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jeanlannes
02-22-2007, 17:51
Playing Baktrian campaign with Bi.exe, Saka commanders look like vanilla barbarian ones (from BI i think). Is this a bug due to the use of the BI.exe or they are just placeholders?

God bless the EB team.
Fondor_Yards
02-22-2007, 23:35
Place holders for now. The steppe generals are the last on the list for a makeover it seems.
keravnos
02-22-2007, 23:54
absolutely no comment.
Fondor_Yards
02-23-2007, 02:57
absolutely no comment.

Except for that one?
fallen851
02-23-2007, 03:37
Uhh... I made some general skins for EB (one for everyone missing general), but I did so by hacking up some EB skins, so basically none of my work is my own. I'd release them if I felt the EB team wouldn't care, maybe I'll post up and ask if you really want. Or I can send them to you directly, PM me if you want.
Kull
02-23-2007, 07:07
Uhh... I made some general skins for EB (one for everyone missing general), but I did so by hacking up some EB skins, so basically none of my work is my own. I'd release them if I felt the EB team wouldn't care, maybe I'll post up and ask if you really want. Or I can send them to you directly, PM me if you want.

For the record, the EB Team is pretty strict about "hacking up" our skins. Some background:

We often get requests from other teams, asking to borrow one or more skins for use in their mod. And most of the time we agree, but always with the caveat that both the artist and EB be credited for the work, and further: "The skins may not be altered in any way, but must remain intact." If that seems a bit draconian, it's primarily there to protect the work of the talented artists who created them. Once you start "parting out" units, it doesn't take long before the origin is lost. And then, not only does the original artist not get credit for his work, but worse, an innocent party may borrow one of these hybrid units for use in another mod. And if the EB Team detects portions of our work being used without attribution, it's very likely the other mod will be accused of stealing. Which is just bad news all the way around.

So with that in mind, there is nothing to stop individuals from performing their own personal alterations to our units. And so long as that use doesn't spread beyond their personal build, no problem. But once those things start getting loaned out and shipped around, it's almost inevitable they will someday wind up posted somewhere, and a bad sequence of events is all but guaranteed.

So I would ask you to keep those modified units to yourself, and I hope you can understand our rationale for that request.
fallen851
02-23-2007, 10:01
Fine by me, I won't lose anything.

For the rest of you, demand the EB team finish the skins!

I'm really curious to see what the rebel general will look like. Mine... doesn't look very good, but it is hard to make a generic looking guy.
Thaatu
02-23-2007, 11:15
For the rest of you, demand the EB team finish the skins!
Please bear in mind, we can't demand something we don't pay for. Modding counts as a hobby, so it is unfair to demand anything from the team. But if that was meant as a sarcastic remark, please use a suitable smilie to identify your good and/or humorous intentions.
Thank you for your cooperation. Move along now :bobby:
Brightblade
02-23-2007, 13:26
What an eloquent way of saying, haista vittu, Thaatu!

Well put.
Watchman
02-23-2007, 22:19
:stop:
I'm pretty sure that kind of language is not kosher, in spite of a rough 99.94% of the people who'll ever see it not having a clue what it means.

Mr. Christian, punish this man. :whip:
Watchman
02-23-2007, 22:56
Anyway, as far as better placeholder replacements for the eye-cancer vanilla generals still left in the game go, twcenter holds some decent alternatives. Personally I prefer to use the various Eastern general skins from Webbird's Christmasbox 1 (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=805) - the Numidian general skins might also be a passable choice for Saba until something better comes along. Some of the armoured models in Webbird's Scythian pack (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=875) might work as Sauromatae and Saka generals, too.
Thaatu
02-24-2007, 10:19
What an eloquent way of saying, haista vittu, Thaatu!
That was not my intention. Honest.
Krusader
02-24-2007, 13:49
That was not my intention. Honest.

Don't lie :whip:


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