01-10-2003 22:33									#1
	Unit Shields Full PM-box? Change here!

This is probably utterly useless, but anyhow

Did anyone know that it's possible to change the civ2 unit shield size and shape? I was messing with a units file and noticed that if you change the red area of the shield sillhouette in the top right-hand corner of units.bmp, it has a corresponding effect in-game.

This is the standard shape:

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	01-10-2003 22:39									#2
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...and here's an edited one. Seems you can have any size or shape you want, as long as it's the same size or smaller than the green boundary delineation. If you remove all the red area you are left with the health-bar only.

Possible uses: erm... now you've got me. I suppose you can have rectangular national flags without the bottom of the civ-colour shield sticking out underneath, or how about Samurai-style narrow rectangular shields. OK, this discovery has absolutely no practical value whatsoever

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	01-10-2003 23:38									#3
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quote: OK, this discovery has absolutely no practical value whatsoever

But it's a very interesting discovery fairline

	02-10-2003 00:14									#4
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Well this information can be usefull in some situation... you never know...

	02-10-2003 00:45									#5
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I think somebody else already discovered this; there's a sci-fi units pack out there that includes "Star Trek" shields in the shape of that weird logo that looks like a mutant caret.

Not that you haven't done some very clever innovating, you're just not technically the first to do it.

	02-10-2003 01:07									#6
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Amazing! You think you know everything there is to know about something, and there it is, right under your nose. Good work, Fairline!

	02-10-2003 01:57									#7
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I was fairly certain that this was common knowledge but just not useful?

	02-10-2003 03:30									#8
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I guess nothing's new in civ really. Your right about it being useless as well

	02-10-2003 04:38									#9
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Well, if that makes you happy the unit that is depicted in your screenshots is really cool!

	02-10-2003 07:19									#10
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This was used in my The Little Big Ice Age That Could SDC4 entry.

	02-10-2003 08:00									#11
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If tried fiddling around with this for 'Appeasement and Agression', but it came to nothing. I was trying to add a wargame style XX to each shield to denote that the unit represented a division. However, the results looked awful Boco tried something similiar in ToT and it also didn't work out satisfactorarly. It's a shame though, as it's a potentially very cool feature.

	03-10-2003 02:44									#12
	Full PM-box? Change here!

I played with it a little more and kinda liked the result in ToT. Of course there's no accounting for my taste. Background contrast is important.

Sadly, this is the most I've done with El Aurens for over 3 weeks.

Plz note the GB. The unit represents the Armenian Legion.

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	04-10-2003 15:12									#13
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what does that GP stand for? doesn't it make the game crash because there's light pink where there should be dark magenta only?

	04-10-2003 15:32									#14
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It's 'GB' and it stands for Gareth Birch. And no, it doesn't make the game crash; both the pink and purple colours are set to be transparent. Microprose used them to show where the unit base square would be in-game.

	04-10-2003 15:52									#15
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I figured that much. OK then, must have mixed it up with an actual unit colour crossing the usual border of pink and purple. in that case, the game does crash.

	04-10-2003 16:54									#16
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Nope - anything below the unit base just doesn't get shown in-game.

	04-10-2003 17:48									#17
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oh, please, at least in earlier versions my game did crash if there as only one pixel of the wrong colour below the unit base

	05-10-2003 05:36									#18
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quote: Originally posted by fairline Nope - anything below the unit base just doesn't get shown in-game.

It doesn't get shown on the game map, but it is visible in the menus and dialogue boxes. Never experienced crashes, though.

	05-10-2003 10:50									#19
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Civ 2 used to crash for me when I edited the units files with MS paint in Windows 95.

	05-10-2003 11:30									#20
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My Civ only crashes when I have made a boo-boo in the text files.

Usually something massive like a missing comma!

	05-10-2003 12:04									#21
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I was referring to Ecthelion's comment. Yeah, Curt, I've also had crashes caused by typos in text files - I remember us discussing this before.

Edit: MS Paint is awful for game graphics. Case, it probably screwed your Civ2 palette.

Last edited by Catfish on 05-10-2003 at 12:38