New Units: Cobra and Eagle

[dog]

Originally posted by Shady
how in the world can you use an eagle as recon? Unless it can talk I don't see how the trainer or whoever pets it can understand what the hell the eagle is quacking about.

It's called a "spirit journey." Native American shamans do it all the time. Second nature to 'em. Ingest enough peyote or ayahuasca and you could do it too.

Too bad there's not a separate .flc for "recon." You could use the anims from PTW for the Iroquois and/or Aztec leader as the base unit and the eagle for the recon bit. Oh well...

Great animations!

 

[Boba Fett]

Originally posted by KingArthur
I don't suppose you'd consider making the eagle bigger and putting a rider on it? mrtn could use something like that for a mod and I'm sure it would be welcomed by many other.

Then it wouldn't be a eagle anymore it would be more like a griffith. (Not a griffin there is a differance between the two.)

 

[Kinboat]

Well since I'm in a giving mood tonight (and it was an incredibly fast render) I'll do both a larger eagle and a larger eagle with a rider (he's not green ) The rider is small because of the wing span of the eagle having to fit in the frame but here is a view.

 

[piedude]

That is awesome, like all your units. Great work kinboat.

Just one thing, Could you just have the colour of the respective civs on the tail of the Great Eagle? It's by no means a big problem BUT IMHO it sort of takes away the "appeal" of the unit when it is covered in the civ's colours!

Again, Awesome work!

 

[KingArthur]

Shady, here's my feeble reasoning: The eagle would fly out and be picked up by one of your spies or people who would then attach a message to the eagle. The eagle would then fly back home with the message which could contain reports on enemy movements etc!

Ok I made that rubbish up in about 10 seconds. In truth I was thinking about a fantasy mod when I wrote it but I like dog's explanation better

Kinboat, thanks for considering a rider. I'd go with a human rider too as others have suggested (maybe give him a helmet to make him look more indistinct - you'd need a helmet if you fell off one of those things ). A bow would probably be my weapon of choice but I wouldn't grumble with a spear or Lance.

EDIT: I just noticed the screenshot with the rider -nice. Would the proportions look wrong if you reduced the wing span so as to make the rider bigger?

Originally posted by Shady
how in the world can you use an eagle as recon? Unless it can talk I don't see how the trainer or whoever pets it can understand what the hell the eagle is quacking about.

Good idea but unrealistic in practice unless you use for like a fantasy mod or something.

 

[mrtn]

Kinboat:

 

[embryodead]

it's PERFECT Kinboat!

 

[Kenric af Grashen]

wonderful

 

[Kinboat]

Well I made a giant eagle (and posted it already) and increased the frame size to almost maximum... so the rider is easier to see. Sorry Piedude I had already finished and posted it before I saw your suggestion so I couldn't think about it. I hope it doesn't ruin it for you... I actually like the look of the eagle in most of the civ colors.

 

[GIDustin]

With these 5 new units, you have doubled the units available to the "Druids" civ in the MTG Mod. I can even resize your large eagle to a Medium eagle for another. Happy days

GIDustin

 

[The TMT]

I seem to remember eading somewhere that if you put two animation entries in the ini file, you get a random set, so maybe you could have one Barbarian unit "Wild Animal" and another "Barbarian" so that you got a random unit out of Kinboat's units?
Just an idea

The TMT

 

[Kinboat]

Really? Has anyone tested this? Could be an excellent solution if it works.

 

[GIDustin]

I will test it now.

GIDustin

 

[GIDustin]

Civ3 keeps crashing when I give any unit more than one ATTACK1.

GIDustin

 

[Amadan]

Very impressive!

 

[Wishsong]

Amazing! If I could just have barbs get 4> units...

EXECUTE ORDER 66!

 

[Orthanc]

I'm going to do this before anyone else, who might be much harsher, does.

Check the date of the last post before yours Wishsong, you just uber ed this thing, as in you bumped a 2 year old thread. As a healthy suggestion you should try and avoid doing that.

 

[Spacer One]

and I was excited that Kinboat was back for about half a second...