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It's Been A While

Bartholomew Roberts

Bartholomew Roberts

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Storm Modder
<!--fonto:Verdana--><span style="font-family:Verdana"><!--/fonto--><b><i>Its been a while since I've been active on these forums, due to the amount of school work and exams. But now that I am off, I would like to spend my time modding. I still can't get over on how awesome POTC is with the build mod, Its one of the best games ever IMO. As a way to pay back the community, I want to get into modeling, skinning and scripting and release sub-mods for build 13. What programs will I need? 3Ds MAX? Please tell me all the programs I need and maybe send me useful tutorial links, thank-you In advance.

Bart Roberts</i></b><!--fontc--></span><!--/fontc-->
 
In the build alpha and brainstorming thread there is a thread pinned with tools, tutorials and information, which contains all tools and some tutorials.
 
Hey, nice seeing you again! If you want to help with the modding, you'd have to decide what you want to do. Doing AND modeling, AND texturing AND scripting is rather a lot. The tools you need depend on what you want to do.
 
"In the build alpha and brainstorming thread there is a thread pinned with tools, tutorials and information, which contains all tools and some tutorials."

<b><i>Thanks! I'll make sure to check it out after.

Hey Pieter! I can't really decide which kind of modding I would like to go into but since I'm off for like 3 months I have a lot of time to learn them <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Bart Robert</i></b>
 
Well, we never have enough coders. We do have several texturers and we still haven't figured out how to do modeling correctly, but for coding, we simply don't have enough people and there's plenty of work to do that isn't all too complicated. You could, for example, try to help us filling up three new islands that we have recently added to the game. Alternatively, Pirate_KK needs some help with figuring out locators for the Capture Colonies mod. This is not extremely hard, but does require some time. If you'd be interested, I'll tell Pirate_KK and he can tell you how to help him. Also: I STILL need screenshots of all town locations to make new loading screens!!! See <a href="http://forum.piratesahoy.net//index.php?showtopic=11464" target="_blank">here</a>.
 
I can definitely get started to work on those screenshots right now. Concerning oxbay.....do you want me to use the mod that adds new buildings in that area or just stock oxbay?

Edit: Oh what file format do you want them In?
BMP, TGA, PNG or JPG
 
<!--quoteo(post=264659:date=Jun 24 2008, 04:54 PM:name=Bartholomew Roberts)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bartholomew Roberts @ Jun 24 2008, 04:54 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=264659"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I can definitely get started to work on those screenshots right now. Concerning oxbay.....do you want me to use the mod that adds new buildings in that area or just stock oxbay?

Edit: Oh what file format do you want them In?
BMP, TGA, PNG or JPG<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The best is TGA because game uses that format after specific compression.

pirate_kk
 
Ah nevermind I can't take screenshots because I only have build 13 and you wanted them to be taken on build 14 I think with the up to date town models.
 
In the case of Oxbay and all other stock game towns, you can just take those screenshots in Build 13. The BuildingSet models disappear after your first visit to Oxbay, so it'd be best to take the screenshot without them. Many of the new towns are new or replaced in the Build 14 Alpha's. Also there is a button to hide the interface now, which helps a lot. If you're wanting to do serious modding, it does help to use Build 14 Alpha 8 WIP 2 KK, because that's what we're working on now. That version includes pretty much all the new towns for screenshot taking.

As for as the format: I personally don't really care, as long as the quality is good. Preferrably BMP or TGA and not JPG, because of the compression of that format.
 
All right, Ill start taking the screenshots using BMP format. Ill upload on the thread when I'm done <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

Edit: How can i get rid of the interface?
 
I recommend you upload on the <a href="http://forum.piratesahoy.net//index.php?showtopic=10288" target="_blank">FTP</a> instead. If you upload BMPs to the forum, you're quickly done with your available storage space.
If you have one of the latest Build 14 Alpha's (eg Alpha 8 WIP 1 or WIP 2), you can hide the interface with the F9 button.
 
I was going to upload 2 samples but It wouldn't let me (Too big) I'll upload the 2 samples of Isla Muelle on the ftp. Please give me feedback.
 
Sure thing. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doff.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":doff" border="0" alt="doff.gif" />
 
They look fine enough to me. It's just a shame that you don't have a recent Alpha; it'd be great if you could hide tha interface (character portrait) for the screenshot. But that's not much of a problem. The normal loading screens are 512x512 anyway, so we can easily cut something off. If you could do the same for the other stock game town locations, that'd be most appreciated. Please make a folder on the FTP and put the screenshots in there; otherwise things become a bit cluttered. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
Sure Thing Pieter, I'll finish them up today. I'll download the latest Alpha tomorrow so I can help the team <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doff.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":doff" border="0" alt="doff.gif" />
 
Thanks very much! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />
 
I'm finished, would have been done a long time ago but the upload on the FTP kept on freezing. You can find it in my folder -Bart Roberts-. I hope you like them, I'm not satisfied with one of them, but i hope you won't notice <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
I'll install the development version of the build mod tomorrow so we can work out what I will be doing.

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />
 
Thanks. Downloading them now. One thing you certainly CAN do is to make screenshots of the new towns as well. Though it's perhaps best to wait with that until we're done with the current town code rewrite that we're working on.
 
I added you to the Modders usergroup now, so that you can have a look at the <a href="http://forum.piratesahoy.net//index.php?showforum=68" target="_blank">POTC Modding</a> subforum. Have a look at the Retextured Cities thread to see what we're working on as far as the new cities are concerned. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doff.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":doff" border="0" alt="doff.gif" />
 
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