3D Leaderhead???

[Jettatore]

I'm in the process of making a 3D animated model of a leader and I'd like to know how to get it into Civ IV?

It appears that the official leaders that come with Civ IV, Ghandi for example, are rendered in realtime 3D. They seem to run through a bunch of idle animations that are blended seemlessly together and when triggered (for example asking a leader what he thinks of another leader) will play other simple animations, like making an angry gesture.

The model is almost finished and soon I'll be texturing it and rigging it for animation and what not, but I have no idea what the process of implementing the character and it's different animation sets into the Civ IV engine would be. Any help is greatly appreciated.

-Derek

 

[Tunch Khan]

Wrong forum friend.

 

[The Great Apple]

But... to answer your question (despite the wrong forum). It isn't possible yet, however - we are expecting it to be possible in the near future. They SDK will probably (hopefully) come with tools to import leaderheads/units/buildings, all of which seem to be in the same format. If they don't come with the SDK I would expect them soon after...

 

[Jettatore]

Thanks Apple, I'll keep an eye out for the SDK then while I finish everything else I can do without it.

Sorry about putting this in the wrong place, maybe one of the mods can move it for me, thanks.