Importing from Pirates! posssible?

[Gath]

Hi, I don't have my pirates cds right now (in storage with most of my stuff), but as I recal it and civ4 use the gamebyro engine? The people in that game look like they're created in a similiar fashion, would it be possible to somehow import the models and use them for leaderheads?

The idea struck me while looking at a revolutions preview and wondering if we'd be able to import those figures somehow.

 

[Refar]

I tried it a while ago.

You can import Pirates nifs with the Nif-Tools importer. If you want to use them for spare parts (like a hat or something) it does work just fine.
To use a complete character from pirates as a leaderhad you will need to rig it from scratch, as the skeleton structure is quite different. Also Pirates characters are somewhat less detailed than Civ4 LH's.

 

[Edgecrusher]

If I remember correctly, the ships, buildings and other smaller objects from Pirates!, seemed to transfur over fairly nicely.

As Refar mentioned though, I didn't have any success with the Leaderhead type files.

 

[Wolfshanze]

Danrell did a Galleon pack which included Spanish, English and French galleons from Pirates that work with Civ4 (I have all three in my Wolfshanze mod).

 

[mourndraken]

.. I've had that game for years and never played it. I wonder what's in there ..

 

[seZereth]

a lot of pirate units (not LHs) are ready to use in the FfH II mod. just unpak the art and take the units from there.

hope that helps, even if it is just to show that it is possibly