Was there a total conversion mod to turn Civ4 to SMAC?

[Melhisedek]

Or at least part of it? I seem to recall there was one

 

[Anon Zytose]

Yes. It's called Planetfall.

 

[Melhisedek]

For someone who never played SMAC would you recommend this mod or game itself? Been hearing so much great stuff about it but am afraid that streched graphics on my widescreen TFT will put me off

 

[Sid]

Melhisedek: The original SMAC is wonderful. The Planetfall mod for Civ4BTS is beautiful, but not--for me--playable.

I've d/l Planetfall and patched it to 'F', but I don't get the proper user interface, just the map and the various models, so I can't recommend it as a game. It's nice to see much of the SMAC upgraded to 3D graphics, but I'm still playing the old game.

 

[Melhisedek]

Do you play with expansion or? Would you guys recommend me hunting down expansion? Found original

 

[Sid]

Do you play with expansion or? Would you guys recommend me hunting down expansion? Found original

I only play SMAC at the moment, but loved SMAX when I had both games on an Apple Mac. If you can find a SMAX for PC anywhere for less than US $50, let me know if there's a spare copy. I scour second-hand games shops in the remote hope that I'll find a pristine copy of the Planetary Pack.

 

[Maniac]

I've d/l Planetfall and patched it to 'F', but I don't get the proper user interface, just the map and the various models

That's obviously not supposed to happen. You must have made some mistake while installing. Could be a number of things. For instance, perhaps you had already installed some previous version of Planetfall, prior to v6. That causes issues. You should delete the old Planetfall folder when a new full version is released.

 

[Sid]

Thanks Maniac--I'll get around to fixing that when I next fire up the Desktop PC. I'm presently having too much fun playing SMAC on the laptop.

 

[Maniac]

Then make sure to check out SMAniaC.

Edit: Never mind. I see you don't have SMAX.

 

[Cmcastl]

I would love to continue playing the original SMAC but I found that you can't play it above a certain scale of size on later versions of MS; it would fall over. Has anyone fixed that since I last looked?

I am playing the Civ IV "Planetfall" which is okay but lacks something of the atmosphere of the original.

Live long and prosper.

 

[GooglyBoogly]

as far as I know the memory bound issues have not been fixed. But seriously, why play on such a large map anyway? - It's just asking for micromanagment tedium.

However, there is a new kid on the block - scient - who is currently in the process of fixing some bugs in SMACX, maybe you could give him a shout and point him to all the old threads regarding the limitations.

 

[Cmcastl]

Thanks for your response, GooglyBoogly. I don't feel the Civ IV Planetfall is quite as good, as atmospheric as the original - though I don't want to be "dog in the manger" in my attitude for I am grateful enough for it.

I hope Scient reads these threads and we hear from him.

Live long and prosper.

 

[vyeh]

This Apolyton thread is where scient has been most active.

He may be tracking this Civfanatics thread.