A Project: Creating Cpt. Nemo's Red Front for CtP2

[Maquiladora]

Map - 99%

Unit Sprites - 99%
City Sprites - 99%
Terrain Graphics - 99%
Terrain Improvement Graphics - 99%

Tech Tree - 99%
Unit Values - 99%
City Improvement Values - 99%
Wonder Values - 99%
Terrain, Goods & Terrain Improvement Values - 99%

City Placement - 99%
Terrain Improvement Placement - 99%
City Improvement/Wonder buildings - 99%
Unit Placement - 0%

AI: 0%

Events & Other SLIC - 0%

GL strings - 90%
Great Library - 50%
Unit/Building/Wonder Icons - 0%

Sounds - 0%

Overall Gameplay Values: 10%

Playtesting - 0%

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So I had this idea a couple of weeks ago thinking it would be quite easy, very time consuming (not a problem for me right now), but certainly a one man job... I was wrong

Certainly I cant do the events by myself, I had planned to document everything in order from the events.txt's used in the civ2 scenario and work from there, but I still have the problem of learning a little more about the way events.txt works (checked the thread where Peter explains it somewhat but cant find a copy of the manual, I know one exists) so i can read it quickly. But this isnt an immediate concern.

I decided to start with the terrain and sprites, since I know what im doing (somewhat) and its the biggest job after scripting and testing, both of which I cant approach yet anyway without a working save to test on. Since the sourcecode project is in full swing now, theres no one to help me with the events either.

Also because of the sourcecode I was sure it would be best to wait until theres a concrete version from the project to work on the scenario with, instead of using 1.11 and find all the work lost.

This will be a long term project, the thread is to push me along and keep working on it, receive any feedback, and maybe even garner some help.

Heres something to whet your appetite:

[Maquiladora]

If anyone wants to use any ill post them, they hacve all different facings, but no animation, otherwise it would take me 2 weeks per sprite, and they probably wouldnt turn out very good. Approx. 70 more sprites to come.

First post (left to right) (summer, winter, used for both summer and winter):

1st row
M4A3 Sherman (b)
P-47D "Thunderbolt" (b)
Bf-109 Fighter (s)
Bf-109 Fighter (w)

2nd row
105mm "Wespe" (s)
105mm "Wespe" (w)
Fw-190A Fighter (s)
Fw-190A Fighter (w)

3rd row
Hummel (s)
Hummel (w)
He-111 Bomber (s)
He-111 Bomber (w)

4th row
Jagdpanther V (s)
Jagdpanther V (w)
Ju-87 Stuka (s)
Ju-87 Stuka (w)

5th row
"Karl" 60cm Mortar (s)
"Karl" 60cm Mortar (w)
Ju-88 Bomber (s)
Ju-88 Bomber (w)

6th row
Panzer V Panther (s)
Panzer V Panther (w)
Me-262 Jet Fighter (s)
Me-262 Jet Fighter (w)

pic below:

1st row
Pz38t Light Tank (s)
Pz38t Light Tank (w)

2nd row
Panzergrenadiers (s)
Panzergrenadiers (w)

3rd row
AA Battery (flak from civ3) (b)

[HuangShang]

what is Creating Cpt. Nemo's Red Front? is it about the Nazi-Stalin fight?

great pictures, good luck

[Maquiladora]

Red Front is a scenario for civ2 made by Captain Nemo, and yeah its set on the eastern front from June 1941 to Dec 1945, but does feature Sweden, Finland and the US/UK in small parts too.

[Peter Triggs]

Don't worry about the events, Maq.

[Maquiladora]

Thanks Peter

I have an early map made, but obviously no cities placed and saved since I dont know which version to save on. I can give you the map, to get the locations etc though.

2 more sprites:

PzJg 38 Hetzer (s)
PzJg 38 Hetzer (w)

[Ekmek]

Good deal Maq. And I sympathize with the sprite units, animation is nice but since there are only a few of us here doing converting I'd say multi-directional, single frames is fine (and having played with my civ3 ones, I realize that the anim didn't add too much but the directions do).

It looks like you have plenty of units, but as a suggestion you code get stuff from the Civ3 Storm over Europe or some of the WW2 stuff (like infantry)

[Maquiladora]

Sounds interesting E, ill take a look at it now. WW2 looking Infantry units are definitely one of the things i need.

[Maquiladora]

1st row

PzJg VI Elephant (s)
PzJg VI Elephant (w)

2nd row

PzKw III Panzer (s)
PzKw III Panzer (w)

3rd row

PzKw IV Panzer (s)
PzKw IV Panzer (w)

[Maquiladora]

I noticed sometimes the shadows on the mirrored sides (SW, W, NW) of a unit the shadow sometimes doesnt quite meet the unit, there is a gap of "light", anyone know how to avoid this? On some units it doesnt show and mirrors perfect in-game and on others it does. I noticed this happens with some of the Activision sprites too. No big deal either way but i would avoid it if i could.

PzKw VI Tiger (s)
PzKw VI Tiger (w)

[Maquiladora]

1st row
Wirbelwind Self-Propelled AA Gun (s) (replaces Sdkfz-4x20mm Flak)
Wirbelwind Self-Propelled AA Gun (w)

2nd row
StuG III (s)
StuG III (w)

3rd row
Tiger II Panzer (s)
Tiger II Panzer (w)

[Leonidas]

Maquiladora:

Those are some of the finest looking sprites I have ever seen .
Excellent work

[Maquiladora]

Thanks Leonidas.

... but although I would love to have the patience (if not the talent) to create these sprites from a blank canvas, I do not. They are based on sprites from the games Blitzkrieg Operation Barbarossa and some from Sudden Strike later on possibly.

Of course its still a very big job of scraping, resizing, touching up, compiling and testing 10 images per sprite, quite repetitive, but its very rewarding, as is any feedback, even if i cant claim the most impressive parts of these sprites to be mine.

[Maquiladora]

The Soviet non-human units now:

1st row
45mm Anti-Tank Gun (s)
45mm Anti-Tank Gun (w)

2nd row
76mm Anti-Tank Gun (s)
76mm Anti-Tank Gun (w)

3rd row
152mm Howitzer (s)
152mm Howitzer (w)

[Ekmek]

Maq, if you have flicster you can convert some of these units for infantry (i'll probably do a few myself)

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=82076