Civ3 fansite kit

[FrostyBoy]

I've taken the sky out of the tower of bable and fixed up the lighting a bit (looks better in my opinion)

If you want it, let me know, its in psd or jpg if u want, also I can edit more if anyone wants anything done

[Skanky Burns]

Yay! Im getting the Kit at the terrific speed of 558 bytes per second! By this time next year, it will be finished, and i too can look at all these wonderour things. Dont you just 56k modems??

[Akron]

It took me about 6 minutes to download on cable. Usually, I get transfer rates around 200kb/s+, but the civ3 server was going at about 20kb/s for me.

[Jaybe]

Re: AEGIS, Shmaegis

Originally posted by Jaybe
Yikes! I do NOT like the looks of that AEGIS Cruiser. Looks more like a patrol boat to me (an oversize WW2 PT boat).

Here's how they really look:

[Skanky Burns]

Smart a$$ cable owners
Im up to 695 bytes/second, and 45% complete.
Jaybe, could you post the Civ 3 picture of the AEGIS Crusier so we could compare them? Something to tide me over until the Kit is downloaded (so you have about a day ) please

[SerapisIV]

Re: Re: AEGIS, Shmaegis

Originally posted by Jaybe
Here's how they really look:

Agreed, but I wouldn't worry too much, it's not the actual unit icon, probably just the build icon like in SMAC or on an RTS toolbar. They got the AEGIS styling right in Civ2, I don't think they'd take a step backwards in Civ3. They even upgraded the ironclad to be more like the Monitor.

[FrostyBoy]

lol, sorry to say this serapis, but those pics are THE actualy gameplay units, also, try to remember why they are not so detailed: the units are going to be resized down to a point where you can get only so many objects out of a few pixels.

Also remember that these images are at least 3 times the size of the size they will be in the game. And remember that we are looking at the ship from a different angle, we won't be looking at this ship from this angle in the game.

[FrostyBoy]

acutal size aegis

[SerapisIV]

Originally posted by Sn00py
lol, sorry to say this serapis, but those pics are THE actualy gameplay units, also, try to remember why they are not so detailed: the units are going to be resized down to a point where you can get only so many objects out of a few pixels.

I don't think so, the game is on an isometric map. When would you be able to look at the Aegis from below its waterline? That's not the in-game unit. You can't see the stern, only the bow, yet every screenshot that includes ships shows the entire profile from bow to stern. It's an icon, not the unit.

[JellyDonut]

Just downloaded the thing! Took me 6 tries and the one that did download took an hour and ten minutes!

Serapis: I think the graphics team took the image in the 3D editor, zoomed in on it and got it from a different angle. It takes about 3 clicks to do that in a standard editor.

EDIT: Did anybody else notice the Babylonian archer animations are screwed up or is it just my computer?

[FrostyBoy]

serap:

you did not notice I said this did you? =o)

"And remember that we are looking at the ship from a different angle, we won't be looking at this ship from this angle in the game."


I did not know elvis could be respelt has lives, oh and I couldn't give two rats arses if he was alive or dead - offtopic

[FrostyBoy]

Oh another thing, serap, I should explain myself

and I think you know this, but..

all the units are done in a 3d program, they will do all their editing and drawing at a large scale, then when they're happy with it, they will shrink it down and export it as a animated file.

So what you are seeing here with these images, is just a different angle view from within the 3d program. but they are the actual unit too =o)

[Sarxis]

"Mommy, can I have an AEGIS cruiser for Christmas?"

"Not this year dear, Daddy lost some money in the stockmarket. You'll have to settle for a PT boat."

lol I kill me!

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Sn00py
acutal size aegis

Thank you SnOOpy, for posting the 'patrol boat' pic for Shanky. I had gotten back to a Civ2 game.
I DO hope they change it before they go Gold, because I would hate to have to use that boat.

Or maybe I'll just have such an exciting time figuring out how to get that far into the game that they update the game before I need it!

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by JellyDonut
Just downloaded the thing! Took me 6 tries and the one that did download took an hour and ten minutes!

Thank God download last only 5 minutes and 20" on a broad band (fiber optic) I have at work.

Some nice image (marine, Mech infantry) I never saw before.

About the Aegis Cruiser debate, I agree that the 3D modeling of complex units as the Aegis make more difficult to see fine details (a flat image can be detailed a bit more), and given the scale any detail can make the difference.