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"Children of the Nile" Modifications

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The instructions below will help you to create your own scenarios for "Children of the Nile." The content modified or extract can only be used for personal use and is not supported.

Easy Modifications
The Cotn.INI file is a text file created in the same directory as the CotN.exe is, when your run your game the first time. The default location is: C:\Program files\tilted mill\children of the Nile. Modify the settings with a text editor to change the upper limit of your game speed improvements and other game play features.

CotN.ini
Game speed max (256=2.5). Adjust this CPU dependant. If your crop yields go down after turning up game speed, turn it back down. The AI does not have time to path farmers to get to fields.

JPG Screenshot Quality (Default 80): You can increase the image quality for use on a website or other uses. For super high quality, such as taking a shot for your wallpaper, you can use the command.

"Take BMP Screenshots" default off= 0 to turn on change to 1. Screenshots take at this quality could be as much as 8 megs each.

Advanced Modifications

You can open graphic textures (dds) with Photoshop and substitute TGA files of your own to create your own 'skins' or textures.

You can substitute your favorite wav tracks or even sound fx and speech files. Use the text database to decide which speech file you wish to change.

Source: Tilted Mills.

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