[PASSED 03/09/09] [Artifex] alien_t (Patron: B. Ward)

**B. Ward** · February 27, 2009, 03:48 PM

Patron: B. Ward
I, B. Ward propose that the member alien_t be granted citizenship and promoted to the rank of Artifex.

I first became interested in this member when I patronized a team member of his a while ago, gogo t. I have always been impressed by members who take the initiative to create factions they wanted to see in the original game rather than complain about them not being in. This member is an overall nice guy and very talented modder. The work he has done for Bulgaria: Total War is on par with many other modders out there. He's more action and less talk, something I like in modders. He's outlined his modding working quite well and I feel his paragraph will speak for him well more than I can. So I give you alien_t. Hopefully you all will see what I already have. Thanks for your consideration.

Regards,
B. Ward, Opifex

Client: alien_t

My real name is Tommy. I live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I have full time job in a large Bulgarian business information service provider company as a media monitoring manager. It's a middle level management position.

I'm playing TW games since Shogun TW. :original: My modding experience begin with Bulgaria TW v.1.0(before year - year and a half may be). These shots are examples from some of my earliest(...and ugliest too ) works. I started with making textures for strat. map models - page 6, 7 in my photobucket album. Then I started to make textures for battle models - page 5, 4. (note that some images of shields are taken from the internet, they are not mine.)

After we released v.1.0 we started to work for the next version of the mod - v.2.0. I made some new textures for Bulgarian and Latin Empire factions - page 3, leather armor patern. This is one of the mine first 3D modeling attempts...and failures. The more advanced & successful attempts are these dismounted proniars. Model & textures are mine, except for the shields - they're vanila. On this page all models are made by me, textures are made by my team-mates. The models & textures of the Tsar and General are mine work too(except the shield, made by Gogo_t). Also this model and texture for it is mine work(except the shield, made by Gogo_t).

Some units cards for version 2.0, and improved archer's texture & model. (in old version they were without helmets).

Now my and the team are working on version 3.0 of Bulgarian TW - a dark age mod with 5 playable factions(Bulgars, Avars, Khazars, Slavs & ERE) and 1 non-playable faction - Arab Caliphate which will be horde.

My works so far for this version of our mod are:
1. This new sabre model - in game shot
2. The model of Khan Kubrat sword - in game shot
3. The model of Khan Krum helmet - designed to be like in this art
4. The model of Khan Asparuh helmet - designed to be like this
5. The model of 3 new cav. spears
6. In this Avar preview there are my works too - including the avar helmet (note: pls. see the description above the "spoilers", not all textures & models are made by me)

The above examples cover the most of my modding experience.

I hope the information is sufficient & will be useful for you.

P.S. I'm sorry for my English - its' not perfect.

Best regards,
alien_t/a.k.a Tommy

**B. Ward** · February 27, 2009, 03:48 PM

One of my lazier paragraphs, but the client speaks for himself.

**Augustus Lucifer** · February 27, 2009, 07:05 PM

No more siblings!

**aja5191** · March 01, 2009, 03:09 PM

I love having patrons of such class themselves that they would not even think of patronizing someone who did not completely deserve the badge.

B. Ward is one of those, and alien_t deserves it.

**Pontifex Maximus** · March 03, 2009, 08:41 AM

Oops, probably ready for a poll on this one.

**Fabolous** · March 03, 2009, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Pøntifex

Oops, probably ready for a poll on this one.

Just got permissions to do so, poll is up now.

Hopefully done reasonably close to right.

**Augustus Lucifer** · March 03, 2009, 11:56 PM

This video should make clear my vote.

**Captain Blackadder** · March 04, 2009, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by aja5191

I love having patrons of such class themselves that they would not even think of patronizing someone who did not completely deserve the badge.

B. Ward is one of those, and alien_t deserves it.

I too love that patrons that put up deserving candidates time after time. Its a yes from me.