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Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:51 pm
by Rising-Sun
Here a simple mod i made for myself, wasnt too happy with cartoonish and music themes, so i made a different ones. The only things i did is change the music themes (note: some of them are from GalCivII and some from youtube). I have change the portaits for all races except one and included the Galactopedia as well. I also change the race to different family, but the ship sets still the samn as well race's name. They all look okay to me.
So if you install this, it will copy over your previous setups. If you dont like it, you would have to reinstall the game. Forgot you will need the expansion as well. Infact the expansion is much better and worth it.
Here the game files...
http://www.gamefront.com/files/20209867 ... Worlds_rar
unzip them under Matrix Games/Distant Worlds folder
Optional music themes...
http://www.gamefront.com/files/20209894/Music_rar
unzip them under Matrix Games/Distant Worlds/Sounds/Music folder
I will add some screenshots later on.
enjoy
Rising
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:10 pm
by Rising-Sun
Here some screenshots...
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There are so many unique races in there, not going to post them all. Well time for me to play the game wooHOO!
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:36 pm
by Data
I see you've got the name for it, congrats [:)]
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:40 pm
by Rising-Sun
ORIGINAL: Data
I see you've got the name for it, congrats [:)]
Oh no i mean the mod's name, all race names are still the samn. Nothing wrong with them. Infact i did change the infos about them on some races.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:43 pm
by Data
Yap, I was also refering to your post from the Galactopedia modding thread
"heh thanks, been working on my own mod, hopefully i have it out tomorrow
Still havent think what to call it yet. "
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:25 pm
by Haree78
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:08 pm
by Rising-Sun
I almost grab the avatar race, but tho it might be too silly lol. Anyway feel free to use mine anyway you like it.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:16 pm
by Igard
Nice one, RS. I love some of those race images. Some of them, however, I can't get out of my head as their modern counterparts like the Predator and Queen Alien. I'd rather see these race names changed to suit, but that's just me. Good stuff though and it's a nice change from the cartoon images.
The ambient music is great. Wish there was more of it. You can add to this though.
Good job with the galactopedia files. It would be great if we could put them in the customization folder, so we don't have to overwrite the originals. I won't be using them because of this, which is a shame, but maybe soon we'll be able to add them to the mod file structure.
My advice for naming the mod, is keep it simple. Try going to thesaurus.com and typing in a word you feel describes the mod, then look at the synonyms and decide if one of them sounds suitable. For example, 'dark', 'ambient' might yield some interesting results.
I'm pretty sure that's how movie legend George Lucas came up with the name, 'The Phantom Menace'.[:D]
Anyway, good job. Look forward to seeing more.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:37 pm
by Rising-Sun
ORIGINAL: Igard
Nice one, RS. I love some of those race images. Some of them, however, I can't get out of my head as their modern counterparts like the Predator and Queen Alien. I'd rather see these race names changed to suit, but that's just me. Good stuff though and it's a nice change from the cartoon images.
The ambient music is great. Wish there was more of it. You can add to this though.
Good job with the galactopedia files. It would be great if we could put them in the customization folder, so we don't have to overwrite the originals. I won't be using them because of this, which is a shame, but maybe soon we'll be able to add them to the mod file structure.
My advice for naming the mod, is keep it simple. Try going to thesaurus.com and typing in a word you feel describes the mod, then look at the synonyms and decide if one of them sounds suitable. For example, 'dark', 'ambient' might yield some interesting results.
I'm pretty sure that's how movie legend George Lucas came up with the name, 'The Phantom Menace'.[:D]
Anyway, good job. Look forward to seeing more.
Thanks, well if you guys want me to change the famous alien or predator to original names i can do it. Want to see how others would like this game by improving it some more. Im sure the mod will get better some how down the roads, im gonna play it some, i havent had a chance to play it yet lol.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:50 pm
by Igard
I always take some time to smell the roses... er I mean.. obliterate the Ferengi after releasing a mod.
Enjoy the game and new ideas will come to you as you play.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:03 pm
by Haree78
Been having a lot of fun with this tonight, so much better atmosphere with these images. I've just stuck it in the customisation folder though rather than updating game files.
Troop images based on these would be pretty easy to do in the majority of cases.
Personally I'm happy imagining these aren't the races from the movies, the images are quite fitting in most cases and most films don't actually have a real name for them races anyway
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:28 pm
by jrhindo
Hi, very interesting mod! I too dont really like the cartoonish race pictures, it breaks a bit the imperial space empire immersion. I recommend you to look for famous scifi video game pictures, like halo, sw. Those kind of games usualy have high quality images, not too cartoonish and well designed alien faces.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:44 pm
by tjhkkr
Yeah, that guy on the bottom, that one that looks like a refugee from a horror movie about mutant bugs...
He looks like someone I really would want to meet with all the firepower I could bring to bare... You know howitzers, atom bombs, death stars.
Nice job... I like them all but the bottom one is creepy!
<== what I would meet him with first.
<== what I would do if the tank did not work!
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:50 pm
by tjhkkr
This guy right here... this is the one that is... oh I do not know...
To coin a word used by Shaggy.... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzooooooooooooooooooinnnnks
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:51 pm
by tjhkkr
Yuc!
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:53 pm
by Igard
That's a Xenomorph, TJ. Have you never seen the sci-fi classic Alien?
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:04 am
by tjhkkr
I am woefully ignorant of most things Sci Fi. Forgive my ignorance.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:52 am
by Igard
You are forgiven, TJ, as long as you promise to watch the movie at some point [;)] :-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
And after that, you must watch Aliens, its more action orentated sequel :-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:45 am
by feygan
But don't watch any of the others in the series, horrible butchery pieces on what was a masterpiece.
RE: Distant World Mod
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:17 am
by Data
Like it's almost always the case....very rare exceptions with better sequels. Or at least at the same leve.
