DOW2 Lord of The Warp Beta 1.0

[Tyron]

Ok, So I've Decided to put a thread here,
This will be my first ever DOW2 Mod,

Ok my plan is to change the characters in campaign and the enemies/Chaos Marines

FC - Chaos Lord/Terminator Lord With Armor
Tarkus - Aspiring Champion/Vet Plaugemarines
Thaddeus - Raptors/Vanguard to be decided
Cyrus - Weaker CSM with infiltrate
Thule - Chaos Dread
Avitus - Havoc Sergeant
Jonah - Chaos Sorcerer

I have no idea how the terminator armor is going to turn out.
I may need some help along the way with this mod so if you can I would be very thankful

What is currently Done,
Chaos Lord Max Level 30
All other squad's level 25

Name Changes
Tarkus - Horus
Thule - Zerghion
Thaddeus - Lergen
Cyrus - Asperion
Avitus - Abbadon

Squad Increase
Horus - 6 Members
Chaos Lord - trying to get 2 bloodletter minions
Lergen - 4 Members
Abbadon - 5 Members
Asperion - 4 Members


- Tarkus Changed to A Aspiring Champion, and Squaddies to CSM - Need help with the Icons Though

- FC Changed To Chaos Lord/And terminator armour to - Need help with Icons

- Cyrus Changed to an Aspiring Champion, Can Still use Snipers and Shotguns, Need help to make him able to equip power armour and Icons,

- Thaddeus Changed to an Aspiring Champion, Trying to Take off his backpack and replace with a Jumpack [So He will be Raptors]

- Avitus Changed to an Aspiring Champion, Trying to change heavy bolter animations to chaos heavy bolters,

Still to do,

- Change wargear to chaos opposits
- Change Terminator armours and Icons
- Change Voices
- Change Ablities
- Major Fixes on Lergen

New Updated Screenshots:

Chaos Lord

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Horus

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Abbadon

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Lergen

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Asperion

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Download link
http://www.mediafire.com/?wz9pl3or0zc33rb

Credits:
-Cope! For making the Tool's
-Drone For Telling me how to change colour scheme
-Me! For getting off my but to make this mod

Thanks for waiting for this mod to get done

Any Trouble Go to post 79 and try that to fix it

[DTerror1303]

cant u copy the sp skirmis icons and replace the campaign icons

[Tyron]

Thats why I've tried doing but it's not really working

Also does anyone know how to change the default Campaign colour scheme using cope toolbox?

[chaoslord 195]

i hope you will finish this mod. so it dont happen like the other chaos mod....

[Tyron]

Don't worry I will finish this mod

[Tyron]

Screenshots are now up

[Drone456]

Looking pretty good, but did you notice that it looks like Cyrus's pants are poking through the armor? And personally I would add a little variety to each of the squads if possible. Meaning not have all of them be Aspiring Champions, so that you can visually tell them apart. Also does Cyrus shoot normal with the Shotgun and Sniper Rifle? Just curious because when I changed his animation to Space Marine, he shot them rapidly.

Keep up the good work though man, doing good.

[Tyron]

I don't know with the shotgun but the sniper rifle fires at the right speed,
I had to give him his pan't equipped because if I dont there this glitch where they all get same sort of Epic Backpack,

Also when Tarkus's Squad is equipped with default weapons
his squad has bolters but Tarkus has A Power Sword and Plasma Pistol like in DOW1 sergeants,

It's kinda cool actually so I dont think I will change it

[LokenIstvanIV]

Looks very promising. Please take your time and have fun with the creation. Then I will rain Death and Destruction with my Night Lords!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks awesome.



Loken

[Drone456]

So when you equip the Sniper Rifle in the equipment screen it only fires one shot? Ah that makes sense then, allow it slightly ruins the look of the aspiring champion.

Yeah that is kind of cool, although it takes away his ability to assist with ranged damage a good amount since he's only shooting a pistol lol.

[Tyron]

Yeah, Can someone give me some idea's of what I should change cyrus into?
I was thinking like of.

Cyrus - BloodCrusher and Scouts - Bloodletters?

Also I have no Idea how to change what the veteran space marines look like Tarkus get the Vet upgrade.

I think im going to change tarkus's head into a Normal Aspiring Champion Head,
I don't know what to do about thaddeus head, I'd like to keep Avitus with a helmet though does anyone have any idea's?

[Drone456]

I think you need to start dipping into actual 3D editing with Santos's Tool (is what I think it's called). And if you have problems or questions with that the person I would try asking would be Shuma, since he/she seems to know what they're doing when it comes to model editing.

The obvious choice for me to change Cyrus into would be Heretics, but the problem is their animation since they twitch around a lot and that just doesn't fit Cyrus to me. So a bit of a tough one there and honestly seems to be a lot of people's toughest decision on what to convert him to.

I think you should turn Tarkus into a Plague Marine, since they look different and have a relatively cool helmet. I personally think that all units within your squad should have helmets, so as to preserve the sense of personalization and because it looks badass lol.

Good luck if you decide to start doing your own models.

[Tyron]

I'll pass on the modelling. but what do you think of this idea:
FC = Chaos Lord + 2 bloodletter Minions?

Also, Tarkus/Horus Vet Upgrade will turn them into plauge marine if I figure out how to change the marine with vet upgrades,

[Drone456]

Actually that's a pretty cool idea, it makes the FC seem like a actual chaos lord.

Ok not a bad idea either, if you can figure out how to do that I would say go for it.

[Tyron]

I was gonna see if I could could change the name of the upgrade to mark nurgle and change the marines, also this blood letter thing is harder that I thought :L I basicly added a value to the units in a squad changed the ebps of the unit to Bloodletter but I'm just getting unviable people :L in battle the squad of 3 people and only the chaos lord is visible

[Tyron]

Hey if anyone wants to help me alpha test jjust send me a pm and I'll send you a link

[Hellcobra84]

Mate for nurgle lord use shuma helmet http://forums.relicnews.com/showthre...33#post3918933


He have remade a khorne lord

[Tyron]

Im not gonna use a nurgle lord, Although when I figure out to change the vet marines to plauge marines I might use the plauge champion helmet shuma is making

[chaoslord 195]

updates soon?

[Tyron]

Just getting over a few icon bugs mate should be up for release soon!

[chaoslord 195]

awsome!

[Azariah]

when i finish my portraits u can use them for ur mod too.

[Tyron]

Thanks dude that would really help

[Azariah]

np np^^

take a look to my mod thread i need C&C^^

[chaoslord 195]

how is it going with the mod?

[chaoslord 195]

updates soon? plz

[Mordecai]

Chaoslord - harrydude will update when he has new info/screens/files. Just be patient and let him work on it.

[Tyron]

with school now started and my GCSE's I havent had much time to work on the mod updates soo ill post updates when I can

[Tyron]

Working on mod most of the day and have portraits finally up just configuring a few things and should be ready for realease soon guys

[chaoslord 195]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss!

[Tyron]

Should get a realease out today

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After weeks of waiting!!!!

LORDS OF THE WARP IS OUT FOR TESTING!

[Gorb]

Your mod launcher is broken. It applies -modname Lords_of_the_Warp and then -modname DoW2.

More bugs as I find them.

EDIT: playing through the first Chaos Rising mission now . . . no changes from vanilla. Still using the regular dudes. Do I have to start a normal DoW II Campaign and import that into Chaos Rising?

[Tyron]

This mod is for the Dow2 campaign, I figured when i get to change the CR version I would change all the "Orginal Chaos" to space Marines

[Gorb]

Still doesn't work; using the regular Space Marines in the original Campaign as well.

I checked my logfiles - definitely running Lords of the Warp. Can anybody else confirm that the mod works for them?

EDIT: you messed up your module file, testing to see if I fixed it now.

EDITEDIT: it's working, so here are some errors.

1. You have no UCS file.

2. Various clipping errors with model meshes: Tarkus'/Horus' shoulderpad - the skull head shouldn't be there, or at least it looks wrong). Also the Chaos Lord's/Force Commander's backpack - you can constantly see the golden backpack of the regular (loyalist) FC poking through.

Screenshots:

[Tyron]

I just released the mod as it was in Cope's Mod Toolbox,

[Gorb]

@ harrydude95: your module file needs fixing and you need to add a .ucs file to the mod if you want the No Range errors to be solved.

Another clipping issue, when equipping Cyrus with Scout Armour wargear:



Cloak, upper legs and the second shoulder pauldron under the Chaos version.

[Tyron]

Yeah, i noticed those errors i did A quick update on them about 5mins ago, The models are now fine

Could you do a favour and post the correct module for other people to use?
and I'm just gonna find out how to make UCS file

[Gorb]

Here's the module file.

It'll need updating once you have a valid UCS file, though.

[Tyron]

thank you man, your a real help , do you know how i can create a UCS File?

[Gorb]

Create a text file and save it as .ucs.

UCS files are kept in "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\dawn of war 2\GameAssets\Locale\English" (replacing English with whatever your supported language is).

Important note: you may need to save the UCS file as something beginning with "a", "b" or "c". I seem to recall there were problems with UCS files that started with a letter combination that was alphabetically higher than "DOW2.ucs" (so EDOW2 wouldn't work properly, but BDOW2 would).

[Tyron]

I do this is it right?

I can create the UCS file but what do i put in it? sometime like
20000000 - Horus

?

[Gorb]

Yes, and that number is the number you put in the code.

[Tyron]

Do I use the hyphen ( - ) that thing
like 2000000 - Horus
Or
2000000 Horus?

[Gorb]

2000000 Horus

Make sure the space between the "2000000" and "Horus" is a tab space, not a normal space. Can't demonstrate on here as forums don't like tab spaces.

[Tyron]

Do I just press tab to do a tab space

[Tyron]

Uploading New module with the UCS File and Some improvements, Where does the UCS file go in the module?

[Gorb]

Try Lords_Of_The_Warp/Locale/English.

And yes, just hit the Tab key for a tab space.

[Tyron]

I think i got it right this time, mind testing it gorb?

[Gorb]

I like the wargear icon changes. Got it working, a few graphical clipping errors:



1. He (Tarkus/Horus) appears to be wearing two sets of armour.

2. The Chaos Lord's armour has some clipping issue - the backpack is fixed but there are bits and pieces of gold glinting through his chest armour that I can't get in a screenshot.

3. Cyrus/Asperion still has clipping errors when given a Scout Armour wargear that includes a cloak.

The UCS file has to be placed in GameAssets/Locale/English. Won't work otherwise.

[Tyron]

I have been working on to fix that, I can see the UCS works which is great, the chaos lord thing is i think i gave them to sets of animator attachments, the head and armour, so i need to take run of them out a put it in default equipment which should get rid of the 2 armours effect

as for the red icons, i used the wrong sized icons, next update will have correct sizes

Edit, I still need to render the models for the scout armour to equip chaos armours, as do most of the other armours