Keroro's Tech Icons

Some wonder splashes that I knocked together:

Jean-Simon_Berthelemy.jpg

This one is meant to be Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot.

Kurukshetra.jpg
Ravi_Varma-Ravana_Sita_Jathayu.jpg

These are from the Indian Epics the Mahabharata and Ramayana. The one on the right is Ravana cutting Jatayu's wings, by Raja Ravi Varma. Not really sure about the other one. But it looks kinda cool. EDIT - See post 28 for a new version of the splash on the left.

Hope someone can use them. :)
 

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Some Era Splashes that represent the changing face of ancient Greek warfare. All are c'n'p from Creative Assembly's Rome:Total War game and I therefore claim no credit for them - I simply made them into civ 3 compatible pcx files.

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Kurukshetra.jpg

... from the Indian Epics the Mahabharata ... Not really sure about the other one. But it looks kinda cool.
You've got the name right on the zip. Kurukshetra is the climactic battle where all the bad guys and the vast majority of the good guys die. Sort of an ancient Indian "WW3". It's also the context for Krishna's speech to Arjuna that became known as the Bhagavad-Gita.

It looks like the horizontal is compressed. That let's you get the whole image in, but at the cost of a distortion that loses some of the nice detail. Did you consider either cropping the right side just past the central chariot's pennant, or allowing some of the Sanskrit text you have cropped to show. It wouldn't make a bad top and bottom border if you want the whole image.
 
You've got the name right on the zip. Kurukshetra is the climactic battle where all the bad guys and the vast majority of the good guys die. Sort of an ancient Indian "WW3". It's also the context for Krishna's speech to Arjuna that became known as the Bhagavad-Gita.
Good. Glad the name is right. Is it from the Mahabharata or the Ramayana? Or neither?

It looks like the horizontal is compressed. That let's you get the whole image in, but at the cost of a distortion that loses some of the nice detail. Did you consider either cropping the right side just past the central chariot's pennant, or allowing some of the Sanskrit text you have cropped to show. It wouldn't make a bad top and bottom border if you want the whole image.
It was compressed, yes. I might take another look at it and try it with the sanskrit showing. :) Will try to get that done this evening.
 
Good. Glad the name is right. Is it from the Mahabharata or the Ramayana? Or neither?
Mahabharata. (It's also the name of a cd from the vedic metal group called Rudra. I'd like to give it a listen, but I can't track down a copy).
 
I've been quiet too long. With my obsession with Alexander it was only a matter of time before I returned to him. Two icons here to represent the man himself, and the man who was said to be 'also Alexander' - Hephaestion. I was a little disappointed with the pixelation on Hephaestion's large icon, but otherwise I think they work well together.

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...and here's something I've been meaning to do for a while.

Kurukshetra_Remake.jpg


Thanks to Blue Monkey, who I think is right about the Sanskrit making a good border. Unfortunately this version loses just a bit of the pictures left and right edges, but it still works pretty well.
 

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I started mucking about with some cities, and came up with this - a Greek/barbarian hybrid. Original sets are by RedAlert (Hillforts) and RedAlert (Phoenician/Byzantine).

They look kinda strange, but I posted then just in case someone had a use for them. They're single era.

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Nice tech icons! :goodjob:

And the cities could probably be used by someone like Thrace or Illyria (*insert gripe about hardcoded culture limits here*)
 
Does the file include cities without walls?
The original hillfort cities by RedAlert all had walls around them, so no. I've included both the EUROWALL and rEURO cities in the same preview above - if you look carefully you'll see that the cities on the left have stakes around them, marking them as the proper walled cities.

Nice tech icons! :goodjob:

And the cities could probably be used by someone like Thrace or Illyria (*insert gripe about hardcoded culture limits here*)
Score 10 points. :) Thrace/Illyria were the exact reason I did this mash-up. I'm experimenting with Civinator's blank city/city resource idea for a few odd civs in Alexanders' Conquests. One slight problem is that the size of resources is smaller than that of cities. This led me to look at some city units that someone did ages ago. It could all get more interesting if Logitech's suggestion about adding more ambient effects works out as I would like it to.

Anyway, enough rambling. :mischief:
 
I'm experimenting with Civinator's blank city/city resource idea for a few odd civs in Alexanders' Conquests. One slight problem is that the size of resources is smaller than that of cities. This led me to look at some city units that someone did ages ago.

Keroro, thanks for experimenting with the resource cities. In my eyes they are the best solution to get lots of different looking cities in C3C. I experimented with Ekmek´s city units, too and with combinations of both. The city unit must be the best defender to be at top of the units stacked in that city. But what do you do, if the city units is killed? The autoproduction of the city units by buildings isn´t such a good solution, as you loose some of your precious 256 buildings for that and have lots of additional units that can slow down gamespeed. And of course you don´t have the "unit on top of the city"-option for other units too, as the city-unit has to be on top of the city.

If you disable the "unit on top of the city"-option in your game settings, it doesn´t matter, that the resource-cities are smaller than the (often too big) city graphics. If you want to enlarge the resource cities, the simpliest way is to place other resources with buildings around them. The best way to enlarge the resource cities to every seize you want, is to use the "Industrial Sprawl" graphics that are contained with Civ Complete in the PTW/scenarios-folder. But as the name says, this set is based on industrial buildings. Here it would be nice to get a road Sprawl-graphics-system based on ancient buildings. But this is a gigantic task...

You can see the results of that tech at our Storm over Civilization site with lots of screenshots in the SOE public forums. But as the work with SOE continues and continues, may be I make a tutorial about a complete new way of doing Civ 3 maps at CFC. What I posted here is a part of it.:)
 
Civinator, thanks for the tips. There are several problems with the unit cities I am finding. I think that they may be usable for a limited number of civs in my scenario, but are not a real solution to the 5 culture group problem.

Unfortunately I find resource cities rather limited too, as resources can only be of a small size and you lose much of the detail that is in the normal cities. If I can work out a way of getting hold of an 'ancient sprawl' graphic set (or if I can do it myself :crazyeye:) then I may be able to work something out.

I shall continue to investigate. :)
 
The combination of resource cities, Sprawl terrain and normal civ 3 cities (you must not always set all citygraphics to transparency) is really worth it. Here I attache a temporary screenshot from SOE with some combinations of them:

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And here is a link to Ekmek´s city units from 2003:http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=68489
 
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Now thats what I call a screen shot...

Sorry to be off topic...what where we talking about again??

Oh yeah...If you need buildings, and can get me pics for concepts, I can crank you out whatever cultural houses you need :)
 
A few more icons I put together while I was messing with a new scanner today. Indian themed.

The first is from a tapestry but I don't have a proper name for it. :mischief: If anyone with some knowledge of India wants to let us know what era/dynasty it might be from then that would be useful. (Guess who I'm thinking of there...)

The second I can tell you more about - it's the face of Krishna from a sacred bronze of the Chola region circa 10th/11th century. The full statue is of Krishna dancing on Kaliya (a serpent), and very happy he looks too! Unfortunately the full length picture (1200x2500 pixels) is just too big to make into an icon, though I may try to resize it into a wonder splash sometime in the future.
 

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A few more icons I put together while I was messing with a new scanner today. Indian themed.

The first is from a tapestry but I don't have a proper name for it. :mischief: If anyone with some knowledge of India wants to let us know what era/dynasty it might be from then that would be useful. (Guess who I'm thinking of there...)
It's more or less Mughal (based on clothing) - Raj era, although as it's "Folk Art" the exact era is hard for me to pin down. That's only IMHO.

One possible use as a tech is for "Phad (Hero Tales Performance)".

(Edited together from several wikipedia articles):
This is a Rajasthani folk art, one of the many forms of public performance & passing on of oral traditions practiced throughout India. The Phad is a 30 feet long sheet on which are painted (or sewn) miniature scenes depicting the life and adventures of a folk hero, and functions as a portable temple - the heroes are sons of gods or themselves avatars. The Bhopa (itinerant priest singer) has a stick with which he points out each scene. The narration is sung while he accompanies himself on a ravan-hattha (fiddle). The light is provided by his wife who holds a lantern alongside him. Villagers often call for a Bhopa to come & perform when they need encouragement to get through times of great difficulty, such as famines or droughts.
 
Thanks for that Blue Monkey - a full tech description that comes along just 12 hours after the icon is posted is pretty good! :cool:

And thanks to Virote for the. :goodjob:
 
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