Dinosaur Requests: Dino Planet needs YOU!

[KayEss]

The Dino Planet mod is currently languishing in beta over in the completed modpacks forums. What I could really do with is some help in getting the graphics a bit more up to scratch.

Faraxis' dinos are great as far as they go, but for a mod played more than 100 million years ago the large number of humans still in it is a cause for some concern.

If anybody could see their way to having a look at it the things I would love are:

• Dino popheads - just one for use amongst all of them would be great. I can do the array with some smiley heads.
• Dino advisors - again, just one that can server for all would be fantastic.
• Dino leaderheads - and yet again, one of them for use everywhere would be really cool

I think I have the units required with one exception - the Raptors that are the intelligent dinos you play are split into three kinds (warriors, workers and queens). The warriors are fine in their red, but I would love for the skin on the workers to be dun and the queens to be gold. I'm using the 'Raptor' unit and the 'Deinoychus' unit for these. I'm sure that I can probably work out how to do some of this if somebody provides me with a pointer...

As I say, any help appreciated in the utmost!

 

[MaisseArsouye]

If you need scientific help, I'm a paleaontologist

If you want, I can work on dino cities ?

 

[Dease]

Here's a neat pic I found that I suppose could be made into an advisor or anything else

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

The "Terrible" Planet mod ?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

DB_in_Omaha made a mod called "Dinosaurs and Libratarians" awile back(and Bigger Better Worlds btw), both mods feature a Dinosaur civ, and the "Emperior Tyrannus" leaderhead, a nasty T-Rex...

 

[KayEss]

Here's a neat pic I found that I suppose could be made into an advisor or anything else

He would make a GREAT military advisor! Can you? Please?

 

[Dom Pedro II]

This reminds me of when I tried to make a scenario for Civ2 based on my book about a planet of intelligent prehistoric creatures.

 

[Dease]

He would make a GREAT military advisor! Can you? Please?

ME!?!
ugh,... I suppose I could take a shot at it tomorrow which files will I have to alter? I've never done advisors before.

 

[KayEss]

ME!?!
ugh,... I suppose I could take a shot at it tomorrow which files will I have to alter? I've never done advisors before.

Let's see... Looks like Art\SmallHeads\popupMILITARY.pcx but I suppose there could be more too

 

[KayEss]

If you need scientific help, I'm a paleaontologist

If you want, I can work on dino cities ?

Sorry MaisseArsouye, missed this first time round.

If the offer for nice cities is still there that'd be great! I've pinched the elven ones from the Warhammer thread (if I remember correctly), but I'm sure something more saurian would be great.

I've tried to get the dinos into more or less their correct eras as well. Did I get it about right?

 

[Dease]

here are the dino advisors I said I'd do a loong time ago sorry for the delay but I had other things to tend to in RL and I had to redo these things 3 times due to mistakes.
Anyway, I present to you 6 dino advisors
goes in the smallheads folder
Preview -

download (attached)

 

[KayEss]

here are the dino advisors I said I'd do a loong time ago sorry for the delay but I had other things to tend to in RL and I had to redo these things 3 times due to mistakes.
Anyway, I present to you 6 dino advisors
goes in the smallheads folder

Ohhhhhh ahhhhh!!! Those look SERIOUSLY cool! Thank you!

I'll be putting together an updated version when I get back from London in a couple of weeks which will certainly use these fellows.

 

[MaisseArsouye]

I've tried to get the dinos into more or less their correct eras as well. Did I get it about right?

Yes, that's OK

If the offer for nice cities is still there that'd be great! I've pinched the elven ones from the Warhammer thread (if I remember correctly), but I'm sure something more saurian would be great.

I just have to finish my german cities then make my brit cities and I work on dinos. I need to know what would the "cultural groups" be. Wille you base it on dino types ( saurians, flying,... ) on eras ( cretaceous, jurassiuc,... ), or anything else. Just tell me !

 

[KayEss]

I just have to finish my german cities then make my brit cities and I work on dinos. I need to know what would the "cultural groups" be. Wille you base it on dino types ( saurians, flying,... ) on eras ( cretaceous, jurassiuc,... ), or anything else. Just tell me !

I haven't really thought about cultural groups that much. The tribe names were just made up with whatever I and a friend of mine could think of at the time.

Does anybody have any suggestions about the tribal groups? All the tribes are raptors and the same species so we could just make some up and not worry too much about it.

All of the tribes can make (breed?) units of the other species and the eras are already used for the technologies. Maybe we could name the cultural groups after famous evolutionists? Darwinians, Dawkinists, Gouldists etc.? Or maybe famous paleontologists may be more relevant.

 

[MaisseArsouye]

Maybe we could name the cultural groups after famous evolutionists? Darwinians, Dawkinists, Gouldists etc.? Or maybe famous paleontologists may be more relevant.

Palaeontoligts and evolutionists are often the same people Anyway, its a great idea

What about : Darwinians, Gouldians, Lamarckians, Leakeyans and Coppensians ?

 

[KayEss]

What about : Darwinians, Gouldians, Lamarckians, Leakeyans and Coppensians ?

Don't know about Lamarck - can we replace him with Dawkins? Maybe Dawkinistas? I'll have to look up Leakey and Coppens, but I like them.

 

[Mr. Do]

Do Creationists get their own civ? They could have their own tech tree too, consisting of Bibilical Infallibility, and, err, that's it

 

[KayEss]

Do Creationists get their own civ? They could have their own tech tree too, consisting of Bibilical Infallibility, and, err, that's it

I do admit that I was tempted to be much more cheeky than that and make them barbarians - each of the 76 tribes could take on a name derived from a famous Creationist

 

[Mr. Do]

lol that would be great, especially if we could get muffins to make a creationist unit with a horrific gory death animation (like his first units had). Okay, that's gone too far, sorry to any Creationists out there

 

[Dease]

Even though you didn't ask for it, I made a title screen 'cause they're fun to do and I happen to know of a good source for pictures
I think it turned out well although the need for 256 colours really killed some of the dinos detail-wise
I'm also going to post a generic Conquests version in my title screen thread (link in sig)
anyways, here's the preview and the download should be attached.