City graphics : Africa

MaisseArsouye

MaisseArsouye

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Here my first attempt to create an african city. I tried to give it a "Timbuktu" look from middle age. In ancient era, it has the look of a small african village.

I kept my system of "an era keeps buildings from the earlier ones". I think it works well and it is much more realistic ( for Europe-Asia-Africa ) than those completely industrial/modern cities Firaxis designed.

This is version 2, I renamed it "Mali" yo advoid any confusion with other african cities. Here are some corrections :
- The "square" look was due to the structure of cities in that area. I tried to fix it while keeping the realistic touch.
- I added some buildings from Arne's african city ( thanks Sword_of_geddon )
- I added some skyscrapers inspired by Ozymandias pictures
- I also fixed some position problems for bigger cities

mali_ma.jpg


http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/mali_ma.zip

Look at my idea "city graphics packs" here
 
It's look like a good start, but you should try to avoid the 'square look'.
 
Those are beutiful pictures Ozy....ones my desktop pattern now... ;)

MaisseArsouye, these are good, similiar to your European ones in that some things don't disapear threw the ages. I don't know if you've seen Arne's African Cities, but you could improve these alot by looking at his. Maybe a hybrid of the two could be created?

Could you make Polynesia city graphics in the future?
 
Sword_Of_Geddon said:
I don't know if you've seen Arne's African Cities, but you could improve these alot by looking at his. Maybe a hybrid of the two could be created?
Click to expand...

I searched, but I didn't find it :( If somebody knows where it is, please let me know.

Sword_Of_Geddon said:
Could you make Polynesia city graphics in the future?
Click to expand...

Actually, here are all the graphics I would like to do, improve or finish :

Africa : Timbuktu, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
Europe : Andaloucia, Russia, Greece ( with maybe a minoan version for ancient era )
Others : Polynesia, Japan, Creole

I think RedAlert is gonna make some asian graphics. So I won't start that way.

@all : it's great to get pictures of buildings, it helps a lots. But if you have picture from the sky, it's much better ! ;)
 
better than that, I can give you them!

In my mod, the African Culture-group replaces the Middle-Eastern Culture Group, thats why the files are named the same as the normal middle eastern.
 

Attachments

I just uploaded the new version called "mali" to advoid confusion with other african cities. Lookt at post#1.

I won't do any Zanzibar like city because I think Arne's city if perfect for it. But there's some interest, I think, for games centered on South Africa. So, I'll work on this and on a ethiopian city.

After this, I'll post the "African cities pack". :D
 
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