This thread is designed to supply links to excellent websites that we've found useful to us - so that others can spend their time creating...and not researching. I would like to make this thread a research library, much like the unit library Lab Monkey made in the Unit Creations forum.

With that, if there is anyone who would like to add a link, please post it & a brief explanation of what can be found there, for maps, resources, Civs, or notable wars. Please do not post in this thread unless you have a link to submit. Please use PM's to respond to people in this thread if you do not have a link to share - or if you prefer to keep the thread from over-expanding, feel free to PM me with the link & I will post it in the following directory (along with your name for credit).

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Great source for information on modern countries, including a map with major cities, a general background on the Civ, imports/exports, government, military, etc.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/index.html
Another source for modern information on many major countries in the world. The site is deep, but a little surfing can get some nice info.

http://www.country-data.com/
Great general source for each country, overviewing all aspects.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/
Large database of maps. Includes general outline maps to thematic maps.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/
Directory of US states that includes shaded relief maps, satellite images, and county maps.

http://www.solarviews.com/raw/earth/earthcyl1.jpg
Shaded relief map of the entire Earth.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/
Directory of many, many, many historical maps showing mostly political boundaries.

http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/webdoc111.htm
Map showing location of Indian tribes in US and parts of Canada & Mexico.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
Clickable map of world that zooms in to show countries & major cities within.

http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/countries.htm
List of many country maps that include cities & major roads.

http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
World map that allows you to click areas to zoom in several times. The final map often shows elevations as well as major cities, rivers, lakes, etc.

http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american%20revolution/american%20revolution%20pages/ar%20overview%20map.htm
Battle locations of the American Revolution on a large map of the East Coast of the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Great online Encyclopedia.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/index.html
Great site for specifics on what many countries use today in their militaries.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/18738.pdf
PDF format - Breakdown by country detailing military equipment used in recent times.

http://www.scramble.nl/airforces.htm
Great site for information on each country's Air Forces.

http://www.country-data.com/
Great general source for each country, but if you select one off the list and look down towards the bottom of the outline - you will find a detailed list of military equipment for each branch of service.

http://www.themilitaryzone.com/military_bases.html
A list of American military bases on home soil.

http://themilitaryzone.com/foreign_bases.html
A list of American military bases on foreign soil.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=59115

-Oz

There's a site with most of all the countries ciity names. When I find it I'll post a link

Here's a good search site. Its meant for doing research in school K-12
Here's the link netTrekker (http://www.nettrekker.com/)

Its a great site for research for the civilopedia.

http://miniatures.de/html/ger/nomenclature02.html - Information on middle ages/renaissance military. Very expansive, but very brief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities
List of cities by country

Here's a nice little site with a lot of background information and unit models for ships (though some of them have been done already, some, i believe, have not):

http://www.flyinglab.com/pirates/catalog/ship.php

in trying to pick flavour and custom units for my home mod, i wanted to find a freeware FLC viewer... this one shows them frame by frame. dont know if there are any others, but it was enough to help me.

homepage: www.xnview.com

download links for different o/s: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownload.html

EW

All sorts of geographical data including maps:

http://www.maps.ethz.ch/map_catalogue-thematic1.html#mineral


I'm having a LOT of trouble finding a world map with general resources on it (i.e. different colored dots representing different resources). Yoou'd think that would be easy, it's not. There are individual country maps which are either way to specific thus making it difficult to translate the data into Civ3's extremely simple format, or the data is not specific to location (i.e. gives you the types of natural resources available to that country but not their locations in the country, hence quite useless for the purposes of map design).

I would REALLY appreciate a link to such a map.

All sorts of geographical data including maps:

http://www.maps.ethz.ch/map_catalogue-thematic1.html#mineral


I'm having a LOT of trouble finding a world map with general resources on it (i.e. different colored dots representing different resources). Yoou'd think that would be easy, it's not. There are individual country maps which are either way to specific thus making it difficult to translate the data into Civ3's extremely simple format, or the data is not specific to location (i.e. gives you the types of natural resources available to that country but not their locations in the country, hence quite useless for the purposes of map design).

I would REALLY appreciate a link to such a map.


All I can offer are the historical/area maps found here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=1114123#post1114123) (and there are some good ones) with the sad note that the one truly global site is now a dead link.

Good Luck,

Oz

Thanks. That's one nice thread you've put together.

Actually, I re-checked sourboy's first map link and found a workld map that I'd overlooked with resources on it (it's just a bit vague though and missing a lot of data):

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-mineral-map.htm


BUT this weekend, I was rummaging through some books and found, would you believe it, a 1995 Oxford Encyclopedic World Atlas that I'd forgotten I had and it has EXACTLY what I was looking for (maps of each continent with resources AND power stations, farming, industry, terrain types EVERYTHING. The map is simple, but accurate (the resource map of Europe is particularly good due to the scale).

I would love to scan and post it for all to see (and use, as this is the best I've ever seen by far so I would recommend it to ANY map designer--especially those that make wonderful maps but fail when it comes to proper resource placement :rolleyes: ). Problem is, I'm not sure about the legality of this. If it's legal, I'll post it (I'll also post the related political maps so you can determine whose border they fall under).

For general reference, I put together a list of resources and terrain types that I got from the map legends (many mods could use more realistic resources):

Strategic (?)

- Iron Ore
- Nickel
- Chromium
- Tungsten
- Manganese
- Titanium
- Molybebdenum
- Beryllium
- Cobalt
- Vanadium
- Copper
- Tin
- Lead
- Zinc
- Gold
- Silver
- Bauxite
- Gypsum
- Salt
- Coal
- Crude Oil
- Natural Gas
- Asbestos
- Silica
- Uranium
- Potash
- Sodium Sulphate
- Sulphur
- Platinum
- Vanadium
- Mercury
- Magnesium
- Antimony
- Mica
- Diamonds
- Zirconium
- Ferro Alloys
- Phosphate
- Aluminium

- Timber (required by early ships and buildings?)

- Grain (big freight item)

Luxury (?)

Crops:

- Bananas
- Barley
- Citrus Fruits
- Coffee
- Cotton
- Date Palms
- Groundnuts
- Maize
- Millet
- Potatoes
- Rice
- Rubber
- Soya Beans
- Sugar Beet
- Sugar Cane
- Tea
- Tobacco
- Vines
- Wheat
- Flax
- Oats
- Olives
- Rye
- Cacao
- Cloves
- Coconut Palms
- Palm Oil
- Sisal
- Fruit
- Vegetables

- Fruit Trees
- Vineyards
- Market Gardens

(Note that some of these are natural and others planted.)

Livestock:

- Beef Cattle
- Dairy Cattle
- Sheep


Terrain Types:

- Coniferous Forest (replace Pine Forest?)
- Plateaux
- Lowlands
- Shipping Lanes (replace Sea)
- Earthquake Zone (replace Volcano)
- Tropical Forest (replace Jungle)
- Steppe
- Savanna
- Arable Land
- Evergreen
- Non-Productive Land

[Note that the above is all taken from modern maps; historically, much of this would not have been available to civs.]


If you want their uses, you can check online by typing in the resource and definition ro something.

Example: Google, 'definition Copper list of uses'

One of the sites you get:

http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/elements/copper/copper.htm

(I'll post the resource maps in their own thread.)

(I'll post the resource maps in their own thread.)

When you do so, I'd PM a mod and try to get it stickied.

Best,

Oz

I PM'd TF. Said it was okay. Problem is, the files are bigger than 3 MB. Has yet to get back to me about that.

If you're interested, I've opened the new with the resource maps thread here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=2565971#post2565971

(PM'd Chieftess to get it stickied.)

I don't particularly care for the focus of this site but they have some great maps of the 'holy land' and environs, as well as maps of the major empires relevant to the ancient nation of Israel.

http://www.studylight.org/se/maps/browse.cgi?st=1#001

I have this in my sig but I find this to be a very good site for information about the tanks of World War 2:

www.military.cz/panzer/index.htm

This is a site that I have previously taken part in creating. It has hundreds of animations extracted from Infinity Engine Games (Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, etc) in GIF format that would be useful for fantasy scenarios. Now someone just has to convert them to Civ3 ;)

http://infinitum.d2mods.com

I've added Baldurs Gate 2 spell graphics gifs to the infinitum file database. You can get it here (http://www.fileplanet.com/hosteddl.aspx?%2fplanetdiablo%2finfinitum%2fBG2-SpellGfx.zip).

Here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/14670/medieval_european_traderoutes.gif) is a map of Medieval European trade routes and trade goods. It's in Swedish, so here's a crash course in Swedish too:

Fisk = Fish
Vin = Wine
Pälsverk = Furs
Smör = Butter
Koppar = Copper
Järn = Iron
Hudar = Hides
Hampa = Hemp
Tjära = Tar
Timmer = Timber
Spannmål = Grain
Vax = Wax
Slavar = Slaves
Salt = Salt
Kläde = Cloth
Metallprodukter = Metal produce
Ull = Wool
Kvicksilver = Quicksilver
Oliver = Olives
Mattor = Carpets
Honung = Honey
Kryddor = Spices
Socker = Sugar
Färger = Dyes
Siden = Silk

The book is from 2001. It's about the black death, so the map should be valid at least 1300-1346.

Here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/14670/medieval_european_traderoutes.gif)
Nice map. What years is that from ?

It seems Romania and the northern balcans were dangerous zones. :lol:

EDIT: ah, ops :blush: I didn't see that rule. Sry.
These 2 posts could be erased i guess.

Please do not post in this thread unless you have a link to submit.
The book is from 2001. It's about the black death, so it should be valid at least 1300-1346.

Chinese Military Tech. (http://www.Sinodefence.com)

Add this?

Found this link & immediately thought of all the possibilities:

http://images.southparkstudios.com/games/create/

Someone tell Bluemofia.

here's an example of what can be done with this:

http://www.ghastlyfop.com/blog/test.png

Found this one for sea unit makers (The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships):
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/

I have a category : Ultra Heavy Tanks


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-heavy_tank

put it on a site that doesn't take a half hour! Oh ignore this post!

This is a site that I have previously taken part in creating. It has hundreds of animations extracted from Infinity Engine Games (Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, etc) in GIF format that would be useful for fantasy scenarios. Now someone just has to convert them to Civ3 ;)

http://infinitum.d2mods.com

Link does not work.

The website host changed sometime back... here is the new working one.
http://phrozenkeep.hugelaser.com/resources/infinitum/index-anims-ac.html

The website host changed sometime back... here is the new working one.
http://phrozenkeep.hugelaser.com/resources/infinitum/index-anims-ac.html

Thanks TOM sry took so long to reply. Been very busy.
Took a look at your game thread. It's looks real good will DL it soon.

A site with some free 3-D models. Anybody cares to animate?
http://www.military3d.boom.ru/

Uniforms of the American Revolution (http://www.srcalifornia.com/uniforms/uindex.htm)

Portfolio of lots of free WWI, WWII, and Vietnam era ship, tank and aircraft models (http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=theschell&division_id=0&s=dd&pn=1)

Requires free membership (http://www.sharecg.com/index.php) to download. Membership also grants access to database of thousands of free 3D models.

(I hope its ok to post this because membership is free?)

Great link, since I am considering doing some WW2 ships that haven't been done yet.

I would like to start a thread on Orthodox thinking about the relationship between the gift of language and the creation of the world through the Logos.

Stumped on a tech tree? This guy makes some amazing ones. They're not Civ trees, but might contain some good ideas...

http://bluegalactic.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

Wow, that contains high undiluted amounts of awesomeness!