New Unit: Engineer

[Shastram]

WOW!! see that looks COOOL

You do work fast!!!


Shastram

 

[pesoloco]

This is a screenshot showing the tree harvesters clearing the forests outside of my city

 

[pesoloco]

I'm on a roll!
Here is the "Captured" animation
This is when the engineer is captured by an enemy

 

[pesoloco]

here is the death animation

 

[pesoloco]

any suggestions for building a fortess?? or should this ability not be given to the engineer?

what about planting forests?

 

[tpasmall]

How about having a crane lifting metal beams up onto a structure for fortress construction? Here are some pictures that i hope will help.

 

[tpasmall]

The biggest disapointment about civ3 is that i can no longer have my air-unit engineers that i used to convert ocean into land

 

[pesoloco]

another preview

 

[pesoloco]

keeping with the modern machinery theme, I thought this tractor would make a good animation for the irrigation. I didnt dare try the hose and sprinkler after what happened with the chainsaw graphics.

 

[tstowe]

All of them look great Pesoloco. I missed what happened with the chainsaw incident. What happened?

 

[pesoloco]

i took the image off because as one person pointed out, it could be seen in a perverted way

Some bad news: the animation that the game uses for cleaning pollution is the same as the irrigation animations so we cant do both the tractor and chemical suits

 

[pesoloco]

here's the construct fortress animation

 

[pesoloco]

a suggestion:

do you think it would be alright for the engineer to drive a truck instead of run around on foot? How many modern engineers do you know run by foot to their jobs? (actually I suggest this because it would make the movement animation a little easier for me. Moving his legs and arms at 8 different angles would take forever)

The engineer would only drive while he is moving, when he is standing still he would look as usual

 

[tpasmall]

Love the animations, i agree that the engineer driving the truck would be better because, most of his actions are done by machinery anyway. Cant wait for the finished product, this will be by far the best unit created.

 

[pesoloco]

thank, tpasmall.

It's almost done. I just need to do some testing in the game with it.

 

[pesoloco]

have we decided on a technology for it?

 

[tpasmall]

Im not sure what tech would be best, possibly motorized transportation or radio.

 

[pesoloco]

i still need an idea for the plant forest animation
I was thinking maybe the engineer knelt down, planting a tree
any other suggestions?

 

[JeffNebraska]

If you complete this opus, it may be the absolute best and most complete additional unit to date. Looks fantastic so far.

 

[JeffNebraska]

I love the death animation, but do workers/engineers ever die? I guess they sink on ships, but for what circumstance would this animation be useful?