RED FRONT ToT REDUX

[Arthedain]

Gratz to the excellent work boys! Been looking forward to this one..

[curtsibling]

Fairline, I stupidly did not include the correct wcities!

I have sent you a new zip with the proper file.

Sorry for that, dude!

[fairline]

No worries C, I've updated the main zip in the first post with the correct winter cities. For pople who don't want to DL thewhole thing again, here they are on their own:

[Blue Lion]

These new graphics, especially the units are looking great.

Am I allowed to use these unit graphics for experimenting how to give such kind of units an additional combat and death animation for Civ 2 ToT?

[McMonkey]

Excuse my ignorance. In post #1 you say " unrar the units graphics". How do I convert a .rar file?

[Blue Lion]

Originally posted by McMonkey
Excuse my ignorance. In post #1 you say " unrar the units graphics". How do I convert a .rar file?

Winrar is a compression program like winzip. If you decompress the rar-file with winrar (=unrar), you get a 16,4 MB folder containing high class bmp and and gif graphics and some other files.

[curtsibling]

Cheers, Blue Lion!

McMonkey, just DL the file into a Red Front folder in your ToT directory.

Then right-click and select 'extract here'...Then you are done!

[Eivind IV]

Great job, guys. Can't wait to try it out (just found my TOT disc)!

[techumseh]

Hats off, gentlemen! You've brought a classic back to life.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Blue Lion
Winrar is a compression program like winzip. If you decompress the rar-file with winrar (=unrar), you get a 16,4 MB folder containing high class bmp and and gif graphics and some other files.

I'd recommend 7-Zip instead. It can handle both Zip and Rar (among others). And it is free, open source software in contrast with WinZip and WinRar which are both shareware.

[McMonkey]

Thanks Merc. I could not get Winrar to work properly but 7-zip worked first time. Now I can enjoy a game of Red Front. This will be the first time I have played it!!!

Love the new units, especially the Finnish and Romanian summer Infantry, the Russian MG and the excellent Bulldozer

[curtsibling]

I totally prefer Winzip - Original and the best.

Bought my version in 1997 - Never had to worry about it again.

[Blue Lion]

Originally posted by Mercator


I'd recommend 7-Zip instead. It can handle both Zip and Rar (among others). And it is free, open source software in contrast with WinZip and WinRar which are both shareware.

Thanks about the hint for 7-zip.

[MacGalleo]

I have a problem with the immobile units graphics (mines, staline line...) when I Zoom (ctrl Z) these units disappear...
Does anybody know why?

[fairline]

Yes, it's an inherrent problem with using spritegen to shift unit health bar upwards out of screenview. If there's enough demand, I can make a second set of sprites to use zoomed-in; unfortunately the player will have to choose between normal zoom (shift-z) and zoomed-in view (cntrl-z), or continually change sprites.