New Graphic & Sound Mod for Aces of the Deep

Andreas86 · 04-17-22, 09:24 AM

Thanks John!

It will be part of the next update. From now on, you will also be notified ingame when a new version is out.

Just kidding..

John Pancoast · 04-17-22, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andreas86

Thanks John!

It will be part of the next update. From now on, you will also be notified ingame when a new version is out.

Just kidding..

I see you found the language.txt file.

Andreas86 · 04-17-22, 11:50 AM

Haha, yes!

Andreas86 · 08-04-22, 10:14 AM

UPDATE 04.08.2022

New in version 1.6

-New after-action newspaper screen!
-Fixed color error in the new face popup images.

Added a new after-action newspaper screen. Instead of reading the newspaper on a boring wooden desk, the reader now finds himself in a busy german city street, having just bought the latest edition from a news kiosk. Making the new screen work was rather difficult, as I encountered a lot of palette issues when the image fades to dark and the small animation appears in the middle of the newspaper. After a lot of time I managed to sort it out, but you need to install the included new .PAL file for the paper screen to work.

I also found a graphic problem with the new face popups that I was unaware of. All the face images contained the use of black color 0,0,0 which led to a color glitch when encountering fog. Fog is created in AOTD by use of some palette entries, that the program gradually changes to shades of gray or blue, depending on the weather. Color 0,0,0 is part of those entries. While I originally did convert the palette of the new face images to the palette of the original face files, something must have gone wrong. And obviously I must have tested the files without encountering fog. Luckily, correcting this was just a matter of mapping all instances of 0,0,0 to 20,8,12 which is the darkest color used in the original Dynamix created face images, and then to re-export everything.

Download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GX8SA6TNUQrHlGjyRG-keccAYVFW2Lqs/view?usp=sharing

Andreas86 · 08-04-22, 06:17 PM

Original AOD port screens, Kiel, France and Norway:

Andreas86 · 08-06-22, 10:39 AM

Here are some new port screens I have created. I am trying to capture the atmosphere of the industrial ports of Germany, and german naval might at the beginning of WW2. What do you think? I also made a new screen for France, showing, you know, real u-boat bunkers and not some boring houses. Lastly I made a new Norway port screen, with more of a cold winter feeling. The wartime winters in Norway were, after all, some of the worst winters in our countrys history. I will in time try to improve all port screens.

skin-nl · 08-15-22, 09:25 AM

You did a great job on the port screens andreas

John Pancoast · 09-05-22, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andreas86

Original AOD port screens, Kiel, France and Norway:

Nice work as usual! Another nice touch AOD had was the bombed out buildings in the ports as the war went on, no band to send you off/greet your return, etc.

Aktungbby · 09-05-22, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Nice work as usual! Another nice touch AOD had was the bombed out buildings in the ports as the war went on, no band to send you off/greet your return, etc.

...that's cause the 'tubas & miscellaneous brass horns were all melted down for shell casings...for the deck guns!

Andreas86 · 09-06-22, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Nice work as usual! Another nice touch AOD had was the bombed out buildings in the ports as the war went on, no band to send you off/greet your return, etc.

Thanks John! I did think about this, and possible complications to my screens. But strangely I cannot find any graphical assets in the game archives related to these bombed buildings. I can only find the intact port screens. Do you have any screenshots of that stage in the game, where the buildings are bombed?

The band and audience is of no concern in that regard, as those are just tiny sprites that are superimposed on the big backgrounds.

agathosdaimon · 01-18-23, 05:39 PM

hi

i just tried this mod in AcesOTD and it crashes when i go to the bridge and try to pan around - like as some as the graphic is going be that which shows the other crew on the bridge, it crashes and the game restarts

- what am i doing wrong?

08-04-22, 06:17 PM	#5
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 221 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Original AOD port screens, Kiel, France and Norway: Last edited by Andreas86; 08-06-22 at 10:31 AM.

08-06-22, 10:39 AM	#6
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 221 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Here are some new port screens I have created. I am trying to capture the atmosphere of the industrial ports of Germany, and german naval might at the beginning of WW2. What do you think? I also made a new screen for France, showing, you know, real u-boat bunkers and not some boring houses. Lastly I made a new Norway port screen, with more of a cold winter feeling. The wartime winters in Norway were, after all, some of the worst winters in our countrys history. I will in time try to improve all port screens. Last edited by Andreas86; 08-06-22 at 01:17 PM.

08-15-22, 09:25 AM	#7
skin-nl KapitainLeutnant Join Date: May 2010 Location: GlanerBrucke Posts: 407 Downloads: 247 Uploads: 0	You did a great job on the port screens andreas __________________

04-17-22, 09:24 AM	#1
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 221 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Thanks John! It will be part of the next update. From now on, you will also be notified ingame when a new version is out. Just kidding..

04-17-22, 11:50 AM	#3
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 221 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Haha, yes!

08-04-22, 10:14 AM	#4
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 221 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	UPDATE 04.08.2022 New in version 1.6 -New after-action newspaper screen! -Fixed color error in the new face popup images. Added a new after-action newspaper screen. Instead of reading the newspaper on a boring wooden desk, the reader now finds himself in a busy german city street, having just bought the latest edition from a news kiosk. Making the new screen work was rather difficult, as I encountered a lot of palette issues when the image fades to dark and the small animation appears in the middle of the newspaper. After a lot of time I managed to sort it out, but you need to install the included new .PAL file for the paper screen to work. I also found a graphic problem with the new face popups that I was unaware of. All the face images contained the use of black color 0,0,0 which led to a color glitch when encountering fog. Fog is created in AOTD by use of some palette entries, that the program gradually changes to shades of gray or blue, depending on the weather. Color 0,0,0 is part of those entries. While I originally did convert the palette of the new face images to the palette of the original face files, something must have gone wrong. And obviously I must have tested the files without encountering fog. Luckily, correcting this was just a matter of mapping all instances of 0,0,0 to 20,8,12 which is the darkest color used in the original Dynamix created face images, and then to re-export everything. Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GX8SA6TNUQrHlGjyRG-keccAYVFW2Lqs/view?usp=sharing

01-18-23, 05:39 PM	#11
agathosdaimon Planesman Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 188 Downloads: 142 Uploads: 0	hi i just tried this mod in AcesOTD and it crashes when i go to the bridge and try to pan around - like as some as the graphic is going be that which shows the other crew on the bridge, it crashes and the game restarts - what am i doing wrong?