Prettying up the game little by little

[Theov]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/attachments/wonders2-rar.366479/

A long time ago I made the wonders look better.
Use if you want to.

Also made the icons better.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/attachments/366283/

 

[Blake00]

Thread's getting pretty huge and some peoples work is getting buried so I've edited Vaximillian's first post to include some shortcuts to the main releases. I lack the time to go back and read all 8 pages so let me know if I missed something important!

 

[Vaximillian]

I’ve kinda fallen off the face of the Earth recently, haven’t I? I got a bit burnt out on the project and also my Civ 1 itch was scratched enough for the moment, so I moved on for a while.
But the love for Civ 1 never dies completely, and this fine morning I woke up and chose violencedecided to redraw the battleship because I never liked what I had that much anyway.


Instead of trying to fit the whole thing, this time around I chose to keep only the bow of the ship and have two turrets in the front with the superstructure, black funnel, and the radar/everything mast in the back.

Still not done with this.

 

[Lord_Hill]

Looking good as always If you ever fancy working with double the number of pixels, I'm always happy to share the raw tilesheet for the windows port. I have a version with functional river/ shore animation I need to get round to publishing!

 

[Lord_Hill]

I have now updated the release post for the Windows port with V3 which has fixed rivers/shoreline animation in 256 colour mode.
See here https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/prettying-up-the-game-little-by-little.676211/post-16313639

 

[rhaul]

I’ve kinda fallen off the face of the Earth recently, haven’t I? I got a bit burnt out on the project and also my Civ 1 itch was scratched enough for the moment, so I moved on for a while.
But the love for Civ 1 never dies completely, and this fine morning I woke up and chose violencedecided to redraw the battleship because I never liked what I had that much anyway.


Instead of trying to fit the whole thing, this time around I chose to keep only the bow of the ship and have two turrets in the front with the superstructure, black funnel, and the radar/everything mast in the back.

Still not done with this.

you hit the nail on the head. Can you take a screenshot of that unit in the game?

 

[Vaximillian]

you hit the nail on the head. Can you take a screenshot of that unit in the game?

Sure thing! Here are some screenshots I took in my latest game:




Obviously I had to do a Royal Navy with the new unit.

 

[Vaximillian]

Oops I disappeared again lol; big sorry for that. Guess I’ll only have the cruiser to redo/revamp/resomething and I can properly™ release this thing with a complete redesign of the first post and stuff. I’ll get to it, I really will.

 

[Lord_Hill]

@Vaximillian, can I ask which graphics editor you used to make these? GIMP served me well for CivWin but for some reason I cannot get it to leave the palette alone when I edit the DOS stuff (after jcived pic conversion). Just curious if you were using something else?

 

[Blake00]

A whole bunch of us in the Civ2 community still swear by good old Paint Shop Pro 7 from the 90s for palette management as it doesn't override your file with some generic palette and very nicely keeps it safe and even allows you to save it as a palette file. So I've got like 20 different palette files saved for different parts of Civ2. It's almost becoming a running gag over there in that someone embarrassingly admits to using this 25yr old paint program and then 5 other dudes show up and say they're using it too lol.

 

[Lord_Hill]

If it works, it works thanks