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lol, worked :D
 
bestmajor said:
lol, worked :D
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Yeah, by the term "Duke" it could be a bit misleading but the picture left little doubt... :)

Cool Cossacks, by the way (the MG 42 one in particular)
 
v35 is up
grab it at first post.
British Intelligence (MI5 and MI6) is complete now up t the mid-60s
a lot of ills and a few other things (new von Richthofen leader pic and tech team image)


some completely "new" Japanese commanders


from L to R:

MG Ichida Jirou http://generals.dk/general/Ichida/Jirou/Japan.html
LG Kawada Tsuchitarou http://generals.dk/general/Kawada/Tsuchitarou/Japan.html
LG Takehara Saburo http://generals.dk/general/Takehara/Saburo/Japan.html
LG Tanaka Nobuo http://generals.dk/general/Tanaka/Nobuo/Japan.html
 
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that 8,8 cm PAK as tech image (brigade ills are just too small)
 
Installed it over the latest 1.09 and now the game no longer works. 1.09 by itself works fine. Something changed. Don't know what went wrong, the error log is singularly unhelpful. You used to have somewhere a description of where all the directories go. The flee market and misc need that. Plus, instead of making the player do it, could you please do the purge events and the Anschluss and the Vichy leaders in the files so that you just replace instead of doing it yourself?
 
sorry i only made it for 1.08
i can have a look at 1.09 but there is no .exe so this is not a real patch.
 
well i do not see why you have such problems. there are only a handfull events to be replaced. so thats not difficult.
 
Hey major I just successfully merged all of your 4 mods together. I also assigned all the colored tech teams accordingly.
Want me to upload it so other people don't have to do that themselves?
 
yes of course! you see i really would like to do that, but i'm always busy with digging out new stufff for you guys and painting, coding etc. (like you can see here and here and here and here)

just posting some examples to show how difficult this can be sometimes. so yes i could use another wingman who makes it more easy to install. if you want to do this i would be very thankful. if i do this the whole project will stop for at least some months as i have to compile and test play and fix everything..

if there are problems or needs/requests please post them.

just dont use gamefront as half of the world has no access

thank you very much if you do this - i like the research and all this a lot, just the rest makes me mad :D

oh, and maybe we can figure out something with Titan, i like a lot of his stuff as well. only manpower is needed.
 
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Alright here you go

http://www.filedropper.com/colormodcompendium

I've tested it with AoD 1.08 and I've encountered no bugs (played with ger until vichy and the ussr until the last purges). I also renamed a couple of tech teams (Wernher von Braun is now Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde because the only pic of von Braun was the 'american' von Braun). I also found out that maybe 1/2 of the colored tech teams provided aren't even in their country's tech file = wasted rescources/potential. I could use some help with determining which pic belongs to which tech team.
There are 5 US naval tech pics I have found myself unable to assign accordingly because they were labelled completely different than the actual techs.
 
these are the tech files i currently use http://www.filefactory.com/file/7dbzyomrrt4x/n/teams.rar

as for von Braun etc i use an older GIP version as a base. my stuff is copied over that.
if there are some weird images as you said this can be a bug indeed. if you tell more i can maybe fix this.

i'll add your link to the 1st post


Braun during ww2 http://gutenberger.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Wernher_von_Braun.jpg (maybe even during a visit at the HVA Peenemünde)


note in the TT image files there are a few conflicts: its usually either - or:

either you can use Adna Chaffee or van Voorhis (USA)
you can use von Braun or the HVA Peenemünde (GER)
you can use the Government Code and Cypher School (AKA Bletchley Park) or Alan Turing (ENG)

so sometimes i just wanted to give modders the freedom of choice
 
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bestmajor said:
i like the research and all this a lot, just the rest makes me mad :D

oh, and maybe we can figure out something with Titan, i like a lot of his stuff as well. only manpower is needed.
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I feel your pain, bro! And I know the task of arranging all of your additions into a single, "ready to use" file must not be an easy one at all, given the simply huge amount of stuff you've put together in years - and which you keep increasing by the day. But if Adolphin could do that in your place I guess it would be a welcome relief for those people who, having a limited knowledge about modding and/or HoI2-AoD's directory/file structure (it's pretty clear for us but not everyone fiddles with that), would greatly benefit from a "download -> install -> play" version of your awesome work, and who to date haven't been able to enjoy it simply because they were scared or shy enough to tackle the enterprise of figuring out where and how to put your .csv and .bmp files into the game.

About your suggestion of merging your work with mine: I'd be absolutely in favour of such a thing. However, speaking of the aforementioned "download -> install -> play" issue: this is exactly what I did for my mod, so - since our creations share no common files, AFAIK - there would be no real need for that, i.e. one would simply have to first install your work and then mine, or vice-versa, on top of a patched version of AoD. Of course, though, nothing forbids us to create a single "BM & BM's* AoD revamped" or "BM²'s AoD reworked leaders and units in colour" pack :cool: .

* = BM are also my real life initials.
 
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About your suggestion of merging your work with mine: I'd be absolutely in favour of such a thing. However, speaking of the aforementioned "download -> install -> play" issue: this is exactly what I did for my mod, so - since our creations share no common files, AFAIK - there would be no real need for that, i.e. one would simply have to first install your work and then mine, or vice-versa, on top of a patched version of AoD. Of course, though, nothing forbids us to create a single "BM & BM's* AoD revamped" or "BM²'s AoD reworked leaders and units in colour" pack
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yeah you see i'm not that much interested in this as i have it already :D
but there is a reason why my files are arranged as they are (its not for giving casuals a hard time): these are several thousand people, everybody has his own history, promotion dates, death date, ideal rank, base skill maximum skill and affected sleep leader event. this is a hell of a lot to remember.
and i watched a lot of mods using the easy-to-drop-in-L/M-system: they ALL mess up

i just thought i post it one time to expalin the order of these files.
but if Adolphin wants to give it a go, welcome. he will save people like Robert a lot of trouble and i can proceed.
 
bestmajor said:
but there is a reason why my files are arranged as they are (its not for giving casuals a hard time): these are several thousand people, everybody has his own history, promotion dates, death date, ideal rank, base skill maximum skill and affected sleep leader event. this is a hell of a lot to remember.
and i watched a lot of mods using the easy-to-drop-in-L/M-system: they ALL mess up

i just thought i post it one time to expalin the order of these files.
but if Adolphin wants to give it a go, welcome. he will save people like Robert a lot of trouble and i can proceed.
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Yes, I know. In fact, all those leaders and ministers have by now reached a "critical mass" which can make them easily implode if one doesn't know how to properly treat them (i.e. how to put them into the game) ;) .

Seriously, there's some (= a lot) of work to do but it seems like Adolphin has already managed to get the hang of it - partially or even totally, right? (sorry, I still didn't check the file in the link he provided a couple of posts above)

If it is so, then the job would already be almost done. Incorporating my icons, graphics etc. into that file would then be just a walk in the park.
 
Titan said:
Seriously, there's some (= a lot) of work to do but it seems like Adolphin has already managed to get the hang of it - partially or even totally, right? (sorry, I still didn't check the file in the link he provided a couple of posts above)
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could download, but not extract it. also the file size of colour pics is at 115 MB ATM, on top ROM improved and JAP improved is in summa easily over 120 MB while Adolphins file was only 45 MB.

you dont need SOV improved btw. the colour version is already better.

Titan said:
In fact, all those leaders and ministers have by now reached a "critical mass" which can make them easily implode if one doesn't know how to properly treat them (i.e. how to put them into the game) .
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thats actually the reason for the different naming system: i wouldnt get this myself i i couldnt read my CSVs like a book (or like a list). there are too many different people and way too many name sakes and all this. vanilla is already - well not ww2 to say the least - nevertheless i sometimes wonder how they could assemble all these things.
 
bestmajor said:
could download, but not extract it. also the file size of colour pics is at 115 MB ATM, on top ROM improved and JAP improved is in summa easily over 120 MB while Adolphins file was only 45 MB.
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Weird, just downloaded it and it was 331MB. Will test it tomorrow :)
 
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