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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:19
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We have a new 3D graphics artist in town: LStanley (see: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...750#post3413750). Let's figure out what we want him to do (and what he wants to do himself, of course). This is what I came up with in a few minutes:
1) A new Siege Tower unit or some other ancient siege warfare unit. This is needed for the Alexander the Great v1.5 scenario where currently AoE graphics are being used, which could cause some legal problems. I don't have any particular demands in this area, as long as it looks sufficiently different from the exsting (CtP2) Catapult.
2) Some kind of new or additional intro movie. It could be as little as just a static Apolyton logo or something like that, or it could be a completely new intro movie with everything on it. The latter would take a lot of time and effort of course, might not be the best way to spend LStanley energy.
3) Movie victory/defeat movies. Currently there is only 1 movie for each victory type and they are all set in the far future. It's a bit silly to see War Walkers and the like when you've won the game in 500 BC...
4) Personally I wouldn't mind revising the wonder list and add some new ones, but I'm not sure if everyone would be happy with such gameplay changes. If we were to decide to do such a thing, new movies would of course be required.
5) Maybe add a very new terrain types, like 'Forested Hill', 'Open Woodland', etc? Would probably require a bit of work in the code itself to incorporate in the game though...
So, what do others think about these things: are they good ideas, what should be changed, what should have priority? Also, what other ideas can be added to this list?
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Martin Gühmann
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Berlin, Germany
Mar 2001
time: 06:19
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Actual you need five images for one unit, forth, back, back-right (or back-left I don't know wich one you need), right and right-forth, the missing three directions are mirrored I don't know if the sprite format can contain images for all eight directions.
Each image has an tranperancy mask also called alpha channel and there are also shaddow images, if you work with the sprite make tool you can find in the Apolyton directory. I advice the download anyway to get familiar with the game's needs. However the raw images for the sprites can be bigger then the images nomally used, that can be adjusted in the given spritemaker script, but if I remember correctly the size is limited to 255x255 pixels. Sprite raw images are in tiff format (*.tif) 24bit uncompressed. These images are compiled by the spritemake tool to a sprite. There are sprites for goods, cities, units and special effects. And in addition the spritemake tool can create projectile sprite which aren't used in the game. To view compiled sprites you can use Martin's sprite editor.
The images for the Great Libary and the rest of the GUI are targa (*.tga) images 16 bit uncompressed.
Well another graphics request I have is a decent picture for the dye good which I grapped from a bad Civ3 prescreenshot, because of possible copy-right issures and also for a better graphic.
Another thing you should do is to explore the Apolyton directory to get some other tools to explore the CTP2 graphics, you need Martin's zfs-reader to explore the *.zfs files and his Tileedit to explore the *.til files which conatian the terrain graphics.
-Martin
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Locutus
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
time: 06:19
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It's looking very sweet 
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Originally posted by E
If you want to deal with tiles, I'd like help on taking care of the kelp tiles and maybe re-doing the tile-improvements, most of my stuff is from other gameas and maybe someday people would like to add my terrain graphics as part of the patch  |
Which reminds me, somewhere near the bottom of my to-do list is the item "re-code map generation". I have a basic algorithm already but need to code it in C++ (after I figured how the current system works, for one thing).
In my new model I need a new terrain type: a Trench which is only a single tile deep and goes from Shallow to Deep Water, as in CtP1 (see pic, green). The Big Mc did some nice work in this area for the default tile set, but his trench goes from Deep Water to Deep Water, which doesn't actually really exist anywhere on Earth AFAIK (from Deep to Very Deep Water does exist though, which would also be nice to have if The Big Mc's Very Deep Water tile is also incorporated).
It would also be nice to have a Continental Rift which actually looks a like a rift and not an underwater river or something, and it would be nice if it were also a bit more impressive than the current tile. CtP1's rift is already much better (see pic, orange) but Earth's rifts tend to be pretty big, so it might be good to design a Rift that stretches in width over 2 or even 3 tiles.
But that's pretty low on the priority list for now, it may be a while before I get around to doing all that coding...
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