Unit Icons for Ancient/Classical period

[flip]

I'm working on a set of new icons ( Bifs and LBMs) both for Persian, Patrician and ancient mods. I'll make them available in a generic form for use by our community. That means, we can adapt those icons for any mod. I'll also make available my own sets proposals for those mods.

I was working on the units sprites, but that is a hard job. I discover that the interface play a more important part in MTW, at least during a battle, and the stock icons are not friendly for those who play with ancient mods.

http://www.terravista.pt/AguaAlto/1729/MTW/grelha.jpg

http://www.terravista.pt/AguaAlto/1729/MTW/icons.jpg

[Lord Of Storms]

Great work Flip a very nice contribution to the Modding community. LOS

[A_B]

Very nice. a couple good ancient mods, and the LOTR mod, will keep this game fresh through the end of the year.

[Sir Robin]

Wow http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

Great work http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Portuguese Rebel]

We got ourselves a icon maker, great work flip

[flip]

Portuguese made,lol, with this stuff we can have Iberian units, if we want

[Portuguese Rebel]

I have one idea? What about a "Padeira de Aljusbarrota"? It could be a Kensai kind of unit http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

Just joking... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

[komninos]

Hi flip,

Exelent work ... can you send them over???

I remember you have done some unit BIF work how is that going?

[flip]

Hi Komninos,
I,m packing the file, and it will be availlable for all in a web site, just give me some days to see if all is fine.
You'll not regret this delay, promise. I'll put also the set that I'm using in Persian Wars and Patrician.

But I can send you the set,in advance,for beta testing. Just send me a message with your email.

[Duke John]

Flip, can you tell me how you made those icons? I have some problems using my own unit icons that are placed in the Battle\UnitIcons\ folder. I made completely new icons and I used them to replace existing icons. The result was a CTD. If I paste the icons into an existing icon, the result is also a CTD. What's going on?

[flip]

I managed this way:

Open a BMP icon in Photoshop or Paint Shop. Select all, copy. Open LBM icon in Ultimate Paint, a program that acept the LBM extension. Paste, save. Thats it. I also convert before the icon to grayscale, to avoid problems with palettes. The BMP is 256 colors, 8 bits.

[flip]

Ok, to all ancient moders, its ready
New units for Patrician, Persian Wars, and all classical/ancient periods. Hope you like, guys.

MTW ancient units (http://filipeabranches.no.sapo.pt/MTW/)
http://filipeabranches.no.sapo.pt/MTW/Icons/Images/09.jpg

From read-me file:

Short descriptions for the 73 units. This is a guide to build unit icons for mods.
You are free to adapt the icons to any unit. The information here is just for orientation
porposes, however I tried to respect historical aspects, with documentation. The graphics were based in the units of a computer card game "Hoplites":

http://digilander.libero.it/zak965/

Just change the names, BIFs and respective LBMs, to the default names of the game, in acordance
to your crusaders_unit_prod11.txt file.

flip ( my name on www.totalwar.org forum )

http://filipeabranches.no.sapo.pt/MTW/ ( webpage )

13/06/2003


List

01 - Light Cavalry/Scythian
02 - Archer
03 - Ificratian Hoplite Enomotia/Hellenic
04 - Dark Age Hoplite/Hellenic
05 - Companion,Heavy Cavalry/Hellenic
06 - Peltast
07 - Sariza hoplite/Hellenic
08 - Spartan Hoplite/Hellenic
09 - Hoplite Enomotia/Hellenic
10 - Light Hoplite/Hellenic
11 - Slinger
12 - Rhodian Slinger
13 - Balearic Slinger
14 - Hypeas,Light Cavalry/Hellenic
15 - Thebian Light Cavalry/Hellenic
16 - Light Cavalry
17 - Thracian Cavalry/Hellenic
18 - Principes/Rome-Italic
19 - Praetorian Cohort/Rome-Italic
20 - Velite/Rome-Italic
21 - Triarii/Rome-Italic
22 - Roman Legionarii Cohort/Rome-Italic
23 - Royal Knights,Equites,Roman Cavalry/Rome-Italic
24 - Roman Hoplite Cohort/Rome-Italic
25 - Velite,Light Infantry
26 - Hastati/Rome-Italic
27 - Archer(Oriental)
28 - Carthage Liby Infanty/Carthage
29 - Nubian Spearman,Negro Spearman/Carthage
30 - Carthage Liby Cavalry/Carthage
31 - Gladiators
32 - Light Infantry/Italic
33 - Ballista
34 - Imortal/Persian
35 - Archer/Scythian
36 - Barbarian Infantry/Britons
37 - Barbarian Infantry/Celts
38 - Barbarian Infantry/Celts
39 - Barbarian Infantry/Britons
40 - Bedouin Camel Warriors/Desert
41 - Ballista
42 - Barbarian Infantry/Italic
43 - Barbarian Infantry/Celts
44 - Barbarian Infantry/Celts
45 - Barbarian Cavalry/Celts
46 - Heavy Infantry/Persian
47 - Heavy Cavalry/Scythian
48 - Light Cavalry/Persian
49 - Light Cavalry/Celts
50 - Light Cavalry
51 - Light Cavalry
52 - Medium Infantry/Persian
53 - Light Infantry/Persian
54 - Light Infantry/Scythian
55 - Skirmish
56 - Skirmish/Celts
57 - Medium Infantry/Celts
58 - Medium infantry
59 - Medium infantry/Thracian
60 - Medium infantry/Samnium
61 - Peltast/Thracian
62 - Lancer/Italic
63 - Slinger/Britons
64 - Light Infantry/Syracuse
65 - Light Infantry/Scythian
66 - Light Infantry/Indian
67 - Archer
68 - Light Infantry/Celts
69 - Light Infantry/Egypt
70 - Light Infantry/Samnium
71 - Archer
72 - Legion/Samnium
73 - Light Cavalry

[Scipio]

Hey flip Im a lazy bastard who knows literally nothing abotu modding(I'm learning) and im wonderin if you could edit the original prod file of the game to fit your units and post it? Im havin troubles balancing it out ie:I have to change legion from mounted to none etc...

[flip]

Hi Scipio,

sorry I just contribut with graphics, thats why this units pack was builded for moders. komninos and others are using the units for great Ancient mods. The set its not a rigid thing. Its open for a specific mod created. Can help on that, sorry.

[Scipio]

no prob I should start getting used to doing these things on my own http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/pat.gif

[flip]

Ok, there are a couple of elements in MTW that, as a graphic designer,I'd like to change in order to play with
some imersion a mod. I'm talking of Ancient mods, as Hellenic Total War from Komninos and others.

Portraits of kings and generals.( I'd love to see classical faces)
Pieces on campaign map.( idem/ not medieval units )

its a uge work, and I'm asking, programmers and moders, in terms of MTW structure, what I have to change. I need the lignes, paths and folders, that afected to those items.

Thanks