Well, I kinda snuck this one in on the side. Those who've played Final Fantasy VII should recognize this one right off. This is an ICBM type unit, and replaces the ICBM in my mod. Feel Free to use it for whatever you want.

UPDATE: fixed civ-coloring issues with Units_32 icon and made the attack (Falling) animation compatible with the PTW/C3C version of the ICBM in order to eliminate the metoer flying up in the air, backwards, before falling on the target.

Preview: Kiss your city good bye!
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/MeteorFall.gif

File Download Here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=3339&act=down)

Would work well with the Dinosaur units.

AS A NUKE :lol:

but good job :goodjob:

Wow, very cool! What kind of technology do you need to call one of *those* things down?

Though you mean, of course, a meteorite. Meteors are specks of dust that burn up in the atmosphere. Doesn't look to me like that thing's going to burn up harmlessly.

:clap: Good work with it, Takayama. :goodjob:

Interesting unit. :D That could be useful as a spell for some of the fantasy mods

Plontius, I mean Meteor. Meteor, In Final Fantasy VII, was a small planet (or planetoid) that was summoned to smash into the target using the secret to the Ultimate Destructive magic: The black Materia.

In my Final Fantasy mod, I've replaced "fission" with "Magitek" which allows the appearance of the Materia resource. If you have access to Materia, and were the civ that built the Temple of the Ancients (where the Black Materia was stored in FF VII), then you could build the Black Materia Great wonder, which allows all civilizations to summon Meteor (providing that they have researched summoning and have materia available). To counter this, I have a small wonder available called "White Materia" which, when built has a 75% chance of calling forth Holy to defeat Meteor (just like in Final Fantasy VII, I might add). I'll be making wonder graphics for both the Black and White materia fairly soon.

Reno, I love your avatar, and since I'm about to get back to my FF mod story, you should be delighted to know I've added a "Weapons Development Center" small wonder that allows (a) the production of Armies without leaders (so even if you have my typically rotten luck with MGl's, you can still eventually get armies) and produces a Makou Cannon every 20 turns.

Very nice. I might have to add this as a sort of nuke to the D&D mod. Of course I'd call it Meteor Swarm.

Wow!
This is pretty heavy :evil:

Very nice! A great addition for fantasy modders!

Reno, I love your avatar, and since I'm about to get back to my FF mod story, you should be delighted to know I've added a "Weapons Development Center" small wonder that allows (a) the production of Armies without leaders (so even if you have my typically rotten luck with MGl's, you can still eventually get armies) and produces a Makou Cannon every 20 turns.

:clap: Even better, though i have promised myself that i will only produce only one Mako Cannon, and once it's destroyed i will build another one.

Looks good Hikaro! :)

:devil: Armeggeddon time! :devil:

fantastic unit!!!!!
i wonder what happens if u make this the barbarians advanced unit... that would be chaos

Plontius, I mean Meteor. Meteor, In Final Fantasy VII, was a small planet (or planetoid) that was summoned to smash into the target using the secret to the Ultimate Destructive magic: The black Materia.

Then I stand very much corrected!

To counter this, I have a small wonder available called "White Materia" which, when built has a 75% chance of calling forth Holy to defeat Meteor (just like in Final Fantasy VII, I might add).
How did you pull that off?
Great animation :goodjob:

Simple: I just re-named the "SDI Defense" small wonder to "the White Materia" :D The SDI has either a 50 or 75% chance of stopping an ICBM (and since all I really did was change the graphics, name and resource requirements for the ICBM, then anything affecting ICBM class units should affect this).

Oh ok, I thought you meant producing a "holy" unit that could defeat the meteor :crazyeye:

Nice. I can use this for my mod :nuke:

This could be used for a fantasy mod with humans fighting against dinosaurs, trying to survive long enough to get a tech that enables this weapon... That would be nice.

great unit i will put this in my mod, along with the 4 ff leaders i donloded from your post(very cool too). :king:

Keep working on the FF mod VII is my fav FF game and i even have emulators off the old ones.

Since this thread was bumped, I have to say that this unit looks amazing in game. A work of destructive art. :devil:

Sorry to bump this thread, but whenever I fire this baby off it shoots up into the sky with the flames/streak going up. It looks really weird. How can I fix this. :confused:

Not sure... I admit that I've never seen that in any of the playtests for the FF mod, but then again, I was looking at the target area, not the launch site.... I patterned the animations off the original ICBM, so it should work like the original ICBM.... Although it would seem that they made an "Updated" version for C3C.... In that version, it has 42 frames for the attack animation (which is bigger, vertically, than a unit FLC should be), the first 22 of which are the missile going up.... I'm going to try and create a new attack flic for the meteor that mimics this set-up, only with the first 22 frames blank, and the normal falling frames padded out to 20 somehow and see if that solves the problem for you.

EDIT: Actually, I just opened the PTW ICBM trail.flc (the launch and fall), and it appears that, unlike the original ICBMfall.flc, It has TWO directions, rather than 1. The SW direction would be the launch, and the S direction would be the fall.... Unfortunately, due to the wierd size of the file, I could not manipulate and re-export the new ICBM flc at the current Meteor fall size, and then just insert blank frames for the SW direction and leave the current MeteorFall.flc in the S direction.... As it is, I don't think ANY of the FLIC editors can make FLCs with only two directions from scratch, so It would appear to be unfixable.... Unless I could make a full-8direction animation in FLICster and just hope the game will only use the first two directions....

Here's my attempt to work around the problem... please tell me if it works:

It's good that people still bump old units since when i wasn't on the forum. :goodjob:
Very nice unit/spell Hikaro :clap:

:goodjob: A fairly legitimate bump too, since it asks an intelligent question of a still active member, and got a quick response to boot. :goodjob: to you both.

It helped me discover a unit that I didn't even know to look for, that now I can think about finding a use for.

:gripe: When I saw this I thought it was going to be the Meteor unit from Gundam Seed, until I saw the thread date. But it's pretty cool nonetheless. There's nothing wrong with bumps when they turn up quality stuff I haven't seen before. :)

Anyone test the updated animation in the game yet? I'd really like to know if it works, but unfortunately, due to my main computer (the one with Civ III) being tied up with unit renders, I can't test it myself.....

It works perfectly. :thumbsup: Thanks. :D

Okay, then I'll update the animations in the FF mod, fix the units_32 icon (which, IIRC in the old version, attached here, still has civ-colored splotches on it), delete the attachments on this thread and upload the fixed version to the units database and link it in the first post.

Glad you caught this before I released the FF mod, since I never thought to check the launch site during my playtests... only the target area, and I must say it looked beautiful.... You see the Meteor screaming down towards the doomed city, then BOOM! big fireball and lots of death and destruction.

I agree. :D

Reminds me of the game Age of Mythology... The God Power: Meteor!
Ahh... I see it now. People learning to fly.