===[COMMITTED]=== Aspis Remake

[Alexandermb]

Hello 0.A.D. Community, today i post this week work in Art Development addtions.

Aspis Remake

A new mesh fully 3D with less than 300 tris.

Better quality Textures.

First step is remake all the textures of the aspis shields with a better quality versions, leaving behind all the 128x128/64x64 textures.

Factions:

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Athen:

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Basic:

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Advanced:

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Elite:

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Champion:

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Hero:

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Carthage:

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Basic:

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Advanced:

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Elite:

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Champion:

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Macedonia:

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Basic:

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Advanced:

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Elite:

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Champion:

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Ptolemy:

Persian:

Sparta:

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Basic:

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Advanced:

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Elite:

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Champion:

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Hero:

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Ingame Colors:

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Handgrips/Back :

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[Alexandermb]

Short comparisson on the quality of the update:

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[Sundiata]

Wow, beautiful! 

[Nescio]

12 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

Handgrips/Back :

Some ancient images:

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Also note that the Latin clipeus is equivalent to the aspis.

[EDIT]: Shield patterns according to Duncan Head (1982) Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC:

Greek:

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Hellenistic:

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Edited August 7, 2019 by Nescio
Head shield patterns

[Alexandermb]

Spart champion animals (missing snake, and cheetah):

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[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

It would be great to have the Boeotian shield in the game, even if a bit anachronistic. 

[Enrique]

Looking amazing! Great work!

Do you mind sharing some wireframes of the shield mesh?

[Lion.Kanzen]

4 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

It would be great to have the Boeotian shield in the game, even if a bit anachronistic. 

We have 300 shield inside the repo... I dont see the problem.

[Alexandermb]

9 hours ago, Nescio said:

Some ancient images:

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We can clearly see the "Wololo" in ancient era in this paint

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18 minutes ago, Enrique said:

Looking amazing! Great work!

Do you mind sharing some wireframes of the shield mesh?

Here some blender screenshots:

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27 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

It would be great to have the Boeotian shield in the game, even if a bit anachronistic. 

Sure, why not

[wackyserious]

Nice work! I really like how natural the painted symbols look, it makes it look very authentic.

[Alexandermb]

Just now, wackyserious said:

Nice work! I really like how natural the painted symbols look, it makes it look very authentic.

Thanks!, the actual textures have a black siloutte in each symbol that siloutte don't help the symbol look authentic. 

For example see lambda compared to athen elite symbols

[Lion.Kanzen]

8 minutes ago, wackyserious said:

Nice work! I really like how natural the painted symbols look, it makes it look very authentic.

Hmmm are same textures.

But it can be better .

Edited August 7, 2019 by Lion.Kanzen

[Alexandermb]

Gorgon Face:

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[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

I think the bronze (usually the rim) colors are looking too red and don't match the helmet colors.

[Alexandermb]

Just now, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I think the bronze (usually the rim) colors are looking too red and don't match the helmet colors.

I have an issue with my blender 2.80 last release wich kinda changes all the bakes some are bright some are clean some are darker dunno why.

[Lion.Kanzen]

8 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I think the bronze (usually the rim) colors are looking too red and don't match the helmet colors.

Yes I saw the same in some. Its not hard change that. But I need do some experiments first.

Edited August 8, 2019 by Lion.Kanzen

[Alexandermb]

Same configuration, same bake, something changed:

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[Lion.Kanzen]

5 minutes ago, Alexandermb said:

Same configuration, same bake, something changed:

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That is... That can be fixed....

[Alexandermb]

Update:

Replaced the bronze rim:

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Pers_kardakes_01:

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[Alexandermb]

Seleucid infantry/champion_pikeman:

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[wackyserious]

Impurities (dark spotting) on the silver texture is quite strong. Awesome work, so far. Wondering what it looks like on player color and in comparison to the old Macedonian pelte textures, though.

[Alexandermb]

Only need a few heros patterns and one more kardakes symbol to finish (ptol eagle remains untouched saddly).

8 hours ago, wackyserious said:

Impurities (dark spotting) on the silver texture is quite strong. Awesome work, so far. Wondering what it looks like on player color and in comparison to the old Macedonian pelte textures, though.

Rebaked them, fixed the blender bake issue:

Here a comparisson of the shields

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Also, added demetrius and Craterus shield:

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[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Much better. Yeah, the silver and other metal base colors looked very muddy before. They look way better now.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Can you make a couple variations of this Carthaginian shield? 

Where the dolphins and palm tree are white and the background is player color (elite spearman). And then one where the background is white and the dolphins-tree are player color (sacred band champs).

[Alexandermb]

20 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Can you make a couple variations of this Carthaginian shield? 

Where the dolphins and palm tree are white and the background is player color (elite spearman). And then one where the background is white and the dolphins-tree are player color (sacred band champs).

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Started to add variants files for shields for finishing details. This TASK will have as pre-requisite this other TASK for commit. 

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Everything working fine so far!

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Will end this to re-export cavalry animations once more for commit the animations fixes with the new sheaths and pikeman shields bones adjustments.

Missing Themistocles shield texture (will do it today) And 1 Kardakes Hoplite eagle sillouette.