Plan of Action

[Mausolos of Caria]

Oh damn hell Lord Drake, you are reminding me of the torture of science history  ''Science pictures are pictures, but are they just depictions, or are they art as well? How can they depict something if the thing they are going to depict only becomes real by the depiction?''

But seriously, if you want to draw or an image I don't know how I could help. Maybe we could use an original base and then someone works it into a background picture by adding colour, other images, blurry effects whatever? I could still find basic background pictures that would need to be adjusted:

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[The Lord Drake]

Well at least I'm good for something.

Any way, I can't really draw very well. My sister is brilliant but she doesn't draw in a style that is useful to us. If we can find an image to use I can edit and tweak that til doomsday though. A video is a good idea too, however I personally have no experience with video editing.

[Alavaria]

Not bad at all. It's possible to incorporate the M2TW menu look right? We should do that, especially for the faction selection screen, with a screenshot of the faction's best/coolest unit.

Well, actually in the RS2 faction selection, there's a "map" image and also a large image as well. So presumably these can be any images.

I'll get screenshot for you.

[ahowl11]

I remember that but yes please do

[Alavaria]

Those two pictures, you can imagine uses for something like that. Though someone better than me has to figure out how to use them in the first place.

You could use that method (eg: the large image) for something showing cool factional units

[ahowl11]

I like it. I like it a lot, but I am concerned because I don't want to copy RS2 haha

[Alavaria]

I actually have no clue how it's done, it might be that the map is as you see in vanilla RTW, but the big image etc is all just one large "background" that is made to look like an image over a background...

[Bercor]

Ah, that is possible, if we make like RS2, one campaign for each faction, then we can put the pic of that specific faction unit. What is impossible is having the cool unit as in MTW2, you change the faction icon and the picture change.

[Alavaria]

Does the map thing change per faction selection?

[Bercor]

Yes, but the map has a specific entry in the Rome.LNT.

[Alavaria]

what, it isn't just an image file?

[Bercor]

The map is just an image file, however, the entry assigned to it in Rome.LNT is unique, and that's what matters.

[Alavaria]

Ok, so let me see here. I loaded up RTW vanilla and there's that map thing. When I select different factions, I see a different map image.

Call these MapJulii, MapScipii, MapBrutii

Can you take an imagefile of a Macedonian pike line, and replace MapJulii with that, -then- an imagefile of Seleucid cataphacts and replace MapScipii with that, etc?

[Bercor]

You could, but then, from what I've been told, you couldn't have the map, since you can't duplicate the entry. However, there's only one map entry, not one entry for each faction map.

I'm talking with Aradan right now at TWC, hopefully he'll give me an answer.

[Bercor]

What about this for the main menu background?


It's from the 2 century A.D., but most people won't even know it.