Unit requests thread

[SaibotLieh]

Thank you very much Saibot, that was great help for me.
Something like eye opener.

I don't need to animate units, because - fingers crossed - most of them use existing animations from the basic CIV4 game or from Rise of Mankind mode - I think. And I'm absolutely happy with this one (I mean the Gun) as it is.

My project is quite individual and it is a full mix of reality with my own ideological or historical fictions such as some flags and nations like Scandinavia or Indoguinea for example.
Once it is finished I will definitely share and during my modding progress I can upload units one by one as well.

Actually my non-human and future units will be uniformed (like a huge chess boardgame in a complex environment). All civilizations will use the same teamcoloured units, but some of them (such as 'special' units) will use their individual specifications behind my uniformisation. With this method I can save a lot of time (what is always not enough), and I can pick up the best looking unit mesh of each unit type and create my own design on it if necessary. It is still will be a huge challenge because of the human units. So this is the way how I want to put 46 (!) civilizations onto Giant Earth Map in Rise of Mankind.

I don't know how long time I need for this project, but every little help I will greatly appreciate.
again.

ProjectMax

Sounds like quite a big project, but these can be the most fun to make.

Since it is so big, I would say it is even more worthwile to upload created units (or other features). The feedback you can get this way should help you further and can also be a motivation boost at times.

 

[Kathy]

I can't figure out how to get this unit to be as awesome as possible. What I would like to do is create a dogsled UU for the Inuit civilization. Here are the models I currently have ready for it:

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Ultimately what I would like to do is have the sled drawn by two dogs, one in front of the other. I want one of the Inuit models to be driving the sled, while the other either wields a spear or bow and arrow. This may require new animations, something I am incapable of doing. Would anybody like to help me with this?

I think it would be a valuable addition to the entire community.

Volunteers?

EDIT: I could provide the dogs too, I was just thinking of using the wolf models, but I suppose I could modify them to look more like sled dogs.

I think this is a very interesting idea, but unfortunately I am not skilled with animations. Nevertheless, I would be interested to do a variety of the chariot archer using there models. So if I could have the men, the sledge and the dogs I can try to add them to the animations. In this case, only the archer will be animated, but maybe this is a start to find someone to make the dogs move, too.

 

[Medikus]

Hey,

I have a question about creating the art for a new unit for a civilizaton.

In the game, when you click on a unit and then you go elsewhere on the map,
you can still see your unit in a small circle on the dim.
Which file in the sidmeier/assets/art/interface or sidmeier/assets/art/unit is it for that special picture?

Thank you

 

[clanky4]

Hey,

I have a question about creating the art for a new unit for a civilizaton.

In the game, when you click on a unit and then you go elsewhere on the map,
you can still see your unit in a small circle on the dim.
Which file in the sidmeier/assets/art/interface or sidmeier/assets/art/unit is it for that special picture?

Thank you

its the unit's button. Which is generally located in Art/Interface/Buttons/Units

 

[keldath]

hi,

i hope someone can help me and create some thark units for my barsoom mod, they are like in the john carter movie.

6 armed green warriors

 

[Yak1978]

Hi guys

May I ask if anyone knows of any Battlestar Galactica units I could download and incorporate in the space mods for Civ4?

I've searched around and found nothing, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Many thanks

 

[keldath]

bsg? nice

i suggest - get star trek mod + babylon 5 mod, both have tons of tons of space ship units - you can adapt some models to bsg if you get no help.

i hope to see a bsg mod

 

[Cole98]

I would like a few variants of the Stalker Unit (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=344932)
I would like an Infantry Version, Calvary Version, Machine Gun Version and a RPG Version, if it is possible

 

[Spillsandstains]

Hi, I've been trying to do a weapon swap on the vanilla archer, but the melee combat animation was wrong whatever I did - has anyone managed it successfully to save me a bit of time? I was trying to replace the knives they use with a club in the right hand to create some Neolithic braves

 

[Gundam Strike]

Hi there

I would really love to see more mecha units in CIV4 as the modern age is my favourite time, now I do wonder if somebody would be able to do anything with these models, found on turobsquid.

Thx in advance

 

[clanky4]

Hi there

I would really love to see more mecha units in CIV4 as the modern age is my favourite time, now I do wonder if somebody would be able to do anything with these models, found on turobsquid.

Thx in advance

Securitron, from Fallout (New Vegas), here.

Mr. House is still best securitron

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=23189

 

[SaibotLieh]

Hi, I've been trying to do a weapon swap on the vanilla archer, but the melee combat animation was wrong whatever I did - has anyone managed it successfully to save me a bit of time? I was trying to replace the knives they use with a club in the right hand to create some Neolithic braves

The knifes of the archer unit are a bit of a special case since they have a NiSkinInstance, which most of the other weapons don't have. A swap should work if you remove the whole NiTriShape node of the knifes from the Archer_Skinned_Knives node and copy&paste the whole NiTriShape node of the new weapon into the Archer_Skinned_Knives node.

 

[clanky4]

I can't figure out how to get this unit to be as awesome as possible. What I would like to do is create a dogsled UU for the Inuit civilization. Here are the models I currently have ready for it:

​

Ultimately what I would like to do is have the sled drawn by two dogs, one in front of the other. I want one of the Inuit models to be driving the sled, while the other either wields a spear or bow and arrow. This may require new animations, something I am incapable of doing. Would anybody like to help me with this?

I think it would be a valuable addition to the entire community.

Volunteers?

EDIT: I could provide the dogs too, I was just thinking of using the wolf models, but I suppose I could modify them to look more like sled dogs.

Post the models. On an unrelated note anyone know of any units that use a whip?

 

[LunarMongoose]

On an unrelated note anyone know of any units that use a whip?

SaibotLieh's Beastmaster. It's a Great General you attach to an animal unit. Even comes with a better whip sound effect than the vanilla one.

 

[clanky4]

SaibotLieh's Beastmaster. It's a Great General you attach to an animal unit. Even comes with a better whip sound effect than the vanilla one.

Thank you that did the trick.

 

[Hydromancerx]

Someone could do some unit conversions from other games.



I first was trying to convert units from Anno 2070. While its txture is in dds its mesh is in a weird format called .rdm. And from my search into the Anno modding community looks like it cannot be converted from .rdm to a more useful format like .3ds or .obj. Only converted from them into .rdm. So for them I guess the request is making units that look like they are from Anno 2070. Specifically the cool looking future ships.



The other game units I want converted are from Starcraft 2. There are many models available online. However they are in a 3D mesh format called .m3

Luckily there are converters for 3D Studio max and Blender. I went the Blender route and even downloaded the latest version. It apparently works to import and export to .3ds format.

I used NIFSkope to import the .3ds mesh, but neither Blender or NIFSkope seem to show to show the texture. So now I am stuck not knowing how to add textures to the mesh in Blender and/or NIFSkope.

Any help on how to do it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[SaibotLieh]

The other game units I want converted are from Starcraft 2. There are many models available online. However they are in a 3D mesh format called .m3

Luckily there are converters for 3D Studio max and Blender. I went the Blender route and even downloaded the latest version. It apparently works to import and export to .3ds format.

I used NIFSkope to import the .3ds mesh, but neither Blender or NIFSkope seem to show to show the texture. So now I am stuck not knowing how to add textures to the mesh in Blender and/or NIFSkope.

Any help on how to do it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Does the mesh has a NiTexturingProperty node in NIFSkope? If so, check if its NiSourceTexture points to the right file.

 

[Zlatko]

Wooow beautiful, convert this please !

 

[Hydromancerx]

Does the mesh has a NiTexturingProperty node in NIFSkope? If so, check if its NiSourceTexture points to the right file.

This is what it has (see pic)

I don't see anything for textures like it normally has.

Is there a way to add a node in NIFSkope?

 

[SaibotLieh]

This is what it has (see pic)

I don't see anything for textures like it normally has.

Is there a way to add a node in NIFSkope?

To add a node with NifSkope just right-click on the node you want to add a node to, then Node -> Attach Node. Alternatively you can copy&paste the NiTexturingProperty from a different mesh into this mesh.

However, this might not work and you might need to re-assign the texture in Blender, given that the UV map is still existing. This tutorial might help you with this, although it is written for an older version of Blender. I think you can skip step 2,3 and 5-8.