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DISCLAIMER: This will only work on a Blender exported armature. If it was exported by 3dsMax it will be complicated or impossible to get it right. Also if the blend already exists in the art repository you'd better use that instead. Step 1: Gather all the needed material In order to make a clean project and make it nice for the people coming after him (so that no one has to do further editing), one should try to keep things organized. You can refer to this guide: Organizing your blender folder We will assume this convention for the rest of this guide. We will use the boar mesh as a demonstration. First head to your local SVN or GIT copy of the game. See Build Instructions Go to the following location to find the textures of the mesh you are trying to import: binaries/data/mods/public/art/textures/skeletal We are looking for this specific texture animal_boar.dds Notice it's a DDS texture. While blender supports it, it should be turned into a PNG, as it will be easier for people afterwards to edit it as it is more widely supported. Info: You can find more information about the DDS image format here: DirectDraw_Surface To convert it, either use you favorite graphics package, or do it in blender. Load the texture in the UV editor, and save it as PNG in the export/textures folder. Important: Skip this step if the texture has any kind of alpha transparency used for clothing in the game. Else you will loose that information. There are a few tricks to keep it as is. To do: Write a tutorial about this. Then we need the mesh. You can find it here: binaries/data/mods/public/art/meshes/skeletal The file is: boar.dae Info: Notice the naming convention is incorrect it should have the "animal_" prefix, or should be put in a folder called animals. It could also be named: fauna_boar.dae Then we need all the animations. You can find them there : binaries/data/mods/public/art/meshes/skeletal Once you have gathered all of them put them in the import/meshes folder. Step 2 Importing in Blender Launch Blender Delete everything in the scene. Go to file / import/ collada select the base mesh (Do not forget to tick import units else you might run into trouble later) Optional: Clear any material on the mesh and use the default one. Depending on your renderer set up the material so that it uses the texture you put in import earlier Clear anything you do not want in the scene especially the default anims. Unlink them from the armature as well Import Process: Import the first animation. For instance the walk collada file in the scene. Switch to the animation layout. Switch from dope sheet to action editor You should have at least two armature action_xxx The one you want is the one attached to the armature. Rename it boar_walk_01 Mark the other for deletion by shift clicking on the little X near it. Apply it to your first armature, and delete this imported one. Make sure the little F is ticked near the animation name, else it won't be saved. Save and reload. Import all the animation as described previously in the import process This is not over yet. For some reason each imported bone will have custom properties and those are the ones that screw up when re-exporting the animation. To fix those you must Open the armature in edit mode and delete all those custom properties. Tip: In Blender one cannot simply delete materials or textures or animations you have to reload the scene after marking one of those for deletion. Else they will stick around. I think it’s a good practice to remove useless elements from your scene. First that reduces somewhat the blend file size then it makes it easier to find the animations you are looking for and finally were you to append materials from another blend file it will be easier to find especially if you set a good name. Note: For the armature to work again you'll have to re-export every single animation. Also due to the nature of Blender armatures you'll probably have to update the skeleton file. I’ve made a handy script you can find there: Also, sometimes the armature becomes too similar to another one and the game gets confused. So, you'll have to rename every bone. That's a rather annoying process especially if you have a lot of animations. This tutorial will guide you: I attached the final blend file so you can see an example. boar-10.blend

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That's programming

Did you set the naval flag in the map ?

I always thought it was animated. Will do for A24

A few of us didn't have one before starting ask @bb_

Any help is welcome.

Since I put them in the game myself I would say you WILL see them in the next release. No need for conditional there.

With modIo we could now. If we split the public mod between code and art we could update it on the fly.

The balance between units should be better in general. It has been fixed.

Hello @Vladooha and welcome to the forums. Indeed the cavalry skirmisher was so unbalanced that some people banned cavalry from their games. This will hopefully be fixed in the next version that is set to come out soon. Stay tuned.

What would be the 500 - 1000 Ad most prominent faction / kingdom ?

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Hello @jdaniel and thanks for the report. The tutorial was broken in A22 it should be fixed in A23. Stay tuned and a release is coming soonish.

So 6 or 9 figurines at least ?

Did you read the announcement post clearly stating this is not open yet ?

It's awesome.

What would be the most emblematic one for 0ad ? We could try with that and see how it goes

I really like it too. One thing you could start with is getting the source code and starting playing around with files in binaries/data/mods/public/art/textures/ui

Yeah that could work.

Yeah it was planned to be the wonder. But it can't be the whole thing for obvious reasons (if it's not obvious it's too big).

That's true. What do you think would be the amount of people interested by such figurines ?

Some made by Enrique maybe but we do no have the files. But most of them are either hand painted or a mix of other stuff. The only thing that would be print ready for which we have the files is the sele elephant The Kushites skullcap and a few other helmets are too.

That requires a bit of sculpting yes :). Also you have to merge all props into one mesh

Yeah those. One could paint details of course, but with no real geometry that would be harder.