RTRPE II (1.1 Patch Released!)

[AngryTitusPullo]

You can check my old Imperator mod thread and maybe take something there if you want to add name legions and some scripting ideas etc.

[ahowl11]

Thanks, I will probably go through all the RTR mods and see what I can find

[ahowl11]

After some thought, instead of switching maps I have decided to edit the current map. There is a lot of room for improvement so it should be fun reorganizing it.

[ahowl11]

Update:
All Pikemen now fight with two hands instead of one, and I have added a better looking radar map for the campaign

[CanOmer]

Hi, can you use "RTR7's old and abandoned map" ?
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-abandoned-map
It is far better than RTR6's map IMO.

[ahowl11]

Hello CanOmer,

I do not know if I will use that map. I am not a big fan of that sort of projection even though it would be realistic based off how our globe is.
However, I will think about it, because it is a map that has not been used and the current map definitely needs to be upgraded.

Right now I am leaning towards using the map that Ancient Empires Elysium uses. Check it out:
http://s10.zetaboards.com/aeelysium/topic/7336776/1/

It's a bigger version of RTR6's map.

Like I said, I will take a good look at it because maps are what make or break a mod regardless of anything else.

[Prince Eugene]

I would like to try v0.1 of this mini-mod but I cannot get it from gamefront as the site has blocked my country. Could you upload it to depositfiles instead?

[ahowl11]

Okay here you go, sorry for the late response I have been busy with school.
http://depositfiles.com/files/borhhv6vs

Version 1.0 is ready, I just need to put all the new files together as I never separated them from RTRPE 2.0. I could just upload the whole thing but that would take forever. Does anyone know how to make an installer, similar to what RTRPE 2.0 has?

[Prince Eugene]

Thanks Looking forward to the release of v1.0

[ahowl11]

A release!
Here is the link to 1.0
http://depositfiles.com/files/sbzx90j0b

And here is what is included in this version:
- Added New Campaign map ground and water textures from Ancient Empires Elysium
- Added new tree models for campaign map from M2TW
- Added RS2 Environments for the Battle map
- Added RTRVII's Settlement models for the Campaign Map
- Added Resef's Combined Animations Pack which
- Edited all Pikemen, they now fight with two hands and have their shield strapped to their wrist
- Edited all hoplites, they now fight overhand and are not in the pseudo-phalanx formation anymore
- Included Candelarius' German unit names. They are now translated into English.
- Added Campaign Radar maps from AqD's RTR mod. They just look better.
- Brought back vanilla Rebel symbols for the Rebel faction on the campaign map. (No more blank banners)
- Edited Rome and Gaul's faction colors to be a little darker
- Edited Rebels faction color to be one solid color to disable region lines on radar map
- Included Marcus Camillus' 4tpy mod.
- Included the No Landblock Mod
- Included the no torches mod during night battles

Simply place the data folder inside of your 'rtrpe' folder to play.

To play you MUST have RTRPE v2.0 installed.

I will take some screen shots tonight and make a preview soon.

[putoconcarne]

Looking good! I'm loving the new campaign map.

[Vilica]

BRAVO!

[ahowl11]

Glad all are enjoying it so far. Feel free to take screen shots and post them here for previews. I will be posting some from the following:
Rome vs. Pyrrus battle
Seleucid vs Rebel Syrian Army
Seleucid vs Galatians
A Few Campaign map Screens

[ahowl11]

Screens are now up on the OP!
Also Signature banners are also available in the OP
Enjoy!

[AngryTitusPullo]

Did you corrected all the EDB bugs ? The bugs where some factions could not build highest cavalry/missile buildings where make them unable to build higher tier barracks ? If yes then I can point to this thread for someone reporting bugs regarding this.

[ahowl11]

No I didn't even know that was an issue, what factions experience this? I'll go in an make the quick fixes and post a patch ASAP.

[putoconcarne]

I noticed that dense forest terrain is shown as black patches on the ground. Seems like a bug to me, but I can't be sure.

Here's a screenie:

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1449/obxg.jpg

[ahowl11]

I noticed that awhile back. Pretty sure it is a bug, but I'm not quite sure how to fix it.. Anyone have any idea? Luckily it seems like it is only an issue in that part of the map.

[ahowl11]

Bug Hunting and fixing while I develop the next version.
A lot of complaints have been about how the barbarians cannot reach their highest Barracks tier since they do not have access to the hippodrome. I have patched that up. Here is an example:


Originally playing as Illyria, your capital has a Hall of Heroes so that you can train all Illyrian troops. The other three settlements only had Auxilia Phase III. However there was no option to build a Hall of Heroes because the Hippodrome was not available to them. I went in and changed the EDB to make the Hippodrome available to all factions. Now, in the building browser it still didn't show the Hall of Heroes upgrade. So I built the Hippodrome and surprise! Look what is available to build? Hall of Heroes. Notice that there is no proper icon for the Hippodrome, I will be looking to change that as I add in BI buildings to the barbarians.
So, hopefully now every faction can have access to all of it's troops. Expect this in a small patch coming very soon!

[AngryTitusPullo]

Originally playing as Illyria, your capital has a Hall of Heroes so that you can train all Illyrian troops. The other three settlements only had Auxilia Phase III. However there was no option to build a Hall of Heroes because the Hippodrome was not available to them. I went in and changed the EDB to make the Hippodrome available to all factions. Now, in the building browser it still didn't show the Hall of Heroes upgrade. So I built the Hippodrome and surprise! Look what is available to build? Hall of Heroes. Notice that there is no proper icon for the Hippodrome, I will be looking to change that as I add in BI buildings to the barbarians.
So, hopefully now every faction can have access to all of it's troops. Expect this in a small patch coming very soon!

Yup. This is what I have no time to finish with. Same goes for most if not all barbarian factions I think.