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Heroes Community > Heroes 3.5 - WoG and Beyond > Thread: New Necro Town Project
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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted May 12, 2011 12:21 AM
Edited by Silaneo at 13:16, 05 May 2012.

New Necro Town Project

Hi Guys !

Well you must already know what this post is about Having read some of your mod topics i decided to make a mod of my own.This is the newest version of my town i have been working on for the last couple of months.Since June I probably wont have time to work with this so i managed to make a playable version I could give you.Currently it looks like this :



As you can see its based on the Heroes V Necro Town.This city still needs a huge amount o work to look really really nice.Well Im not a photoshop expert,I wont be able to do some things with my limited skill and time so if some of you guys would like to take part in creating this town then its ok with me This project was started for the heroes community so it should belong to you

Almost all images were taken by fraps.Here is a short description of some of the town parts :

- background the sky taken from hV data file the rest is "fraps taken".I still dont like the quality of the images,compared to the source.Dont know what to do about it

- the castle and town hall structures still have no upgrades exept the city walls.I tried not to modify the "town hall" until I would know there are no bugs in this version

- creature dwellings still have no upgrades.They look the same

- other structures- the black market was moved to the right corner so i could have some free room for the big tower.so was the grail ang zombie dwelling.They still need to be remade as they dont fit in the city well

- overall- the city details should be made ( little cottages,graves etc ) The EXP files are still transparent so there is plenty of room for creativity.I made the TON files invisiible as after my changes they are probably impossible to adjust on image level.Made a lot of mess,didnt bother with it

Well,thats most of it

Here is the wog instalation file

Wog installation file

Hope you'll like it Have fun !

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packa
packa


Adventuring Hero
posted May 12, 2011 03:29 AM

Hi!

What for convert hV->hIII ?

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T2_2112
T2_2112


Supreme Hero
posted May 12, 2011 03:36 AM
Edited by T2_2112 at 03:39, 12 May 2011.

I love this guy, say nothing but good work like bucazaurus with his fairy town

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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted May 12, 2011 08:26 AM
Edited by Silaneo at 08:33, 12 May 2011.

Quote:
Hi!

What for convert hV->hIII ?


Tools I used :

- For opening hV Data.pak and sky.dds files : winrar and photoshop plugin

- for animated parts : VirtualDub , Avi to gif converter , gif splitter

- h3 Mod Tools :  H3DefTool , Defview , MMArchive

- for everything else : Fraps And Photoshop

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Kreegan
Kreegan


Known Hero
Winged Anquietas
posted May 12, 2011 11:12 AM

Quote:
I love this guy, say nothing but good work like bucazaurus with his fairy town


Yeah... good work, but I don't like H5 inside the H3... really... maybe later it will look better, bot for now it's not for me...
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majaczek
majaczek


Supreme Hero
Work at Magic Dimmension
posted May 11, 2012 09:24 PM

@Kreegan
Indeed H5 ws first one in full 3D so it has problems with graphic quality, so I also prefer original. But this guy done his work well and it still can be changed/improved/fixed. Let make it more custom look (some hand-editing, some merging/recoluring the pictures, some motives out of H5) so it will be not only H5 graphic port but nice modders work... Still good luck for the maker and determination is crucial at the beggining when all is hard - anything better we can still get from same person for future, so nothing is wasted whether it would be hot mod or not and I already appreciate the guy was brave enough to at least start while I even didn't rip any units from another games (but can do another things since I'm more programmer/scripter than graphician but indeed I may want at least learn ripping from another games). About graphic quality: why not try something like this based on H6 graphics? Anyway after a year I believe the town is made here would be enough hot to be played by substantial (even if not big) set of players.

@directly to author:
do you want some changes in assets or just wanted to reskin towns? changing assets may do your mod more cool (feature rich), while changing graphics only may do your mod more popular since it could be used with any mod which doesn't change any graphics (compability). Still you have some potential since you get first visible results, and project have some potential whatever path you would try once you would continue. Good Luck!

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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted April 15, 2013 06:33 PM

Quote:
Hi Guys !


Here is the wog instalation file

Wog installation file

Hope you'll like it Have fun !


Download link is not working. Do someone still have this town?

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zombie_knight
zombie_knight


Adventuring Hero
posted April 16, 2013 02:25 AM

Probably someone does, I don't tho.
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I once did a thing.

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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted April 17, 2013 06:34 PM

Hi guys Havent been here for a while,good that you found me at chomikuj.pl site,Macron1 Well i still have all the files i have been working on,plus some aditional necro monster animation from H5 I ripped but as for now my work is suspended,maybe ill come back to it when i have nothing to do Well feel free to work with the graphics for this town If you want,you can do anything with it,it was for you I cant edit my first post now,so here's the updated link with the town

Necro Town Alpha Version

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Liso1
Liso1


Known Hero
posted April 17, 2013 08:48 PM

ERROR Download permission denied by uploader

???
canYou upload the file somewhere else?

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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted April 17, 2013 11:43 PM
Edited by Silaneo at 23:48, 17 Apr 2013.

Okay here's the new link The town version is the same as in first post.

Necro Town Alpha Version

Btw Im uploading also the animations i mentioned.I wont be using them but you might want to have them These are 3dsmax files with their textures.

Necro Creatures

These arent all the necro creatures there are.I also had some problems with Dark Knight's animations so im not putting it here.Here are the source files i managed to extract if you want

Necro Creatures All (source)




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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted April 18, 2013 08:41 AM

By the way, if we didn't already had 3 Forge towns, this town screen could be another technical faction (only to remove crucifix and, maybe, skull).
As I saw, these dwellings use necropolis town coordinates, so there will be not much work to convert town to VCMI.
Only to redraw areas/borders and make icons.

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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted April 19, 2013 02:13 PM
Edited by Silaneo at 16:15, 19 Apr 2013.

Well the city needs better quality images,but thats just visuals.As for coordinates -I had my fun with them.If you look at the city,the central external tower with a wall is a part of the castle so the image is over 700 pixels wide covering most of the background,and some other images have also been resised or moved a bit,like tavern which is just a small house close to the dragon tower

As an amature modder i was wondering about the city resolution.I looked at the new things that have been and i have a question :
Is there or is going to be a possibility to use HD backgrounds in the future ? VCMI maybe ? From what I saw (if Im not mistaken) all city mods have a resolution of 800x374.Its not much.I installed HD mod recently and even on my laptop this leaves a big black gap between the city and the rest of the images




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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted April 19, 2013 07:29 PM
Edited by Macron1 at 19:32, 19 Apr 2013.

Quote:
VCMI maybe ? From what I saw (if Im not mistaken) all city mods have a resolution of 800x374.Its not much.


If VCMI will support HD screens, this will be distant future.
Now all is 800X374. And VCMI now aimed on implementing all standart features.

PS But if HD will be provided, most of the towns will stay VHS:-)

Quote:
As an amature modder...

Don't lower your level.
You made functioning town.
You are one of the most superb modders.
You are cooler than bastion/monolith/.... modders - they are still made nothing.

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Warmonger
Warmonger


Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
posted April 19, 2013 07:32 PM
Edited by Warmonger at 19:32, 19 Apr 2013.

You can run the game in HD resolution for a long time, but all the graphics are still bitmaps and won't magically scale up.
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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted April 19, 2013 07:36 PM

Quote:
You can run the game in HD resolution for a long time, but all the graphics are still bitmaps and won't magically scale up.


I think he meant possibility of creating towns in HD in future...

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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted April 24, 2013 10:25 PM

Im curently working on some better base for this city.I guess 3D would be better whenever I would want to mod in default resolution or make it better for the future This is my current work in 3dsmax.Its so much fun doing this



Dont know If i will get somewhere with it and If I will be able to figure out how to put some lights and effects into it but ill try Would be great to be able to put some effects like fog/bats etc. into def files

As it is still H5 modding i created a thread in H5 section for possible technical dificulties but for now its pretty much dead

city 3d recreation

For all else I'll write you here



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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted April 25, 2013 06:24 PM
Edited by Silaneo at 14:02, 26 Apr 2013.

Thx for comment Fred,I'll keep that in mind Well its just a base.Im still limited by H3 to how place the buildings,i will have to rearange it, but with 3d models it will be easier to set it right.Im currently learning the basics of particle systems in 3dsmax as most likely i wont be able to just copy/paste the effects from H5

EDIT : Voila! Used Mental Ray Area Omni Light and I already love it I've changed the color of the light a bit to make the scene darker.It may be too dark for now but this can be always changed in the future.The building lights are still not done.Oh,and I used volume fog which gave a pretty nice effect i think The fog is not moving so i might have to change to particle fog or think of something more to give it a slight smooth movement




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Macron1
Macron1


Supreme Hero
posted April 26, 2013 04:00 PM

Quote:
The fog is not moving so i might have to change to particle fog or think of something more to give it a slight smooth movement



But don't forget, that screen, that looks cool in graphic editor, can look ugly in 800X374 and 8 bit.

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Silaneo
Silaneo


Adventuring Hero
Town Creator
posted April 26, 2013 05:22 PM
Edited by Silaneo at 17:23, 26 Apr 2013.

Yea,it will surely look worse Saw that while making first version of this town.But well there's no point in not making the city in best way possible.Maybe the day will come when there will be possibility for better resolution and this base will come in handy Well i got into this city making addiction again so I'll try diffrent things to make it look good

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