upload 2021 2 28 20 26 6 image - Civilization 2 - Civilization 1 Graphics Mod Demaster for Civilization II
This is a small bonus project as I prepare to release my other bigger Civ2 mods to the world! I recently discovered John Valdez’s old mod and was massively impressed with the idea of making Civ2 look more like Civ1. I’d already been working on of a Test of Time graphics mod for Civilization 2 MGE (that nobody asked for lol) so I thought it would be fun to go the other way and ‘demake’ Civ2 to look even more like Civ1 than John had. All terrain, special resources, cities, terrain improvements, and units have been reimported from Civilization 1. More details coming soon!
been busy doing settler terrain improvements:
- John had 2D irrigation and mines which didn't look so good on a busy isometric world map so I painstakingly created custom blocky isometric 2.5D versions of Civ1 irrigation (tried to make as exact as possible) that link up to each other (just water for irrigation and full original for farmland upgrade) which have come out looking pretty good! Although I think John has locked out refrigeration tech meaning no one will be able to build the farmland version which sucks a bit.
- Anyway I then drew custom blocky recreations of Civ1's roads and railroads as once again Johns were all weird looking.
- The mine is just a double sized Civ1 mine but I've moved the 2 objects (is it a mine shaft and a little red building? I dunno lol) further apart horizontally to give a more isometric look.
- Pollution is just Civ1's imported and double sized but I also rotated it 90 degrees as it was longer vertically in Civ1 which doesn't suit Civ2's diamond.
- As for white Forts John attempted an isometric version but it didn't look so good. Judging by my success with the irrigation I possibly could do a nice isometric 2.5D version of the Fort but for now I'm happy with a 2D version since units and cities are 2D and were originally designed to fit inside the transparent square inside the fort in Civ1 so why not continue that.
- Lastly John had a little 2D version of the letter A for Airbases but it looked weird, was misaligned so it didn't change colours for factions, and there was no different between a unoccupied and occupied version. So I've made a bigger 2D letter A that changes colour and I put a rotated Civ1 fighter plane on it as the icon for occupied heh.