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that shield would be badass for norman knights, but the carolingian franks seem to favor the round shield

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WIP - Carolingian infantry Helmet by stanislas69 and Shield mesh by Alexandermb @Alexandermb By armor, do you mean the scale armor?

Norse dock with 4 separated buildings for later eyecandy usage Dock Merchandise dock Fish hut Norse Ram Has arrows struck and shields could variate (Exception for player colour)

italiancastlerender.bmp lol

There is 0ad though

Wow, thank you @Sundiata. I always wondered why all those (most) African flags have red green gold.

4 ships updated.

@Alexandermb I have reused the scale texture that I've made for the Kushites. I'm about to commit the ones below. I have a 512x512 copy of the scale armor. Is that what you need? Or a vector copy of the armor itself?

There are over a hundred species of ducks and geese around the globe, and several are widespread throughout Eurasia; they were eaten in Egypt, Greece, and Europe long before the introduction of the chicken (and still are). 0 A.D. really needs many more animals, including birds. But let's not be overtly ambitious, and just list a few of the most common in Western Europe: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos): Eurasian common coot (Fulica atra): Eurasian common teal (Anas crecca): Eurasian common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus): Greylag goose (Anser anser): Mute swan (Cygnus olor): (Images are from Wikipedia.)

Yes, the red-gold-green pan-African colours originated in Ethiopia. And it's no coincedence the African Union is headquarted in Addis Ababa. Sorry for interrupting then, apparently I misunderstood.

I could add ducks to the animal lists. Maybe @Nescio would know how common those were.

Nice ! You should upload your wood material here with a screenshot using this http://blenderdiplom.com/en/downloads/584-download-cycles-material-test-scene.html And any good material you make. You should also link the sculpting brushes I'm will upload my current metal materials and the modified wood

@Lion.Kanzen You mean the red, gold and green? Those are the colours of the Imperial Ethiopian flag. In 1896, in the Battle of Adwa, the Ethiopian (Abyssinian) army under Emperor Menelik II, (commanded by among others, Ras Makonnen, Haile Selassie's father) decisively defeated a major invasion by the Italians, who sought to colonize Ethiopia. This was the largest single defeat of a modern European army in the history of Africa. A traumatizing event for the Kingdom of Italy, but an event that catapulted Ethiopia to the forefront of African liberation struggles. All around the world people of African descent rallied behind the Ethiopian colours, and with the wave of decolonisation that swept over Sub-Saharan Africa, in no small part due to the efforts and support of Haile Selassie I, many African countries (including Ghana ) adopted the red, gold and green as their own national colours (in remembrance and respect for the early liberation struggles). Among Rastafarians, Haile Selassie has a divine status, and Ethiopian Imperial iconography is widely used, including the imperial flag (and Lion of Judah), which is strongly preferred to the Jamaican National flag, or any other flag for that matter.. Although I've heard/read different explanations as well including: Red for the blood of the martyrs; Gold for the riches of the country/culture and Green for the land/nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adwa Emperor Haile Selassie I, born under the name and title: Ras Lij Tafari Makonnen, or simply Ras Tafari. The Kebur Zabagna, Imperial troops carrying the flag Haile Selassie visits Jamaica, is welcomed by thousands of Ethiopian flags

tutorial for making grass field in blender (can be used for make terrain textures

It's been a while since I've done any work on this but I've actually had quite a few improvements that I've made locally that I never made patches for. I had to update to the latest development snapshot but now I'm starting to push my backed up changes to trac. Some of the things I've got coming up: Shadow Filtering I replaced the old box filter with an 8 sample poisson disk filter. This should yield significantly smoother shadows with soft edges. Depth of Field The existing dof shader is unusable. The blur it uses is not correctly implemented and it tries (and fails miserably) to approximate a camera's focal distance, which isn't terribly appropriate for an RTS. I made a much simpler dof shader that just interpolates with a blurred/downscaled version of the screen image based on depth to approximate the focal behavior of the human eye. It basically softens far away objects slightly. It's subtle but noticeable, works properly, and is also a lot cheaper to apply than the current filter. Water As a minor tweak to my previous work on the water shader I increased the contrast of water reflections to accentuate shadows a bit more. Currently objects reflected in water tend to have a "washed out" look due to the lack of contrast. This will simply color balance them a little better.

Procedural wood planks: Procedural_Wood_planks.blend

Yes, but don't expect great gameplay.

For the record it's also broken in Atlas. About lighting I'd like to have working torches and explosions at some point doing light. Glowing windows too.

Here's some Ethiopian nationalism for you guys At the beginning of the second Italo-Abyssinian war, the various Ethiopian princes (Ras), chieftains, generals, warlords and regular soldiers pledged allegiance to the Emperor, Haile Selassie I, in spectacular ceremonious splendor. After months of heavy fighting, in which the Italians used hundreds of tons of poison gas (sprayed from airplanes), Haile Selassie (who actually fought in the trenches with his troops) was forced into exile. Addis Ababa was captured by the Italians, and the remaining Ethiopian forces formed a resistance movement, called "the Black Lions". Resistance fighters heavily restricted the movement of Italian troops outside of Addis Ababa and Axum, making Italian attempts to control the countryside a nightmare. The frustration led to several major massacres of civilians and clergy, the destruction churches and even archaeological sights. Monuments like some of the Stelae of Axum were taken back to Italy in their entirety, and more bad stuff... This war was a major prelude to WWII, as it showed the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations. 5 years later Ethiopia was liberated with help from allied forces, and Selassie was reinstalled. Some of the dudes in the video are major commanders, turned resistance fighters in the later part of the war... There's dudes "riding" lions in this video... Like, seriously... Anyway, it's this spirit of resistance that inspired Rastafarians so much. Ethiopian nationalism is very strong among most Rastafarians, which is why you see the red, gold and green so often in association with the movement. This imperial iconography and spirit of resistance permeates Rastafarian art, including music, and since Rastas make some of the best Reggae music out there.... Haile Selassie during the war: Traditional warriors (chiefs/commanders) Elite, personal guard (European equipment) Zabagna Selassie and Mussolini Selassie haunts the dreams of Mussolini: Selassie and Rastafarians: Mortimo Planno (Rastaman) was an important mentor to Bob Marley... "Be Good Rasta, Be Good", Check out dr Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana meeting with Haile Selassie, and one of his lions... Hilarious, the way they're scared and excited at the same time to pet a lion. These are absolute heavyweights in African/world history: And Menelik II, Haile Selassie's uncle and predecessor. It was under him that the Italians were first defeated at Adwa, 1896.

Ah wxwidgets. I totally forgot about that. GL3 would also make soft particles practical, which 0ad badly needs.

Not really an issue, but I don't think the shader cares what version of GL is being used by the game anyway. Yes it doesn't run. That's a pain because it prevents me from making good test maps to demonstrate the difference. I still need to figure out how to adjust the camera in game to get low angle shots. I don't know the specific error though. I'd have to dig around to figure out where that's recorded. This does seem to be an improvement. I need to reduce the reflection wobble to account for that though, because it ends up being ridiculous. I wonder if this fixes the black water issue that occurs with high waviness ocean waves at certain wind angles. True HDR can be done with RGB16F as well, which is my preferred format. HDR doesn't make sense for 0ad though because there aren't any stacking projectile lights or anything that would cause the brightness to exceed 1.0. IMO you shouldn't need to select effects anyway. I'm not really aware of any other postproc effects that would be good for 0ad, and the ones we've got are probably best combined. I've been testing that but it's difficult without the ability to adjust map settings to compensate for the changes or to eliminate interfering factors like fog. I'm running an old core i3 2120 with 4GB of DDR3 RAM and an nvidia 240GT with 1GB of DDR3 RAM. It's literally the cheapest gfx card you can buy. The in-game fps meter shows 30-50fps pretty consistent even with all the bells and whistles I've been working on turned on, and the general responsiveness is good. I'm not a big fan of GL4. There are some interesting things you can do with GL4.x but none of those things really apply to 0ad. Occlusion culling is pretty useless in 0ad since basically nothing is ever occluded to get culled, and fancy stuff like motion blur is kind of pointless. I don't really know how to mix shadow sampling modes in GLSL without copying the shadow map anyway, if it's even possible.

Yes... But I love the highways...

Hi, thank you for your hard work you may also upload your work here https://code.wildfiregames.com for review. Maybe you can be interested https://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/4734 because almost no one knows how to solve it and we have constant reports about similar issues (actually some shader might be corrupted).

Well he asked me if he could use mine to mass his own

our equivalent. a Mayan codex at Copan.

que cosa tan bella. a beautiful piece of history.

The Garima Gospel (Aksumite) The Garima Gospel (Aksumite) earliest surviving complete illuminated Christian manuscript, IN THE WORLD, written in Ge'ez, ancient Ethiopic script. Supposedly written by Syriac monks, but apparently that's not so certain anymore... Evangelist portrait of Saint Mark from Garima 2 Other ancient illuminated manuscripts: This all belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, by the way.. Other Ethiopian Monks: The Bahitawi are a specific type of Ethiopian hermit monk, separate from society. They follow similar Old Testament commandments as (strict) Rastafarians, which makes them look similar. A great source of spiritual inspiration for Rastafarians and Ethiopians alike. Cross-continetal mysticism... Two Rastafarians and a Bahitawi monk

lol catbarf's set is phenomenal, he used my Italian castle mod for AoK to make his Byzantine castle

@wackyserious Looks pretty cool ! Do not forget to save all those screenshots in some place so we can upload them to moddb I'll give you the Millenium AD watermark if you want or you can steal from the render dump thread

First part can be nice around 1000 AD and second part 1492

@Lion.Kanzen Yeah, I'm absolutely in love with Ethiopia... Every aspect of their history, from the Kingdom of D'mt, to the Aksumite Empire, the Zagwe Dynasty and the Abyssinian Empire are all simply delicious...

Sounds good for an expansion based in African about AoE3 http://www.moddb.com/mods/age-of-empires-3-kings-return/videos/aoe-iii-the-kings-return-africa-the-dark-contin

Yes, Haile Selassie is seen as the Christ... "The Lion of Judah, shall break every chain". According to the Ethiopian national history, he descends from the line of King Solomon and David, through Menelik I, son of Queen Makeda of Sheba and Solomon. Haile Selassie and his people are actually confirmed to be of Afro-Semitic ancestry, and an ancient Jewish population still lives in Ethiopia (although most migrated to Israel not long ago), known as Beta Israel (or archaic "Falasha")... Beta Israel, ancient Ethiopian Jews: The Rastafarian movement is a strong mix of literal and spiritual interpretations. Judeo-Christian ideology, mixed with Imperial Ethiopian iconography and a dash of mysticism. Check out the battle of Adwa... Italians were literally outgunned by the Ethiopians. One of the few occasions where an indigenous African army used artillery against a European army, to terrifying effect... Dude, he's talking about the colours of the flag carried by Rastas/Reggae artists...

Yes that obvious for me, but I saw this flags in my childhood. .

See the modding guide for details on how to create a mod.zip file. then just rename it to .pyromod or do the first step and then wait for a few days. Not that I would suggest that you shouldn't figure out what you are doing.

I like this. It should also be possible to make custom horizons that are independent from the skybox, but that would require basically a 4 sided alpha-blended "collar" that would be drawn over an existing skybox horizon to add in mountains or whatever. You can't just replace the side panels because then they wouldn't properly match the existing sky.

Millennium AD (Private message discussions)

Infantry reference Architecture and building prop reference

I've already cleaned most of the infantry actor files, some weeks ago. I was not able to update the forger actor file though. @stanislas69 Can you provide him with a permission/access to 0admods/millenniumad Too bad I still cannot post contents in our ModDB page. I still have to wait for some months, following ModDB's rules and regulations.

Actually i can't don't got acces yet, however i'm making separated commits: 2H axe animation + Barracks fix Norse tent eyecandy requested by @wackyserious i'm cleaning the actor files and updating cavalry to match the changes, also scaled the stable and fortress of the anglo for fit the horses. And for last the ships.

Make doors from gates a separated entity with less HP so can be destroyed first and open an small way of entrance, this would allow players to attack a well defended city whitout needed a lot of rams or siege weapons

a red love button. sorry off topic.

Edit: Another source on Anglo-Saxon clergy http://regia.org/research/church/church4.htm I've found this one before, I'll try create a texture based on the monk illustrated below I've got a new simpler variant of the clergy texture, a plain long dress

Western European Clergy

Frankish infantry prototype

The world used to be so beautiful in all its diversity... Now it's just shopping malls, highways and Netflix...