Comments - Kataphractos

To Everyone who has been interested in and expecting this mod:

First of all, I want to apologize to all of you for the lack of progress on this MOD. Because I was very busy with the college application stuff, I pretty much set aside the progress of the MOD for a year. Besides I am not a professional programmer, some issues that are out of my ability do come up during the whole Modding progress.

Well, the good thing is that I have been accepted to an amazing college so that I will have some free time from now on, and presumably more free time this summer.
The not so good thing is that I still have some problem modifying the AI of the game, which is crucial to bringing a playable MOD. I am making some progress on learning how to write proper AIs, but I suppose it would take me a long time to fully grasp the method. So if you can write AOE3 AIs, I am more than happy to have your help. I am also seeking help on HawkAOC.net where many expert Chinese modders like Huanglukuzhu and 96nn are available.

Well, that's pretty much the briefing of the latest progress on the Fall of Civilization MOD. Again, I would like to thank Tilanus Commodor for letting me use some of his works under our agreement conditions, and also thanks Huanglukuzhu who really helped and supported my work on this MOD as both a friend and a partner.

Best Regards
KATA

P.S.: I hope I can bring you more updates next time, and I am working working very hard on trying to pick up the progress and release the promised prelude with 3 to 5 civilizations before September.

and, sorry to reply you so late... I was busy with college stuff the whole year....Please accept my apology..

Yes, very much. Byzantium is pretty much my favorite nation in the medieval time.

Hello， Please give me your Email address so that I can send it to you.

I think Korea would be a interesting civilization, I could fit it in as a choice of ally in the consulate of China. Moreover, I am planning another smaller mod, called <Asia At War> containing 5 Asian civilizations, and Korea would certainly be one of the main civilization in the mod.

I hope I can release something next summer

You are right, I am still working on it. It still has a long way to go until a 14 civs complete version could be downloaded. However, I am expecting a pre-alpha version for next summer, it will contain at least three civs (Byzantium, Venezia, and Bulgaria. They have the same building style, so it would be easier for me). The release date depends largely on my progress. I am applying for university this year, so, as you can see, little progress was made this year. I expect to have more time working on this mod after I get offers from universities

Why your profile country says you're a Thai? Anyways, we have met in hawkaoc.net. I am now making a AOE3 mod, fall of civilizations. I believe that you have made visits to the mod's page on moddb.

I loved your Byzantine Cataphract!

I made the textures separately so that the hue is different for every building，and the buildings won't be monotonous. I hope the out come is optimistic.

and I think Xi'xia has no direct relation with mongol.

Um... I think some masters had found a way to convert the 3D models in AOE3 to an editable format, but I know nothing about that. But I'm asking my partners if any of them can do it. If I can find someone who could edit the 3D model, I will have them take care of these spears.

I hope that you respect the fact that 3D models in AOE3 was very hard to edit(Because of some file issues). Therefore, I don't know how to take those towers off (If we really can). I know those are added by Turks.

Oh... Sorry about that... because I have a 14 civs limit, so It's a hard choice. One of the reason I took Koryo out, which I should be sorry for, is my lack of Korean history knowledge. I sadly could not think of any unique units for Koryo other than the two which already existed in AOE2 & AOC.

Francia or Frankia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks or Frankish Kingdom (Latin: regnum Francorum), Frankish Empire, Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland.

I used Francia for my preference of short phrases. The other phrases are obviously too long for me haha~~

But I will think of Change it when released. Because Kingdom of Frank is more widely used.

make new gr2 models？你的意思是说自己做而不是导入？

What's that?

Laptop broken down, works stoped for 2 weeks, and still can't work. Data and files were saved.

Oh, I saw you posted some pictures on TAA's site early this year, and I thought it would coming back soon. NE is a pretty good mod too, but there're sometimes replacetexture problems (the replacetextures sometimes doesn't work). Huanglukuzhu has found a solution for it, it isn't perfect, but you can try that.

I think at that time I used 20, but it's not looking good when I zoom out, and when we play RTS we don't always at the maximum zoom, so I changed it to 8. However, my buildings remained a level 20 bumpmap.

Thank you very much! How's TAA going?

I think it makes a lot more sense for Byzantine and Bulgaria than that Spanish style TC in original AOE3.

Yes, and I now came out with a even newer Civilization list which I've sent you yesterday. I am almost finished with Eastern Roman, and just start with Bulgaria and Italy. I made the Genoese crossbow some weeks ago, which you may be interested in. You can find it in the images (I changed the hat and the shield for that). Both Boyar infantry and Boyar Cavalry may come out next week, as soon as I have the idea of what they looks like, but I don't know if they fits the russian boyar's figure.

the basic time set is 486-1368, +- 50years.

I made a little bit change on civilizations

Byzantine --- Eastern Roman Empire (I think it's just a change for a better name)

Slavics --- Bulgars (This change is for a better focus on Near-East conflicts, which Eastern Roman Empire is the center, and Bulgars was once a big threat for Romans. Besides, at that time, most slavic state didn't appear yet, Russia and Poland were built late 13th C. But I am considering put Slavics as a native)

Spain --- Castile (No big changes, just shorten its history, the time before Castile, Iberia was mostly controlled by moores.)

So now we have
Eastern Roman Empire --- 486-1368.
Francia --- 687-1368 (Later it becomes France)
Anglo --- late 5th c.-1368
Holy Roman Empire --- 962-1368
Bulgars --- 632-1368
Italian States --- 7th c.-1368
Castile --- 1035-1368
Turks --- 1037-1368 (seljuk Turks to Ottoman turks)
Arabic Empire --- 632-1368
Persia --- 486-1368
China --- 486-1368
Japan --- 592-1368
Huns --- 370- 451
Mongolians --- 1240-1368

the basic time set is 486-1368, +- 50years. Huns is a special one.

I like your suggestions! I think I should study the Oscans now~ I was struggling making an etruscan "polititian". For Spain, I'd like to perserve the Carthaginians, but I will think of adding Iberians, if it is easy to make a polititian for it. I know little about history of Iberia before Queen Isabella I, so I have to study it first. At first I didn't have Spain in my design. But Huanglukuzhu strongly recommend me to make spain instead of Vikings and Goths...

I am so glad that you like it!

I edited the armour of the rider and the horse to make them like this one S285.photobucket.com. The shield comes out as an imagination, I think they might put their flag on the shield.

这里面一共几个模型？

这幅是用来干嘛的？不过右面的tc很有美国风