all suggestions, feedback helps make my ideas clearer

Only things I think could be better: 'War declared/alliance declared'
I like the War declared the least. The previous ones (dwarves, Northmen, elves) were nice though.
I think my sword pic looks better (for alliance declared)

I like my previous concept but I was struggling with the fact that it would appear for every declaration that happens during your campaign not jut your own wars. I decided to go with a more generic one and decided to develop my sword concept. The sword is a very strong symbol, and is used in the books as a symbol of the honoring of alliances (oathbreakers) and of desunity (Isildur's broken sword).

I also think the death picture from my last post is better than your current one.

I was going to use this pic for gondor, it suits gondor much better, but a more suitable event picture is being used (Denethor/Faramir scene). And a northmen burial fits best for a northmen culture.

I'm missing a retinue expand pic for Northmen, any ideas?

[JonSnow]

Showing Gamling and Hama standing together in ttt when gandalf is seeping out saruman fom theoden

[Punisher1024]

Dude your doing a great job man keep it up.

[MaxMazi]

Hi,
First of all thanks to Louis Lux who asked for my assistance in his submod. I will try to finish my work as fast as i can, but findind the right angle is very time consuming.
Here is the gallery with Rhun units:

Visual Enhancement Rhun Unit Info Cards:



Enjoy!

P.S.: Clan crossbowmen are missing. I wasn't happy with the screen i took so i decided not to post it, i will do it in the evening when i get back from work.

Here you can see my work, screenshots taken from TATW non related to this submod, even that a few can fit, but i want to make all new for this sub mod.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Gondor is my next target. Stay tuned.

Have a nice TATW!

[Mithrandir]

This needs to be made official.

[HaveFallen]

Wow, this looks really awesome. Is it savegame compatible? Which download do I get to have everything you've done so far? Will I miss anything if I download the one that doesn't affect desc_strat?

Apologies for all the questions, now I will brace myself for the hard thrashing i'm going to take.

[Radboud]

Wow, this looks really awesome. Is it savegame compatible? Which download do I get to have everything you've done so far? Will I miss anything if I download the one that doesn't affect desc_strat?

Apologies for all the questions, now I will brace myself for the hard thrashing i'm going to take.

I think v0.3 has got everything done so far (until the new update of course ).