Work in progess and Previews

[ShiroKobbure]

And what about the quasi-finished state of many of your prior releases?

I finish or work on things when I am in the mood to. When I don't feel like working on one, or all of them I don't. Since this is a hobby and not a job.

Weren't you working on an ancient Korea pack or is that separate from this?

Yes this is totally seperate from the Korean pack, after I finish I plan to work on the Bronze age Koreans

Not trying to be pushy, but how soon can we expect this? Again, not trying to be pushy.

Not at all, I said earlier I hope to finish it this week or the next. But I am not sure if this is too optomistic.
I hope to add some of your units to my never ending mod. I hope you can get a real copy of Poser.

Someone got all 3 correct already? Did someone have some inside information?

Yes I was supprised, there may be some spyware on my PC haha

I'm looking forward to it, whatever it is. Btw, could you please, please fix the Japanese Archer's attack animation while you're at it?

Thanks!

Yeah, sorry. I wanted to add it with the next Ancient Japanese unit pack. But I am not sure when that will be, so I will try to remember to rerender the attack animation and just upload it to night

 

[nick0515]

Go on, you gotta let us know if someone guessed correctly. Otherwise what was the point of guessing? I'm so excited now. Three packs in one go. I don't care what civs they are as I'm sure they'll be great units and fill useful gaps whatever they are!

You could just give us a hint and we can guess who guessed right based on the hint. Does that make sense? Anyway, back to boring old work...

Cheers,

Nick

 

[ShiroKobbure]

Bad news, my PC wont turn on... I dont know what the problem is. But hopefully whatever the problem is, my files are safe

 

[nick0515]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

Fingers crossed it's nothing serious! I'll cry if all your work is lost.

Cheers,

Nick

 

[The Guardian]

Bad news, my PC wont turn on... I dont know what the problem is. But hopefully whatever the problem is, my files are safe

Sry to hear that Shiro. But don't lose hope. Even if the computer is kaput. KEEP THAT DRIVE INTACT. If you need to rebuild the machine, or reformat the drive . . . I recommend that you buy another drive 1st. ( they relatively cheap) Install all your software ( OS, programs etc including Civilization program) Then install your current drive as an external USB drive. Even if the OS is completely inoperable, you will still be able to recover your data providing the partition is intact.

For future reference and for the benefit of others, what I have done is added 2 300Gig external USB drives to my system. One of those drives I use exclusively to backup and store all my civ files and civ data including graphics archives. These drives are only about $100.00 each and may be even cheaper on Ebay or some other supplier. Believe me, that is cheap compared to the number of hours I have put into doing this work. Should a catastrophy occur, I literally be back up and running in just a few hours.

Hope everything works out for the best Shiro, good luck.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

My computer has three hard drives. All the poser files were on the main drive, and the rendered images were on one of the backups, so worst case I think most of the finished units should be fine. However if the main one is totally broken, I would not be able to fix any of them... which would be bad because I already wanted to edit one of the units.

Right now I think the problem is the motherboard, so all the files should be intact...

 

[The Guardian]

My computer has three hard drives. All the poser files were on the main drive, and the rendered images were on one of the backups, so worst case I think most of the finished units should be fine. However if the main one is totally broken, I would not be able to fix any of them... which would be bad because I already wanted to edit one of the units.

Right now I think the problem is the motherboard, so all the files should be intact...

I hope your correct. But even if it is the HD, get a boot disk and see if you can read the HD. If that is the case, and you can read the HD, get another drive and transfer the applicable files to another drive BEFORE you try reformating the original. I would hate to see you lose all that work.

 

[Madeira]

What are the symptoms Shiro? Doesnt power on at all? No leds light up, nothing? if thats the case then yea could be MB or power unit, but if it turns on but doesnt boot up, no image, then could be RAMs or VGA or even other components.

 

[ShiroKobbure]

What are the symptoms Shiro? Doesnt power on at all? No leds light up, nothing? if thats the case then yea could be MB or power unit, but if it turns on but doesnt boot up, no image, then could be RAMs or VGA or even other components.

The light on the motherboard goes on. But that's about it. I think there is something wrong with the PCIe slot. Because I bought a bad videocard which was falling apart after screwing it in. I'm not sure.
But I plan to just buy a new motherboard and CPU next month.

Anyways. I still really feel like working on Civ 3 so now I am using my laptop. I think I will try to finish my Japanese pack on it.
Meet the Kamakura era Swordsman, I hope someone will be kind enough to give him a home.

I also found some units on my laptop that I forgot I did. I will preview them later this weekend.

 

[Steph]

After you finish the medieval era, I will probably add Japan to my mod.

 

[Madeira]

Cool Shiro, hope you get your PC working soon then.
Great-looking Samurai, will be nice to replace the Firaxis units

Must find some time to work on my mod this weekend, still a lot of work to do before I get to the Oriental civs.

 

[Steph]

Do you plan to add cavalry for Japan?

 

[The Guardian]

Nice swordsman Shiro. Can't wait to see the rest.

 

[tom2050]

Looks terrific! What will the forgotten laptop units end up being?

 

[ShiroKobbure]

Do you plan to add cavalry for Japan?

Right now I think it will be:

Japan Pack II

Jomon:
Jomon Axeman

Yamataikoku:
Yamataikoku Archer

Kamakura:
Swordsman
Archer
Stone Crossbowman
Spearman
Ashigaru

Muromachi:
Swordsman (ōdachi)
Clubman (kanab&#333
Archer
Spearman
Ashigaru
Musketman
Kensei

Edo
Swordsman
Musketman
Spearman

Bonus:
Sohei
Yamabushi
Female warrior

Japan Pack III
Yayoi Chariot
Kofun Horse Archer
Kofun Horse Spearman
Nara Horse Archer
Nara Horse Spearman

Kamakura Horse Archer
Kamakura Horse Spearman
Muromachi Horse Archer
Muromachi Horse Spearman
Edo Horse Pistolman
Edo Horse Spearman

Japan Pack IV
Non Yamato Japanese


Something like that

 

[georgestow]

Right now I think it will be:

Japan Pack II

Jomon:
Jomon Axeman

Yamataikoku:
Yamataikoku Archer

Kamakura:
Swordsman
Archer
Stone Crossbowman
Spearman
Ashigaru

Muromachi:
Swordsman (ōdachi)
Clubman (kanab&#333
Archer
Spearman
Ashigaru
Musketman
Kensei

Edo
Swordsman
Musketman
Spearman

Bonus:
Sohei
Yamabushi
Female warrior

Japan Pack III
Yayoi Chariot
Kofun Horse Archer
Kofun Horse Spearman
Nara Horse Archer
Nara Horse Spearman

Kamakura Horse Archer
Kamakura Horse Spearman
Muromachi Horse Archer
Muromachi Horse Spearman
Edo Horse Pistolman
Edo Horse Spearman

Japan Pack IV
Non Yamato Japanese


Something like that

Life is good.

 

[Steph]

Good list

 

[ShiroKobbure]

Now whenever I open the Kamakura file poser crashes and says "poser executable file has stopped working"....

 

[Madeira]

Ouch! Did it work on the pc?

 

[ShiroKobbure]

Here are those units I was talking about:

Habiru Clansman, Judean Swordsman and Judean Slinger

Spoiler :

I am not sure how much I will expand on this line. But I want to do an Asiatic Archer, Habiru Swordsman, Samarian Spearman, Khazar Crusader