I know Animepornstar was working on a unit like this, but it has been a long time since his last update and I get the impression its not getting done. So, here I am requesting that somebody out there put this unit together. I am attahing a beautiful pic that shows EXACTLY what I am looking for, color scheme and everything. Personally I need this animation for my Double Your Pleasure Mod, but I am sure that a lot of other people would love to see this unit in action as well.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads/colonial_musketman.jpg

As you can see the coat would be the civ color, the pants white, the tips of his boots that stick out can be black or brown, the hat should be black with a civ color trim. I sure hope somebody accepts the challenge.

This unit would be great to use in between the musketmen and the riflemen. I hope some one sees this and create this unit.

Damn, that would be a great unit; it has quite a historical significance. Great idea :goodjob:

something inbetween musketman and rifleman is long overdue indeed.
great idea.
if an artist would create it, it would be a great thing, i think. :)

I like the idea.
When I finish the trucks, I can start it if you want.

I think I saw something like that on the civ site, but it never made it to the game.

kal-el posted these pictures on another thread:
(these are the pics I was talking about before)

here is another

I think the model at the top is cooler looking though.

I don't know if this helps, but here is a quick ROUGH preview I knocked up in just over an hour after a late one at the pub ( ;) )

(As you know, I'm far, far, far too busy with the Macedonians to start any new projects at the moment! :crazyeye: )

Originally posted by Kryten
I don't know if this helps, but here is a quick ROUGH preview I knocked up in just over an hour after a late one at the pub ( ;) )

(As you know, I'm far, far, far too busy with the Macedonians to start any new projects at the moment! :crazyeye: )

that looks good. :goodjob:
If I do make this unit, I may just use that.

Originally posted by Kal-el
I think the model at the top is cooler looking though.

yeah , it is. I like your figurine thing. And the picture shows various angles too. that helps a lot.

Looks like Kryten has perfected the cut & paste thingy. ;)

Looks interesting.
Kryten, the MASTER of cut & pasting :)

Originally posted by nonnob3
Looks interesting.
Kryten, the MASTER of cut & pasting :)

I agree! :goodjob:

....it's not cos I'm clever, it's cos I'm lazy! :p :D

Kryten ,
always joking with an animation. Great sense of humor! ;)

Funny ...........hahaha

Thanks to the suggestion from Kryten I started to work on this request with everything else on hold until I finish this one. ;)

Here is what it looks like for default, fortify and run. :D

can you remove the gold epaulettes from his shoulders? Those are the mark of an officer not an infantryman.

Marvellous animation Dark Sheer! :goodjob:

Mind you, I do agree with Kal-el; he would look better without the yellow epaulettes. Also, would it be possible to stick a bayonet on the end of the musket? :)

Other than that, this figure looks perfect for just about every european nation and their colonies in the 18th century, from the War of the Spanish Succession, though the Severn Years War, the American War of Independace, and right up to begining of the French Revolution!

(BTW, if anyone does wish to create an 18th century Grenadier, may I suggest using Dark Sheer's figure and giving him a brown 'conical' hat with a brass vertical front plate and the backpack of the Infantryman. This will make him look 'heavy', and fits the Grenadier's role of heavy infantry.)

Good job matey! :D

a few other requests:

1) can you give him the white gaiters (the cloth that covers his lower leg and boots) as in the picute above. Again boots were generally for officers and cavalry.

2) can you add on the backpack, canteen and cartridge box

3) and I second the bayonet

I know I am being picky here but I just thought I would put in the request.

here is another image that may be helpful

here are some more pictures

you'll notice that this guy's gaiters are black. I would prefer it if the new animation had white gaiters.

The gaiter's color can be easily fixed when everything is done. All I need to do is use Animation-replace color in Animation Shop for it. ;)

When you are done with the Colonial Musketman Dark Sheer, Can you also make the Iron Frigate. Please :D (:rolleyes: I know that some one has created the ironram and there is already an Ironclad in CivIII.) The Information is in this forum Unit Request: Iron Frigate (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=352959#post352959)
Anyway Great job Dark Sheer :goodjob:.

Ahhhh, this will be of incredible use for me. I encourage everyone to make as many as they can! :D This will be very useful for my Napoleonic scenario. I plan on getting it in PtW, so anyone's graphics I use, I will be sure to give credit for. :)

has any progress been on this unit, btw?

That's what I was wondering also. With the editor coming on Friday, time is wearing thin... :eek:

Just thought I'd bring this up again... as this unit would be more than perfect for the later stages of my 1492 scenario. If someone could make ones just like those cut and paste pictures it would be fantastic. :goodjob:

I am working on it. Hope to finish before this weekend. ;)

Originally posted by Dark Sheer
I am working on it. Hope to finish before this weekend. ;)
Great!! Thanks, this will be excellent for my next scenario... ;)

...And use it as an intermediate unit between the Musketmen(Musketeer:French) to the Riflemen. :D.

Darksheer, what ever happened to this one?

This unit has to get made! Firaxis should never have axed it from the game. DS, I hope you haven't abandoned it, or put it on the backburner!

IS who ever making the Colonial Musketman just teasing us or is it totaly abbandoned? :(

:mad:IM MAKING A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SCENARIO SHEER I KINDA NEED IT....chop chop on it:goodjob: nice job on it so far doh ;)

I'm pretty sure he said he was going to china and coming back on the ninth.

I think it's amusing that it's always Kal-el's requests that take DS so long to make. Remember the Hummvee, anyone? ;)

Yeah Yeah! :p Thousand appologies for not manage to finish the animation before I left for China. :blush: By the way, you guys do know that I am in China since 27/7 right? ;)

As usual, just before the travelling all of a sudden tons of things pop up. I will complete this one when I am back. Its getting to be alot of work for this unit. At first I though I can just replace the black shoes using replace color....then I realise black is used in lots of other part of the body as well! :o So I end up changing the color bit by bit. :p Therefore this one will take longer than usual. :D

oh man. i was hoping for this unit. Anyway, you haven't made a unit in a while DS.

hey can you finish the unit now? i heard you were back.

Yes, I'd love to see this unit finished...it'd make my Zulu Armies more powerful than ever! :D

Yup, I am backed just this morning (Well, more like 2am in the morning ;) ). Give me a few days to catch up on my Succession Games and I will continue the work on this unit. :)

Thanks DS, it'll be great once (if ;)) you get it finished. :)
I'll probably work it into my mod (with a massive tech restructuring) once you get it done.

whooo hooo [dance]

now I can have a colonial rifle man for my american revolution scenario

DS??!!??!!?? are you working on the unit?????

Yeah! C'mon DS, this is the only unit I really care about getting. :(

Yeah come on! This is a very important unit that a lot of people want. I can only hope you haven't abandoned this unit in favor of another weird unit like that spider you made.

please DS there is a major demand for this unit...dont let us down

Originally posted by hzm
Yeah come on! This is a very important unit that a lot of people want. I can only hope you haven't abandoned this unit in favor of another weird unit like that spider you made.


Hey, dude, why are you freaking out? I also really want it, but DS is just a volunteer unit maker, taking his own time to make it.

Give DS break he will get it ready when he has time.

I want to thank DarkSheer of making great units and especially about Bandit and Canoe units which serve well my mod that I'm currently making.

Thank you and looking forward to this unit as well.

Sorry for the delay, but I just manage to catch up on all my succession game (4!) after a week. :p

I will get to work on this unit. :)

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:goodjob: cool

yaay!!

got musket sounds, they might help.
i recommend small_1 for the firing sound.

Here is a Civilopedia descriptoion for the Colonial Musketman, intermediate between Musketman and Rifleman, (which I have called the Infantryman) if anyone wants it.


#PRTO_Infantryman
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^[Infantrymen] are powerful defenders.
#DESC_PRTO_Infantryman
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^Military strategists, most notably Prince Maurice of Nassau, a great Dutch military teacher, developed drill - the preparation for war by prescribed movements and formations - to increase efficiency.
^
^The invention of the bayonet in 1670 gave infantries little reason to keep pikemen, and infantry units employed muskets and bayonet exclusively from then on. The Bayonet is recognized by many as being one of the decisive weapons of the 2nd millennium. In the 18th century when muskets were lighter and easier to load, bayonets were universally placed on the ends of the barrel and the importance of the pikemen diminished.
^
^Smaller tactical groups of infantrymen facilitated quicker rate of group fire with minimal mutual interference. Lines dropped from 8 to 10 in the 17th century to 2 to 3 at the end of the 18th century. With the advent of more modern infanry drills Infantry ceased to use a long line formation because it held the risk that enemy cavalry might attack the flanks or rear and "roll up the line". The hollow square was adopted because it could repulse a $LINK<cavalry=PRTO_Cavalry> attack from any direction. A formation of resolute advancing infantry, bayonets drawn, screaming their battle cries in the 18th century struck fear in the hearts of the enemy and often caused the opposing ranks to break and run.
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^The use of the bayonet waned with the advent of more accurate $LINK<rifled arms=PRTO_Rifleman> in the mid 19th century, which were able to pick off advancing infantry from a distance. The bayonet charge was all but eliminated with the appearance of $LINK<Infantry=PRTO_Infantry> with automatic weapons in the 20th century, although they were still issued to troops and were still used in battle (c.f. the Japanese in WW2). Bayonets, albeit much reduced in size from earlier models, remain a part of the Infantry's weaponry up to the present day.
^
^The Infantryman unit is basically the Musketman equipped with Flintlock & Bayonet and drilled in Infantry procedures.

nice insight Kestrel I hope DS will use it if he decides to finish the unit

keyword: IF

whether DS decides to use that pedia entry or not is irrelevant. It is up to you as the end user or the modder to insert the pedia entry.

i wish i could make units, cause i would have finished by now :(

nice job guys, looks like we can have a bunch of cool units with adding a little more detail to the existing units. That looks really nice! I will use that unit to replace the musketman for the US. Thanks, Joe

Ah Civinator I see you used my musket sounds. How did you cut the sounds down?

i didn't cut the sounds. Why do you ask?

if i learn how to make a unit i will finish this ;)

They seem a little shorter.:confused:

It would take to long for me to learn and make a unit :( I dont think I have the endurance to last long nights animating and rendering models to look detailed....especially now since school started.

Sorry guys, I was called for some last minute training at my HQ for 3 days and just got back. :p

Will get to work on these ASAP! :blush:

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sorry about the negative stuff, i got kinda furious cause you disappeared for a while

[dance] :bday: [dance] :hammer: :jump: [dance] [dance] :bday: <-----lets not forget my party :)

Originally posted by Civanator
sorry about the negative stuff, i got kinda furious cause you disappeared for a while

I'll say I'm sorry when the unit is posted.

HQ are u in the military of your country Dark Sheer?

Nope, corporate HQ I mean. :D

Anyway, here is a revised animation for Default since the last preview. Changes has been made to make longer musket, add a bayonet, change shoes to lighter color and of course added all those backpacks and water canteen as requested by Kal-El. ;)

Looking good Dark Sheer, definitely worth waiting for! :)

Definitely. :)

You might want to modify the hair though... I doubt most front-line colonial musketmen wore wigs into battle. ;)

looks good, DS. :goodjob: now don't go getting my hopes up. ;)

Looks great DS.:goodjob:. Let me guess, the Colonial Musketman's jacket is civ colored ;).

Yup, the clothes and hat is Civ colored. I might need to change the shoes into white as the current grey does not match well with the shadows.

I make it grey as technically you can't get white as the pants is greyish even though its really white (light and shadow thingy). Looks like you can't have everything and the shoe will have to be white. :(

And of course the background of the preview is pinkish on purpose or else you won't be able to see the light color musket barrel. :D

yaay. Yah good thing the whole coat and hat are civ colored.

:goodjob: awsome job DS Im really looking forward to its completion

DS almost done? I see you are here.

Almost done? Nah, I prefer to take it one step at a time. ;)

I am working on fortification which is not as simple as copy and paste from any current animation as I need to rotate a certain part of the hand and then tidy up the animation which is actually taking alot of time to get the animation to look good. :)

oh. dang! ohwell hope you finish soon.

Originally posted by Dark Sheer
the clothes and hat is Civ colored

The hat? You mean its lining?

I have decided to change the fortify animation since the early preview and so here is the first direction which took me 2 hours! :p

Most likely I will try to do a few directions a day as I do not have 8 hours a day on animation. ;)

Oh WOW. I simply cannot wait until this unit is finished. This one, above all others, is sorely needed in Civ3. Thanks for your committment and keep up all the good work. :goodjob:

how far are u DS?

Originally posted by one_man_assault
how far are u DS?

Well, he is 12,000 kilometers from England, and about 14,000 from America, of course, this is measuring from the centre of the USA. It's only about 12,000 kilometers from the west coast and much more east coast.... unless you go over the pole that is .....then.....

("Oh dear, Kryten has been down the pub again everybody!")

:lol: :lol:

:lol::lol::rotfl::lol::rotfl::lol::lol:

Hey DS, how far are u on the project?

HEY U KNOW WAT I MENT :p

I am almost done for all the parts for fortifying on CUT. Now I need to do the PASTE. ;)

WHOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I wasted all dat time writing u an encouraging PM :(

LOL one_man_assault. DS is it out?

The work is progressing nicely. I am now halfway through fortify. ;) Here is another preview of fortify in another direction. :D

ok. Thanx for the update.

....................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Must have unit !!!!!!!!!!!!!........................
*Panic Attack*------------

same here but I will patiently wait....alone....in front of the moniter :)

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to gettin a custom avater:goodjob:

Originally posted by one_man_assault
same here but I will patiently wait....alone....in front of the moniter :)

I don't really care wyhen it gets done as long as it's done before a few weeks after play the world is released.

So what is your avatar going to be? I'm thinking of putting a flag of tibet by an american flag (both stolen from tibet) at the bottum of my existing star destroyer.

Im gona have a transformer avatar[dance]

I almost fall out of my chair...

Geez...
Stardestroyer with Tibet and USA flag.

Is that stardestroyer owned by USA or tibet? :king:
"Free Tibet!"

*Falls*

:lol:

As I was sick for a few days, this project moves a little slow for the moment. :(

However, I am now back on it and here is the first preview for Attack in SW direction. :)

nice....Im betting that the green fuss comming out of the musket was a pitiful attempt of my moniter displaying your buitiful smoke rendering :)

looking good! Much appreciated! :D

Hey Dark Sheer
That looks good, cant wait to use it!

/OmniMower

Originally posted by one_man_assault
nice....Im betting that the green fuss comming out of the musket was a pitiful attempt of my moniter displaying your buitiful smoke rendering :) That will be smoke in Civ3. Look at the shadows, they are also green.

One word....Woah!!

One word...

...WwwoooooowwW. :D :goodjob:

done yet? or has another rl tragedy come in your way?

Dark Sheer, any new updates on the colonial musketmen :). Dont stop now, this unit is in high demand. Please dont let us down ;)

Patience is a virtue civanator. Wait. Rather have a top notch unit rather then a sloppy hurried unit!! Wouldn't you???:rolleyes: :crazyeye:

hmmmmm Ive been waiting for this a while and it seems that its near finished so what can a week or two do?

hmm... a week or two can...........
-Make me rip hair off my head (I'm only
-Go crazy and bash my head through a wall
-Throw the computer out the window
-Close my hand accidentally in the refridgerator
-Fall asleep in school thinking about how to use the unit
-Fall off my chair multiple times from being so anxious
-say etc., etc., etc., etc., alot in this post.

is that good enough for yah/ ;) :p

Alright, alright, here is another Preview. ;)

I have completed Default, Fortify, AttackA and now working halfway through Death. So here is a preview of Death. Notice that I have not recolor the hair and shoes yet. :)

Anyway, I hope to finish the Death sequence today then work on Run and wrap up the project by tomorrow. :D

Man....AWESOME!!!!!!!
Love your work Dark Sheerer!!!!!!! :goodjob:

/OmniMower

Nice work Dark Sheer!

Is that a 3D model you are using?

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3 cheers for Dark Sheer:
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@Grey Fox : Nope, thats the combination of Leader Industrial Age & Rifleman with alot of copy & paste and of course lots of usage of the eraser function in Paint Shop Pro to achieve the multilayer effects. :D

I cant belive this!?! this is great DS! :goodjob: keep it up!

This is looking great DS. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you ,thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hurrah!! Now my Napoleonic Scenario will be perfect!!!! :D

Ummm....I did spend my entire Sunday rushing this unit. ;)

The latest news is I have completed the Death Animation except for the recoloring of hair and shoes. That is still 120 frames of recoloring to go. :p

HOLY CRAP! 120 FRAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
good luck.

As promised, the animation is now complete. You can now get the animation here.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31766

There is no Fidget as at the 11th hour I realise I forgot to do Victory animation. :p So the fidget has been converted to become Victory animation. :D

Thank YOU!!! The long anticipated Colonial Musketman is on the scene!!!!!

Saaa-Weeeet!!

Wow, there's kind of an empty spot in my life now. I need something else to wait on. I'm looking forward to Play The World's new Medieval Infantry unit.