LordGood

Oh yeah, I'm considering building a mid-range desktop fairly soon

Mobile Intel GMA X3100, ATI Radeon HD 3200 Integrated stock laptop card

My graphics card doesn't support GLSL shaders, I can't run the game at maximum settings

Thanks ludo I'm sure the trees look amazing with all of the norm/spec/AO mapping and vertex shading. But I have no idea

Enrique has a good tutorial pinned on the art forums, but it's a blender tutorial. :/

none, standard gimp setup and brush set

thanks! addons?

I took my sweet time putting the recording together, but I don't think I want to work on this anymore xP

I can just mess with Carthage until we have a texture pack ready ;P haha

I have my sources tucked into a spoiler in the original post, and encyclopedia Iranica's article states the usage of the Ionic order. That, and Ionic columns use a lot less polys than Corinthian If we want to keep it tied into the Macedonian set, then Corinthian works, too. Stacked colonnades look like they could be fun too!

Oh God no, those dougongs and gabled roofs mess with my head xP It could be a lot of fun though

Have I seen you around Deviantart? I feel like I have a few eastern fortification concepts of yours in my favorites folder

but... it looks cool...

Ooh that fountain looks nice!

I love the cypress trees, the foliage is thick enough to warrant solid geometry. It has just enough play to its ascension to be a believable tree, too

Generally the artists open up the =task= threads, it signifies the work is in progress, so the art dev forum isn't a cluttered mess of WIPs and empty tasks also, your links are broken

The Apema is in Syria, much closer to greece than the further reaches of the empire. Greek influence reaches on a spectrum from heavy to none from west to east. If we have the opportunity to make this civ less hellenistic then I say we should take it. But persian motifs would definitely need changing. I don't like the idea of different style buildings within a faction, makes cities look like a mish-mash.

the seleucids territory keeps itself within the persian empire; and the persian texture set is very dynamic. so far the celts keep their textures throughout, and the greeks. If textures imitate local stone then why not the persians and seleucids?

Desaturated the stone and brick

Some editing, if those red columns are what's putting you off, I can desaturate the textures. like dis

From what I understand, it's a spectrum between almost entirely hellenistic to the western empire, to entirely native in the eastern empire Syria would have been closer to Greece than would be much of the rest of the empire

not the best screenshot, now was it? eugh, those windows need to go away

I haven't recorded since the fundraiser, I find that it slows me down a bit, but I'll start back up again, if anyone's interested I'd like to keep the stone local, it may look weird because I havent had much practice with the persian texture pack, and its a bit overwhelming, with all of the decal textures but I hope I'll get the hang of it