Easy Guide/Utilities?

[Ironbug]

Hi guys, thinking along the lines of TibEd if anyone has ever sued it, but, is there an easy or atleast rather simple guide to add a new CIV and units to CIV3 or CIV4?
Civ 3 would be preferred as I won't need to go out and buy it.
I've seen tutorials, but none I feel confident following, is there some sort of program with a GUI that might be easier?
Thanks in advance
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[tom2050]

Welcome to CivFanatics!

I haven't actually looked into, but Civ 5 units can definitely be added to 3 and 4, although the way to do so for each is completely different (since 4 uses nif kf files and 3 would need to have the files rendered to civ 3 flc files). I haven't followed if all the Civ 5 utilities have been made available yet in order to access the texture files and models. I'm assuming they may have been, since others have already posted some new Civ 5 units.

The thing is, most Civ 5 units probably don't need to be converted to 3 or 4 since 3 and 4 probably already have them. And for Civ 3, superior units exist compared to Firaxis Civ 5 units.

You would need a 3d graphics program to do so, like Blender or 3ds Max, and a good deal of patience and practice learning how to use the program would be required. I think there are some tuturials for doing things like this in the various forums, not sure where off the top of my head though.

This thread probably should be in the main Civ 3 creation/cust forum, maybe a mod can move it over there.

 

[Ironbug]

Sorry, my mistake, what I meant was ORIGINAL Civs and Units, sorry, should have made that clearer..
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[Steph]

I'm still not sure of what you mean. Can you give an exemple of what you want to do?

 

[Leaven]

Try this link:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=377890

 

[Ironbug]

Almost exactly right, thanks guys.
Basically, is there a simple program when I can create entirely new units and Civs for Civ 3, and add them into the game, through one program? Or, just a way of creating them?
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[Steph]

It depends what you mean by creating entirely new.
It's easy to add new units or civs to Civ3 with the editor, as long as you use existing graphics.
For this, you need the editor which comes with Civ3, and notepad to edit text files.
You can also use my editor.
There's no known limit to add units, for civilizations you are limited to 32.

If you want to create new graphics, then it's more complicated.

 

[Ironbug]

Seems to me Steph, what you have in your sig, is actually exactly what I wanted. Problem solved, many thanks
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