New Sprites

[Obelics]

@bonny
are there sprite for pahlava too? when i take pictures of battlemap from long distance, some unit appear to be white sprited, it could be nice to have sprite complete for this faction too, thanks bonny.

@proper grander if there are already done sprite for 0.74, why you nice people dont relase an 0.74c version with sprites? it should be very nice for people out there

[edyzmedieval]

There are some missing Pahlava sprites.

I want the Getai ones.
What about skinning? Know any skinning?

[Bonny]

@ proper gander
thats a good reason, sorry for my stupid question

just anotherone:

1. If models have different skins (one normal and one merc) for the same faction, like Praetorians and Cohors Evocata (lybian speaman early, late / Liby-Phoenician Infantry early, late....), the game uses the merc sprite for both units. The tga files are different, and the path in the descr_model_batle.txt for both both files are corecct, i checked it again, again and again......
Do you had the same problem, and do you found a solution for that?


@obelisc

i have done them (and iberia, karthadastim, rome, iberia, sauromatae, bactria, too), but i didn't change the tga files to .dds yet (this take some time, after you have converted them,you have to rename all .dds files to .tga.dds manually), and i didn't tested them all (if i had made a typo in the descr_model_battle.txtl, you get CTD's instead of usable sprites)

@edyzmedieval
maybe i'm doin the missing getai/german/gaul/aedui ones, too

[Proper Gander]

@proper grander if there are already done sprite for 0.74, why you nice people dont relase an 0.74c version with sprites? it should be very nice for people out there

many people work on EB in all sorts of ways, and it takes a lot of organisation.
sprites are the last priority. the porting is the top priority at the moment.

@ proper gander
thats a good reason, sorry for my stupid question

not at all, no worries

just anotherone:

1. If models have different skins (one normal and one merc) for the same faction, like Praetorians and Cohors Evocata (lybian speaman early, late / Liby-Phoenician Infantry early, late....), the game uses the merc sprite for both units. The tga files are different, and the path in the descr_model_batle.txt for both both files are corecct, i checked it again, again and again......
Do you had the same problem, and do you found a solution for that?

errrm, that's weird i never saw such a thing.

i am only making one for each unit that all the factions share. colours vary a little bit, that's true, but it's hardly noticable.

above all it takes up less space. there is also a different problem that can my minimalised this way.
some sprites for some units don't work, whereas they do for the same unit for a different faction. when i say they don't work, i mean that they sink into the ground when you zoom out.
we've tried to solve this and had a lot of discussion on this topic, but we couldn't really solve it. many assume that it has something to do with alpha channels IIRC.
if we only use one sprite for every unit we can use one of the ones that work.


sorry for the late reply, i wanted to reply immediately but was distracted, then i forgot all about it.

[Ludens]

some sprites for some units don't work, whereas they do for the same unit for a different faction. when i say they don't work, i mean that they sink into the ground when you zoom out.
we've tried to solve this and had a lot of discussion on this topic, but we couldn't really solve it. many assume that it has something to do with alpha channels IIRC.
if we only use one sprite for every unit we can use one of the ones that work.

IIRC there were some problems with "sunken soldiers" in 1.2 as well, which Player1 fixed with the Bug Fixer. Or is this another problem?

[Proper Gander]

IIRC there were some problems with "sunken soldiers" in 1.2 as well, which Player1 fixed with the Bug Fixer. Or is this another problem?

sounds like the one.
but we've found a way around it now anyway.

[stalin]

any chance of you EB people releasing unit cards to 0.74 then?
Oh by the way great work Bonny it really made a difference

[edyzmedieval]

I might do some unit cards because many of them are outdated.
Will be included in the MapMod.

Not now, as I have exams.

[Obelics]

Bonny ive just installed sprite1 and sprite2 pack on a backup copy of EB, but when i load EB (just in the load screen) it say "generic error: unable to find skeleton 'fs_1h_axeman_big' "

help (id like very much to have those sprites!)

thanks!