Tons of new graphics coming soon

[Harlan]

Right now I'm taking a short break from improving my scenario to make some new graphics. Various people are making new mods, and I'd like to encourage that by having the proper wonder, building, and tech graphics. Basically I'm stealing from other sources, and converting. Its quite easily, and in less than 24 hours I've already got dozens of each. I'll post them in a modpack really soon.

If anyone has any requests for any of the above, now is the time to let me know, cos I'll soon be going back to the scenario.

[Alpha Wolf]

YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

if you run across a davy crockett type that would be cool. And a seige tower.

Thanks.

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History is written by the victor.

[Diodorus Sicilus]

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy...
Requests:
Sprites/animations:
1. Unit graphic for a Light Chariot, carrying a javelin-thrower or archer
2. Unit graphic for a 19th century rifleman.
Still pics:
1. Public Works-type graphic for:
Castle - to provide a new Defensive PW for Medieval period
Cattle - for an early alternative to Agriculture and farms
2. City Graphic for:
Vauban - style star fort-rampart defenses for a Renaissance - early modern alternative to City Walls

[heardie]

Good Work Harlan.

I can't think of anything, but I may edit this when I get started on my Water World Scenario.

[heardie]

Good Work Harlan.

I can't think of anything, but I may edit this when I get started on my Water World Scenario.

[Harlan]

I should make clear, these are only graphics for techs, wonders and buildings. Those are easy to make- just take a regular picture and resize it, save it in the right format (no way in heck I could do wonder movies).

The other stuff is much harder, and PW changes currently impossible. Here's a list of all the ones I have done so far.

Buildings (the building graphic covers the entire space in the Great Library, like wonders do. This means the current ones need to be replaced to be consistent. The end result should be much more visually appealing):

Anti Ballistic Missile
Academy
Agora
Airport
Aquaduct
Aquaduct2
Arena
Ballista Towers
Barracks
Battlements
Battlements2
Capitalization
Capitalization2
Capitol
Capitol2
Cathedral
Church
City Walls
Dam
Dockyards
Factory
Food Silo
Forcefield
Forge
Granary
Gymnasium
Harbor
Lab
Library
Marketplace
Marketplace2
Modern Factory
Museum
Nuclear Plant
Nuclear Plant2
Offshore Platform
Oil Refinery
Pagoda
Police Station
Prison
Public Baths
Public Transport
Recycling Plant
School
Shrine
Skyscraper
Solar Plant
Superhighway
Supermarket
Temple
Theater
University
Ziggurat

[Harlan]

Then, these are the techs (the techs use the same backgrounds as CTP2 does):

Alphabet
Astrolabe
Chronometer
Domestication
Engineering
Gear Cutting Machinery
Microchip
Mining
Photography
Pottery
Steel
Stirrup
Superconductor
The Vacuum (the concept, not the cleaner! )
Zero G Industry

As you can see, there are far fewer techs than the other categories. That's cos I have fewer sources for them. I'm trying to maintain a high level of quality, most having a computer rendered or at least very sharp appearance. So at lot are converted CTP1 graphics (almost all the techs are), plus I've been stealing from great Civ2:TOT graphics, and the zillions of graphics collected over the years for making Civ2 scenarios, and still lying in my hard drive.

The choices were dictated mostly by what I had a graphic for. Soon I'll be done cos I'll have run out of raw material to work from.


[This message has been edited by Harlan (edited December 28, 2000).]

[Alpha Wolf]

Got anything that I could use for a TVA wonder? Or Hoover dam, altho in practicality, I think the TVA was more important altho Hoover was the bigger accomplishment.

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History is written by the victor.

[skorpion59]

Pics are being posted in the Harlan's New Graphics thread.

[This message has been edited by skorpion59 (edited December 28, 2000).]

[hexagonian]

Looks great - Make sure you put in the readme file instructions for the various files we need to change in order to use them correctly.

[Harlan]

oops
[This message has been edited by Harlan (edited December 30, 2000).]

[Harlan]

The wonders portion of my graphics changes is done, and already available at Wes' website (apolyton.net/wes). Markos, when are you going to have a CTP2 downloads section available?

However, I forgot to include the readme in there. Wes will add it in soon, but meanwhile here it is.

WONDERS GRAPHICS FOR CTP2 VERSION 1.0

by Harlan Thompson

This download allows you to replace the wonder graphics of CTP2 with your own. Thus you can have whichever wonders you want in the game, not just the official ones. There are 90 wonder pics here to add to those already in the game.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHANGING THE GRAPHIC AND NAME OF AN ALREADY EXISTING WONDER

Place the pictures you want to use in the Pictures folder within the Graphics folder which is inside the Default folder, either inside a scenario folder or the main game’s folder. Then open up the file Uniticon.txt within the Gamedata folder, located inside the same Default folder you’re using. At the very bottom is the wonders section.

Each wonder section looks like this:

ICON_WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT { FirstFrame "UPWP030L.TGA" Movie "GW030.AVI" Gameplay "WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT_GAMEPLAY" Historical "WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT_HISTORICAL" Prereq "WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT_PREREQ" Vari "WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT_STATISTICS" Icon "UPWP030L.TGA" LargeIcon "NULL" SmallIcon "NULL" StatText "WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT_STATISTICS" }

Replace "UPWP030L.TGA" with a new name, for instance "UPWP100L.TGA", and change the name both times it is mentioned. For the movie, you can create an .avi file of just the picture, or put “NULL” instead of "GW030.AVI", in the above example.

Don’t change the name THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT anywhere. Instead, open the glstr.txt file in the Gamedata folder inside the Default folder. Find the line dealing with the Solaris Project:

WONDER_THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT "The Solaris Project"

and change the text between the quotes to whatever you want. Now any and every reference to the wonder in the game will call it by your new name, even though it is still referred to as THE_SOLARIS_PROJECT in many places in the text files.

As for adding extra wonders to the wonder list, and not just replacing, you’re on your own with that one. I only want to provide graphics and get people started. Change the effect of the wonder in the Wonder.txt file, and the description in the Great Library by changing the Great_Library.txt file.

WONDER LIST
The name of the nearest city is listed, though in some cases this is a judgement call or a best fit if the wonder didn’t physically exist in a city (like Columbus’ Voyage). The name of the country that city is in today is also listed.


Adam Smith’s Trading Co London, England
AI Entity future
Al Azhar University Cairo, Egypt
Al Koran Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Al Mutawakkil Mosque Samarra, Iraq
Angkor Wat Angkor, Cambodia
Apollo Program Houston, USA
Arc de Triumphe Paris, France
Asoka’s Pillars Pataliputra, India
Bayeaux Tapestry Bayeaux, France
Big Ben and Parliament London, England
Church of the Holy Sepulchure Jerusalem, Israel
Colossus Rhodes, Greece
Columbus’ Voyage Cadiz, Spain
Confucius Temple Qufu, China
Copan Temples Copan, Belize
Cordoba Mosque Cordoba, Spain
Cure for Cancer future
Dar al Khalifat (House of the Caliphate) Baghdad, Iraq
Darwin’s Origin of Species London, England
Da Vinci’s Notebooks Milan, Italy
Dinosaur Park future
Disneyland Los Angeles, USA
Dome of the Rock Jerusalem, Israel
Edison’s Lab Menlo Park, USA
Eiffel Tower Paris, France
ESP Center future
Forum Rome, Italy
Ganges Pilgrimage Varanasi, India
Genius of Archimedes Syracuse, Italy
Global E-Bank future
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco, USA
Grand Canal Shanghai, China
Great Library Alexandria, Egypt
Hagia Sophia Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
Hanging Gardens Babylon, Iraq
Hippodrome Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
Holy Mosque of the Prophet Medina, Saudi Arabia
Hoover Dam Las Vegas, USA
Immunity Chip future
Isaac Newton’s Principa Cambridge, England
J.S. Bach’s Cathedral ???
Kaaba Mecca, Saudi Arabia
King Richard’s Crusade London, England
Kremlin Moscow, Russia
Labyrinth Knossos, Greece
Leif Erikkson’s Voyage Trondheim, Norway
Lighthouse Alexandria, Egypt
Lighthouse2
Magellan’s Expedition Cadiz, Spain
Manhattan Project Los Alamos, USA
Marco Polo’s Embassy Venice, Italy
Mausoleum Halicarnassus/Bodrum, Turkey
Mount Rushmore Rapid City, USA
Nanopedia future
Notre Dame Cathedral Paris, France
Oracle of Delphi Delphi, Greece
Parthenon Athens, Greece
Pasteur Institute Paris, France
Picasso’s Paintings Madrid, Spain
Potala Palace Lhasa, Tibet/China
Pyramid of the Moon Teotihuacan, Mexico
Pyramid of the Sun Teotihuacan, Mexico
Roosevelt’s New Deal Washington, D.C., USA
Sanchi Stupa Sanchi, India
SETI Project ???
Shakespeare’s Globe London, England
Shakespeare’s Globe2
Sistine Chapel Rome, Italy
Solomon’s Temple Jerusalem, Israel
Space Station ???
Sphinx Memphis/Cairo, Egypt
St. Basil’s Cathedral Moscow, Russia
St. Marks’ Square Venice, Italy
St. Peter’s Basilica Rome, Italy
Statue of Liberty New York, USA
Statue of Zeus Olympia, Greece
Stonehenge Salisbury, England
Sun Tzu’s War Academy Wu, China
Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia
Taj Mahal Delhi, India
Temple of Artemis Ephesus, Turkey
Temple of Karnak Thebes, Egypt
Theodesian Walls Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
Throne Hall of Darius Persepolis, Iran
Umayyad Mosque Damascus, Syria
United Nations New York, USA
Wall Street New York, USA
Women’s Sufferage Washington, D.C., USA
World Bank New York, USA

NOTES
The graphics have been stolen from many sources, I didn’t actually create a single one. I did do a decent amount of touching up to get them just right, however. For all the building wonders, these are very realistic pictures of what the wonders actually looked like, and not the ruins existing today. For instance, the Throne Hall of Darius is shown in many pictures as a few columns still standing in the desert, when in fact it looked very different back in the day. I’m lucky to have access to a good number of artistic reconstructions to make this possible. Sometimes we are so used to seeing the modern ruins, that we imagine that’s how they always looked. People don’t often realize for instance that the pyramids of Mesoamerica were usually painted bright red, or that Stonehenge used to be more complete. There are some wonders where I wanted a particular wonder but couldn’t find such reconstructions, so I didn’t include them. For instance it would have been nice to have more New World wonders. Luckily, such cases were very few. In a few cases of grabbing graphics from here and there, I came across more than one picture of the same thing, and both pictures were good. Thus there are two pictures for a couple wonders.

The only wonder I’ve included that isn’t based on a realistic picture is the Dar al Khalifat (House of the Caliphate). This is because it was later completely obliterated, and no one knows what it looked like. But it was apparently one of the most “wonderous” places on earth at one time. So the graphic is of its architectural floor plan.

Many of the wonders were taken from Civ2: TOT graphics. A number of Civ2’s wonders plainly didn’t exist, like Copernicus’ Observatory (there was no special observatory associated with him) or Sun Tzu’s War Academy (he wrote the book The Art of War, but there was no academy). Most of these I didn’t use, since I don’t want to further historical inaccuracy.

I am more interested in the past than the future, so the focus here is on historical wonders. The only future wonders are those from CTP1.

Some people may be surprised that I included the Labyrinth. That is a real wonder, though not in the way CTP1 envisioned it. The Minoan palace at Knossos was a multileveled building sprawled over 4 and a half acres. Greeks from the mainland were awed by this mazeline structure and the rituals conducted inside it, so the myth of the Minotaur was born. In ancient Greek, Labyrinth means “house of the double ax”, the symbol of the Minoans.

If picture shows up as gobblydegook in the game, odds are that it wasn’t saved in 16 bit format. I haven’t playtested every one out in the game.

People complain that the CTP2 wonders are too USA-centric. I hope this creates a more multicultural list for you. The below list shows how the wonders fall geographically. While the USA is first on the list, percentage-wise it doesn’t have so many. Asian countries by comparison have 25 and Europe 31.

USA 13
Italy 7
England 7
Turkey 5
France 5
Egypt 5
Greece 5
India 4
China 4
Spain 4
Iraq 3
Israel 3
Saudi Arabia 3
Russia 2
Mexico 2
Cambodia 1
Norway 1
Syria 1
Iran 1
Belize 1
Australia 1

[Harlan]

I've also finished my tech graphics. I may do more of these, especially if someone expresses a strong interest and/or has a good graphic to use. There are others I would have done, but for lack of an easily findable graphic. 60 in all. Hopefully Wes will post on his website soon. This leaves only a few buildings to finish off, and I'll be done with all three parts of my graphics project.

Agro-industry
Alphabet
Archery
Armor (medieval) / Chivalry
Astrolabe
Astronomy
Automobile
Atomic Theory
Biology
Capitalism
Cartography
Compass
Conscription
Contraception
Crop Rotation
Crossbow
Currency
Domestication
Elephant Training
Engineering
Espionage
Firearms
Gear Cutting Machinery
Guerrilla Warfare
Immunization
Imperialism
Labor Unions
Laser
Literacy
Machine Gun
Machine Tools
Magnetism
Mathematics
Mechanical Clock
Microchip
Mining
Navigation / Chronometer
Perspective
Photography
Plastics
Pottery
Radio
Refrigeration
Republic
Rocketry
Sanitation
Satellites
Seafaring
Solar Energy
Steam Engine
Steel
Stirrup
Superconductor
Tactics (ancient)
Telegraph
Television
Wheel
The Vacuum
Zero G Industry


Oh, I should mention. CTP2 includes two unused age graphics. One looks satisfyingly Medieval, the other late Modern, thus moving the current Modern to Industrial. I have used backing of all seven ages, not just five. Next I will reclassify some of the usual CTP2 techs if they belong in the new age categories. Hopefully most if not all mods will follow suit and have the extra Medieval and Industrial ages.

[This message has been edited by Harlan (edited December 30, 2000).]

[MarkG]

thanks to Wes....
http://apolyton.net/wes/harlans_wonders.zip

[Martinov]

Harlan

Just wanted to say . . . your're doing a great job.

The city & industrial age graphics & historical portraits you did for CTP1 were excellent.

I don't know who does the promotions around here, but you should be more than a "prince" - a king at least!