I've been working hard on my first Civ4 unit, and it's almost finished! :D It's a futuristic tank model based on the vehicle from an old NES game called Blaster Master.

I was hoping to have it posted this morning, but I ran into a problem with the Civ4 plugin for 3DS Max turning off my textures when I export the model. But I think I know what's wrong, so it should all be straightened out by tomorrow (cross your fingers for me :p ).

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Needless to say I love it. :thumbsup:

It'll find a spot on the Moon!

A philosophical Stone, Link and now Blaster Master. You make me curious. What kind of mod is this you're working on?:confused:

Needless to say I love it. :thumbsup:

It'll find a spot on the Moon!

I had a feeling you'd like it Woodelf. ;)


A philosophical Stone, Link and now Blaster Master. You make me curious. What kind of mod is this you're working on?

The mod I'm slowly working on has a Final Fantasy theme to it, so all those things do fit together in it somewhat. But when you really get down to it, I'm just adding a little bit of everything I like into my game. Be it mages, videogame stuff, or even anime characters. :lol:

I had a feeling you'd like it Woodelf. ;)




The mod I'm slowly working on has a Final Fantasy theme to it, so all those things do fit together in it somewhat. But when you really get down to it, I'm just adding a little bit of everything I like into my game. Be it mages, videogame stuff, or even anime characters. :lol:

heh, I love your weird stuff. Why don't you just post this alltogether. There are already Mods which include basically customfolders. Think yours would be a nice add to this:)

1650 poly's? A bit on the high side perhaps?
But it sure does look grand! :goodjob:

heh, I love your weird stuff. Why don't you just post this alltogether. There are already Mods which include basically customfolders. Think yours would be a nice add to this:)

I might post it when I get more of the bugs worked out. Right now there are some major gameplay issues from all the stuff I've been throwing together. :crazyeye: And there's some python stuff I want to add first, but havn't had the time to work on yet.


1650 poly's? A bit on the high side perhaps?
But it sure does look grand!

Thanks. :) Yeah, it's a bit high. But I figure people will be using it as a single unit, like tanks. I might be able to get it lower, but we'll have to see.

I love it thanks

Well, through trial and error I've figured out the problem I was having. I had set some of the textures as a planar map to get them into position, and it seems the Civ4 plugin only likes the explicit map channel. :hammer2:

Now that I know what's going on, I just need to redraw a few of the textures to fit onto the model correctly in that setting. So I should have the unit finished either late this evening or tomorrow morning. :band: :dance:

Also, I was able to lower the polygon count down to 1322. Mostly I took it out of the wheels, so they aren't as round anymore. But you can't really tell I've changed them much when you look at the model in-game.

Cheers! Every poly can count for lowgraph cards. :goodjob:

Dual - Are we going to be able to skin this oddity? I'd like to make it less bright, at least for the Moon mod. :crazyeye:

can i smell a nintendo mod here?

Dual - Are we going to be able to skin this oddity? I'd like to make it less bright, at least for the Moon mod. :crazyeye:

Yep, I'm using a .dds file to apply the textures just like the origional units. So you'll be able to change the colors and add drawn on textures like usual.

Thanks Dual. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!

All done! You can get the unit here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=3829745#post3829745

I changed the textures quite a bit, so they look different then the pic above now. There are new pics in the unit thread.

I also lowered the polygon count a bit more. It's now at 1242.

Enjoy the unit. :D