Zulu Mod!!!

[Duke Malcolm]

Lord Chelmsford looks good, even though I don't know who he was, and the Argyll Highlanders look good also

[shenrougu]

for music, during battle for the british, can i recommend rule britania? or the british grenidiers, both would give a great atmosphere for a british player. And a slow version of god save the queen for the strategy map would be good, i have MP3's of them if you want them.

[Sundjata Keita]

We're just not sure yet on the music front shenrougu because there are so many great British tracks that will give atmosphere, I think rule Britania might go nicely on the campaign actually.

Anyway, on to this weeks update (now moved to the Monday). Well it's been a pretty quiet week but I have some more great news! Pyradyn has joined the team, he will be doing some voice acting for the Zulus hopefully and also wants to learn to mod, he's good with history too. The team list has been updated to account for the new arrivals

-Sundjata Keita - models, some textures and historian for the Zulus and other native tribes

-Stichmaster1 - shield textures, ideas and colaboration

-deLancey - main texturer and historian for the British and Boers

-Baiae - research and text editing

-Captain Quark - Official historian

-Forgotten - texturer (focusing on realism)

-Pyradyn - Boer war historian, Zulu culture historian and colaboration

In other news I finally got poser the human 3D modelling program and so did an example of what the portrait pictures will eventually turn out like (they will be of course smaller)



Opinions welcome on the style.

Also this week I have got some new books which will help with research and concept art. One includes a map with city names on and so work on the campaign map will begin soon.

I haven't got any new units to show you this week (I didn't say at the start because I knew most of you would have stopped reading ) but I can tell you that work on implementing animations will begin this week and so I should be able to show you something by the end of this week but no promises. Once this is done the smoke effects will be added which will again take time.

Thanks for taking the time to read the progress report and another update will come in a week

Regards,

Sundjata Keita

[Epistolary Richard]

I think this style of portraits is excellent, it'll look really original and it'll allow a consistency through the mod that trying to clip contemporary photos and drawings just won't allow.

[Sundjata Keita]

Good, I'm glad you like it, here are a couple of others. I decided to include the shoulders as well so that lots of necklaces and extra bits could be added on. What do you think of the results?




Regards,

Sundjata Keita

[Stormy]

Excellent headdress! I'm looking foward for this mod.
Any map screenshots soon ? Thanks.

[Sundjata Keita]

Hopefully we will get some map screenshots soon (within the next month). We are still looking at the area to cover and the regions will be decided by the towns so our first job is to reconstruct a map of kwa-zulu natal and surrounding border areas with something like 200 towns, the regions will be decided as they were at the time by distinguishing features so up to this mountain range or up to this river etc. because there is no historical reference to Zulu regions, only local names. The good news is this means it won't take too long providing we find enough towns. Anyway, as usual an update coming on Monday

Regards

Sundjata Keita