Freeciv Mods?

[Haradrim]

This may be completely the wrong forum to post this in, but since I use Linux, I have Freeciv. I want a mod that makes Freeciv more like Civ 3. I may have to make one myself, but I was wondering if anyone out there knows of an existing Freeciv - Civ3 mod.

 

[deo]

Whats FreeCiv?

 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Dear GNU, welcome.

I think that this is out of dreams, 4 now.

But long life to Linux!

 

[Haradrim]

Hmm, I may just have to make my own then. It can't be TO hard.

All I really want is terrain graphics,which is probably the easiest thing to do. They are probably not the same resolution, though....

 

[WildWeazel]

Is freeciv that old Civ2 era game some modders coded that was kinda like SSS, or am I thinking of something else?

 

[Haradrim]

I believe you are right, but i'm not sure. It has several premade graphic styles, so it can look like civ I or 2.

 

[Xyth]

Info on Freeciv can be found at www.freeciv.org

Best place to find out more is to join the freeciv-dev mailing list. Details are on the site.

There are no Civ3 mods as such for Freeciv. At the current stage of development there is no support for culture, strategic and luxury resources, and a host of other Civ3 engine features. The latest versions have diplomacy similar to Civ3 though.

Graphically Freeciv has no support yet for animated units. The last I checked the developers were doing a major overhaul of the terrain handling code so it should now be almost possible to port Civ3 terrain graphics across. Default Freeciv isometric tiles are 64x32 or 64x48. Civ3 uses 128x64 and 128x96. I'm not sure if this tile size is supported yet. I'm sure if you bug them they might put in support for it, especially if you were willing to convert the graphics.

Realistically Freeciv is an (IMO) improved Civ2. It is quite different to Civ3 and most of the developers aren't fans of Civ3.

Because I own a Mac (and therefore don't have PTW or C3C) I play a modded Civ3 whenever I want to play single player and Freeciv whenever I want to play multi-player. MacOS pretty much has Linux built in.

It's coded for Linux, but there are also versions for Windows, Amiga (which I used to use until my beloved Amiga died after 15 years of blissful happiness ) and a bunch of other platforms.

Lots of fun. Check it out.

 

[Lord Drake]

i'd just like to know how to use a MOD pack :/

 

[Quinzy]

Then... why did you bump a 4 year old thread about Freeciv?

Many modpacks have installation instructions. A rough-and-ready is basically, have the .biq and the folder in the Scenarios folder.

 

[Lord Drake]

sorry i found a link to the page but i din't look at the date. and as far as having insructions i can't find them, but i'll look again.

 

[adamo900]

Haradrim wrote:

It has several premade graphic styles, so it can look like civ I or 2.

I made (though it`s not 100% finished yet) a freeciv tileset using CiwWin land tiles and Civ2 units, so that you can play Civ2 mode using Civ1 "old school" tiles. Check the thread in Apolyton:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=183025

 

[Lord Drake]

looks pretty good.

do you think you could manage making a WWII mod?

 

[adamo900]

@lord drake: hmm.. I don`t know a lot about WWII mod. I assume there is different graphics for some units? Or some else bitmaps? Replacing few units should be pretty easy. All the units I did are 32x32, if you want to check it out, just open "units.png" file by some editor (GIMP, for example) and paste proper WWII units replacing the old ones. That should be sufficient, if this is just a case of the units.

 

[Lord Drake]

I tried that, and i always make it look like carp.
And i was hoping for help with stats.