About the shields

[Romanheart]

Ave! This is my first post here, despite I'm ardent fan of RTW mods

I've noticed that many models in this fantastic Mod (for me, absolutely the best!) have shields with thickness, and other without it. Thickness make shields really realistic, giving to graphic an "heavy" beauty.

So my question is: why not all shields have this great characteristic? It's beacause of the heaviness of the models, or just for team choice?

You're doing an epic work, really!

P.S. theese are some shields made by me in Photoshop

[ferres]

[xXEsotericXx]

Love the green shield with the 2 fox's on them !

[General Brittanicus]

I like the yellow shield, welcome to the RS forum btw

[xXEsotericXx]

I like the yellow shield, welcome to the RS forum btw

Thank u dear kind sir !

ps: the yellow shield looks nice too , seems its for a spearband, u can put your spears on them

[Romanheart]

Starting from the left: 7 hellenistic shields, 2 Roman, 3 German, 2 Illyrian, 3 Celtic, 1 Beduin, 5 African, 2 Eastern, 1 Armenian, 1 Arabian, 1 Belgic, 3 Scytho-Sarmatian, 1 Samnite, 1 Dacian, 2 Britons, 1 Baltic-Slavic and 1 Palmyrens.

[chaplain118]

The shield thickness issue has been one that the dev team had looked at. It was simply a time issue. At one point none of the models had thickness to their shields but eventually some models were given shields with thickness. Being that the list of models are filled to the brim, it was impractical to ask Tone to go back and add shield depth to ALL the existing models (and given that there are some models shared by multiple factions in the forms of different units, adding thickness to shields would be a logistical nightmare.

[xXEsotericXx]

The shield thickness issue has been one that the dev team had looked at. It was simply a time issue. At one point none of the models had thickness to their shields but eventually some models were given shields with thickness. Being that the list of models are filled to the brim, it was impractical to ask Tone to go back and add shield depth to ALL the existing models (and given that there are some models shared by multiple factions in the forms of different units, adding thickness to shields would be a logistical nightmare.

The greeks had very strong shields , Unbreakble Iron aloy reinforced with hard wood or harder material within, saw on youtube.

[tone]

Nice work.

Yeah, it's purely a question of time.....the fact that I'm the only active modeller in the team, but tied up with other stuff. So unless someone else comes along and helps out with modelling - unlikely as adding shield thickness is not exactly the most glamorous of jobs - it won't get done.

[Romanheart]

Thanks for the answer

[Vardan the Great]

Ave! This is my first post here, despite I'm ardent fan of RTW mods

I've noticed that many models in this fantastic Mod (for me, absolutely the best!) have shields with thickness, and other without it. Thickness make shields really realistic, giving to graphic an "heavy" beauty.

So my question is: why not all shields have this great characteristic? It's beacause of the heaviness of the models, or just for team choice?

You're doing an epic work, really!

P.S. theese are some shields made by me in Photoshop

my cong!

[Visarion]

nice shields

[Leeham991]

Those shields to scale?

[rory o'kane]

Those shields to scale?

Clearly not. The Theuroi (if that's the pleural of Theuros) should be taller and just as wide as the round hoplite-style shields (the aspis).

[Leeham991]

Clearly not. The Theuroi (if that's the pleural of Theuros) should be taller and just as wide as the round hoplite-style shields (the aspis).

I thought so, but I had my ask, my eyes are not the best.

[Romanheart]

In this pic I've posted the shields are not proportionated because came from different textures with different dimensions. So some shields are bigger or smaller.