Civ 4 -> Civ 5 Leaderheads

[__jack__]

I was wondering if Firaxis will plan to allow us to include the great work already done by the community for leaderhead....

Do you think it will be relatively easy for a community artist to convert his leaderhead job to Civ5 (appart from adding legs) ?

It may sound naive, but I have no 3D modelling experirnce whatsoever !

 

[The_J]

It may sound naive

yup .
Serious: We don't know anything about the used technics, so nobody can say anything at the moment.
The civ4 leaderhead artists are also just guessing, but everybody hopes, that some of the art can be re-used.

 

[tom2050]

No one knows even what graphic format they will be using. If they 'make their own' as some companies do, I'm sure they will release tools to convert those graphics back and forth (some companies do not) since Firaxsis are all for modding!

This much is known, a new graphic would have to be completely re-rendered and probably with a whole new set of animations. Civ 5 leaderheads being full-screen and they react in certain ways depending on the circumstance (read that somewhere), means a Civ 4 graphic could not just be converted over without doing some good work on it.

Of course, Poser works perfect for cases like this... so new leaderheads will probably become a breeze to make once everything else is figured out. It's possible that the backgrounds (which are different depending on where you are at) may not need to be changed.

 

[__jack__]

I see...

It seems that the leaderhead quality has been drastically enhanced... I'm wondering if anyone on the forum will be able to offer this level of details... Although it might be a good challenge for them

 

[deanej]

Probably not, at least not at first. Even today, totally origional leaderheads are rare; most are based off of Firaxis leaderheads.

 

[White Elk]

I hope the diplomacy 'movies' can be simplified with modding. Or even better would be an in-game preference to opt out. I think they will be interesting at first, but may become a tiresome bore looooong before I tire of Civ5.

 

[__jack__]

Probably not, at least not at first. Even today, totally origional leaderheads are rare; most are based off of Firaxis leaderheads.

Probably an easy try would be to bring the missing leader from Civ 4 to Civ 5 then... And probably give them legs too

 

[deanej]

That doesn't address the problem which is the reason we don't have many totally origional leaderheads for civ4: the animations.

 

[__jack__]

It might be a pain then... I read somewhere that the designer of Civ 5 himself refers to the animation process as "Tricky". So I guess he meant that it will be out of reach for us mere mortals...

 

[mattigus]

I'm sure itll be easy to make a Civ5 leaderhead if you happen to have a MoCap studio in your house.