Development preview of Prussia

[Mayor]

Took you hours, but your result is really impressive. Congratulations!

[Antifiriz]

I have always liked the military clothing of Prussia, looking great sir! Really impressive.

[Biggus Splenus]

That mirlton certainly looks a little strange it lacks a flame.

Would you like me to whip one up for you? I got my hands on a computer screen so I can finally do all the modelling I want

Those hussars also lack the characteristic hairstyle and moustache that they sported. Any chance of seeing them featured?

[Steph]

This is the best I can do with simple mesh editing.

But if you can make better mirliton and grenadier cap, please go ahead.

For the airstyle, I have never tried that, and I don't know how complex it would be to add the mesh and texture for it.

[wangrin]

You can try to import mirliton from late French hussars from I.S (ETW mod).
I've created 3 models : one with the flame around the hat, two with the flame on the shoulder.

Variant 1 : Variant 2 : Variant 3 :


I will send you a link to download the model.

[Ziuk]

Towarczys-Regiment, Regiment Towarzyszy was prussian cavalry unit recruited from polish population (impoverished gentry, former polish soldiers, etc). They used uniform similar to National Cavalry(Kawaleria Narodowa): polish coat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cavalry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towarzysz

After campaign of 1807 unit was disbanded - many soldiers joined to cavalry of Duchy of Warsaw.

I think that you should change color of pants.

[Prince of Essling]

Towarczys-Regiment, Regiment Towarzyszy was prussian cavalry unit recruited from polish population (impoverished gentry, former polish soldiers, etc). They used uniform similar to National Cavalry(Kawaleria Narodowa): polish coat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cavalry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towarzysz

After campaign of 1807 unit was disbanded - many soldiers joined to cavalry of Duchy of Warsaw.

I think that you should change color of pants.

Nope - they are fine - see drawings by Ramm. While Knotel is the gold standard, he is not always right.... (and neither am I).

[Ziuk]

I don't know. It's mean we need deep analyzes. Maybe they used blue pants in autumn-winter season and white during spring and summer (like infantry of Duchy of Warsaw) but this hypothesis is weak.
I think that you can choose own interpretation becuase that unit wasn't very disciplined so they could use non-regulatory part of uniforms especially during campaign in 1807. I have polish book about Spring Campaign in 1807 where is a chapter about polish soldiers in foreign service (Russia, Prussia) and there are few pages about that unit. Author didn't descibe color of pants

[Steph]

Osprey also gives them white pants on the illustration, but the text describe long grey pants with two red strips. Go figure.

[Biggus Splenus]

Well wangrin is a much more capable 3D artist than myself, so it will definitely be best if we use his model

I'll just convert it from ETW format, do the vertex weights, and move the UVmap around a bit to fit the single piece, then I can send it to you, Steph.

Big thanks to wangrin

EDIT: Steph; would you like wangrin's 1st, 2nd or 3rd variant of the mirlton? We could always have multiple meshes, just for a bit of variation in the unit (surely not every individual in the unit would wear his flame in the same way). I'm assuming all the variations would use the same UVmap and texture, so we need not sacrifice any performance or space for this.

[Steph]

It's a good idea.

Or we could use one for the trumpet, one for officer, one trooper.

The more the merrier

[mennelik]

hi steph, i looking forward to this mod but like your mod suppose to be as much as accurate as possible would you look at the hat's of the hussars this issue seems comming back (not only your mod). i saw some pictures and there was a visor at the back of the hussars hat. this should'nt be a big deal to fix i hope ? Greetz

[Steph]

I will avoid this problem with the new factions (Russia, Prussia).

This happens I think mostly with older factions such as France (I didn't know how to edit meshes at the time).
I will at some point come back to them to correct it.

[Steph]

Lieb Husaren. Trooper, officer and Trumpeter.
With this, the 1805-1806 roster is complete. I will start working on the 1808+ now, and come back later to improve a bit the early hussars and grenadier when Splenyi send me new meshes I can use.

[VENNONETES]

OMG +REP

[Biggus Splenus]

Ok here is the mirlton,

I've made 3 attachments; 1 is just an image of the mirlton, 2nd is the UVmap, 3rd is the UV areas (for ease of texturing).

I modified wangrins model a little bit, just so that it looks closer to the vanilla style (which also took out about 300 vertices, use to have about 800 and now has 500, which mean a very slight performance pick up).

Just remember that the NTW engine mirrors everything, which is why I had to mirror my model, so it would appear correct in-game.

This is my (barely my own anyway) first ever 3D model that will offically be used in a mod

I can make a texture in the future.

Steph, I will send you a PM now with the mesh.

EDIT: Steph, if you can post some references of these Prussian hussars in their mirlton, that would be great, so I can start on the texture

[Steph]

It's nice to see this. Not only to get a proper mirliton, but having help on such a large project is really important for the motivation.

[Biggus Splenus]

No doubt; doing all that work by yourself would be tiring, and you would definitely get sick of it at times.

[Caius Bingerus]

beautiful, outstanding...just wow, your talent is getting better day by day..."Garde-Jäger" are my favorites for now, "Garde-Füsiliere" and "Garde-Grenadiere" are my second, really can't wait for the prussians, thx steph

[Steph]

1808 grenadiers


New rolled blanket


And officer


The grenadier, musketeer, fusilier, etc will have different "regimental" colours to help differentiate them.
But if I make a specific officer torso for each colour, the atlas will be filled rather quickly. So I'll probably use a kind of generic officer (see the white collar, cuff and turnbacks while the grenadiers have red colours).