Future Units Project

This project is an experiment, I'm not sure if it's going to come out successful. I'd consider it a big gain for the game if it did. It's about the look of the units that are using future technologies. Currently, these units use the same pictures as the last present day units. That doesn't make up a good ambience and is demotivating. Unfortunately, our main source of unit pictures, which is Civ II fan stuff, doesn't help much here because Civ II didn't contain future units. So let's try to help ourself.

In order to maintain the current unit picture standard, we need 4 different pictures for each of the following future unit types:

• slow defender (infantry line)
• fast defender (mechanized infantry line)
• fast attacker (armor line)
• heavy attacker (howitzer line)
• warship
• transport ship
• carrier
• submarine
• fighter/drone
• bomber/air transport

This is 40 pictures in total, which is a lot. For legal reasons, I'd like all of these pictures to be in the Public Domain. So there are two ways to contribute to this project:

• You find appropriate pictures somewhere, and you're having the author's statement that they are in the Public Domain.
• More likely: You're creating the artwork, and you put it to the Public Domain.

This page is the place to upload the files in either case. The file size limit is 1 MB. If you're going to create pictures, please note the following hints:

• Please don't do it if it's no fun to you.
• If one of your items is used by future C-evo versions, of course you will get your credit.
• Unfortunately, I can't promise that everything posted here will be used by the official game version. That depends on the quality and on the "competition" for that type of unit. However, nothing will be completely in vain. The work will remain available on the C-evo homepage as long as C-evo exists.
• It's about the future, so don't have scruples and use your imagination. But don't confuse Science Fiction with Fantasy. (No dragons, please!)
• When using the PNG format, you can use true color (24 Bit RGB), no need to convert the pictures to color palette mode. But please don't use the alpha channel, because C-evo doesn't apply it.
• A good size for the pictures is either the final size (64x48 slot, reasonably sized compared with the existing unit pictures) or everything bigger than 128x96.
• The complete background should have a single (absolutely uniform) color that is not contained in the picture itself. Do not compress the image as JPG, since this will mess the colors.
• The border of the picture should not be smoothed to the background color (no anti-aliasing or bilinear/trilinear resizing there).
• The units should be shown at the right angle from the top.
• Whatever the end of the future units project will be: Thank you.

Present Stuff

• Freight v.1F
  
  Made and authorized by Derivative by Cor'e, Original(s) by OpenTTD/OpenGFX (GPLv2)
  Cor'e =) 5-Feb-10 23:06
  • Freight v.1F - unknown 16-May-20 14:16
  • Freight v.1F - unknown 10-Oct-18 23:11
• Freight - a mod v.1E
  
  Made and authorized by Derivative by Cor'e, Original(s) by OpenTTD/OpenGFX (GPLv2)
  Cor'e =) 1-Jan-10 20:37
  • Freight - a mod v.1E - Cor'e =) 5-Feb-10 23:00
• Future Units
  
  Made and authorized by T.J.
  T.J. 1-Nov-09 23:18
  • Future Units - unknown 13-Nov-17 22:46
  • Future Units - david003 8-Sep-17 22:41
  • Future Units - Lucas 23-Mar-10 20:49
  • Future Units - abel 28-Dec-09 17:49
• Ship
  
  Made and authorized by T.J.
  T.J. 10-Sep-09 23:03
• Land Units
  
  Made and authorized by T.J.
  T.J. 17-Aug-09 21:40
  • Land Units - lokendra singh chauhan 7-Sep-10 16:47
• Improved fast defender
  
  Made and authorized by T.J.
  T.J. 11-Aug-09 23:03
• Future Units: Slow Defender, Fast Defender, and Heavy Attacker
  
  Made and authorized by T.J.
  T.J. 1-Aug-09 08:07
  • Future Units: Slow Defender, Fast Defender, and Heavy Attacker - Lucas 23-Mar-10 20:50
• Future Units: Slow Defender and Fast Defender
  
  Made and authorized by T.J. (me)
  T.J. 28-Jul-09 04:45

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