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Encouragement is always nice. ~:)Quote:
Nice standards Narayanese they look great!
Castile and Order of Saint John (demo faction)
http://img185.exs.cx/img185/5539/castile0lz.jpghttp://img185.exs.cx/img185/1690/stjohn1qc.jpg
Good work comrade.
Those look great! Keep up the good work!
Could someone post the Knight's of St. John banners and emblems on the Malta Demo thread in RTW Heavengames?
Also Narayanese, will you use St Andrew's Cross or the Red Lion on Yellow background for Scotland? Just a suggestion: I would use St. Andrew's Cross, because in Feudal TW we will probably use The Red Lion on Yellow background,
It seems the military used st andrews cross, so I'll do a white diagonal cross (st andrews cross) on a red background for the scots.
Have you found some flag of the pope? I'm leaning towards a few (4 probably) white keys on a red background for the papal state, because I can't find a picture of how his flag looked.
I thought St Andrew's Cross was a White cross on a Blue Background! It would look better, as red and white don't look as good together. And people would get confused, as No One has ever seen a red and white Scottish flag. I'm not trying to offend you, but I think that a White Diagonal Cross on a Navy Blue Background would look best, be familiar to most players, and would stop us having 3 or more factions with similar colourings on the units.
And could you put the Pope's Keys in Black on a yellow background? It would better again for the colour differences, as we don't want poor people getiing confused as their are so many colour similarites.
Ottoman
http://img204.exs.cx/img204/4903/ottoman7ye.th.jpg
@Ignoramus
Scotland used white on red in 15th century and white on blue in 16th, or so. You're right about too many with red backgrounds, I'll have trouble not making the papal flag too alike the scottish. So I might very well make white on blue then for scots. I got the impression that from 13th century to 17th century all papal flags had red background, so that's not a thing I'd change. The units won't have faction colours anyway.
Must've been pretty confusing for them back in the day with all that red ~:eek:
Ty ~:) Any tips for a budding modeller?Quote:
Originally Posted by GodsPetMonkey
Kingdom of France, Golden Horde Khanate
http://img66.exs.cx/img66/2962/france0mi.th.jpghttp://img66.exs.cx/img66/8120/goldenhorde7qw.th.jpg
Beautiful! Have you got a good banner/flag/icon for Saxony? These are COOL! I can't wait to march under these excellent banners!
Narayanse!Quote:
Originally Posted by Narayanese
Those are amazing. gooooddd job with all of them.
Yes they are very nice Narayanese. And nice to see you back Celtic_Winter, I hope you are back for a while this time.
Welcome back CW.
Yet again Narayanese they look beautiful!
It looks great, like all the other faction icons, but if you want to be historical, that symbol wasn't used by the Ottomans until the 19th century. Look here. You could use the top middle, and top right flags for the Ottoman flag. The middle top one was adopted in 1453 and the top right flag was adopted in 1517. Or, you could go with the Ottoman symbol before the conquest of Constantinople, which was a bow like symbol, much like the ones in the first top left flag. Of course, you could just go with the more recognizable symbol, but it wouldn't be as historical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Narayanese
No official flag existed until much later in history, and even then it wasn't until the 19thC that there was only 1 national flag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lief
The flags shown at wikipedia are mostly based of designs from European atlases, although contemporary, but there are many sources, there are some contemporary paintings that show white crescent on a red background, there are records of white and yellow crescents on green backgrounds (typically called religious flags) and later on, after the invasion of Egypt, even more flags for the different areas (most of the former Baltic nations had their own flag under Turkish rule) and offices.
The only really standard flag was that of the imperial house, but even that changed over time.... but at least you could expect to see it where ever the emperor went.
http://www.fotw.net/flags/ is a great source for modern and historical flags.
Hmmmm, well, first, familiarise yourself with simple object manipulation in Max, for most basic units you can create a new model just by altering an existing one, but there are times when you must produce new content from scratch.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamGod
I recommend you work from the CA models initially, creating an entirely new model from scratch isn't as hard as it looks (basically you can make a low poly humanoid out of 4 rectangular prisms in a few hours) but there’s no point if you really don’t have too. As time goes by, you will learn more and more about how to make a good looking model with as little in the way of faces as possible, how to keep it all nice and clean, but don't worry about that to start with (its easy enough to go back at a later stage and fix it all up). Practice makes perfect.
Don't be afraid of trying stuff out, and then ditching it, also learn how to export/merge bits and pieces, very useful skill, especially with weapons, helms and pieces of amour. If you have any major modifications to make, switch from mesh to poly mode, you will lose your vertex weighting, but I don't find it that hard to redo that anyway, and poly mode is a hell of a lot more powerful then mesh mode (wait till you discover safe delete! Wanted to delete a vertex with out removing all those faces? Now you can!). I like to texture as I model, so when I change an arm, I then go and do the texture for it, if it looks wrong, I can change both at any time to find a solution, this is hard if you can't texture, or have someone else doing it for you, in that case, make a basic model, send it off, when you get a texture back, change the model if needed, then if the texture needs changing, send it back again, and so on. A good looking model and texture is always a worthy goal! No such thing as a unit that is acceptable if it looks bad.
Most of that’s pretty basic stuff, but the advanced Max features only make some things easier, 75% of my modeling work is just moving vertices about, most of the rest is UVW mapping and vertex weighting.
England, Hungary, Ottoman Turks
http://img202.exs.cx/img202/489/england9wv.th.jpghttp://img202.exs.cx/img202/2652/hungary4hc.th.jpghttp://img202.exs.cx/img202/9223/turk8xw.th.jpg
Thanks Leif for pointing it out to me. I've seen some period paintings with turkish flag with a white crescent on a red background, so I've simply removed the star. It's a quick fix, but it should hopefully make the flag historical.
The english big buttton is a remake of one of Silver Rushers'.
I found the polish bird on red, I'll use it for the polish flag.
Is black the correct colour as background for knights of st john? In the kingdom of jerusalem they wore white cross on black clothes, and a 16th cent painting shows the eightpointed star on a black coat on a member. However the maltese naval flag in 18th century appears to be red with some sort of cross.
I wouldn't worry about it. They probably had several flags.
The change to the Ottoman flag is great. As are the new ones.
Looks great Narayanese, the edited Ottoman flag looks great.
I like Saxony. ~:cheers:
Could you make Saxony's larger? I will love playing as Saxony!
Edit: I mean, can you blow up the size just for the purpose of this forum so I can see it better?
Click the pic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ignoramus
Will you do the Italian ones next?
Church State
http://img226.exs.cx/img226/6104/papal4tj.jpg
Mamluks, Moors
http://img48.exs.cx/img48/4802/mamluk2ew.th.jpghttp://img82.exs.cx/img82/4454/tlemcen8bs.th.jpg
(the moorish one is from tlemcen, one of the moorish kingdoms)
Just click on the picture to see it full size.