Rome Legionary

[Alexandermb]

hair can't be rendered on my pc so i wil go for the same method stan used on the last helmet committ, make the player colours, crest's, feathers and any kind of hair look like meshes another mesh apart using the textures already done

[Alexandermb]

if feathers/hair can be black or white only and not player colour, it could be done like this and use basic_trans_parallax_spec as material, rendered on a basic plane low poly

Edited February 21, 2018 by Alexandermb

[Alexandermb]

On 20/2/2018 at 8:19 PM, stanislas69 said:

If you find great materials like this feel free to make a thread in the art forum so everyone can benefit from them

speaking of materials, theres also something i used before for make basic normal maps, it won't give perfect results but at least ir works for a basic texture for rendering.
on gimp theres a script i added long time ago for make normal maps i'm not sure if this was posted here before but it worth using sometimes.
 

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[Stan`]

Don't forget to press invert Y else your normals will look bad ( Default is DirectX normal format not openGl)

Interesting for feathers

Why can't you render hair ?

[Stan`]

I'll pack the textures for the Kushites helmet

[Alexandermb]

if the hair is big, it crash about 50% rendering and pc overheat but the feathers didn't take more than a minute.

[Stan`]

If you need me to render some just share the blendfile

[Alexandermb]

6 minutes ago, stanislas69 said:

If you need me to render some just share the blendfile

Thanks, i'll leave the post's with blender files attached when needed:

Feathers example:
 

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[Stan`]

Updated blendfile.

kush_skullcap1.blend

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

1 hour ago, Alexandermb said:

if the hair is big, it crash about 50% rendering and pc overheat but the feathers didn't take more than a minute.

This is unnecessary detail.

[Alexandermb]

39 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

This is unnecessary detail.

is for the variants, for now it has this, if that isn't the variant wanted then i'l leave it as it is, but this is just a plane 

Edited February 22, 2018 by Alexandermb

[Lion.Kanzen]

Interesting renders. can be useful to many art purposes.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

I imagine the alpha channelled feather texture will just anti-alias into a smudge in game at a playable zoom. 

 

I'm not saying it doesn't look cool tho.

Edited February 22, 2018 by wowgetoffyourcellphone

[Alexandermb]

1 hour ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I imagine the alpha channelled feather texture will just anti-alias into a smudge in game at a playable zoom. 

 

I'm not saying it doesn't look cool tho.

i'll try to keep the alpha visible from a playable zoom haven't tested yet ingame while i'll try to get the properly helmet colour
also there could be an iron variant of texture ?

[Alexandermb]

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

The Agen-Port helmet could have an iron variant if you want to model one of those.

[Lion.Kanzen]

I love them.

[Lion.Kanzen]

This?

[Alexandermb]

still missing the lower feathers but at least is visible

[Alexandermb]

Managed to make it hide the feathers while formation

[Alexandermb]

[Alexandermb]

things that should be added to formations:

• Disable movement or some function to switch the unit state from aggresive/defensive or any other stance to Hold position.
• Circle shape if ins't added.
• Keep the formation shape until the first row attack.

[Alexandermb]

Anti cavalry done, made one attack for the front guys but the formation shows error

[Lion.Kanzen]

There is other formation but is  mixed...

Here is mostly of mechanic of combat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_infantry_tactics

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At the command orbem formate, the legionaries assumed a circle-like formation with the archers placed in the midst of and behind the legionaries providing missile fire support. This tactic was used mainly when a small number of legionaries had to hold a position and were surrounded by enemies.

 

Edited February 24, 2018 by Lion.Kanzen

[Lion.Kanzen]

Look this...

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