New Wonder: The Gold Saucer from FF VII

Well, I't been a loooooooong time, but I'm getting back into the wonder/improvement business. While I can't take full credit for the splash (I converted it from one of the installation screens for the PC version of FF VII), I did make the pedia icons and BLDG_Large/small Icons myself in Bryce. I made this whole thing in less than 1 hour, a new speed record for me.

Preview (all icons and graphics included in zip file shown):



I have this wonder replace the Cure for Cancer in my Final Fantasy mod, but others might be able to use it for something.

Bet on the Chocobos Here

Great work. It looks exactly like the one in FFVII.

The nice thing with Gold Saucer is that you can do a lot of things with it.

Such as:
1) +1 Trade in all trade-producing tiles
2) +1 Happiness in all cities, reduces war weariness
3) Replacement of Shakespeare's Theater

Of course, it should obviously have the "Tourist Attraction" flag as well.

Ogedei_the_Mad said:

Great work. It looks exactly like the one in FFVII.

The nice thing with Gold Saucer is that you can do a lot of things with it.

Such as:
1) +1 Trade in all trade-producing tiles
2) +1 Happiness in all cities, reduces war weariness
3) Replacement of Shakespeare's Theater

Of course, it should obviously have the "Tourist Attraction" flag as well.

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Glad you like it As for what it does, I was thinking maybe +1 trade and +1 happiness in all cities. I've already got the Zanarkand Dome as a replacement for Shakespeare's theater (especially since I replaced Free Artistry with Blitzball ).

CoolAnd what's FF VII.

I don't know anything about Final Fantasy, but it looks very cool!

I would really be surpised if those pics of the splash and the civilopedia icon are in civ palette. Remember that you have to use a 256 colour palette, otherwise the game crushes.

varwnos said:

I would really be surpised if those pics of the splash and the civilopedia icon are in civ palette. Remember that you have to use a 256 colour palette, otherwise the game crushes.

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Prepare for a surprise then.
If you have 254 colours you can make most things look good, if you just know how to maximize them, and HT has been modding civ3 a while, and know this.

FYI the palette looks like this:

Hm, if that is true then i am impressed

btw i didnt know that you can use different 256 palettes!! Is this also true for cities?

varwnos said:

Hm, if that is true then i am impressed

btw i didnt know that you can use different 256 palettes!! Is this also true for cities?

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Of course it is. If you use Photoshop; check out the "Get correct transparency..." link in my sig. This will optimice your palette.

That's interesting, If you were to flip the image you posted of the palette vertically, then horizontally, you'd have what it looks like in Paint Shop Pro 7's palette viewer. I wonder why Photoshop does that with the palette indexes, when PSP, Flicster, Wally (Quake/HL texture editor/freeware paint prog) and just about every other graphics editing program shows the pallette the way I mentioned it.

And yes, I do optomize every single one of my palettes for pedia icons, leaderhead graphics (& animations) and wonder splashes. What I usually do is have it reduce the image from true color to 254 colors using Median cut and nearest color (although in some cases where the colors contrast too much, I'll use dithering so it doesn't look so pixelly). After I'm done with the color reduction, PSP will show a 256 color palette with the last two colors as black, and I change them to green and magenta to make sure that it saves as a 256 color file (Frenchman mentioned that he ran into trouble sometimes when he didn't do that).

As for what "FF VII" is, it's Final Fantasy VII, IMHO, the best RPG ever made, and the FIRST RPG I ever played as well as the first Final Fantasy game I played. Once I played Final Fantasy VII, I was hooked on the series, and the rest as they say is history. The Gold Saucer is a HUGE amusement park/battle arena/museum/hotel/arcade/theater/chocobo racetrack (think horse races, except that the jockeys ride big yellow birds instead of horses, and bets are paid off in GP (Gold Saucer tokens) or items (potions, grenades, armor, etc) rather than money).

And yes, as MRTN said, I've been modding Civ III for about a year before I found out about this place (I'd already made a complete PTW version of the Tweaked Out mod as a matter of fact), so I already knew most of the ins and outs of resource, improvement & wonder graphics modding before I even got here (It's the unit and LH animations part that I had to learn from the other people here).

Im using the cheepo-cheepo Gimp. Not sure if/where it has a similar option

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Letz have a WAAAGH! for da Gimp!

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Goldflash you sure do make weird posts sometimes..