Hope you like this :

http://users.skynet.be/maissearsouye/civ/villes/troglo_ma.jpg

This is inspired by troglodytic cities in Cappadocia ( central Turkey ). This city is special because it doesn't get larger. It just digs more and more caves in hills.

http://users.skynet.be/maissearsouye/civ/villes/troglo_ma.zip


These cities won the April 2006 PCX contest !
Thank you:goodjob:

Heel goed!

...wow... this is awesome.. its..like..awesome..`n stuff...:dubious:

It's great!

Looks good...I've got a use for this one - thanks :goodjob: !!

Now that is what I call an original city set... Great job!

Awesome city set. :goodjob:

Looks great, and as said, original.:)

Cool! :)

So cool, so lovely! My wife will love these!

This is very nice Maisse :)

How did you make the set?

I made this with Blender.

Nice work. :goodjob: Quite original indeed.

I just wonder - are the real-world inspiration really refered to as "troglodytic"? The word usually has unkind connotations in English.

Actually, the french word "troglodyte" has no negative connotation. I just translated it and didn't though further.

Here's the AHD defintion:

1a. A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes. b. A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish. 2a. An anthropoid ape, such as a gorilla or chimpanzee. b. An animal that lives underground, as an ant or a worm.

Of course, a form of the word also occurs in the scientific name of the chimp: Pan troglodytes.

Whoa! C'est vraiment cool!! :p

This William GBTW's wife...I just want to say this is great for my Pre historic mod.

Mrs William GBTW, get your own account, and start posting. :)

@Maisse: Nice!

:lol: :lol: :lol: I'm not married...I just was pulling your leg :lol: :lol: wish I was married thoguh.

You're not funny, William.

Anyway, this set is real neat.

Very nice.

And yes, these Cappadocians are normally referred to as "troglodytes". Makes me think of the D&D monster of that name, but still. It just means someone who lives in a cave.

Very nice. Very unusual. Very original.

Wicked stuff!

I'm loving these cities you're knocking out Maisse. Great work. :hatsoff:



"troglodytes" was the name my mates and I used when referring to ugly girls back in school (along with a whole load of others). Shameful, but true.

Thanks for your comments. I hope they win the pcx challenge.

The link no longer works. If someone had these, could they reupload them or attach them to the post?

Oh no! :(
I hope Maisse's other stuff is still downloadable....

I too would appreciate a reupload. I haven't seen it yet but if it won an award it must be good...

Does anyone have a copy of this?

you might try a PM to Ozy. He seems to have a lot of things that were lost in the hack attack.

you might try a PM to Ozy. He seems to have a lot of things that were lost in the hack attack.

:shake:

I hang my head in shame.

Somehow, I missed this one, although I DO have the following city sets of his:

African
Both of his European sets
Crete
Flanders
Japan
Mars (!)
"New" European (with RedAlert)
Polynesian
Sahara

C'est La Guerre,

Oz

postemallorgimmepm!

Most of those still work though. For example, I have gotten his African set, his Flanders set, his Polynesia set, etc., to work.

Hmmm...what do the "mars" cities look like?

Hmmm...what do the "mars" cities look like?

Like this:

Thanks Oz. Not what I was looking for, but very well done nonetheless. On topic, the term "troglodytic" is unfortunate. I'm familiar with Cappadocia and their remarkable underground cities, and see no reason why the term "Cappadocian Cities" wouldn't have sufficed....

I was searching through my archives and found a folder in my cities one called "troglo-ma".
Is this the right one?

Here's a preview pic.
By the way, I looked at the files in the zip, and although they're .pcx, they're not in the correct colour format. That would need to be changed.

edit: If that is the right file, then a big sorry to the people that requested this a year ago. I should have looked back then. :( Sorry about that.

Here's a preview pic.
By the way, I looked at the files in the zip, and although they're .pcx, they're not in the correct colour format. That would need to be changed.

edit: If that is the right file, then a big sorry to the people that requested this a year ago. I should have looked back then. :( Sorry about that.

Here are a couple sets that I recoloured from the post Grandraem made.

One a straight recolour and the second set with vegetation posts and wells added.

I'll also put this is my miscellaneous graphics thread.

@Grandraem - Good find. Maisse usually named his city files ending in "-ma".
@Pounder - Nice work :thumbsup:

Best,

Oz

Good work, Pounder, i think you have improved Maisse's originals.

Too bad Maisse is not here anymore..

There was a request to make these into working sets.

I am posting MaisseArsouye's work with a couple of recoloured sets.

Three sets:
Original Restored
Re-Coloured (v1)
Re-Coloured (with vegetation etc..)

Looks great, Pounder! Nice of you to do that.:goodjob:

A BIG ,BIG ,BIG THANKS !!!:dance::banana:
I have searched for these files even before someone has bumped this thread.
So a really big thanks to Grandraem for bringing this back to the forum !
Another thanks to Pounder for the variations.

Thanks Grandraem and Pounder! It's nice to see MaisseArsouye's work preserved, and the new versions are beautiful. :)