Lots of great ideas were tossed around about making custom Civs in one thread. My impression is this is a lot harder than everyone thought, at least if you want to have pictures of your custom civ's leader.
I haven't made any yet but I plan to, and I thought I'd toss out what I've noticed. You can do a lot with the Rules menu on the built in editor. What's left: fix the pix & animations.
These are in two places from what I can tell: Art\Flics and Art\leaderheads. And they are in 2 formats: .pcx & .flc. Neither of these is unique to civ, and you can find editors for both. .flc will be harder to find, but there are several--just search for them in a search engine.
The .flc movies of the leaders appear to all be 00:02:12 in length. You could just use a still photo of the correct size and draw that out into a non-moving .flc of the correct length.
I plan to play around with this more and post a real how-to, but I thought I'd toss this out first to see if people are interested.
RK
I haven't made any yet but I plan to, and I thought I'd toss out what I've noticed. You can do a lot with the Rules menu on the built in editor. What's left: fix the pix & animations.
These are in two places from what I can tell: Art\Flics and Art\leaderheads. And they are in 2 formats: .pcx & .flc. Neither of these is unique to civ, and you can find editors for both. .flc will be harder to find, but there are several--just search for them in a search engine.
The .flc movies of the leaders appear to all be 00:02:12 in length. You could just use a still photo of the correct size and draw that out into a non-moving .flc of the correct length.
I plan to play around with this more and post a real how-to, but I thought I'd toss this out first to see if people are interested.
RK
