Get something in your thick heads, right now; You are no match for my modding proficiency unless you WORK at it constantly and have been doing it for years. Unless...
-- You can prove it with megabytes worth anyone's attention in the Library.
-- Your reputations precede the results you dare(d) sharing with others; MrKorx, FoxThree, General Pants, LogicSequence, Macmatt, DSep, AFRonin, Kryo (sorry if i have forgotten anyone else important!) and - so - on.
How arrogant on my part, you may observe. How did that ever happen for each of us, you may ask?
Simple, straight and narrow. We've got the skills, the will, the urge and the knowledge to produce what we want. We like the game and we know damn well WHAT we want changed... let me insist on that word; Changing.
Look it up in a thesaurus if you wish... Modification = Change, alteration, variety, difference, etc.
What do you need to know about HOW to do it? Compute with your brain. Imagination.
Here's the basic arsenal & the toolbox.
- Cheat mode
- XML, PNG, STR, DXPACK, X, TXT, DDS, RAW (and a few dozens more kind of files) abilities
- Programming intuition
- A structured mind which has a clear plan and a solid method to reach it.
- Good reasons (Correct this; IMPORTANT reasons.)
Not only will you have decisions to take but you will also have to type backslashes in the proper spot at the end of many tag lines. Typos are not an error, they are your worst enemies.
Sure, Twilight of the Arnor is providing you with a bunch of new Editors. We, as in early active modders, had to notepad our ways into proper values, reasonable data range, effective & functional elements while refering to the essential CariElf's mod guide.
Find yourselves a favorite "context" and try to determine if it is suitable for GalCiv gameplay. Science is vast. The galaxy is small. Extra terrestrials phone home. The recipe is already in your thick heads. Your skull & brain are an Asteroid, dig it for some imagination treasures.
Because i know for a fact that after a few months of watching the same races and mastering the conditions designed by other thick heads, you'll most probably need some more diversity to keep being interested in that extraordinary gameplay. Change it at your own risk.
3- Which Files and Why.
