Well, I've got the Modern era defensive unit for the FF mod done; the Sniper. Basically this lady is armed with a semi-auto sniper rifle, and she could possibly be used for a number of things (one that comes to mind is that sniper chick from Enemy at the Gate). Most of the animations were copied from the Ivalician mediator, but I altered the Attack A animation to represent a modern semi-auto rifle, and I made a completely new Attack B and Victory animations.....

UPDATE: I have re-done the civ color textures and almost all the animations as well as the civilopedia icons, and uploaded a completely new version HERE (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2762&act=down)

Preview:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/43985/Sniper2a.gif

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/7637/sniper7ad.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Download the Sniper here (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/Sniper.zip)

Hey wow, nice female partisan unit! (Reminds me a bit of a character from the movie "Force 10 from Navarone" or whatever it's called.) I especially like the semi-auto attack animation... :thumbsup:

Love the empty casings going flying! another great unit, hikaro :thumbsup:

The empty casings spitting out are a great visual Hikaro. Nice work.

What!!!??? No cleavage!!? :gripe:

;)

Great unit!

Swwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee tttttttt!!

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Nice unit, Hikaro. :)

Did i tell you how much i like the atack :) (and the empty casing flying also).
She doesn't need all that "armor" on. :D

Glad you guys like her.... I'm half tempted to enter her into the April Unit competition, but I'm going to wait and see what UtahJazz7 and/or Aaglo enter first......

Nice Unit Hikaro Takayama and as others have said, the casings add a nice touch:goodjob:
Just my opinion but one thing you might consider adjusting in the future...the weapon appears to be overly light weight by the way she so effortlessly slings it around with one arm and wrist action. IF she held it in the middle with one hand and ran with it to her side only, slightly swinging it or held it with both hands across her front, that would show more weight and look more natural.

Again, I'd rather see a run animation with the rifle shouldered, or atleast held in two hands. Other than that its real good. Attack Animation is great.

Really nice! :thumbsup:

How about a female musketwoman with those 16th century muskets next? :mischief:

female musketwoman

compared to what, a male musketwoman?

hikaro: great unit!! love the attack!

Shemalemusketmanwoman! :woohoo:

Nice Unit Hikaro Takayama and as others have said, the casings add a nice touch:goodjob:
Just my opinion but one thing you might consider adjusting in the future...the weapon appears to be overly light weight by the way she so effortlessly slings it around with one arm and wrist action. IF she held it in the middle with one hand and ran with it to her side only, slightly swinging it or held it with both hands across her front, that would show more weight and look more natural.

Yeah... That's a BIG problem with the Poser 5 walk designer.... I had the "swing arms" part of the run animation tweaks set to -200 (minimum), and what you see is what I got.... on a normal, unmodified run animation, she'd be shoving the barrel of the rifle up her nose. I wish I could find a solution for this, but I can't... I may just make future rifle-armed units have the rifle slung over their shoulder (like the Shinra SOLDIER's sword), and have them take it off their shoulder for the fortify animation..... But that's even more work for me.....

Yeah... That's a BIG problem with the Poser 5 walk designer.... Hikaro Takayama, I totally Understand and my "two cent" critique wasn't meant to criticize at all. Poser 5 does have some problems, Poser has changed hands a few times and each time, Poser has had changes. Poser 4 and 6 are better than Poser 5 for several reasons but again, this is yet another opinion :lol: Probably the best way to prevent that poser situation if unable to correct it would be to have the unit Run holding the Rifle more stationary with Both Hands. Truth is most soldiers do Run holding a Rifle with both hands, ready to use it as needed and because they Guard their weapon with their lives. This would also prevent the need to animate a fortify flc where the rifle is taken off the shoulder.

Well, if it were possible to have the walk designer ONLY effect the lower body (Hip and legs) without moving the upper part, I would do just that, but the Walk designer moves the entire body, and trying to edit any upper body/arm movement out of every single freakin' frame is too much work for someone who has a full-time job and a busy family life and a mod that's almost 1 year overdue for release due to still needing a quite a few units (i.e. me).

Hikaro Takayama...you probably already know this but we can also select (edit) Keyframes after first creating the Walk and make changes to the body parts we want altered. By adding as few new Keyframes as possible, Poser will fill in the rest so it doesn't have to be extremely time consumming for the "adjustments" but yes, it does take time none the less...all part of the Joys of animating :lol:

Finally, I can say Great job!!!!!

This is a great unit, Bravo.

That unit is sexah! :groucho:

J/K;) Great unit! I will definently download that!

very nice, it reminds me of that sniper in Full Metal Jacket!

oh, and the movie is called "The Guns of Navaronne" and its a great movie

very nice, it reminds me of that sniper in Full Metal Jacket!

oh, and the movie is called "The Guns of Navaronne" and its a great movie

Yeah, now that you mention it, if I gave her a bamboo hat and made her hair black, she would look like that viet-cong sniper chick... I kind of based her design off that one Russian sniper chick from Enemey at the Gates, though....

"Force 10 from Navarone" and "The Guns of Navarone" are two different films. I've only seen the latter one, though.

Would it be possible to give her that Vietnamese hat?

Give me a couple weeks, and I'll see about doing just that...... (I'll just give her the hat that Kinboat used for his Japanese units....)

ive never heard of 'Force 10 From Navaronne." I shall invertigate further at my local Blockbuster. I didnt realize Navaronne was such a popular island, for a tiny rock in the Aegean

It does look kind of like a Mosin Nagant, although that was a bolt action.

Ah, the Mosin Nagant. Now that's a rifle with history.

Being beat by her would be demoralizing. Good unit!

Hey the Russians used Female snipers in WWII. nice work

I don't know about you, but his really looks like it would work in the Escape From Zombie Island 2 scenario. Just saying. Awesome work by the way.

The russians used female snipers in WWII

Did you really need to say that twice?

Did you know the Russians used Female Snipers in WWII?

Seriuosly? The Russians used Female Snipers in WWII? What did they do, throw them at the enemy? "Hey, Boris, I just sniped me one, I threw Svetlana from the roof on some germans!" Or were they normal snipers like everyone knows they were and its really unneccesary to say it twice, even more cos I think people talked about it on this very thread. I can`t belive my people fight alongside trolls...

Okay, I think it is well established that the Russians used female snipers in WW II, so STOP SPAMMING UP MY THREAD!!!!!!

Besides, who would want to use this crappy unit anyways? I don't even know why I bother making units sometimes... I'll never be as good as Aaglo, or Utahjazz7, so I might as well say F--- it, and do something I'm actually good at, like wiring stuff up or growing plants.....

Wow! The russians used female snipers in WWII? I didn`t know that! :crazyeye:

You know, utah and LMR like when we spam up thier threads, and keep them on the first page! ;)

And the unit is great, stop whining (sp?) :king:

Sorry, just this whole stupid illegal immigrant mass-protest has got me in a bad mood today.... Hopefully when I get the plants I ordered or finish the base model of the Orcish Warmachine/Ork Gargant finished, I'll snap out of it....

Sure you will. Now get to work! :whipped:

I already got the Treads/lower "torso" (complete with two rows of spinning spikey blades) done, and am working on the "shoulders" and "arms" with plasma cannons like the Imperial Sky armor had (take a wild guess what the victory animation will be :evil: )

The lower torso is from that tank of yours? I hope you left out the big cannon hanging between its treads like the one seen in the gargant pics ;)

Of COURSE I did, none of my units need a 'big shoota' down THERE!!! Basically, it will have MG in the "Chest" which will fire along with the electro-zappy/plasma gun arrms (taken directly from my Imperial Sky Armor Airship), a HUGE cannon of some kind (either that or a big flame cannon) in the mouth, and missiles that launch out of the nose....

and this is the first time any of my unit threads has gone beyond two pages....

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srry i couldn't help myself
but anyway they were a big factor in both morale and manpower

Meh, atleast my spam is funny. To me it is, anyway ;)

spam spam spam spam SPAMMITY SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAMMITY SPAM

Warned - spam.

@cheezy: you could at least TRY to conceal you spam posts. :rolleyes:

Don't respond to spam with spam, either.

Kerbumppity!!! But:

Again, I'd rather see a run animation with the rifle shouldered, or atleast held in two hands. Other than that its real good. Attack Animation is great.

You grouched, I listended:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/43985/Sniper2a.gif

Download of this new, improved version is in the first post. Have a nice day.

Great Re-make. Plus Eleventy Nine Points.

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Very good, so how long until "Did you know the Russians used Female Snipers in WW2?"

awesome new Avatar, Hikaro!!!

Nice! :thumbsup:

And I thought the Russian Female Sniper addict came back to bump the thread...

awesome new Avatar, Hikaro!!!
??? He had that for a long time now. Where were you?

HaHa... I'm sorry... OK!!!

(Whos the more foolish, The fool or the fool who follows him?)

Glad you guys liked the re-make... I'm working on an Elven version of her right now... Armed with a silenced auto-sniper :evil:

RL: Thanks, Grandraem made the avatar as a present for my birthday. :)

Al Costa: After about the second or third post on that subject :lol:

@ Bluemofia :lol: I know it took me about 5 months to fix this unit, but give me some credit, man! I said that if I could get a better run animation, I7d fix it, and I did.

Yes Sir, Yes sir you did. I'm tired. Come to my house and paint my Orks.

HaHa... I'm sorry... OK!!!

(Whos the more foolish, The fool or the fool who follows him?)
Follow what? No one else was ranting on Female Snipers. ;) Just ranting about you ranting.

So, did you know that the Soviets used . . .


. . . 3.5 power PU scopes on their sniper rifles? Seriously, a Mosin sniper with a small scope like that would be a sweet unit.