===[TASK]=== Weapons and Armory

[Alexandermb]

@stanislas69 you know how to make textures and normals with blender using high poly's to low poly meshes?

i've made this high poly roman spata following the reference image desing.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Alexandermb

[LordGood]

One thing you may want to do with blades, especially if there is smoothing on the mesh, is split the geometry right at the blade's edge. Shading and specular shading will try to round it out otherwise and spoil the illusion of an 'edge'

I do believe Stan knows how to bake textures and normals, but is that reference image you used under a compatible license? Have to ask

[Alexandermb]

2 hours ago, LordGood said:

One thing you may want to do with blades, especially if there is smoothing on the mesh, is split the geometry right at the blade's edge. Shading and specular shading will try to round it out otherwise and spoil the illusion of an 'edge'

I do believe Stan knows how to bake textures and normals, but is that reference image you used under a compatible license? Have to ask

dind't checked, mostly is for learning on how to do it.

[Lion.Kanzen]

@wackyserious can do something similar in mean texture.

[Alexandermb]

After learning how to render from high poly to low poly, i've made this i will keep looking creative commons wood's so the model stay the same but the colours of the wood could change.



0AD Look

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Actual gladus.

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On 21/12/2017 at 8:45 PM, Lion.Kanzen said:

Edited February 4, 2018 by Alexandermb

[Stan`]

Looking good but I'm not sure we should continue to add single textures props.

[Alexandermb]

9 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

Looking good but I'm not sure we should continue to add single textures props.

Maybe the swords/sheaths only, the spears could keep the prop_weap.dds texture and any other weapon with a wood handle (axe/hammer/halberd) at least the more famous, and keep the one's whos doesn't look bad 

Keep this one's: Spartan/Maur_Longsword/Akin/Falcata/Romphaia/Xiphos

And only use single one for the: Gladius/Spatha/Cs sword/Broadsword

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[Alexandermb]

For the sheath i can't get a good gold looking but at least the red leather looks good.

[Stan`]

For scabbard there are already unused textures in the game folders. Might be worth a loo

[Lion.Kanzen]

12 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

Looking good but I'm not sure we should continue to add single textures props.

Can be useful for later swords like Roman-Celtic Spatha and late period warfare.

[Stan`]

scabbard_hele_1.dds

scabbard_hele_2.dds

scabbard_iberian_1.dds

scabbard_roman_1.dds

scabbard_roman_2.dds

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

On 2/4/2018 at 2:57 PM, Alexandermb said:

For the sheath i can't get a good gold looking but at least the red leather looks good.

How many triangles?

[Alexandermb]

@wowgetoffyourcellphone 110 but now i guess i can make one with a bith less, and a better texture.

[Alexandermb]

Has a prop point for a well fitted greek bow while gathering if its desired.



References by @Lion.Kanzen

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Edited February 9, 2018 by Alexandermb

[Stan`]

Can we see the sheathed variant ?

Red should be player color I guess.

[Alexandermb]

it was supposed to be brown but can't win one agains't cycles render.
Arrows are prop points too, so you dind't had to make another "quiver_arrows" mesh.

[Stan`]

Looks good. Too bad it's flying in the air but there is not much we can do...

[Alexandermb]

i've made this for easy handle for the weapons, and the next quivers i will make or those already ingame, therefore it will be problems since this calls one bow for the moment, and not all bows are the same so i think it could be solved like this

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Triangle empty Micro small with a prop point for a bow ( just like placing it in root)

• File using this micro triangle with variants of all bows ingame
  • Quiver
    • Variants
      • the prop point will call the file with all bows
    • all bows should be called the same in the variant name="x" function.
      
      Weapons  /  Triangle calling all the bows with frequency
      Greek bow > Greek bow
      Pers bow > Pers bow
      Curved bow > Curved bow 
      Indian bow > Indian bow

[Alexandermb]

On 1/1/2018 at 6:07 PM, Lion.Kanzen said:

 

Also, did this testing the same sculpting brushes addons i got in blender used in the deformation of the middle metal circle in the quiver.

[Lion.Kanzen]

We haven't properly axe combat animation.

[Alexandermb]

21 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

We haven't properly axe combat animation.

Nor the axemen, atm theres only kardakes skirmisher hoplite. Will make the helmet of the reference

[Lion.Kanzen]

I mean for other cultures, like Black sea kingdoms.

[Lion.Kanzen]

The best mask. I never saw.

Edited February 10, 2018 by Lion.Kanzen

[Alexandermb]

@stanislas69 after keep learning how to bake better textures compared from the horse full blanket to this and others, remember me what other topics i left before where i could make an improvement and finish them properly.

Same goes to the Xiongnu, i will make properly shields and other things now i know how, so it could end with a better performance meshes.

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Post in this topic any kind of weapon/quivers/sheaths in need of an update, props needed yet not implemented, helmet goes to helmet topics, shields, to shields topics.

Edited February 10, 2018 by Alexandermb

[Lion.Kanzen]

Ok. mostly of update faction are from early original project, Persians, Romans, Carthaginians and Iberians.

The Hellenes always have their weapons and armor updated.