Brueghel's Tower of Babylon (from european Civ3-packshot)

[Arne]

This is the Tower of Babylon, how it was imagined by Pieter Brueghel (famos artist). Ready for use as great or small wonder or simply for improvement. I tought it would be a nice idea, having the european Civ3-packshot art available in game.

Preview:

 

[Arne]

the files.

 

[Ankka]

Looks really cool.

 

[KillerSheep]

OMG This is really really cool! I've been hoping for this one a while!

 

[Kenta'arka]

Nice work Arne!

 

[Ozymandias]

Splendid notion & execution! In a -- fantasy? very alternate reality? -- mod this would make a great substitute for the Great Library!

-Oz

 

[mrtn]

You're an artist, my friend!

 

[Spiffor]

This is an amazing job

I'm especially baffled by how well the palette integrates with Civ3's palette. It just looks exactly like if it was made in house

BTW, what is so specific with Civ3's palette? Most user-made graphics always seem to be different, not to integrate well colour-wise. I tried to pin down what is special with Civ3's palette, but I didn't find it. Do you know what it is?

 

[Arne]

mrtn, not I'm the artist, brueghel was.

Thank you all. Happy downloading and moding.

Originally posted by Spiffor
BTW, what is so specific with Civ3's palette? Most user-made graphics always seem to be different, not to integrate well colour-wise. I tried to pin down what is special with Civ3's palette, but I didn't find it. Do you know what it is?

I think, it has to do mainly with the numbers of different colours in the pic and with the colours themself. The more (different) colours are used in the pic, the more you have to make sure, the palette include this colours. But finaly this is not much important, you simply should change the colours to 16 Mill before cut&paste and turn back to 256 after doing the job. Then go to pallette and change last two colours to pink and green (make sure they aren't used beside that in the pic; there is a workaround somewhere here) - thats all.

 

[Ukas]

A fine tower!

Was the real tower of Babylon a ziggurat? Oz knows?

 

[Arne]

Me knows too . Yes the real tower was a ziggurat. Here for example is little more Info about.

 

[Ozymandias]

More info / trivia --

"Babylon" means "Gateway To God" which ties in nicely with the notion of the Biblical Tower OF Babel being built in that city.

I thought that using it as a "fantasy" replacement for the Great Library was itneresting as, in the Biblical tale, all peoples spoke the same language (obviously making information exchange fairly easy) -- and they gathered togther at the Gateway To God to build a Stairway To Heaven. Naughty, naughty -- and thus was one language sundered into many. (The "Great Library" effect would be due, not to the outcome -- the Tower being smitten down and all that -- but in the world's peoples gathering together in one spot, trading tales and Techs at the campfire).

BTW the Tower of Babel has a "modern" echo in the Tarot deck, in the card commonly called in English "The Blasted Tower Of God" or simply "The Tower".

Abraxas,

Oz

 

[Lusikka755]

Really nice building!!

 

[Corey]

Great.