we have gone quiet while we test things, move things, adjust things, add things,
boring stuff that gives us nothing to screenshot for you
i am currently finishing trawling through almost a Gig of resources for character names,
i want to check all the files and documents gathered (and sent to me) over the last three years - i dont want to miss anyone "critical"
although i probably will,
currently i already have far more samurai than the game can support,
my goal is 100 to 120 unqique characters for each clan
currently we have 29 clans in game (game crashes at 30 clans + rebels)
we also have a couple more clans we want in game, for pre-sengoku campaigns,
i may yet have to make a mini ex-pack to allow them in - we are testing that now
i am also sorting through 2,200 portraits made by a huge number of people that have been contributed to the mod over the years,
i have to sort them into categories then visually check for duplicates (many have come from the same source images)
i have so far identified 400 duplicates and 25 unsuitables,
i am allowing only a couple of duplicates through even though i have far more portraits than needed, a huge number - some 600, are too close to call (very similar), so i will spread them out into different categories and cultures and drop a substantial number of them.
my goal is 90+ portraits for each category and cuture except rebels, although i am going to be VERY hard pressed to have enough mongol portraits
If anyone wants to make some Mogol portraits that woulf be fantastic.
try mixing up backgrounds and tone and colour balance,
i dont care what format (psd, psp, gif, bmp, jpeg) the images are in - i can easily convert anything to game format.
Stye is something else i am pretty easy going with,
Kings for the Samurai are (mostly) old japanese art style, while Samurai generals are mostly photo style (similar to the Medieval protraits), assasins are a mix of both styles and so on..
R'as is making info pics and startpos test files, adding and testing clans,
reshuffling clans (we want to give the mongols the raider slot so they get a pillage bonus)
He is also making mons and flags and such, again nothing to show until it is finished.
If anyone wants to make some buildings for the mongols - only basic things like a retraining/organising center, ordu's that type of style,
i am thinking of dropping one of the Shogun castle upgrades (maybe impressive wood) and inserting a "castle" that only the mongols can build into the campaign, so that shows up on the campaign map - i am NOT sure it can be done, but i am going to try
(it is possible that you can only have one "string" of castles, but i "may" be able to cheat that by making the mongol fort/castle reliant on something only the mongols can build! - i cannot promise anything though)
SO if anyone can come up with a design suggestion (artwork) for it - great again!!
I only need the artwork for buildings and castle/fort, i can make everything else from that!!
oh
and i decided you need a screen of something,
so here's a screen of 24 Daimyo portraits
cheers,
B.
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