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Fedomar 28 Mar, 2015 @ 12:08pm
Fixing the Smiley #ICON's; probably it is very easy to make extra ICON-pack
Hi,

As most people know i was mainly a vanilla player... Now playing on steam I really missed the face Icons. Today I was thinking about that it probably should be easy to fix. And it was.
It is very easy to fix the face icons, set with #ICON54 etc. in chat

I don't have it fully tested yet, but I do not expect too much dificulties with it....
replace ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\art\iface_resources2.tga

With the original file of vanilla (after they were added in a patch).
To make things easier I posted a copy of the needed file here:
http://cl.ly/aQj3/download/iface_resources2.tga

MAKE SURE YOU FIRST BACKUP THE OLD FILE in case you ever want to restore it. Just rename it before copying the new file to the location.

I guess for most people above should not be too hard.
As said in the title, be looking into this, the Icon files are being controled by the XML file in data folder:
...\Steam\steamapps\common\Rise of Nations\Data\icon_texs.xml

So probably you can edit these files and add extra Icons without too much trouble.
For the people who want to do that... Good luck with it :)


Realise that it will work the same way as with the RoB Tauntpack, that only those people who have modified these files will be able to see the 'new/restored" ICONS.


Have fun!!

Fedomar

Last edited by Fedomar; 8 Apr, 2015 @ 10:28am
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{-t2sa-}TGCVugi 1 Apr, 2015 @ 2:48am 
new icons? what do you mean?
you added some extra or? (i can't open TGA.. no PS or such)
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Fedomar 1 Apr, 2015 @ 4:34pm 
The .tga is just an old file from the old game without expansion and it will fix the Smiley Icons you can use within the game, by having a picture (with 14 extra smiley pictures in it).

But as said, by above methode I am very sure you can easily custom make more #ICONS for the game and not just 'repair' the #ICON54 till #ICON62

I use GIMP2 myself and I could open the picture file without troubles.
Last edited by Fedomar; 1 Apr, 2015 @ 4:35pm
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Fedomar 8 Apr, 2015 @ 10:27am 
Anyone else tried to fix them but me :P Looks like people aint that irritated by the smileys not working as I was :) haha Ah Well! :)
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YhofChaerkh 11 Apr, 2015 @ 7:30am 
Huh, I'd completely forgotten about these from the old RON (without TAP). Thanks!

One question, though. I tried editing the .tga files before, and it eventually resulted in my game failing the online integrity check through Steam, and I had to re-install the game. Have you found any problems with the file verification once you made this .tga edit?
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Fedomar 11 Apr, 2015 @ 2:56pm 
It removes it again, if you check the local files within steam and it will redownload the original file. But that is the same principle as for the RoB tauntpack....

So i Basically have 2 files (for this and the tauntpack) backed up in the folder.
Read: sound.xml.org sound.xml.rob sound.xml *the one being active
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