Units I would like to see In the Game with helpful graphics ideas

[Kal-el]

DS,

I must say I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with. I was working on the humvee myself, but I don't have a whole lot of available time. What I was doing was I took a bunch of screen shots of the civ2 tot hummer and was going to string them together to make a civ3 flic. I can send you the pics I have so far if that would help as a reference. Let me know.

Is there an easier way? I have hypercam but am not that fluent with it. It seems to me that you should be able to go in and edit frame by frame in hypercam, or some such similar program and that would make things so much easier.

 

[Dark Sheer]

You can try to zip up the file and post them here if its below 500k. Or, you can mail them to me at lkewe@pop.jaring.my or leongkooi@yahoo.com.

 

[Kal-el]

I will send them to you tomorrow. Either here or at the above address.

what do you think about the engineer/city planner unit? IMO this is a must have unit for the game.

 

[Dark Sheer]

Originally posted by Kal-el
I will send them to you tomorrow. Either here or at the above address.

what do you think about the engineer/city planner unit? IMO this is a must have unit for the game.

Well, it would be nice to have an engineer unit. But is it possible to increase the work rate of a unit?

 

[Kal-el]

As far as I know, yes. There is a flag in the technology screen that allows for increased work rate. Haven't actually played a game in a while so I don't know if this works. But it is why modern workers work faster than the original workers. It would seem that if you just flagged more techs with this your workers would work faster. I don't remember what the tech is that boosts work rate in the original bic but I assume it is which ever one switches the graphics image from the guy in the loin cloth over to the guy in the overalls.

here are the humvee shots I grabbed from civ2 tot. I don't have all the angles ... yet. Right now I just have a string of east/west idle, south west/south east, and south. I will grab the north facing images tonight if I get the chance otherwise maybe Friday.

 

[napoleon jr]

I think we need Alpine Troops like Civ 2. They can be like the Finnish troops during the winter war of 1939-40. With a 1/3 movement 9 attack and 18 defense.

 

[Kal-el]

DS

here are the other facings for the humvee.

have at it!

dj

 

[Dark Sheer]

Give me one frame in each direction and thats all I need

I should be able to complete the unit during this weekend. Had to cancel my plan for fishing trip as I am having fever

And since I am stuck at home instead of in the middle of a nice lake I might as well do the animation.

 

[Kal-el]

the other angles are in the zip file above.

 

[Kal-el]

Another idea that I would like in the game that would alleviate some of the barbarian problem, (he fact that they suck) are separate units specifically for the barbarians.

1. Barbarian warrior – he looks like the regular warrior but instead of the axe he has a sword and to add a little fierceness to him give him some war paint on his face and chest, this could be like braveheart or the south pacific islanders or the black orcs from LOTR.
A/D/M
2/2/1

2. Barbarian Rider – use the Chinese Rider but how about buck antlers coming out of his helmet?
A/D/M
3/2/2

(both these units are in the LWC mod but there are no images for them. The A/D/M above are only suggestions. I don't know what they are in LWC mod.)

 

[Dark Sheer]

Originally posted by Kal-el
Another idea that I would like in the game that would alleviate some of the barbarian problem, (he fact that they suck) are separate units specifically for the barbarians.

1. Barbarian warrior – he looks like the regular warrior but instead of the axe he has a sword and to add a little fierceness to him give him some war paint on his face and chest, this could be like braveheart or the south pacific islanders or the black orcs from LOTR.
A/D/M
2/2/1

2. Barbarian Rider – use the Chinese Rider but how about buck antlers coming out of his helmet?
A/D/M
3/2/2

(both these units are in the LWC mod but there are no images for them)

I got all the directions, no worries.

As to the buck antler for the riders, I have exactly what you want! I can grab the dear mask graphic from Ultima Online and use it as the head gear for the raider

 

[Kal-el]

what a team!

Lets hear it for the man!!