Probably... I'll wanted to tackle the CyCon cityset anyway after finishing what I'm working on now, a Drone cityset.
), but I'm working on the Drone cityset whenever I have a bit of time and drive to do 3D stuff. I've attached a screenshot of some of the buildings I have so far. I wanted to go for an industrial look with lots of concrete and metal and copper pipes (copper, because it goes a bit towards the dark red faction colour of the Drones). I want to reserve the golden roof elements from the diplo landscape for the HQ (and perhaps the governor's office, so every non-HQ has one building with golden roof).
Further progress: I changed the texture to look closer to the metal grey of the base graphics and the browns of the wallpaper - and I decided to use the gold for more than the HQ, because it seems to spruce up the overall set. I also made more models, including one for the HQ (this time, I removed the deep foundations from the screenshot, so it's closer to what it would look like eventually). Any comments how good or bad it looks so far?
Just tried it out... the error pops up, because Maniac names his Planetfall-directory "Planetfall" instead of "Planetfall v13" - a quick rename and editing in the civ4.thm are enough to open the save. I also see the red blob, but curiously enough, it's not the rover that is redblobbed (you can see it in the stat window as well), but more like there's a red blob attached to it. Why? No idea.
I'll try... cityset texturing is a pain, because all buildings need to use the same - and I don't want to use a bigger texture than Firaxis and still need to fit all the stuff on one. Makes it hard to come up with a good one.
Doubt it, considering that the rover isn't animated at all - and that the issue is totally confined to that single rover (btw: I just reloaded the save and now the entire rover is redblobbed) - I also checked out the resmgr.log-file (since it lists missing files), it's rather confusing:
Yeah, the HQ has the advantage of having a wallpaper as reference and that I can go for a couple of extra polys with it, since it's essentially a wonder. The cityset needs to be made up and kept to around 100-200ish per building. That hurts the looks. The underground look is semi-intended. I didn't explicitly wanted to convey that look, but I imagined that they have a lot of infrastructure and supply systems underground - possibly even directly connected to mines surrounding the city - hence the pipes.The HQ (biggest building) looks awesome.
Overall, the set seems to imply Drones have still a fair amount of underground structures. Not as profound as the Hive, but still alot.
Good catch on the gate - and for the big copper-coloured building - that was supposed to be a huge silo or tank (see the Drone diploscape), but it could need some extras.
Basically what GeoModder said - there's also the issue that citysets don't take it well to have more than two textures (meaning you have one free for your buildings, one for the shadows) - that just happened to me: I accidentally mixed the new cityset with some of the prefab-style buildings... and for some reason, it mixed up textures in a weird way.
Ah, makes sense (and that's how CC works!) - I think one cityset nif is still good enough, but good to know, might come in handy at some point!Actually, IIRC what I said was that one cityset .nif can only have one texture. Ingame it is possible to show buildings from 2 cityset .nifs with different textures if you don't forget to use the iBatchGroup attribute in CityLSystem.
