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You did a great job on the new Badlands cliffs! Need ones in that vein that for Savanna, Temperate, Tropic, and Desert. Would be awesome. Maybe eventually someone can use these and code a cliff feature for Atlas. ( MUCH LARGER VERSION: 4K )

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I just wanted to share this terrible idea i had while sketching hoplites

Also, here it is a preview of the archer ranged attack ive done testing:

To be fair it seems everything is under debate historically speaking

In case we have the spearman of the reference, since seleucids already have player color on their helmets. A good amount of references show the use of blue on the helmets and red specially spearmans and the peltast's

Those weren't new civilizations though, just existing ones polished and released to the public. Not saying that there wasn't any work done on them, just that most of the work had already been done. Not sure that has to have all that much relevance to decisions made now as release cycles are longer, but in either case I would suggest not judging what to do based on past process, but on what end result is wanted.

To add my opinion, which is definitely needed due to the shortage of people who care about this topic (There is not a hint of sarcasm there), I'd say that the team should focus its efforts on fleshing out one single existing faction. They get a full tech tree, unique flavour when it comes to their units, and the whole works. Developing new factions is a great thing, and we shouldn't discourage that, but the existing factions seem to be little more than skeletons of what they would actually be. After one faction has been done this way, there can be an effort to do so with the others as well. Maybe work out one faction per alpha as a minimum threshold.

Painted helmets reference:

<GenericName>Wolf Warrior</GenericName> <SpecificName>Wulfaharjaz</SpecificName>

Age2 DE showmatches starting in a minute here: https://www.twitch.tv/escapeaoe Not sure if they'll be uploaded to yt after stream is finished. Enjoy!

Ho fatto un'altra mappa, ma questa volta è una mappa scaramuccia, questa mappa è una mappa continentale con molti biomi e con 6 giocatori. Questa mappa è totalmente inventata. Great Island.xml Great Island.pmp

Finally did it! improved the mining animation:

Nice man! I can't wait for plume! Will look nice on thureophoroi type Hellenistic units.

I'm a little skeptical. I've heard the claim before. Even saying that it would destroy the Amazon. A hyperbole assumption if you ask me, considering that the Amazon didn't just disappear the last time the Sahara was green (though it was smaller). About the plankton, some studies have shown that global plankton populations have already dropped by more than 40% since 1950, while others note rapid plankton growth in the North Atlantic, both phenomenon directly tied to global CO2 levels. A greening of the Sahara could significantly reduce global CO2 levels, cooling the climate, and rather lead to the stabilisation of plankton levels. The dust also mostly comes from a specific place in the Sahara (Bodélé Depression), so, if we just leave that place a desert, we should be ok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_climate_cycles (of course, human activity is making things way worse than it needs to be)

Sure, to be honest i was just taking a break of animations and helmets making this brooch:

I agree. Adding civilization only to add civilization, without having a minimum of documentation about them can be problematic if a nitpicker like me appears. Joke aside, faction like the early Germans are tough to document correctly. But I think one day they need to be include to make the transition to the part II. Currently we should focus on those with enough documentation and on the current factions that are in an upgrading process (thanks to people like you). Anyway I don't see why it should be a problem. Most of the differences are cosmetics/esthetics. All the factions follows the same basis for the buildings and the units, so clearly to bring enough diversity, the game need to include a lot of factions.

hele_thracian_b8: Missing hair and cheeck. Edit: Added cheeck:

When was that ? I don't think I ever saw that I would totally love it though Well we still have the performance issue lol but yeah things have change. The increased dow load size might be though (over a certain size you have to have multiple files on windows IIRC) not to mention countries with pay per MB connection (we do have a lot of south america fans) I wish our only issue was adding civs though...

ugly things

I don't think the art department works like that It's more like "Heh look at this flower, it could be better, let's improve that" *Sad bear in the distance* Not really ? I mean the point of part II is to cover another era not to increase the number of civs of the previous one ?

It just takes someone to make a decision: "This and this and this are the Wonders we need for these civs, and they are a priority. So, let's get crackin'." Well, isn't that the whole point of "Part II"? lol

I'm thinking about it (Though they need to be finished first in any case) They will be in a separate mod called part II. You can just enable both I just need to check with the design document whether addind a gazillion factions is against the original founders idea of the game or not. Back on topic Shouldn't the generic name be hammer man or axeman ?

Nice visual particle effects.

New hele phrygian B1, as replacement of the Hele_Phrygian_B (The initial Phrygian i've did) With a better geometry having less useless faces. 1K textures for the art repository. Reference:

Desaturated 10% for match the other sele armor: (Missing the top crest).

Just to again add some more thoughts, I said that factions should be fleshed out; I think the point still stands. Let's take a classic like Age of Empires II, a title that still has, twenty years in the running, a healthy multiplayer community. A key reason for that I'd say is that each civilisation was designed to synergise with specific strategies and unit compositions. 0 A.D. I'd say lacks that flavour. As for what I would recommend, each civilisation should have at least one economic bonus and a bonus to a specific unit class. Age of Kings has each civilisation matched with three to five types of bonuses. For the most part 0 A.D. lacks that much. Next, 0 A.D. lacks the all important aspect of technological restrictions for specific factions. We should then think about how specific play styles could could be drawn out through them. The reason that I mention these two critical aspects is that balance could be completely turned on its head once a few of these kinds of changes take place.

ERROR: CCacheLoader failed to find archived or source file for: "simulation/templates/units/acha_infantry_javelinist_b.xml" So have you checked this file, does it exist with the correct name and is it truly in simulation/templates/units? CMIIW, but I think Random maps starting units are unique per Civs and can be modified in simulation\data\civs and editing each civ.

@Alexandermb Not to dog pile on you mang, lol, but can you look at some of the walks? Some of the walk_shield anims swing the shields around almost like they're not there. Same with the archer jog, the bow jiggles around like mad. The wood chopping animation looks to be the original submitted one, not @Enrique's edit/fix of it. Same with the mining animation. The pickaxe could go higher in the air and the arms extend straighter at the beginning and end of the stroke. Just some minor things I've noticed. The syntagma walk, for instance the sarissa pike jiggles and swings around weirdly. These are polish things, to be sure.

noooo it never worked like that stop it stop that the seleucids took over 2 years to finish come on now dont you like my TREES

i've just read the discussion here, in my humble opinion not as art deparment member, not as the Venezuelan guy with the worst download rate conection, but as a player ignorant of the history and the download size because as pc gaming community player i won't worry too much about download size if i really want the game, i mean. I pay for something i wan't if i can't afford it yet i save some money (if i could), in my country does exist also pay per MB connection and its increasing due the internet cable steal rate increase this past year, but going back to topic: I consider adding more civs shouldn't be an estigma to the game nor a pain in the end of the back neither should exist too much discussion about it. A code dev always gonna be worried about code, an artist dev always gonna be worried about art, if i were a programmer dev i wouldn't vote agaisn't or in favor of adding a new civ neither as an artist, i just would say: "Show me the references and i'll see where i can help". Civ should be added if the artwork is finished, if its completly different from other core game factions and if it has his unique civ roster while also having the history behind. In my opinion, Thracians should be added when finished too, Han chinese should also be added, and if this civilization reaches a whole new unique building aspect and his own unit textures, it should also be added. The only question we should be doing is "They enter in the 500-0.B.C timeframe"? Even millenium ad factions should be added to the core game if we reach at least 8 civilizations but making the game just like "Empire Earth" selection: Ancient Era > Republican Era > Middle Era > WW2 Era and block factions to the timeframe, and even make another selection for "Time traveling" making the player able to fight as byzantines agaisn't the hitites. The game is already compressed enough, it would only worry if i had to download 30GB, and even that players still buy Total War Rome and download the High GB amount of it and if we ever implement texture size quality wouldn't that mean we will have 1024 texture size +512 + 256?. There shouldn't exist bounds to size neither to an ancient doc dessign. I mean don't you have that feeling when looking a whole movie or serie franchise after the ending you say? It is done? Now where i could find something like this? i wish this would have been longer" i belive the old devs put that limit due their manwork power, i mean i wouldn't write a text saying: "I will live in Denmark in a house in the mountain away from what in my country is called "barrios" where all the desidious people live, If i can't even say i would live another day tomorrow because of the high mortality of my country. I belive devs also put that limit because this were the easiest factions to develop and to investigate, i mean their are like the core factions of any ancient era game tbh, if i would make a new game i wouldn't start developing the suevians nor the xiongnu if i have a completly full range of historical documents talking about carthage or rome or even the gauls just like math problems when i study before all my teachers left the country, i wouldn't waste 30 minutes developing a whole math problem from 10 problems if the other 9 can be done in 5 minutes each one, Same that happens to me when doing animations, i don't waste 1 hour animating if i can't find a good perspective of the motion if i can invest that time doing a better helmet. In fact i belive iberians were a placeholder using the gauls due their copy of the ships and their empty roster when they can be developed in the lusitans, oretans, etc...

There is actually a project called the Great Green Wall, which tries to stop the desertification of the Sahara by planting trees. The amazing thing is, it seems to work. At least in the countries with the political will, for example Senegal.

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yep, to be a native civilization it does. follow a lil bit the ptolemaic dirtyness of the structures

https://0ad.mod.io/delenda-est @wowgetoffyourcellphone also wants to get battalions and formations going... badly. For all I know he's been waiting forever for it.

Partly, I think it's because Empires Ascendant hasn't yet been stripped out of the core mod and made into its own mod. Then it would be relatively simple to create an Empires Besieged official mod to cover "Part II." Depends on how you look at it, because none of them are active anymore. They've "passed it on" to the current keepers of the flame, who are then free to put their own stamp on it. I think you could use the old design as a touchstone when discussions arise, but you aren't bound by it by any means.

Added a new variant of the phryigian mask, also edited the first face mask to match another reference and have a proper distinction between 1st mask and 2nd phrygian mask: Also gonna add another commit later with some corrections to names schema and also adding a new specular map for the bronze helmets wich adds a good tone to the bronze stuff. Inluded a new variant of the phrygian b5 with player color since i've seen in a lot of references phrygian helmets having colored zones (not all) would work for some civs i guess to differentiate thracians wearing phrygians from macedonians or seleucids wearing phrygian helmets. More corrections coming to the mask's. and if possible new variants.

New concept art:

Reminds me of one of my old screenshots in DE: I It was almost empty because all troops were deployed to attack. Using isometric view makes it feel more nostalgic, akin to a late 90s strategy games I liked.

This one: Tried to make the ears and trunk move more compared to walking, plus stretch a bit more the legs to the max range. But yeah, in other words its about how you said, ears flapping and trunk.

I noticed that too, but then I realized it actually makes sense. Since people are much smaller than elephants, when they attack it with spears and swords they'd be stabbing upwards. If the scales are orientated downwards, the blades can dig underneath the layers of scale, especially when the scales are so big.. That having said, I haven't personally seen the original sources for these types of scale armor, but they're apparently described or depicted somewhere. From "Animals in the Military: From Hannibal's Elephants to the Dolphins of the US Navy", by John Kistler also repeated in his other book "War Elephants", he says: Apparently Seleucids were also also forced to switch to the smaller North African elephants in later years, just like the Ptolemies (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom and Iranian Parthians would have blocked their access to Indian elephants). Perhaps it would be an interesting option for Ptolemies and Seleucids to be forced to choose from either stronger but more expensive Indian elephants vs cheaper but weaker African elephants? 2 more pretty art refs: "A turreted war elephant wearing a saddle cloth decorated with a hippocampus (Eastern Iran, ca. 3rd-2nd cent. BCE"

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Scythians depicting Scythians in this Electrum vase from the Kul-Oba kurgan, Crimea, 2nd half of 4th century BC. (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg): Another Scythian golden vessel: Scythians in Achaemenid Persian relief at Persepolis: Another Greek one Some nice art: And a little mythology: "Last charge of the Amazon's", by zpapageo, showing Penthesiliea's army at Troy. Mmmmm, Bronze Age....

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