Unit button collection?

[aokces]

A lot of the custom units I've downloaded don't have buttons. For vehicles and planes its been easy enough to just find my own image and convert into a .dds file, but for most other units its hard to find a image that looks suitable.
So I'm wondering - is there a collection of unit buttons somewhere on this forum?

 

[DVS]

I don't think there is.

 

[aokces]

Hmm.. maybe I'll be better off downloading a mod and stealing their buttons instead. Any recommendations for a mod that has plenty of custom buttons?

 

[DVS]

What era units are you looking for?

 

[The_J]

Had the same problem, but creating buttons out of screenshots is good enough for me .

 

[DVS]

Had the same problem, but creating buttons out of screenshots is good enough for me .

That's what I'm doing for my mod too.

 

[mechaerik]

That works for you, but every time i try a screenshot, it fails for some reason. Any help with that?

 

[DVS]

Be more specific, what fails? If you're using windows, it should be as easy as hitting the prtscn (printscreen) button, and then pasting into photoshop (or gimp).

 

[mechaerik]

I do press Prt Sc

However, i have a laptop and have to push FN+Insert to activate prtsc. Then there's a pause and the dialog box says

"Screenshot Failed"

So i have no idea why it doesn't work.

 

[aokces]

I also use Fn-Insert on my laptop, but that works just fine for me both in and out of the game. Maybe there's another screenshot command for in-game?

So anyways, I like button consistency with the default CIV units, so I'm just screen-capping and trying to mod the default buttons. Thankfully civfanatics has a complete civopedia with images.

This is what I've made so far, very time consuming for a person of my skills, and flavor/ethnic units are beyond my paint/(basic GIMP) abilities. I'm currently looking for some sort of Asian-looking industrial/modern gunpowder unit.