Creating Animated ToT units Possible?

[Broken_Erika]

Is it?

[Harry Tuttle]

Yes, but it's about as easy as creating animated Civ3 units.

[techumseh]

There are lots of those though, Harry, and no ToT ones. I wonder if there's a big difference in the format, or if Civ3 anims can be converted to ToT format easily. I think Merc answered this at one time, but I can't recall.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by techumseh
There are lots of those though, Harry, and no ToT ones. I wonder if there's a big difference in the format, or if Civ3 anims can be converted to ToT format easily. I think Merc answered this at one time, but I can't recall.

I think there is a size difference and as I remember it, Civ3 units have more frames in the animation. Of course you could resize and insert by hand if you really want to.

[Broken_Erika]

what about simple animations, like 8 different views of an unit, so that it faces whatever direction it is going, no need for any other types of animation.

[Boco]

B_E, that's something that's been overlooked to date. If I understand the Static.spr correctly, it's not beyond the skills of our better artists, although it'd greatly increase the demand on their time.

[Broken_Erika]

draw 8 views of a unit and fill up all the animation frames with them, no need for special idiling or attacking animations, just basic animations, if i knew how, i might experiment with nemo unit, mabe add simple flames to the vehicles or have the infantry fall over when they die, basicly crude at best.

[rmsharpe]

I personally don't care for the eight views, it's very disorienting.

[Broken_Erika]

how about 4 views, facing topleft, facing topright, facing bottomleft, facing bottomright,