Army Food Costs, and Weapons

Malrang

Malrang

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Okay, sorry for asking a ton of questions, but I have two more. All the help is really appreciated though! Thanks a lot to all those who take the time to write me replies.

1. How do I reduce the food costs of armies? I want to make it the same as a normal villager rather than double (it will be more practical for the scripts I'm going to be writing and the type of gameplay I'm aiming at presenting to a player).

Will I have to edit the Data/Balance/GameBalanceArmy.txt, and if so which numbers?

2. How do I change the item a model is carrying? Such as a tankard, a sword, bow, etc. I'm planning on giving the Greek melee soldier a spear. (I also asked this in one of my other thread, but I figured I might as well make a new one devoted to these)
 
See if the BW2 modding WIKI is of any help with the balance questions

http://wiki.planetblackandwhite.gamespy.com/PBnWModdingWIKI/index.php/Formats:Other:BalancingConstants

For the second question, you'll need to do some name changes of the models you want swapped.
 
Thanks!

The wiki was helpful, I'll have to see if I can't find any recognizable parallels between how the values are arranged in other balance.txt's and the GameBalanceArmy.txt. I'll get it eventually!
 
It's nice to see somebody so into BW2! ^^ If you finaly do finish a land, care to share it? :)  :laugh:
 
Sure  :D

I'm working on a land with three different Greek tribe's. One will be good, one will be evil, and the third will be the player. I'll be retexturing flags and armor and such so that the good tribe will have blue colours, and their melee infantry will be Hoplites (spearmen). The evil tribe will be retextured to have black colours and other things.

I'll also be changing some balances to make the game able to flow more like a civ game rather than a god game (so there won't be any creatures, and god powers will be limited). I'm hoping to make proper use of scripting so that this won't negatively impact gameplay (I'm hammering it out in my head still).

There will be a scripted peace/war system, such as if you're approaching another player's influence or city, you will be given a warning to leave. If you neglect to leave or attack any of their structures/armies, you will be at war, and will have to defeat the enemy, or pay him food/wood/ore for peace.

I'm still familiarizing myself with the scripting, but I'm hoping to work something in there which will cause the enemy to likewise sue for peace and make you an offer, or allow you to make a demand, should you gain the upperhand in war.

The good Greek tribe will be partial to seeking a peaceful resolution, the evil tribe will want to kick your ass, etc, etc.

Right now I'm working on the Hoplite, and hopefully tomorrow I can have a screenshot up (I have a shitty graphics card though, so it won't look terribly amazing). I can only play the game without any lag at all on low quality.

Like I said earlier in this post, I'll be making necessary balance changes to make larger-scale war and such possible. The evil tribe will have greater numbers but will be unskilled, whereas the good tribe won't have as many, but will have more skilled platoons.
 
I just finished the first version of the textures, there will be many more to come  :) This is just one of the .dds files applied, so I'll finish the rest and make the final changes tomorrow.

Hoplite2.jpg
 
I'm willing to help you with re-textures, if you give a detailed description of what you want, and, if you supply them in TGA or any other then DDS format! :p

My PC and I agreed that DDS is a sucky format we shouldn't try to touch, open or even look at. (in honesty, my pc decided that on it's own, but.. That makes me look dumb)


PS. If you supply it in other formats, make sure you don't loose the Alpha Channel! It's important!
 
I didn't, don't worry haha. Is it okay if I save them as 1 bit Alpha (DXT1)? Thats the only way I found to make them relatively the same size as the .dds files made by LH.

Nah, I'm doing alright, that was just a work-in-progress. I'll have a few different skins up, and I'll ask people which they would like most (for the Hoplite). If I expand the project in the future I'll definitely take you up on that though!  :D

Right now I'm undertaking an assault on the Lionhead forums to try to get their attention and have some questions answered. I'm going to have swordsmen killing hoplites if its the last thing I do!

If they ignore these posts, I'm going to start sending e-mails about it to their webmaster and calling them.
 
I don't care what format, aslong as I can open it without having to download something fancy.

I have Paint Shop Pro xi, and Paint.net, so if either can open the format you're saving it with, with an alpha channel, I'm fine! :)



And good luck! ^^ I'll await a PM telling me to get to work! :p
 
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