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[DrHouse93]

Hi all^^

 

Yesterday I saw in the topic of Sauron's maps that he managed to give a different texture to the Dale and Lake-town buildings. Just wanted to know, how can I do it by myself? (I want to give to Rohan's castle walls the texture of the Minas Tirith's walls, so that they look "stony")

[Ridder Geel]

Well the models most likely dont use the same UV coordinates, so you cant simply re-assign a texture to another model. It might work through map.ini, but that does not change the UV's so it might not look correct

Do you have any experience with map.ini?

[DrHouse93]

Yes, but I think it is just basic knowledge. I know how to change commandsets for units, heroes and buildings, how to change the revival cost of the heroes and, through copy-paste, how to replace the skills (but I don't know how to create new ones). So what will I need?

Being more specific:
I'm making my own version of Pelargir, based on some maps already saw on Internet and in some concept arts. But I'm having a problem with the circular outer walls, because if I use the Minas Tirith's walls the circle looks too tight, while it should be more oval. Using Gondor Castle's walls it's even worse. The only way to make the wanted shape of the circle is to use Rivendell Walkways covered by two rows of Amon Sul walls. But there I find a gameplay problem, since the walkways are not climbable with Siege Ladders and Towers and, since my Pelargir is basically a fortress map, this highly limits the strategy for a siege

[Ridder Geel]

Well you would need to use the map.ini and replace the draw module, and then add a RandomTexture line in it as well to replace the 'old' texture by the 'new' one. If you need to find out how that works, i think searching the forums should be easy enough to find this (Not at home so can't make an accurate example )