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Age of Wonders seriesAge of Wonders 1 - new graphics(31 posts)(31 posts)
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Posted July 11, 2020
this would be thread with new graphic resources
first link is preview, second is download, then its some of my comment that i try to keep brief
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Goblin cutthroat
link to lib

recolor Halfling rouge. I know gobs are brown in AoW, but it suppose to be young goblin with unripe skin complexion. Death frame index 0.

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Minotaur
lib include 2x death

Rip off from https://opengameart.org/content/minotaur
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hydra
lib , you need to make custom unit, and use this graphics

Death frames included (index 0 and 1). I will make a mod with this unit.

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Dwarven First Born
Download lib to replace in unit/dwr

death frames (include black salamander)

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black salamander
Download lib to replace in unit/liz

death frames (include dwarf first born)

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green salamander
lib, to make new unit

this color version is less sensible. Use black salamander instead. death corpse is inside lib on index 0.

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Werewolf
this graphics are already in stock AoW1, its in undead named undww.lib

corpse is already in vanilla dead.lib, index 160.
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dwarven hamlet - city size 1 in snow
link to lib to replace in races

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Frostling flag are too similar to grey independent flag.
link to lib to replace in races for Frostling

below lib remove independents flag. So i think its better option.

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remove independent flags, and add better upgrade city symbols
LINK TO LIB, replace flags in images

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Thirsk mod have excellent new units

half Delf spider warrior,
elephant with ballista,
succubs
turtle with ram

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Some of this stuff is stolen, I try to write credit. Feel free to use for whatever purpose (tell the cops i give it to you).
Post edited September 07, 2021 by Lagi_
Posted July 11, 2020
my prayers, fantasies and general wall of text noone ever read
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here is my mod with new units - its fork of Southern mod. So far new units are imba.

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make cyclop from dwarf giant: no shirt, fatter.

touch up skeleton infantry heads (they look like mushrooms not skulls) // not as big impact as i presume, i have it somewhere.

dark elf need flyer (gargoyle?) // new rooster full, and looks good imo
touch up dwarven ballon and air galley, the tips of ballon looks to pointy. //immpossible to do geometric shape touch up for me
make a classic. non diringer, ballon, as a unit in Builders Guild. // remove propeller and recolor - yeah im cheap
sprites are quite copy/paste. fire elemental looks like joke

------------------race rooster alteration IMO-------------------------------
shipyard: cog (transport, javelin attack) [lvl 1], raider ship [lvl 2], trireme (melee ship) [lvl 2], sea serpent (underwater hide) [lvl 3]
only cog is a transport (i know about transporting other ship cheese)

builder guild: crane, ballon, ballista, catapult

builder guild underground: crane, drill, catapult, ballista.
Flame thrower go to dwarfs. From all race remove ballista

Dwarf:
add flamethrower
Firstborn not a T4 (t3, or t2), call him Hammerer. // ee... nothing to replace with

Undead:
replace Ballista with Mummy

Dark Elf:
replace ballista with Spider Warrior.
remove shadow & incarnate : replace with Hydra and Minotaur

Frostling:
add Werewolf instead Nordic glow
nordic glow replace ballista, as a weak flying scout.

Goblin:
no ram -> bomber wall crushing without suicide
add goblins assassin
Post edited August 02, 2020 by Lagi_
Posted July 11, 2020
Here's a recolour I did years ago as a proof of concept.

Sand Lizard
download

Feel free to use without attribution.
Posted July 11, 2020
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And G: Here's a recolour I did years ago as a proof of concept.

Sand Lizard
download

Feel free to use without attribution.
this sword and shield are implemented perfectly! great job.
ready LIB package - i need myself to figure it out how to do it, to not force everyone to do it :D
Posted July 11, 2020
It's been a while since I worked with unit ILBs but IIRC you just import an 8 bpp RGB bitmap with a width of 768 pixels in AoWCGE and that's it.
Posted July 11, 2020
hydra in mesmerizing move

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whats now...

making new units take 2x days of work. I guess I make minotaur.

diringer, i try to fix, but it looks ugly. my hand edit is visible.

undead heads i was trying to improve the skull shape. I guess effect is not so specatacular - waste of my time.

I have to make LIB's, but this can wait, I need sources to convert on first place.

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minotaur
1st concept

ehh... it was 2h of my life. I guess i start tomorrow from checking how minotaur look like.
Post edited July 13, 2020 by Lagi_
Posted July 14, 2020
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And G: It's been a while since I worked with unit ILBs but IIRC you just import an 8 bpp RGB bitmap with a width of 768 pixels in AoWCGE and that's it.
I cannot find this AoWCGE software, can you provide link? or upload it somewhere? thanks
Posted July 14, 2020
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And G: It's been a while since I worked with unit ILBs but IIRC you just import an 8 bpp RGB bitmap with a width of 768 pixels in AoWCGE and that's it.
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Lagi_: I cannot find this AoWCGE software, can you provide link? or upload it somewhere? thanks
http://aow.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=899
Posted July 14, 2020
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Lagi_: I cannot find this AoWCGE software, can you provide link? or upload it somewhere? thanks
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southern: http://aow.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=899
did you have any success using this software?
Posted July 14, 2020
No, as mentioned in the AoW+ thread, it just gives me many, many access violations
Posted July 14, 2020
From the AoWCGE help file:
How to create new graphics with AoWCGE
The easiest way to create new graphics with this tool is to create a single bitmap file that holds all of your custom graphics you wish to use as a graphics library in AoW. Once you have such a file, you can import it with AoWCGE by selecting the "File|Import" menu. After that you can save it as an AoW .ILB file by selecting the "File|Save As" menu item. That's all there is to it. The drawing, of course, is up to you.
Unit graphics
Unit graphics bitmap files contain your complete set of unit graphics for one single unit. Each unit graphic should be 64x64 pixels. The complete bitmap file should be 6 rows high (therefore 6*64=384 pixels) and as many columns wide as you want to. In each row you put the images for a unit facing a particular direction, like this:
· Row 1: down;
· Row 2: down/left;
· Row 3: up/left;
· Row 4: up;
· Row 5: up/right;
· Row 6: down/right
Also, the bitmap should be 256 colours.
So just put all frames in a single bitmap and import that in AoWCGE.

By the way I'm not a fan of the Hydra; you'd really need heads facing east and west to make it look good. The neck-torso transition is also rather jarring at the moment.

The Minotaur looks good except it doesn't look like a minotaur at all. In Greek mythology, the Minotaur has the body of a human and the head (and tail I guess) of a bull. Apart from the colours I liked your Troll-with-horns mockup much better. (I don't actually mind the Satyr body too much, but the Boar head really doesn't fit.)
Post edited July 14, 2020 by And G
Posted July 14, 2020
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And G: From the AoWCGE help file:

How to create new graphics with AoWCGE
The easiest way to create new graphics with this tool is to create a single bitmap file that holds all of your custom graphics you wish to use as a graphics library in AoW. Once you have such a file, you can import it with AoWCGE by selecting the "File|Import" menu. After that you can save it as an AoW .ILB file by selecting the "File|Save As" menu item. That's all there is to it. The drawing, of course, is up to you.
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And G:

Unit graphics
Unit graphics bitmap files contain your complete set of unit graphics for one single unit. Each unit graphic should be 64x64 pixels. The complete bitmap file should be 6 rows high (therefore 6*64=384 pixels) and as many columns wide as you want to. In each row you put the images for a unit facing a particular direction, like this:
· Row 1: down;
· Row 2: down/left;
· Row 3: up/left;
· Row 4: up;
· Row 5: up/right;
· Row 6: down/right
Also, the bitmap should be 256 colours.
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And G: So just put all frames in a single bitmap and import that in AoWCGE.
its works!! my lovely reptile.

problem was with not a 8 bit BMP pictures. I would make now LIBs for all my files.

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And G: By the way I'm not a fan of the Hydra; you'd really need heads facing east and west to make it look good. The neck-torso transition is also rather jarring at the moment.
You mean the heads should be more apart? Well 64x pix is a tight space to fix 3 heads.
yeah agree, it could more smooth out. I try to work with brush. But first i would like to see her in action. I belive the unit is too tiny to bother anyway.

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And G: The Minotaur looks good except it doesn't look like a minotaur at all.
:D

its rubbish.

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And G: In Greek mythology, the Minotaur has the body of a human and the head (and tail I guess) of a bull. Apart from the colours I liked your Troll-with-horns mockup much better. (I don't actually mind the Satyr body too much, but the Boar head really doesn't fit.)
agree,
I just dont feel the passion to draw him.
I would like to rip off the graphic from other game (warlords battlecry?)
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Hydra in game

good she looks amazing. But its probably because i draw her :D

the neck - body joint place it too small to notice. All the animation is unnoticable in normal game (as I expect).

Woow im so excited. I need to cool down. Cant await to play some game, with mod.

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i fight with the races lib
https://imgur.com/QZb7pln]
but apparently this feature is not supported[/url]
Post edited July 15, 2020 by Lagi_
Posted July 16, 2020
I just had a look at the race ILBs and they do indeed pose a major problem. AoWCGE can't handle them at all and I can't get any other tools to work, either. ILBEditor can export full ILBs and then create new ILBs from those exported files, but when I try to load a created ILB in AoW the game crashes. And ILB Maker seems to have a bug that causes the Create ILB button to be greyed out. Although it seems ILB Maker works for some people so I'm not sure what's going on here.

Maybe you can try to contact the creator of ILB Maker Erich Simon aka. Dhuval. I found his contact information in this old AoW Heaven thread but of course it might be outdated.

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Lagi_: You mean the heads should be more apart? Well 64x pix is a tight space to fix 3 heads.
I mean that the direction the heads are facing is the problem. When the Hydra faces south, the heads face southwest, south, and southeast, and this looks fine. But when the Hydra faces southeast, the heads face south, southeast, and northeast, while where they should be facing is south, southeast, and east. But of course there are no graphics for heads facing east or west since AoW has only six directions. I don't think the Hydra will ever look really good unless you paint those missing directions yourself. On the bright side, it sems to me that heads facing east and west should be much easier to paint than any other direction.

I do agree however that when the heads are facing the right direction, and when you can't see the neck-torso-transition, the Hydra does look fantastic.
Post edited July 16, 2020 by And G
Posted July 17, 2020
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And G: I just had a look at the race ILBs and they do indeed pose a major problem. AoWCGE can't handle them at all and I can't get any other tools to work, either. ILBEditor can export full ILBs and then create new ILBs from those exported files, but when I try to load a created ILB in AoW the game crashes. And ILB Maker seems to have a bug that causes the Create ILB button to be greyed out. Although it seems ILB Maker works for some people so I'm not sure what's going on here.

Maybe you can try to contact the creator of ILB Maker Erich Simon aka. Dhuval. I found his contact information in this old AoW Heaven thread but of course it might be outdated.

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Lagi_: You mean the heads should be more apart? Well 64x pix is a tight space to fix 3 heads.
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And G: I mean that the direction the heads are facing is the problem. When the Hydra faces south, the heads face southwest, south, and southeast, and this looks fine. But when the Hydra faces southeast, the heads face south, southeast, and northeast, while where they should be facing is south, southeast, and east. But of course there are no graphics for heads facing east or west since AoW has only six directions. I don't think the Hydra will ever look really good unless you paint those missing directions yourself. On the bright side, it sems to me that heads facing east and west should be much easier to paint than any other direction.

I do agree however that when the heads are facing the right direction, and when you can't see the neck-torso-transition, the Hydra does look fantastic.
before i mail this dude, would be reasonable to check why the ilb maker dont work. I have a feeling that the graphic swap can be done in other way (because this programs are hacking the libs just in accessible for non-haxor way).

i understand your point about hydra (left right head facing, and neck), but i dont feel like redrawing this stuff would increase the quality of the unit in noticeable way. All units are very tiny on my screen. Its weekend so maybe i wake up tomorrow with a zeal (but then i would mess with other stuff, or just play AoW+).

when you upgrade city, there appear dots on top of city. Anyone know where are this graphic store?

flags.lib
Post edited July 19, 2020 by Lagi_
Posted July 19, 2020
current sticks with gold dots

Question:

if we could, with what should be replaced above sticks. To make city level upgrade clearly distinguishable?

IMO:
keep stick with 1 and 0 dot as it is now.

for 2,3 4 dot stick - draw 3 towers with bigger size than the one before
Post edited July 19, 2020 by Lagi_
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