WW2 update

[Harlan]

In case you're curious, I'm still plugging away at making five-facing units, focusing entirely now on WW2 related ones, so I can hopefully make a WW2 scenario soon. If and when there's a patch allowing flat maps and non-perfect square maps, that is! (Am I the only one who's noticed the lack of this imcredibly important fix in the 2nd patch fix list?? How can people make scenarios with only round-world maps?)

Here are all the units made so far (though some still need considerable touching up, adding of shadows, and haven't been made into sprites yet):

##= Allied, **= Axis, @@= Russian

Strongpoint
## Mechanized Infantry
** Panzer Grenadiers
Anti-Aircraft Gun
Heavy Anti-Air Gun
Artillery
Heavy Artillery
** 88 Gun
@@ Katyusha
** German SP Gun
@@ ISU-152 SP Gun
## Priest SP Gun
Light Tank
@@ T34-75 Tank
@@ T34-86 Tank
@@ IS-2 Tank
@@ IS-3 Tank
@@ KV-1 Tank
** Mark IV Tank
** Panther Tank
** Tiger Tank
** King Tiger Tank
## Matilda Tank
## Grant Tank
## Sherman Tank
## Churchill Tank
## Pershing Tank

Atomic Bomb
Biplane
Fighter
Bomber
** Bf 109 Fighter
** Fw 190 Fighter
** Junker Ju 88
** Stuka Dive Bomber
## Spitfire
## Mosquito
## P-51 Mustang Fighter
## B-17 Flying Fortress
## P-47 Thunderbolt Fighter
@@ Stormovik (Il-2)
@@ Yakolev-9 Fighter

Battleship
Escort Carrier
Destroyer
Cruiser
Landing Craft
Transport
** U-Boat

Here are all the ones I haven't even started yet:
## British Infantry
## American Infantry
** German Infantry
Infantry
Anti Tank Infantry
@@ USSR Infantry
Alpine Troops
Border Defense
Cavalry
General
## Marines
Paratroopers
Partisans
** Stormtroopers
** V2 Missile
** Me262 Jet Fighter
** Arado 234 Jet Bomber
** He 177 Bomber
## Meteor Jet Fighter
## P-80 Shooting Star
## Lancaster Bomber
## B-29 Superfortress
@@ Tupolev Bomber(Tu-2)
Battle Cruiser
** XXI U-Boat
Submarine
** Wasserfall SAM
Freight

The only units I'm keeping from CTP are the P-38 (they call it the Fighter), Diplomat, and Spy!

Once all of the ones I've made already are actually turned into sprites, and given the necessary TGA files, I will post a modpack of them all so far. I still desperately need 5 facing images for most of the rest, to work from- if anybody could help I'd appreciate it. I think I could get the remaining airplane graphics from Flight Simulator graphics- does anybody have that game??

Harlan

[This message has been edited by Harlan (edited August 06, 1999).]

[Evan von Christoph]

Harlan, are you going to upgrade your Ww2 scenarios for TOT?

BTY-I'd be very careful about starting you Ww2 scenario on cctp, due to the fact that in each patch they slowly change the code, it could end up being a large waste of time... but I don't see anything wrong with making the units though!

[MarkG]

Dear God, you've done all that?

[Harlan]

Evan,
I'm not gonna update Civ2 stuff for TOT. From a scenario maker's perspective, TOT is a big disaster in my opinion. They basically kept the Civ2 programming, warts and all, but changed it just enough so that all previous works are incompatible with TOT- what were they thinking?? But hopefully someone else will take the WW2 graphics I've made and easily convert them for other WW2 TOT scenarios.

Monkey,
Thanks for the compliments. I'm not a graphics artist, I just tinker. The key is having good graphics to start from. For the city architecture for instance, I generally took existing Civ2 architecture, recolorized it, tilted it, etc... so that it was hardly recognizable. With the WW2 units, I can make so many so fast because I'm largely stealing them from other games!!

Markos,
Yes indeed I've made that much. However it will be a while before they're posted cos most of them aren't in sprite format yet (conversion is the drudgery part of unit making). Could I send you a .gif or .jpg file of some of them and have you post that here to this thread as a teaser though? I don't know how to do that on my own.

[Monkey]

Dont listen to him Harlan... he's that evil sith lord from the OT forum that is trying to lure you into the dark side

Harlan, I just like to thank you for all the work that you and all the other mod makers out there for making CTP "game that should have been". I cant wait for your WW2 scenario for CTP. I'm sure it'll rock because of all the nice unit graphics. I'm getting into the world war 2 mode now. In fact I just asked for recommendations for ww2 scenarios for civ2 on the civ2 forums.

I also loved your city styles modpack that you created. How did you get your city styles looking so good? Was it your experience in making city styles in civ2 or are you a graphic artist? Either way it doesn't matter because I thought it was one of the best mod out there for CTP and I would vouch for it in the "mod of all mods" that people are thinking of making.

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Trim the sails and roam the sea!
Trim the sails and roam the sea!

...Stefu

[MarkG]

yes sure

[LittleWing]

Looks like a great work (again !).
I played all the scenario you've made for civ2 and I can't wait for this WW2 scen for CTP.
As for me I'd like to make some Tolkien based units for a Middle Earth scen but I have not a lot of time this month.

Thanks Harlan.