05-03-2005 02:34									#511
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Very interesting indeed! Good job.

	05-03-2005 15:33									#512
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CapTVK: Both of them look really good, allthough my personal favourite is the isometric one

	05-03-2005 21:04									#513
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK Well 2nd take on the polynesian, this time non-isometric. I'm starting to like that grinning Tiki god It's like he's almost smirking

cool,
ph33r the tiki god

	05-03-2005 23:09									#514
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Arthedain, I concur

	07-03-2005 08:18									#515
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Some Roman cities from a series of new graphics I have been working on...

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	07-03-2005 08:32									#516
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Very, very cool! Let's see the rest.

	07-03-2005 14:17									#517
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Now that's something that couldn't have been built in a day!

Series? Did I hear correctly?

	07-03-2005 17:14									#518
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Cheers guys!

I'll post more as I complete them!

	07-03-2005 19:48									#519
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That my friend, is the lovliest cities I've ever seen

	07-03-2005 20:16									#520
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The sharp-eyed among you may recognise elements from our arch rival civ game, CTP...

But with some heavy tweaks, the cities can make some nice additions to ToT!

Here is a Renaissance-type set - And feel free to use/edit them!

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	07-03-2005 20:17									#521
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Here is an Eastern city set too!

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	07-03-2005 20:54									#522
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Excellent work, Curt

	07-03-2005 21:02									#523
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My god Curt those cities are your best to date.... and when your talking about the work of Curt Sibling to say anything's his "best to date" thats saying quite a bit!!

I realize I've already asked for a Naultius unit from you Curt, but is there any chance I could persuade you to give me some tips on how to design cities like that? Do you use Photoshop? Do you have a generic set of buildings you start out with that are later colourized? Whats your secret for that amazing shading job?

	07-03-2005 21:12									#524
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I'm really amazed, honsetly. This is more than superb. Can't wait for the industrial and the medieval ones

	07-03-2005 21:18									#525
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I think you're gonna be the 'go-to' guy on cities.

	07-03-2005 21:18									#526
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They are amazing, Curt!

I wonder how they would look in MPG...

	07-03-2005 21:22									#527
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Many thanks, lads!



@Sarsstock:

I haven't forgot the Naultius, and I will deliver soon -

For all my CIV2 efforts, I use good old PSP 5!
I like to plunder my chaotic scratch pad and previous city sets for buildings/components.

*Bob Ross mode on*

I tend to begin with a simple terrain tile (plains/grassland)
and begin with one central building or a clump of them.

I find keeping the overall theme of the layout consistent
does help, and upgrading a certain building to the next size
helps to maintain a good 'look'...

The shading is done by creating a new layer and giving it the 'multiply' setting.
I put this setting to about 60% on the opacity slider,
and then carefully mask the areas to be shadow-covered.

What I do then is to select the spray can tool and set it to 2 pixel radius, and full flow.

Also, using a nice dark grey or brown is prettier than plain black.

I lightly sweep the mask areas (on the multiply layer) and create the shadows.

PS
Always make sure your shadows fall in the one direction!

PPS
I will follow up with the Bronze age and new Indy/Modern cities soon!

	07-03-2005 21:43									#528
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quote: Originally posted by Cyrion They are amazing, Curt! I wonder how they would look in MPG...

The coulors used do not differ much from MGE levels, so they might be OK....


Be my guest and convert them!

	07-03-2005 22:22									#529
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Niiiice

	07-03-2005 22:47									#530
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The City-Meister strikes again.

Beautiful work, Curt

	07-03-2005 22:49									#531
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Cheers, Leo and Fairline!



Here is the whole set, but with the placeholder Indy and Modern cities...I will add the new ones soon.

These will work in MGE, probably -
But are intended to replace the surreal default cities in ToT.

You should resave as a bitmap and save in your ToT 'original' folder...

PS
Backup the default file!

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	07-03-2005 23:00									#532
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Curt my friend this new magnificent default cities.png is B - E - A - UFITUL. Thank you very much for the advice, I'm sure it'll take time however to nail down the proper technique to produce graphics of that calibre.

Also, those new flags put anything I've ever done to shame man! Well done indeed

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	07-03-2005 23:26									#533
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Excellent cities Curt!
I hope yo haven't forget my old request.

	07-03-2005 23:27									#534
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Btw, can we get a medieval and bronze/classical city style too that matches those to replace the cities.gif? Oh yeah, a modern too.

When you've got the time of course..

	07-03-2005 23:45									#535
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What was that request again...?

I will get to work on the new cities soon,
I want to replace the Medieval set, as well as the Modern/Industrial...

	08-03-2005 02:38									#536
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quote: Originally posted by curtsibling Be my guest and convert them!

Thanks, I probably will!

	08-03-2005 07:00									#537
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Before I go to bed - Here is the Industrial city set...

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	08-03-2005 14:33									#538
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quote: Originally posted by curtsibling What was that request again...? I will get to work on the new cities soon, I want to replace the Medieval set, as well as the Modern/Industrial...

It was a Southron/Haradrim city style.

Looking forwar dto the modern and medieval city set, the industrial (and the others) rocked!

	08-03-2005 15:08									#539
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I will add a medieval/fantasy Arabian city set to that list for you!

	08-03-2005 20:23									#540
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Just to add another one, the Modern city set is done -
I plan to make some WW2 versions of this and the Industrial...

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