New Graphic & Sound Mod for Aces of the Deep

Andreas86 · 04-15-22, 07:43 AM

Another screen has been changed. As many other screens I thought the original newspaper after-action screen was very boring with just a wooden table background, so I went about modifying it. This was a tricky one because of the weird way the newspaper sequence uses the palette.

Now the person reading the paper is standing at a news kiosk in a period-correct german city street, taking in the latest reports from the war.

John Pancoast · 04-15-22, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Andreas86

Another screen has been changed. As many other screens I thought the original newspaper after-action screen was very boring with just a wooden table background, so I went about modifying it. This was a tricky one because of the weird way the newspaper sequence uses the palette.

Now the person reading the paper is standing at a news kiosk in a period-correct german city street, taking in the latest reports from the war.

Another great idea !

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

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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:

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	#7
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 220 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Original AOD port screens, Kiel, France and Norway: Last edited by Andreas86; 08-06-22 at 10:31 AM.

04-15-22, 07:43 AM	#1
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 220 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Another screen has been changed. As many other screens I thought the original newspaper after-action screen was very boring with just a wooden table background, so I went about modifying it. This was a tricky one because of the weird way the newspaper sequence uses the palette. Now the person reading the paper is standing at a news kiosk in a period-correct german city street, taking in the latest reports from the war.

04-17-22, 09:24 AM	#3
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 220 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	#5
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 220 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 2	Haha, yes!

08-04-22, 10:14 AM	#6
Andreas86 Ensign Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 220 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	#8
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?