Hi!

Here is a fantasy unit: flying carpet. Enjoy :)

Files:
Flying Carpet (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/FlyingCarpet.zip) (~1,0 Mb)

here are animation previews:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/FlyingCarpetDemo.gif

Attached is a civilopedia preview.

FIRST POST!!!

OMG, you almost finished my "evil" narnian unit lines, and moved right on to the "Calormen"...way to go...hope you dont mind being the "featured unit maker" of Narnia...

Great work, love the motion of the carpet...
only concern: IMO the thing he magically throws is too small...or not a bright enough flash...whatever, it looks great

:thumbsup: I love it! This looks like a fun way to expand aerial warfare in the fantasy mods. now we need a genie resource and tech icons too....

Absolutely fantastic. I think this is one of your best - very nicely rendered and some fun animations, especially the death.

:rotfl:

Love the way he just falls down, still crosslegged! :lol: Another great unit Aaglo!

This is BRILLIANT!!! :smoke: Top marks once more to you sir!

It's certainly inspired me to get some work done on a medieval fantasies scen that needs doing.

I love the folding up like a cheap chair death sequence. :lol:

Thanks mate!

:thumbsup:

It so funny when he falls down! :) Thanks, aaglo, Araby really needed this one! :thumbsup:

This is great. I was looking for something like this for my mod.:goodjob:

"You don't know what we can find, come along with me, little girl, on a magic carpet ride. You don't know what we can see, why don't you share your dreams with me and let fatasy set you free....." -Steppenwolf

Awesome unit... I think I'll use this as the King unit for the Forbidden Land in the FF mod (the dude on the carpet looks exactly like Zande).

Once again when i see a great creation by these modmakers in Civ3 custom&creation,the more i laugh at the modmakers in Civ4 custom&creation.:lol:

Sweet, I'm guessing you used an image map on a bicupic patch for the carpet (sorry everyone else for the POV-Ray-ish)

The attack might not be a giga-DBZ-esque blast, but I think it's pretty good.

its all good...I slowed down the attack flic a bit, and it looks fine...I realized, it just disappears too fast for my taste...

so if you feel like releasing a slower flic(im not sure how much, I slowed it down in flicster, and cant do it on SBB) kewl...if now...also kewl...either way...a great unit that Narnia thanks you for...

PS...ignore all my ranting about the flic speed...Im just whining, its a great unit...

That is a great idea for a "fantasy" unit. Never would have thunk it myself. Very cool! I'm thinking I'll use it -- eventually -- as a wonder-generated medieval air unit for the Arabs or Indians or whatnot in my personal mod... ;)

Cheers everyone.
About that attack animation: the frame size in that prewiev is smaller than in the actual flc. The frame size of FlyingCarpetAttack.flc is actually maximum (240x240), so the fireball shows a bit longer than in the preview.

@orthanc
It's an image map, but not a bicubic patch. It's the same thing as all my flags - a mesh.

Good job again. I'm a little tempted to add it to MoM as a Sorcery mage unit, but there's a slight problem with the fact that it's completely flying unit. The unit it would replace (a color converted Wyvern) sits on ground and only flys when it moves and this is represented in unit's stats. Oh well, I really don't need to add _all_ the units that might fit in. :)

LOL- I think I'll use this as Indo-Arabian Scout for the epic game :D

This unit is outstanding! I must find a way to integrate it in my normally historical mod.:) Edited: This is the new Fakir.

Hot damn AAglo you really are making some interesting units these days great job!

Absolutely incredible! Very inventive!

:wow: Excellent aaglo! Love the Bright Colors you selected to use for the Carpet and the Run animation looks Fantastic with the rhythmic wave movement of the Carpet. The Shadows provide perfect illusion of height and All animations are Top Quality...Definitely a Must Add Fantasy Unit. :clap: :thanx:

This is great!!!

Yay, excellent stuff! It took about three years of requests but my dream unit finally got made :D

Marvelous unit, aaglo. :)

Nice unit.. It will give me a flying unit for my Jihish and Sundabar civs in Dragonia.
Having trouble with the download link, though...it it just me?

Trouble with the link? Or trouble with the zip-file? The link seems to be working just fine...

Trouble with the link. Maybe its just my system:
Internet Explorer cannot download FlyingCarpet.zip from civfanatics.net.

Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.

EDIT: it has to be my system...other downloads on the site stopped working for me too

Actually it's most likely to be the site. That sort of thing does happen occasionally. Generally, if you inexplicably can't download anything from the site, just wait a bit and try again later.

I found it was my system....I wasn't able to download anything yesterday. But after a reboot, everything started working again. Amazing how that happens...

Very cool looking unit! :cool:

Wow, aaglo! You got complimeted by Thunderfall, :eek:! BTW, the death is awesome, :D.

Yes :) - thanks ;) (now I'm shocked with the all 25 points...)

I think I've had several compliments from TF in the past couple of years - in various forms :hatsoff:

What do you plan on making next?

See my signature (my current projects...)

History of Canada!?!?!?!? :wow:

History of Canada?!?!?!? :eek: What kind of breadth are we talking here? The end of the Ice Age all the way up to Stephen Harper? That would rule!!!

Thats very non-specific.

Very original and good unit!

Such fun unit!

Only thing I play Civ3 for nowadays is the mods. Many use units made by you I noticed!

Keep up the great work