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| Abmient FX - Soulstorm - File Description |
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Description:
This is a version of Fuggles' ambient FX mod, with the SCAR files editted to effect the new units included in Soulstorm. I did not make this mod, Fuggles did, but I have his permission to release this.
The Mod adds two new victory conditions to the game, 'Day and Night', and 'Weather'. The day/night shortens and lengthens line of sight across a seven minute cycle, and the weather comes in three types: Snow, Rain, and Sleet. Sleet slows morale regeneration, Snow slows movement speed, and Rain shortens sight range.
for a full description of effects, check the readme - it hasn't changed since Fuggles' original version.
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| | | Abmient FX - Soulstorm - Readme | | Readme File:
The Ambient FX Mod - Soulstorm
--By Fuggles, Soulstormed by Mr Pattle--
-released with premission from Fuggles-
CONTENTS
[1] Introdution
[2] Orgininal Readme (where most of the important information is)
[3] Soulstorm Readme
[4] Credit given where credit is due
[5] Adding additional units
[1] INTRODUCION
This mod is by fuggles. It is almost entirely his work. I simply added new units to be effected by the mod, so that it would work with all the new units of soulstorm.
It *Should* now have the original intended effect, on all Dark Eldar and Sisters of Battle units, as well as the new aircraft & deciever units.
I have tested it several times, but if it does not effect any unit, please feel free to e-mail me, at mark@jklmp.org.uk. I will try and fix it.
If you experience any problems with the actually mechanics of the mod, you'd be better off contacting fuggles - I won't know how to fix that.
[2] ORIGINAL README - this is literally just a copy & paste of the readme to Fuggle's Ambient FX mod
The Ambient FX Mod is a pair of win conditions that adds some ambient effects to your game of Dawn of War Dark Crusade. Originally part of the dynamic map concept, the scripts started as plain map SCAR, but I figure that if I put it out as a toggleable winconditions then it might be of greater benefit to
the mod community.
I don't really intend this to be a full mod as such, I'd rather people slotted it into the mod that they use... At least this way if you can't mod you can have a look and if you have some modding ability then you will be able to sort it out from the files here. Basically it only supports the base Dark Crusade races, unless you open the SCAR files and add any new units to those.
The win conditions are:
Daynight - Light Cycling.
Causes your line of sight to drop and increase during 7 minute day and night cycles. You will notice a gradual change in your LoS during the transition between day and night. This makes melee units much more effective at night as you can get much nearer before the incoming fire incomes.
Weather - Random Weather Conditions
When the level loads you have a 33% chance of there being a weather condition in your game.
Broadly speaking the weather in game will be
rain - affects line of sight
sleet - affects morale regeneration, the heavier the sleet the worse the regeneration.
snow - affects unit speed, the heavier the snow the worse the slowing.
The weather types have subsets, so they might be intermittent, constant or of altering severity.
Owing to the way DoW generates random numbers, you have to drop out to the game menu if you want it to generate a new starting condition, pressing restart won't be enough - go figure!
Put the .module file and the folder into your Dark Crusade root directory (the one containing DARKCRUSADE.exe) and then ambient FX will appear in your game manager.
This is version 1.1, please let me know what you think. Hopefully all the bugs have been squished, but please let me know if you find any problems and I'll get them fixed right up for you.
TTFN
Fuggles
[3] SOULSTORM README
There is very little change to the original, just (obviously) swap any mention of dark crusade above, with soulstorm.
The day/night and weather still have exactly the same effect, and you just need to extract the files into your soulstorm main directory for it work.
[4] CREDIT GIVEN WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
As I cannot stress enough, this is almost entirely Fuggles' work, not mine. I would not want anyone thinking I had made this, as I didn't.
in fact, I have almost no ability in SCAR coding. This means that if you wish to release anything based on this mod, ask fuggles, not me. as I said, I DON'T OWN THIS MOD.
[5] HOW TO ADD MORE UNITS TO THE MOD - copied from original readme
To run AmbientFX with other mods you will have to edit the .module file of the mod that you want to run and add AmbientFX as a require mod. Something like
RequiredMod.4 = AmbientFX
This will then call the AmbientFX mod when you run your mod.
To add the mod units, tou will next have to open up the two .SCAR file located in AmbientFX/data/scar/winconditions - notepad will suffice.
In these you will find long lists of squads or entities and basically you have to add the new buildings/units to this list so that they are affected by the changes. You can either get the names from the mod's .SGA files using Mod Packager or Corsix tools, or by using the Map Editor to put units down and look at their names...Perhaps I will release lists for people to plug in if there is demand. | |
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The following comments are owned by the user that posted them. Dawn of War Files is not responsible for their content.
Total comments: 7 | Last comment: 12-19-2008 at 19:40
fuggles
Joined: April 29th, 2007
Posts: 122 | How awesome - I feel that I have finally arrived 
Thanks to Mr Pattle for keeping this mod up to date - I'm glad that people like it.
Well chuffed me. |
General_Mathog
From: 
Joined: September 7th, 2004
Posts: 82 | Well, I've tried this mod, as it sounds really cool.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
The winconditions both appear as a random number in the menu and ingame all other winconditions like Take and Hold, Annihilation, etc are disabled, rendering it impossible to truly win the games plus neither the daycycle nor the weathereffect is working.
I've done everything as stated in the readme (wonder, as if it was hard ^^), but as i said: No effects, no winconditions active.
Any ideas ? |
Mr_Pattle
Joined: January 5th, 2008
Posts: 20 | Ok, sorry about the problems you are having. I'm not too suprised somethings wrong with it - this is, after all, the first file I have submitted to filefront. I've got some time on my hands at the moment, so I'll go through the code and see If I can find whats wrong.
If I can fix it, I'll re-submit the file today. If, however, its something I don't understand, I may have to ask fuggles about it. He knows alot more about the workings of this mod than me. I'll also put a new readme in the zip folder, one that actually makes sense. I can see why the other is really confusing.
Hold on, and try not to get to annoyed with me. |
Zealot2021
From:  (California)
Joined: August 15th, 2007
Posts: 428 | i wonder if theirs a way to incorporate this and that night-fight mod. that would be sick. wheres that mod gone to anyways? |
Mr_Pattle
Joined: January 5th, 2008
Posts: 20 | Its possible to run this alongside any other mod. Simply open the .module file of the mod you wish to run it with (in notepad) and beneath the other 'required mods' add the line 'RequiredMod.3 = ambientfx' (if theres already a third one, make it 4, or whatever)
If, however, the mod contains any new units, you will need to add them to the lists in the SCAR files. However, this mod doesn't work at the moment (I'm trying to fix it), and even if it did, it seems adding new units is what stops it working.
But yeah, you can combine it with pretty much any other mod.
Hopefully, It will work soon, but the last fix I tried would have increased the download size by 3.31Gb. and it still didn't work. |
Mr_Pattle
Joined: January 5th, 2008
Posts: 20 | I submitted a fixed version of this mod to filefront about five days ago, I'm just waiting for it to be added to the listings. So please, don't download this version, you'll only be dissapointed. The fixed version should be up fairly soon. |
Hydrose
From: (California)
Joined: December 16th, 2008
Posts: 1 | I can't get it to work. |
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