Converted Units from EE2

[Refar]

Units converted from Empire Eart 2 by Walter Hawkwood and me.
Just one package for now, but more are planed.

Early Sailing Ships <<< Database Link
PapyrusBoat, Barque, Caravel, Carrack, Holk, Cogge, 3 more Merchant or Cargo Ship variants. Walter Hawkwood made some national texture variants, and some variant textures with different TC layout for some of them - check each units folders, to see what siuts your needs.

All under 1500 Polys (most of them a lot less). 256 Textures. Custom combat animations and damage textures (The later might need some work).

Spoiler :

Artdefines:
fScale 0.20 ~ 0.25 (will be needing adjustment to ship type / mod context / personal taste)
The <NIF> should be the normal *.nif <ShaderNif> the *_FX.nif
Use included animation (KFM) with every unit.
The PapyrusBoat and the WhalingBoat are animated to fire forward, rather than broadside. Use <fExchangeAngle>0.0</fExchangeAngle> to account for this (and probably increase battle distance). Compare the Submarines ArtDefine for reference.

 

[Refar]

Reserved just in case.
It's late, i hope i did not mess up nothing in the upload...

 

[Flintlock1415]

Cool! I may be able to use some of these

 

[Acronym2]

So, these are the unit packs you mentioned (or WalterHawkwood mentioned). This is good, there are lots of possibilities to remodel and reskin for moding.

 

[The_J]

Nice .

I hope we'll see some of the modern units in here .

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

We first did all the interesting purely sailing units out there. There are also several oar-propelled ones and then there are post-sailing ones; hopefully, our cooperation will continue as fruitfully as before, and you'll see many more of those.

 

[Refar]

I have updated the animation template for oars, but did not managed to actually finish up a unit before the holydays-crazyness took over, so the oar-propelled ones will take a moment. Maybe next year

 

[Zerver]

Moma!!! Great set!

 

[GeoModder]

OMGOMGOMG!

 

[GFO_Anubis]

Very nice set Ill use these for sure...

 

[JustATourist]

Very beutiful ships, indeed.

 

[sedna17]

Excellent job on the conversion. I've already added the Cogge into RFC Europe where it fills a valuable niche. I also must compliment you on the excellent supporting information and documentation you provide with these ships: a readme with all the useful information necessary to include these units in a mod, some lovely preview pictures, and included buttons. A first-class release all around!

 

[ripple01]

Is there a Viking Longship model in EE2 by any chance? We sorely need one...

Cheers,
ripple01

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Is there a Viking Longship model in EE2 by any chance? We sorely need one...

Cheers,
ripple01

Nah, there isn't one. We sorely need that ourselves for TR.

 

[Refar]

The Civ4 galley look very Viking-long-boat'isch... And we will have another galley variant(s) among the Oar-propelled ships, so maybe a new model could replace the 'basic galley' freeing up the vanilla model for the vikings....

Another - vague related - note: Does anyone know how to get buildings out of Age of Empires 3 converted ? I think we had one or two buildings (Sphinks) a while back, that came from there, but i couldn't figure out how...

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

I think that would deal with importing stuff into 3DSMax/Blender, and then exporting a nif; the plugins to do that are all there for AoE3 (or so I believe).

 

[ambrox62]

I have updated the animation template for oars, but did not managed to actually finish up a unit before the holydays-crazyness took over, so the oar-propelled ones will take a moment. Maybe next year

First of all congratulations to you and Walter for the excellent work you have done

I'm eagerly waiting your next oar-models because none of the forum-existing model of ancient ships got running animations. Except for the Trireme, Galley and Workboat reskins, all other models look sadly still on the sea.
Asap I hope to see animated not-viking-galleys, biremes, quinqueremes, trade barges, merchant ships and so on, in order to revive the ancient sea battles in Civ4 mods.

Keep up your good work!!!

 

[Flintlock1415]

The merchant ship isn't working for me. Can anyone tell me what looks wrong in my artdefines? Thanks

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm an idiot

 

[Deliverator]

Since there is quite a bit of EE2 content not yet ported I thought I'd try and pick up the trail on this one. I am really interested in the later sailing ships - Frigate, Ship Of the Line, Galleon and Privateer, but there are a lot of other units in there that I don't think have been ported - see Walter's thread.

I've got a decent amount of the way as you can see. I can convert all the texcache files to DDS using NifSkope, but I can't find any meshes for the sails. The only files I can find refering to sails are the texcache which I can convert no problem. I'm hoping Walter can point me in the right direction...

 

[Deliverator]

On further investigation, it looks like the sails in Empire Earth are added as animations so I'm guessing that you guys modelled the sails yourselves...