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wip @Genava55 Do you by chance have further references for that wagon in this picture?

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and as such it would be nice to have a model in the game for a potential capture the wonder mod. I've found these CC0 models we could use: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/george-washington-greenough-statue-1840-6f90971e3eb24c0b8091086242f2c3b3 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/julius-casar-802edad501a94f9c99b84c4c33d376b7 Then put the head of Zeus on top of it, e.g. this one: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zeus-or-poseidon-from-the-artemision-d4876aa609304682945145debedfc77e Someone else has done something similar with George Washingtons statue already: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/zeus-statue-216d3aff33b9439f87bd0e79c677f9eb We could use Nike from Athena Parthenos. I'm won't find the time to do it soon, so I'm giving it out for anyone interested. I'm willing to help if anyone is interested in doing a retopology. I can then take it from there and bake a material. It's quite beginner-friendly as it requires mostly basic navigation in blender, but quite time-consuming. I propose using a tool like retopoflow for it.

Thanks! I think it's the ao map that darkens it a lot, as without shader effects it's a little brighter. Maybe we could lighten the ao map a little. Feel free to tweak the textures If you want I can easily bake a new diffuse. I'd love that!

@wowgetoffyourcellphone Hi all, proud to present the result of another project I made a retopology to reduce the polycount 29k tris ->7k tris. I wasn't entirely happy with the old diffuse so I baked a new one and added some details to it. The faces are difficult to paint as you can see lol. The ivory could be slightly brigther now that I see it. Mod's attached and here are some before/after pictures: athena.zip

Maybe a new olive tree is something you would be interested in? There's already one in the game that you could use as a reference. We could use it for an ochard and for the erechtheion and the olive mill. https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/138517-erechtheion https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/125638-athenian-olives

If someone finds a CC0 model or relief texture let me know. We could ask this guy for permission: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rABVym https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ara-pacis-of-augustus-8b6b29626c7f49a1a0376ff6cff863fc Could augustus mausoleum as in the second video be another wonder? It has quite a unique shape.

Thanks for the refs. So I guess I should get rid of the entrance and give the hill a more conical shape?

@Genava55 I know they are predominantly from the viking era, but is there any chance the cimbri had runestones as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runestone

So here's what I'm gonna do: 1. Get rid of the two ahistorical stone babas. I can make them an extra for the Rus in the Millenium mod. I think the remaining 5 stelae are sufficient, but if @Genava55 or someone else got references for more that are different enough from the existing, I might add them. 2. I plan to bake maybe three (?) different diffuse textures for the stelae to get some colour variation. Any wishes? 3. Redo the kurgan: Hill + gravel around it + stelae around the base. Think I'm gonna keep the entrance though. Not sure about the stelae on top, maybe as a variation. I'm gonna make a decal for the foundation actor. 4. Adding player colour. Still not sure how. Maybe that cauldron and the wagon for a ceremony suggested by @Genava55. Not sure where to place them though. Thoughts?

WIP. Thoughts on the concept in general? Other than the deletion of unseen faces, any artistic or technical advise? What do you think of this kind of burial chamber? Is it ahistorical? Two stones together (or three at both ends) make up a prop, that adapts to the terrain. Unfortunately the whole concept only works with a lot of props, and this is even without any plants or bushes: What would be an appropiate number of props? Any idea which props are worth to be added? Cadaver of a horse or human corpse, weapons, wagons etc? File's attached. Please test on different biomes and different terrains. stone_ship.zip

spec and normal map related to germ_struct_03 seem to be existing twice and there is a redundant prop in an actor file that leads to the following missing prop point message:

What steps do you take to complete one architectural set and what software do you use?

I've been following these projects from time to time and it's really nice seeing there's progress being made. Looks really promising and i can't wait to see the results!