In the hardcore Civ fan community Test of Time (ToT) is considered to be far superior due to it's graphics capabilities, animation, multi linked world map systems, and advanced scripting, especially for scenario making. HoMM2 Dev Diary 06 – Heroes, Units & City Buildings In The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:Ĭlick to expand.That's a dangerous question as I've seen it spark many a unfriendly debate at CivFinatics haha! In the sixth dev diary we answer fan demands to show units while also showing off all city buildings and some small touch-ups to the city sky view. HoMM2 Dev Diary 05 – Creating Victory/Death & City Backgrounds For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod:
In the fifth dev diary we look at adding new HoMM2 themed victory and death sequences plus custom city screen backgrounds. HoMM2 Dev Diary 04 – New Throne Room, Intro, Dip & Wonder Videos For The Civ2 Heroes Of Might & Magic 2 Mod: In the fourth dev diary we look at changing Civ2’s throne room with a HoMM2 castle jigsaw while completely replacing the title screen plus intro, diplomacy herald and wonder videos with cool HoMM2 content.
If anyone is interested here's the next 3 Civilization 2 - Heroes of Might & Magic 2 mod dev diaries made over the last few months. Can't find any contact details but he's got a website here: It's made by Angus Johnson and is far more recent (new version in 2019). I used it few times to solves problems I was having with GifX inserting custom graphics into the dlls.
There's also 'Resource Hacker' that people use for Civ2 as well and consider it superior. There's an email for him on the about screen in the GifX app if you're feeling lucky lol. 'GifXtractor' was made by a fellow named 'Rune Berge' in 1999 so god knows what happened to him and his source files lol. Click to expand.Hmm so presumably getting the source to one of these Civ2 dll viewers/extractors to see how they're accessing the images would be beneficial to you? As it would hint to how the main game is accessing the images too?