Fall of Nations v0.112

This mod is no longer being regularly developed

Due to limited development resources, development time for this mod was reallocated into making the Community Balance/Bugfix Patch as good as possible (which succeeded). As such, Fall of Nations is unlikely to ever reach its intended playable state, but large amounts of what was learnt while developing FoN was utilised in bugfixes and enhancements for CBP.

Due to a bug / unforeseen consequence in how RoN’s mod manager is coded[mhloppy.com], I’ve had to repackage the way this mod is distributed. In order to activate the mod after downloading it, you’ll need follow the steps below.

The mod’s primary purpose is to be a tech demo for you and a learning experience for me. While I’ll certainly try to make the end result enjoyable to play, the mod’s primary purpose is to show off what can be done in RoN via mods, not necessarily to maximise gameplay enjoyment. It’d be cool to see other modders inspired by or even building off of some of what I demonstrate.

The mod’s implementation will be focusing on a single player campaign experience. See here[mhloppy.com] for more information and a full breakdown of expected features. The mod is currently ~7% complete as of the 28th of September 2020.

1) Subscribe to the mod. (this step will not automatically load the mod in any capacity that is either useful or damaging)
2a) Locate the downloaded Workshop files. For a default Steam install this will be:

2b) Copy the Fall of Nations folder into your Rise of Nationsmods folder. For a default Steam install this will be:

2c) OPTIONAL: From these files, you will further need to go into the Manual Install folder within the mod, and copy the folders located within into your base Rise of Nations folder. You will get a notification that doing so will overwrite some files. This is okay, and I have provided backup files to restore back to if you want them (or you can get the original files from Steam by verifying your game files should you need to).
3a) If you start Rise of Nations, you should now see custom graphics in the launcher if you followed step 2c above.
3b) Ensure that the mod registers as loaded and enabled in the Rise of Nations mod manager (accessible via Tools & Extras -> Steam Workshop). To make use of updates to the mod, you’ll need to manually repeat step 2 to activate the changes downloaded by Steam.
4a) If you ever want to disable the mod, DELETE THE COPIED FILES (keep the original ones that Steam downloaded). If you disable the mod without deleting these extra files, game assets will incorrectly load due to a limitation of the game’s mod manager and it can cause audio glitches, missing graphics, broken menus, and game instability.
4b) Remember that you will need to restore the original launcher graphics as well. Copies of the original files are included in the Original File Backups folder.
4c) To restore the mod after previously deleting it, simply repeat step 2) again.

Step 4 may involve backing up campaign progress in the future once the mod includes one.

Since Fall of Nations is a full game conversion mod, assume by default that all other Rise of Nations mods will be incompatible with it unless you know otherwise. While there may be a small number of mods that would be compatible, I can’t manually verify every other mod. Instead I’ll provide a whitelist of my own compatible mods once FoN is more developed.

Note that FoN is only being tested right now on v1.2, not 1.1 of RoN.

Night Vigil by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5746-night-vigil
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CC0 image for the mod’s thumbnail / launcher:

• City in ruins[pixabay.com] by ahmadreza heidaripoor[pixabay.com] via Pixabay

CC0 images that I did some editing on for the menu backgrounds:

• Soldier[pixabay.com] by Amber Clay[pixabay.com] via Pixabay
• Soldier crop[pixabay.com] by Hilary Clark[pixabay.com] via Pixabay
• Apache helicopter[pixabay.com] by mrminibike[pixabay.com] via Pixabay
• Cloudy field[pixabay.com] by Gianni Crestani[pixabay.com] via Pixabay
• Desert dunes[pixabay.com] by Falkenpost[pixabay.com] via Pixabay
• Gunman[pixabay.com] by SamWilliamsPhoto[pixabay.com] via Pixabay (he has plenty of other gorgeous shots on dark backgrounds too!)
• Windowed hallway[pixabay.com] and Fiery explosion[pixabay.com] by Free-Photos[pixabay.com] via Pixabay
• Soldier walkaway[pixabay.com] by Inactive account 272447[pixabay.com] (rip) via Pixabay (I changed the context of the picture quite a lot lol)
• Small explosion[picsart.com] by 4asno4i[picsart.com] via PicsArt (technically not a CC0 license, but close to it based on the poorly explained licensing agreement)

  The painted effect applied to each image is a mix of FotoSketcher 3.50[fotosketcher.com], the included Oil Painting effect in Paint dot NET[www.getpaint.net], and my own editing.

  Support:

  If you like this mod, please consider rating it. If you notice any issues, please let me know so I can fix them!

  To support my modding:
  [patreon.com][ko-fi.com]