I posted this in the unit requests a while ago and I think anyone took it seriously so here it is again.
Is it possible for anyone to make a penguin unit? I think that that would be really cool to have a penguin civilization!

Well, penguins carve an empire in antartica:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

What are they gonna do? Waddle around and get cooked by hunters?:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Their special unit: King penguin
special ability: To swim, cannot attack, only defend.:lol: :lol: :lol:

Special building: Penguin fit(replaces monument) + 1 culture, no happiness, fish will just spawn.:lol: :lol: :lol:

Special worker: Worker penguin(can develop oceans not coasts, cannot develop land):lol: :lol: :lol:

Having a penguin CIV is funny!!!!!!!:lol: :lol: :lol:

You could give them the ability to walk on ice features as well, maybe allow them to work a fishing ground? For fun, add a flying specimen.

Before I can give them special abilities and such, I need to know whether anyone is able to make them for me.

Upon discovery of Computers the Penguins could then research the technology of "Linux". ;)

I'll give it a shot. What are you looking for in the unit animation?

I'll give it a shot. What are you looking for in the unit animation?

Gliding on their bellies and sliding into the enemy for an attack? :)

And of course, the waddle walk.

I the waddle walk would be great and maybe a swimming version if possible. Thank you.

I've got a good start on the resource penguins.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4307/resourcepengqp0.jpg
Does anyone know how to animate a resource?

I've got a higher poly model I'm working on for for the units.

That is pretty awesome. Maybe for an attack the penguins could hit with their flippers and/or throw snowballs. :goodjob: :snowlaugh:

Oh c'mon! I ask for a bunch of animals and got nada! But people want the penguins? Well..... I guess they are incredibly adorable :love:

So how are things coming along? Any progress on the units?

Penguins.....

Well, I've always thought of them as Barbarian Animals (:) ), but I guess this would be a bit more pleasing to the public.

Hey, I got an idea! Mumble as the leader for the Penguins! :) ;) :D :lol:

I didn't forget about these guys, I've just been sick the past couple of days...

These are kind of rough, but they'll give you something to play with.
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6790/penguin1ef0.jpg
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3518/penguin2ht8.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3223/penguin3rl7.jpg

Nifs and the max file are here. (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/122690/Penguin.rar) Theres no sounds as of yet, and there are a few problems... I made it a little big, so I have it fscaled at 0.16 here... you might want to go a little smaller. Also, the slide attack looks more like a bellyflop... I'll work on that, and do up some more attacks, and I can do more skins as well. I'm stuck with the resource penguins until I learn more about how resources work.

I too think these would be best as barbarian units, but what you do with them is up to you. :)

Dom Pedro, what animals did you want? I can add a few things to my to do list. I might not be able to get to them right away, but I could alway take a look.

Is there a flipper slap attack too? :p

They bellyflop attack sounds pretty cool actually. Nice work.

there could be... :)

Looks Awesome! I was thinking about making a penguin civ with like special rules for it in a mod but thats a lot of work so it might take a while.

Those penguins are great!

Makes me hope you might be willing to take on some other animals... *wink, wink, nudge nudge* ;)

Dire Penguins could be thier UU :)

Is there any chance of giving them the equipment of other units?
ie: a penguin with an axe or mounted on a horse?

Is there any chance of giving them the equipment of other units?
ie: a penguin with an axe or mounted on a horse?

I would think people could nifview stuff onto them.

I think the UU for the penguins should be an abominable snowman. For an attack, he grabs a penguin by its feet and clubs his enemies. Or maybe uses the penguin as ammo and whacks the penguin it at his enemies with his club.

I think I played a cheezy windows game about penguin bowling once...

The Yeti could use a Curling attack and knock down the enemy.

How are things coming along? Has an progress been made towards being able to release the penguins?

EDIT: I just saw the link to the penguins. I missed it before. I will get this going this weekend hopefully.

Make a special "iceberg" sea unit.
6 cargo space, 1-2 movement, +300% against Titanic.

Frankly, it looks nothing like the penguin...

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/batman_returns/danny_devito/batmanreturnsdvd.jpg

You guys should re-load this file to the DB, as that link goes no where, and post a new link here.

You guys should re-load this file to the DB, as that link goes no where, and post a new link here.

I realized that to. Unfortunately, I don't have the file on my computer because I never figured out how to make the unit work in xml until a few weeks ago. By then though, the link was broken.:(

darn, do you still have the art files and such..... could it be rebuit?
better? stronger? faster? lol

I do not have the files but winddelay might because he made it.

Wow I found the penguin unit on my old computer so here it is.
I will get around to making it modular eventually (like maybe next weekend) but if someone wants to go first be my guest.