Possible to transfer units from CtP to CIVIII?
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Long ago and far away, I dimly recall this being discussed. IIRC the sprites were different enough to make it ... impossible? Regardless, IMHO that none have done I suspect answers your question.
As an aside, I wouldn't mind "designing" a few SMAC vehicles and seeing them here in CFC land as well ...
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zThanks for the response Ozy.
What does SMAC mean?
Yea, I really loved the subs of CtP. It felt like you were deep under water. Maybe the terrain had something to do with that. Regardless, I've never been happy with the CIVIII subs.
What does SMAC mean?
Yea, I really loved the subs of CtP. It felt like you were deep under water. Maybe the terrain had something to do with that. Regardless, I've never been happy with the CIVIII subs.
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My brother played Call to Power. I never had the, um, pleasure. (A websearch reveals that Call to Power's similarity to Sid Meier's games is coincidental, not intentional, though what little I saw of it reminded me very much of Civ II.) As for Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire...oh, yeah! Now, you guys are asking if it's possible to adapt those sprites or playing pieces to Civ III. Rightly so, it would not be possible. The orientation of the figures would be wrong, and the shading and coloration would be not nearly as clear and crisp. It'd be like comparing 16-bit color to 256-bit color. Similar, but different.
But no matter.
I should think that every unit in CtP has an equivalent somewhere in the Unit Graphics forum. I've seen battlemechs and hovertanks, spies and civilian specialists, machines and vehicles for landscapes and moonscapes, and who knows what else? Why would anyone want to go through the effort of adapting those 1990s-era gifs (or whatever they used) when simply downloading a ready-made unit would work so much better? Provide me with a list of units (and a pic or brief description) and I'd give you a list of CivFanatic equivalents. I tried to do just that instead of this reply post, but unfortunately no unit list or photo thereof was easily located on the World Wide Web.
But no matter.
I should think that every unit in CtP has an equivalent somewhere in the Unit Graphics forum. I've seen battlemechs and hovertanks, spies and civilian specialists, machines and vehicles for landscapes and moonscapes, and who knows what else? Why would anyone want to go through the effort of adapting those 1990s-era gifs (or whatever they used) when simply downloading a ready-made unit would work so much better? Provide me with a list of units (and a pic or brief description) and I'd give you a list of CivFanatic equivalents. I tried to do just that instead of this reply post, but unfortunately no unit list or photo thereof was easily located on the World Wide Web.
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Prince
As for SMAC, just today my brother was mentioning making a Civ III mod. I asked him, what would be the point? Just play SMAC or the Planetfall mod for Civ IV. But he brought up a good point. He thought it was silly that you ended up fighting giant blobs of worms. So I said, what kind of alien life would you want? Something like Avatar, with all the organisms linked to the planet? But it got me thinking. I like the idea of psionic mindworms, and that screech thing somebody made years ago looks remarkably like those telepathic sh*t weasels in Stephen King's Dreamcatcher movie. So the bare bones of SMAC for Civ III are there...somewhere.
Derf made a "Planet" SMAC map for Civ3; let me know if you'd like it but can't find it.
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