Wonder splashes for Pounder's widescreen

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Pounder created his "widescreen" system, i mean the possibility to have BIGS splash screens for wonders.

I am fond of this idea, but creator don't us it : They create splashes in the standard size, and not in the gorgeous pounder's one.

For all theses who are as me, and want to use the big screeny from Pounder, here a first pack of splashes. The "Wonderbackground" from Pounder is here, too.

The first pack contain (i hope this word exist) 104 wonder splashes. And the pics for the civilopedia, too (128x128 for LARGE and 32x32 for SMALL).

There is no pic for the "building" file because i don't know how to make them, sorry (and don't have the time to go 3D, by the way), but the game can work without them : Just add a "blank" line at the end of the two "building" files.

Pack 1 : http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=8711

The second pack contain 100 splashes. All the Civ wonders have now a splashe. i also tried to make good splashes for nearly all building-related wonders. Still lack some (as the Solar plant).

Pack 2 : http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=9831
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Abbeye of Cluny. One of the firsts abbayes (don't know the english name. Call it a "super-monastery") in Europe. Founded in 909 or 910 by the Duc of Aquitaine, Guillaume le Pieux.
This Abbaye create a great number of monasteries in France, each of them obey only to the Abbaye. And the Abbaye obey only to the Pope.

Proposal for use : Can add automatically a religious building in each city of the continent (the OTL Cluny don't create monasteries East of rivers Rhine and Pô). A monastery can be good, or a temple in the original game.
Don't forget cluny loose is importance because they begin to be to rich for monasteries. Then Cluny can have an high upkeep.

Probably need a temple in the city (if the city is not pious, who need an abbaye ?).



Abu Simbel is a group of two temples in the Pharaonic Egypt, build by the famous Ramses II. It's the famous who are saved from the new Lac Nasser.

Proposal for use : They was buildings for the glory of the Pharao more than for the use of the peoples. They probably give a HUGE amount of culture (culture is in fact "glory", in civ3), but no more content face than a normal temple.

Probably not need a building requirement : Abu Simbel is build by the will of the pharao, not from the religious ideas of local peoples.



The Acropolis of Athens is not has three function (Four if you think of the wanted glory) : One, it's an enormous temple complex. Two, it's a fortress. Three, it's the tresure chest of the city.

Proposal for use : Defense bonus (not to much : Acropolis often fail to protect the city...) and a big temple power.

Probably need walls of some sort (in my mod, walls can's protect from bombardments, but add some defense), because it's a citadel, and you don't build a citadel before build walls around the city. Or do you ?

The Carnac alignments, in France. Kilometers and kilometers of enormous rocs called menhirs. Even in a country where there is a LOT of menhirs, the Carnac alignments are really famous for that.

Actually, we don't really know why theses peoples build that. We think it was at the same era than Stonehenge, but we can't say it for sure. We just know the menhirs are far olders than the Celts.

Proposition for use : Well, maybe something than pure glory, or maybe adding a religious building in each city. Or maybe that was a training field for elites warriors (then the wonder build a free unit each turn ?). Who can say...



Angkor vat is an enormous temple build in the XII century, in the actual Cambodge.

Proposition for use : As a member of a temple complex (Angkor), Angkor Vat need probably a temple in the city. It is nothing more than a temple itself, but is so known in the country he can, maybe double the mood bonuse of others temples ?



Nothing more than the Art of War from the original war, Widescreen version.

The picture represent a chinese army (stolen on the chinese fan forum).

Another "italian" church : The Basilica di san pietro. Yes, the big cathedral from the Vatican.

Proposal for use : Probably double the mood in the others cathedrals, world-wise, as it's the pope cathedral. But it's also a pilgrimage place, and that mean commercial bonuse.



Non anglo-saxons often know much is sci-fi counter-part, the Space-beagle, and the son of it the Enterprise from StarTrek, but it is pretty celeb in the anglo-saxon world, as is french counter-part the Astrolabe is know in France (WAS know wen a little knownledge of the past of our country was not called "fascism").

The Beagle is the name of the ship onto Darwin do his famous voyage.

Then this is a widescreen replacement for the "Theory of Evolution" from the original game and... probably need an harbor in the city (Beagle was a SHIP !).



The Bell Rock Lighthouse is the older lightouse still existing build in the sea. It's more or less as famous for anglo-saxons peoples than the Phare de la Baleine (Wale lighthouse) for the frenchs.

Can probably have the same bonuses the Great Lightouse, but in a more modern era (it was build between 1807 and 1810).

Brooklyn Bridge, one of the most famous bridge in USA. Build in New York.
As a city bridge, can probably boost the commercial outcome of the city but... need a river, as you can imagine.




Buckingham palace. The little cottage of his gracious majesty. Can be used as a flavoured Forbidden city for the English civ...



The Burj al arab, a luxury hotel of 321 meters high build in the shap of a sail on an artificial island.

A wonder that can probably boost commercial revenues, but need to be build on a coastal city.

A widescreen replacement for the Sixtine chapel (it's the roof).



The most known of the "chateaux de la Loire", in France. Build by the king François 1er (and said to nearly bankrupted him). Was a palace (forbidden city style) AND a castle (in his early years, at least).



Probably the most known of all the castles of the world : The "Chateau de Versailles". It can be used as a "forbidden palace" (for the french civ, for example), but it has also for task to have all the lords of the kingdom near the king. As it, he can probably delete an unhappy face in all the empire by stopping the nobles to conspire.

Oh : His upkeep is probably very, but very high.

The CN tower, in Canada.

As all the other communication towers, the CN has no use in a original game. But if you add to the game some "communication tower" building that, as the originals, enhance communications and then commerce, the CN and his counter-parts (has the Tour Eiffel) can give one of theses "communications towers" for free to each city.*



The true and only Colloseum, build in Roma by imperators Vespasian and Titus.

Can be used has a stronger colloseum, or give a boost to all the other "littles" colloseum, or even put one of them in each city.



A widescreen replacement for the original Colossus. I think it's the same from Pounder.

The first transcontinental railway, in America. In my mod, need railroad and build a railroad station in each continental station (railroad station give bonuses in production, commerce, and open the door for other buildings).



The forth bridge (the railway one, the old). In my mod, need a railroad station, a river, and a coast. but give an economical boost.

It was build at the end of the XIX century.



The "galleria degli uffizi" was, in the city of Florence, the famous Medici family put a big part of their paintings and sculptures.

The galleria can give a big boost in culture to the city.

I'm returned. What a day, again...



A replacement for the original Great library. It's the idea of what we actually think to be the enter room.

For thoses who want to know why the GL give you techs for others civs : It was exactly what the original do ! Ptolemaic Egyptians stolen knowledges. Egyptian soldiers even take by force map and others stuffs in foreign ships that enter in egyptian harbours (and some wonder why Egypt lose so much of it importance at this era...).



A replacement for the original Great Wall. In OTL, the great wall failed (opposite to the Roman Limes, who was more successful) to stop invader.
As an military (forgot the name) said, the wall was so big "China" can't afford to garrison him when was weak, and expand way beyond it when whe was strong...



The Hagia Sophia. The big cathedral from Constantinople, stolen and transformed in a mosquee by Ottomans (and not Arabs) conquerors. It was the central cathedral for Orthodox christians. She has no such an importance for muslims.

A replacement for the Jardins suspendus (Hangin gardens). Let you know we have, at least, found them, very recently (last year, if i remember correctly). Yes. Well, they are in the same state the others buildings from babylon (just the foundations and some walls), but still it's them.



Karnak is the biggest and most important temple complex in Egypt. It's more or least the central temple for Egyptian religion, as most of their gods have at least one temple here.



Just "another" temple. Kikaku-ji is the famous "Golden Pavillion", in Japan. Rebuild most than one time, each time with more gold...

A Widescreen replacement for Longevity. It's a vietnamese word for the same thing.



The Louvre. Was first a fortress, then a palace, and now it's the biggest museum in the world.
I suggest you visit it now : French politician SELL the french museums collections to their richs friends, since some years.



Machu Picchu. The newest theory say it was probably some sort of "sumer palace", ans not a fortress (after all, what the use for a fortress with nothing to protect...).

The mesquita, in Cordoue. First an enormous "mosquee cathedral", and then after the reconquista a temple complex with a cathedral AND a mosquee.

Well known for his numerous pillars.



The Metropolitan museum. The American equivalent of Louvre. More known for his modern art collections.



The belarussian Mir Castle. It was build in the XVI century, destroyed a lot or times, rebuild each time.

A Widescreen replacement for the United Nations. Actually a hate and racism factory, but's that my idea of the question.



Newgrange. More or least the Irish Pyramids, with a even more spectacular mathematical precision in the construction.



A Widescreen replacement for Newton, who was not a building but a scientist, by the way.

The famed porcelaine pagoda, in China. Actually destroyed in 1856 by Taiping rebels.



The Shwedagon pagoda, in Birmanie (Myanmar). Actually, it's an enormous stupa (a shrine), and a pilgrimage place.



Petra, in Jordanie. In fact, that was a city.

The big Petronas twin towers, in malaisie. No the actul highest skycrappers in the world, but look at them !

Can be used for give commercial boost.



A Widescreen replacement for the Great lighthouse. Pharos is the name of the island. That was it was called "Pharos tower".



The famous russian cathedral facing the Kremlin (and not part of him).

The Potala palace, in Tibet. Was a palace, a fortress, a monastery AND a pilgrimage place.



No, it's not "bad quality picture". You can hardly find betters for the Trinity test.

A Widescreen replacement for the original Manhattan project.

The Trinity test was the first atomic bomb explosion. Hiroshima and Nagazaki was only second and third.
The achievement of Project manhatan.



A Widescreen replacement for SETI project. The building pictured is part of the project.

A Widescreen replacement for the original Pyramids.



St. Philomena church. The first cathedral in India.



schloss neuschwanstein. Disney copied him in this famous animes. But the original look better, don't you think ?

The Sidney opera house, in Australia. Can be used for give content face in the city, or put "theaters-like" building in continental cities, for example.



The Statue de la Liberté has a sad history. The first idea was for the french people to pay for the statue and the shipping, and for Americans to pay for the pedestal.

But some peoples love money more than other thing : The US congress accepted the gift but... refused to pay for the pedestal.

Even New-York refused to pay.

That was a big rumble in USA, and the famous New-york paper editor Pulitzer accused the American people to love more money than Liberty and answer to the friendship from french people by stinginess (and even proposed to rename as that the statue).

Even other American Cities proposed to pay the pedestal for have the statue, but the sculptor was tired (and don't have the monney for more shipping) and put the statue elements in the choosed island.

The statue exist probably only by the efforts of Pulitze who asked his reader to give some money. At least, he can reunited the money for build the pedestal.

Pretty sad history, no ?

But you don't know the better.

American don't wanted to pay because the gift was... from french !



The famous Stonehenge. Probably used has some religious place.

A Widescreen replacement for Universal Suffrage. Used the Universal suffrage declaration in France, in 1848.



The Swayambhunath, in Nepal, is one of the most holy stupas.



The Taj Mahal, in India. That was not a temple, remember (but there is one in the complex).

The Temple d'or (golden temple), in India. Pilgrimage place AND temple.



The Temple du Bouddha d'émeraude (Emerald buddha temple). In fact part of a vast temple complex. The Emerable buddha is a tiny statue made from jade.



The Terracotta army, in China. The reason for their existance is unknown, but you can bet the imperator wanted an army with him in the afterlife...