Some resources for mods and things

[Altanore]

For those new to the game or haven't played in awhile, here are some resources you may find of interest.

https://www.popre.net/ Long standing Populous community and where you need to start in order to play online. All sorts of community made single player campaigns can be found here too:
https://www.popre.net/forum/map-making-and-ai-scripting-f25/

https://www.populous3.info/ 1.5 patch, with various improvements, including high resolution wide screen support, in-game map editor and 8 player support. Here is an 8 player single player campaign, talk about chaos!:
https://www.popre.net/forum/map-making-and-ai-scripting-f25/single-player-levels-8-player-ffas-t11966.html

https://thebeginning.uk/multiverse/
Sort of an all-in-one easy modding solution. Includes many improvements as well and easy custom single player campaign installs.

ALACN's Stand alone map editor. Custom map creation all started with this.
https://github.com/Toksisitee/ALACNPopWorldEditor/releases/tag/v1.9.0

[Altanore]

Originally posted by Player 1 (Cosmo):

First of all, thank you for posting this <3

I had to give up on the multiverse launcher thing tho.
I ended up deleting everything and just installing 1.5 (this is great tho).

Welcome! I also just use the 1.5 patch. Multiverse is also a 1.5 patch but from a different team. It is great and easy but the one from populous3.info just has better improvements I find and 8 player support.

[Lovenfloofen]

Originally posted by Ricey, Professional 70's Pimp:

Originally posted by Lovenfloofen:

Put this in the advance launch properties of the game on steam

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Populous 3\pop3.exe" %command%

Make sure the directory matches your install path, and that you include the "

That worked! My only issue is that it starts extremely small, and even when I change the size of the game it fills the screen but everything is still incredibly small in it. Any way to fix this?

https://imgur.com/a/tmQDpYm

Don't forget when you've launched the game to go into the game options and set the actual game resolution in there. What's happening is the game is trying to stretch out to be 4k.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by Altanore:

Multiverse is also a 1.5 patch but from a different team.

Mutliverse uses 1.01 as a base, not 1.5. Mutliverse is designed around singleplayer campaigns. 1.5 has a tendency to break custom campaigns and their AI, hence it's generally not advised to use 1.5 for Singleplayer unless the campaign is specifically made for it, such as the Spring Seasons campaign.

[Jimmy MacReady]

Thanks for the post, chucked an award in.

Quick question tho, is 1.5 multiplayer enabled? Couldnt see an option.

People keep bumping this till it becomes a sticky or something.

[Daikatan]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Originally posted by Altanore:

Multiverse is also a 1.5 patch but from a different team.

Mutliverse uses 1.01 as a base, not 1.5. Mutliverse is designed around singleplayer campaigns. 1.5 has a tendency to break custom campaigns and their AI, hence it's generally not advised to use 1.5 for Singleplayer unless the campaign is specifically made for it, such as the Spring Seasons campaign.

I'm totally confused now. I thought 1.5 is Populous Enhanced (which is what Multiverse have on their website), and then I've no idea what popre provides as theirs 1.5

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by Daikatan:

I'm totally confused now. I thought 1.5 is Populous Enhanced (which is what Multiverse have on their website), and then I've no idea what popre provides as theirs 1.5

The new posts you see on TheBeginning's website about Enhanced are for 1.5, aka what's used in Multiplayer on Popre. Anything that says "Multiverse" is for Mutliverse's modified version of 1.01 which can only be played through the Launcher. They are two different versions and not compatable with each other.

This is why the news posts for 1.5 do not discuss major changes to the Multiverse, and the Multiverse news posts do not discuss major changes to previous versions of 1.5, save for the Multiverse Map Editor which has support for both versions.

[Daikatan]

You mean that was so called 1.0.3?

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by Daikatan:

You mean that was so called 1.0.3?

1.03 is a community patch that's hosted on PopRe in their download section. That's a VERY old patch that I don't believe is used anymore, as with a few other downloads on PopRe.

1.01 is what Multiverse uses as a base. 1.5 is a heavily modified 1.01.

You can find more details about 1.03 here: https://www.popre.net/downloads.php

[Daikatan]

Ah, ok!

So many different options for game, I've never expected :)