Wonder Possibilities - Page 5

Leonidas · April 11, 2002, 12:57

Great work IW

Here are a few more pics:

Immortal Wombat · April 11, 2002, 16:32

Thanks Leo

Locutus, the Hanging Gardens look fine, even better on rivers.

I have a slight problem re the Hagia Sofia. The AoK picture is amazing, it looks great, but to do it justice, it really needs all 4 spires. Which don't fit in a 96*72 picture. Martin (tD) said the size of TileImps are not fixed to this, but they seem to center on the middle of the tile when being inserted, so it ends up with a view of the spires and no building...
I can trim the spires, and it looks ok...ish... but its a wonder. It should look wondrous.

Does anyone know the intricacies of > 96*72 tileimp pics?

The Big Mc · April 12, 2002, 03:59

Hi I have been doing some recherché on teberian sun the third command and conquer any thing I find I will post here.

Any way there a pic of the statue of liberty on cac red alert 2

child of Thor · April 12, 2002, 10:11

not really on topic

but intresting non the less, yesterday's news but i didn't have time to log onto poly yesterday. a link i'm sure others will enjoy here .

Immortal Wombat · April 12, 2002, 19:00

We have remaining:
Forbidden City (Civ3)
Petronas Towers (working on it...)
Empire State (

)
Eiffel Tower (C&C)
Stonehenge (goodie hut, but I might improve it if I can afford the tile file space)
Ankor Wat (

)
Sagrada Familia

Second seven... (where's the overworked smilie...?)

from top left to bottom right:
Hanging Gardens
Hagia/Aya Sofia
Great Wall (2 improvements to be build on adjacent tiles)
Colossus
Taj Mahal
Notre Dame (I had the graphic, so no special Mosque unless someone else can find a pic)
Dome of the Rock

edit: see, RTS games are useful for something!

Locutus · April 12, 2002, 19:10

IW:

SimCity!

Quote:

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Hagia/Aya Sofia

Actually, that would be the Blue Mosque

Aya Sofia in also in the screenshot on page 2 but it's the one without the spires (but I suppose the Mosque somewhat resembles the Aya Sofia as well, so if you could change the colors a bit...)

Immortal Wombat · April 12, 2002, 19:12

Damn you AoK, damn you!!!

Locutus · April 12, 2002, 19:15

Ben: I edited while you posted, you may want to read my post again.

Edit: nice news item, CoT

Immortal Wombat · April 12, 2002, 19:25

Oh I see it. The little ugly square one. I prefer the Blue Mosque. That ok by everyone?

Locutus · April 12, 2002, 19:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Oh I see it. The little ugly square one. I prefer the Blue Mosque. That ok by everyone?

If you change the colors so it actually vaguely resembles Aya Sofia

(or do you want to replace Aya with Mosque altogether?)

Immortal Wombat · April 12, 2002, 19:35

I can do either, both or neither. I don't mind.

child of Thor · April 12, 2002, 19:47

Quote:

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
edit: see, RTS games are useful for something!

Nah! don't believe you! Light-weight strategy only

Still the pics look ace and thanks for the effort

Locutus ref news item - so maybe 7000bc game start isn't such a bad idea

(i read that these new finds push early cities back a few thousand years). ah, the wonder of it all.............

Immortal Wombat · April 12, 2002, 19:56

Quote:

Still the pics look ace and thanks for the effort

No problem.
The Taj Mahal and Pentagon have been the hardest. The Pentagon came from the C&C screenie, and needed all the green stuff cutting out, and the Taj Mahal always has those damn trees in front of it, so they had to go to.

hexagonian · April 13, 2002, 08:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
...has those damn trees in front of it, so they had to go to.

Gee Ben, I had you pegged as a tree-hugger

Immortal Wombat · April 13, 2002, 11:08

Real trees, not ornamental hide-the-famous-building trees

New wonder - "Replant Rainforests" tile improvement to cover 10 tiles...

Immortal Wombat · April 13, 2002, 13:36

Quote:

Originally posted by Locutus
All the pics posted by various people are useful as well but we could still use a few more pics: Angkor Wat, Taj Mahal, Kremlin, Versailles, Petronas, Sagrada Familia, Torii, Hindu temples of Madurai; those are all pretty important wonders which are large and impressive enough to deserve their own tile imp...

I'd just like to re-iterate this...

I'm having a hard time with the last three, Ankor Wat, and the Sagrada Familia. I have pictures for the the Taj Mahal and a mediocre Ankor Wat, but they are direct-ahead views, rather than aerial views, so not ideal.

All the SimCity pics I found btw need a product registration login. No game, no download. Anyone got SimCity 3000?

edit: all but one

Got an empire state (SC3000) and a better Eiffel Tower now too (Red Alert)

Next four: Aya Sofia, Petronas, Forbidden City, Eiffel Tower.
I'm not as happy with these, but resources are running out.

Immortal Wombat · April 13, 2002, 19:04

Natural Wonders
Modern Wonders
Forgotten Wonders

The Big Mc · April 15, 2002, 07:53

Yes I have been teberiun sun only thing I found is the pyramids any body interested oh and I can get big Ben if anybody’s interested

child of Thor · April 15, 2002, 12:07

Nice links IW - how can they say stonehenge is forgotten? Druids(tree-huggers whatever) visit it every year!

(NOTE: IMHO hugging trees isn't the worst thing to do in the world.)

Immortal Wombat · April 15, 2002, 17:17

I've got 20 into a tile file now, and they all work on the map. It seems the tilest IDs only work every other 8s or something, but its all sorted. I still need a graphic for Angkor Wat, but thats not a big deal. Some of the pictures need adjusting for CtP2 terrain, they don't look quite as good without the mat black backing.
I have uploaded the beta graphic tiles, and the text files as a mod (based on cradle 1.2, but there's no overwrites) up onto the ctpmodmakers 250-4-free site.
You can download it from there (Just dont ask me for the URL...)

(tree hugging is great

)

Leonidas · April 16, 2002, 01:42

Immortal Wombat: Here are some pictures of Angkor Wat. I hope some of these may be useful

Photos of Angkor Wat:

Leonidas · April 16, 2002, 01:46

I found another one for Angkor Wat:

Leonidas · April 16, 2002, 01:53

Some pictures of the Kremlin:

Taken at night:

Leonidas · April 16, 2002, 02:13

From Red Alert 2:

The Kremlin:

Statute of Liberty:

Locutus · April 16, 2002, 03:37

The mod can be downloaded and a cool screenshot can be seen from here.

Ignore this, I need it for the news:

hexagonian · April 16, 2002, 10:10

This is what I hate about Modding...

I get a good single player game going, and then something like this gets created - then I have to either wait or start another game.

Looks great!!!!

Aias · April 16, 2002, 11:56

Outstanding work. Now I, too, have to start a new game to try this out.

BTW, Leonidas, love the quote from Simonides about the fallen Spartan warriors from the battle of Thermopyle. Nicely done!

Leonidas · April 16, 2002, 17:42

Terrific work! Everything is coming along nicely. It's amazing how much can be done in so short a time period.

Leonidas · April 16, 2002, 17:55

Aias: Thanks for noticing

Immortal Wombat:

Some pics of the Taj Mahal:

And here's a link. The first picture at the bottom of the page is a nice black and white aerial view of the Taj Mahal. Could it be coloured white?

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the...dic_temple.htm

Immortal Wombat · April 16, 2002, 18:46

Thanks for churning out these photos Leonidas

The top Angkor Wat one looks the most likely so far. The lower Taj Mahal picture looks very similar to the one I actually used, but as Locutus has pointed out, the 2D shots look awful on the map.
This one looks promising, but its not the usual angle, and it needs some colour. I might have to ask Dave for some graphics help on this.