[PREVIEWS] WIP Preview Thread

[char]

Follow Ahiga guide but remember you can rotate, change angle of view and zoom in and out of the 3D model. You can also select different animations to get different poses for the soldier.
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[Maximus183]

As part of the massive project of reskinning all general variants, here's a little preview of Alaric (King of the Visigoths).



And another one featuring a WIP of Flavius Honorius:

[BalrogOfMorgoth]

That's awesome Maximus! Do the unplayable faction will have their generals modded too? All the germanic unplayable generals have the same helmet

[Maximus183]

Thank you! Yes, all factions will in one way or another have their generals reworked. CA really went overboard on the uniformity of everything in this game, so there's a lot to iron out. My approach as it stands right now, is to have each general variant look as unique as possible. So each Faction leader skin for each general won't have the same helmet etc. This does also mean that I'll get rid of the faction specific leader skins, like with the alamans, langobards, franks etc, since it doesn't make all that much sense. Instead there will be a diverse pool of variants that will be available to all barbarian factions. Not sure if I'll do a seperate set for east vs west germans, but I might.

[BalrogOfMorgoth]

That's amazing! Good luck for the great work!

[Ahiga]

So it turns out CA had the right idea with a dark diffuse layer, brighter specular for metal. I was noticing attempts at new scale looked really unsatisfactory and like it was too white. I'm probably not (watch me make a liar of myself) going to go back and redo the existing scale/lamellar armor right now, but I plan to in the future and will definitely follow this formula going forward. The exact level of shine (it's a bit bright here) might be off, but it looks so much better - like actual metal.

Left is an example of my old scale approach, right is an example of the new.


And quite literally right after writing that I won't go back and fix up the earlier lamellar and scale, I am starting to do so.

[Maximus183]

And quite literally right after writing that I won't go back and fix up the earlier lamellar and scale, I am starting to do so.

And this is why you're number one.

Here's some more reworked faction leaders:

[Hadrien Ier]

So it turns out CA had the right idea with a dark diffuse layer, brighter specular for metal.

Yes and the new FX introduced by the latest official patch goes further in this direction but like before there are some cases where they have over darkened the models by this process. I don't blame them anyway because it's really difficult to appreciate the final result under all light and weather conditions.

@Maximus183

The ostrogoth leader look amazing! (and the others too)

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Some pretty amazing work here Ahiga, Maximus!

[shawn858]

And this is why you're number one.

Here's some more reworked faction leaders:

Now THAT is a faction leader

[Brivime]

Thanks Brivime. Char told me how I think. You need to load a vanilla VMD - Att_rom_limitanei_borderguards or att_ger_germanic_nobles or anything like that. Officers and standard bearers may not work - they sometimes do, sometimes don't.

Once you do so you can pose them accordingly after you uncheck the cinematic skeleton box. But once you save that VMD and reload it you lose the TWEAK rigging.

So basically load up a vanilla VMD, delete everything necessary and then equip them as you want them to. If you want a shortcut, drop the VMD completed (let's say "brivime_arab_levy_spearmen") into any odd man-item folders like weapons, armor, skin, trousers, tunic, ect. Then reload Tweak so it shows up in the registry and load it as if it were an item.

This works, awesome thanks!

[gary]

superb mate

[Maximus183]

Finished up some more today.

[Hadrien Ier]

Very nice, particularly the suebian.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Yes very nice, I think the Frank needs a big mustache though

[char]

Finished up some more today.

Good job

[Maximus183]

Aaaaand some more.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Shtuka]

I do not like the new saxon king, what a grandfather? Old one was powerful and brutal person.

[Maximus183]

I do not like the new saxon king, what a grandfather? Old one was powerful and brutal person.

You do realise he's not sitting down in a 5th century wheelchair, right?

[Caddius]

King Gewis has more of the look of, "Look, son, I'm old. This is a comfy throne. You'll regret making me get up." I like it.