A&A units: carrier pack

[Walter Hawkwood]

There's only a few of units I was able to successfully convert from A&A, all of them being carriers. This comes from two facts:

1) The only sufficiently detailed units in game are the ships (unlike Civ, the things there are more in scale, so infantry is much less detailed than tanks, and ships gain the most spotlight time).

2) Carriers don't really need much animating. So I was happy with taking a carrier model, and strapping it to some currently made unit (I actually used Graf Zepellin and Ark Royal available here on CFC as "donors", by GeneralMatt and TheCoyote respectively, but there isn't anything really left from original units).

They also lack stuff like damage states and other cool shader features, so if anyone is up to the task of adding those, I'd be delighted. All models are surprisingly low-poly for the level of detail.

German carrier looks somewhat like Graf Zepellin, although I don't think it's very accurate. British one does a good impression of Ark Royal. American is either Lexington-class or Yorktown-class. Soviet one is obviously fantasy, since USSR had no carriers in WW2 period, but it looks quite like how one could picture oneself a Soviet carrier.

German and Soviet ones use destroyer animations, British and American use carrier animations.

The picture shows only German and British, sorry.

Anyway, download them here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=11912

 

[avain]

Great work, WH!

 

[GeoModder]

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[Acronym2]

Hey....those are nice finds/conversions WalterHawkwood!

 

[phungus420]

Those look very nice. Obligatory question, what's their poly count?

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Those look very nice. Obligatory question, what's their poly count?

Around 450-500 each, which makes them all lower than vanilla Civ carrier. I don't really know how they do it with such an amount of model detail.

 

[Agent327]

Great work, WH!

Lokking good.

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Thanks everybody. It's not that I've actually created those units - I just ported them out from one game to another.

 

[JustATourist]

Still great work.

 

[Healz]

Gotta hope that Wolfshanze adds these to his mod as alternative aircraft carriers, as they look really cool. I am not sure that I like how everyone seems to have the same. Maybe if you can work it some battleships and other ships from the game would be cool... Any transport ships that could be converted please?

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Battleships not likely - despite having quite decent models in A&A, I'd have to animate those, unlike carriers, when converting to Civ4, and I don't have a faintest idea how to do this. If anyone would volunteer to animate the battleships (and possibly transports too, although the models aren't as cool as carriers and battleships), it would be great.

 

[ZachScape]

Does anyone mind showing the models or the American or Soviet Aircraft Carrier?

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Here; not in-game, though.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3411/previewf.jpg

 

[Acronym2]

Around 450-500 each, which makes them all lower than vanilla Civ carrier. I don't really know how they do it with such an amount of model detail.

WH, they paint the detail onto the skin. One of the tricks to low poly 3d game modeling is to simulate detail with the skin and use a low poly model. This helps to keep cpu and game engine utilization lower. In fact, if you look at a unit such as Mechanized Infantry with the skin on and off in nifscope, you'll get a very good idea of how important the skin is to a low poly model.