Inquisition : Daemonhunt. A mod for DC 1.2

[compiler]

THE INQUISITION DAEMONHUNT MOD



Description :

This mod provides a new playable race for Dawn of War Dark Crusade, an RTS game by Relic, published by THQ, based on Games Workshop's Warhammer 40 000 universe.

You can now play the Daemonhunters, a branch of the Inquisition in charge of destroying daemons, chaos cults and all chaotic influence from the Imperium.
The army's commander is the Inquisitor Lord and he commands over the Inquisition's troops.
When the opposition gets too strong, though, he calls on the secret chapter of Space Marines called the Grey Knights, super humans whose absolute faith and mighty psychic powers make them the most formidable soldiers in the service of the Emperor.

This mod is for Dark Crusade only, and is aimed to be balanced to be played against the already existing races in game.

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Download link (200 Mb, you've been warned) :

Download from Filefront

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Installation and use instructions :

After unziping the files, just double click on the installer named "inquisition_daemonhunt_mod.exe" and follow the instructions.

Two VERY IMPORTANT notes :

1- The installer has a glitch : it will load 1%, saying it installs the "uninstall_ID.icon", and then will seem to freeze for a minute or two, while the CPU is used at 98%.
Don't worry. It's not a virus. It happens to everyone. It's just that it unzips the big sga file, which takes some time with the swap file.
Anyway, once the freeze is over, the installation will be finished in seconds.

2- Once the install is finished, an internet style document will be displayed. Please do take the time to read it in details since it contains many precious informations such as the complete Tech Tree description, and tips on the strategies to use with this new race.

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Contacts

Our FAQ page is here : http://spacedragons.free.fr/

Our forum is there : http://spacedragons.free.fr/phpBB2/index.php

Contact information of the mod leader :
spacedragons@free.fr

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Legal agreement

Legal agreement

All this mod's components' copyrights stay the property of their respective owners and are not transferred to you.
More specifically, you cannot do any of the following :
- redistribute this mod in full or in part
- extract or modify any of its components or part thereof
- claim any of its components or part thereof as yours
- add any of its components or part thereof to your own mod
without the written consent of the Inquisition Daemonhunt mod leader.

There is only one exception : game publishers are allowed (and even welcome) to distribute this mod without asking for authorisation, provided they make no modifications to the files and that they properly credit the authors and provided that they inform us too, so that we can get a copy of the publication for our archives .
In this instance, "game publishers" are video games magazines, and professional or semi-professional video games sites, not fan based sites whose theme is video games.

Note for community members : why not allowing people to mirror it ?
1- because I want to be able to track how many times the mod was download
2- because I want to know where the files are if I need to make an update
3- this is the only thing I ask for a payment
Well, if you still want to mirror it for some unfathomable reason, then please make the mirror temporary, and on some place where I can keep track of the downloads (on some file hosting server for instance)

Credits : put in a spoiler tag because the list is long of talented people who made this mod.

credits

CREDITS : the people who made this mod


Team Leader and art director :
Compiler (contact at spacedragons@free.fr)

Modeling + texture base :
Maestrorobertus = Robert Lechl : Grey Knights dreadnought, Grey Knights, Stromtroopers, Acolyte, Death Cultist, Chimera variants, ThunderHawk Transporter
Eltharion = Tristan Mitchell azrial_elf@yahoo.ca : Archivist, Inquisitor Lord, Inquisitor's Tower, Domus Astra Telepatica.
Falk (Guillaume Bout) http://overhighwill.free.fr/: Land Raider + Crusader variant, Grey Knigths Terminators, Grey Knight Commander
Andreas Bohn, aka Hitomo http://www.mb-druckservice.de/seele/dephtart.htm : Librarium, Rockets and thermic shields for the buildings.
Mario Maruska : Inquisition watch, Grey Knights Teleporter, Warp reactor, Warp Generator, Imperial Icon, Purification decree.
Adrien Debos / Goldo_O / adydeb@hotmail.com: Valkyrie
Compiler : Servitors, Rhino variant, Scholars, Bodyguards, modifications on other models

Final textures :
Falk (Guillaume Bout) http://overhighwill.free.fr/: Crusader, Grey Knigths Terminators, Grey Knight Hero
Goldo_O : Valkyrie
Dr Grim : Grey Knights
Andreas Bohn, aka Hitomo http://www.mb-druckservice.de/seele/dephtart.htm : All the buildings, including unwraps.
Compiler : all other models + some touch ups here and there.
Special thanks to Marcelo Leal for the metallic effects on the Dreadnought

Animations :
Maestrorobertus = Robert Lechl : Stromtroopers, Acolyte, ThunderHawk Transporter
Falk (Guillaume Bout) http://overhighwill.free.fr/ : Land Raider + Crusader variant, Grey Knigths Terminators, Grey Knight Hero
Adrien Debos / Goldo_O / adydeb@hotmail.com : Valkyrie
Todd "Ironheaded" Falk : Death Cultist assassin.
Compiler : all other models + some animations on the stormtroopers, acolyte and Death Cutlist assassin
Special thanks to Ironheaded and MaestroRobertus for their help in animating the Grey Knights
Special Thanks to Bravus for his help on animating the Archivist

OE integration :
Adrien Debos / Goldo_O / adydeb@hotmail.com : Valkyrie
Compiler : All other models
Special thanks to Falk, who prepared a good part of the OE for his models.

Lua coding :
Compiler

Graphics :
Hangar_8 : badges and banners, Taskbar
Pogs : Front page menu
Icons : Compiler
Special thanks to Red_G for creating the icons' frame.

Sounds and music :
Claymore (M.D.)
Trompkins (Maciej Stankiewicz)

Voice Actors :
Acolyte - Aramek
Archivist - Mr. Heiney
Astropath - Brandon Parker
Assault servitor - Claymore
Bodyguards - Claymore
Death cultist - Ephix
Grey knight - Mr. Heiney
Grey knight commander - Compiler
Grey knight dreadnought - Mel Danes
Grey knight land raider - Mr. Heiney
Grey knight terminator - Mr. Heiney
Chimera - Mel Danes
Inquisitor lord - Mr. Heiney
Maintenance servitor - Mel Danes
Priest - Claymore
Rhino - Mel Danes
Scholars - Garriath
Special weapons - Claymore
Stormtroopers - Mel Danes
Weapon servitor - Claymore

AI :
Skirmish AI team
- Thudmeizer (team lead)
- Arhkan (lead coder)
- Larkin (coder)
- Corsix (coder)

Maps :
S1_one : Inner Strength (6p), Autumn Forest (6p)
The Herald : Bray Cathedral Subsector (8p)
Wildcat : Illusion of Grandeur (2p)
Jaguar_Lord : Crimson Spire (2p)

Trailer :
Claymore
Voice acting by Mr Heiney

Beta testers :
Macca
Asha-D
Claymore
Andkat
Skills
Special thanks to Mel_Danes for his keen eye on graphic details.

Strategic Guide :
Claymore
Macca

Information "booklet" and tech tree :
Compiler

Hotkeys :
Sober

Translation :
German : Wargrim aka MovingTarget, Julian Engelhardt
Spanish : Kurtcos, Green Tide, Hollow
Polish : Hands of Fate, Me99
Czech : Wildcat
French : Compiler
English : Compiler, Hands of Fate
Russian : mizer_lalenkh

Special thanks to :
Relic : for letting us use their work.
Brother Santos : for his wonderful tools that have allowed me to use Relic's animations on our models
Thudmeizer : for his perpetual chearleading, and provinding us some much needed outside help
Fried_P for his invaluable advices and tutorials
William Chamberlain, Dirk Weissenbacher, Tim Samuelson for their contributions to our work, even if they did not make it to the final mod.

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Some people have asked if it was possible to have wallpapers. Here are some. We hope you lilke them.

Wallpapers

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I also made a userbar. Please feel free to use it :



Fans are welcome to make custom signatures and userbars and send them to us.

Fan made signatures and userbars

Me99 did a pair of great signatures and userbars.

[Khornekrusher]

No words can explain this moment of joy.

Well done, excellent work ID team.

[Visitor13]

(faints)

[horusheretic]

omg wahey this will take up most of my day playing this

[Creature]

Congrats on all the hard work guys. Can't wait to play.

[Shyft]

does one need all 3 DoW games for this to work, or just dark crusade?

[thudmeizer]

Prepare to crush all who oppose the inquisition! Muhahah!

[Kresjah]

Why on Earth do I have to be babysitting away from home tonight? GARG!

[horusheretic]

its dc
omg 21 members your gonna make everyones day!

[Tempe]

am dloading now.
this is gonna be great.

[fragiator]

x-mas, it's x-mas today.

thanx for your hard and great work! thanx...



greetz

[Lleman]

What a moment of achievement!!! Compiler and all team members, bravo for this HHHUUUUUGE piece of art (yes, it's art to me) and of gaming pleasure.

[hangar-8]

Compiler and team, thank you for your hard work and effort

[Outsider_in]

One word... Merci.

And a day early too.

[Sir Clausel]

well what can I say.. speechless.. really really congrats from here... you guys are awsome.. Bow to the new emperor.. compiler! offcause you other guys from the team shall have a salute!! (bowing in pride)

For the Emperor!!
Clausel out...

[Ultimatum]

Concrats on a fantasic Mod..

[Lor]

.....and all I can really say is a heartfelt THANK YOU to compiler, his team, and everybody involved in this mod. I've been looking forward to this

[Anubis]

WOW! Amazing just amazing compiler! just waiting for the download to finish hehehehe

[Auzman]

IT FINALLY OUT! WOW. I'm not going to post more because I'm busy playing.

[compiler]

Many thanks for all your kind words. It's a warm hearting feeling I am really grateful for.

I hope you'll enjoy the mod and that you'll still have kind things to say once you actually try it out.

My sincere hope is that it shows to all of the modding community that it can be done. At many points in making a mod you just say to yourself "I'll never see the end of it". Well, cheer up : it can be done. A mod can actually be finished.
Of course, you have to draw a line. There are plenty of things I would like to improce in this mod, but it would take me another year.
So, take strenght, fellow modders, and please bring us plenty of great mods.

[The_Guardman]

...a no-filefront link? Filefront never worked for me & friends...

[acturas]

Fantastic news Compiler - its finally out!!! Legs it over to filefront.......

[compiler]

"a no-filefront link?"

I'll try to upload it to Mega upload tonight.

[eltroubabadour]

Apres tous ces efforts, investissements personnels et sacrifices, merci pour a tte l'equipe pour son engagement, sa devotion et son professionalisme.

Thx to the team, with hard work dream come true

[CommodoreKitty]

No amount of words can convey the gratitude of the community for the effort you and you team put forward for the years you spent on this project, but I can try! I'm at 70% now, and I just know that this is going to be a superb mod. Thank you for this excellent addition to the game, and best of luck to you!

[Blu3kn1gh7]

Amazing, this mod is everything i expected and alot more congratulation to compiler and the entire team for the time and effort they put into this amazing piece of work

[Tempe]

i think i'll wait for a while before i try to dload this. was dloading for half hour and was only 30%

[Ewokz]

Wahooo!!!! Its begins to downlaod

[horusheretic]

omg the random menu music is amazing and the graphical stuff is pretty good.

[Loseraph]

I was awaiting this mod with so much anticipation that I still cannot believe that the long-awaited day is finally upon us. I only hope that my eternal gratitude is enough to thank all those involved in ID's development. Death to the foul demons of Chaos!!!

[Visitor13]

Some six hours of downloading to go for me :\ ... but it'll be worth it.

Merci, mes meilleures remerciements a Compiler et aux autres membres de Inquisition: Daemonhunt pour vos travail et intransigeance et pour ne pas critiquer la mediocrite de mon francais

[CrabHermit]

Big thanks to all the team members, and congratulation for such a big achievment.
Now that it's done, looks like you will at last have some time to rest and enjoy your family, right Compiler?

PS: well...Until DoW2 comes out of course

[Friedric P]

Congratulations Compiler !! That has been a long road, but finally it's released !!

I hope we will also be able to join the release zone in a few weeks... But for this night, I'm going to play a little ID ...

Cheers B)

[compiler]

Many thanks Fried_P. I do hope that our sister inquisition mods will be played together.
Your work always awes me.

[Jsebas29]

Joy to the world!!!

The mod IS released and even 1 day before schedule... you guys make one AWESOME team!!!!

[Friedric P]

Of course, I also hope both mod will be played together

...And on a personnal note (even if I will express it in an email in a close future), sorry if I never replied to many of your mails... You know how f*cking busy I am

[captainmerkin]

I have a boner

this has been years in the making and I cannot express how much I thank you..

downloading now !

[Finaldeath]

Glad you got it completed, I'll play it sometime this week

Where is a list of credits in this thread though? I expected one in the first post I know a lot of people contributed over the time it took to finish (mainly you compiler however).

[Fire81]

Simply amazing, i'm downloading it now. This is the best thing that has happened to DoW since Dawn of Steel! A big thankyou for all of your hard work, watching the download progress bar is possibly the hardest part of this wait!

I don't normally use smilies but what the hell!

[fuggles]

W
O
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I'm so happy I want to stroke your beard and feed you crisps

Seriously, I cannot thank your team enough for expanding the fun of Dawn Of War. I'm sure they know but pass on my thanks and praise to all involved.

[Danimator]

OMG, a day early too

This is truely the Mod I have looked forward to most. Great work guys. Now the true battle begins, I'll have to fight my son for control of my pc every evening for weeks and my wife'll be mad at both of us worth it though!

[compiler]

"Where is a list of credits in this thread though?"

It's in the mod's info, after the installation.
I thought it would clutter the post (because it's so long) but, on second thought, I'll add it as a spoiler.
Thanks for pointing this out.

[deathwings]

None can stand before the Inquisition!

Great mod guys, one of the best mods I've played so far.

[elfurreto]

......
what else can be said ??? i simply can't find any words....
once i find a words in english that can discrib your work i'll post it,
Because even 'GodLike' seem pale to discrib it...
I bow down to you all... simple : the best user-made Mod to EVER hit Dawn Of War, i really think relic is a little jalouse ( just a little,XD, but surely please too !! )

[Opeth]

"Enemies of the dark gods, be aware!"
No, not really.
Im really eager to play this.
Congratulations.

[compiler]

@Elfuretto : I know you didn't mean it in a bad way, but I really think the comparison with Relic is not to be done.

First because they have deadlines that we have not (imagine them taking a couple of years to do each race ?)

Second because their work is immensely more efficient than ours, and it takes many parameters into consideration that we just discarded (old computers, translation, etc...). The more I mod, the more I respect Relic's work.



This being said, thank you for the praises, they are very much appreciated.

[captainmerkin]

oooh installing now.. tough specs on licence though so lets see if it runs!

[hansdracow]

Woooooow!!! I have no words. Compiler and company thank you very much for creating this awesome mod!! =)


I'm spanish, so... your work has come to far !!

Congrats!

Regards and... excuse my english,
Hans Dracow

[compiler]

OK, time to hit the sack here.
I won't be able to answer until tomorrow morning (here).
I hope you won't have too many problems.

[Ewokz]

At 75% done with 20 minites to go, cant wait.
Dont want to bring this thread off topic, but compiler are you planning anyother mods?

EDIT: bugger just missed him