Building art and icons

The general art thread is getting very crowded. Let us put discussion on new building artwork and icons onto this thread instead.

I have quickly gone through the existing building art and icons as of 1.5.5 and made the attached spreadsheet. I have given a "grade" to each art and icon. The grade is "A" if it is pretty nice, "B" if it is not painful but not ideal, and "C" if it is painful. I'm assuming everybody can read a zipped excel worksheet (xls file), if not let me know and I will send you a paper copy by carrier pigeon .

Any artists who are interesting in making buildings, please pick out buildings with grade "C" and replace them! Since we plan to redesign the wonders (see adjacent thread), I would not bother to build nice wonder buildings. In fact it may be possible to plunder the wonder artwork to become basic buildings.

All of the religion buildings get "C". I have grouped them together, even if some of them are wonders. What would be nice is to pick one religion, design its 1-3 buildings with a consistent theme, and create new icons which have the proper religious symbol on them.

For both normal and religious buildings, if there is useful art in the download database, please suggest! That will be quicker than designing brand new ones.

There are about a dozen icons which are marked "C *". These are ones where the building art itself is pretty good but the icon isn't. I will use my limited screenshot / art skills to make new icons for these. That way the real artists can concentrate on more interesting work.

I've added some shadows via the texture.

Excellent! I'll put it right in. One thing that helps keep our "hit count" up is to have posts to the download database. Could you post like "Dune Wars Atreides Palace" to the download database, and include a link to the sub-forum and maybe the DW main download for 1.5? A little publicity every week or so helps.

Sure, I'll do it this evening. Also I will texture Harkonnen palace and put there too.

For the Ordos Palace I can convert the one from Emperor:Battle for Dune if we want, although the Ordos Barracks might be even better with the snake head.

Deliverator said:

For the Ordos Palace I can convert the one from Emperor:Battle for Dune if we want, although the Ordos Barracks might be even better with the snake head.

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That certainly looks cool, and we could use it for any civ. Maybe Tleilaxu?

I dont think that any civ should use Ordos unique style. Ordos have their own culture and flavour. Snakes its only Ordos's style.

For the Ordos Palace I can convert the one from Emperor:Battle for Dune if we want, although the Ordos Barracks might be even better with the snake head.

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IMHO you should convert all the buildigns from that game if you can itd be nice to have them i nthe mod.

IMHO you should convert all the buildigns from that game if you can itd be nice to have them i nthe mod.

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I can - it is just a question of time. The conversion is one of the more manual ones and takes a while per building. Still, I will definitely do more. The Refinery I think is a particular successful conversion from Emperor, and there are others that could work equally well.

Walter Hawkwood has converted a lot of the Empire Earth 2 buildings but no quite all of them.

I found this one which is quite nice:



You'll notice it's the same style as the current Landsraad Embassy wonder:



I'm wondering whether we can use these as the Landsraad religion line. Altogether, we need four Landsraad buildings Outpost, Directorate, CHOAM Headquarters and Landsraad Embassy which is a wonder separate from the Landsraad religion, but should probably be similarly styled. I can probably cut parts out of these two to make a third and fourth variation.

Another find in EE2 is this futuristic factory, which with a reskin could look good for one of the later factory buildings.



Building files attached.

I planned those actually to add as Landsraad ones. I dunno if i need to retexture them. In case there is no need (i didnt deicided yet) those will be good as button screenshots. There arew also some buildings that i wil use from differnt set as Choam.

I planned those actually to add as Landsraad ones. I dunno if i need to retexture them.

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I think the first two have pretty good textures already. The factory one could be made more futuristic/sci-fi.

I also have these nice golden lions that it would be nice to incorporate into Imperial religion or Corrino buildings. (Ignore the pink and blue bits)

For the mo i leaving factory out, and adding more 1 from here :
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2282/inquisition2iw9.jpg
the last one, which completes the set. (this one is outpost)
Te second bunker will be retexturized and used as Technocracy style building.


http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9365/inquisition1oq3.jpg
is interesting too

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I also have these nice golden lions that it would be nice to incorporate into Imperial religion or Corrino buildings. (Ignore the pink and blue bits)

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Can you add them on some building?

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7015/fortsmesody3.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7015/fortsmesody3.jpg

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/6214/templesamericazn9.jpg

i find those great too for imperial

Can you add them on some building?

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Yes, that is easy.

By the way I know these EE2 buildings are really beautiful, but just because they are nice models doesn't mean we have to use them all.

Deliverator said:

Yes, that is easy.

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can you check those links i posted now and say if uyou like any of them for imperoial.

I was thinking meso fortress n4 from link 2 and meso temple n2 from link 3 as set

I think the 3rd from left in the second link could be OK if we remove/adjust the pyramid and reskin it a golden colour.

In general, I don't want anything that is obviously meso-american, I see Imperial as being more about grand Greco-Roman pillars and lots of gold, etc. There is a post here I did which has various shots of Arrakeen from the CoD miniseries. I like the way the buildings have a mixture of ancient and modern styles.