Could I get an aquatic race? They look humanoid, but their hands are webbed, they don't have nostrils, they have gills instead, and their ears aren't visible. Their eyes are golden with a black, round pupil. Their skin ranges from red to yellow and sometimes green. I'd like if the character was underwater.

The ones you've done are great. My animation skills are limited to stick figures in Macromedia Flash.

Formis6, if you do enough of these things, I'll make a mod replacing the main races with ones based on your race animations. With your permission, of course.

Tsed and JeremyG - The space pirate and rogue traders are posted and are pending approval.

General Pants - The caimanoids should be rolling out soon.

millertime335 - A hologram race could be an interesting texturing challenge because of the transparencies involved. I will give something along those lines a shot, although I will not be replicating anything from Halo.

StormWeaver - a crystalline race could be fun to try also...again challenging texturing.

JubJub -



A spade is a spade - and that is definitely a copyright no-no. However, I do have an excellent idea for a crude race, which I will make for you.

Samoht - I can definitely do the aquatic race for you. The details that you have provided are very useful to me. I have some eye textures that will be just right. The underwater setting will give me a chance to play around with volumetric haze.

Please feel free. Anything that improves the usefulness of the race sets would be great.

Hmm. First off let me say BRAVO Formis! Firstly your work is incredible, and then your offer to do things like this for the community is just as incredible! People like you make GalCiv2's community the best, hats off to you sir!

Really, I'd love to see what you could do with that holographic race, especially considering the thought behind it. I think it'd be neat to have them change as your relations changed? Perhaps a nice soft feminine looking hologram for we like you, a generic masculine one for "we dont really know much about you", and when they get mad make it some sort of fearsome raging thing - as a hologram it doesn't have to make sense and the machines would have an understanding of fear on humans - perhaps it could go so far as to have flaming eyes, though that might be a bit far out. During the military combats it could be a tough looking muscular being, too. Oooh, i drool.

Once more, bravo sir.

Thanks. Feel free to take as long as you want.

Awesome -- they're up!

And now I finally have a great portrait/anim for my custom race. Thanks, Formis!

Hey, Formis, Finally found it!
Do you think you could make a picture of an alien race that appear to have a big head with HUGE teeth? When they're happy, they should look ready to eat you...
Thanks in advance...

You're right, we need an ascended race though...

Maybe you could do just a flying orb. That would be cool.

I am starting on that mod I mentioned. Three races are in the game working so far. I'll start posting pictures and history on another thread. The more neat race graphics get made (all as you have time, mind you) the better it will look.

I also have a few other plans for it other than just replacing the races. . .

Hi all - sorry I haven't been to the forums for a few days...got busy at work. General Pants - your caimanoid will be finished this weekend. I looked up several reference photos to sculpt the head into a fairly caiman-like shape. I think I have it fairly close. I also combined the idea of the reddish skin of the false gharial with the striping of the black caiman, though I am still tweaking the shading (the red needs more of a brown tint and the stripes look too blue, instead of blackish). As for clothing - harnesses. I have not yet settled on rank insignia as badges attached to the harness, as body paint markings, or perhaps even as tattoos. I rather think the idea of body paint markings is interesting...gives them a tribal feel.

TOV and Refar - your non-humanoids are very next...I might even be able to squeeze one of them out this weekend also.

Drengin - You robots will come next.

Actually - on a general note, I handle requests in the order they come as that seems to be the most equitable. However, there are some requests that I could do faster than others depending on complexity. I might be able to get more sets out in a weekend if I don't stick to a rigid request order. What is the general feeling among requesters about this? It boils down to this - if you have made a request and I have acknowledged it, it will be made, it is just a matter of when.

On that note - some new request acknowledgements...

SCPX - You big heads with big are doable. As for the orbs...do you want just orbs or could your give me some more details about their appearance? Either way, both are on.

JubJub - thanks for understanding about copyright. I do a lot of publishing in my field or work, so I tend to be very respectful of copyright issues. That said - an ascended race - no problem...it is on the menu.

No rush man. Quality over speed.

Anyone who has real strong feeling about what your requests should be like in game, or who would rather them not be in my mod at all, please pm me.

Here's the requisite kissup: dude, your stuff rocks. I'm using your purple-skinned drow-ish girl as my avatar for the Abh Empire, and it works out great.

(scratch my first idea, someone else stole it, that'll teach me not to read the prior posts first, I'll come up with a new idea).

-A lizard race. Argonians look cool, but just for got I mentioned them and make a reptilian race...

-Make a devil looking guy.

-Make a kiddie show type of portrait that would have care bears or other crap to make you want to pummel their guts out! Lord knows that Teletubbies are pure evil....especially that purple one with the triangle.....

My second idea was for a Cosmic Amazon Space Bimbo in a Super Battle Bikini of Tiny Coverage and Maximum Titillation, but I think that might offend some sensibilities (not that I'd complain if you did it ). So how about. . . a symbiotic gestalt race of molluscs. I'm talking about a sentient but sessile clam riding on the back of a giant octopus, with like, reins and everything. Yeah.

I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl! The color sounds awesome!




I can't wait to see what you come up with. Paint might be better than tattoos (they are Amazon animals, after all). I don't know how well tattooing works on scales, though. You could carve into the bone of the belly scales with a laser, I suppose. Rank would have to be done with hash-marks or something similarly cumulative, though.




Dude, you aren't a public service... well, not officially anyway. Go in whatever order you think is best, and we'll back your play.

Two request if i may and no hurry at all when ever you can

King Cobra with Golden Eyes (maybe Flaming)Bluish white fangs and more Bluish skin color (slight human-ish)

the second i need to think more on it ... but human-ish with Bluish skin color and Golden eyes(maybe Flaming)

there more but i need to think of what else so no hurry on the second one

Thanks for all the stuff you have done so far

as far as what order... you know how much time you have to do these.make the most of

your time.

If you would, please make a female, beautiful and suave alien (just change the colour of the her skin blue) with a small gold and red crown, jet-black hair down to her shoulders. As for her dress, make it ordinate red and gold, somthing like Leia's bikini, but a hell of a lot less skimpy. like a dress. I hope that's not too much trouble. I wouldn't even mind if it was just a picture. A movie would be a bonus.

Details on the orb?
Well, it should appear like a tiny floating ball that gives light. If you want, make it look like a little figure is causing the light, but I prefer it being pure light. Since it's the main lightsource, I suggest making a dark background. If you want, I can try to send you a picture with an idea of what I want...

The caimanoids are posted and are pending approval.

themocaw - I had been thinking of doing something along the lines of a classic B-Movie scifi space vixen, which is sort-of like your request.

Lukas - your idea is not far off from that...so both are on the list.

SCPX - thanks for the additional details on the orb.

JubJub - devil guy is on the list now.

Sir Nasty - The cobra is do-able.

themocaw - the symbiotic mollusks might take some time, but I can give them a shot.

I have a question about the movies - how do you feel about them? I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the still shots that I have in the sets are of a much, much higher quality than the movies. Personally, I prefer the stills, but I still make the movies for those that want them. The thing is, the movies take the bulk of the rendering work, yet are an inferior product to the stills. I am just curious what people prefer...I will still be making both.

As for order of fulfilling requests...I am mostly going to stick the order I receive requests, however, there are a few specific requests that I can turn out fairly quickly because I already have textures, etc. that can be adapted, which saves time. I sometimes have materials left over from other non-GalCiv related rendering projects that I can recycle. So, here is a short list of the pics I will tackle next because they can be done quickly: millertime335's hologram race, JubJub's primitive and ascended races, Samoht's aquatic race, themocaw's and Lukas' females, and possibly Drengin's robotic race.

TOV and Refar - I have been working on your non-humanoids, but they will take some time because they are more complex. TOV, I have been playing with the idea of a species that would have evolved from chaetognath ancestors. Refar, your race is one that would live in a gas giant (which I believe is something you had mentioned).

Additionally, I have some race ideas of my own, but I will back-burner them until I catch up. The list is 25 by my count, and I have completed 9...got a way to go! I notice that I have gotten pickier about what I consider "done." I did seven different versions of the caimanoid before I called it done, and I still am not satisfied with the clothing. I tried a version that had the harness made of giraffe fur and another version out of white tiger fur. I tried torques made from brushed gold and hammered gold. I eventually just went back to the original embossed steel. I tried out five different backgrounds, settled on the second one. I am much more fussy than when I did the original Frogman race.

25! Wow! I may have to seriously think about which to actually use as major races in my mod. I could actually make two mods out of it if I wanted to.

Formis- If you will, make either the movie or stills, surprise me. Or, even do both, I really don't mind. And thanks, for doing it specially for me.