Ogaburan Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) This mod has been moved to the new completed section of the forum, and has been abandoned. It can be deleted. Link to new thread: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/10970-v1-06-Xtended-Background-Distribution-Modmod-%28v0-3%29?p=121261#post121261 Xtended Background - Distribution Modmod First i must thank Pinetree (& those who helped him) for his Original Mod. I am one of those who believe his mod is essential for the game, and refuse to have a "serious" play-through without it. In fact i got so impatient I started toying with the files myself. To the point i think i made a small modmod that I'll share, as I see there are others who are waiting for a compatible version of the mod. This is what ive added: - Made it compatible with new version (there were quite a few strings missing for some reason). - "Cleaned up the files", by adding some annotations and moving nations around. - Added a nation (Iran). - Extended the Female soldiers backgrounds as well to nations added. - Did some math and an excel file to graphically represent the distribution of soldiers and your % of getting a certain soldier (m/f, nationality ect). This is how it looks: For people who want to actually see: The distribution of men and women per nation and the % to get them in game. The distribution per continent and alignment. (spreadsheet also is in the download) Ofc any feedback on these distributions will be appreciated! Download Link Current version 0.3 Change-log 0.3: - Expanded the Hungarian Names for both sexes. Credits: Pinetree for original mod ResFu for helping out with the Polish names and units. jamoecw for U.S. unit experience. llunak for correcting Czech names and adding Slovak names. steelgonads for correcting Portuguese names. -For this modmod- ocsisajt for Hungarian names Edited June 25, 2014 by Ogaburan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandozerTheGreat Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Got an alternate download link? Cause I don't like the look of that site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 Whats wrong with speedy share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alewalek Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Ether I am blind or u cant download it without instaling "tiny" manager which will install for sure some shit on your pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 You didn't need to dl that, it was just an add... You had to click on the name of the file... But I shared it via dropbox now... so it should be easier... There is just one blue button to press, its the one in the middle... marked "download" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) <<ops, posted in the wrong thread. moderators plz delete>> Edited June 20, 2014 by Ogaburan Im an idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alewalek Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 yea yea with blue button its much easier:P thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alewalek Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 IS this mod will work with pictures that are inside the Jsleezy's Real Fighter Portrait Pack. So u can have more versitale number of faces in game? His mod is somehow soldiernames dependand and same here I presume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foehammer343 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Thanks for updating this mode to 1.06! Love that its back. And FYI, the link to Pinetree's original mod doesnt work, and nor does the one for the male/female distribution graph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Thanks for spotting this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alewalek Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I will ask again: Xtended Background mod and Jsleezy's Real Fighter Portrait Pack mod, are perfect feet for each other there is anyone that can merge soldernames files so we will have xtended backround plus much more faces for the solders and actualy game will be drawing them from all pool of faces not only 40. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsisajt Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 (edited) hello guys! As a hungarian fan of the old xcom and a new xeno fan may i spot some weird name? I would like to clarify some names at textfiles if you don't mind. Commented right after the name also with corrected accents behold my wall of copypaste text reason of editing: corrections deleted (spent priv. msg for creator) Edited June 22, 2014 by ocsisajt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocsisajt Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 (edited) reason of editing: sent private msg for the creator. Edited June 22, 2014 by ocsisajt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 updated with the extended Hungarian names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertari Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 I will ask again: Xtended Background mod and Jsleezy's Real Fighter Portrait Pack mod, are perfect feet for each other there is anyone that can merge soldernames files so we will have xtended backround plus much more faces for the solders and actualy game will be drawing them from all pool of faces not only 40. I actually am using both but just used the extended version along with the new faces and it seems to be working ok but it would be great if they worked together on this and merged them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death by Chains Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 ... is the Dropbox link coming up as broken for anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foehammer343 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I actually am using both but just used the extended version along with the new faces and it seems to be working ok but it would be great if they worked together on this and merged them. Ive actually copied the code Jsleezy added to make his mod work into Xtended Background's files. I can post it if anyone wants, though Ill need to update the Hungarian names section first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derekash71 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 yeah post that please I wanted to use xtended backgrounds but worried it would conflict with jsleezy's mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alewalek Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) It will not conflict, problem is that one of them would not work as it should cause they both use soldernames XML file. If u apply xtended over Jsleezys u will remain only with changed pictures but still u will be getting same 40 faces all over again. If u do opposite u will only have Jsleezys mod. So we waiting for applying his code to this mod the only thing that concerns me is the% of females draw from the pool. This mod has it at 35 procent and Jsleezys at 20 which I prefer more so not sure can u change it to be around 20. Edited June 23, 2014 by Alewalek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 35% is vanilla, and i dont want to mess with another .xml file... as you can see that just messing with these 3 causes problems of compatibility and merging with other mods. You can easily adjust the % of females in gamesconfig.xml, its in line 65 and quite obvious. About Jsleezys mod compatibility. I stopped using Jsleezys mod (not that its bad) so i wont be digging into it anytime soon to make a compatible version. I dont really know how its not compatible... as im only changing the names and the % of soldiers popping out form a given nation. While Jsleezys only seems to affect what pictures shows up. But since you tried it and they are not compatible, I dont think i'll even know how to "fix" it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 ... is the Dropbox link coming up as broken for anyone else? Was waiting for someone to comment on this, is it working? For me it does... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foehammer343 Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 35% is vanilla, and i dont want to mess with another .xml file... as you can see that just messing with these 3 causes problems of compatibility and merging with other mods.You can easily adjust the % of females in gamesconfig.xml, its in line 65 and quite obvious. About Jsleezys mod compatibility. I stopped using Jsleezys mod (not that its bad) so i wont be digging into it anytime soon to make a compatible version. I dont really know how its not compatible... as im only changing the names and the % of soldiers popping out form a given nation. While Jsleezys only seems to affect what pictures shows up. But since you tried it and they are not compatible, I dont think i'll even know how to "fix" it. Id post my combined files, but I gotta run to class soon so Ill tell you I did. Jsleezy added a new ethnicity/portrait type called 'cust' and added it to both the top of the file and under individual nations in soldiernames.xml. And for a few nations he also changed the previous probabilities instead of just adding his to the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefertari Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I have run all these files through a program to compare them for differences. There are very few. What causes it to pick the faces. I've looked and looked through the code and don't really see why it wouldn't work when merged. Someone posted that it still only uses a few of the faces but where is that controlled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogaburan Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 Im abandoning this thread, moving to this: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/10970-v1-06-Xtended-Background-Distribution-Modmod-%28v0-3%29?p=121261#post121261 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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