Has anyone tried to model a simple, pref-fab looking city set? None of the stone or wood Vanilla ones look good one the Moon or an alien world. I'm trying to skin one, but was wondering if anyone had made one in Blender or something else?
Lunar city set?
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Duke van Frost
Lunatic Killer Robot
GeoModder said:Something like this perhaps, Woodelf?
I think i´ll use this graphic for another one of my buttons, if you don´t mind.
Padmewan said:
I did some reskinning of the city sets, but put them in the Rallying Call thread. I'm not sure, but I would imagine if someone made some geometric shapes we could make those the default city sets... Maybe?
I don't know what would happen if you simply made the Pyramid your city set though.
I went through and found some buildings that you could replace the default buildings with; however, if/when you build THOSE buildings, there might be a problem:
Observatory
Scotland Yard
Bunker <-- extra double-plus good!
Fallout Shelter
Broadcast Tower
Nuclear Plant
Pentagon
The UN (minus the flags)
Ironworks
also, some of the projects have "buildings" eg Apollo. See if those are any good...
Not sure where the buildings are defined -- XML or Python. I've been frustrated by what seems to be hard-coding of the eras, etc. If we could force-jump to the Modern era, at least the buildings wouldn't look so weird.
Observatory
Scotland Yard
Bunker <-- extra double-plus good!
Fallout Shelter
Broadcast Tower
Nuclear Plant
Pentagon
The UN (minus the flags)
Ironworks
also, some of the projects have "buildings" eg Apollo. See if those are any good...
Not sure where the buildings are defined -- XML or Python. I've been frustrated by what seems to be hard-coding of the eras, etc. If we could force-jump to the Modern era, at least the buildings wouldn't look so weird.
I'm sure you can force the city set to start in the modern era. It's defined in XML somewhere.... 
I have seen it before, somewhere.
Also, when adding new buildings I think you can set the size so low that maybe there wouldn't be an issue? So you wouldn't see it, big deal. Also, can you make it so it doesn't need to show up at all? To me adding the new buildings graphically is unnecessary eye candy. Does the aqueduct make any sense half the time?
I have seen it before, somewhere.Also, when adding new buildings I think you can set the size so low that maybe there wouldn't be an issue? So you wouldn't see it, big deal. Also, can you make it so it doesn't need to show up at all? To me adding the new buildings graphically is unnecessary eye candy. Does the aqueduct make any sense half the time?
Chalid
Black Dragon
When you want to use the modern Era graphics for all eras you just have to modify your CIV4CityLSystem.xml file.
Basically you search for every entry that contains your old era and delete that entire entry. Then search for ERA_MODERN end replace ERA_MODERN with ERA_ANCIENT,ERA_MEDIEVAL,ERA_RENAISSANCE,ERA_MODERN and so forth.
The Eras are grouped together and there is a list for each city tile size. So you can really delete lage blocks of that file.
Basically you search for every entry that contains your old era and delete that entire entry. Then search for ERA_MODERN end replace ERA_MODERN with ERA_ANCIENT,ERA_MEDIEVAL,ERA_RENAISSANCE,ERA_MODERN and so forth.
The Eras are grouped together and there is a list for each city tile size. So you can really delete lage blocks of that file.
Thanks Chalid. So you should be able to keep your city graphics the same the entire game and also you could keep it from sprawling by defining tile size before it expands? I'll have to check that file, but first we need some futuristic city sets...
Chalid
Black Dragon
That restricting of sprawling can be done by two ways i suppose. Ther might be a way to restict it in the CityLSystems, but there is possibly another way too. In one of the global files - i dont remember which one actually - there are parameters that control the size of the city in dependence of the population. You might be able to use that to limit the city size to one tile.
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