AAA: Punic Generals (1.0)ABOUT
New Punic Generals, who change appearance based on age, rank and season.
This will be the fourth release in a series of campaign agent character mods with the aim of providing players with characters that dynamically replace their appearances with alternating variants based on three attributes for all campaigns.
These three attributes are:
- Age - As a general character's age value increases over the years, their facial appearance will gradually look older. This will provide a visual clue to the player that a character will soon be reaching a natural death. For characters belonging to other factions, you previously had no way of knowing roughly how old they were - but with this mod, now you do!
- Advancement - As a general ranks up through battles, their gear will become more extravagant as befits their status and accumulated gravitas. They will even start wearing their armour openly in the senate, like a dictator would, when not leading an army after they have attained a high enough rank.
- Acclimatisation - When a season changes to winter, they will swap their appearance to a version which will wear winter clothing. This will provide a bit more immersion and variation to their appearances to fit the surrounding environments.
Despite starting up this thread, I haven't actually started work on the Punic Generals just yet - I want to update the other three existing AAA mods to finish them off first (give the fixed skins/heads + more hair/beards to the Roman Generals, give more head variation to the Spartan Generals etc). These are the main reasons I've opened up this thread now:
- Ideas + Discussion: In the past I've just worked quietly on the mods, mostly doing my own research for how the characters should generally look like, working on a whole load of stuff and then surprising people with an update. This time I want to hear your ideas for what they should look like first. Feel free to share and discuss anything in relation to how these Punic characters should look (historical references - images, texts etc). Don't worry if the assets don't exist in the game, I have the ability to make them myself (helmets, torso armour, tunics, greaves, weapons, shields, cloaks, jewellery etc).
- Research: Opening this discussion early (hopefully) gives me the research + references I need faster, since I presume a lot of people on this part of TWC are history buffs and might know more than I do in regards to what Punic leaders or nobles may have worn.
- Future: Lastly, I wanted to let you all know which AAA mod will come next - a lot of people keep asking what the next mod I'm going to work on will be, so here's the answer.
This is my initial plan for the Punic characters' appearances (not just generals, but also for women + politicians). Since there isn't as much to do compared to the Romans + Greeks, the first release will hopefully be the last and final release:
- Grand Campaign + Hannibal at the Gates
- Carthaginian Characters (1040 VMDs)
- General Rank Variations: 10; 10 warm, 10 cold
- Politician Rank Variations: 6; 6 warm
- Character Head Variations: 20
- Age Variations: 2; Young + Old
- Libyan Characters (400 VMDs)
- General Rank Variations: 10; 10 warm
- Character Head Variations: 20
- Age Variations: 2; Young + Old
- Punic Female Characters (15 VMDs)
- Politician Rank Variations: 1; 1 warm
- Character Head Variations: 5
- Age Variations: 3; Young + Middle + Old
- Historical Characters
- Hannibal Barca (40 VMDs)
- Uniforms: 10; 10 warm, 10 cold
- Ages: Young + Old
- Hasdrubal Barca (40 VMDs)
- Uniforms: 10; 10 warm, 10 cold
- Ages: Young + Old
- TOTAL VMDs: 1535