[A.62] {WIP} Beyond Extended Universe (DW:U 1.9.5.9)

[Blackstork]

I've been busy at start of the week and now i advancing with update and do alot of stuff but some things took much more time than i suspected. Additionally there need to balance and polish, and etc. A.62 will be released before this weekend (this is final 100% eta)
There will be no patches till i return from my 2 week holiday
A.62 will finalize soundtrack package, implement new design for pedias which is very rich for few races, Wiki informative style of OP post, and offer new 3 quite interesting character systems for Teekan, Zenox and Mortalen (they are quite complex, at least modding -wise)
Once i will arrive (last week of october) from holiday (i will be able to read and post on forums but wont be able to mod/draw) i will release some more advanced ui overhaul, more (alot of) CS and their GALs and pedias in new style, as well Some intersting Art feature (i will keep it secret and blurry for now).
I think i will make quite nice progress on the mod in November. I hope then there will be some advancement with research mod of lurchi, and i hope the mod will enter final release in December if all goes well and will have lurchis work integrated, after it been tested and polished. Then it will be art/balance polish, informative enhancement and character unique face art work . (Which is very ambitious project by its own), past 1.0 release

[Azuran]

If this megamod has lots constant changes have you thought of using Tortoise Svn?

[Blackstork]

I do not know what is Tortoise SVn, thanks for mentioning it, i will check it.

[Azuran]

ORIGINAL: Blackstork

I do not know what is Tortoise SVn, thanks for mentioning it, i will check it.

It was extremely popular in the Civilization IV modding community and is powered by Sourceforge. It allowed multiple modders to modify and upload files to a cloud server and compared changes, but it might not be needed for you since you have a small mod team.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthrea ... 816&page=1

[Blackstork]

I actually modded quite some for civ 4 (it was my first game I modded for DW being second) but never heard or used it.

[Sirian]

I can only recommend using a cvs (whatever brand, I personally use tortoise, too) if you are working on a project that has evolving versions. On my projects, I work alone and still use it, since it is sometimes very good to be able to retrace some steps you realized were done in a wrong direction. A cvs will support you in such a case.

The good think with tortoise is that you can setup a "private" system (just you as single user on your pc) without really needing a server.

But now I will stop rerailing your thread...

Regards,
Sirian

[Blackstork]

Its OK mate. I like any conversation which could improve the mod or ways to deliver it to player.

Another general message: Release will be tomorrow. Soundtrack final package will be published even earlier and will be divided to 3 parts due big total volume and in order to ease download for people with weaker connection.

New designs for pedias are done for 5 races which are very extended, re-written by SirFinbar and contain immersive lore descriptions he made for each race's character system group. All what is lest is some work on character systems and their gals, which are quite spicy.

[CyclopsSlayer]

[dejagore]

Can't wait for next release. Honestly - this modpack is like DistantWorlds 2.0. Great job by all modpack authors [&o]

[Blackstork]

Thanks for your kind words and support. I glad that our dedicated work makes it into hearts of the people. More to come. Honestly I hope DW2 won't come too soon but later and it will be really modern and decent while supermod we aim to assemble will be relevant for some good timespan augmented by support and patches from devs.
Cheers

[fruitgnome]

How it is possible to disable a race complete, I need my 4-5 own ships families folder. So I want to disable 2 or 3 races.
Why you used real photos for the humans character system. Does the character system also work if I delete these pictures or how I get rid of these, by chinging to other looking pictures and if yes is one picture enough or have I to change all? THX and your mod is great. The changing in music playing is a really imersive thing!

[Blackstork]

1. Disabling of a race needs removal it from races folder and as well from biases files. I do not advise to do so because of few reasons, but if you want thats the thing you need to remove. Other thing is that if you need to change ship sets just change them only.
2. Real photos for humans are placeholders. I didnt found other way to show intended design for humans without drawing them myself. They represent blood-line, sub-race system which will be in final design, which will use vector art i do in similarity to what Ergreagd have now. And You can not delete them, sorry, its too complex thing to replace. (You could do that by cgoing to characters/human.txt file and replacing each string's picture reference (about 500-600 strings) to reference to picture you want, which needed to be placed into images/units/characters - but thats could be quite a task)

[stahlengel]

You can replace the pictures in the folder "Beyond Extended Universe Alpha\images\units\characters" with the pictures you like, but you have to keep the names. I did that, but it was quite a work and took me an hour. with a good file tool it would be less.

Best regards

[Blackstork]

I am sorry if you dont like realistic pictures for humans... this is fastest thing i could pull in order to make realistic visual difference between races (i used photos from Average Face project)
They will be replaces with authentic, vector-drawn ang generated , character-unique pictures after final release of all game-changing mechanics will be up (then it will be mainly polish and art filling)
Drawing character unique stuff like i did for Ergreagd is quite complex work which could be done once all Character systems and main features released. I'll prioritize Humans being one of first races to recieve unique art.

[fruitgnome]

ORIGINAL: stahlengel

You can replace the pictures in the folder "Beyond Extended Universe Alpha\images\units\characters" with the pictures you like, but you have to keep the names. I did that, but it was quite a work and took me an hour. with a good file tool it would be less.

Best regards

Could you please upload these files. [&o]

@Blackstork
Why do you not use the fantastic human picture from the extended mod, the race pic you already use in your mod and place only a symbol on it.
I find it more immersive if you see not really persons than an avatar pic, so the people are showing positions in government/fraction and not a unique person. I mean you play 100 years and more in a game and you have all the time the same ambassador, hmm [;)]. Maybe you think of my idea. THX for your fantastic work!

[Blackstork]

All races will have art done like Ergreagd have now (drawn illustration, bit cartoony, stylized picture, which will be UNIQUE for each single character in the game (yes, each character will have unique face))
Same will go for humans. I thought that representing humans with familiar face features difference will be better for people.
They will have both signs and unique faces. I might do something like in Beyond Earth - 6 - 8 factions with logos.

[fruitgnome]

Did you mean all *biases* files to disable a race?

[stahlengel]

Do net get mir wrong. I love your work, and the concept, but personlly perfere a darker art style (for humans). To be honsest I am lingering around in this forum to wait for your 6.2.

I am not shure if I can upload the files. I raided deviantart.com for the pics and can not even name the artists who made the pics.
Even if this would be no problem I simply do not have a webspace and never hosted any upload.

[Blackstork]

yes. You need to remove races from there, and its quite complex - because you will need to remove certain column and row which coressponds to that race, this means editing 46 strings in correct places

[fruitgnome]

ORIGINAL: stahlengel

Do net get mir wrong. I love your work, and the concept, but personlly perfere a darker art style (for humans). To be honsest I am lingering around in this forum to wait for your 6.2.

I am not shure if I can upload the files. I raided deviantart.com for the pics and can not even name the artists who made the pics.
Even if this would be no problem I simply do not have a webspace and never hosted any upload.

THX & np. Then I will replace them with the normal extended pic.

@Blackstork and the developers [;)]
WE NEED MORE THAN 50 RACES!!! PLS!!!

@only Blackstork please if they raise the cap, left 5 families ship folders for the players race and don't reach again the race cap! [;)] [&o] [;)]