Alfheim/Svartalfheim?

[Gandalf Parker]

izaqyos said:
Wow, I know next to nothing of modding for DOM-II.

Is there some kind of modding tutorial out there?

In what format are the unit images of DOM?
Would I need an editor for the images?

There is a modding PDF in your dominions2/doc directory. The format of the images inside the game are raw C or something like that.

But the mods read the files in a mod directory. Those are all text files with images in .TGA format. You can use whatever program you want to use to edit images then use a free converter to make them TGA if your paint program of preference doesnt support it.

A human being is supposed to be 32 pixels high. There should be a 2 pixels high space between his feet and the bottom of the image. The image itself should be 32x32, 32x64, 64x64, 128x64 or something similar pixels large.
And stored as uncompressed tga.

You need 2 images. One to be seen most of the time, and another which is the single-framd animation move done by a unit in combat. Usually its just the first image edited to a slight move of an arm or weapon.