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Game Design and Project Resources: The Workshops Quarter => Total War Mods - The Engineer's Shed => Mods, Maps & Game Add-Ons - The Bazaar => Total War: Battle for Antares IV => Topic started by: Jubal on April 05, 2014, 10:02:58 PM

Title: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Jubal on April 05, 2014, 10:02:58 PM
Okay, these are things that ideally need doing to make this mod as awesome as it should be. If anyone wants to volunteer for any of them, you will have my unending gratitude. I'll even put you ingame as a special mercenary or something. It'll be fun, maybe, promise-ish?

Building Descriptions (Writing: No Experience Needed!)
This is the easy one, but will take time: sorting out the building descriptions file and rewriting all the descriptions to be relevant to a space age society. Also the most necessary.

User Interface (2d Graphics, experience preferable)
This is the job of giving the whole interface an overhaul and making it nice and space age rather than Roman era. Pretty much just editing a few graphics files, but it can be pernickety to make it look good.

Traits & Ancillaries (Coding/Writing: Relatively Easy)
Obviously all the traits/ancilliaries are appropriate to the Roman era and need an update - this is the job of doing just that. The coding will take a bit of briefing but shouldn't be too difficult.
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: comrade_general on April 06, 2014, 01:34:55 AM
I might do the interface. In ten thousand years. :o
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: TTG4 on April 06, 2014, 01:35:04 AM
Is there somewhere to look at how to code the traits/ancillaries? I'm tempted to learn how to do it as a realtively easy start! Though I'll probably be slow because finals
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Tom on April 06, 2014, 06:24:47 PM
If you can't get anyone else to do the writing I'm happy to give it a shot, I'll have to do lots of background research though :/
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Jubal on April 06, 2014, 08:58:20 PM
Tom: It shouldn't need any research. It's mostly just getting the descriptions so they don't repeatedly reference the Romans.  :P

TTG4: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?131861-Guide-The-complete-traits-ancillaries-guide
Ta-da! If you want to do work either on this or on GoC for traits/ancillaries I can send you the current files :)
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Othko97 on April 06, 2014, 10:38:42 PM
I would help, but I have my exams in a few weeks so I'm a bit busy :P Not to mention the fact I'm going on holiday soon as well. If this is still going in the summer I can do some building descriptions though, or I could attempt to learn how to change the traits and ancillaries :D.
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Tom on April 06, 2014, 11:01:52 PM
I'll see if I have time to help but unfortunately revision and worry extends in to the foreseeable future :(
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Jubal on April 06, 2014, 11:06:16 PM
Hm, yeah... revision... I should do a lot more of that.  :P
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: TTG4 on April 10, 2014, 10:45:55 PM
TTG4: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?131861-Guide-The-complete-traits-ancillaries-guide (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?131861-Guide-The-complete-traits-ancillaries-guide)
Ta-da! If you want to do work either on this or on GoC for traits/ancillaries I can send you the current files :)

Going to have a read of this and see if I can get my head round it. Probably easier to start afresh, but if that goes well I might do some GoC stuff too
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: TTG4 on April 11, 2014, 05:53:38 PM
Right, I think I have some sort of idea, could you send over what you had, or are we working from scratch?

Also, which factions are which culture? Just to make life easier!
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: Jubal on April 11, 2014, 09:48:39 PM
I'll send you the stuff - PM me your email and I'll email you the faction list and files.  :)
Title: Re: Antares IV Needs Your Help!
Post by: TTG4 on April 13, 2014, 12:48:02 AM
PM sent, look forward to getting started!