Recent content by CapTVK

Actually that´s one thing we do have: Time. There´s no ultimate deadline for Freeciv so you can work on it for a month, drop out for a while and continue where you left off. If your early work was succesful and was taken up by others you might be surprised.

I´m still surprised that even to this day Civ1 still has it fans. :) Dack, Have ever thought of doing a mapcreator for Freeciv? At the moment we could use one instead of editing savegames by hand. http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151840

The FC 2.1 Beta is shaping up nicely as well (new graphics) http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv

Amazing, the thread is still here. Just to let you know there´s a new beta out (testers welcome) 2.1.0 with a new set of graphics (Amplio) enjoy. http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv

Interesting, how did you go about designing them. Are all (most) of these buildings made from scratch?

Actually I kind of like the idea of using basic form for the cities. I find it refreshing. I take it the iconsize depends on the population of the city?

Some good 3D games for Knoppix? Well, there's only a small selection games included with the standard Knoppix distro. You could take a look at Games Knoppix that's got a good selection of games. http://games-knoppix.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/

Wow! Whadda ya know? There are actually more Linux users on CF then Poly! :) I'm surprised noone has mentioned Suse yet. Have been playing and running happily next to my Win98 partititon since 5.2 and I'm up to 9.2 now. Plus Knoppix from time, excellent distro... GNOME VS KDE? KDE, it...

The basic advice is study the units of some of the well known Civ2 artists. see how the design is laid out and practice, practice, practice. You could try upgrading some old units. Here's one I did from the Freeciv set for example.

PSP, a favorite tool for any Civ fan :) Ouch, that smarts! The laptop didn't end up at Lost&found by any chance and did you have any backups? To be honest I had trouble recognizing this figure. It's rather ambiguous. At first I thought it was a woman holding a baby in her arms but...

This looks very good, I like how you have managed to colour the mech with the gun battery at the top with only green colours. Well done! :) You have more mech/alien-type units units?

PeteT, I think you're overestimating Sid's influence. Sid doesn't own the Civ franchise, the copyrightholders (MPS>Hasbro>Infogrames/Atari>Take2) do. So, while an endorsement by Sid would be helpful the real power to make the final decision lies with someone else. At this point Atari...

Game companies&publishers always have turned a blind eye* towards homebrew/fan modding. If you have an original copy of Civ1 at home and want to use them in Freeciv they won't mind. The situation becomes different when you start to distribute copyrighted material without permission**...

Goldberg, Improving the graphics shouldn't be that hard. All the graphics and settings (.spec files) are in the /data directory. Everything that is tweakable (rules, city improvements, terrain etc...) can be found in those files. Just take a look. Graphics are stored in the PNG format and can...

Some of you are Wesnoth Developers? Well, congrats on making this excellent game. I had noticed Wesnoth over at happypenguin one day and since then (ver 0.66-.70?) I've been enjoying it. The map generator is pretty good for quick MP games. It's a shining example for open source games. Three...