OldGrex
Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant!

This is a full "5+" in my opinion.

[This message has been edited by BenHammer (edited 01-06-99).]

Sean

[This message has been edited by Sean (edited 01-07-99).]

"Blood,Carnage,and the smell of
rotting flesh !
AAH! Thats the life for me!"

!!!VERY IMPORTANT!!!
BACK-UP ALL THE DRS FILES BEFORE YOU START TO WORK WITH THEM(or you might have to reinstall them from the CD like I did )

1)select the slp you want to work with

2)in the Edit pull down choose Convert Frame
and save the conversion. it will be a .bmp
there are three files for each slp graphic frame (non-animated)

3)Edit the .bmp file that starts with G in your favorite graphics program. Save with same name

4)Next from the Edit pulldown choose Replace Frame. After a couple seconds you should see your edited version in the window.

5)Next pick another SLP file from the list on the left, when you do a dialog box will pop up asking if you want to save the changes to the file. say yes and another dialog box will pop up just click yes and it will then reassemble the three parts and save it as an SLP file.

6)Finally from the File pulldown select Replace File. A dialog box will pop-up asking what file to replace it with, select the one you just created.

Just make sure that between steps 5 and 6 you reselect the slp you want to replace.

!!!These instuctions will change the DRS files installed!!!

In order to make a mod-pack from them DON'T do step #6. Just save the new SLP files in a folder with the name you want for the mod-pack. If you downloaded the snow mod then you can get an idea of what nneds to be done from that.
If you aren't comfortable or proficient in editing batch files just E-mail me the finished mod-pack and I will put it all together in a zip file with a batch file to install/uninstall it.

NOTE:there are different DRS files for RoR in the DATA2 folder that contain the new graphics and such for RoR. Depending on what you are doing you may have to work on both sets. That is why I made two snow mods. AoE & RoR use different DRS files.

What type of mod pack are you working on ?

"Blood,Carnage,and the smell of
rotting flesh !
AAH! Thats the life for me!"

[This message has been edited by Pusbucket (edited 01-14-99).]

Finally you can make a real Viking (my ancestors) scenario!!

A tip: Shallows looks almost like ice!!
I´ve tried it and it actualy looks quite nice!

Hi Elijeh,
Did the install routine create a backup folder for the DRS files ? If so
just copy them back into the DATA2 directory and overwrite the ones in there. Strange I have had no problems in removing the mod and restoring the original files. You are using the RoRmodin.bat to restore them aren't you ?

Luckily the DRS files are not compressed on the CD so they can be copied straight over.

As far as leaving some clumps green yeah I thought about that as well as a few pine trees after the fact. I may make a modification to it and upload it as well as
an installer in Visual Basic (just learning that though). But if you notice there are still some grass clumps which appear in the map that are not available in the editor so you could use those to get the effect
you want. Man it was a ******to figure that one out as I was making the mod packs!
Going through ALL the SLP files and back and forth to the game to figure out what was what!
Glad to hear you enjoy it.

"Blood,Carnage,and the smell of
rotting flesh !
AAH! Thats the life for me!"

[This message has been edited by Pusbucket (edited 01-15-99).]