[Units] Melcher's Colonization Units

melcher kürzer · Feb 4, 2011

Hi everybody!
I'm a member of the developer-team from the german TAC-modification for Colonization. As time passed i have made plenty of graphical stuff. Units, Citysets, Leaderheads etc.
You can find my Leaderheads here. They are originally made for Colonization so if you like, you can use them unconsidered in Colonization too.

In this thread i will release the units i have made. But you need to integrate the units yourself, i will only upload the graphical files.
If you have some requests for Units, LHs, etc. please go ahead and ask me. But i won't promise anything.

Civilians:
3 male units: Master builder, bishop, nobleman (info) (download)
3 female units: noble woman, peasant woman, townswoman (info) (download)
2 units: spice trader and hunter (info) (download)

Screenshots:

Spoiler :

Troops:
Native units pack 1 (Apache, Arawak, Cherokee, Iroquois) (info) (download)
Native units pack 2 (Inca, Maya, Sioux, Tehuelche) (info) (download)
Native units pack 3 (Aztec, Tupi, Native general) (info) (download)
European units pack (Spain, France, England, Portugal and Dutch) (info) [URL="http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=16756"](download)[/URL]

Screenshots:

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Ships:
Ship of the line (info) (download)

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melcher kürzer · Feb 4, 2011

A Ship of the line. This unit is a heavy modified pirates-import and therefore has a high polycount and many textures. I haven't encountered any problems so far, but be warned.
No damage texture (maybe i will update this in the future). The Europescreen-picture of the ship is made for koma's "New Europe screen", but need some polishing too.

Credits: Firaxis.

melcher kürzer · Feb 4, 2011

A couple of Civilian units.
3 male units: Master builder, bishop, nobleman
3 female units: noble woman, peasant woman, townswoman
2 units: spice trader and hunter

Use them as any profession you like. Buttons and cityscreen-portrait are included.

Credits: Mostly modified pirates-imports. The hunter model is from FFH2, but i have no clue who has made this.

melcher kürzer · Feb 4, 2011

Native units for UnitArtStyles! All native nations from Colonization included plus Maya ,Tehuelche and one great general. For better clearness all units of one nation/tribe have the same basemodel. No extra buttons yet, i'm not sure how to handle this best.

pack 1: Apache, Arawak, Cherokee, Iroquois
pack 2: Inca, Maya, Sioux, Tehuelche
pack 3: Aztec, Tupi, Native general

Credits: I used some meshes and textures from the "Age of Further Discovery"-mod so i'm not totally sure about that. Deliverator, i guess.

Kailric · Feb 4, 2011

Awesome work, melcher, I've seen somethings I'll add to my Medieval mod for sure. Funny, I just had worked to get the "Hunter" unit into my Medieval mod the other day as an Hunter archer, I love that unit. I can use your version as a early gunpowder unit.

I have a unit request, authentic war galleys of the 15 -18 century. There have been a few attempts made in other mods but I have never seen one that looked authentic. Below I posted some links and some pictures I scanned from my "The History of Pirates" book. They will give you the idea of what I am talking about.

Link to evolution of the galley:
http://www.bigscalemodels.com/ships/lereale/lereale.html

Kailric · Feb 4, 2011

Hey, I am trying to download these but I keep getting this error. I can download other stuff just not your units... any idea why?

Code:

Kailric, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system? 
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Dazio · Feb 4, 2011

Great work Melcher Kurzer! I admire your achievements !

Dazio · Feb 4, 2011

Ah yes! Unable to download!

Here is the message: "you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons ......."

KJ Jansson · Feb 4, 2011

Great work, melcher kürzer!

Really, now impossible to download from civfanatics.com. Here direct links to download.

However, I could find on the German forum only these sets:

1. -Bischof
-großer Staatsmann
-großer Baumeister

http://www.civforum.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=534876&d=1294505846

2. 3 weibliche Einheiten:
Adel, Mittelschicht und Unterschicht

http://www.civforum.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=535511&d=1294581857

3. Gewürzhändlerin und erfahrener Jäger.

http://www.civforum.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=541766&d=1295886059

4. Ein Linienschiff unter spanischer Flagge

http://www.civforum.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=535768&d=1294604692

However, these sets

pack 1: Apache, Arawak, Cherokee, Iroquois
pack 2: Inca, Maya, Sioux, Tehuelche
pack 3: Aztec, Tupi, Native general

are absent. Do you have links to these sets on the German forum?

melcher kürzer · Feb 4, 2011

Sorry guys,
the files are currently in the moderation queue. They need to be approved first and should be available in the next few days.
I should have explained that understandable in my startpost, my fault.
I have created that thread first because i wanted a forum link in the download description. Editing the files afterwards leads to the moderation queue again so it's the only solution.

And thanks, i'm glad you like the units.

Kailric said:
Awesome work, melcher, I've seen somethings I'll add to my Medieval mod for sure. Funny, I just had worked to get the "Hunter" unit into my Medieval mod the other day as an Hunter archer, I love that unit. I can use your version as a early gunpowder unit.

Nice to hear.

Kailric said:
I have a unit request, authentic war galleys of the 15 -18 century. There have been a few attempts made in other mods but I have never seen one that looked authentic. Below I posted some links and some pictures I scanned from my "The History of Pirates" book. They will give you the idea of what I am talking about...

I will think about it. Normally i don't try to make historical accurate units but it's sounds interesting.
If i make that unit i will need quite some time. First, i have to do some other units.
Second, ships are as opposed to other units a lot of work.
And i see directly one big problem with the animations. The cannons are placed to fire forwards. All ships in Civ fights side by side. This could be tricky.

Edit:

KJ Jansson said:
However, these sets

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pack 1: Apache, Arawak, Cherokee, Iroquois pack 2: Inca, Maya, Sioux, Tehuelche pack 3: Aztec, Tupi, Native general

are absent. Do you have links to these sets on the German forum?

No. There is no download possibility on the german forum for these. Just wait a few days.

Gomer_Pyle · Feb 4, 2011

Great work.

The_Coyote · Feb 4, 2011

melcher kürzer;10185891 said:
Second, ships are as opposed to other units a lot of work.
And i see directly one big problem with the animations. The cannons are placed to fire forwards. All ships in Civ fights side by side. This could be tricky.

If you want to make the galleys, here is a galleas made by C.Roland a while ago (later the animation must be fixed, the original thread is here) with more bows working. Also the attack angel of ships isn´t written in stone - eg submarines don´t fight side to side. I´m not sure, but iirc it was a entry in the ArtDefines, this one looks especially promising, the Battleship has this entry, the submarine not.

Code:

<fExchangeAngle>25.0</fExchangeAngle>

M07 · Feb 5, 2011

I know some units will be welcome in the following version of Doane!
Very great work !

Kailric · Feb 5, 2011

The_Coyote said:
If you want to make the galleys, here is a galleas made by C.Roland a while ago (later the animation must be fixed, the original thread is here) with more bows working. Also the attack angel of ships isn´t written in stone - eg submarines don´t fight side to side. I´m not sure, but iirc it was a entry in the ArtDefines, this one looks especially promising, the Battleship has this entry, the submarine not.

Code:

<fExchangeAngle>25.0</fExchangeAngle>

Yep, I have tried to get the galleas to work with Colonization but never could. Well infact a lot of the custom ships want work with Colonization so just getting them to work would add more variaty for sure.

The_Coyote · Feb 5, 2011

here is a nif for C.Rolands galleas (use the animation from wolfshanze thread - scale around half of the caravel) which works in Colonization.

If there are still problems converting civ4 units to col - because i only seldom check this subfora nowadays - pm me and if i have time a will have a look [or ask in the main Civ4 C&C fora]

@ Melcher
and now i will stop to take over your thread

- btw iirc after 30 posts your files no longer need the moderators queue

Kailric · Feb 5, 2011

The_Coyote said:
here is a nif for C.Rolands galleas (use the animation from wolfshanze thread - scale around half of the caravel) which works in Colonization.

If there are still problems converting civ4 units to col - because i only seldom check this subfora nowadays - pm me and if i have time a will have a look [or ask in the main Civ4 C&C fora]

@ Melcher
and now i will stop to take over your thread - btw iirc after 30 posts your files no longer need the moderators queue

Sweet, Coyote, I been wanting to get that unit in my Privateers mod ever sense I saw it. I tested it out and it all works. I did notice there was a flash of pink textures when the cannons fire. That may have something to do with missing effects files though.

Yeah, to get Ships to face forward when they attack you just set up the art file like a submaries. I'd still like an authentic 16th Century pirate galley with the cannons on the front

And yeah, melcher.. get to posting

melcher kürzer · Feb 6, 2011

The_Coyote said:
Also the attack angel of ships isn´t written in stone - eg submarines don´t fight side to side. I´m not sure, but iirc it was a entry in the ArtDefines, this one looks especially promising, the Battleship has this entry, the submarine not.

Code:

<fExchangeAngle>25.0</fExchangeAngle>

Kailric said:
...
Yeah, to get Ships to face forward when they attack you just set up the art file like a submaries. I'd still like an authentic 16th Century pirate galley with the cannons on the front

And yeah, melcher.. get to posting

How could i forget that. It's been a long time since i have played Civ4 the last time and i didn't reached modern ages often.

Good to know how this is handled anyway.
But i like the idea of making a galley fires forward. I will make that unit but don't expect it will finishs soon. As i have said before, lots of other work to do first.

The_Coyote said:
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@ Melcher
and now i will stop to take over your thread - btw iirc after 30 posts your files no longer need the moderators queue

I don't mind.

And i know i need 30 posts but this isn't quite easy as it sounds.

melcher kürzer · Feb 8, 2011

The units are approved now and you can download them.

Currently i'm working on european units, should finish them unitl next week.

AbsintheRed · Feb 8, 2011

Wow, these units are awesome!
Especially the natives will be useful
I may even continue modding Age of Further Discovery because of them (and because your LHs of course

)

Dazio · Feb 8, 2011

Really, really beautiful! We integrate into the next version of DoaNE.

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