28-11-2004 17:05									#61
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Erwan is one of those legends like Nemo that are now hard to find, having left an awesome body of work.

I am sure he is on this site somewhere, not sure if his mail or PM is working, though...

	28-11-2004 20:45									#62
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Actually, I don't think he ever was a member here. I think it was me who "discovered" him (it must've been in 1999) when I found his website once, with his units and other non-civ2 artwork on it, and I posted about it on here.

He probably had contact with plenty of people by e-mail after that, but then somewhere in 2001 (according to the wayback machine), his site disappeared.



...

Holy crap!! I think I just found his new site. I typed Antark (one of the fictional worlds he made drawings for) and Erwan into Google and this is what it came up with:
http://elexdaan.free.fr

It no longer has any Civ2 on it, and it's just in French, but I'm pretty sure it's him. There's an e-mail address on it too.

(edit: of course, that could be defunct now as well too, I don't know how old this newer site is)

	29-11-2004 00:52									#63
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Thanks for the info Mercator.

I'll mail him straight away. If this really is "the Erwan" it would be excellent news because he's one of the few old Civ2 greats I haven't been able to contact yet.

Hope this email is still active...

	29-11-2004 01:14									#64
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The email adress gives a delivery error

But I do have more clues about Erwan now...he's (still?) studying arts at UNIVERSITÉ RENNES.

BTW. check out some of his comic artwork on the site, very good. No wonder the guy was so good at unit making that early on, he's a natural.

quote: Je m'appelle Erwan, j'habite a Rennes depuis quelques années maintenant et me suis lancé dans l'illustration après mes etudes à la faculté d'Arts Plastiques de Rennes. Je travaille en ce moment sur une bande dessinée dans le monde de Barr-Avel, planète des vents. Vous trouverez également des illustrations personnelles sur les mondes Atlantes et Antarks. Pour mieux me connaître, vous pouvez cliquer sur la galerie de photos qui se trouve sur cette page.

	29-11-2004 02:00									#65
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First Nemo surfaces, now Erwan

Anyone know the whereabouts of Harlan and Mr Temba?

	29-11-2004 02:14									#66
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Harlan I contacted a long time (2 years) ago about using his LotR work for Freeciv. It was a bit of luck because on some occasions he checks his old email accounts.

I regret not asking Harlan's new email adres now.

I'll try and find some way to contact Erwan (and Harlan while I'm at it).

So who do we have left of the old guard?

	29-11-2004 14:54									#67
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well there used to be this 'tribute to Mr Temba' site kept by one of his fans who managed to keep in contact with him somehow. It had all his scenarios collected in one place. I haven't been there is two years so I don't kow if its still around.

	29-11-2004 19:12									#68
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK But I do have more clues about Erwan now...he's (still?) studying arts at UNIVERSITÉ RENNES.

I don't think he is, if my French is any good. He graduated and is now working on a comic, I think it says.

quote: Originally posted by fairline First Nemo surfaces, now Erwan

Well, not quite yet...

	29-11-2004 23:29									#69
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Just out of interest, Merc and Kobayashi, as you 2 have been around since time imemmorial , who was the first guy to make a civ scenario?

	30-11-2004 03:01									#70
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That truck design (almost finished!) got me inspired to also do a camel. I found one based on Alex's and GlukGluk and here's the result.

In appropriate setting...

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	30-11-2004 11:27									#71
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What do the city tiles look like? Do you need any?

	30-11-2004 23:21									#72
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quote: Originally posted by fairline Just out of interest, Merc and Kobayashi, as you 2 have been around since time imemmorial , who was the first guy to make a civ scenario?

Now there's a question... I have no idea. I've only been around looking for Civ2 on the Internet since 1998. In fact, I bought Civ2 in October 1997 along with CiC (I had an illegal copy from a friend for 6 months before that ). So the oldest scenarios I know are those "bestonet" scenarios.

	01-12-2004 00:41									#73
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley What do the city tiles look like? Do you need any?

If you have a nice collection of city tiles, please do!

Remember, if's going to be distributed with Freeciv it must be done under the GPL. So you must be sure the authors have given permission for their work to be used.


The vintage "isotrident" tileset looks like this. The Hires is a little better. Big advantage is that you can include city styles in the file. See the next post for details.

	01-12-2004 00:52									#74
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And this is the Hires tileset. The great thing is you can simply make this file longer and add more city styles at the end. Line-by-line. The style a nation uses is defined in the nation's ruleset. In principal each and every nation can have its own city style. Although it's easier to have a few generic ones.

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	01-12-2004 01:02									#75
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator Now there's a question... I have no idea. I've only been around looking for Civ2 on the Internet since 1998. In fact, I bought Civ2 in October 1997 along with CiC (I had an illegal copy from a friend for 6 months before that ). So the oldest scenarios I know are those "bestonet" scenarios.

Bought it the moment it came out. Way back in April '96. I still have the receipt

Even back then those "bestonet" weren't so good. In fact most of them weren't the "best" at all. The only decent one I remember was a fanmade WW2 Pacific scenario "East, Wind, Rain". No extra units or such but I played that to my hearts content because you could also try the Dutch.

	01-12-2004 03:32									#76
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Ok we're nearing the tophalf. From now on I could use some helping hands or/and critique on what units should be included. The point is to make a clear and consistent tileset for an average player or one that is new to civ in general. Meaning that you would recognize a unit instantly and be pleasing to the eye.

Back to the units...

First up, my explorer. I'll probably choose the penguin for the "positive units" (trade, explore etc...) as comic relief (this is an open source game after all ). So Tux would appear on a camel, as an explorer and as a mascot on the truck.

This will also be my last Tux related character for this tileset. No more penguin jokes.

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	01-12-2004 12:06									#77
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Does anyone have a nice looking alpine unit?

	01-12-2004 13:09									#78
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Enjoy!
All work is mine, go ahead and GPL it.

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	02-12-2004 01:09									#79
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Excellent stuff Smiley!


P.S

I love the Art Deco Style.

	02-12-2004 03:41									#80
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Here's the next update, comments welcome.

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	02-12-2004 03:54									#81
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Nice, nice, just a few minor spots now:

The lettering on the side of the truck ought to be isometricized.
Some units need shadow
Is there a semi-isometric or full iso APC unit?

	02-12-2004 03:59									#82
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley Nice, nice, just a few minor spots now: The lettering on the side of the truck ought to be isometricized. Some units need shadow Is there a semi-isometric or full iso APC unit?

Fairline's Bradley?

	02-12-2004 04:10									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley Nice, nice, just a few minor spots now: The lettering on the side of the truck ought to be isometricized. Some units need shadow Is there a semi-isometric or full iso APC unit?

Shadows, got it.

I've tried making the letters isometric but then the quality of the lettering tends to suffer. At this resolution it's almost impossible to make them look decent.

Just try and imagine the letters are printed slightly tilted

	02-12-2004 04:12									#84
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I did find this one by Fairline (the MCV-80). Does he also have a Bradley?

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	02-12-2004 04:33									#85
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This was in the Modern Graphics forum:

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	02-12-2004 05:02									#86
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Try follow the link to fairline´s gfx forums at CDG (the link is in his sig )

	02-12-2004 14:19									#87
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Hi, I think have here mistake between HiRes from Tim F. Smith and R-Hires from Frederic Rodrigo.
Do you think it's still the time to pixel art ? Now it's time of SVG multi-resolution tiles set like Freeciv Worms! (http://www.msg.com.mx/~arturo/Projects/Freeciv-Worms/) or http://f.rodrigo.free.fr/art/freeciv/freeciv2.php

	02-12-2004 16:02									#88
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Also, check out these screenshots for a new tileset in works by yautja . It's made completely in blender and can be rendered at whatever size wanted.

Normal size

128x64
(note that the transitions between the tiles on this one is a resize of the smaller ones, they need to be re-rendered to look decent).

	03-12-2004 02:56									#89
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK Does anyone have a nice looking alpine unit?

I'm using this for the Finnish skier in Red Front ToT Redux.

He's drawn from scratch, so no worries about infingement of copyrights etc.

	03-12-2004 03:29									#90
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quote: Originally posted by f.rodrigo Do you think it's still the time to pixel art ? Now it's time of SVG

I think SVG and pixel art both have a place. In fact, I've been helping out Arturo with his worms tileset.

SVG offer a certain styles and abilities (like scaling) that you don't find with pixel art but the advantage of pixel art is that it's easier to draw and give graphics "character". It is amazing how a few pixels suddenly give you that "Yes! That's it!"-moment.

As for scaling, you can do that with pixel art as well. As long as you scale it in 2x, 3x etc... In fact it also gives you a chance to touch them up. Here's an example I made earlier: