I have had success creating a new leader animation in JASC Animation Shop 3. Civ3 appears to have no problems with this file. This means that there is no reason that new civs cannot be accompanied by at least a STILL animnation to replace the appropriate leader/
Here's the ("for dummies") "how to" if you have Animation Shop:
Get an image you like for the leader in gif or jpg format at 200x240.
Use the Animation Wizard from the File Menu.
Retain all of the default settings, except:
How long do you want each frame to be displayed? 2
Now you have your image in the first frame. Right click on it, and use "Duplicate Selected." You now have 2 frames. Hit Ctrl-A. Then Duplicate Selected, you have 4 frames, repeat until you have 128 frames. Now select the last 7 frames, and right click and delete 7 frames. You will have 121 frames of duration 2, which is what you need. (There may be an easier--less repetitive-- way, but I haven't found it yet.)
Now Save as "Autodesk Animation (.flc)".
Choose your file name, and use the defaults for the save.
Sorry I belabored that, but I wanted it to answer all potential questions in advance.
I have attached my napoleon.flc file.
CivEdit gives you a place to change the leader animation files, or you can just backup the files and replace them with this one. Because CivEdit does not let you replace the other leader images, I decided to do it the file-swap way.
To replace the Joan of Arc animations with my Napoleon animation, go to the \Art\Flics directory. Backup all of the JO_*.flc files and replace all of them with copies of napoleon.flc.
Note that this will only replace the places where the game uses an animation. There are other .pcx files that need to be changed as well to get a full leader change, but those are easier, and people are already having good luck changing the game's pcx files. They are in the \Art\Advisors and \Art\leaderheads directory, at least.
Cheers,
ryank
>Thanks! Do you plan on doing any work on Civ 3 with it?
Yes.
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