Two Requests

[Aethelend]

I don't know if these have already been done- if so, ignore me.

Firstly, has anyone made attack animations for the standard leaders, so that a player who gets one from a battle would have the option of keeping a powerful military unit, or turning it into an army? If not, would it be possible for someone to take that up? I, myself, am not the least bit tech savvy, but I would make excellent use of such a thing, and I'm sure others would as well.

Second, is there a way, using the i.Mage program, to expand the Units32 sheet for more slots for unit icons? I love all of the amazing units available on this site, and would jump at the chance to jam-pack more of them into a mod.

-Aethelend

 

[againsttheflow]

On the second, yes, the unit_32 icon sheet is easily expandable by copy and paste though if you download any one of the many mods around here many of them will come with a seriously expanded sheet. If you use the copy and paste method I would recommend expanding only downwards so as to not mess up previous indexing.

 

[Aethelend]

Hrm... It doesn't seem to be working with i.Mage. It won't let me paste anything beyond the bottom edge of the sheet- it's just blank space and seems intent on staying that way; anything I drag beyond the edge vanishes.

Off the top of your head, which mods have the biggest sheets? I could just copy and paste everything over to one of those.

 

[Steph]

The biggest sheet is probaly in my mod.

There's room for a few thousands units.

You can also try to use Zulu's sheet.

 

[Plotinus]

It's not possible to make new animations for Firaxis units, because only Firaxis have the models that they used to make the units. How could anyone else do it?

Some people have added magical effects to leader animations, to make it look like they're shooting fireballs and so on, but of course the character itself has the same animation it always did.

 

[Vuldacon]

Aethelend... IF i.Mage will allow you to Create a New Image, You could simply create a New units_32.pcx file using the same Width and increase the Length. You can apply the Same units_32 Palette and Copy and Paste your Original Units_32 on your New One so all units are in the same places. Otherwise, I uploaded a Larger Conquest and Blank units_32.pcx you can use Here:
Post #63 http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=75413&page=4

As for making New Unit animations from Existing Fraxis Units... yes, it can be done but as Plotinus said, there are no Models we can use so All Animation Work would have to be done Manually in a Graphics Editor. This Means Copy and Paste as well as adding additions and changing the unit Frame by Frame... New Palettes can be made and colors changed or any change wanted. Very Time Consuming but can be done

 

[Civinator]

In my mod I use the leader´s fidget animations as attack animations. If this is useful, depends on the kind of attack the leader has to do. If the leader should do a special attack (in my mod per example convincing other people), this can fit very well.

 

[Aethelend]

Ha! It lives! Thank you for the help, everyone.