Sumskilz's Unit Creation Blog

[Alejandro Sanchez]

Fabric covered leather helmet from western Persia:



This was fairly easy to create since the Rusichi mod had made some similar helmets for their Alans. I just reshaped their model a bit and retextured it, but I think it turned out pretty well.

Alanian costume for comparison (in attachments)

[Biggieboy]

I just have to reply, your skins are amongst the best I have ever seen!

Brilliant work!

[sumskilz]

I will probably create a few more Daylami units before I do an official preview, but these guys are almost done (shield textures by Pacco):

[pacco]

Ohh... I didn´t see these units... I really like them!
Well done mate.

[JonathanB]

Son of a bee sting! Outstanding units once again!

[gustave]

Very nice !

[Matthæus]

not just nice - excellent !

[Silesian_Noble]

Holy crap! Nice job

[Musculus Maximus]

delete pls, sry

[Musculus Maximus]

@ sumskilz

realy nice skins

i have one proposal, cut the skirt in the middle from the model, look to my example - and you have never the bad texture stretching (red circle on attachments)



regrads Muscu

[Horatius Flaccus]

Brilliant work, Sumskilz!

[jermagon]

Sean you're doing a great work, bust is there any upcoming Moorish units?

[Walkman810i]

Very nice!

[Meister Röhrich]

Just magnificent!

[Recon]

Great units man!

But one detail you gave you're previous units is missing i.e. personal items such as water bottles (water bags for muslims maybe?), sidearms, bags, purses ect.

Yeah thats right sumz when you with you're long record of greatness start slacking - we notice!

[sumskilz]

Thanks guys

i have one proposal, cut the skirt in the middle from the model, look to my example - and you have never the bad texture stretching (red circle on attachments)

Yeah the stretching bothers me. Of course fabric does stretch in real life but it looks unnatural the way it is in the game. The only reason that I haven't done what you suggest is that the clothing I'm recreating wrapped right over left with the seam at the side, so it's a matter of historical accuracy. I find the stretching to be more noticable in still screenshots than it is while playing.

But one detail you gave you're previous units is missing i.e. personal items such as water bottles (water bags for muslims maybe?), sidearms, bags, purses ect.

Yeah thats right sumz when you with you're long record of greatness start slacking - we notice!

I did say they are “almost done”. When they are holding zupin (double pointed javelins) as in the top picture, they will actually have the axes as sidearms.

As far as other interesting attachments, you can consider all my units to be works in progress even the ones I preview. I’ve been leaving some of those small details off in order to speed up production (at least for now).

Sean you're doing a great work, bust is there any upcoming Moorish units?

I'd like to say yes, but I'm probably going to work on some more Middle-Eastern regional units right now because I have a lot of the clothing done already. I think you might see Andalusian regional units before the actual Murabitun. Pacco just created some shields for Christian Spanish units some of which will work well for Andalusians as well.

[Alejandro Sanchez]

Very well!

[sumskilz]

I haven't posted here in a while since I've mostly been working on map textures, but here's a few Scandinavians:



The skin tones look a little weird in this image but I think it may just be the lighting in Milkshape. If not, I'll fix them after I've tested them in the game.

[Cvetko]

Great work, +rep!

[Fire-dweller]

Will the Assassins be available to only the Shi'a?