The Doktor's Icon Request Workshop

[Howard Tafty]

Alright Howard, after a lot of fiddling around with different ideas, I've come to the conclusion that I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Not only will the reskin I've made for you not work, every single unit reskin I've made since has caused the game to crash upon spawning them.

So, I'll give you the art files, in hopes that you have better luck than me:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fj0h0owe2bxqepy/KingsAfricanRifles.rar

In the mean time, I'll see if I can finally get it to work on my end.
(PS, if they decide to cooperate with you better than they did with me, and if you can get a screenshot, could I see it? I'd like to see my handiwork assume its final form)

I'm not to sure if its fully stable so if anything I will test it on some other computer later so it doesnt mess with my main CiV copy.

Also one last icon that you could make for me? possibly?

Spoiler :

this not high priority right now you are free to complete it whenever you want.

 

[onmy6]

I was curious so I tested it and it works fine absolutely nothing wrong with it... good to go must have been a bottle neck in your pc pagefile Doktor

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

I was curious so I tested it and it works fine absolutely nothing wrong with it... good to go must have been a bottle neck in your pc pagefile Doktor

Well, that's a bit of a relief. Thanks for testing it. Any ideas on how to resolve it?

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

Hey Doktor, I don't know if you are busy but I would love it if you can do an icon for this leader for me.
I don't mind if I have to wait since I am not in hurry anyway.
He is Pope Gregory I.
Edit: add spoiler tag for large image

Spoiler :

Something like this suit your tastes?

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

Here's a list of Civ Icons id like made. Please take all the time you need.

The Xein Empire
https://fbcdn-photos-g-a.akamaihd.n..._=1447064075_8159675f8a4c31b5166bdf2585f9779b

The Bulwall Confederation
https://fbcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.n..._=1447771813_ca601a45a15b83df0696a52d4edf197b

Illose
https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.n..._=1451465869_329656f9d38637314dcf28d0844c8d62

The Zeroniteks
https://fbcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.n..._=1447587247_1e9979e591aa6715ce75aa635dbdc00d

The Empire of Altosia
https://fbcdn-photos-e-a.akamaihd.n..._=1446359635_6896c4c1a640c03d87f9ca8eee86a038

The Volcorian Kingdoms
https://fbcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.n..._=1447611569_bb5891799a80c1ac57afeefd9a74febb

I Thank You for your time and effort and help to get these Civs up edventually.

Considering just how indistinguishable the icons are from their background, I'd highly recommend a different colour selection for a couple of these. That being said, here are the ones you asked for:

 

[onmy6]

Well, that's a bit of a relief. Thanks for testing it. Any ideas on how to resolve it?

Well If you haven't done already first and foremost I would suggest uninstalling civ5, then before you reinstall it run a cleaning program like "CCleaner" or "Wise Disk Cleaner" both of which are free, then run a registry cleaning program to clean out the registry of redundant and bogus entries, then disable your pagefile.sys through advanced system settings, reboot your PC, when booted up re-enble your pagefile.sys again using custom settings, generally the rule of thumb is 1.5 the size of your RAM but you can go up to 3x the size of your RAM if you choose that's if of course you have a 64bit PC if you have a 32bit PC then the setting are different again, then re-install Civ5 now that's worse case scenario or you could just re install CIV5 and hope for the best

PS: here's a small screen shot of your hand work

 

[ldvhl]

run a registry cleaning program to clean out the registry of redundant and bogus entries, then disable your pagefile.sys through advanced system settings

I work in IT. I heavily recommend being very, very careful what you do on these steps. Very.

 

[onmy6]

Really so do I mate in fact I'm a network engineer with A+ and Net+

 

[Mosile]

Considering just how indistinguishable the icons are from their background, I'd highly recommend a different colour selection for a couple of these. That being said, here are the ones you asked for:

All I can Say is Altosia (first one) Looks a lot better than i thought and might be than my Movis Icon.

The bulwell, im not fond of the design i made and will just make it a temporary place holder.


I now see a few choices were poorly made (and a few designs kinda suck but ill figure something out in the future) do you have any suggestions on whar might look better, ether just saying or recoloring icons to a more conferting taste?

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

Well If you haven't done already first and foremost I would suggest uninstalling civ5, then before you reinstall it run a cleaning program like "CCleaner" or "Wise Disk Cleaner" both of which are free, then run a registry cleaning program to clean out the registry of redundant and bogus entries, then disable your pagefile.sys through advanced system settings, reboot your PC, when booted up re-enble your pagefile.sys again using custom settings, generally the rule of thumb is 1.5 the size of your RAM but you can go up to 3x the size of your RAM if you choose that's if of course you have a 64bit PC if you have a 32bit PC then the setting are different again, then re-install Civ5 now that's worse case scenario or you could just re install CIV5 and hope for the best

I work in IT. I heavily recommend being very, very careful what you do on these steps. Very.

Well then, in that case, I'll just try the uninstall/reinstall thing and see if that works, since I'm a little bit technologically illiterate for someone my age. If that doesn't work, I'll just hold off on the other steps for now.

PS: here's a small screen shot of your hand work
View attachment 397997

Glad the unit looks OK, though the top of the hat/fez wasn't supposed to be black. If I can get it working on my end, I'll try and fix that.

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

All I can Say is Altosia (first one) Looks a lot better than i thought and might be than my Movis Icon.

The bulwell, im not fond of the design i made and will just make it a temporary place holder.


I now see a few choices were poorly made (and a few designs kinda suck but ill figure something out in the future) do you have any suggestions on whar might look better, ether just saying or recoloring icons to a more conferting taste?

My biggest suggestion is to not have two colours that are extremely dark. If one must be dark, the other should not be.

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

Hey, I would love if you could make these two into leader icons for me!

The first is Wu Qi. As far as I can tell, this is the only painting of him, so sorry if it's not much to go off.

Spoiler :

Larger: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Wu_Qi.jpg

The second is Qin Shi Huang. I like this image, and it already has a kind of Civ 5 feel to it I think.

Spoiler :

I also like these two if you feel like using a different one:
http://www.buzzle.com/images/history/china/painting-of-emperor-qin-shi-huang.jpg
https://soldatsterracottaqinshihuang.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/portrait-qin-shi-huang.jpg

No rush, and nice work on your previous art! Thanks in advance

These were fun. I liked having a chance to do something not Eurocentric. Also liked reading up a little on both of these guys.

 

[Antagonise]

Those are great, thank you so much!

 

[onmy6]

Well then, in that case, I'll just try the uninstall/reinstall thing and see if that works, since I'm a little bit technologically illiterate for someone my age. If that doesn't work, I'll just hold off on the other steps for now.

Hi Doktor

Try the uninstall/reinstall and see how you go, if that doesn't work PM me and I'll give my email and I'll walk you through the process contrary to ldvhl well meaning misguidance it's not that difficult and it's not that dangerous although it would help if you were alittle computer literate hence why I'll walk you through it. The registry part is vital though, To put it in laymen terms when a program corrupts quite often it will leave entities within the registry that will not uninstall and are left behind even if you use a third party uninstall program, so consequently when the program is reinstalled sometimes those entities will remain and re-corrupt the program. However hopefully the uninstall/reinstall is all that is needed, let me know how you get on

 

[Uighur_Caesar]

Can you convert units from Civ 4? Because if you can I need the Native American rifleman here for the Apache: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=8237.

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

Can you convert units from Civ 4? Because if you can I need the Native American rifleman here for the Apache: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=8237.

Unfortunately, 3D art, even conversions from Civ 4, is not something I'm able to do. Some of the programs required to do that don't seem to want to work properly on my computer, and as such, I haven't had a chance to learn how to create new units.

 

[Mosile]

My biggest suggestion is to not have two colours that are extremely dark. If one must be dark, the other should not be.

Thanks for the advise and for your work

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

I'm not to sure if its fully stable so if anything I will test it on some other computer later so it doesnt mess with my main CiV copy.

Also one last icon that you could make for me? possibly?

Spoiler :

this not high priority right now you are free to complete it whenever you want.

Alright, here ya go!

Though, correct me if I'm wrong, you had also asked for a leader icon fairly recently as well, right? I'm not seeing that on here anymore. Do you no longer need that?

 

[Howard Tafty]

Alright, here ya go!

Though, correct me if I'm wrong, you had also asked for a leader icon fairly recently as well, right? I'm not seeing that on here anymore. Do you no longer need that?

Yeah I didnt it was an accident with the loads of pictures I save .

 

[DoktorApplejuce]

Yeah I didnt it was an accident with the loads of pictures I save .

Ok, good, so I'm not going insane, haha.

BTW, the colours there are very similar to the Nyasaland one, did you want one of them changed a bit, or no?