Tom's Unit Factory

These latest conversions are very, very nice!

Golshan (unit conversion)

Golshan is a twisted (literally) and cruel mockery of a Kohan. Once the proud and stern Regent of the Istari, Golshan is now one of Abaddon's queens, little more than a plaything and a soldier of the lord of the Fallen. She still reigns over the blighted ruin of her homeland, but now she provides her people with nothing but suffering.

No Civ Colours.


The chain (or w/e it is) from her left hand to the ground (she is chained to darkness?) is shadowed in game; and cannot be seen unless on very light terrain.

Download here... Golshan.rar

Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included. Is a Kohan 2 unit.

Tom

Wow those last two units are superb Tom. That black demon is seriously cool! So how many more units can we expect before you stop the conversions?

It's just the infinitum conversions that I will no longer be doing... I may go out and pick up some of those games or buy them off ebay if I can get them cheap there. The problem with some of the Infinitum units is no shadows, and that their offsets for each direction for each unit are all not centered, so it is a serious pain to correct.

I will keep doing conversions though. There are alot of Kohan units, so they will continue to roll in.

Tom

tom2050 said:

It's just the infinitum conversions that I will no longer be doing... I may go out and pick up some of those games or buy them off ebay if I can get them cheap there. The problem with some of the Infinitum units is no shadows, and that their offsets for each direction for each unit are all not centered, so it is a serious pain to correct.

I will keep doing conversions though. There are alot of Kohan units, so they will continue to roll in.

Tom

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Great to hear Tom. I should have read your post more carefully.

please tell me your gonna do the dragons from that game

I haven't even looked at what units are in the game yet, I was unable to find a unit list (showing a small graphic or what not) from Kohan 2. But if there are dragons, I will do them... I was going through the Fallen units right now. Perhaps I will do a dragon after I finish the current unit.

Seems there are alot of animated Portraits (ahem, leaderheads ), I will have to check those out and see if they can be used or not for leaderheads. Many are creatures I think, so they would be just single era I suppose. All may have to be single era... (I can't make anything complex in 3ds Max currently).

Also, some of the animations I have problems with... they seem to rotate about in circles in a few instances. I don't know if it is with 3ds Max trajectories, rotation controllers, or what. I'm pretty sure it's not position controllers... but these units will have to wait until I can figure out how to modify the animations to keep them from doing this.

Tom

converted LHs sound pretty awesome

oh and Deliverator made some Kohan conversions for Civ
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=350259

im not really sure if those are easier to convert

bigdog5994 said:

converted LHs sound pretty awesome

oh and Deliverator made some Kohan conversions for Civ
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=350259

im not really sure if those are easier to convert

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Sure did! I had no idea... Since Civ 4 uses NIF and KF files as well, and Kohan uses NIF and KF files, chances are it was quite easy to convert those, because the only difference is the NIF/KF version numbers.

once I get each unit setup, rendering takes under 20 min's. Getting them setup takes the longest, about an hour. Completing the unit takes a bit of time (letting Photoshop batch process the images to get best size of unit in game,etc). I see those dragons you are talking about though, I'll try to do those next.

Perhaps I can check out the Civ 4 files for the animations I am having trouble with, to see if it is any different with those!

Tom

Awesome units as always! May have a use for the poison plants....

tom2050 said:

Carrion Crawler (unit conversion)

The carrion crawler is a scavenger of subterranean areas, feeding primarily upon carrion. When such food becomes scarce, however, it will attack and kill living creatures.

The crawler looks like a cross between a giant green cutworm and a cephalopod. Like so many other hybrid monsters, the carrion crawler may well be the result of genetic experimentation by a mad, evil wizard.

Carrion crawlers are much-feared denizens of the underground world. They live in lairs, venturing out in search of carrion or food every few days. Some underground inhabitants such as goblins and trolls will make use of carrion crawlers by leaving the bodies of dead foes out in designated areas. This keeps the creatures at a good distance from their own homes and encourages them to "patrol" certain areas. Some orcs have been known to chain live prisoners near the lairs of these fearsome monsters.

No Civ Colours.

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Download here... CarrionCrawler.rar

Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included. Is a Bioware/Interplay unit.

Tom

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... aka Mothra Larvae...

tom2050 said:

Seems there are alot of animated Portraits (ahem, leaderheads ), I will have to check those out and see if they can be used or not for leaderheads. Many are creatures I think, so they would be just single era I suppose. All may have to be single era...

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If not LHs they could be used as advisors - who are static with a variety of expressions. So single frame graphics would work. What file format are the portraits in?

A lot of the units you've shown will be useful as rakshasas in the India scenario I'm making glacial progress with.

tom2050 said:

I will spell out the whole name of the game, instead of abbreviating it. I didn't even think about it. Many probably don't know what AoW:SM stands for

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Balthasar said:

I didn't until I googled it.

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It's actually a very good game, but the AI has some flaws. With a better AI it would top all other turn based strategy games in my opinion. If you want to try it, get a cheap German version of the game, otherwise you'll be paying 10 times as much, while a German copy will still install in English, so you won't miss anything.

Sorry for getting off topic in your thread, Tom. Now and then I'm peeking at this thread to see what wonderful conversions have seen daylight. I'm not a modder, so it's just picture watching for me.

Blue Monkey said:

If not LHs they could be used as advisors - who are static with a variety of expressions. So single frame graphics would work. What file format are the portraits in?

A lot of the units you've shown will be useful as rakshasas in the India scenario I'm making glacial progress with.

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NIF and KF files, same as Civ 4 uses (different versions though). There are alot of them also, perhaps a hundred or so?? (give or take 30 ). That's a good idea, advisors also would work well.

Here's a sample portrait, they are animated, but might not be enough of the unit (since it stops at shoulders for most) to fill a Civ 3 style leaderhead. The ones I have looked at are all similar to how this is setup.



I get some strange probs here, on some of these pieces of the body are being stretched (like they are pinned to a certain location) and as the unit moves, the dragon's foot is always stretching to this single location.


That is how it is not when I import the mesh but when I import the animation file. So I'm thinking it has something to do with that, but unsure.
EDIT: I can't figure it out, and I don't have forever time; I'll post on some 3ds max forums and wait for an answer, and resume at that time.


Tom

tom2050 said:

Here's a sample portrait, they are animated, but might not be enough of the unit (since it stops at shoulders for most) to fill a Civ 3 style leaderhead. The ones I have looked at are all similar to how this is setup.
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Perhaps you could use a background with a dark bottom:
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To make the lack of shoulders "disappear":
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This presumably could then be cropped or resized to Civ Leaderhead dimensions.

Just a thought. Are there any Space Princesses, White Apes, or Evil Genius types in there?

Balthasar said:

Perhaps you could use a background with a dark bottom:
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To make the lack of shoulders "disappear":
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This presumably could then be cropped or resized to Civ Leaderhead dimensions.

Just a thought. Are there any Space Princesses, White Apes, or Evil Genius types in there?

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That's a good idea, perhaps I could even place some type of foreground there (same as background, but just in front) to help block the no-body view. I'll have to see what units are in the game that could be used as one of those . Of course, I don't know exactly how to add complex things in 3ds Max, but if someone does, I could send them the .MAX file with the animations and portrait.

They should be pretty easy to do, since it just involves rendering the needed amount of screens with the choosen animations, and then saving the flc in Animation Shop.

Tom

Leviathan (unit conversion)

Leviathan is... big, strong and mean. Don't make him mad.

No Civ Colours. Comes with Cast, Death1, Death2, 3 Default's, 2 Fidget's, 3 Melee's, and Walk.


Gif may run slower due to the frame count.

Download here... Leviathan.rar

Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included. Is a Kohan 2 unit.

Tom

wow just wow

its like the best conversion ever or something i mean it looks like something Plot made

Fiend (unit conversion)

No Civ Colours.



Download here... Fiend.rar

Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included. Is a Kohan 2 unit.

Tom

Androctonus (By Vuldacon)

Fattail scorpion or fat-tailed scorpion is the common name given to scorpions of the genus Androctonus, which is one of the most dangerous groups of scorpions species in the world.

They are a moderate sized scorpion, attaining lengths of 10 cm. Their venom contains powerful neurotoxins and is especially potent. Stings from Androctonus species are known to cause several human deaths each year.

This pack contains 1 Scorpion units; Large sized.

No Civ Colours.



Download here... RemadeAndroctonus.zip

Unit32, Large and Small pcx, and Sound Files included from Vuldacon. Modified version of the Kohan 2 conversion by tom2050 (re-rendered for this unit).

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Black Androctonus (By Vuldacon)

This pack contains 1 Scorpion units; Large sized.

No Civ Colours.



Download here... Black Androctonus.zip

Unit32, Large and Small pcx, and Sound Files included from Vuldacon. Modified version of the Kohan 2 conversion by tom2050.

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Scorpions (unit conversion)

This pack contains 3 Scorpion units; Large, Medium, and Small versions.

Scorpions are opportunistic predators. They use their pincers to catch the prey initially. Depending on the toxicity of their venom and size of their claws, they will then either crush the prey or inject it with neurotoxic venom. This will kill or paralyze the prey so the scorpion can eat it. The pincers, which are very sharp, are used to pull small amounts of food off the prey item for digestion.

No Civ Colours.



Download here... Scorpion.rar
File updated on 3-6-10 5:20pm with minor corrections (shadows) and addition of Vuldacon's Large run FLC/wav.

Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included. Is a Kohan 2 unit.

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Arctic Scorpions (unit conversion)

This pack contains 3 Arctic Scorpion units; Large, Medium, and Small versions.

No Civ Colours. Only largest Arctic Scorpion shown. Medium and Small versions similar to the above Scorpion sizes.



Download here... ArcticScorpions.rar

Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included. Is a Kohan 2 unit.

Tom