NonUnit Graphics Showcase

[Cyrion]

They are amazing, Curt!

I wonder how they would look in MPG...

[curtsibling]

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!

[curtsibling]

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!

[fairline]

Niiiice

[Leonidas]

The City-Meister strikes again.

Beautiful work, Curt

[curtsibling]

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!

[Sarsstock]

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

[Arthedain]

Excellent cities Curt!
I hope yo haven't forget my old request.

[Arthedain]

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..

[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...

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by curtsibling

Be my guest and convert them!

Thanks, I probably will!

[curtsibling]

Before I go to bed - Here is the Industrial city set...

[Arthedain]

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!

[curtsibling]

I will add a medieval/fantasy Arabian city set to that list for you!

[curtsibling]

Just to add another one, the Modern city set is done -
I plan to make some WW2 versions of this and the Industrial...