Graphics Showcase - Page 26

ravagon · December 9, 2002, 02:27

Somebody (Henrik?

) was working on a Mars scenario that featured dust-beds IIRC.
That'd be a fairly old thread though...

Boco · December 9, 2002, 07:13

Thanks, the ToT ones work well. I was so busy looking through downloaded stuff that I forgot to check what came with ToT.

klesh · December 9, 2002, 17:38

I believe it was PolarisGL that was working on the Mars thing no? Haven't seen him in ages...

-FMK.

Prometeus · December 10, 2002, 12:04

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Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh
I believe it was PolarisGL that was working on the Mars thing no? Haven't seen him in ages...

-FMK.

He moved to France one year ago.

From my Zhanguo restyle dir... Q.

Still in beta, but i'm thinking about a mass-stile armies design. That's why they are smaller then usual...

tanelorn · December 10, 2002, 17:57

DBA rocks!

Boco · December 12, 2002, 23:39

Has anyone ever made an icon of a WWI RN monitor?

Just prior to WWI, Fisher resurrected this term in the British navy for a type of bombardment vessel. They looked almost comical: big battleship or cruiser gun turrets on a 600-6000t boat. Big tripod to match. Tiny funnel - usually couldn't make over 10 knots. They seemed pretty popular with the campaign planners.

Here's a pic.

The ANZAC · December 13, 2002, 00:14

Yeah Case made one, a few pages back

St Leo · December 13, 2002, 20:34

These are excellent. I am a sucker for isometric artwork.

Boco · December 14, 2002, 11:45

Perfect! The Erebus was completed in 1916. Didn't realize that a few of these relics served in WWII.

Have these posts been compiled in a zip somewhere? The thread is a bit long for perusing.

Palaiologos · December 14, 2002, 13:57

Roman Villa graphics that Fairline has requested.

Henrik · December 14, 2002, 15:17

that is becouse JPG files doesnt save all the data, JPGs only save some of it (for smaller file sizes) and thne "make good guesses" as to what the blank pixels shoudl be

The ANZAC · December 14, 2002, 18:05

Palaiologos: posting in GIFs more so than PNGs is much better

Also doesn't Palaiologo mean something to the effect of "Ancient Wisdom"?

Mercator · December 14, 2002, 19:35

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Originally posted by Henrik
that is becouse JPG files doesnt save all the data, JPGs only save some of it (for smaller file sizes) and thne "make good guesses" as to what the blank pixels shoudl be

That's true, but that's not the reason the images appear blurred.

If you save your images as JPEG you must have several options somewhere as to what image quality you want. Since JPEG is better at encoding smooth gradients than sharp edges, CorelDRAW probably has an optimization setting to slightly blur the image (and thus further reduces filesize). That might not be a problem for photos or so, but is a problem for Civ2 imagery.
You should be able to adjust these settings either when saving or in the general program preferences.

In any case, if you want accurate lossless images (like with Civ2 graphics, much less so with screenshots) use PNG or GIF (for Civ2 GIF is preferable since that's the format Civ2 uses itself).

tanelorn · December 14, 2002, 22:34

Beautifull units! Woa, I wasn't expecting the railroad monster-gun in the last row. I was just reading about it yesterday. The reich built just two of them, I can't recall their names. They blew the sevastopol forts to bits, but since they were more like battleships on weels, they never lived up to the initial expectations (too cumbersome and expensive to operate, only fired a couple dozen of rounds). A really crappy investment. Both got captured by the soviets.

fairline · December 15, 2002, 05:50

Superb stuff, Jimmywax

Has anyone made a Challenger II tank and Warrior IFV (modern British stuff)?

fairline · December 15, 2002, 05:53

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Originally posted by Palaiologos
Roman Villa graphics that Fairline has requested.

Excellent work Palaiologos

Thanks

Insurgent · December 15, 2002, 06:57

I don't think that railroad gun is the Dora, tanelorn. It is too small, and the Dora, of which you speak, needed two parallel railroads to move, I only see one... BTW, IIRC, only one Dora was deployed by the 11th Army (Manstein). Also, the second was later deployed by Kesselring in Italy.

This drawing of it gives a rather good impression of its scale:

It used 800 mm shells!

I'd guess the railroad gun above is either one of the WWI French or German ones. (?)

Furthermore, see this drawing for comparison with the unit above:

Palaiologos · December 15, 2002, 08:02

Does anybody have a mill graphic of some sort?(wind mill etc.)
Either a terrain or a city improvement.

Thanks.

curtsibling · December 15, 2002, 10:06

The dora rail gun was a truly monstrous beast of a munition!

A weapon that is so illustrative of the German genius for engineering!

The ANZAC · December 16, 2002, 19:13

Very nice, as usual

Hey this thread is getting unwieldy, as FMK and I were talking about. Anyone have ideas how to make it more accesible and user-friendly?

Jimmywax · December 17, 2002, 01:23

One thing you could do is talk the admin into deleting old post that do not have graphics. Another thing that just popped into my head is have people go back through and edit their obsolete posts to reflect that status. Both of those would take quite a while though.

techumseh · December 17, 2002, 02:32

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Originally posted by The ANZAC
Very nice, as usual

Hey this thread is getting unwieldy, as FMK and I were talking about. Anyone have ideas how to make it more accesible and user-friendly?

Was someone going to undertake the task of compiling all the Alex/Nemo and Alex/Nemo style units, starting with the WWII units? Hmmm?

Case · December 17, 2002, 06:44

Quote:

Originally posted by The ANZAC
Hey this thread is getting unwieldy, as FMK and I were talking about. Anyone have ideas how to make it more accesible and user-friendly?

Having a set of different threads for different types of graphics is an idea. Perhaps posts discussing the units could be deleted a week after they're made?

BTW Curt: I don't think that I did much (if anything) to the unit you've given me partial credit for. From memory it was made by BeBro.

Boco · December 17, 2002, 22:06

If it hasn't been done already, these gfx are in desperate need of compilation into downloads. I'd agree with Case, the conversation has less longterm interest than the pics. Once we agree on categories, I could help with some. What would work best: icon type, era, artist(s)?

Has anyone made an icon of a WWI Holt Tractor? This would be for an improvement, not an unit.

Here's a link: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/U...rmored-halftra
and a photo:

Boco · December 17, 2002, 22:12

Photo (one from the link via the IMG control) didn't seem to work. Mebbe as an upload instead:

St Leo · December 18, 2002, 20:08

I'm going to try splitting the thread into:
Ancient
Medieval
Industrial
WW2
Post-Vietnam
Cities & Icons

This won't be completed until the weekend.

Jimmywax · December 18, 2002, 20:11

Good luck and my condolences to your sanity and love life.

P.S. Instead of Post-Vietnam , why not label it modern and include all post WWII. And if you want you can tell me to go to hell.

St Leo · December 19, 2002, 16:30

How, exactly, am I supposed to distinguish between WW2 and post-WW2 stuff?