New Roman mod for COW

[aurelian2]

Dear Iain,

I am trying to build a new Roman mod for Cow. So far, I have added Roman city names and changed the side names on all maps including the Roman map pack from the COW patch. I also would like to romanize the cities by transferring the buildings from Legion to the COW cities. Is that possible?

Greetings,

Aurelian

[IainMcNeil]

Yes, I think so. You'd need to adjust the Legion building graphics so they fit the CoW city screen background colours. I'm not sure if they fit size wize - you'd need to check and make sure they matched the CoW format. You could copy the grass background tiles from Legion across to get a grassy background.

You also need to add the building you want to use to buildings.txt, but the format is slightly different.

There is no technical reason this can't be done - its just all a bit fidly and time consuming.

[aurelian2]

Thanks Iain,

I already thought that the sizes need some adjustment, but which Software application do I have to use in order to edit the buildings, UI Icons etc..? I know that I can have a look at each building,unit UI file when I use Imaging but I am not able to edit them with that program. Can you tell me what I require in order to change the pcx. files?

[IainMcNeil]

You need something like Photoshop or paintshop pro. There are probably cheaper or free programs that offer many of the options you need but I'm not familiar with them.