Mods

You need the Google Earth Pro program that it’s available for free. Download it using this link Google Earth Pro If you don’t have a key use your email address and the key GEPFREE to sign in. We need to make the river…

The fonts in Ancient Cities are Truetype fonts converted to bitmaps with the help of a free program called Bitmap Font Generator. You can find the latest version here: BMFont - AngelCode.com We attach here bmfont.zip (…

The FBX format needs some settings to be enabled for exporting a usable file in Ancient Cities: Studio Max 2023: Geometry: -Smoothung Groups -Convert Deforming Dummies to Bones -Triangulate -Preserve edge orientati…

Landmarks are localized points with associated archeological information that shows up in the main map (after selecting his visualization switch ) The Landmarks are time depended, so you can include the time frame when…

We try here to duplicate a game asset like for example the vegetal Fern. (You can replace it by maintaining the same original game name) If we look in the game folder directory the Fern folder it’s located in this abso…

To create a new Height Map layer we need to replicate this path in our Mod: [ModName]\Ancient\Entity\Global\Heightmap\[AreaName] In the root folder of the mod we need the same files needed for every other Mods, see ‘H…

Until we can create a template Mod from the Game interface, like the language one, we can create it manually as easy as 1,2,3,4… Create a directory in [UserName]\Documents\Uncasual Games\Ancient Cities\Mod\[ModName] …

In the Mod section of the main menu you can Create a Language Mod And enter basic information about it. This process will create a Mod directory in: [User]\Documents\Uncasual Games\Ancient Cities\Mod[Language …

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BUILDINGS Buildings are structures than are builded, and also decay with time if no properly maintained. A building construction can have as many visual steps as desired. They also can have as many visual decay steps…

VEGETATION Plants are composed as sets that represent up to 4 states of the plant: Alive The plan is alive, changes along the year, grows and can produce fruits. Some small plants only use this state and dissapea…

RESOURCES To add a resource different visualization sets need to be created in order to represent its different states of storage transportation or use: Heaps Heaps represent groupings of natural resources that ar…

GEOMETRY AC uses meters as unit. So in your 3D package be sure to model with this consideration. No scales or other transformation will recovered from 3d models. Objects must be modeled at its proper size and orient…