It seems the choice is getting harder each month... Happy voting! ;)

LizardmenRule! - Modern Inquisitor (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=175667)
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/2803/moderninquisitordemo8mv.gif
vingrjoe - Des Moines Class Heavy Cruiser (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=177544)
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/5587/desmoinescapreview0cp.gif
Plotinus - Dominican Friar (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=177149)
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads12/Dominican_Slow.gif
aaglo - Ork Rokkit Launcha (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=178879)
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/4954/rokkitdemowz1.gif http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/6223/rokkitattackdemojw1.gif
Orthanc - Calormen Ship (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=4311431)
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1434/calormenbm7.gif
Supa - King Ghidorah (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=175827)
http://www.forum-image.net/usr_fullghidora.gif
utahjazz7 - Macedonian Elephant (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=180136)
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads12/me_animated_1.gif http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads12/me_animated_2.gif

Damn it's difficult!! So many good units!! But my vote will go for the Rokkit Launcha!

I think of those (disgarding my unit :p ), the dominican friar is the coolest :thumbsup:

Darn, this was hard. I went with vingrjoe's Des Moines Class Heavy Cruiser, the effects and the death are just so well done. But again, so many of these are so good...

I'm torn between vingrjoe, aaglo, LMR! and Supa! Goshdarnit, why does the unitmaking community have to be so good, :wallbash:

That Cruiser is amazing. I vote for that, but it was a hard choice with Ghidorah there.:crazyeye:

The expolsion and the details on the Des Moines are so awesome, but I also really like the effects on the Rokkit Launcha too. In the end I voted for the Rokkit Launcha mainly because it already had fewer votes than the Des Moines so I just wanted to make it a tighter race. ;)

I'm going with the Friar, but it's a 7-way toss up.

Same as above post, but I say the Cruiser.

I vote the Rokkit Launcha.

Looks really cool.

@Lizardmen: I updated your Modern Inquisitor for the Playground Mod 2.0. He now actually has a recoil when shooting! (though it looks creepy if you stare at it long enough)

The Dominican :thumbsup:

Nr.2 would be the inquisitor. :D

Argh. You're gonna have me choose between Rockit (http://www.discogs.com/release/53171) Launcha and King Geedorah (http://www.discogs.com/artist/King+Geedorah)?

Battle of the hiphop legends this month!

Many good ones, though I went for Utah's because Elephant units are rare. (and the animation is really awesome too)

Tough choice, but I went with the Dominican Friar. :)

Honorable mention to the Rokkit Launcha. :goodjob:

They're all so good... I can't choose just one! :cry:

Ok, I'll go with the cruiser. It's a beautifully modelled and animated unit :thumbsup:

I went with the Inqusitor, one of the best C`n`P units out there, it looks very natural! But all other units are super kewl! :D

I voted for the Elephant. These polls are just getting harder and harder...

The Calormen Ship kinda gets lost with Gheedorah and that awesome Cruiser...but I voted for it anyway!! because I requested it, it has a special place in my heart...I couldnt let it get 0 votes...

Thank you Spacer One:)

I voted for the friar.... he's just way too cool. 'Twas a tough choice this month, tho'.... :goodjob: unit makers!

I'm going with the Wonder from Down Under.

No surprise who I voted for - King Ghidorah!

I do love the Elephant, Calormen Ship, Friar, and Cruiser too, but that Ghidora is just awesome!:goodjob:

Another difficult choice - all of them are very good! Anyway, I'll go with Aaglo because I love the death animation and I respect his overall contribution. But if Plotinus had chosen the monk with the bird attack, it's likely I'd vote for him again (...a rabbit launcher?!)

They were all great this month again guys. For me it was tight between supa and Vingrjoe. In the end I had to go with the heavy cruiser by a hair......

Anolther tough month. I decided on the friar; very inventive.

This was one tough month... I'm kinda glad I didn't get any units finished in time for this competition...

I was torn between Vinegar Joe's ship, LMR's Modern Inquisitor (Equillibrium scenario, anyone? :D), and Plontius's friar, but I ended up going with the friar, because the attack animation is so awesome...

If you remove all votes for Plotinus from people who can't spell his name, I wonder who'd win then?

Well, if that happened, all the people would just re-vote for the friar again.:p
Otherwise, hands down, Vingrjoe would win. Or more people would just vote for the friar and make it win anyway.

Plutonius, Plontius, Plotinium, Plutonium.. :lol:

If you remove all votes for Plotinus from people who can't spell his name, I wonder who'd win then?
He is called Plotin (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotin) over here. :p

Hey, if people vote for me, I don't mind what they call me! Although I do get annoyed when people misspell my real name, which happens surprisingly often. The worst I ever saw was Johnothen - not sure where to start there. My girlfriend has an extremely unusual name, though, and misspells it herself rather than try to explain.

Actually I originally tried to register with the name Origen, but that was taken. I suppose even more people would have misspelled that.

I wouldn't. But then I can spell R8XFT without breaking out in a sweat, so I suppose I'm special. At least, that's what my mother tells me.

Plotinus' unit is really nice! With Kind Gidorah being a close second!

Plotinus got a big lead after becoming a modderator. It seems that having
CFC MODERATOR
under your name gains more respect :lol:

Seriously now, I'm happy we have an active modderator, and his priest was my close second choice anyway.

I voted for the Friar.

Many Combolations, Plotinus!

Poll's closed. Congratulations to Plotinus for a well-deserved award!!

Voting is over and we have a clear winner, which happens to be our first moderator winner: Plotinus! :trophy:

His is the trophy (a complete one this time ;)), an honorable mentioning in the Hall of Fame, Front page stardom and finally, and most desirably, the title of "Unit Maker of the Month, July 2006"... :D

http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/9530/umotmtrophy25zc.jpg

Congratulations Plotinus with your one-and-a-halfth title! :D

Congrats to Plotinus :clap:

Heh :lol: - don't moderators have the power to edit polls here at CFC :o

I demand a recount :gripe: (not that it would affect me finishing in the top 7 :mischief: )

I can assure the members that my victory was achieved purely on the basis of artistic merit, creative vision, and a financial contribution to - er - I'll come in again.

Thank you very much - I'm honestly amazed to have won this one as I think the general standard was the highest yet. In particular, I thought this was going to be a straight dual between aaglo and Supa, whose units are both really outstanding. And thanks to utahjazz7 for the vote - I always abstain from anything I'm entering, but he's raised the bar for gentlemanly behaviour!

Congrats Plotinus :thumbsup: A very worthy winner!

Thanks to all those who voted for me :)

This competition is just filled with some of the best oonits I`ve ever seen, it was really a hard choice!

Congratulations, Plotinus!

I wonder if he was voted for, because he is a mod...
Nah, people probably just go nuts over that kind of unit, so Plontinus wins.:D

Well fought and well won! Congratulations MR. New Moderator, I said it before, this really is your week!

:thumbsup:

Yes, which is nice as I've had a truly vile week in RL.

I didn't actually realise until just now that I really can edit the votes on polls. Let's all hope my moral fibre is up to the challenge...

:lol: I`d say you`re the most moral person (with more than half a brain ;)) in C3C C&C, thats why you became a mod. I have no fear of rigged polls :)

what would it look like if they have turned you into a scenario instead of a mod? :crazyeye:

For the first time (i think) the thing i voted won the contest.
Congrats Plotinus. :thumbsup:

Congrats Plotinus!! Now rise up the Cross and go fight Infidels!! :lol: :lol:

Congrats, Plotinus! [party]

maybe you could use the Moderator Action text to say "party down, I won!" :crazyeye:

Congratulations, Plotinus!

I don't know if the pen is mightier than the sword, but in this case, the preacher is.

GOod job Plotinus! I'm glad that you won, and that for the first time for me as well, the entry I voted for won! I guess that's what you call a win-win situation. :D

Seriously, though, that was one piece of work you entered, and I'd like to know where you got your thunder storm FX from.... I may have use for them in future projects....

Thanks, all.

[Hikaro] Compliments from veteran creators are especially encouraging. The thunderstorm took an enormously long time to do (although it wasn't nearly so bad as the cloak). Basically, I looked on the internet for a cloud animation, and it was surprisingly hard to find one. I don't have the link any more for the site where I got this one, but it had a number of computer-generated animations. I downloaded one and opened it up in Adobe Premiere, where I exported about twenty frames. Then I used NeoPaint to turn them all black and white, and also to create templates based upon them for the transparency. Then I basically treated them the same way as Kinboat's smoke animation - created a number of square primitives, mapped each frame onto one of them, parented them to an invisible ball, and displayed them in sequence throughout the animation.

The lightning is simply images mapped onto square primitives. In retrospect, the whole effect isn't really as impressive as I'd hoped when I conceived it, but I did want to do a lightning effect that was a little different from others that have been made. I got the idea of a cloud appearing and vanishing again from Populous II! I had to do quite a lot of postwork on the final storyboard to clean it up. In particular, the parts where the cloud appears and disappears - which looked great in the initial renders - went very pixellated once it was converted to 256 colours with a Civ-friendly palette. It still looks a bit pixellated even now, after I went through it manually smoothing it. I've found that transparency effects have a tendency to look rather clunky in-game, which is a shame.

Anyway, feel free to run the animations through Flicster and cut 'n' paste the spell effect out, if you so desire.

Sure do... As for using spell/smoke effects in poser, I usually find it's much, much easier just to make the animation and render it in poser, then use the desired FX animation (whether created in another program or downloaded somewhere) as a C&P source (using Animation shop to export it frame by frame if necesarry).... That's what I did with kinboat's smoke prop... I just used the frames that he got his images from, modified them in PsP, and pasted them over the frames of my animations.

Congrats to Plotinus, my vote went to aaglo, but the friar was a great entry as well.