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alcibiades
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
of Gold Dragons
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posted October 19, 2007 01:37 PM |
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Woof, I love the new Gems also, especially the right one is very pretty.
Redox > About the .dds files, I seem to recall downloading a freeware once called DDS Converter, which allowed me to change .dds files into .jpg files and vice-versa. Program was not completely easy to use, however, but you can give it a try. I'm pretty sure Photoshop will do it, if you have access to that.
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radox
Known Hero
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posted October 19, 2007 02:38 PM |
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Edited by radox at 15:15, 19 Oct 2007.
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Yeah, but where's Daystar, why isn't he replying 
So basically the things we need for better-looking resources are:
- The 3 sizes of colored gems icons in .dds format
- The texture of the adventure map gem pile WITHOUT the ugly bottom
- Possibly a texture for the Gem mine with colored stones
- A grayscale mercury
^ Basically these (+ the mercury and the mine),but in .dds
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Daystar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Back from the Dead
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posted October 21, 2007 02:50 AM |
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Sorry I've been gone, but I got TOTE and oh my goddess it is so fun!!!!!!!
I'm a little less than halfway through the campaigns. Ornella rocks. Kujin Rocks! Arantir is annoying, but ah well, you get to kill him in Dark Messiah anyway.
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siinn
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 23, 2007 05:43 PM |
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no one is willing to give us a little pak with news gems icons and map object?
please please we love that colorfull gems from previous Heroes
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ryo_wufei
Tavern Dweller
Frozen Penguin
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posted October 23, 2007 08:15 PM |
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Yes please, we beg skilled people 
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sfidanza
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted October 23, 2007 11:26 PM |
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Here you are: Colored Gems mod
I did a quick texture edit for the gem pond, but it should be ok. Tell me if something doesn't work.
Of course, the .h5u file is to be placed in your UserMODs/ folder in ToE. If you're running H5/HoF, simply rename the .h5u to .h5m and place it in Maps/ instead.
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ryo_wufei
Tavern Dweller
Frozen Penguin
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posted October 24, 2007 11:58 AM |
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Great ! I'll try this after work
Thanks !
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ryo_wufei
Tavern Dweller
Frozen Penguin
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posted October 24, 2007 07:59 PM |
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It works fine !
I'll try to make some changes by myself as soon as I have time :
- Change the color of the biggest cristal in the center (still a lot of blue in overall).
- Change ground color to a darker one, maybe more brown (to make the colors of gems more visible
- Try to change the look of the resource in the mine (if I find the texture )
I guess I just have to extract textures, modify with a mysterious software (I ll check the modding guide) and put it back in a renamed zip file ?
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Sneps
Hired Hero
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posted October 24, 2007 08:49 PM |
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you're able to modify the .dds files with adobe photoshop + nvidia dds plugin 
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Radox
Known Hero
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posted October 25, 2007 06:47 AM |
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Yeah, It works perfectly, but there are some small problems:
- The bottom of the gem piles is white, which looks pretty ugly. You need to make it transparent or color it in light blue.
- You forgot to fix the texture of the gem mine ON SNOW TERRAIN (there are 2 types of gem mines - on snow and on other terrain)
Besides that, it's nice
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siinn
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 25, 2007 05:06 PM |
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marvelous work (i did not play on snow terrain thus it's a 100% good work for me for now but snow gems mines have to be redrawned!!)
by the way I use the excellent Xaszardous townbuilding mod.
I tried to switch gems icons used by Xaszardous new building screen but I didn't success...
anyone clever than me could do the job maybe?
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sfidanza
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted October 25, 2007 07:44 PM |
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Quote:
You forgot to fix the texture of the gem mine ON SNOW TERRAIN
True.
@siinn: can you give me a link for the townbuilding mod?
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siinn
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 25, 2007 08:14 PM |
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yes my lord! here you are:
http://www.heroes-fr.com/download.php?view.57
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radox
Known Hero
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posted October 25, 2007 08:49 PM |
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Edited by radox at 20:51, 25 Oct 2007.
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by the way I use the excellent Xaszardous townbuilding mod.
I tried to switch gems icons used by Xaszardous new building screen but I didn't success...
Can you tell me how to launch the mod in TOTE? I will then make the gems appear in the title bar.
Btw - I made some improvements to the colored gems mod. They are now without the white bottom part and the icon is more "colorful".
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4W8FHARP
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ryo_wufei
Tavern Dweller
Frozen Penguin
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posted October 25, 2007 10:12 PM |
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You did great job ! I thought it would be better with a brown ground, but this way is just perfect It makes it very dfferent from other resources.
(But I preferred the former colored icon ^^)
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siinn
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 26, 2007 01:39 PM |
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Can you tell me how to launch the mod in TOTE?
download the zip (see my previous post for the url)
unzip the .h5m file to the "userMODs" repository of TotE
rename the .h5m into .h5u
et voilą
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ryo_wufei
Tavern Dweller
Frozen Penguin
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posted October 28, 2007 01:42 PM |
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I just noticed that the bottom of the cristal also disappeared. Is there no way to remove one and keep the other ?
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radox
Known Hero
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posted October 28, 2007 02:34 PM |
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There is a way, but I removed the bottom of the crystal because I think it also looked ugly. If want to bring back the crystal bottom, open the gem mod .h5u file with WinRAR and go to the _(Model)/Resources folder. Inside, simply delete the crystal-ruby(texture).dds
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ryo_wufei
Tavern Dweller
Frozen Penguin
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posted October 29, 2007 08:20 AM |
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Done ! Thanks
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sfidanza
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted October 31, 2007 12:17 PM |
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Edited by sfidanza at 12:20, 31 Oct 2007.
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I updated the mod (colored_gems.h5u) on AoH, using the textures modified by Radox for the mines and the 3d Gems. I also included the icon for Xazardous_TownBuild_Mod. Of course, if the TownBuild_Mod is updated, it might require changing the files date of the recolored gems as well.
Colored Gems mod
Note that I kept it as a colored gems mod, so I didn't use the texture for the 3d crystal from Radox.
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