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[Frunk]

Aye, the latest ones with the face guard change are nice. +rep for your tireless work. I lack such attention to detail.

[paleologos]

Thanks people.

Meanwhile, I've been trying to improve the models for the belt bags, their positions and their bone weighting; it looks like I need to put more work into them.

I did improve the UV mapping of the upper sleeves and their textures no longer look stretched.
This is a problem commonly plaguing many models as the UV mapping is originally made for the figures in the crucifix position but in game their arms are lowered.

And I just noticed the slight improvement I made in the chain mail texture the last week.
I think it will be very difficult for me to top that without dramatically increasing the poly count of the models.

For your eyes' pleasure:

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[Akar]

That chain mail is very pretty dude, nicely done. Shields and gambesons looking good too. Shame that these guys can't get their feet out of the floor though so we can see those sexy shoes.

[paleologos]

That really depends on the floor, as I have sadly figured out.
It seems that the level of the ground is not the same as it's textures at all places.

[Akar]

Yeah that sounds about par for the course .

[MightyPotato]

I think everything here looks really beautiful. The best solution for the shoes would be to do as Jurcek suggested, which would be to raise them a little, but honestly I don't see it as too problematic at all.

The solution I use for a group appearing too often in game is diluting it by making duplicates of all other groups in milkshape, which makes that group in question less likely to appear. I do think that crescent-shaped visor is a very unique feature and I do think that it looks quite nice however.

Also when it comes to small details such as gourds, the normal map problem could be solved by not giving them any since many of the details already appear in the mesh itself. I do prefer much more your toned-down gambeson normals also!

Keep up the great work!!!

[Louis Lux]

Agree on all points with MightyPotato.

It's cool that you are elevating your units to a greater level of polish.

I've noticed something not quite right with the helmet straps and possibly the shield straps (vertex normals issue perhaps?).

[paleologos]

Yes, I noticed that too, the normals are not aligned.
I know how to fix that - I actually made a tutorial about this thing.

[Navajo Joe]

Pal,

An excellent job, I really have nothing to add that you have not already stated or anybody prior to my post.

Tbh I do like the nasal guard, further back the soldier the better it looks.

Not a fan of the guy on the right face guard, it looks like my cycling glasses!!!!

Cheers

NJ

[paleologos]

Thanks Joe.

In the past few days I've been using my free time to iron out the details of the padded model before release.
Still some things need to be done.

It seems I needed some distraction and I modeled this:

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I modeled it after the one at the wikipedia page on canteens.

Comments?

[Quintus Hortensius Hortalus]

Cool stuff, I like it Do you have plans to update the texture to add in the carvings of your example?

[paleologos]

If you mean the carving in the museum piece, no, not for the time being.

[Quintus Hortensius Hortalus]

Ah ok, I just thought it looked cool but on the other hand such an individual detail would look 'correct' when assigned to many men in a unit.

[Akar]

All of the details look great but the main part of the canteen looks a little blurry to me :S

[cedric37]

They all look very nice, pal; well done!

[nahun]

Hello friend, sorry, I have not been very active on this platform.
A fabulous job as always, I've been checking out some of your posts.
About the canteen, the modeling is fine, but I think it has too much polygon load for such a small object. In my experience these objects can have a lower quality because they usually do not attract as much attention and you can leave room for other more visible things

[paleologos]

This is a request by AnthoniusII for his mod The Great Conflicts.

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It was modeled after this:

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[kostic]

Perfect !

[paleologos]

Perfect !

Thank you.

And this is a preview of my bid for the new badges competition, still a Work-In-Progress:

[Lifthrasir]

Good stuff but you need to keep the right colours for the text, bold red for Hex, navy blue for moderator, etc