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These aren't finalized by any means, just showing some texture variation so far. One easy way to show ethnicity would be to give the Nubians the ochre hair and the Meroites black hair. Swordsman+Pikeman = Meroitic. Archer and Spearman = Nubian. Leave the leopard print stuff to the Nubians and go linen for the Meroites?

I think gaia sheep should be visible like any other animal, but player-owned sheep shouldn't. Is that what you mean?

Wasn't there a recent commit to SVN that allowed just this? Or am I misremembering?

Apedemak Temple Guard's lion garb?

Something mixing ideas from Game of Thrones, Warcraft, and Conan would be awesome. As some have said, a lot of the Conan mythos may be in the public domain.

I'll take this opp to plug another idea of mine for the core game, which is also applicable to unit management and mods and how units handle, etc.: In addition to vision range, units need "aggression range." Aggression range is dictated by the unit stance. Aggressive, Defensive, or Stand Ground, and is a percentage of vision range, so they are related. Aggressive Stance: Attacks any enemy within 90% of vision range. Stops chasing when enemy outside this range. Some berserker units, like Thracian Black Cloaks for instance, can be capped to this stance. Defensive Stance. Attacks any enemy within 50% of vision range. Stops chasing when enemy outside this range. Stand Ground: Only attacks enemies who attack him. Never chases any enemy. Useful for scouts. Defensive is DEFAULT stance. The benefits to unit management would be great, IMHO. Coupled with battalions and battalion formations, charging, etc., and now you can imagine a coherent combat mechanic that works very well. I know it's off topic. Sorry.

I think a lay-person would think so about Sparta, but that's almost a 180 from the reality: Sparta was a very very conservative, agrarian society. The city of Sparta itself was average in size at best. It's hard to even call Sparta a unified city, when in actually it was a collection of smaller villages which banded together to make a polis. Think of Rome in its very early period, where a village stood on each of its hills and only later unified into one polity. Same with Sparta. Most of its diplomacy with other Greek states involved efforts in maintaining the status quo or by building defensive alliances. During most of the Peloponnesian Wars against Athens, Sparta espoused a defensive strategy, while Athens used a hybrid defensive/hit and run strategy, with wildly aggressive risky campaigns against Sparta's allies which usually ended in disaster for Athens, lol. True, Sparta would besiege the city of Athens every Summer with a force of hoplites, but this force was always too small to actually take the city itself. They never actually attacked the city's defenses and instead burnt crops and farms around Attica. At one point, Sparta built a fortress at a port in Attica. To attack Athens' shipping lanes? Nah, to suck away Athens' slave population. Sparta was very passive-aggressive whenever they went "aggressive." The largest hoplite battle of the war was a strategically defensive measure on Sparta's part and another wildly aggressive move by Athens and her allies. As hinted at previously, this ended in disaster for Athens. lol Sparta hated venturing out of the Peloponnese. During the Greco-Persian War, it took a large amount of haranguing from other city-states to get Sparta to move North and attack the Persians at Plataea. As an example, Athens had to threaten to move its entire population to Magna Grecia in Italy and found a new city if the Spartans didn't @#$%ing get off their asses and assist the Greek alliance. Yeah, Sparta should be this oddly defensive, agrarian civ. I say oddly, because it didn't have a city wall into well into its decline. I think a usurper actually built the first city wall in Sparta. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. At any rate, it was into the Macedonian Age before Sparta built its own walls and that was only because its system of defensive alliances had crumbled and its military system was in shambles. So, yeah, in the game the Spartans should have no walls and somehow have super strong soldiers but only defensively. Hard to emulate this in the game with the current mechanics. I could see Sparta getting a super-uber bonus when fighting in its native territory, maybe easiest to implement with building areas, but getting maybe a slight nerf when fighting in enemy territory. So, in a team match, the Sparta player would play defense, and then provide the extra manpower in a crucially-timed team-based push.

He has an excellent commentary. Shame about the production value though. Makes the game look super ugly.

The horse looks suuuuper small.

This is incredibly like what I would like to do with DE. Instead of training heroes at the Fortress or Civic Center, at the start of the match you would choose which hero you'd like to spawn with and that's the hero you get for the rest of the match, like in AOE3. Unlike AOE3, you'd have a choice with a UI popup just like what you show here. Good show. This is really the kind of metagame the base game is sorely missing at this point, and if implemented would allow the base game and mods to shine. Can't this just go into the base game? So that the base game can have theme music for each civ and then have a randomized playlist with whatever music.

The vision range thing has been in DE for months and months so yeah I approve. The major benefit imho is that it makes units easier to control. Fewer things come into view so units chase after fewer things that stray into view.

Okay, thanks. That is super weird. Why would the trebuchet skeleton have an impact on a different skeleton? I wonder.

I think this is a must. If a skirmish player is unassigned, then the skirmish objects should go to null and disappear from the map altogether. Their abandoned/open starting position on the map would just be a nice expansion point the other players might race to claim.

Sorry for hijacking your thread Gocker. Lol Maybe feneur can split.

Yeah is very skinny. Neck is almost the length of the body. Looks like a race horse or English riding horse. Not a war horse or work horse.

Desperately needs SSAO.

LOL, that map isn't really completed yet. But yes, about #4, trees are passable by units. That's a feature, not a bug.

I'd honestly like to see an attempt at some other property, like Conan the Barbarian or Game of Thrones or a more savage version of Age of Mythology.

Getting this the past couple days. I don't think I've touched anything with the animations. Only happens in DE, not public. ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_death.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_death.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_death.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_run.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_run.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_run.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_walk.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_walk.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_walk.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_attack.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_attack.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_attack.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle1.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle1.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle1.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle2.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle2.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle2.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad ERROR: art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle3.dae: Assertion not satisfied (line 86): failed requirement "animation end frame must come after start frame" ERROR: Could not load animation 'art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle3.dae' ERROR: CSkeletonAnimManager::GetAnimation(art/animation/quadraped/Croc_idle3.dae): Failed loading, marked file as bad

I think the horse's neck is slightly too long and the head is slightly too small, but I may be wrong.

Nubian Archer portrait with makeshift hair helmet and fake feather props. You can see how the earrings need fixed and the desired shape of the hair. I think the Advanced would take away the leather hemithorax, use a more plain animal hide for the skirt, have a less flashy necklace, and 2 feathers. I think the Basic would basically wear just a player color loincloth, no necklace, or plain necklace, and 1 feather. For the heck of it, here are the Nuba merc portraits. Clubdude will get a new portrait when we get new shields in. I'm guessing the nuba would just have wicker shields. @Sundiata, you should make a post where you assign shield shapes and patterns to the different unit types. Lastly, a couple of cool body texture variations, one covered completely in ash, the other covered in clay mud.

You must have a really low resolution, but I'll size the image down. Sadly there isn't an option for % width.

Main Page, the hub. http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/0_A.D._Delenda_Est_Wiki Resources page, on which I attempt to explain all the resources, what they're for, and how to acquire them. http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/Resources General Layout for faction pages. http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/Principate_Romans I hope the layouts and information style proves to be useful. Thoughts? Wanting to get these pages right before using the same general formats and layouts for other pages.

I find this kind of grunt work satisfying for some reason. I'm addicted to it. I lack the vital skills to add many of these civs on my own. As always, it depends on what interest there is from fellow modders. We do good things when we combine efforts.

Started a new Wikia: http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/0_A.D._Delenda_Est_Wiki Only has one article so far. lol http://delendaest.wikia.com/wiki/Principate_Romans