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We hope to port "Storm" unit from custom civ2civ3_earth ruleset to official rulesets. #42907

We would need unit graphics for it in all supported tilesets.

Will this work for Cimpletoon?

There are storm graphics for trident and amplio here: viewtopic.php?p=99082#p99082

Thanks, I'll check those coming weekend.

Elefant wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:56 pm There are storm graphics for trident and amplio here: viewtopic.php?p=99082#p99082

Appears we already have had them in since freeciv-3.0. I had completely forgotten that.

The cimpletoon ticket: osdn #47740

Continuing with the Storm.

They are currently units belonging to the "Animal Kingdom" nation, but I think we should create a new nation for them - it's a bit weird have them listed as animals. So, we will need a new flag (the .svg file) for "Nature".

Do they need a flag? If all storms are of the same nation, and that nation controls no other unit type, might the flag just be redundant clutter? In that case the flag could just be a bit of transparency. Or the shield could be transparent and there could be a flag for where needed in the help docs and wherever else.

cazfi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:23 pm Continuing with the Storm.

They are currently units belonging to the "Animal Kingdom" nation, but I think we should create a new nation for them - it's a bit weird have them listed as animals. So, we will need a new flag (the .svg file) for "Nature".

Just elaborating...
Storms, then how about Tornadoes, or Anomalous Waves... You know.. the kind of stuff Nature would. Oceans, but on land too.

I could 'graphic' any of the needed 2D-only sprites, alas nothing in the '3D/blender' class.
Ancient hardware limitations.

P.S.: flags in .svg are not a problem here.

If hardware is the issue, I ran up to blender 2.79 on windows 7, amd Athlon X2 4800+, GeForce 6150se with 2gb ram. I have renderer files for 2.49 and 2.79 for those on such hardware.