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antisocialmunky 18:08 11-30-2008
I'm not sure if you guys have been made aware of this, but I thought that I should throw it out there.

I was browsing the Stainless Steel submod forum and saw a really cool idea: Use Oblivion's Face Gen tool for realistic faces.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=206784

This way, you can make lots of highly detailed faces with minimum effort. Plus you can make more 'ethnic' faces as well as have lots of different artists create faces that look more consistent because you use the same tool. Anyway, the guy who did it has some rough examples of greek units.

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desert 20:09 11-30-2008
Hopefully they won't look like this.

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theoldbelgian 23:34 11-30-2008
dude that is not a factual head from oblivion
or maybe it is
djeezes i have to try that now

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antisocialmunky 03:04 12-01-2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv51...eature=related

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Megas Methuselah 20:18 12-07-2008
I think they'll just import the faces from RTW. It's the simplest method, isn't it?

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MarcusAureliusAntoninus 22:43 12-07-2008
Originally Posted by Methuselah:
I think they'll just import the faces from RTW. It's the simplest method, isn't it?
Except those are property of CA...

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Megas Methuselah 22:50 12-07-2008
Ah yes, of course! The property of CA. Well, the future is in a witch's chauldron...

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Ludens 20:24 12-08-2008
Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus:
Except those are property of CA...
CA gave Jidai no Ran permission to use the old S:TW music for their mod, so they may give permission for this as well.

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antisocialmunky 15:57 12-09-2008
Sorry, but the old faces sucked. I like the ones in MIITW better.

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Megas Methuselah 19:22 12-09-2008
Uh... Ok? That is an extremely anti-social thing to say...

Y'know what? Why don't we just submit personal portraits in for EB? Take a picture, and EB artists coud use this tool to edit them in small ways. It'd be pretty awesome, I think. I'd love to have my face in the game.

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Subotan 22:14 12-09-2008
Originally Posted by Methuselah:
Uh... Ok? That is an extremely anti-social thing to say...

Y'know what? Why don't we just submit personal portraits in for EB? Take a picture, and EB artists coud use this tool to edit them in small ways. It'd be pretty awesome, I think. I'd love to have my face in the game.
This post wins.

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Celtic_Punk 11:16 12-10-2008
Originally Posted by Methuselah:
Uh... Ok? That is an extremely anti-social thing to say...

Y'know what? Why don't we just submit personal portraits in for EB? Take a picture, and EB artists coud use this tool to edit them in small ways. It'd be pretty awesome, I think. I'd love to have my face in the game.
but we dont... you damn Metis!


yeah I did recognize that Metis flag :P

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Aemilius Paulus 06:18 12-11-2008
Not so fast, Methuselah...

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Megas Methuselah 06:18 12-11-2008
Originally Posted by CP:
but we dont... you damn Metis!


yeah I did recognize that Metis flag :P
You better be careful, Irishman. The EB Team isn't kind to those who aren't willing to sacrifice themselves for the glory of EB. It's like a police state in this forum...

Originally Posted by AP:
Not so fast, Methuselah...
So the Russians are still good at spying, I see. Is that all you can do?

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Tretii 11:02 12-11-2008
I am for once agree to loan my God like face to be put into EB2 .

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antisocialmunky 15:32 12-11-2008
I don't wee how that was antisocial.

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ProvostGuard 06:13 08-24-2009
Sorry to revive an old topic, but FaceGen can be quite useful depending on how you use it.

Using FaceGen and five minute of Photoshop:



Scipio Africanus would probably look better if I spent more than a few minutes, but FaceGen just saved me a lot of time in regards to painting his face. This could be an alternative if the EB team decides not to import portraits from RTW.

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The General 10:32 08-24-2009
Originally Posted by ProvostGuard:
Sorry to revive an old topic, but FaceGen can be quite useful depending on how you use it.

Using FaceGen and five minute of Photoshop:



Scipio Africanus would probably look better if I spent more than a few minutes, but FaceGen just saved me a lot of time in regards to painting his face. This could be an alternative if the EB team decides not to import portraits from RTW.
That does look pretty good.

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Skullheadhq 13:47 08-24-2009
The Beauty, this should be used, extremely cool. And you said this took you a few minutes, so a lot of faces like this could be made, so cool!

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antisocialmunky 04:24 08-25-2009
Just keep one style or use FaceGen and stylize them according to how the other units look like in EBII. Consistency is the absolute more important thing to keep.

What you REALLY should use this thing for is portraits.

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Blxz 10:04 08-25-2009
Even if you did import faces from RTW you need to have multiple faces for use within each unit.

And I think they have a pretty damn good technique going now however they are doing it, taking that roman soldier preview into consideration. He is as sexy as I am!! Although who knows how much work that took.

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Megas Methuselah 10:18 08-25-2009
Originally Posted by ProvostGuard:
Sorry to revive an old topic, but FaceGen can be quite useful depending on how you use it.

Using FaceGen and five minute of Photoshop:



Scipio Africanus would probably look better if I spent more than a few minutes, but FaceGen just saved me a lot of time in regards to painting his face. This could be an alternative if the EB team decides not to import portraits from RTW.

Wow, that is absolutely gorgeous. I think I'll try out that program with some of my own personal pictures because I agree with this guy who posted more than half a year ago:


Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah:
Uh... Ok? That is an extremely anti-social thing to say...

Y'know what? Why don't we just submit personal portraits in for EB? Take a picture, and EB artists coud use this tool to edit them in small ways. It'd be pretty awesome, I think. I'd love to have my face in the game.


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Ludens 18:36 08-25-2009
Stay on topic, guys.

I've deleted the spam posts.

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moonburn 20:36 08-25-2009
pretty good except that that blue eyes scipio with blond eyebrows seems wierd he should be brun imho and not so pink but more of a mediterranean fellow

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Megas Methuselah 22:25 08-25-2009
Originally Posted by moonburn:
pretty good except that that blue eyes scipio with blond eyebrows seems wierd he should be brun imho and not so pink but more of a mediterranean fellow
Well, as he said, it was done in 5 minutes. Had he given himself a bit more time, I'm sure it would look much better.

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Moros 22:28 08-25-2009
Oh yeah we know the tool.

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Megas Methuselah 22:30 08-25-2009
Originally Posted by Moros:
Oh yeah we know the tool.
I've made it a habit to soak up your statements with a degree of mistrust.

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Moros 00:02 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah:
I've made it a habit to soak up your statements with a degree of mistrust.
Which isn't a bad idea. However this tool has already been used by some of our graphical artists. For example for skinning faces of certain units.

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antisocialmunky 00:45 08-26-2009
The question now is can we use the tool to spam different faces for horses, elephants, and of course the incendary pigs.

PS. I was glad to see eyebrows on the Camillian units.

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Skullheadhq 08:38 08-26-2009
Originally Posted by antisocialmunky:
The question now is can we use the tool to spam different faces for horses, elephants, and of course the incendary pigs.

PS. I was glad to see eyebrows on the Camillian units.
And the most important of all, how are we going to spawn faces for the camels
And btw, I think that tool is better for portrait faces. so no incendary pigs

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