RNJ Buildings Progress Thread

[Seijitai]

As promised, here is Wundai's message :


Hey all,

For those who don't know yet I'm Wundai your Local Buildings Modeler and here some Screenshots of the Ashigaru barracks :beam:

https://img76.imageshack.us/img76/2369/ashigbarracks1zx8.jpg

https://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9830/ashigbarracks2qf7.jpg


Units that are spawned from this Building:

Yari Ashigaru and Nagae Yari Ashigaru

Enjoy :2thumbsup:
:thumbsup:

[Ossie The Great]

Wow those look great :grin:
:bow:

[Wundai]

Thanks Seiji. you got there before me :laugh4:

And thnx for the comment Oscarreeve ;)

[Nakamura Lobato]

Awesome job on the building graphics! Thanks for stepping up so we can all play Ran no Jidai.

Domo arigato gozaimashita
Nakamura

[Wundai]

lol yea thnx for spelling my name right Nakamura ;)

But seriously thnx for the reply :)

[Ossie The Great]

Wundai u have inspiered me to make a little building myself

https://img505.imageshack.us/img505/6048/picture0072cj6.th.jpg (https://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0072cj6.jpg)

it is nothing compared to wundai's work.

P.S Keep the good work up

[Wundai]

Already looks better than the one you posted on TWC :D

lookin good :)

[Seijitai]

And here's Wundai's new pics... He's too lazy to post them (bad boy :whip: )


Hey People,

Some new Screens of the Japanese Teahouse, this building is to replace the Academy Ingame.

Sorry for the lack of Ran No Jidai Bars around it, I hope you'll forgive me. Wundai


and I'm too lazy too add the RNJ "black-boards"... Forgive us, we are humans :sweatdrop: :laugh4:

https://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1217/teahouselvl1xo1.jpg

https://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3032/teahouselvl2ds6.jpg

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/8932/teahouselvl3ir5.jpg

Leave your comments ! :beam:

[Myrddraal]

Looking good :bow:

[Wundai]

:oops: aaa i'm sorry people :sweatdrop: i keep posting at the TWC and forgetting you guys!

And Seiji has to solve my mess:whip:


Well i hope you like the buildings anyways,

thnx Myrddraal :D

[Wundai]

Ok a new building to post:

The Swordsmith Level 1 (there are 3 levels of Swordsmith)

https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/994/theswordsmith1lp9.jpg

https://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3728/theswordsmith2ql5.jpg
Furthermore, I have something to tell you.

In the past I wanted to wait with posting building Pictures until they were REALLY done. But now I see that almost constantly we are refitting the buildings with new textures etc.

And that means that updates don't really reach the community as often as I would like, so I am now thinking of posting "Work In Progress" Screenshots here too, that way you get to see a little more screens than usual :) even though they aren't finished yet.

[Wundai]

EDIT: well ehm ok, just noticed the texture deformation on the smity's roof(second pic) so just consider this your first WIP ;)

[Ossie The Great]

Great work Wundai.

P.S I Had a go at another building http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w124/oscarreeve/?action=view&current=picture001-13.jpg i have not finshed the skin for the bottom bit but it is suppose to be this http://www.danhagerman.com/images/Ginkakuji%20Temple.jpg

[Wundai]

hey wow that looks pretty cool :D

[Wundai]

Ok next Up: The Teppo Factory, where they make all the rifles


This is still a Work In Progress, because we need a better texture for the roof, and a good entrance for the in- and outside, but this is it so far. (quite finished already)

I have all 3 Levels for you ;)

Level 1:

https://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6236/teppolevel1wk2.jpg

(bit dark texture but it lightens up in RTW ;), and i was getting a bit tired of finding new ground textures every time :P)


Level 2:

https://img165.imageshack.us/img165/649/teppolevel2af5.jpg


A little look in the courtyard of the teppo factory ;) (coolest in my opinion):

https://img68.imageshack.us/img68/7223/teppolevel2courtyardji0.jpg

(I made this one a bit more beautyful with Sun and stone texture but the stone texture will not be shown ingame, just plane Rtw Ground :) )

And last but not least Level 3:

https://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9913/teppolevel3fc3.jpg

Enjoy :2thumbsup:

[soibean]

beautiful

[Kazuma]

That looks good. :beam:

[Eufarius]

Oh man i cant wait till this mod comes out.

[Wundai]

Hey All,

A little update without buildings or screens today,

I wanted to let you all know how far we are with the buildings, because i've seen that many of you want to know how much % of the mod is done,

and since for some departments that is impossible but for some it is not i'm gonna tell you how far we are:

At this moment we have 31 buildings Complete

(not all buildings were made by me, some were already finished beforehand)
(with this number i mean the number of Levels in a building included)

Example:

When i say the teahouse is finished, well it has 3 levels so that is 3 buildings done ;)


and we have 20 Buildings still to go :)

One big building for me to make is the Shiro (castle with 5 lvls ) but really, i'm looking forward to it :)

[Wundai]

DAMMIT!

I'm really mad with all these holiday's im on a hold here, just glad having 3dsmax back up after an Awesome computercrash, im sure everyone of you has had one of those :P

Well not that much to show but i did want to show Something at least, so here you go ;)

Work in progress: Armory

https://img117.imageshack.us/img117/4282/wiparmoryww1.jpg

[Eufarius]

:dizzy2:

[Wundai]

Lol No Dizzyness Soldier :laugh4:

[Eufarius]

yes sir!:gah:

[Wundai]

Ok here it goes :yes:

The Shiro, the Japanese Castle ( still a work in progress because it needs some more wood textures )

Wanna know the funny part? This is one of the Biggest and most complicated buildings I have Ever made, but it is the SMALLEST of the 5 Levels of Castle you will see coming from me.

This Particular Level 1 is a reincarnation of Matsue Castle, and here is the Juicy Picture Material:

https://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2192/theshirotwb7.jpg
https://img516.imageshack.us/img516/5210/theshirot2bp8.jpg

Enjoy :2thumbsup:

P.S. LvL 5 is Himeji Castle and this one is already made by Prometheus

[fightermedic]

:skull: this looks very cool, great job wundai :jumping: :horn: :ballchain: :croc:

[Kazuma]

Yeah that Japanese castle looks nice. Well done Wundai.

[Eufarius]

ALL HAIL WUNDAI!



:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

[Wundai]

:beam: thnx for the replies guys

[Wundai]

Hey all,

A few days ago I suddenly had the idea to get some more detail into the Shiro I made, so here an update picture:

https://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7053/shirocylinderedzx6.jpg

I'll let you tell me what is changed :robot:

[Kazuma]

A few days ago I suddenly had the idea to get some more detail into the Shiro I made, so here an update picture:

I'll let you tell me what is changed :robot:

That does look better. You added more detail to the roofs. :beam:

[Wundai]

:yes:

[Ossie The Great]

Nice Castle,

[Wundai]

Might Need to turn up your brightness to see all the details in this one, but I hereby present to you Shiro LVL 4

Reference was Matsumoto Castle:

https://img467.imageshack.us/img467/964/matsumoto1vg7.jpg
https://img467.imageshack.us/img467/1272/matsumoto2so9.jpg
https://img467.imageshack.us/img467/5055/matsumoto3tu8.jpg

I dont see that much that needs changing to this Shiro, just have to wait and see what it looks like ingame and hope that Balcony I made doesn't lag :whip:

I can tell you this though there was never a building that took more time then this one :yes:

Have a nice day and enjoy the screens :2thumbsup:

[fightermedic]

just .... impressive is the right word

[Wundai]

Ok ill try to break the record of finishing buildings sooner than you can reply, lol

Here fresh from the Wundai Machine, I bring you Shiro Lvl 1

Yes yes for those who have been paying attention, the previous lvl 1 was a bit to sophiscated in the building teams opinion, and so it became Shiro Lvl 2

So here Lvl 1 referenced from Aya Castle if someone ever bothered to check up on what I used to make it ;)

https://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5964/shirolvl1dq9.jpg
https://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1067/shirolvl12bo5.jpg

[Kazuma]

Shiro LVL 4 looks awesome. Shiro level 1 looks quite weird. Is that one a realistic replica of a (very) small Japanese castle?

[Wundai]

Kazuma in the post itself I said Aya Castle, just google it if ya wanna know ;)

[Kazuma]

Kazuma in the post itself I said Aya Castle, just google it if ya wanna know ;)

Okay I've looked at some photos of Aya-jo. Some of the proportions of your model are off. The bottom stone base should be shorter, the entrance (gates) is above the stone base and the black part below the tower house should be a bit shorter and wider. Maybe you can improve that. The rest looks pretty good.

[Wundai]

Actually the basis and tower are already changed, Tomte pointed those out to me,

The Gate I will not change because IMO it looks a bit stupid to have a bridge to an entrance of a castle on the second level,

In the end the purpose of a castle is to defend something, not let the soldiers walk over a bridge which cannot be closed.

2nd reason is these castles are "reference", I do not try to make exact copies of them, just a "neutral" version which can be used in every Japanese City.

[Ossie The Great]

Very Nice buildings , so how much buildings are left

[Wundai]

Hmm lets see, if I'm correct there is:

-2 building levels for the Armory
-1 building level for the castle (lvl3)
- the market (with levels)
- the port (with levels)
the patrolmens office (with levels)

I might have missed one or two but that about it ;)

[Eufarius]

As I posted many times:



ALL HAIL WUNDAI !!!!!!!:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:


seriously nice job with those models.

[Wundai]

LoL sorry it must be a bother having to write "great job " all the time :embarassed:

But I really appreciate it :beam:

[Eufarius]

No bother to us. Its great to praise work, so that the person we are praising can finish .:laugh4:

[Wundai]

Aaah ok :laugh4: in that case build a statue of me holding a katana on one of the Greek islands and maybe the work will be done faster, LoL

[fightermedic]

great idea! let's buil one come on, i'll pay the materials who's the one to put it up?

[Wundai]

Ok I'll provide reference in my avatar then!

[Wundai]

^Oh nvrmind, didn't know I couldn't use my own avy :(

And no edit button either here? aaah!

[Eufarius]

Ok if you pay for the materials I'll get the manpower for it.



lol

[Wundai]

The Time has come to put an end to the Shiro Series,

Maybe you'll call me "Wundai The Cheater" after this but so be it ;)

I took the Shiro lvl 2 and added an extra building to it. Because this is generally what we chose for Lvl 3 and why not make it a bit faster, so we can get on with other buildings I thought.

Here are the screens:
(Building Time: About 30 seconds :P )

https://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7859/shirolvl3nf5.jpg

https://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1233/shirolvl32ms3.jpg

Well thats it, it was fun making these, and time-consuming indeed ;)

Enjoy :)

[Eufarius]

I shall enjoy them Wundai. I'll love seeing them In-game.:laugh4:

[Wundai]

Yes ill be putting them in for some good screens when Kage has told me how to :P

[Kazuma]

Your latest building looks pretty good wundaisan.

[Wundai]

Hey Community, I hope there's still some of you left :laugh4:

Long time no update, it true
To be honest I had some trouble finding motivation to start the next building, and with some other buildings I still had problems for which I have a solution now so thats some good news.

Some other good news is that I have passed on some buildings to Kagemusha which I hope he will code ingame :2thumbsup:

Ok on to the building, The Patrolmen's Office Level 1 (there are 3 in total)
This building served as kind of an Police Station within towns and city's:

https://img141.imageshack.us/img141/6939/patrolmensoffice1hg7.jpg

https://img503.imageshack.us/img503/182/patrolmensoffice2bf8.jpg

https://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4281/patrolmensoffice3eg3.jpg

https://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7711/patrolmensoffice4yl3.jpg

P.S. Sorry for my lazyness but theres a wrong texture in the second pic which I fixed while I took screens.
Guess I'm a little tired after spending the afternoon texturing this building :yes:

[Kazuma]

This one looks good.

[Wundai]

Thanks Kazuma :beam:

Little Update on this building, wanted to change the roof type for the last level.

So in order:

Level1:
https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/596/updatepatrolmensoffice3gp1.jpg

Level2:
https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/781/updatepatrolmensoffice2ty9.jpg

Level3:
https://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6417/updatepatrolmensoffice1uq7.jpg

(Different Angles, but what I've done is simply deleted some of the surrounding buildings for the lower levels and made their roof type Straw-like)

[Eufarius]

YOOO first one to post!!!!!


nice Wundai your work always gives me a heart attack so I carry a portable defibrillator. HAHAHAHA keep it up!



how many buildings left?:2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

[Wundai]

Lol Eufarius :laugh4:


To Do:
- Trade Street (marketplace)
- Port
- Stable lvl 4,5
- Practice Range lvl 4,5

- + Any errors to be fixed reported by Kagemusha after he puts the buildings ingame

[Shautora]

Wow! these buildings look great!! do u have references for most of the buildings, or just the castles? cuz the teppo factory looked much more like a barracks than a factory, even tho it still looked awesome. i particularly like the watchmans house, it looks really cool^_^

[Wundai]

Well, I do have reference for most buildings yes :) But not the Teppo I'm afraid, I had to make that from a Lay-out schematic Seijitai send me. So I guess you could call that a figment of my imagination ;)

Don't be distracted by the armor though, that was really used to test teppo rifles.

[Shautora]

ok, so i did some quick research, and while i wasnt able to find any layouts, a found a decent number of pictures:

http://nkr.air-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/teppou.jpg

http://minkara.carview.co.jp/image.aspx?src=http%3a%2f%2fcarview-img6.bmcdn.jp%2fcarlife%2fimages%2fTownInfo%2f172739.jpg

鉄砲鍛冶屋敷町 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-si4uKTW-M)

鉄砲鍛冶屋敷町② (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zEmGgitWQ)

http://www.geocities.jp/okachincom2/Japan/kinki/oumi11.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Kunitomo02s3200.jpg

and this one here, the pictures better on the site: 国友一貫斎屋敷 (http://asajihara.air-nifty.com/photos/pichibi/kunitomoikkansai.html)

one thing i was able to tell, is that theres no courtyard, they were solid structures

[Wundai]

The Trade Street

Well here it is (Lvl 5):
(more levels are lvl 2,3 and 4 but that will just be this only with things deleted :) )

So this was the last building, now its just fixing for me then :2thumbsup: I might make the poles of the gate red as a nice touch. Making buildings was fun, now just to edit them and now I'm just as excited as all of you are to see these baby's ingame :smash:

Now put that gamma up and enjoy the looks :laugh4:
https://img408.imageshack.us/img408/811/tradestreet1rd6.jpg

https://img251.imageshack.us/img251/826/tradestreet2fa8.jpg

https://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9671/tradestreet3pt0.jpg

https://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7522/tradestreet4tf7.jpg

[Vlad The Impaler]

hehe, so the buildings are ready:beam:
so the release is close:jumping: :bounce:

[antisocialmunky]

*NVM*

[Kagemusha]

Ran No Jidai: We finished out buildings before Empires did

Antisocial, whats your problem? I see you popping out here and there in this mod forum taking shots at the mod team, in which once you were part of also. If you dont have anything meaningful to say, please stay out, its not if this mod team is competing with CA in any way, but i dont think that trolling of yours helps anything either.:inquisitive:

[Ossie The Great]

, i would not mind waiting till ca relased 20 games and ran no jidai still not beign released, as it is such and awsome mod i think it would be worth the wait.

P.S Kage, i am not sure what happend about the lod models but whenever u need me just pm me

[antisocialmunky]

Antisocial, whats your problem? I see you popping out here and there in this mod forum taking shots at the mod team, in which once you were part of also. If you dont have anything meaningful to say, please stay out, its not if this mod team is competing with CA in any way, but i dont think that trolling of yours helps anything either.:inquisitive:

Sorry if you took it that way. I'm not trying to be offensive. I was trying to be humorous and interject some life into this forum. It was suppose to be an ironic statement since this mod has been in development for so long. I guess people aren't taking it that way so I'll get rid of it.

I also didn't really consider it trolling since barely anything happens in this forum anyways. Its not like there's anyway to not keep 'poping up' in a forum that averages single digit posts a month. What am I suppose to post in? No academic debates, no feature discussion, no unit discussion, no faction discussion, no real hype.

Its seems you guys have gotten everything you want down and are just putting it together in a detailed and methodical way. :2thumbsup: Though if I were still on the team, I would push for some content release since the fans have been around for a long time and deserve to have some stuff given to them for waiting so long and patiently. Maybe make a second video to show the progress you've made. But that's your choice.

But all the same, sorry. Once again, I didn't think you would take it that way and didn't even think about offending you. :no:

:oops:

Hope it comes out soon and keep up the good work. Its just kinda sad and frustrating to see the forum so dead.

[Taneda Santôka]

:oops: I've mostly kept the TWC forum updated, where, truth is that it is much more active back there.... I'll get those posts here then! :bow:

[Kagemusha]

Sorry if you took it that way. I'm not trying to be offensive. I was trying to be humorous and interject some life into this forum. It was suppose to be an ironic statement since this mod has been in development for so long. I guess people aren't taking it that way so I'll get rid of it.

I also didn't really consider it trolling since barely anything happens in this forum anyways. Its not like there's anyway to not keep 'poping up' in a forum that averages single digit posts a month. What am I suppose to post in? No academic debates, no feature discussion, no unit discussion, no faction discussion, no real hype.

Its seems you guys have gotten everything you want down and are just putting it together in a detailed and methodical way. :2thumbsup: Though if I were still on the team, I would push for some content release since the fans have been around for a long time and deserve to have some stuff given to them for waiting so long and patiently. Maybe make a second video to show the progress you've made. But that's your choice.

But all the same, sorry. Once again, I didn't think you would take it that way and didn't even think about offending you. :no:

:oops:

Hope it comes out soon and keep up the good work. Its just kinda sad and frustrating to see the forum so dead.

Ok. Sorry for that outburst munky.:embarassed: Im so tied up in coding that i dont have time for any pr stuff, so we will be ready one day. Our PR guy Seijitai got a new children with his wife, so he hasnt been active in bit either. We will try to make more updates here in Org forum also in the future. I guess we might have oriented on TWC a lot lately compared to this forum. Hopefully this will chance.:yes:

[antisocialmunky]

No its cool. It wasn't the most tactful thing ever. ;)

[Wundai]

Little Update for the team and community,

Just send the last building to Kagemusha tha Coder. So it's officialy in his hands :laugh4:

[antisocialmunky]

So if we want to ask someone the release date, we should stop asking you? :-D

How many buildings did you get to do?

[Wundai]

Lol indeed :yes:

With building levels included I had the honor of doing 29 buildings for the mod :beam:

[Myrddraal]

:oops: I've mostly kept the TWC forum updated, where, truth is that it is much more active back there.... I'll get those posts here then! :bow:



Chicken and egg. Updated forum = discussion.

[HKagemusha]

Really looks great imo, and now I know the you guys post more on a different forum >.<; oh well I guess I'll head that way asap.

Question, will any of the textures change based on the controlling faction? While there is no real need for it, it would be cool to see little laterns or banners representing the owning faction XD

[Taneda Santôka]

That idea is a nice, useless, touch, and it won't be in for the first release.... Later, maybe, but I highly doubt it.

[HKagemusha]

yup that's what I figured, I didn't mean it as a suggestion so much as out of curiosity XD Believe me I'm not keen on giving you guys extra work haha

[thebigbossnahhh]

How's work on the Stables and the Walls. Haven't seen your Walls yet. Can they be mounted like Rome's walls?
Also will there be Japanese Houses, pagodas, temples and stuff?

I haven't seen such good buildings since Helm's Deep by Thor the Bassist.
I wanna live in those buildings of yours lol :egypt:

[Wundai]

Thnx for the comment :smash:

Stables, Practice Range,Walls,Towers,Temple were done already by Prometheus(They were done before my time)

I'm sorry but I don't have those pictures here :sweatdrop:, on the TWC forums you can find them in the Buildings thread :2thumbsup:

Mounting of walls and such I can't tell ya, I'm just modelling and texturing them, the coding stuff isn't done by me. But if I remember correctly there is a "Siege" thread here or on the TWC forum where you can find the answer to that question:yes:

[thebigbossnahhh]

Thnx for the comment :smash:

Stables, Practice Range,Walls,Towers,Temple were done already by Prometheus(They were done before my time)

I'm sorry but I don't have those pictures here :sweatdrop:, on the TWC forums you can find them in the Buildings thread :2thumbsup:

Mounting of walls and such I can't tell ya, I'm just modelling and texturing them, the coding stuff isn't done by me. But if I remember correctly there is a "Siege" thread here or on the TWC forum where you can find the answer to that question:yes:

Fantastic, i'll give it a look.

[ptr]

Great work, sirs. Would editing buildings using your(or a similar) method work in M2TW for adding classical-era buildings?

[Wundai]

I wouldn't have a clue I'm afraid.
Never worked with MTW2

[Wundai]

Hey People,

I know its not much but because of the...well...lack of anything on the mod this period, I have some Ingame Building Shots to show :)

https://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4396/ashiok1.jpg
https://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8650/practicerr4.jpg
https://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4253/wundo1.jpg

One thing to note, the straw texture on the last building has been fixed, so it looks a lot nicer now ;)

[antisocialmunky]

Nice.

[Myrddraal]

The first and second look particularly good. There's some funky texture stretching happening on the third shot. :thumbsup:

[Wundai]

Haha thnx people, and yes I'm glad we got that fixed :2thumbsup:

[Wundai]

Well these were coded in by Kagemusha, but since he has too little time on his hands, I'll be coding them in now since I have alot more time :laugh4: , know what that means? :smash: progress :2thumbsup:

[aimlesswanderer]

I just want to burn down or sell those buildings to finance my armies of battle ninjas.....

[Taneda Santôka]

I just want to burn down or sell those buildings to finance my armies of battle ninjas.....
:laugh4: Then you'll have to stick to STW, we have no battle ninjas in the mod! :bow:

[Wundai]

** Media Intensive **
Ok, here are screenshots from the 5 levels of castles within our mod, Ingame:

Aya Castle(lvl1):
https://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2707/ayacastlelvl1zt1.jpg

Matsue Castle(lvl2):
https://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9787/matsuecastlelvl2lw2.jpg

Kumamoto Castle(lvl3) looks alot like lvl2 but it has an added section:
https://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6663/kumamotocastlelvl3jq8.jpg

Matsumoto Castle(lvl4) from here on out the castles sizes exceeded camera view height,
not sure if I'll let this stay or make them all smaller for that matter, or somehow make camera-view-height heigher :P :
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3497/matsumotocastlelvl4pe5.jpg

Himeji Castle(lvl5) made by Prometheus, I just fixed some stuff on it and resized it:
https://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8258/himejicastlelvl5js2.jpg

[Raz]

Is it just me? Or does the tower on the left of that last pic look like it's leaning over? :inquisitive:

[Wundai]

Must be the angle of the camera, its straight ingame.

[aimlesswanderer]

Is it just me? Or does the tower on the left of that last pic look like it's leaning over? :inquisitive:

Come on, you know it had a late night with the other towers and walls, and had a bit too much sake. :)


On another note, where are the vending machines in Kumamoto castle? When I was there, one seemed to dispense chips and chicken nuggets. My men will need to get fed during the sieges you know! Hmm, that's an idea, can you put a few inexhaustable vending machines around which don't run out of food? :beam:

[Wundai]

:laugh4: lol sorry Aimlesswanderer,

But to be honest the castles I used to make Lvl 1 - 4 Shiro were just reference, I wasn't trying to recreate the whole thing :2thumbsup:

[aimlesswanderer]

Oh well Wundai, my men will have to eat the fish in the moat instead of snack food. Fish is healthier at least!

[Wundai]

Little Update:

A 'Large Roman Town' looking a little bit more Japanese :)

More and more buildings being put in, ppl ;)

https://img110.imageshack.us/img110/5909/romanlargetownvx4.jpg

[Wundai]

Ok here the update comes :beam:

Some buildings within this mod were not made by me, one example of them is 'The Japanese Temple' why? Prometheus had made this one but unfortunatly when he left the mod he took that one with him.

Kagemusha has arranged though that we have permission to use buildings from the Blue Lotus mod. Which is this temple as well, in my opinion it looks beautiful and life-like ;) Kudos to them(never really knew what Kudos meant, but it was positive so there you go :laugh4: )

Now one more thing before I go to the screens, I have some bad news I'm afraid, well modwise speaking that is.
This will probably be the last update from me in a long time, in the end of May I am going to Germany for 3 months for a trial period and so you won't be seeing or hearing me posting any updates in that time, I will send all my work to Kagemusha who will continue it, but as you know he doesn't show his face around here that much because he is busy most of the time.

So all I can say with that is I hope the mod fares well, work will continue off-screen, who knows maybe Taneda can keep contact with Kage, to keep you somewhat updated, (Personal Request from me Taneda? :laugh4: , oh and sorry mate but I had to continue with the update, couldn't get your new texture in time :yes: )

Here are the screens:

Level 1 Temple: (its the building in the lower right)
https://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5366/templelvl1gi6.jpg

Level 2 Temple:
https://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8681/templelvl2vk4.jpg

Level 3 Temple: (sorry for the stone :laugh4: , and the difference with level 2 is that it stands on a white plateau with stone stairs )
https://img301.imageshack.us/img301/426/templelvl3uq3.jpg

Level 4 Temple: (sorry guys, couldn't get this ingame in time it wouldn't work somehow, so here you have it with my own-made background :beam: )
https://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5644/templelvl4sz0.jpg

[Raz]

Wow! That is quite something.
Great work there Wundai! Although, a question must be raised, why'd you go with a desert background!? I mean, I understand that you couldn't get it in game quick enough, but desert in Japan!? :laugh4:

Oh, and best wishes for Germany. :thumbsup:

[Harkonnen]

It is the Dark Temple in the Hell plane :P

Now more seriously, the screenshots are great...
Is difficult the build in flames efect? Because if you make all the builds and the efects of every build in flames it would be a lot work... I suppose is a heavy work. (I see in other screenshot the flame arrows of the archers).

Good luck in Germany Wundai.

[Wundai]

Thanks guys :beam:

Remember though its not my work, its Blue Lotus mod buildings in RNJ :2thumbsup: but they do look beautiful yea :yes:

@Raz
Oh well mate, it just looked cool that was really all I was thinking about :laugh4:

@Harkonnen
I'm not sure what you mean mate? I have tried firing catapults at my buildings, when that happens they start to go up in flames yes, but there is no real "destroy" animation, so after that you just see rubble. Haven't tried archers with fire yet, but if they set buildings aflame in Barbarian Invasion I would think it's the same in RNJ :beam:

[Harkonnen]

Ok, perfect... this is all i want to know about it. (that the build in flames status in the new models are not a problem).
Thanks Wundai.

[Taneda Santôka]

Read this while singing the spiderman theme

Wu-uundai, Wu-uundai, why didn't you use the straw texture I'd already given you Wundai!?!
http://shop.teeandtoast.com/images/uploads/vintagespidermanred.jpg

[Wundai]

Well because you said you wanted to work on it more mate, simple as that :laugh4:

[Taneda Santôka]

Damn, you cant beat spiderman this easy, you just cant!:laugh4:



Ok, but I meant meanwhile.... Anyway, great preview man! :2thumbsup:

[Wundai]

Arigato :bow:

[Wundai]

Why you lucky bastards, I was able to finish this Torii Gate before Germany :egypt:, its going to replace the Triumphal Arch and Roman Ruins.

https://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4610/toriigateka7.jpg

[Harkonnen]

Jejeje, it´s great Wundai... a good work.

[Myrddraal]

I see a strange wheeled mechanical beast from the future!

[Wundai]

Sshhh! The background looked nice :sweatdrop:

[Wundai]

Little Progress Update on Buildings Coding:

There are 5 levels in a City, two are complete.
Namely the Japanese Town and the Japanese Large Town.
Still working on the Minor City.
Some small errors remain like some Roman Statues still in there, but I will begin removing stuff at the end, and then the walls will also be coded in.

Some Screens :2thumbsup:

Japanese Town:
https://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9269/japanesetowncy0.th.jpg (https://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=japanesetowncy0.jpg)https://img257.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

Japanese Large Town:
https://img101.imageshack.us/img101/372/japaneselargetownap4.th.jpg (https://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=japaneselargetownap4.jpg)https://img101.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

Oh yes and I forgot, Taneda Santoka has made some new textures for the Straw Roofs which I added after making these screens, so here is a screen with his textures on it, and thats how it looks now ;)

https://img406.imageshack.us/img406/3444/japaneselargetownwithtakb4.th.jpg (https://img406.imageshack.us/my.php?image=japaneselargetownwithtakb4.jpg)https://img406.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

[Thermal]

sexy :yes:

[Wundai]

:laugh4:

[Wundai]

Torii Gate Ingame, replacing the Triumphal Arch.... In other words people can walk underneath it :D

https://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1990/toriigateingamezs9.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
https://img381.imageshack.us/img381/toriigateingamezs9.jpg/1/w1600.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img381/toriigateingamezs9.jpg/1/)

[Harkonnen]

Hummm, it looks like great. A good job Wundai... :2thumbsup:

[Thermal]

That is one hot archway, i think im falling in love :embarassed:

[LennStar]

That is a tori big enough for a god, allright ^^

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Wow! That's some really nice work you've done there. :2thumbsup:

[Wundai]

haha, thanks all

[Wundai]

Progress :beam:

Just one more error (something with a black textured building,and you can't see it on the photos :laugh4:) and then all the buildings are in, next up are the walls :wall:

Japanese Minor City:
https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2092/minorcityjapanesefj5.jpg

Japanese Large City:
https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1046/largecityjapaneseai0.jpg

Japanese HUGE City:
https://img401.imageshack.us/img401/535/hugecityjapanesejy5.jpg

[Terrius]

Uber Awesome mod and picks... can't wait for it to be released.
Keep up the good work. As I see, this mod, will gain big awards, yep!:2thumbsup:

[Wundai]

Awards? Can I get money for that? $$$$ :laugh4:

jk thnx for the comment :beam:

[Wundai]

Update:

Well I'm putting the walls in now, since I cannot overcome a couple of errors i've been having on the battlemap for over a month now, so i've decided to move on to the walls.

The ones you will see now are all Prometheus's work.

Wooden Pallisades:

https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7023/walls1ux2.jpg
https://img360.imageshack.us/img360/6316/walls2mr7.jpg

I had no errors coding these in, but man after 5 minutes of repeating the same thing over and over again, my respect for coders grows with each time :)


Edit: And another Update, fast huh? I just keep codin' em in :)

Wooden Walls(well...wooden...):
https://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8178/walls1be0.jpg

https://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7381/walls2jq8.jpg

Still I'm going to take a break now :P

[Terrius]

You should set up the Donation! %)) I think a lot of people would like to donate something, in order to play this mod faster...%)) ogh, by the way, what ships R there going to be in RNJ?

[Wundai]

Donation? But that means we have to work faster :skull: :oops: :laugh4:

Ships hmm, we have Japanese (trade/battle)ship models made and ready for the mod made by 'Wlesmana' and ehm if they were mine i'd show you the screens :no: oh well, I'll ask him if they can be shown since its his work.
They look 'very nice'!

[Terrius]

Well, I don't remember the history of the Japan perfectly, but , if you R not in a hurry to complete mod, maybe you all could do some kewl actions, for example some Invasion, mongol, or european, As I know, there were some european settlements near Tokyo. But this is just my thoughts, some massive invasions of the foreighners would make a good addition.

[Vlad The Impaler]

oh no, please.
the mod is taking too long already. sengoku will be fine and enough

[Wundai]

No wait! Thats perfect! It'll only take another 4 years, thats all!
Cmoooon they'll be over before you know it :yes:

Hehe no I'm afraid we're working towards a beta hopefully soon to be released :whip:
Extra's might still come in a patch, but we're focusing on this first.

[Thermal]

nice, and as for donations i donate my love, is that enough?

[LennStar]

Male or Female? How old? Show a picture, than we can talk about that.:belly:

[Wundai]

hahaha:egypt:

[Thermal]

Male or Female? How old? Show a picture, than we can talk about that.:belly:

male
92
46 stone
----picture is too big too display----

:clown:

[Vlad The Impaler]

Hehe no I'm afraid we're working towards a beta hopefully soon to be released :whip:
Extra's might still come in a patch, but we're focusing on this first.

Christmas ?:beam:

[Wundai]

Hmm whats the best answer I can give here from my limited knowledge...

Ah i've got it:

I hope so :clown:

[Thermal]

Hmm whats the best answer I can give here from my limited knowledge...

Ah i've got it:

I hope so :clown:

and my hint hint this being a 'GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT' was ignored, YAY HOPE AT LAST! did i mention no release at christmas means i commit suicide, your playing with lives now man

[LennStar]

Don't worry, we like playing.

You are an deth-near sumo-tori?

male
92
46 stone
are you rich?

[Thermal]

Don't worry, we like playing.

You are an deth-near sumo-tori?

are you rich?

i'm a sumo wrestling billionnaire! a sad one too if japanese games don't come around christmas and make me go jelly lard-ish at the knees!

[Wundai]

Good thing we're not going offtopic...

And even better that members like our fine Lennstar here make sure people stay ontopic as well :juggle2:

[Thermal]

Good thing we're not going offtopic...

And even better that members like our fine Lennstar here make sure people stay ontopic as well :juggle2:

well said, i agree, next, sheep or cow?, sheep for me :laugh4:

[Wundai]

A replacement of the Barbarian Invasion Lantern with a more Japanese Version:

https://img368.imageshack.us/img368/7392/lantern1mo6.jpg

Edit: Ehm oh yea, and the tree in the house still needs fixing I've seen it :P

[Wundai]

And another Update :)

I've talked this over with the team... Well those who were there and, I wanted to liven up the buildings by adding some scenics and vegetation to them, and this is how it looks like ingame:
More ground, leaves, lanterns, wooden bridges that kinda stuff ;)

https://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8026/newscenics1ok5.jpg

[Thermal]

groovy-licious

[antisocialmunky]

You need some cherry trees that react to season. :-p

[Wundai]

You know Antisocialmonkey, I would really like to put them in :beam: they would make for some awesome vegetation, unfortunatly if I would start on that It'll probably delay the mod for 6 months or so :laugh4:

[LennStar]

what a about a building "sakura-dori" (~cherry blossom tree street) with 5% happiness bonus? :2thumbsup:
And of course a nice garden ;)

Of course, this would slow down the town fights as everyone sits down for a round of sake under the trees... :D

[Wundai]

hahaha indeed!:yes:

A-would-be-nice quote:
'And the defending soldiers would suddenly hear the word "Matte!!!" being shouted down the streets.
And the enemy's banners didn't have the color red nor white on them. Just pink, as they sat down in the streets under the peacefully tranquillity of the Sakura Trees'

[antisocialmunky]

Lol, Have oyu thought about just coloring a puffy tree pink?

[Wundai]

Not only thought, I've even tried it :beam: but somehow it doesn't show up ingame :no:

[Wundai]

Update on the walls:

Had to make some pieces myself, since Prometheus's work,wasn't completely transmitted, but you don't really see any difference between his walls and mine ;)

Japanese Stone Wall:

https://img509.imageshack.us/img509/7971/stonewall1cp6.jpg

https://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3172/stonewall2mv6.jpg

[antisocialmunky]

Cool Beans, have any pics of people in the cities?

[Wundai]

Nope, don't even know if thats done yet :)
My buildings version is a seperate folder from the RNJ Version that is being build.

[soibean]

great looking stuff so far, I love how it is all coming together
keep up the amazing work

[Wundai]

Thanks :)

[leonn]

greetings,new to the forum and had to say how impressed i am with the work youve done.i helped out a little bit with another tw mod,for king or country.and i know how hard you are all working,so thanks and keep going!

[thebigbossnahhh]

Just wondering, when the Walls are demolished, will they animate correctly?
Because I remember Europa Barbarum's Walls for the Barbarian Factions, when you demolish them they animate the Vanilla demolision, wood turns to stone; Very annoying. :wall: :laugh4:

[Wundai]

Good point!
And answer is no I'm afraid, we also have vanilla animations for the wall.
Still Japanese Wooden Walls are Roman Wooden Walls and Japanese Stone walls are Roman Stone Walls so no wooden animation thingies seen in a stone wall at least :laugh4:

Actually a very good question, I should check this ingame :clown:

[Wundai]

The Guild,

Left behind again, since we spend most of our time on the TWC, well here's an update fellas.

Kagemusha the modleader has left the Guild and TWC scenes.

New modleadership has been established by Wundai(me) Juntao and Shogun144, to reopen activities on the mod.

I am working to complete a Progress Thread to post here and on the TWC, for all to see what still needs doing on the Ran No Jidai beta.

Alot of old members have become active again which is very good news. Before the dev was silent now, we have around 8-10 members active again, and about half of them working, other giving suggestions heh.

The new Beta will consist out of 2 Battles fought on the Battlemap

1 Siege Battle
1 Skirmish Battle

Dates,Armies,what to include and what not is still begin discussed over :beam:

Greetings to you, we ARE alive :smash:

[aimlesswanderer]

Great to hear things are progressing!

[Suraknar]

:bow: Great news! Have been waiting for this with much anticipation!

[Pranas]

GREAT!... finally the years of silence are in past )))
Hope the team rebirth will complete the great Ran no Jidai - sooner or later, which not really matters, cause the main thing is that you guys didn't abandon that project, big respect for that.
Good luck.
Cheers!

[Wundai]

Thanks for the positive posts guys :)

[Wundai]

I thought it was time to make some good ol' screenshots.

ESPECIALLY since we have finally been able to combine the buildings and units in one working mod version ;)

*IMAGE INTENSIVE*

The Takeda Clan Assaulting a Minor City with Ladders1:
https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8877/good4copy.jpg

The Takeda Clan Assaulting a Minor City with Ladders2:
https://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9913/good5copy.jpg

The Main Army advances (too close for comfort):
https://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4821/good2copy.jpg

Climbing the walls: (here you see our first problem, the men are about to move through the walls, not sure what Prometheus the original creator of these walls, had in mind):
https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4821/good2copy.jpg

The Battle continue's on the walls and in the far distance on the ground:
https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4628/good1copy.jpg

Long time no screens ey :beam:

[Raz]

Pleeeeasse. Numerous HD images!!? It killed my PC on dial-up. :whip:
Still, I managed to get round to looking at them - looking amazing Wundai. :thumbsup:

[Pranas]

masterpease.
Great screens.
:balloon2:

[Wundai]

Haha thanks mates, I was afraid it would be too intensive, unfortunatly spoilers don't work on the guild :sweatdrop:

[Raz]

Haha thanks mates, I was afraid it would be too intensive, unfortunatly spoilers don't work on the guild :sweatdrop:

Org's spoiler tags are simply "[SPOIL]". =D

[Wundai]

Thanks ;) *Changed*