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2 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

I tried it out and fixed a few mistakes in the actors, though mostly it was capitalized names, and incorrect materials  I'm willing to commit it, but maybe it's possible to improve it a bit. Some textures are blurry, it looks nice when zoomed out but bad close up. the ferns ao could use more samples. Up to you

Thank you for reviewing them. I forgot to take the ao off the ferns as I did it as a test, but im not sure if any of the current foliage even use ao.

I'll go back over the temperate textures to see about improving the quality.

27 minutes ago, Thorfinn the Shallow Minded said:

A lot of your additions tree-wise are great; one thing that could enhance the mod is to have models of trees tended to with medieval methods such as pollarding and coppicing respectively:

For historical accuracy that would be a nice addition to add in the mod. Glad you brought this up!

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2 hours ago, Emperior said:

What assets are you using? Own?

What textures for ground are you using?

The 3d models are all made by me (my own), but I relinquish any rights to them when they are shared here.

The texture for the ground is Alpine grass mixed/edit with Savanna forestfloor b red. 

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10 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Your deciduous trees need boughs and branches. Otherwise they look super nice. They'd be good for the "middle" trees in a forest.

Yes, some smaller/sapling trees would look nice along the edges of the forest.

Example:  https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=53672&picture=the-forest-edge

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11 hours ago, Diatryma said:

 

Spellforce 3

Spellforce 3 has the art style i'm more or less reaching for, but less fantasy!

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2 hours ago, Diatryma said:

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what about this enviroment? (Ancestors Legacy)

That is impressive, be interesting to see if i can make something like that! 

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11 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Would look so good with SSAO

Do you think this would hurt game performance? Im just not sure how optimized the engine is with lots of objects using AO. If it doesn't hurt game performance  i'll defiantly add it. 

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30 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

If there are blendfiles or xcf or PSD files please attach them as well. Also I have to know where the textures are coming from to see if I can use them

I'll send everything for the biome (xml, blender, png textures) when ready. The textures that i'm using are all from 0A.D. except for the pine tree needle texture, which I took a clipping from my neighbors hedge.  

But everything will be provided when ready.

Temperate Seasons:

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Making progress on the temp forest ,and trying to model the temp forest to look like a deciduous forest.

 

8 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

Let me know when you are done with your set. I would gladly commit them to the repository.

When the set is completed how should I send it?

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1 hour ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Great! The inconsistency in the look of the trees and shrubbery (some trees like the Cretan Date Palms look awesome, while others look dreadful) is bothersome to many and hampers the look of the game IMHO.

I agree that some of the current trees lack the inconsistency that you would find in any forest/biome, which is why i started making a biome for my mod.

I'll see what I can come up with for the temperate biome by next week.

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11 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Nice. Any chance you would take a look at the core game's biome assets and possibly update them?

@wowgetoffyourcellphone

I could look at the core game's biome as i'm currently working on two biomes, coniferous/Alpine and reworking the temperate biome. The temperate is more difficult as it has alot more lush, which has me playing with designs and changing/mixing texture

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Here's a picture of an coniferous forest biome that I have near finish.

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@coworotel

Here's a little something that I been working on that I can show. Trying to add more foliage/ground cover without fps dropping too much.

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@coworotel

Hey, been busy with other things, but work on the mod is still being made! I'll share some screenshot of some of the work that has been made soon. 

@Angen

Been doing some research as I want the mod to be historically accurate as much as I can.

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26 minutes ago, wackyserious said:

Do you use a Github repository? I would want to test your mod and keep track of your latest developments. Keep it up, you are doing awesome work.

At the moment I don't have a Github repository, but will likely start one in the future when finishing the Teutonic Order Faction and the game play design. 

 

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Update: textures retouched.

Currently working on special structures that will generate resources.

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3 hours ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

More close texture specially the wall. The roof have imperfections too. Imperfection give realism.

I'll put some imperfection details into the textures, and try to add an weathered look to the textures.

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@Lion.Kanzen

Heres the reference I used so far. I'm going back and doing more work on the textures.

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10 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

If I may suggest another improvements, you should try to maximize the contrast between textures to make them less bland to look at. Like mixing the bricks and the white wall textures.

I appreciate any suggestions you have stanislas69! That is what i started to do with the market, which has me thinking about caring that design into most of the Teutonic buildings, but while trying to stay true to most German, Polish architecture.

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5 hours ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

Over-saturated texture. (Look cartony)

Thanks for the feed back, I'll defiantly toon it down with the textures being over saturated.

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Update: polished up some buildings 

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Thanks for the recommendation to use an ao. It now looks 100% better. 

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15 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Very nice. You need AO maps for max awesomeness tho.

More awesomeness added.

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12 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

To improve the look you should into look into smoothing groups

if you need help for baking ao maps let me know.

I'm not familiar with baking ao. How do I go about doing that? 

(Something like this?https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/13956/how-do-you-bake-ambient-occlusion-for-a-model)

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Development Update.

Structures: Polish Fortress

Map: Pine Forest (2)

Reference for polish fortress:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Będzin_Castle , 

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[There is no space in the wall.]

@gameboy

I had to work with this same issue when making my own custom walls. My work around may be different but it worked.

Step#1 go to simulation/template/structures then select a wall piece you want to change. (example gaul_wall_long.xml)

step#2 open xml file and go to the bottom where you will find.

 <WallPiece>
    <Length>25.5</Length>
  </WallPiece>

Change the length that you find works best for your wall gap. 

Warning* if changing this for any wall length you might have to change the length for wall_small and wall_medium, and possibly your wall_tower.

This might not be the best way to change it, but it worked for me!