Ancient TW: GRAPHICS discussion

[dimitrios the samian]

Re elephants - when I said I wanted three folders, that's for three different mounts: basic, cataphract and semi-cataphract

I'd be surprised if the original HTW 3D models still exist, but if they did....

Mac ... You mean 3 different Elephants ?
Seriously if we just remain as we are ... its 1 for 1 .

3 Folders with Crew & Elephant combined > Gives us only 3 different Units .............. 4 for 4 etc etc ...

Now !! .... If we separate the two components & yes still only using the one Elephant we have .

SEPERATING ELEPHANT & CREW

3 Folders > Gives us 4 different Units
4 Folders > Gives us 6 different Units ...................... & so on & so on .






I did these 2 pics quickly to illustrate my idea's & check the mounts ..... ( without measuring by eye , two mounts should fit into a Bif )

Not pixel perfect yet !.......(so a bit of freehand around the cloths on the elephant & mounts ) plus a touch up around the ears & the two bifs would be ready to come together .

.... & another idea I have had for a long time now is to use existing horse mounts , slightly modded to suit to sit on these beasts !

About the 3d Model for the Elephant , we don't need it (thank god) what we have is thankfully enough , what we will need is the time to mod the various crews for different factions .

I think setting co-ordinates on the bif plates is not as difficult as it seems .... 14 per plate

If we add the other Elephant so we have both (African & Asian) ....
We do the following to save 100's of hours of time/work .....
It must "just be a re-skin on this Elephants base plate" .

Likewise if we texture it with Armour

All up , It is do-able .
& If we had helpers , it would make it loads quicker .