Viking LongBoat and Viking Horseman

CivArmy s. 1994 · Jan 27, 2005

Viking Long Boat is the famous Viking boat used in the furious invasions in Europe, in Ancient Time and early Middle Age. Some of them have arrived in Americas in X and XI centuries, almost 500 years before the first Caravels.
It is the UU of the civilization of Norway, the discussion thread is http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=110774

Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/VikingLongBoat.zip

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CivArmy s. 1994 · Jan 27, 2005

Drott
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Drott.zip
Civilization: Denmark or Vikings
Civilopedia entry: Drott is a ancient cavalry unit used by the Vikings. They have used swords, shields, axes, blades and other light hand weapons and light armor.

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Nwoll · Jan 27, 2005

i like your units but all your mounted units seem to ride horses with skinny legs disproportionate to their bodies. just my opinion, feel free to ignore me.

Hrafnkell · Jan 27, 2005

Very nice!

TopGun · Jan 27, 2005

And another nice job by a gifted artist!

Ares de Borg · Jan 28, 2005

eek! This came totally unexpected. Thanks!

CivArmy s. 1994 · Jan 28, 2005

Nwoll said:
i like your units but all your mounted units seem to ride horses with skinny legs disproportionate to their bodies. just my opinion, feel free to ignore me.

Thanks for the comment, I'll not ignore it

I try use the same proportion of the horses in game, there, they look like more poney (shorter and larger legs) then real horses.

@to all other comments: THANKS TOO!!!

tastybrain · Jan 28, 2005

The run animation is very smooth and the attention you obviously gave to the leg-work definately paid off. :goodjob:

the legs are a little skinny, but i don't think you need to worry about them too much (ie: don't make them too meaty).

Goldflash · Jan 28, 2005

Maybe its just the fact that I'm remoting desktopping into my computer right now, but the Drotts' Default looks a little twitchy... Maybe you should pull the sword-arm in clsoer to his body a bit....

Kal-el · Jan 28, 2005

one thing I have noticed about your mounted units is that they seem to be sitting just a bit too far back on the horse. It just doesn't look right. Sorry, don't mean to be critical, but I think your units would be that much better if the rider's position were adjusted just slightly.

Something like this:

Olaf_The_Great · Jan 28, 2005

I must say something the longboat(since its small) would be a snekka and a bigger version would be a dragnar(or something)

CivArmy s. 1994 · Jan 28, 2005

Kal-el said:
one thing I have noticed about your mounted units is that they seem to be sitting just a bit too far back on the horse. It just doesn't look right. Sorry, don't mean to be critical, but I think your units would be that much better if the rider's position were adjusted just slightly.

Something like this:

the difference is not big, but I can put my next mounted units in the way that u suggested in the image

@to al posters: thanks for the comments and suggestions!

Kal-el · Jan 28, 2005

cool, glad you didn't take offense.

CivArmy s. 1994 · Jan 28, 2005

Kal-el said:
cool, glad you didn't take offense.

U r just helping when u did the suggestion and I appreciate it

Thanks and fell free to do future suggestions when u like

CivArmy s. 1994 · May 17, 2005

I added the anti-aliasment in the two units, they have better graphic quality right now

Bjornlo · May 17, 2005

They are better. I especially like the civ colored checkered sail.

mrtn · May 17, 2005

The ship's got the right-edge-bug in the attack, but otherwise I like it. You have to leave a two pixels wide gap at the right edge of any unit, otherwise the animations that touches the edge will "freeze" there for a while.

BTW, the checkered sail is very historically accurate.

Sword_Of_Geddon · May 17, 2005

I don't think your longboat needs any improvement appearence wise. But the attack could use alittle changing. I wouldn't have the boat rock when the arrows are launched. Also, I wouldn't have the arrows all fire at the same time, but rather more mixed up like the Civ3 ships.

Kal-Els plus Firaxis plus Civarmy's equals 3 different Longboat units... :eek:

CivArmy s. 1994 · May 17, 2005

I am glad pople have enjoyed the two units!

mrtn, I promiss, I'll pay attentation in my future units to correct the bug as I correct that error with transparence of the icons of the LHs. BTW, did u see the last ones, they don't have that transparence bug in the foreign screen anymore :goodjob:

Tycho Brahe · May 18, 2005

CivArmy s. 1994 said:
Viking Long Boat is the famous Viking boat used in the furious invasions in Europe, in Ancient Time and early Middle Age. Some of them have arrived in Americas in X and XI centuries, almost 500 years before the first Caravels.
It is the UU of the civilization of Norway, the discussion thread is http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=110774

Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/VikingLongBoat.zip

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Very beautiful work :goodjob:

Forgive me for saying this, but your ship just isn't the shape of a viking longboat. Take a look at this:

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