EB news - Sunday, February 6

[khelvan]

Greetings, Europa Barbarorum fans!

This week's major news item is, of course, the release of the 1.2 patch. Several fixes have made us happy, including the upping of the unit limit from 300 to 500. (We are very happy about this, though the bottleneck remains the 255 model limit) However, several things have set us back a bit. First, many of our new models and textures have been causing crashes, though we believe we may have pinpointed the source. Second, horse archers now act in an ahistorical manner. We believe we have found a solution for this, though it is not completely elegant. We're testing it as I write this, and hopefully we'll have something to tell you in the next few days.

We're currently spending a lot of time testing new ideas for fine-tuning the map I showed you last week. We're also going through the intensive process of determining if we can add new factions. We should have a definitive "yes" or "no" on this by the end of the week. Jerome Grasdyke stated here that we can do so:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=37359

So far we have been unsuccessful. Our current challenge seems to be locating the file in which a faction is assigned a culture. Along with that we are searching for where cultures are defined, though this is not a necessity.

I have several new items to show this week. I would like to introduce some of the work of one of our newest members, Spartan Warrior. These are skinned and modelled by him:

The most basic and numerous of the infantry units used by the non-European Successor States were the Pantodapoi infantry. These men were called from a variety of nationalities and were usually settled in certain areas for garrison duties and the like.

Ptolemaic Pantodapoi:


Seleucid Pantodapoi:


I wanted to introduce to you some of the detailed work that goes into our process of making units. Prometheus has been hard at work modelling and skinning the four-horned saddle, a common type of saddle used by multiple factions. Here you can see his work on the saddle on one of his works in progress, a cataphract horse. Keep in mind, this is not finished yet - I merely want to show you the sort of detail that Prometheus, and the rest of the team, go through when creating units:



Finally, I wanted to introduce another of Parmenio's faction icons. This one is Germanic:



You can find last week's news item, including a preview of our new map, here:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=42840

Until next time, take care!

Cheers,

-the EB team

[Dooz]

Oh, how sweet it is...

[Sheep]

That horse is already beautiful... it's hard to believe you could make it any better!! Poor horse though, that can't be fun to wear.

[The_Emperor]

Good news indeed.

I like the new Pantodapoi units. Fits in very well with what I have posted and read about in the past.

That Four-horned saddle also looks great...

[Pycckuu]

they look great

[Crazed Rabbit]

I don't know if this is the right thread to ask this, but since this is the news thread, and I couldn't find it in the FAQ...

Anyways, I was just wondering why you guys closed the screenshot thread. I thought it was a great thread, full of beautiful skins that gave a lot to the community and really showed off the changes you are making. Are you guys going to start up a new one soon?

Crazed Rabbit