About the ancient / medieval units...

danrell · Aug 28, 2011

I planned to make some ancient / medieval units, but I do not intend to redo the new, I think I can convert some civ4 units with civ5 animations because this will save a lot of time. Bakuel done a lot of perfect units in Civilization 4 :goodjob:

, I intend to major use his units as the basis. But at this moment, I only completed a few work. Convert units is a batch work, not hard, the hard work is make the template, this will waste a lot of time for the test. I think one pack of country have archer, spearman, swordsman, horseman, chariot, longbowman, pikeman, longswordsman and knight, if someone already made the template please send me, thank you

ps. sry my bad english

bernie14 · Aug 29, 2011

the longswordman template is made, but it still may need customized tweaks....i was working to convert tne civ4 knight to civ5 longsword right before the nexus viewer died on us....the longswwordsman template uses the civ4 templar as a base, so the legs and arms may still not look right.....

ps...with nexus viewer out, how are you testing the templates?.....i will soon upload the civ5 musketman tempate, along with some napoleonic era musketmen...what i did was substitute the gr2 and dds's in the resource (commun and dx9 files)***BACKUP FIRST*** and looked at the result using civilazation5 "Unit Viewer"

danrell · Aug 29, 2011

bernie14 said:
the longswordman template is made, but it still may need customized tweaks....i was working to convert tne civ4 knight to civ5 longsword right before the nexus viewer died on us....the longswwordsman template uses the civ4 templar as a base, so the legs and arms may still not look right.....

ps...with nexus viewer out, how are you testing the templates?.....i will soon upload the civ5 musketman tempate, along with some napoleonic era musketmen...what i did was substitute the gr2 and dds's in the resource (commun and dx9 files)***BACKUP FIRST*** and looked at the result using civilazation5 "Unit Viewer"

Yes, the asset viewer died when we update the SDK, we can't see the bone position anything...I think Firaxis did not want us to make units :mad:

. You see civ4 have a lot of unit artists, In civ5 only you and me ??? I uploaded the old SDK to here Part1 & Part2, and I rename it to "sid meier's civilization v sdk1", put it in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common", not replace the original, because the old SDK can launch asset viewer, the new one can launch the game and game viewer, so you need rename the folder before you use it. (...sdk1=asset viewer,...sdk2=game viewer, remove the number when you choose which to use) .

Test the unit I creation one folder called "test" in "C:\Program Files........\resource\Common",
then I modify the civ5artdefines_unitmembers.xml, add the name eg.a4
<Granny>Assets/Units/Archer/Archer/a4.fxsxml</Granny>
and I put the .gr2 .dds and a4.fxsxml in the test folder, this will be very convenient

Thanks your template :goodjob:

, do you have plans to do more?? I think we can work it together

T_KCommanderbly · Aug 29, 2011

wow can't wait

Putmalk · Aug 29, 2011

Ancient units are desperately needed.

I know you'll make my Mesopotamian civilizations happy.

Good luck with the templates.

danrell · Aug 30, 2011

Putmalk said:
Ancient units are desperately needed.

I know you'll make my Mesopotamian civilizations happy.

Good luck with the templates.

I feel that people generally don't need units to Civ5??? :confused:

Unlike civ4, maybe I don't need to make the units.
So I may not make this, I have not played this game a long time, I will try the WW2 mod, thanks

Pazyryk · Aug 30, 2011

danrell,

There are many people interested in ancient era mods. You would make us all very happy if you do this. I only wish someone with your skills would translate the Civ4/Fall From Heaven units...

Putmalk · Aug 30, 2011

A lot of people need units, danrell. And I'm sure many modders are suffering setbacks due to not having access to units.

I think the biggest issue with Civ 5 unit graphics is that almost nobody knows how to do it successfully.

CivOasis · Aug 30, 2011

danrell said:
I feel that people generally don't need units to Civ5??? Unlike civ4, maybe I don't need to make the units.
So I may not make this, I have not played this game a long time, I will try the WW2 mod, thanks

Seriously? Everyone who's ever modded in a new civilization needs at least one, making new units would make you most modder's hero.

CivOasis · Aug 30, 2011

At the very least, the Mesopotamia and Forgotten Tribes mods need units... I'm assuming there's more than that.

Keinpferd · Aug 31, 2011

Good work danrell! It seems, many modders are reluctant to start a project in Civ V only because there's no unit art available or almost none. It's great that you are changing that. Going by the quality of your WW II units, I'm much looking forward to how you do the ancient ones. Have a look into PAE's art folder, for it agglomerates ancient Civ IV unit art from all kind of sources, Bakuel's excellent stuff included, but also some rarer skins, that aren't in every mod.

PawelS · Aug 31, 2011

I feel that people generally don't need units to Civ5???

I need any Ancient/Medieval/Fantasy units I can get for my planned fantasy mod (I think I'll start working on it seriously after the next big Civ5 patch). So if you can convert such units from Civ4, it would be really helpful.

mamba · Aug 31, 2011

danrell said:
I feel that people generally don't need units to Civ5??? Unlike civ4, maybe I don't need to make the units.
So I may not make this, I have not played this game a long time, I will try the WW2 mod, thanks

I think this is more of a chicken and egg problem. As there are so few units, there are no / few mods using them.

bernie14 · Aug 31, 2011

danrell said:
......do you have plans to do more?? I think we can work it together

THANKS!!!! the old SDK will come in handy.....i havent had much time to mod....i will finish up the napoleonic musketmen and then try to work on a template.....

let me know (either here or PM if you wish) if you are working on one, so we dont do the same thing....

also, i don't know, if Deliverator finished/released any other template.... :confused:

Optik · Sep 2, 2011

I felt terribly frustrated to have only one unit from the Aztec for all native american civ that I made.
So, your proposal to improve the units database of Ancient or Classic is really expected.
Of course if you have time.

Sneaks · Sep 4, 2011

I would absolutely LOVE to see more units in the game from earlier periods. I think one of the reasons you do not see more people doing it is because it is INCREDIBLY difficult to figure out how. The process requires having about 4-5 programs installed, all of specific versions, and other issues. I myself would love to help with unit graphics, but currently am at an impasse at getting any of it to work.

danrell · Sep 5, 2011

I done the Spearman , post some screenshot

Putmalk · Sep 5, 2011

!!! Fantastic! Can't wait!

danrell · Sep 5, 2011

Now I start the pikeman

T_KCommanderbly · Sep 5, 2011

nice job those are legit!

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