High-def infantry

[Millenia]

How to install: Go to either the 256x256 or the 512x512 folder, depending on the level
of detail you want (I only recommend the 512x512 if you're playing on a 22" or bigger), copy the assets folder
and paste it to your Civilization 4 folder. A piece of cake, eh? ;D

DOWNLOAD HERE

 

[spiky82]

Holy Crap!! Looks Pretty awesome

 

[snafusmith]

That's a good idea, and your work looks great - but switching to 512x512 textures will slow the game down like nobodies buisness.

 

[Millenia]

Oh it won't be that bad, if I can play crysis at max I can definitely handle this
I'll probably release two other versions with it; resized to 128 or 256 for those that want performance rather than looks.

 

[esnaz]

Wow, it looks great!

 

[seZereth]

well.
i noticed, that even my 256 textures i use for FfH are not displayed in their full glory, as the zoom distance is too far away.
furhermore even if you lower the zoom distance, i think it definitely looks odd, if you dont create high def terrain,too. otherwise you have high def faces in a soup of pixelbackground

otherwise, keep up th nice work

 

[C.Roland]

Nice textures ! But like others have said, 512* is maybe too high resolution for a game like civ. Not only for performances, but for the reasons that Sez have said.

 

[Chuggi]

Looks awesome! But think of it this way: you could make two awesome 256x256 textures instead of one 512x512 texture! Most of my textures are 256 and they're a massive improvement over the vanilla 128x128 sized ones.. also at the zoom distance of civ, the fine details you put into it are lost.

Also you mentioned you're a 3D artist as well, do you have 3ds Max, or Blender? or another program?

 

[Millenia]

3ds max 9.

I'll probably shrink it to 256 at some point

 

[Chuggi]

I think the Civ 4 plug-ins for 3ds Max only work with version 8.0

 

[Millenia]

Oh I do also have 3ds Max 8 for the said reason (plus my HL2 .smd importer also only works for max 8) and Max 2008 ;D

Anyways, I've been kinda busy with other stuff and I'll get back to this ASAP.

 

[Chuggi]

Well there's a quick but interesting thing that I did to the infantry's helmet in max.. I applied a mesh smooth modifier and used I think it was quad output or maybe classic, and set the iterations to 1 and it looked 1000x better than the low-poly version. Of course it beefs the poly count up a bit, but it's nice and easy and looks awesome, it would go well with your 512x512 texture.



Anyway if you're modelling skills are as good as your texturing skills then I'm expecting some spectacular units from you.

 

[asioasioasio]

Very interesting project

 

[Millenia]

Huge bump but I kinda got back to this

Texture preview:

 

[Arian]

I'm looking forward for a couple of female infantry

BTW great work

 

[Millenia]

Could anybody help me a bit; I have no idea how to use specular or normal maps with Civ 4 D:

 

[Chuggi]

You know, I think you should work on the leaders. They have specular and normal maps already set up, and they could look a lot nicer with your touch.

 

[C.Roland]

Could anybody help me a bit; I have no idea how to use specular or normal maps with Civ 4 D:

Spec and Normal map aren't used on units. They don't have a lot of poly anyway, so the normal map may look strange on a low poly mesh. Like Chuggi said, with the amount of details you want to put into your reskin, you should do Leaderhead. They have a better resolution, they use specular and normal map and they are made to be seen closer than units.

 

[Millenia]

Yeah I guess, I'm just being a perfectionist

 

[Chuggi]

Hey Millenia, can I use the newest version of your texture? I use 256 textures for almost all of my new units and I know that my infantry units would look 1000 x better with that rifle. I'll give you credit for your perfection, of course.