Animated Civ 2 ToT Units

[yaroslav]

I like it a lot

[Jerec]

Very, very nice. Combat animation, even if it's just explosions, is the thing I miss most in ToT.

[Boco]

Originally posted by Blue Lion
Boco, techumseh and yaroslav,
thank you all for your encouraging replies.

I occasionally go all out...Nice piece of junk you got there.

Originally posted by Blue Lion
This post focuses on one of the - in my eyes - most important themes, the partly animation of existing standard Civ 2 ToT non animated one-bitmap-unit-images.

Here is a kind of combat animation for a normally not animated T-34 tank of the reworked Red Front scenario.

What do you think about such a kind of animation?

Go for it! This makes a big impact for a relatively smaller effort.

[Blue Lion]

Here is the fully useable bowman sprite that replaces the in my eyes ugliest unit animation of the Civ2 ToT Original game, the archer. It is a transferred and massivly reworked unit from vanilla Civ 3.

Standard-zoom view on the static sprite:



Maximum-zoom view on the static sprite:



Here are the single animations:

a) The Bowman-run animation:



b) The Bowman-attack animation:



c) The Bowman-death animation:




d) The Bowman-fidget animation:



And here is a zip-file attached that replaces the Unit 04-Sprite and the static sprite for the Bowman-unit in the Civ2 TOT Original game. For those who want to try this unit themselves, please first make a backup copy of your static-sprite and the unit04-sprite and then simply unzip the zip-file in the folder with the Civ2 ToT Original game. The static sprite also supports the Legion and the Ironclad sprite.

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/21721_Bowman.zip

[yaroslav]

great

[techumseh]

That's brilliant!

[Jerec]

Great work. What's next?

[Blue Lion]

Thank you all for your kind words.

Jerec, here is the next unit:

It is the fully useable Infantry sprite that replaces the Alpine Troops unit animation of the Civ2 ToT Original game. It is the massively reworked British Rifleman unit from Civ 3 PTW Extras. So I had some problems with some of the death animations, I think this unit was really worth the working time.

Standard-zoom view on the static and fidget sprite:



Maximum-zoom view on the static and fidget sprite:



Here are the single animations:

a) The Infantry-run animation:



b) The Infantry-attack animation:



c) The Infantry-death animation:




d) The Infantry -fidget animation:



And here is a zip-file that replaces the Unit 10-Sprite and the static sprite of the Alpine Troops-unit in the Civ2 TOT Original game. For those who want to try this unit themselves, please first make a backup copy of your static-sprite and the unit10-sprite and then simply unzip the zip-file in the folder with the Civ2 ToT Original game. The static sprite also supports the Legion, the Ironclad and the Bowman sprite:

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/21721_Infantry.zip

[Jerec]

You're on a roll. How are those explosion animations going? I just had to ask...

[Blue Lion]

Originally posted by Jerec
How are those explosion animations going? I just had to ask...

These animations are not forgotten.

But here I show you all something nice :

[Broken_Erika]

nice indeed

[Jerec]

oooo...a mounted samurai!

[Blue Lion]

Yes, it is a mounted samurai and here is the unit. It replaces the knight unit animation of the Civ2 ToT Original game. It is the heavily reworked mounted samurai (Nakamaro Horseman) from Civ 3 PTW Extras\Medieval Japan. In my eyes this is my best unit conversion until now. It is fun to watch the horse galloping on a road, especially in the east-west (or reverse) direction. I think, with this unit it is demonstrated, that with CivSprite even working mounted units are possible for Civ2 ToT.

Standard-zoom view on the static and fidget sprite:



Maximum-zoom view on the static and fidget sprite:



Here are the single animations:

a) The Samurai-run animation:



b) The Samurai-attack animation:



c) The Samurai-death animation:




d) The Samurai-fidget animation:



And here is a zip-file attached that replaces the Unit 19-Sprite and the static sprite for the Samurai-unit in the Civ2 TOT Original game. For those who want to try this unit themselves, please first make a backup copy of your static-sprite and the unit19-sprite and then simply unzip the zip-file in the folder with the Civ2 ToT Original game. The static sprite also supports all other Civ 2 ToT unit sprites, that I have presented in this thread.

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/21721_Samurai.zip

[Blue Lion]

Here is another new Civ 2 ToT unit on the horizon:

Edited: Update



Edited again: The Sherman will still need some more time. Now the Churchill tank was finished first.

[Blue Lion]

Here is the British Churchill tank. It replaces the tank unit animation of the Civ2 ToT Original game. It is a heavily reworked unit from Civ 3 PTW Extras.

Standard-zoom view on the static and fidget sprite:



Maximum-zoom view on the static and fidget sprite:



Here are the single animations:

a) The Churchill-run animation:



b) The Churchill-attack animation:



c) The Churchill-death animation:




d) The Churchill-fidget animation:



And here is a zip-file attached that replaces the Unit 22-Sprite and the static sprite for the tank-unit in the Civ2 TOT Original game. For those who want to try this unit themselves, please first make a backup copy of your static-sprite and the unit 22-sprite and then simply unzip the zip-file in the folder with the Civ2 ToT Original game. The static sprite also supports all other Civ 2 ToT unit sprites, that I have presented in this thread.

http://apolyton.net/upload/view/21721_tank.zip