"My Home is my Castle" - Chivalry Submod (eventually)

[Alcibiades of Athens]

Hi there,
as I stated somewhere else,atm I prefer Chivalry over M2TW, even though I can play the latter with maxed out graphics and yes, I am an eye-candy man.

That's the reason why I thought that chivalry needed a major spring overhaul.

Since I prefer to play rather than customise,I planned to borrow(or nick,steal,rob etc.) as much as possible from M2TW,Caius "God" Britannicus' Crusades-Mod etc. ,therefore this project can never be "official".

Realising the scope of the project though,I thought maybe there are others with similar interest, with which I can share ideas and more important, work.

Here's a screen of Chivalry with M2TW's stratmap textures and the interface from the crusades:


I also added some the battlefield textures from Blue Lotus as well, as the chinese buildings & wall for the horde(1) faction,the indian walls for the muslim(2) factions (actually for testing purposes only in the beginning, maybe it's too fantasy-ish for some, but it sure as hell does look great),etc.

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What I plan to do is :
redo faction symbols (actually rather adapting it for the interface)
replace (all) in and add more units to the game
make new strat-map models
maybe add some more buildings (not battlemap though)
...
maybe taking a look at stats and probably battlefield movement modifiers

So, anyone interested ?

[BNS]

ok have fun ... just be careful when using other peoples work
Chivalry with M2TW's stratmap textures looks interesting think ill check it out, i heard the mod ran no jidai is using these too....

[Alcibiades of Athens]

ok have fun ... just be careful when using other peoples work

Thanks, that's why I don't plan to officialy release anything, only people who are interested and share some ideas, as we are privately entitled to do -more or less- as we want with the mods, can pm me etc.

If someone would i.e. help me coding Caius genial units in, I would have more time to work on other reskins/-modelling/stuff, like continuing with this sorry prussian swordsman re-skin I never finished:

Chivalry with M2TW's stratmap textures looks interesting think ill check it out, i heard the mod ran no jidai is using these too....

That's who brought me on the idea,it's a simply c&p as well.

[Ataegina]

wooow awesome

this ill be avaliable ?

[drak10687]

well, it won't be out publicly unless he can get permission from all the people whose material he borrowed ....and us.

That does look nice man! Except I'm not sure where the chines buildings would fit...

BTW, if you make your own skins, you can always submit them to us, if you wish, so if they are better we'll use yours instead...

[DaVinci]

... the map looks nice actually ...and i see you are pretty creative

Well, i give you as easter-egg-present the permission to produce a Chiv-submod if you want (and under your complete own responsibilty), and as requirement, that the concept won't develop to a fantasy-Chivalry ... not that i don't like fantasy-products (I'm a fan of FATW), but it actually doesn't fit to Chivalry, and any submods should meet and keep some basics of the original Chiv ... as for all the other touched files it's your thing how and if you intend to get permission to realise actually a submod.

And as Drak said, if any units meet our expectations (and are better than some of the pretty old skins, what isn't hard), then you can be a free-lancing unit-skinner for Chivalry

Contact Drak (Chiv's official public relations manager) and as alternative, also BNS for eventually further communication about that, especially regarding eventual common unit development.

EDIT: Ups, now i see how many smilies i set into this thread ... i must be drunken.

[Alcibiades of Athens]

redo faction symbols (actually rather adapting it for the interface)

That's half a check, looking a bit clumsily made but then...they are my first, also I can redo half of them again because I accidentally deleted the folder they were in.

Except I'm not sure where the chines buildings would fit...

Actually I planned to give them to the cumans,although the first idea was to only give them the walls and leave the rest "barbarian"-style.

...and i see you are pretty creative

Because I use other people's work ?... ...yes, you're right.

and as requirement, that the concept won't develop to a fantasy-Chivalry

What, no horse-throwing 10foot mongol-orcs on elephants with rocket boosters? ...I think I'll need some time to get over that...

...Alright...Seriously though, of course I plan to stretch the timeline a bit (equipment and armor-wise) say up to even the early 14th century,I mean most of Caius stuff is 13th century.

permission to produce a Chiv-submod

Thanks, maybe now I am really going to make this official and ask for the necessary permission, depending on if I find someone willing to help me with coding and stuff.

[thoscme]

wow, those unit symbols are pretty cool..!

i really like the way the map is with M2TW's style (what is it called? interface?)

i would give it a shot and downloaded it!

keep up the good work

[Ataegina]

this seems be very interesting, also would be fresh breath to ctw if this comes out as submod

[Alcibiades of Athens]

Good News !

I just received permission from Caius himself and while I haven't received permission from hoggy yet, the following sounds a reasonable base to continue the work:

Feel free to re-use any original BL[Blue Lotus] content in any other non-profit mods as long as the respective artists are credited. If possible contact us for details on authors.

So,now I could make this acutally an official sub-mod, but I've to admit I'm reluctant to do so on quite my own, so if there's anyone willing to help with coding or something else - besides moral support, you'de be very welcome.

Here's a screen of some of Blue Lotus' trees...in...uhm action ("trees in action" ? ), just because I made it a habit out of adding a screen:

[Ataegina]

thats good news , the trees looks great

well if this becomes official, i would suggest:

the timeframe ill be more huge? like 1072-1453 ? maybe more advanced units for later years (mayeb importing from another mods, if you've permission )
campaign map can be more large ? like expanding to north covering whole eskandinavia and maybe faroe islands and iceland?

well if u need moral support and beta-tester , well i can try help you

[drak10687]

hey, do those trees work on the camp. map?

[Alcibiades of Athens]

the timeframe ill be more huge? like 1072-1453 ? maybe more advanced units for later years (mayeb importing from another mods, if you've permission )

I rather doubt that I can manage in 1 month (that's my approximaton atm) and on my own, what the Chivalry team hasn't managed in two years and all that with a new game out doing exactly that and more ?

Momentarily I only plan to make cosmetical changes,I'd love to make some changes in the campaign as well, i.e. later starting(and ending) date, mongol invasion (meaning BI-exe only) and stuff like that, but at the moment I wouldn't count on that.

hey, do those trees work on the camp. map?

Haven't tried yet.

More trees... and faction symbols again
Next I hope some coded in units and maybe a new one.

[Atterdag]

Well I personly like our faction symbols better, but I like the BL buildings.

[Alcibiades of Athens]

Well I personly like our faction symbols better, but I like the BL buildings.

Your faction symbols don't work with Caius interface.
Implementing BL's buildings btw, is a simple matter of copy & paste.

The first new unit, with 4 pretty basic, shiny skins:Feudal Sergeants(DanesvsPoles,EnglishFrench)


Probably going to tone them down a bit, do some minor tweaks,but they will basically stay that way -if there aren't any objections,

[Atterdag]

The first picture looks like a Danish/Swedish football match back in 1072.

[Ataegina]

well fusion between hight/late era perhaps ?

but if we're going to high era we should replace some factions for new ones (western: portuguese kingdom and maybe some italian factions )

[Alcibiades of Athens]

Danish/Swedish football match back in 1072

Yeah,yeah back in the good old days, when they still used people as posts and kicking the ball actually referred to...

So ie. a start of about 1200 AD or a bit earlier, with the start date of Caius 'The Crusades' would fit and just gives interested people though the choice of original planned Chiv eras.

We'll see, how it progresses, unit-wise -since this project (still reluctant of making it official)- is centered around Caius great units, which all are high medieval, I don't see a problem here.

Anyways, I'm progressing making more unit, focussing at that atm, and see what time brings, sooner or later I too will probably prefer to play and mod M2TW, so I don't make great plans, if there's additional help, then it will put to good use and more could be done, but I'm not commiting myself.

well fusion between hight/late era perhaps ?

It would be a cool thing, but neither my time,enthusiasm nor energy are limitless.

I tapped into the resources of M2TW some more (thx to GOM's great tool ) :

On the left are southern, on the right northern feudal knights, each with the variety of helmets,for the different factions.

[Ataegina]

nice units , the northen one looks good :p

[DaVinci]

I allowed myself to change the title a bit ... perhaps it gets more attention (help) this way. Tell me, if you wanna have it changed to another one ...