Alexandermb

i'll will take it into account now that i have started reanimating the horse and riders, first i will be doing the horse animations plus more natural wildlife idles with a expanded version of the horse then i'll go again for the riders with the new blankets/armors. After some time looking the animations i noticed a lot of weird distortions and the wrong placement of bones are one of the causes so i decided to add more bones and make a cleaner horse symmetrical to the X axis (wich this doesn't have), since i already got the animations base shapes is easier and faster to make them again, i already have the base for gallop and walking in the new one and they are far more cleaner than before in the expanded armature. Btw I've learned how to make collisions for death animations work similar to enrique's last video so i will try using collisions and physics blender engine to make a more natural like death animations and hair.

Done.

now is just the head prop missing.

Some similar colour to the references, gold and bronze.

This is what it will look like, missing the saddle. (changed the texture of the right horse for comparisson)

What fits better? the actual desing, or the reference one?

@Sundiata i haven't forgot of the kush, but i may need your help here: what is exactly the shiny things ? i will make them as a basic_trans object or if it doesn't take too many tris i'll make each circle with a 6 corners planes with player colour belts.

Thats for sure coming, but will have to wait until alpha 24, last time i did the horse + riders animations took months to fully commit, making the rein means make again every rider animation to match the rein position, but at least is something i have in mind since i have to modify every animation to fit with the horse armors.

Shorter

i'll make it shorter Cyrus blanket:

Macedonian hero blanket:

@stanislas69 i'll be doing more variety for the heros but this are enough for start review. Horse_new_armor_&_blankets.7z

From L to R: Elite Swordsman Basic (is using it the advanced rank of swordsman since the basic version has just a plain leather blanket but still is the most basic desing of the blankets on celtic factions) Champion Advanced Javelin

Mauryans, no references founded so i used the shields patterns and symbols

Ptol blanket, celt champion blanket, and rome saddle.

Brit/gaul champion and hero blanket: @stanislas69 once finished i'll leave this blend file for the art repo.

Another celtic symbol for blankets, remember in case someone need the symbols this are 3D models so can be adapted to most things (shields, clothes, banners, buildings)

Now it have player alpha channel and specular map

i'm making the cart cavalry blanket with player colour + frontal armor as one single mesh, but i need to ask, what is supposed to be this?

added TODO in the reanimate proces, i will be cleaning the files there and properly fixing the proportions now that the armors and blankets are a lot different than the first one used in the animations and since i learned how to make hair/cloth only physic simulation from Blender to 0 A.D, i will be cleaning the capes too.

@Sundiata tried to make it similar to the texture it already have but also followed this one wich was also posted some where in the forums.

been looking the units close and dind't saw any armor or blanket calling the wrong variant. heres a screenshot of the iber armor wich has all variants included too, if the armor and blanket remains in the idle animations is because it isn't reading any attack melee animations, but as can be seen here the armor and the blanket follows the horse.

Update: Iberian: athenian Carthaginian Fur: Persian basic rank:

it seems that if every animation variant (variant/quadraped/horse/Spearman for example) if you put them all together in the same <group/> it will randomly call 1 of the variants leading by the frequency, but if you put every variant in the same file separated by a group for each variant, it will read his similar variant and sinchronyze the animations reducing the amount of files needed per unit type a good example are the unit capes, they are divided into: Swordsman, spearman, etc; then it will be much better just pick al the capes and make them just by type of cape and civ using variants instead of using an actor for every cape. So the same goes for the blankets or front armors, i put all the horses variants animations together in every prop so i only need 1 front armor for bronze and 1 for iron, instead of 1 per cavalry type. Btw did the iberian/spearman_e armor since the texture is quite low res to be recognizable.The blanket isn't part of the armor texture, it is the same blanket prop over the armor, just missing the mask.

Highly reduced the number of prop actors files