Basic Modding Help, Please...

[PvK]

The other thing to realize is that mods only affect games created using those mods. So adding a new mod won't affect existing games. Changing a mod will only affect games which were created using that mod (i.e. when the mod was selected).

PvK

[Scott Hebert]

Thanks, PvK.

Now that I know that a 5R mage isn't totally broken (in 20+ turns of hiring one a turn, I have only seen a single 3 pick, and no 4 or higher), I can go ahead with my more ambitious project...

But I'm running into another roadblock. How do you create a .tga file? I don't have access to anything but the basic Windows programs, and while they can create the 24-bit images required, they can't save them as .tga files. Reading another thread here concurrently, apparently there's a program called GIMP. Is it free, and is it easy-to-use? I'm not really an artist, and while I don't care what the .tgas for my new units look like, I want to know if I'll be able to wrap my head around it.

Scott

[Johan K]

Gimp is free and you can find it here:
www.gimp.org

It should not be hard to create a tga picture suitable for Dominions with it, especially if you don't care much what the result looks like.

[Gandalf Parker]

Gimp is a fantastic paint program for programmers and serious artists. Very powerful. It can be difficult to learn though.

If you are making the images in a paint program you know then you might be happy with just a converter. Something like bmp2tga? IrfanView is free.

[Scott Hebert]

Thanks. I'll download it and see if I can get it to work. If I have any Dominions-related questions about it, I'll be sure to post them here.

Scott