===[COMMITTED]=== Mauryan Defense Tower, City Walls, Wall Gate

[LordGood]

Let me know if anything's missing or if you need any of the other wall instances.

cheers

I cleaned them up as best as I could, those first models I sent still had all of the construction divisions and guides

Maur walls.zip

Edited February 25, 2013 by LordGood

[MishFTW]

I love SketchUp! (I'm just not as good as LordGood on it though )

It fantastic to see your work go through and become part of the game

[Lion.Kanzen]

I love SketchUp! (I'm just not as good as LordGood on it though )

It fantastic to see your work go through and become part of the game

we need a Sketch up tool for Blender XD Opensource.

[Loki1950]

What kind of tool a proper import/export script for blender or something else be specific Lion do not post just to see your name.

Enjoy the Choice

[Lion.Kanzen]

What kind of tool a proper import/export script for blender or something else be specific Lion do not post just to see your name.

Enjoy the Choice

not is true, i im thinking that way, have Sketch up to do Buildings, and forms its very easy, especially for a guys like me, that was working with Vectorial Programs to do Shapes. and that suggest you its good idea, you know how difficult is putt off Edges in 3d a 3d Object exported from Sketch up?.

[lilstewie]

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Triangle shape

The walls should pretty much look like this. With the brick marks visible not plastered over like on the relief.

Edited February 27, 2013 by lilstewie

[Enrique]

The walls should pretty much look like this. With the brick marks visible not plastered over like on the relief.

Then we finally discarded the palisade-looking wall segments?

[Pureon]

Then we finally discarded the palisade-looking wall segments?

Not that I know of. The plan was to have a stone/wood combination for the Mauryan walls.

[Shield Bearer]

Well, I think we should follow the relief here...why did we decide for the stone/wood combination?

[Enrique]

Well, I think we should follow the relief here...why did we decide for the stone/wood combination?

It looks like there are some historical documents depicting the walls made of wood.

[lilstewie]

The early Mauryans used wood, then moved on to stone in Ashoka+. Their successors(relief) carried on the brick design. You guys already used a lot of stone on barracks, cc, castle anyways.

[Pureon]

The historical records I read (linked somewhere in the Mauryan thread) suggested the Mauryans used thick tall wooden walls for defending their cities - hence why our 'stone walls' for the Mauryans should feature wood (with plaster/stone for foundations and decoration).

[lilstewie]

The early ones under chandragupta was wooden. The greek diplomat mentioned this. Later they moved on to the brick like in the reliefs. You guys can pick either, but you guys already used so much bricks on other structure. Just saying.

[Shield Bearer]

Alright. So stone foundations with wooden walls. Sounds good

[Pureon]

I think that's something along the lines of what Enrique was envisioning

[Enrique]

lol. Actually I was working in both the stone and the wood variations, just in case expect screens soon.

[Zeta1127]

It sounds like the Mauryan walls changed from wood to stone over time, so perhaps there should be a special technology that represents this change?

[Enrique]

It sounds like the Mauryan walls changed from wood to stone over time, so perhaps there should be a special technology that represents this change?

I also thought in this option, but I figured that it sounds kind of a cheat to use wood to build your walls to convert them to a more strong ones just with a technology, thus saving all the stone other civs would need to make them.

[feneur]

I also thought in this option, but I figured that it sounds kind of a cheat to use wood to build your walls to convert them to a more strong ones just with a technology, thus saving all the stone other civs would need to make them.

We could always have it cost a lot of stone. Alternatively upgrade one piece at a time, but immediately, which would still be a benefit as you could build up a good amount of wood walls, and then later once you have more stone you could upgrade the walls to get stronger ones =) (Not sure it's worth complicating things that much though )

[alpha123]

I also thought in this option, but I figured that it sounds kind of a cheat to use wood to build your walls to convert them to a more strong ones just with a technology, thus saving all the stone other civs would need to make them.

Perhaps already-built walls wouldn't change at all (still be wood) but now stone walls would also be unlocked?

[zoot]

Perhaps already-built walls wouldn't change at all (still be wood) but now stone walls would also be unlocked?

We already have a technology for that. It's called 'Town Phase'

[Pedro Falcão]

Then push it to City Phase. I mean, if they once had wooden walls but eventually (later than than most civs) got stone walls, it just doesn't feel right for them to not have them. And since there are civs with only wooden walls, why not a civ with a stone wall an age later?

[lilstewie]

^^^^^^^

Plus, a lot of the structures now are overwhelmingly stone based.

Or have the brick marks visible(CC, Barracks, etc, etc). When in fact they were mostly wood or plastered over like this.

No stone, brick marks should be shown.

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Chanakya show does an amazing job at recreating that era accurately.

Now compare to this texture.

http://www.wildfireg...&attach_id=4993

http://www.wildfireg...100#entry259122

This is because you guys went back to Egg inspired original Mauryan work i think.

Edited February 28, 2013 by lilstewie

[lilstewie]

Originally Enrique was in this direction. Like 90+% of the buildings were plastered over.

http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16572&st=60#entry252505

[alpha123]

We already have a technology for that. It's called 'Town Phase'

Er, good point. But Town Phase is probably too early for them to have stone walls, and their non-palisade wood walls would be too strong for Village Phase.

Perhaps consider this scheme: Like most other civs, they have palisades in Village Phase. In Town Phase, they get more powerful wooden walls (a bit like the Celtic walls, but less sturdy). In City Phase, a technology is unlocked that, when researched, allows them to also build stone walls, like most civs get in Town Phase. This sort of simulates the process with which they actually got stone walls.

So they'd actually have 3 types of walls, but they'd get real stone walls much later than most civs (or perhaps not at all, if the player is more offensive and doesn't bother to research the stone wall technology).