HARLAN'S GRAPHICS MOD, VERSION 1.0 by Harlan Thompson **** DESCRIPTION **** This modpack enhances the graphics for CTP. It also improves the civilizations in a number of ways. The rest of the files people usually edit are left alone however, so this modpack is compatible with most other mods, including CD's mod. This modpack adds two city styles of Pyramid and Castle to the three existing land city styles of Roman, Arab and Asian. In addition, it adds a style for completely new age, the Industrial Age for all five city styles. So there are a total of 34 new graphics for cities. This modpack also adds twenty city names for each civ, replaces the leader pictures for all civs with actual famous leader pics, replaces 8 civs with new ones and adds three extra civs. There are no longer both male and female names for each civ. Each civ usually only has a male name, but in some instances it has only a female one and no male one. For instance, the Austrians with Maria Theresa. This was done to prevent the absurdity of having a picture of say, Cleopatra, but the name given in text as Ramses. Civ personalities are now somewhat random. Previously, each civ had one personality, so as soon as you met the Portuguese you would know they were slavers. Now, each civs has one of two personalities (that was the best these files allowed). So you won't know for sure what other civs are up to until you establish an embassy with them. Even then, the description given them might be wrong. **** INSTALLATION **** Follow these steps: Place all the files that end in .tga in the ..ctpdata\default\graphics\pictures folder. Place all the files that end in .spr into the ..CTP\ctp_data\default\graphics\sprites folder. Put the civ_strMODPACK.txt file in the ..\ctpdata\english\gamedata folder. Rename original civ_str.txt to something else in case you want to revert to that version at a later time. Rename civ_strMODPACK.txt to civ_str.txt. Put the files civilisationMODPACK.txt, ageMODPACK.txt and cityidMODPACK.txt in the ..\ctp_data\default\gamedata folder. Rename original versions of these file to something else in case you want to revert to them at a later time. Rename civilisationMODPACK.txt to civilisation.txt, ageMODPACK.txt to age.txt and cityidMODPACK.txt to cityid.txt. In the ...CTP\ctp_data\default\gamedata folder, rename or place in another folder the files called civilization.txt, cityid.txt and age.txt in case you want to revert to the standard versions of these files at a later time. Otherwise they will be overwritten. Place the files civilization.txt, age.txt and cityid.txt into the ...CTP\ctp_data\default\ gamedata folder. Play. **** NOTES **** You are now ready to play! The following first column of civs have been replaced by the second: Nicaraguans Swedes Nigerians Austrians Irish Arabs Cubans Byzantines Jamaicans Italians Welsh Celts Canadians Aztecs Australians Hungarians Native Americans Sioux Iroquois Bantu Slavs For the Swedish city names, I used the work of Mattias Löfblad with his Sweden modpack. The Celtic names were taken from the Age of Enlightenment modpack by Thevlyn (Jason Clough) and Kaos (Casey Loufek). Arab city names have been taken from the Ancient Civ modpack by Charles Perez. Some Hungarian and Slavic names are from the Block Countries mod by Domk. The Vlad the Impaler pics were sent to me by Jerry. Dominque Toussaint sent me the Bismark pic. The greatest help was from Valtarien, who helped me double check the city names to make sure there were no duplicates and playtested things in general. A big thanks to everyone who helped out! If anyone has any problems with their work being included here, let me know and I will take it out. All other city names I added myself. Numerous CTP city name errors have been corrected as well. I made all but the Bismark and Vlad pictures myself, mostly using scanned in photos or pictures from the internet. No disrespect is meant to the civs that have been removed, but I prefer ancient civilizations to be in the game over countries that have won their independence only recently. There is limited room. If you don't like it, don't complain to me, use another modpack or fix it yourself. You will now have these real leaders to play against: Americans- Franklin Roosevelt Arabians- Saladin Assyrians- Sargon II Austrians- Maria Theresa Aztecs- Montezuma I Bantus- Afonso I Brazilians- Pedro II Byzantines- Constantine Celts- Arthur Chinese- Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) Dutch- Wilhemina English- Winston Churchill Egyptians- Cleopatra Ethiopians- Haile Selassie French- Napoleon Bonaparte Germans- Bismark Greeks- Alexander the Great Hebrews- Moses Hungarians- Attila Incans- Manco Cupac Indians- Mohandas Gandhi Indonesians- Sukarno Iroquois- Hiawatha Italians- Benito Mussolini Japanese- Hirohito Koreans- Kim Young-Sam Mayans- Hunahpu Mexicans- Benito Juarez Mongols- Genghis Khan Persians- Cyrus the Great Phoenicians- Hannibal Polynesians- Kamehameha Portuguese- Prince Henry Romans- Julius Caesar Russians- Joseph Stalin Scots- Robert Bruce Sioux- Sitting Bull Slavs- Vlad the Impaler Spaniards- Philip II Swedes- Gustavus Adolphus Thais- Rama V Turks- Mehmet the Conquerer Vikings- Leif Eriksson Zulus- Shaka Extra leaders: Chinese- Chiang Kai Shek (chiangkaishek.tga) French/Germans- Charlemagne (charlemagne.tga) French- De Gaulle (degaulle.tga) Germans- Adolph Hitler (hitler.tga) Indonesians- Suharto (suharto.tga) Persians- Khomeni (khomeni.tga) Russians- Peter the Great (peterthegreat.tga) Americans- Washington (washington.tga) South Americans- Simon Bolivar (bolivar.tga) Native Americans- Tecumseh (tecumseh.tga) Here's what you should do if you want to use any extra leader pics. Open up the file civ_str.txt. Look for the section called "emissary photos" near the beginning of the file. Replace the old name with the new one (in parantheses above), making sure to keep the quotation marks. Then look down the file and find appropriate civ section, and change the name also there (again keeping the quotation marks). If anyone finds any problems with the modpack, please let me know so I can fix it. For instance I may well have repeated some city names twice or more, and I want to get rid of all those instances. My e-mail is harlan@manalagi.com. In addition you will find a graphic called blank.tga that is as close to a blank background as I could reasonably get. Use this to make your own leader pics. You may even want to make one of yourself from a scanned photo! **** HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN LEADER PICTURE **** Let's say we are changing the Greek leader's face because we have a picture of the ancient Greek hero Pericles. Open civ_str.txt and find the line which has "GREEK_DIPLOMAT_PHOTO". Change the line to something like: GREEK_DIPLOMAT_PHOTO "pericles.tga" Now, all we have to do is to create "..\default\graphics\pictures\pericles.tga". This tga file can be of any size (CTP used 220x160) and must be saved as 16bit-uncompressed .tga format. If you do not save it in 16 bit format, but save it in 24 bit or 32 bit .tga format instead, the picture will be all messed up! A program like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop should do the job nicely. If you want to use the blank.tga background, first make your picture and resize it so it will fit within the blank.tga file. Then copy and paste it in, and save it to whatever name you put in the civ_str.txt file. When changing leaders, you may also want to change the name of the leader in the civ_str.txt file. Go find the civilization section for the civ you are changing, and change line: GREEK_LEADERM_NAME "Alexander the Great" to GREEK_LEADERM_NAME "Pericles" and resave the file. All done! Making a leader pic is actually a piece of cake, if you have decent Photoshop skills and a good picture to begin with. The only problem is selecting the foreground from the background, and resizing. Don't be afraid to give it a try!