Trebuchet

sharick · Mar 20, 2006

Fully animated trebuchet unit.

Trebuchet / Polygon count / Buttons

Minimod made by Duke van Frost:

Just unzip the archives as they are to:

yourCivilization4Maindirectory\Mods

It will add a new mod called Trebuchet to your game.

The model for the trebuchet unit is made by sharick!

Changes to the game:

Catapult is now available with iron-working, has strength 5 (no change), costs 30 (40 before), city bombardment of 10% (15% before), collateral damage limit to 40% (before 50%), collateral damage to maximum 5 units (6 before)

Catapult now upgrades to trebuchet

Trebuchet is available with engineering has strength 8, costs 60, city bombardment 15%, collateral damage limit 50%, collateral damage to maximum 6 units

Trebuchet upgrades to cannon

horse archer and keshik gain 50% strength bonus towards catapult and trebuchet!

No text for the civilopedia right now!

have fun!

Duke van Frost

Files:
Trebuchet.zip - unit + minimod + old button
Trebuchet_new_icon.zip - unit + minimod + new button
old_wood.zip - alternative textures like name says

Aranor · Mar 20, 2006

damn if that not finished then I wanna see what you could do with it further!! It looks fabulous!

Rabbit, White · Mar 20, 2006

This indeed looks great. :thumbsup:

Crighton · Mar 20, 2006

still looks sweet dude, just needs to get animations etc in a tweek and viola!!!!

sweetness

snafusmith · Mar 20, 2006

Talk about diversification! Nice, especially on the textures.

-Smitty

woodelf · Mar 20, 2006

Now I can quit bugging Notarzt. Great job sharick.

eoo2 · Mar 20, 2006

(Applause) will be nice if you beat Firaxis to the Trebuchet (and yours is better).

Everyone here is looking forward to the animation. Thus far, Sharick, you're the prince of mechanical warfare.

(now, if only you could design a trebuchet-panzer...)

Chamaedrys · Mar 20, 2006

WOOT!

What a machine!!! Great work :goodjob:

woodelf · Mar 20, 2006

What unit do we use with it in the files? Tank still?

sharick · Mar 20, 2006

@woodelf - I don't know, try catapult. Maybe the sound will work.

Olleus · Mar 20, 2006

Wow. Simply amazing and very fast. If you have any other questions i'll be glad to answer them

EDIT: Unfortunately this is the first time that I have added graphics for a new unit. Where do i put those files. I tried assets/Art/Trebuchet and then changed the art defines to this

Code:

			<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_TREBUCHET</Type>
			<fScale>0.65</fScale>
			<fInterfaceScale>1.0</fInterfaceScale>
			[b]<NIF>Art/Units/Trebuchet/trebuchet.nif</NIF>[/b]
			<KFM>Art/Units/Catapult/Catapult.kfm</KFM>
			<SHADERNIF>Art/Units/Catapult/Catapult_FX.nif</SHADERNIF>

but nothing happens.

Patricius · Mar 20, 2006

Thanks very much. Looks very good.

Patricius

Dual · Mar 20, 2006

Wow, that looks good! Like eoo2 said, I can't imagine the Firaxis version being better if they release one with the expansion.

woodelf · Mar 20, 2006

Lord Olleus said:
Wow. Simply amazing and very fast. If you have any other questions i'll be glad to answer them

EDIT: Unfortunately this is the first time that I have added graphics for a new unit. Where do i put those files. I tried assets/Art/Trebuchet and then changed the art defines to this

Code:

<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_TREBUCHET</Type> <fScale>0.65</fScale> <fInterfaceScale>1.0</fInterfaceScale> [b]<NIF>Art/Units/Trebuchet/trebuchet.nif</NIF>[/b] <KFM>Art/Units/Catapult/Catapult.kfm</KFM> <SHADERNIF>Art/Units/Catapult/Catapult_FX.nif</SHADERNIF>

but nothing happens.

You need the shadernif to say exactly the same as the regular nif. 2 lines of code for one nif file. Tell us if it works with the catapult! If not try the tank.

edit : make sure the last line has the trebuchet_FX.nif

snafusmith · Mar 23, 2006

CONGRADULATIONS! I would say this is as important as the plugin for 3Ds Max. Now we can make complete units, not just new models. Well done!

TheLopez · Mar 23, 2006

A comment about the skinning, is it possible to make the wood not look so new? Otherwise :goodjob:

sharick · Mar 23, 2006

@TheLopez - no problem, just substitute wood textures (wood_01.dds, wood_02.dds) with the ones from old_wood.zip (first post). There are only 2 small textures so it's easy to tweak it if you have some graphic skills.

Red Door · Mar 23, 2006

It looks like the Hand of God from Age of Empires 2.

J_Period · Mar 24, 2006

First off, thank you I love the unit, it's so sweet.

Secondly, what units are you planning on doing next? How about a ballista?

Duke van Frost · Mar 27, 2006

This was the unit i missed the MOST in cIV!

Finally the large gap between catapult and cannon is closed.

This will be the first "real" modification - gameplay wise - i will do with my cIV.

Thank you so much your work is very appreciated here!

Trebuchet

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