24-07-1999 16:33									#1
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I seem to be just about the only person making unit graphics these days- is there anyone else? If there is, I wanted to post here what I've been working on to avoid possible redundacy-of-effort issues.

I have already made 5 facing graphics for the following units:

WW2 themed (for my planned WW2 Europe scenario):
King Tiger tank
KV-1 tank
T-34 76 tank
Churchill tank
88 gun
Bismarck battleship

For my planned all purpose modpack:
Galleon
Horse Archer
Catapult
Elephant
Longbowman

I will be making many more in the coming days (I'm able to make them fairly quickly because I'm only editing graphics that come from other sources). Right now I am only making the units and not the text files to make them work in the game. That will come later. But if anyone wants to use these in their own modpacks, I will happy to provide them on request.

Harlan

P.S.- You should see my Galleon- I'm extremely happy with it!

	25-07-1999 00:22									#2
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Harlan
Would appreciate receiving any of your spites. Must admit I'm more interested in scenarios with no wonders or 'funnies'. Its simply unreal. I like the system as a straight 'who can use what when type game'.

Can you see my profile or do I have to send any thing to you?.

	26-07-1999 16:57									#3
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Update to the update.

This weekend was quite a fruitful time for me on CTP stuff. I now have finished the following units, with five views a piece:

WW2 related:
King Tiger tank
KV-1 tank
T-34 76 tank
Churchill tank
88 gun
Anti Aircraft gun
Howitzer gun
Spitfire fighter
Mustang fighter (P-51)
Flying Fortress bomber (B-17)
Destroyer
Cruiser
Battleship (Bismarck)
U-boat
Transport (liberty ship)
Landing Craft

General modpack:
Galleon
Horse Archer
Catapult
Elephant
Longbowman

Generally I was focusing on WW2, but most of those graphics could fit into modpacks for the era as a whole. With that era I'm attempting to show true size between units, so one can compare and see which things were bigger in real life. Of course this is only true within the categories of air, naval, ground and ground people. As an example, the Battleship is bigger than the Cruiser which is bigger than the Destroyer which is bigger than the Landing Craft. That's why I didn't use CTP's existing graphics for the Battleship and Destroyer, which are pretty piss distorted anyways.

DOGFISH and I have scoured the internet to find five-view images of things. While looking for units, we came across other useful graphics, so we're gonna put together a collection of improvement and wonder images that are in the CTP artwork style. These are all one view images only, since that's all one needs for these. They will all be made into one frame avi files so CTP can accept them. A partial list of the wonders, to give you a sense of what this contains:

Arc de Triumphe
Big Ben
Brandenburg Gate
Dome of the Rock
Eiffel Tower
Empire State Building
Golden Gate Bridge
Great Wall
Hanging Gardens
Kaaba
Liberty Bell
Lighthouse
Mt. Rushmore
Notre Dame
Parthenon
Pentagon
Pyramids
St Basils Cathedral
Statue of Liberty
St Peters Bascilica (Vatican)
UN building
US Capitol
World Trade Center

With the 2nd patch coming soon, start planning your scenarios. You should have plenty of graphics to work from.

Morgoth, to reply to your query, you'll have to wait a bit on the sprites. DOGFISH is gonna give them a bit of polish (the necessary great library pic, the pic for the production menu, etc) and then they'll be ready for public consumption. I have your e-mail address. I'm curious though what you mean, you don't like wonders or "funnies". What are funnies, and what's wrong with wonders?

	27-07-1999 00:56									#4
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Harlan
I just find the concept of wonders really strange. I prefer just to have the various building options available to everyone. The funies I refer to are the units like the lawyer. I just prefer normal units. I guess I'm just old fashioned!