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Pirate
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Maybe redoing the Monkey Island mod making the map similar to the game map in Monkey Island |
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corsair91
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Monkey Island Madness Mod for Sid Meier's Pirates
https://www.nexusmods.com/sidmeierspirates/mods/5
Cpt Tripps 2012
The Monkey Island Madness Mod (MIMM) is a total Conversion project that aims to transform SidMeier’s Pirates into an open world sandbox set in the world of the Monkey Island games from Lucas Arts and Tell Tale Games.
Features:
New video, audio, and graphic textures
Cities, towns, characters and factions are renamed.
Included in the zip file is a PDF with installation instructions.
Known Issues: Using the MonkeyIslandMadnessMod!vX.X.exe can cause problems with the system settings screen in the game. If this happens, verify your file integrity through steam and use the regular pirates.exe
FILE CONTENTS Preview
https://www.nexusmods.com/sidmeierspirates/mods/5?tab=files
Click on Preview file contents
File size 2.3GB
monkey Island Info link
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_Island_Wiki
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themodelcitizen
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| jlangsdo wrote: | For playability, I think the most important thing to think about is finding a location where the nationalities are mixed up. Imagine the OG game without Curacao, Port Royale, or the little British islands up north.... it would be so frustrating, at least until you captured some small cities and installed non-Spanish governors. If the city garrisons were beefed up to make that difficult, that would be even worse.
Disabling cannons is interesting. That would make Montelban much harder to take on, since he would have his whole crew!
I suggest modding the Point of Sail speeds for the different classes of ship:
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## Speed at point of sail
#into wind RBW
ff 02 04 05 07 08 07 06 04 06 07 08 07 05 04 02 # Canoes
ff ff 03 04 06 07 07 06 05 06 07 07 06 04 03 ff # Sloops
ff ff 02 04 05 06 06 06 06 06 06 06 05 04 02 ff # Brigs
ff ff 02 03 04 06 06 05 05 05 06 06 04 03 02 ff # Barques
fe ff ff 02 03 04 05 06 06 06 05 04 03 02 ff ff # Fluyts
ff ff 02 03 04 05 06 06 06 06 06 05 04 03 02 ff # Merchantmen
ff ff 02 03 05 06 07 07 07 07 07 07 05 03 02 ff # Frigates
ff ff 01 02 04 05 06 06 06 06 06 05 04 02 01 ff # War Galleons
fe ff ff 02 03 04 05 06 06 06 05 04 03 02 ff ff # Trade Galleons
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I think these were chosen poorly in the OG game. Galleons should have an advantage for sailing into the wind, since they have oars! I would guess that they could probably turn pretty well too - just tell the guys on one side of the boat to take a rest, and watch it spin like a top. Note how boring the sailing speed of Frigates is - for a wide range of angles to the wind they get the same speed. The canoes are much better, you have to fiddle with the angle to the wind very carefully to get top speed. |
Don't forget that the last "07" in frigates should be "06", haha was it Mandiuscreel who got out the protractor and figured that out? Definitely a good idea for viking galleys to turn faster. I'm hesitant to make people re-learn large chunks of gameplay like that, but with changing the names of ship types anyway it works.
For playability, you're right, that's why the English channel is such a great spot to play in Europe, and why British Tangier is so helpful when you're chasing Evil Spaniards around the Gibraltar Strait.
Same reason so many East Indies games end up in a loop around the Philippines/Tonkin/Macao/Anping (or further south around the Spice Islands if you add an English port).
TBH I'm not a huge fan of stuff like GoT, PoTC, or Monkey Island, so the mod wouldn't be as complete as it could be, but it could work if someone with more expertise could review and suggest things for us - maybe room for that in a separate thread |
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corsair91
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corsair91
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Obj files are widely supported by most 3d modelling apps
as an open format
Blender
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/files/import_export.html
Blender offers a wide range of file formats
(e.g. OBJ, FBX, 3DS, PLY, STL, etc.) that can be used to import and export.
In blender
File ‣ Import ‣ Wavefront (.obj) and choose the file.
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How to Import an .obj File in Blender (+texture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-k2lUuZcI
Blender Dojo
5 Jan 2018
Updated version
How to Import OBJ Files Blender 2.80+ (and how to fix importing problems)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvEzw1cWuY
Blender Dojo
29 Jun 2020
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Wavefront .obj file
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file
OBJ (or .OBJ) is a geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for its Advanced Visualizer animation package. The file format is open and has been adopted by other 3D graphics application vendors.
The OBJ file format is a simple data-format that represents 3D geometry alone — namely, the position of each vertex, the UV position of each texture coordinate vertex, vertex normals, and the faces that make each polygon defined as a list of vertices, and texture vertices. Vertices are stored in a counter-clockwise order by default, making explicit declaration of face normals unnecessary.
OBJ Files
A 3D Object Format
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/obj/obj.html
MTL Files
Material Definitions for OBJ Files
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/mtl/mtl.html
https://www.fileformat.info/format/wavefrontobj/egff.htm
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NifSkope
http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope
A graphical program that allows you to open NIF files, view their contents, edit them, and write them back out again. You can use it to quickly make changes to specific properties of a NIF file such as changing the texture, adding translucency, and more. A 3D view of the contents of the NIF file allows you to preview your changes instantly. You can even create texture templates, and import & export OBJ files.
https://github.com/niftools/nifskope/releases |
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themodelcitizen
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Just thinking that a Monkey Island map might be best if you rearranged the existing islands using landscape.ini, and then jlangsdo's tools to generate the rest of the relevant files. You'd have a clean looking island like Grenada or St. Lucia representing one of the in-game islands, just in a different location so unrecognizable |
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corsair91
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monkey island games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Island_(series)
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/monkey-island-series
Each of the games takes place on fictional islands in the Caribbean around the Golden Age of Piracy sometime between the 17th and 18th centuries. The islands teem with pirates dressed in outfits that seem to come from films and comic books rather than history, and there are many deliberate anachronisms and references to modern-day popular culture.
The main setting of the Monkey Island games is the "Tri-Island Area", a fictional archipelago in the Caribbean. Since the first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island, three of the games have visited the eponymous island of Monkey Island, while all have introduced their own set of islands to explore.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge features four new islands, but does not return to Monkey Island until the final cutscene. The Curse of Monkey Island introduces three, and Escape from Monkey Island, which revisits some of the older islands, features three new islands as well. As such, the "Tri-Island area" actually comprises a total of 13 visitable islands. Tales of Monkey Island takes place in a new area of the Caribbean called the "Gulf of Melange".
Tri-Island Area
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Tri-Island_Area
It is named for the three Islands governed by the Marley family: Booty, Mêlée and Plunder.
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Islands
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Monkey_Island_Locations
Mêlée Island
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/M%C3%AAl%C3%A9e_Island
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Category:M%C3%AAl%C3%A9e_Island_Locations
The island has a lot in common with the real world popular pirate island of Tortuga.
Booty Island
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Booty_Island
Plunder Island
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Plunder_Island
Monkey Island
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_Island
https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Monkey_Island_Locations
surrounded by a voodoo mist which can only be penetrated by the use of a voodoo recipe.
LucasArt Games (including monkey island series) fan site
https://mixnmojo.com/media/
https://scummbar.com/
Tales of Monkey Island (2009)
http://www.hookedonpirates.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8427
All Monkey Island games GOG & Steam links
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| Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Pirates of Bikini Atoll shouldn’t be hard to do. |
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corsair91
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So long as you ignore 1946, as then they would be simply be radiant
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Aw come on I thought you liked hot women and 1946 they couldn’t have been any more hotter. 😂 |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:23 am Post subject: |
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If you like a Geiger counter and radiation film badges as a fashion acccessory
Bikini Aroll was the site of 23 nuclear tests by the United States until 1958.
The did their best to create Gozilla.
Must have known in advanced that Hollyweird would need to make some
21st century monster mash movies. |
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