Graphics Showcase

[Paul Hanson]

You know, I could do with some of the stuff on that list. Are you by any chance doing a Cold War scenario of some kind?

[Paul Hanson]

Oh, and this is my attempt at a NATO Infantry unit. It's not fantastic, but the NATO logo is hard to shrink into an area the size of a Civ2 shield.

[mordhiem]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Are you by any chance doing a Cold War scenario of some kind?

Yes, I am doing a Cold War scenario. A long time ago I recognised a 'gap in the market' so to speak and thought out how it could roughly be implemented,however I realised that the AI could never handle a Cold War situation no matter how many events we used.

But now with PBEM around I've revived it and have (just about) finished the tech tree and finalised the lists for Units, Wonders and Improvements. All I really need to finish it myself is a good giga-map of the world (the one on CivFan was dissapointing) and the unit graphics.

And don't get yourself down Paul, thats a perfectley good modification of a unit! If you think you can do more by all means have a go at the others.

Also, could anyone tell me where I could find some decent modern looking city graphics and a good pic for 'urban' terrain (not WW2 but modern).

Thanks

[Mr. Oobir]

I am in need of a person unit with these specifications:

-facing forward
-green shirt w/ vertical black stripe
-white pants
-black shoes
-black hair; uniracial tannish skin
-wide, bony claws over right hand
-a non-military look

This is a rough idea of what I envision (but instead not holding his arms straight out and not looking so much like Ernie from Sesame Street ):

[Mr. Oobir]

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[Exile]

Thanks, WV . . .

but, with my typical level of patience, I went ahead and modified a unit on my own. It came out very nice, looks just like I want it to (blue jacket/white pants/white helmet), so I just put it in. IIRC, I already have the units you posted (somewhere).

About the only things I'm really searching for are;

1.) An icon that will look good for the Arms Race wonder,

and

2.) A unit that will look like a generic Arab/Persian/Afghan/Chinese/Malay infantry soldier.

Hey! King Parrot! It's cold, wet, etc . . . how about coming up with these?

[Exile]

Are you ship-makers using a book or a website as models for your graphics?

Just curious.

I could recommend a site or two.

[Mr. Oobir]

Thanks Case

Most excellent

[Paul Hanson]

Originally posted by mordhiem


Yes, I am doing a Cold War scenario. A long time ago I recognised a 'gap in the market' so to speak and thought out how it could roughly be implemented,however I realised that the AI could never handle a Cold War situation no matter how many events we used.

I figured you might be, what with the units on that list. I've been working on a Cold War scenario for about a year and a half now, entitled "Red Storm" (not a scenario of the book "Red Storm Rising", BTW), but I'm making slow progress.

[Scott F]

Re: Scott . . .

Originally posted by Exile
Your units are all very nice.

Except for one.

The WWI River monitor. A "monitor" started out as a relatively swift, low-freeboard riverine warship. The famous monitor that fought the Hampden Roads battle with the C.S.S. Virginia is the prototype. But by 1914, the monitor had developed into a substantially larger ship, but not nearly as large as a capital ship, or even an armored cruiser. The later monitors had very large calibre guns, up to 10-inch naval rifles. Here is a pic I located;

Yes, I know that the image is far from perfect. I'll probably end up redoing it. I may well replace the river monitor unit in the scenario in which I am using it with a predreadnought unit instead, so I didn't put a whole lot of effort into making it look proper.

[The ANZAC]

Here are the sites I have for ships; also I have the book Jane's Ships of WW2:

All warships- http://www.warships1.com/

HMS Repulse (linked to other Brititsh Ships)- http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/s...-r/repulse.htm

German H Class- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/...hclass_bat.txt

German Navy WW2- http://www.german-navy.de/marine.htm

All warships- http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/

All warships- http://www.navsource.org/archives/home.html

US battleship development- http://www.geocities.com/batdev/

Historical Warships- http://www.history.navy.mil/

WW1 ships- http://www.geocities.com/darrenmilford/

British Battleships in WW2- http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Brit...attleships.htm

Cruiser Operations in WW2- http://www.world-war.co.uk/

[Case]

http://www.navsource.org is a brilliant site and has photos of just about every American warship of the last 100 years! edit: oops, ANZAC beat me to this one

http://www.hazegray.org/ has a lot of excelent photos and the current order of battle of most of the worlds navys (like Janes, but free )

www.fas.org has a small amount of stuff

http://www.naval-technology.com/ is also worth a look for modern stuff

and if all else fails, there's always Google

[The ANZAC]

I made some changes to my Indiana class *cough* any suggestions?

[Case]

Originally posted by The ANZAC
I made some changes to my Indiana class *cough* any suggestions?

That's really good The only sugestion I've got is that the sides of the side 8 inch turrents don't show up clearly.

[The ANZAC]

Thanks Case. On the side turrets I had a problem: I didn't want them to be too big, yet I still was trying to get a "rounded" effect. SHould they be larger or smaller? Because the only way I can fix the sides is to make them larger.