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Preview Ptolemaic Military Settlers (Macedonians)

What are the new names for some of the prop points? I'm having errors when I assign props using the actor editor.

The illustration you provided was from Osprey's The Army of Herod the Great, from their Men at Arms series. Alright, we'll use the Herodian army model for reference.

The ones that the re-enactors are wearing? They are historically accurate, right?

A baseline for the integration and visualization of the ancient Semites in the game Work in progress Please post useful references about ancient Semitic clothing and military equipment here.

Any good references for Arabic clothing during that period? I think another thread should be opened for this (==TASK== Semitic Unit Textures) Should I create one?

Someone should add the missing actor files for the Ptolemaic Judean slingers to the game.

It was cropped, I took screenshots from Atlas.

Yeah, luckily it is still summer break, I can still work on the textures, I still have to finish the Gallic textures and Millennium AD's textures too

@Lion.Kanzen The current source file 051517 - Judean.psd

@stanislas69 I'm note really sure if I can make a very good tutorial on how to work on textures, all I can provide are tips which I learned and gained in my two years of creating textures here You can have a grasp on ideas on how my work flow on textures go if you will look on my .psd source files I mostly make use and photo manipulate in game textures which I find useful (The skirt and the cloth wrapped around the waist of the Judean slinger was derived from the 0ad Mauryan unit textures) I just colored a new layer underneath the Mauryan unit .png texture, to get the skirt details Then adjusted the contrast to make it look sharper and better Next step was to decolorize it by adjusting the hue or the color to zero And the final step is to adjust the skirt texture color to something close to light gray, as I find it the best when using multiply layer settings Other tips Multiply layers (or the shape detail layer, i.e. skirt folds) should be smooth as possible. It should only contain the shading details Texture details (such as textile details or dirt details) should be placed underneath the multiply layers When making color layers underneath multiply layers, just duplicate the multiply layer and place it underneath, change the duplicated layer from multiply back to normal, then use preserve opacity settings (A setting where the active area is restricted to the contents of a layer, not sure what it is called in Adobe Photoshop) After choosing a desired color, you can now add layer textures to emulate general texture details, such as, metal texture or cloth textures. Shadows or edge details are done using the same steps above, just duplicate and place in the very bottom of the part that you are working, after duplicating the layer, adjust the brightness to zero, then move it 1 or 2 pixels to the left and 1 or two pixels to the right (Depending on the kind of texture, for example, if you want a shield boss to appear edged over a texture, you will need to move the edge details layer 1 or 2 pixels on all sides, up, bottom, left and right. The final step here is to reduce the opacity of this layer between 15% to 75% or higher, depending on your preference so that the shadow or edge doesn't look too strong or dark. You will understand this better if you look through my .psd files I hope this helps

Preview - Judean Slingers Texture files Changelog Reduced veins in the arm area Removed the skirt edge experiment which made it look like a glitch (Replaced it with dark grey to emulate edge/shadow (done the same with the tunic sleeves)

@Lion.Kanzen Judean slinger (Please review this texture, so that I can post the .png if there is nothing else missing or wrong in the details) I

I do not use steam that much. I do not have it installed in my laptop. But I regularly drop by here in forums, just like Stan and Lion. You could create a group message for the project, just like how the developers of Millennium AD and Terra Magna does.

Changelog Uploaded ptol_isp_b and ptol_isp_a textures in the first post Removed Athenian alpha shield patterns (I will upload the revised textures soon) Ptolemaic Dynasty - Egyptian Native Pikemen

Another 1/3 vertically and horizontally maybe? Texture is fine already

The Machimoi - preview I really enjoyed working on these textures. I learned a lot during the research phase.

@stanislas69 Here's a WIP of the Athenian elite psiloi texture, you can use it to fit/place the ammo bag properly. It would be ideal to place it in the area marked in red below. A bag position reference

The alpha symbol orientation is noted. Current WIP on Greek psiloi infanty and Thracian peltasts unit textures.

Greek epigraphic Alpha found at Wikicommons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Greek_epigraphic_Alpha

@av93 Those are all intended to be used for the Athenians The one in the middle in the first screenshot was already omitted because of inaccurate details The ones in the top of the second screenshot are my renditions based on motifs found on archaeological materials The ones on the bottom of the second screenshot are based on the current shield designs for the Athenians in the game

Thanks, Stan!