Diadochi - TW: Screenshots

**DeathHand** · April 20, 2011, 05:41 AM

Nice, gotta love this mod

**timpi** · April 20, 2011, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by DeathHand

Nice, gotta love this mod

Tell us something new

**The Roman Republic** · April 29, 2011, 11:59 AM

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Barrage of javelins.

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My good defeat.

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Silly soldier.

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charge into the face of the enemy!!

**Chronologger** · April 30, 2011, 01:46 AM

Just a few pictures of a custom battle against the Ptolemaic Empire playing as the league of Greek cities.

Love the mod by the way, no other mod presents ancient Greece more gloriously IMHO.

Hoplites on the march..

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Mercenary hoplites make short work of wicker shields...

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Hoplites forming up in the city...

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Nubian takes a spear through his torso...

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Victory march...

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**The Roman Republic** · April 30, 2011, 06:35 AM

Just a few pictures of a custom battle against the Ptolemaic Empire playing as the league of Greek cities.

Love the mod by the way, no other mod presents ancient Greece more gloriously IMHO.

Hoplites on the march..

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Mercenary hoplites make short work of wicker shields...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Hoplites forming up in the city...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Nubian takes a spear through his torso...

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Victory march...

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Brilliant pics, how did you zoom in so much onto the units, like zooming right onto the ground and stuff,and getting rid of the banners.

**Chronologger** · April 30, 2011, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Rometotalwar

Brilliant pics, how did you zoom in so much onto the units, like zooming right onto the ground and stuff,and getting rid of the banners.

Fairly easy, for the unit banners you have to disable them through your preferences.txt by changing the line "SHOW_BANNERS:TRUE" to "SHOW_BANNERS:FALSE"

The preferences file can be found in your Rome: Total War\DTW\preferences folder.

As for the camera angles, you can only get angles like that by saving a battle replay and loading it up with a certain command added to the target line of your Diadochi: Total War shortcut, mine looks like this. (in the spoilers)

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It's the "-movie_cam" command in the target line that lets you move your camera literally anywhere you like in a battle replay, and if you hit enter while watching the battle replay, all HUD elements will be removed, although controls for this camera are different to normal TW. (Controls in Spoilers)

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You can pause the fight at any given time, so presumably because you have already fought that fight you should know when the cool stuff happens and get some nice screens

So I'm glad to help, there's not enough pictures of this mod, so people, start saving those MP and custom battle replays!

**The Roman Republic** · May 01, 2011, 10:47 AM

thanks for Brilliant response +rep

**The Roman Republic** · May 01, 2011, 11:05 AM

just one more question, when you printscreen i always have to go into paint and save it ect, is there a way of sending the pic to a file in the game directory, i no you can use fraps but it makes the game laggy for some reason, so is there another way??

**RedFox** · May 01, 2011, 11:08 AM

When you press "Prt sc", RTW automatically captures the screenshot and saves it into Rome - Total War\tgas\ folder in .TGA format. You'll need Photoshop, GIMP or other image editing/converting applications to get .PNG or .JPG images.

**The Roman Republic** · May 01, 2011, 12:11 PM

yh but it doesn't store photos when you print screen playing a mod

**The Roman Republic** · May 02, 2011, 08:05 AM

i found out the problem, i was looking in rome-total war, data and then tgas file, but i found out it was the one in the rome-total war folder.

**Chronologger** · May 02, 2011, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Rometotalwar

i found out the problem, i was looking in rome-total war, data and then tgas file, but i found out it was the one in the rome-total war folder.

If I were you I would just go with adding the Diadochi shortcut to steam so you can play the game with Steams overlay. They have a neat little screenshot management tool that works well with it, basically while you're playing any game with this overlay you can just tap F12 and the shot will be saved to your drive, but instead of having to exit the game to review your screens, the screenshot tool will have all your screenshots on show when you open the overlay. From there you can decide which ones to keep, which ones to upload to your steam profile and which ones to delete.

Basically all you have to do for this is to click on "Add non-steam game" in your steam library, find the diadochi shortcut, add it and make sure the target line for the Diadochi steam shortcut is correct.

I recommend this to anyone, allows good control and convenience with your screenshots, hell, I could be playing the game now, take a screenshot, open up the steam web browser, come here and upload the screenshot from my steam profile while I'm still playing the game!

**Dark Rider** · May 02, 2011, 01:12 PM

I had a little custom battle, nothing special.

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That's all for now, there are more, but i don't have much time now

**The Roman Republic** · May 03, 2011, 11:37 AM

im adding my diadochi mod and its just uploading the normal alexander game, here's my target line.

"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -show_err -nm -mod: DTW -enable_editor -movie_cam
Had to add space due to smile

**Chronologger** · May 04, 2011, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Rometotalwar

im adding my diadochi mod and its just uploading the normal alexander game, here's my target line.

"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -show_err -nm -mod: DTW -enable_editor
-movie_cam
Had to add space due to smile

Very strange, mine is the exact same yet it works, you didn't just add the shortcut to steam did you? If you did you must change your target line in the steam shortcut for it to work. (Open steam > Library > Right click Diadochi Total War shortcut > Properties)

EDIT: Also, a bit unrelated, but I've been thinking of making a youtube video based around this mod (specifically a fight involving the League of Greek cities), even picked out some soundtrack samples, but it lacks direction, I would like a few suggestions of what battle I should base it upon, (preferably pre-300B.C) details of what took place during that battle would also be highly appreciated, the more detail the better.

**Dark Rider** · May 03, 2011, 01:06 PM

what do you think about my pictures?

**HorseArcher146** · August 15, 2011, 04:26 PM

I probably should have taken screens of my last battle... It was 2 Dacian Armies and 1 Makendonian Army vs 3 Permagum (?) Armies.... It was pretty epic... It was one of the highest casualty battles I've ever done... It completely wiped out all of my military, all of Permagum's military and half of the Makendonian military (other half was over fighting Epirus and Celts) It wasn't even an organized battle worth taking pictures of... More like a bunch of chaos and slaughter... But with the complete destruction of my military... and no funds or manpower because this battle was literally the turn RIGHT after I finally conquered all of Thrace.... So this and that happened, the southern half of my empire was over run by Permagum... and Northern half.. where I literally had about 1 unit of warband in each settlement.. was overrun by the Scythians... Who were my allies as well (forgot to mention that Permangum had helped me destroy the last Thracian army holed up in their last city the previous turn because they were my allies) So I get to start a new campaign!! Yippee! (Difficulty was H/VH) And don't hate cuz I wrote this without any screens.. It was just a pretty awesome campaign story I just wanted to tell someone