#swgb

This Genie engine RTS challenges players with conquering exotic locales in a far away galaxy.

Capturing footage

Install the Expanding Fronts conversion mod to get high-resolution graphics, in widescreen aspect ratios, at 60fps. I couldn't find a way to hide the user interface, so we'll just crop a 720p image from our 1080p capture.

Use the forceexplore and forcesight cheats to completely reveal the map.

Identifying sounds

Ambient sound assets can be found inside Game\Sound\Terrain.

SWGB decides which sounds to play depending on which types of terrain are currently visible. To explore this mapping in detail, we can use Advanced Genie Editor's Terrains tab. For example, GRASS1 uses the Sound group ID of 6:

And on the Sounds tab, we can see which assets are part of group 6:

Sound groups reference

There are several audible terrain types. Here's a listing of each and their corresponding asset names:

#9 Water: shore, swamp, etc. W1, W2, W3, W4, W5

#1255 Lava: L1, L2, L3, V1

#7 Barrens: Dirt, ice, snow, barren trees. B1, B2, B3

#543 Jungle: strange or twisted tress. J1, J2, J3, J4

#8 Forest: all other kinds of trees. F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7

#6 Grass: C, G1, G2, G3

Expanding (ambient) Fronts

The EF conversion mod adds a few biomes (e.g. Swamp, Metal) and remakes the ones above. EF also adds ambient sounds for map fauna e.g. Fambaas.

Putting it all together

Alaris Prime was a terrestrial moon in the Kashyyyk system, located in the Mid Rim. Possessing many characteristics similar to Kashyyyk proper, Alaris Prime was unknown to the galaxy due to its orbit, making the colonization process that occurred before the Clone Wars a contest between the Wookiees and the Trade Federation, allied with Trandoshan slavers. There were Jedi ruins scattered across the moon.

Source: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002)

Shoran was a Wookiee warrior and explorer, and friend of Chewbacca. In his youth, Shoran assisted Chewbacca’s family and Jedi Qui-gon Jinn and Obi-wan Kenobi in establishing a colony on the moon Alaris Prime, combating the Trade Federation. Later, Shoran helped liberate Kashyyyk following the death of the Emperor.

Source: Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (2001)

Echuu Shen-Jon was a human Jedi Master who served during the Clone Wars, once apprenticed to Mace Windu. He survived the Jedi Purge after a number of successful campaigns against Seperatist forces that led to a slip to the dark side, and redemption after self-imposed exile. Shen-Jon was a master tactician and duelist, wielding a green lightsaber and later a blue one following his exile.

For those who don't know what it is, here's a pastebin of the released readme.

A short version, it's a small campaign I was working in in Star Wars Galactic Battllegrounds: Clone Campaigns. The first missions is of many more to come, hopefully. I've had the ideas floating around for a while, and with my desktop pc being broken, I decided I'd shift to working on this to make good use of my time.

This right here is the link to the upload, with the review. My opinion of the review will be below the cut.