TRIBAL PACK PLUS BY EGERION "website - https://www.bwrealm.com" v0 ----------------- Table Of Contents ----------------- A. Letter from Egerion and Special Thanks B. Requirement C. About and General Features D. How to Use New Features (don't forget to read this section!) E. Uninstall F. Known Issues ---------------------- A. Letter from Egerion ---------------------- Hey, It's Ege, aka Egerion from black and white community. I’m happy to share our new work called Tribal Pack Plus. Ever since I play the game, I always wanted to play as other tribes such as Aztec, which is my favorite one and the more I met with other players, I started to see that I’m not the only guy who have this desire. Then I release, tribe types are huge part of the gaming experience, they do change the feel of the game dramatically. So, after 6 months of development and testing phases. Here is the final product. It’s a labor of love and result of hard work so hope you guys will like it. Best wishes. I would like to thank my friend and team member Bill from B&W Community for his beta testings and many other mod related helps. Also huge thanks to Dunstklinge for letting me use his BW2Mod.dll file on Tribal Pack Plus. This mod wouldn't be possible without many Black and White 2 Fans from past. -------------- B. Requirement -------------- ///////////////////////////// //For Black & White 2 Users// ///////////////////////////// You need to install Fan Patch v1.4 or upper version to use Tribal Pak Plus. You can get Fan Path v1.4 over https://www.bwrealm.com or https://www.bwfiles.com (note that mod tested on v1.4). ////////////////////////////////////////////////// //For Black & White 2 - Battle of The Gods Users// ////////////////////////////////////////////////// You need to install B&W2 - Battle of The Gods Fan Patch v1.1 or upper. You can get Fan Patch v1.1 overhttps://www.bwrealm.com or https://www.bwfiles.com (note that mod tested on v1.1). ----------------------------- C. About and General Features ----------------------------- Tribal Pack Plus converts your Black and White 2 tribe type to any available tribe type on Black and White 2 which includes, Aztec, Greek, Norse and Japanese. In order to carry mod's integrity, you need to either start a new game or load one of your old "land depart" save (if exists) then use it to travel next land. Then you can keep playing from you old save. If you used your save with Tribal Pack Plus, you don't need to do these steps. You can constantly switch your tribe. Any preplaced Greek assests (with game script or landscape) such as buildings and soldiers will not convert to other tribe types. Because mod will convert your tribe type directly by modifying native game functions, instead of model and mesh renaming. Here is a quick overview about the general changes that mod will apply to your game. Changes and patches will be explained under the changed file type titles. //////////////////////////////////////////// //EXE - List of Executable Related Changes// //////////////////////////////////////////// Mods: ----- a -[TpEditorLib.dll] Alternative platoon types and upgraded platoon base levels. - when you've built up to 6 melee/ranged buildings on your town, alternative platoon types will be unlocked and you can switch between alternative platoon types by holding shift and pressing 5. - Base level of platoons can be increased by building melee/ranged armories. If you built 3 melee/ranged buildings, your platoon's (melee/ranged) base level will become "rookie".If you built 5 melee/ranged buildings, your platoon's base level will become "enlisted" (note that you legimetly should place and built these armories to see these effects. Any pre-placed buildings with landscape editor won't be count). b - [TpEditorLib.dll] Female Soldier Switch. You can recruit female soldiers to formate your platoons.( you cannot switch your recruitment gender type on Aztec Tribe, since their archers are female by default). - pressing 6 while holding shift will switch your recruitment gender. You will hear female shout if you select females as your soldier type. c - [TpEditorLib.dll] Instant Tribe Switch. Now you can switch your tribe type while playing your game. - pressing 7 while holding shift key will switch your tribe type and you will hear which tribe type that you've selected. After that YOU NEED TO GO MAIN MENU AND COME BACK TO YOUR GAME to get your tribe conversion affects. (note that this is not full tribe switch, this will only help you to create intercultural towns, to full tribe conversion, you need to re-install Tribal Pack Plus). d- [TpEditorLib.dll] Ability to change player colour. - pressing 8 while holding shift will change your player colour (green by default) to any other available colours, such as red, green, sky blue and purple. If you switch your colour in the middle of the game, your town center influence beam's colour won't change. You need to go to main menu or restart the game to fully convert your player colour. e - [TpEditorLib.dll] Holding shift while drawing streets or walls enters a special draw mode that makes it easier to draw certain shapes - pressing 4 will switch between the following modes: straight line, V shape, U shape, half circle - pressing 2 and 3 will move the tip of the V or U shape up and down - pressing 1 will flip the shape or mirror it f - [TpEditorLib.dll] Aztec Undead God features were added (disabled for Tribal Pack Plus so no need to explain them here :). Major Patches and Other EXE Related Changes: -------------------------------------------- a - Player's tribe type change. b - Unlock Tiger Creature by default. Remove special edition limitation to get Tiger Creature as pet. c - Tavern stop playing music when you use them on other tribes towns. d - Fix for not playing animations on buildings for other tribes (granary and lumbermill building types). e - Fix child follow mother conditions. f - making other tribes town center functional. g - Platoon mesh scale fix. h - Fix for wrong and flickering town center stats. i - Population impressiveness is now based on adult population instead of town capacity j - Town happiness now acts as a bonus or malus to the town population impressiveness k - Fixed a bug where impressiveness decay actually started with the third building of a type, even though other parts of the game displayed it starting at the second l - Platoons colonel acknowledgement command shouts were changed for non-Greek tribe types. and much more small patches... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //GENERAL CHANGES - List of cumulative changes made on game files// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Info File: ---------- a - Male/female birth chance were equalized and slightly increased for Aztec Tribe to support female archer recruitment. b - Other Tribes building capacites were matched to Greek buildings capacities. c - 6 more alternative platoon types were added. BMW File: --------- a - Aztec, Japanese and Norse Town Center's models were modified to make them functional for players. Audio Files: ------------ a - Normally Japanese Tribe does not have platoon marching music. Since rest of the tribe types does have marching music, I've added my version to the game. b - Aztec worship chant is same with Greeks. Its either mistake or laziness. I repurposed unused and more likely worship chant music called "atzec_chant". c - Platoon's Acknowlegment Command (shout that we hear when you move your platoon or hold platoon flags) was changed for Norse, Japanese and Aztec tribes. Models: ------- The models are split into their respective folders in the Black & White 2/Data/Art folder. features: Aztec Streetlight - Added door and flame Japanese Streetlight - Added door and flame Norse Streetlight - Added door and flame Japanese bell - Added door models: Aztec oil refinery - Added door Aztec fountain - Added door Aztec statue - Added door Aztec statue evil - Added door Aztec fertility statue - Added door Aztec Uber Temple - Fixed the door, so it doesn't attach to the road backwards Aztec Tomb - Added door Gorilla Creature Statue - Added door Japanese Catapult Workshop - Added door Japanese Torture Pit - Added door Japanese Fountain - Added door Japanese Garden - Added door Japanese Shrine - Added door Japanese Fertility Statue - Added door Norse Graveyard - Fixed door, so it doesn't attach to the road backwards Norse Landmark Statue - Fixed door, moved it from the center to a location were the road can actually be attached Norse Tower - Added door Norse Well - Added door Norse Lumbermill - Fixed door, to connect to the front of the building Norse Fountion - Added door Norse Statue - Added door Norse Fertility - Added door Textures: --------- a - New build menu icons and tribute menu wrappers were added for Norse, Japanese and Aztec tribes. b - Custom building textures were added for new buildings. -------------------------- D. How to Use New Features -------------------------- Here is the breif explanation of how to use new features of TPP. a - Alternative platoon types and how to use them. TPP introduces alternative platoon types that players can formate and use. These platoon types can be considered as mercenaries and can only be used when your tow has total of 6 or more melee or ranged buildings. Once your town has total of 6 armoury buildings, you can hold shift and press 5 to switch your platoon type. You will hear battle cry sound when your platoon type has switched. Here is the list of alternative platoon types that players can formate on given tribe types. (All these alternative platoon types are about 15 - 20% stronger than original platoon types). Aztec ----- - Melee; "Maya Melee" - Ranged; "Maya Ranged" Japanese -------- - Melee; "Tibetan Melee" and "Monk Melee" - Ranged; "Tibetan Ranged" and "Monk Ranged" Greek ----- - Melee; "Byzantine Melee" - Ranged; "Byzantine Ranged" Norse ----- - Melee; "Celtic Melee" and "Marauder Melee" - Ranged; "Celtic Ranged" Battle of The Gods users can also recruit all types of undead platoons (aztec ghost, skeleton melee, skeleton ranged and norse ghost melee). b - Upgrading Platoons Base Level Base level of platoons can be increased by building melee/ranged armories. If you built 3 melee/ranged buildings, your platoon's (melee/ranged) base level will become "rookie".If you built 5 melee/ranged buildings, your platoon's base level will become "enlisted" (note that you legimetly should place and built these armories to see these effects. Any pre-placed buildings with landscape editor won't be count). c - Instant Tribe Switch. Now you can switch your tribe type while playing your game. - pressing 7 while holding shift key will switch your tribe type and you will hear the announcement of your selected tribe type. After that YOU NEED TO GO MAIN MENU AND COME BACK TO YOUR GAME or restart your save to get your tribe conversion effects. (note that this is not full tribe switch, this will only help you to create intercultural towns, to full tribe conversion, you need to re-install Tribal Pack Plus, embellishment buildings will not be change after you switch your tribe type with this method). d - Ability to change player colour. - pressing 8 while holding shift will change your player colour (green by default) to any other available colours, such as red, green, sky blue and purple. If you switch your colour in the middle of the game, your town center influence beam's colour won't change. You need to go to main menu or reload your save to fully convert your player colour. e - Female Soldier Switch. You can recruit female soldiers to formate your platoons.( you cannot switch your recruitment gender type on Aztec Tribe, since their archers are female by default). - you need to hold shift and press 6 to activate gender switch. f - Holding shift while drawing streets or walls enters a special draw mode that makes it easier to draw certain shapes - pressing 4 will switch between the following modes: straight line, V shape, U shape, half circle - pressing 2 and 3 will move the tip of the V or U shape up and down - pressing 1 will flip the shape or mirror it ------------ D. Uninstall ------------ Tribal Pack Plus does not comes with uninstaller so you need to backup your files to revert mods changes. However, you can install TPP back with Greek Tribe to revert your tribe type back to Greek and if you don't use any additional features, It will basically becomes vanilla game (considering that you're using TPP on vanilla game). ----------------- E. Known Issues ----------------- a - If your tribe type is non-Greek and you have Greek platoon, their platoon banner will be invisible (if you switch your tribe type back to Greek, they will again become visible). b - Secound issue was never experienced by myself but creator of BW2Mod.dll Dunstklinge told me and I'm quot "I do remember though that the wall draw tool tended to crash if you drew crazy shapes, so be warned".