Twitter discussion

[Arjos]

(four actually but there is nothing of the last one in the small pic).

The third cavalryman from the left was the small pic :)

[Ca Putt]

yeah but it also showed the horse of the second and the chamfron of the first.

[Arjos]

Yup, was just saying that it was taken from that exact pic, btw that chamfron seemed to me as a spear XD

[stratigos vasilios]

Holy jeez that looks awesome! Great work Gustave et al

[Tux]

Holy jeez that looks awesome! Great work Gustave et al

No one recognizes my work...

Kudos to Ludens despite his bad eyes, chainmail instead of plate armour.

[LusitanianWolf]

No one recognizes my work...

Kudos to Ludens despite his bad eyes, chainmail instead of plate armour.

We would recognize your work if they were bare chested and hairy :P
All hail Tux et al then! =)

Ps: Oh, wait, the horses are bare chested and hairy

[Gustave]

Yes indeed, kudos to Tux for the awesome horse models !

[Arjos]

No one recognizes my work...

I was mostly drooling only at the horses :D
Anyway we can't know if it's all Gustave posting :P

[Tux]

We would recognize your work if they were bare chested and hairy :P
All hail Tux et al then! =)

Ps: Oh, wait, the horses are bare chested and hairy

The Sweboz version will surely be even more and with other components as well.

Yes indeed, kudos to Tux for the awesome horse models !

Like I said, just the horse models...

I was mostly drooling only at the horses :D
Anyway we can't know if it's all Gustave posting :P

Pretty things, arent they?

Some pics from behind the scenes:



Then with a normal map generated from a high poly model:


Compared to:


And skinned by our biggest slave Gustave:

[-Praetor-]

EB-1 wouldn´t have been released in such a splendid fashion if it not were for the tireless activity of Tux. May never come the day that he leaves EB-II, because on that day, our project will be doomed to failure.

I think that a great percentage of what has made EB a great, historically accurate representation of the ancient world is Tux, he really deserves to be praised every day for his eternal work on the EB models and now also on some of its beautiful skins.

[LusitanianWolf]

IMPRESSIVE!
Horses were allway one of the things I'm worst at drawing

[Ca Putt]

haha, me too.

[Tux]

*starting to blush* Thanks Francisco, but don't worry about that, I'll always have EB2 as one of my hobbies and will contribute on a long term even if my job will slow me down like it does now.

[eternal slave mode on] Back to work on some new resource icons for the strat map...

[borispavlovgrozny]

I'm actually very interested in helping with the resources. Can you post a resource list you plan to include?

[Populus Romanus]

Aren't you the old admin of TWC or something?

[stratigos vasilios]

No one recognizes my work...

You were part of the et al

I wasn't sure if any other skinners contributed to the picture so I et al'd you!

[Tux]

I'm actually very interested in helping with the resources. Can you post a resource list you plan to include?

I can't do that since I would ruin some of our surprises but when you get(check) in you'll see what they are.

Et al = me?
I'm just with modeling when it comes to most units since I'm not as fast when it comes to skinning and prefer to take my time...

[Lvcretivs]

Pretty things, arent they?

...absolutely, incredibly brilliant modelling - these have to be among the most realistic and historical accurate horse models in M2TW up to date, really little works of art.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Et al = me?

IIRC it's shorthand Latin for "and the others" (et alii).

[Tux]

IIRC it's shorthand Latin for "and the others" (et alii).

Yeah, I was confused a bit of the plural.

[Arjos]

Can you guess the type of resource this icon represents? :P https://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1381/unled5t.jpg -Praetor-

mmmmmm tricky, but I'm loving these guessing games ^^

Conifers for timber, bales of rice/grain and pottery clay?

[stratigos vasilios]

Hmm it's either timber or a spring roll...

[borispavlovgrozny]

mmmmmm tricky, but I'm loving these guessing games ^^

Conifers for timber, bales of rice/grain and pottery clay?

One of them looks like hops.

[vartan]

Is hemp going to be a resource in the game? Just wondering.

[HFox]

One of them looks like hops.

+1 on the hops

[maskoolin]

sorry for being ot .. but how many (different) resources are going to be in ebii?

[-Praetor-]

M2TW has a limit for 27 resources, but some are reserved for special features, so we are having 24 different types.

BTW, the pics are 3 shots of a single resource, not 3 different ones.

[Ptolemaios]

My guess is incence but i´m not sure, the plants don´t look all that fitting.
Is that the entrance to a warehouse in the righthand picture?

[Tux]

Hmm it's either timber or a spring roll...

I'm glad you didn't say a joint...

Very wrong guys until now...

[Arjos]

If it's a single resource, it must be something that grows on the plant, gets "processed" and then stored in bales...
But I have no idea about what could be :D