"Dagovax Sirrianus, one of the main creators of the RTW: Barbarian Invasion mod "Total War: 1942", and the creator of Israel: Total War and Holland: Total War- has now implemented new laser animations and a new Star Wars Storm Trooper model to the Star Wars Total War mod from 2009.
He didn't even know this mod existed, but i sent him the link to this page and gave him the idea. Our plan is to make this a mod for RTW: Alexander- as only the Alexander expansion allows heroes like Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
The plan is to have it be a custom battle release at first, due to the heavy amount of work required to make an entire campaign with a galactic map from scratch (I do know that it is possible, the Medieval 2: Kingdoms mod "Star Wars: Total War" from 2014 had a campaign map in which the space was actually the water, spaceships the ships, and in which cities got replaced with planets - so siege battles was land battles in the mod. But unfortunately the creators harddrive broke and all his work got deleted which is the reason the mod died.) but if enough interest can be gathered that would be a cool thing.
The plan however is to simply replace the models of the Empire and the Rebels for now, and add new cool animations, fix the UI, quotes, names and symbols. Pretty much polish up the mod and make two factions with good models.
Possible factions later could be the Republic and the Trade Federation. As we have enough material to replace droids and such from the Prequel trilogy as well. But as of right now the focus is the Rebel Alliance and the Empire.
It's unclear if the project will really take off but i've provided Dagovax with stuff from the 2005 game Freedom Force that actually could easily be converted to RTW. So the Storm Trooper here is a converted Freedom Force model. Yeah they are detailed, but they are converted to Freedom Force- by other modders that allowed anyone to download- and now we have tried using the Storm Trooper in Rome and it worked fine."
"The Star Destroyer on the picture will be re-sized and made smaller, due to problems with using it in this state. It's so high up in the air that you could only see it from a mountain. As such it will be made smaller to work better in the mod, but i still liked the picture."
"Dagovax have added the Grand Admirals and Commanders of the Galactic Empire."
"Just a picture of the AT-AT Mech unit. The second or third unit that Dagovax implemented to the mod. He remade the animations and added new bones to the model."
"As Emperor Palpatine got the Red Guards/Royal Guards, we decided to add elite Storm Trooper Commanders as a bodyguard for Lord Vader."
"The most recent unit added to the Galactic Empire- Emperor Palpatine himself, using a bodyguard of Red Guards as well as his red lightsaber as his weapon."
"The Imperial Scouts, or"Speeders"- Dagovax remade their animation speed twice, added a new blaster sound, sound for their vehicles,new blaster effects etc."
"The first fully working spaceship added to the mod- the Imperial Tie Fighters. They are using new green laser effects, the 1942 JET-animations and new sound."
"The AT-ST Mech in use by the Galactic Empire, complete with new sound and laser effects.
- The animations are the elephant-animations, so they aren't new- but man do they look awesome when they move!"
"The Death Star 1 from Episode IV (4) "A New Hope" has been implemented with new sound, a new blast etc.
It's very over powered which is the point, but it can be taken down if it is facing enough enemy X-wings or other spaceships."
"The first unit of the Rebel Alliance is the Millennium Falcon."
"The Rebel Alliance first infantry unit is the Marksmen- women with sniper rifles.
Currently they are like any other infantry, but we are thinking about adding the sniper animations from 1942 to this unit- it would make them much better on the battlefield."
"The Rebel Troopers have been added as the regular infantry of the Rebel Alliance- they are the same as the Rebels in Episode IV (4).
The Rebel Alliances answer to the Imperial Storm Troopers."
"The last unit worked on by Dagovax Sirrianus, the X-Wings of the Rebel Alliance- they still do not have a unit card just like the Imperial Star Destroyers, and this unit were also lacking a name.
However it is fully functional in battle!"
The Tie Fighter/AT-ST had been imported from Empire at War due to Dagovax being unable to convert the Freedom Force models of these units. But he has managed to implement an old importer of NIF-files to his 3DSMAX modelling program and is now able to convert the FF models of the Tie Fighters and the AT-ST's- this still means he'd need to re-rig the FF models. So he will have rigged four models for the result of two.
Here is the WIP screenshot of the future version of the Tie Fighter:
And some additional pictures of his changes to the vanilla campaign map, and the plan is to remake it entirely- but he is just trying stuff on the old currently:
The inspiration for the map:
http://www.swgalaxymap.com/?fbclid=I...V1njPH9rSg0VhQ