wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 The Gauls Celts of continental Europe Above: Gallic hero selection (4th hero pending) Above: Brennus (left), Viridomarus (right) Above: Vercingetorix Above: Gallic Citizens (left), Gallic Druid/Healer (right) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabio Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Really nice. Can I ask you how did you generate the images? Some details on the AI system used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Ah, if we only had AI image generation 20 years ago. Cool pics. I see a little Braveheart / Mel Gibson in the eyes of one there I wonder if AI could be used to generate textures? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genava55 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 On 14/08/2023 at 1:42 AM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said: Above: Vercingetorix Vercingetorix died before reaching his 40s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 23, 2023 Author Share Posted August 23, 2023 3 hours ago, Wijitmaker said: I wonder if AI could be used to generate textures? I think it would need to be a specially trained AI for that. Unfortunately I'm just an end user instead of an AI programmer or I'd definitely get on it. My goal would not be to replace artists, but to give them a new tool. Unit textures are pretty easy to make by hand though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 23, 2023 Author Share Posted August 23, 2023 4 hours ago, fabio said: Really nice. Can I ask you how did you generate the images? Some details on the AI system used? www.imagine.art I'm making these with the free tier. I'd get a paid subscription, but I'm poor. Lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alre Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 one thing about these AI generated portraits, is that they are pretty flat in terms of facial features. I can't quite pinpoint why, but they all look pretty much the same. I guess they lack the hand on an artist imprinting on each of them a different impression of each character. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genava55 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 27 minutes ago, alre said: but they all look pretty much the same They are the same. It is always the same faces. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 17 hours ago, Genava55 said: They are the same. It is always the same faces. This is true. It's sometimes difficult to get the AI to choose different facial features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 (edited) On 23/08/2023 at 6:07 PM, Genava55 said: Vercingetorix died before reaching his 40s. Edited August 25, 2023 by wowgetoffyourcellphone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 New civ emblem: Heroes: If anyone has a good suggestion for a 4th Gallic hero, I'd love to hear it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grautvornix Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 No, I am not suggesting Asterix. (sorry could not resist) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perzival12 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Bolgios: was a Gaulish leader during the Gallic invasion of the Balkans who led an invasion of Macedon and Illyria in 279 BC, killing the Macedonian king Ptolemy Keraunos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 9 minutes ago, Perzival12 said: Bolgios: was a Gaulish leader during the Gallic invasion of the Balkans who led an invasion of Macedon and Illyria in 279 BC, killing the Macedonian king Ptolemy Keraunos. Can't use him. He's being used for the Galatians. Need someone more specific to Gaul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Somairle Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago (edited) If needing another hero, perhaps King Voccio. Julius Caesar mentions him in the first book of the Gallic Wars as a Roman ally, and king of Noricum. Noricum had supplied Rome with high quality steel since the time of the mid-republic and continued to do so after their eventual annexation in 16 BC. Voccio had become king no later than 60 BC, and how long he ruled isn't known, but Caesar's mention of the king of Noricum sending 300 cavalry auxiliaries in 49 BC may refer to Voccio (though the man mentioned here is just called the king of Noricum; no name is given, so it may have been a successor). Voccio allied himself to the Suebian leader Ariovistus through a political marriage (Voccio's sister married Ariovistus as a second wife) and the two combined their forces to fight back against a Boii incursion (as the eastern Boii were being pressured to their own east by expanding Dacians), repelling a siege of the capitol of Noricum, an oppidum called Noreia. His bonuses would be fairly straightforward. Celts in general were pretty well known for their mining and metallurgical prowess, but Noricum was exceptionally famous for it. A tech buff to weapon and armor stats, increasing them more than other Celts could get would work, emphasizing their superior metalwork that made them such valuable allies (could maybe apply to allies somehow as well, but maybe not as strong? Again, emphasizing the reason to align oneself with them). Or, alternately, if that's too broad, just make their javelins much more powerful than regular Celtic javelins. They used soliferrum. An aura for faster mining maybe. They were extremely prolific merchants, so some manner of trade bonus would be logical. Aside from metalwork they traded perfumes and aromatic herbs, alcohol, and woodwork, and their extensive trade networks into the north, through the Alps, kind of made them a centralized trade hub among Celts, so Voccio benefiting from exceptional trade makes sense. Interesting aside about Voccio; despite Rome's eventual fighting with Ariovistus (in which the aforementioned sister of Voccio, Ariovistus's wife, was killed), it doesn't seem to have ever had a serious effect on Noricum and Rome's relations. Perhaps Rome viewed Noricum as simply too valuable, or viewed their alliance as a totally seperate matter. It was, afterall, in response to pressure from the Boii and the Norican kingdom needed assistance. Edited 3 hours ago by Somairle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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