=== [TASK] === Male Head's

[Alexandermb]

Addition of civilization specified head's by following the current schema.

Currently missing only iberian's

By the meantime since im updating actor's i took the opportunity of adding the combat variant to each melee infantry to add more immersion to the battle's. Now the actor's will play ready variant animations while approaching an enemy if selected to attack directly or using the attack-move order.

I would like to add in the UnitAI component the combat state if the entity has selected the Aggresive stance so it will make a visual difference.

Head was generated using blender provided human free assets.

Here some screenshots:

Hellenic:

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Achae:

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Han:

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Maur:

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Celt:

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Kush:

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Cart/Ptol:

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Combat variant Showcase:

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[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

I'd say my main issue with some of the faces is the width of the nose. Some peoples, like Greeks and Persians for example, would have much narrower noses.

The combat approach variants are top tier. 

[Alexandermb]

26 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I'd say my main issue with some of the faces is the width of the nose. Some peoples, like Greeks and Persians for example, would have much narrower noses.

The combat approach variants are top tier. 

I'll add another mesh with narrow nose.

Currently iberians:

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[Alexandermb]

Indeed is noticeable:

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Btw, i used young version of hellenic faces for infantry/Cavalry_b and more older version's on the advance and elite versions.

[Alexandermb]

Mod file just for test: New_heads (2).7z

[Alexandermb]

Tried to do Alexander as the statues found:

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[Alexandermb]

Bonus track: Set of female heads to end the week since my semester start tomorrow.

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[vladislavbelov]

5 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

Tried to do Alexander as the statues found:

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Is it me or something with normals (the face is more gray than I expect)? 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Good call, Vlad. The normal maps may be inverted.

[Alexandermb]

16 hours ago, vladislavbelov said:

Is it me or something with normals (the face is more gray than I expect)? 

Forgot to use -Y at normal map bake. Long time no bake.

[Alexandermb]

Normal map's fixed:

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[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

A vast improvement!

[Guest]

On 10/05/2026 at 5:41 PM, Alexandermb said:

Tried to do Alexander as the statues found:

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Zombie Alexander is not scary, he won't hurt you.

Zombie Alexander:

[Alexandermb]

Used a bit of higher poly head model for alexander while i do the helmet after my semester end's:

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[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

27 minutes ago, Alexandermb said:

Used a bit of higher poly head model for alexander while i do the helmet after my semester end's:

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Any way we can have the head geometry hint at some ears?

[Alexandermb]

56 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Any way we can have the head geometry hint at some ears?

Probably can do something with a few little triangles for non-helmet meshes and leave the plain version for helmet for performance.

[Alexandermb]

@Genava55 gaul's/briton's had face warpaint?

[Alexandermb]

Head Gaul hairstyle:

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[vladislavbelov]

1 hour ago, Alexandermb said:

Head Gaul hairstyle:

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Does those hair spikes fall under the polycount limitation?

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/ArtPolyCountGuidelines

[Outis]

1 hour ago, Alexandermb said:

Head Gaul hairstyle:

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One problem: the nee face skin color does not match the old body skin color. Most noticable on the necks.

[Alexandermb]

22 minutes ago, vladislavbelov said:

Does those hair spikes fall under the polycount limitation?

Those are the same hair spikes currently in game, i did an import then paste to the new mesh. Since its used only whitout helmet count's like a helmet+head?

[Alexandermb]

39 minutes ago, Outis said:

One problem: the nee face skin color does not match the old body skin color. Most noticable on the necks.

I have a full body to render to give normal and diffuse to bodie textures, just need to get a proper hand uv to render the hand's i did a whole body bake:

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[Alexandermb]

Germans:

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[Genava55]

3 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

@Genava55 gaul's/briton's had face warpaint?

Britons only. Do you need anything to work on it?

2 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

Head Gaul hairstyle:

Well done! If I may make a comment, there must have been Gauls and Germans with long hair but no beards as well. 

[Alexandermb]

15 minutes ago, Genava55 said:

Britons only. Do you need anything to work on it?

Yes please!