Unit Preview: R-7 Soviet Missile

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 28, 2003

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Update!
The missile is complete http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73253

This is my third model and my first attempted Civ3 unit. I'm posting a preview for comment while I figure out all the nuances of FLICster and try to get this missile looking as Civ-like as possible.

Here is a preview rendering from the more or less the same viewpoint as will make it into the game:

 

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BeBro

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• Sep 28, 2003

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What kind of missile is that? SAM? Nuclear warhead? Or else?

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 28, 2003

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The world's first ICBM.

 

BeBro

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Ah, thx - didn´t know Oh, and that preview looks good

 

Straczynski

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• Sep 28, 2003

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Good unit! But the R7 was also used as a satelitte launcher, wasn't it? I guess the Vostok crafts were launched by them...

 

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• Sep 28, 2003

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Gosh, I love this rocket! Mmmmm... ecstatic!

 

Krayzeenbk

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Originally posted by Straczynski
Good unit! But the R7 was also used as a satelitte launcher, wasn't it? I guess the Vostok crafts were launched by them...

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Yes they were and still are..... There's a huge number of launches being done every year with modified R7s. You can use it for your spy satellite transport, etc etc

I am currently trying to tweak the civ colors, then some minor pixel work, and it will be more or less done.

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 28, 2003

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Is there any way to view the PTW launch animations outside the game?

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 29, 2003

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I am almost done with everything except the PTW animations. They are too large to be extracted with FLICster, which is a problem if one wants to see a PTW-style launch. I really hope I won't end up having to write a utility for extracting those .flcs to storyboards. That would be no fun at all on the first unit

Here is an in-game preview of the R-7:

And a preview of the pedia icons :

 

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aaglo

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• Sep 29, 2003

• #10

looking good

and I guess that's your avatar too

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 29, 2003

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Thanks


No thoughts on the flc frame size issue?

 

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Neomega

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If you mean the nuclear explosions, I think Be-Bro may have done some modifications to those files

Nice missile BTW, the world can always use one more nuke...

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 29, 2003

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No, I've got a nuclear explosion (the default one from the ICBM). What I mean is, in PTW, the ICBM and tactical nuke get 2 extra animations in their respective folders in Civ3\Civ3PTW\Art\Units. These animations are larger than 240x240, so FLICster refuses to accept them. If I were making a Civ-style launch animation, I would want to copy and paste the launch trail from the ICBM launch animation. However, I cannot view it, export it, or work with it in any way (so far).

 

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Neomega

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The falling animation perhaps?

hmm... can't help ya.

 

Krayzeenbk

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The falling animation is fine, it's from vanilla Civ3. What doesn't work is the PTW animations, in the PTW folder for the nukes, not the vanilla folder.

 

vbraun

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• Sep 29, 2003

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Looks Good

As for the Animation Problems sorry i cant help you

 

Wyrmshadow

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• Sep 29, 2003

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Looks good. I like the idea of making newer ICBMS. I do not like the fact that the big ICBM has a unlimited range, we need more realism.

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Sep 30, 2003

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Well I'm now basically writing my own utility to export those flcs to storyboards and then back....

 

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You may want to correspond with Steph, who made the multi-figure unit utility, and storyboard builder. He may have some useful insight.

 

Krayzeenbk

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• Oct 2, 2003

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I've got it under control This unit will just take a week or so longer than I expected, but I can get it done myself perfectly well...