VP Promo Icons

[Asterix Rage]

Can you tell me what does it mean

Your unit walk on a civilian GP or worker. Notification comes up but the civilian is not captured.
Easy to test quickly with Ingame Editor

 

[Asterix Rage]

That's incredible!

More incredible is that it will be .dds files for your own property !

But be patient a bit. Lot of to do before. Keep going with 4UC and try to think about the reduction of the number of promotions.
Does a unit really need to have 2 or 3 custom promos? why not all in one.

 

[pineappledan]

But be patient a bit. Lot of to do before. Keep going with 4UC and try to think about the reduction of the number of promotions.
Does a unit really need to have 2 or 3 custom promos? why not all in one.

Haha, Nope!
A few reasons for >1 different custom promotions:

• represent different aspects of that unit's history
• too much text/complexity for 1 promotion to convey
• Conditional promotions added/removed, and placeholder promotions (ie. if a special effect only happens in enemy territory, etc.)
• 1 unique aspect might stay on upgrade while the other is lost.

At any rate, I can at least start to compile a list of all the unique promotions, so you have them all in 1 place, along with the relevant history if you need ideas for the icons:

Spoiler unique 4uc promotions :

American Monitor

• Monitor (Gives bonus defense to adjacent cities)
• Hardened (takes 3 less from all attacks)

Arabian Hashemite

• Garland Mine (10 damage to adjacent enemies on pillage)
• Desert Raider (double movement and +25% CS in desert)

Assyrian Iron Chariot

• Fast and Hard (+2 CS if player has more horses or iron than chariots, Bonus can stack)
• Fury of Nergal (dummy)(bonus +%7CS for every adjacent enemy unit)
  • Fury of Nergal I (+7% CS)
  • Fury of Nergal II (+14% CS)
  • Fury of Nergal III (+21% CS)
  • Fury of Nergal IV (+28% CS)
  • Fury of Nergal V (+35% CS)
  • In a pickle (+42% CS)

Austrian Landwehr

• Regimentsmarsche (+1 culture when garrisoned)
• Imperial Vigilance (+25% CS in owned or friendly CS territory)

Aztec Eagle

• Captives of War (chance to spawn worker when killing a unit)
• Human Sacrifice (dummy promotion for UA, gold/faith on kills)

Babylonian Kibitum Already has unique promotion art
Brazilian Pracinha

• Expeditionary Force (+%CS based on how far away unit is from the capital)
• Glorious Banner (Tourism on kills)

Byzantine Dromon

• Greek Fire (places a damage-over-time debuff on units it attacks)
  • Fire (10 dmg next turn)
  • Huge Fire (20 dmg next turn)
  • Raging Fire (30 dmg next turn)

Carthaginian Shophet

• Comandeering (Shophet can embark to become great admiral)
• Great Tactician (Units starting next to a Suffet ignore ZOC)

Celtic Scythed Chariot

• Scythe (AoE damage on move)
• Carnyx (bonus vs ranged)

Celtic Pictish Warrior

• Druidism (dummy promotion for the faith on kills)

Chinese Xiafan Guanjun

• Kowtow (Influence every turn when in a CS border)

Danish Langskib

• Viking Exploration (embarked units starting turn stacked with a langskib can enter deep ocean)

Egyptian Khopesh

• Mercy (+30% CS vs units with <50 hp)

English Longbow

• Agincourt (+20% CS vs mounted and armored)

Ethiopian Shotelai

• Hooked Weapon (+25% vs mounted)
• Maim (on attack, places debuff on attacked unit)
  • Maimed (-1 movement for 1 turn)

French SPAD - no new promotions

German Slaganz

• Furor Teutonicus (bonus vs barbarians)
• Barbarian Alliance (converts barbarians. influence with CS on barb kills)

Greek Klepht

• Philhellenism (gold/prod on attack)

Hunnic Tarkhan

• Migration
• Bellum Alet

Incan Chasqui

• Chasquiwasi (heals every turn in friendly territory)
• Khipu Runner (Gold on exploration)

India

• Epic (culture and +5 XP on kills)
• Dhanurvidya (culture and Faith wenever the unit levels up)

Indonesian Prau

• Flying the Ama (+2 movement)

Iroquois - no new promotions
Japanese Yamato

• Kantai Kessen (GAdmiral points on kills)

Korean Kobukseon

• Coastal Patrol (1/2 movement in deep ocean)
• Deck Spikes (bonus vs naval melee)

Mayan Holkan

• Renewal Cycle (heal 30 hp every 20 turns)
• Lost Codices (science on ruins)
• K'atun Ahaw (dummy promotion, adds new promotion every 20 turns)
  • Hun (Mayan word for 1)
  • Ka'a (2)
  • Oox (3)
  • Kan (4)

Mongolian Black Tug

• Mingghan (bonus on pillaged tiles, XP on pillage)

Moroccan Corsair

• Razzia (food/production on kills, pillaging TRs and tiles)

Dutch Goedendag

• Burgemeeste
• Goedendag! (bonus vs mounted)
• Golden Spurs (+10% CS from being next to a Goedendag)

Ottoman Great Bombard

• Siege Inaccuracy II (-50% vs units)
• Sahi Topu (damages itself on attack, +10 healing in friendly land)

Persian Qizilbash

• Safavid Agitator

Polish Pancerny

• Bogurodzica (Faith on Kills, +25% defense)
• Embrasure (+33% RCS, Given by Barbican to ranged units garrisoned in city)

Polynesian Koa

• Kapu Ku'ialua (places damage over time debuff on units it attacks)
  • Bleeding (10 damage)
  • Heavy Bleeding (20 damage)
  • Hemorrhaging (30 damage)

Portuguese Cacadores

• Fighting Cock (already has its own unique graphic)
• Age of Exploration (gold on exploration, given by University of Coimbra)

Roman Ballista

• Legatus Legionis (+1 movement for Ballistas when starting turn within 2 tiles of a GGeneral)
• Praefectus Castrorum (+60% improvement speed for Legions when starting turn within 2 tiles of a GGeneral)

Russian Licorne

• Grapeshot (+50% RCS vs melee/gunpowder units)

Shoshone Yellow Brow

• Big Horse Dance (Always fights as if at full. double fortified bonus)

Siamese Seir Morb

• Coastal Cannon
• Crouching Tiger (dummy promotion, bonus RCS for every movement point left on the unit)
  • Crouching Tiger I
  • Crouching Tiger II
  • Crouching Tiger III
  • Eye of the Tiger

Songhai Sofa

• Father of the Horse (+15 CS/RCS for for mounted units within 2 tiles of Sofa)
• Nearby Sofa (given to mounted units that are within 2 tiles of a Sofa)

Spanish Armada

• Santa Maria (Great Admiral Points on kills)
• Invincible (+4CS if at full HP. adds +2 XP for all Armada in 5 tiles on kills)

Sweden adds no new promotions

Venice adds no new promotions

Zulu InDuna

• Iqawe (Zulu for "renowned Warrior", or "Hero" - bonus XP to stacked unit on expend, and Citadel damages all adjacent enemies immediately)
• Ibutho (bonus XP to units stacked on InDuna)

that's a lot of work...
Shoshone promotions could be condensed into 1 promotion
German Slaganz promotions could conceivably be condensed, but it's 3 different effects so I'm reluctant.

 

[adan_eslavo]

We added human sacrifice dummy promo for aztec units. I saw that value of that aztec passive has changed in one of the recent updates? Was it updated in MUC?

Yeah, lotta work. Unfortunately like @pineappledan said there's not much room for simplification. Some of them have even now really unique picture f.e. Scythe so they can be saved for the end after common ones are done.

 

[pineappledan]

We added human sacrifice dummy promo for aztec units. I saw that value of that aztec passive has changed in one of the recent updates? Was it updated in MUC?

No change needed. The promotion just says "Gold and Faith on Kills"

 

[Asterix Rage]

VPPI news

Version 1.5 available now.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/vp-promo-icons.26929/
Some icons have been reworked and Shaka has its unique set.
Most importantly, the 32x32 icons have been improved one by one, pixel per pixel !

For those who found VPPI "awesome", "very impressive", "appealing" or whatever, feel happy because you're going to really see it now.

 

[Hinin]

We can make a religion out of this !

 

[Asterix Rage]

VPPI news

Version 1.6 available now.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/vp-promo-icons.26929/

- New and reworked icons to fit VP(9-6)
- A few icons reworked to be better at 32x32
- 8 icons can be assigned to any promotion of your choice

 

[adan_eslavo]

What was the changes from 9-6? I'm curious because I saw only 3 small tweaks?

I wonder if it is possible. Your new awesome icons are often not visible on units with many promotions. NEw ones are pushed out of the screen frame. Is it possible to make it visible somehow (two rows, smaller icons etc.)? We were talking that merging same promotion types would require some additional computer resources. But this would be only static graphical change. That was always bad about experienced units that their icon was placed over promotion icons.

 

[Asterix Rage]

What was the changes from 9-6?

New and reworked icons to fit VP(9-6) :
- Conscript _03#25 is a new one
- Parthian Tactics _03#30 is new (was generic vppi +2 moves.)
- Infiltrators unchanged.

A few icons reworked to be better at 32x32 :
- Ambush I/II, Precision I/II, Conscription _00#52, Brute Force, Trailblazer III.

Lightning Warfare _03#29 is new

two rows, smaller icons (...) merging same promotion types

• VPPI will be dds icons files only and forever. ZERO resources needed.
• I don't have the skills to write a such UI mechanism.
• This is a amazing idea. it should have been written a long ago deep in the Civ5 core ...
• After all it may not be such a good idea. VP + EUI + modmodmodmods is big enough imo

The best is the enemy of the good

 

[Asterix Rage]

That was always bad about experienced units that their icon was placed over promotion icons.

?

 

[adan_eslavo]

In left corner you have unit ui pannel with long list of unit icons starting from right to left and at some point they get under the big unit icon and cannot be checked, hovered and are barely visible.

 

[Asterix Rage]

In left corner you have unit ui pannel with long list of unit icons starting from right to left and at some point they get under the big unit icon and cannot be checked, hovered and are barely visible.

Yes I see what you mean.
But It is not my business I'm afraid. It should have been addressed a long ago deep in the Civ5 core ...

 

[adan_eslavo]

Yup, if @Infixo was present maybe he could do something with that right in VP. He did awesome job with EUI updates recently.

 

[adan_eslavo]

[...]VP + EUI + modmodmodmods is big enough imo
The best is the enemy of the good

If you saw my mod list your jaw would hit the ground. :] I really struggle with performance sometimes. That's why we work on MUCfVP v37 where performance of buildings for now is our priority.

 

[Asterix Rage]

With VP(9-15) some promotion changes are introduced.

I have to draw new icons for new promos Swift Strike I-III
Busy with RL, I can't do it now. Fortunately, VPPI includes customizable icons (see bonus_VPPI_icons.jpg)

Let's use 3 of them to have 3 unique icons to Swift Strike I-III. The name of promotions are PROMOTION_COASTAL_RAIDER_1, PROMOTION_COASTAL_RAIDER_2 and PROMOTION_COASTAL_RAIDER_3

The job is done in the file below:
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Extract OPTION_VPPI.sql
Copy (and replace) it in \VP Promo Icons (v 1.6)\sql\
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Savegame compatible

 

[ryanmusante]

VP (v 9-15) + Promotion Flags EUI (v 1.1) + VP Promo Icons (v 1.6)

*also using Texture Enhancement MOD*

promo1.png=Trailblazer I (incorrect icon?)
promo2.png=Survivalism I+Survivalism II (correct)
promo3.png=Woods Walkers (incorrect icon?)

This is early game teted with the latest patch and promo icons. Anyone else use this combo can report in? I will post later eras with more units combined onscreen to see what the effects are later.

 

[JNZS13]

VP (v 9-15) + Promotion Flags EUI (v 1.1) + VP Promo Icons (v 1.6)

*also using Texture Enhancement MOD*

promo1.png=Trailblazer I (incorrect icon?)
promo2.png=Survivalism I+Survivalism II (correct)
promo3.png=Woods Walkers (incorrect icon?)

This is early game teted with the latest patch and promo icons. Anyone else use this combo can report in? I will post later eras with more units combined onscreen to see what the effects are later.

Yeah, i have this issue to.

VP 9-15 / VPPI v1.6 plus the sql update file.

 

[hokath]

Just loaded this mod for the first time and just wanted to drop-by and say that it's bloody beautiful!

 

[Asterix Rage]

VPPI v1.7

With new icons for Swift Strike I-III

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/vp-promo-icons.26929/