New Wonder: Compass

Ukas

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• Sep 27, 2004

• #1

Hi ho,

A wonder called Compass. Coastal installation, +1 ship movement for late ancient or early medieval era. First invented by the Chinese, then acquired by the Europeans and later the Arabs. Splash came out ok, for once!


Have fun,

Ukas





edit: Following Dark Russell's suggestion, I tried bigger centre on the compass in civped icon, liked it and sent it here as an alternative for you fine ppl.

You still need the original file, only civped-large and -small are in 2compass.zip.





Let me sail, let me sail...

 

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ghostbuster

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• Sep 27, 2004

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its very cool, very cool indeed

but can you explain to me how I can put this into civ (I dont know how to, or how to put civ-specific cities in either)

 

Ozymandias

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• Sep 27, 2004

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Very cool -- and I'd have to say the Splash is breathtaking

-Oz

 

Dark Russell

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• Sep 27, 2004

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Nice bit of compositing...what did you use to make it? Photoshop?

 

Ukas

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Thanks guys. Yes, Photoshop. Can be done with almost every editor, though. If you know how.

 

W.i.n.t.e.r

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6 Stars

 

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ghostbuster: Read the tutorials forum.

 

Rob (R8XFT)

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• Sep 28, 2004

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Really nice . I might use it as a "does not sink in sea" wonder.

 

Ukas

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Thanks guys. "Does not sink" is actually much better idea.

Then it can cause happy faces and culture, like the Chinese used it first for amusing their emperor & court.

 

Rufus T. Firefly

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• Sep 28, 2004

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There is already a good splash for this, on Prince Henry school.

 

Dark Russell

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Since you did it in photoshop, you could try putting a layer mask on the compass to make the centre a bit more visible...I think it may add a bit more dimention...or you could leave it the way it is cause it still looks great.

 

skam0073

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• Sep 28, 2004

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I think this is much needed and IMHO it look great as it is.As always great job

 

Ukas

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• Sep 29, 2004

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Dark Russell said:

Since you did it in photoshop, you could try putting a layer mask on the compass to make the centre a bit more visible...I think it may add a bit more dimention...or you could leave it the way it is cause it still looks great.

Click to expand...

That was a good idea. I followed the Chinese compass idea too strictly with the original. I like the statue is much better now. Didn't use layers with this one, just PS paintbrush, faster that way.