Quite funny, I was checking on my site statistics ( transitions) to see if there were any interesting sites linking to my site and I noticed your blog in the list, so visited and added a comment saying if you have questions you should ask so. I return to my site , check my forum and see a post from you.

Anyway, its nice to hear that you have started learning to create a mod for Cossacks I. Can i ask which version it is for? European Wars?

Well, as I said, if you have any questions, don't be shy to ask. As for AI elements. You should get the AI source Pack @ http://cossacksworld.ucoz.co.uk/load....1-0-112

With it you can create your own AI.dll files for Cossacks. Essential is that you tell me wich version you work on, because this is for the last version of Cossacks I ( BTW) and as such there may be functions in there that arent compatible with the dmcr engine of the European War version. You will need a version of Visual C++ ( see somewhere on the tools page, there's a link to a free express edition, or get the latest 2010 beta version @ MicroSoft. Explore what is in there, see if it makes any sense to you...

As to actually helping, I'm gonna pass, because I got my own CII mod, the site, my work, my puma to feed,...but feel free to ask questions.

Tell me a bit more about :

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[E-BEL]Angel

What you mean? More expensive? More efficient? Or maybe vice versa? perhaps new technologies?

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Reading your message I am afraid that you will need add new units images. Because as it looks like the work of the peasant, when it is in the skin Musketeer? And vice versa?

It is easier to create a national levy armed with pikes and swords than muskets.

Do you want to create mod which is more realistic? more historical? Or not?

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You got good idea's allright, some of it is surely possible, but other things you mentionned, and as Chichor has said, are very difficult to do. What he means is that for the peasant, currently it has no graphics(animation) with a rifle to turn it into a musketeer. It will be probably easier to turn musketeers in peasants, but then you got a problem that the musketeer doesnt have the animation for collecting resources ( stone mining,...)
So in any case, if you wish to have your peasants to be musketeers you would have to make new graphics, but making just a graphic animation for muskets on the original peasants, is nearly impossible, because you dont have the original 3D model of the peasant ( we only have the 2D graphic animations). If this doesn't make sense , I can explain it better.

As for the rest you suggested, most of the things are possible (new technologies,...)

I've been wondering if there is some sort of instruction manual for modding the game. So far the only information I have seen about modding is on your site in the Cossacks 1 - Modding section, this is helpful, but I feel there is so much more that I don't understand about the game, is there some sort of resource from the game's designers that explains how things work in greater detail?

Yes good idea, dont run before you can walk.

I know what your going trough. I was there a year ago. The only usefull information I found was on Cossacks Tech Depot. There was a 4 page manual, but only on the use of NDS files. I started off there and expanded on it by learning the hard way to what has become my site. Cossacks Tech Depot has gone offline last year when geocities closed down and as such there is virtually no information on modding cossacks on the net left. There's a few threads here and there, but nothing that puts things toghether.

I must admit, since I'm modding Cossacks II, I haven't updated my CI modding section in a long time. I still got information that I need to upload, but currently I'm archiving everything on my computer, writing it to back up DVD's and uploading it to the server because normally next week I'm switching from Win7 RC to Win 7 release, so don't really got time to write stuff for the site at the moment.

That beeing said, if you have questions, do not hesitate asking, I will try to answer them to the best of my knowledge.

Kind Regards

There is no such a option.

I apologize for my english.



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