Twitter discussion

[antisocialmunky]

Neato. Here's thought: There's like a little victory animation that plays for about 1 second when soldiers take a city square or kill all the enemies in a siege battle.(most common occurence of the animation playing) Perhaps you could spice it up abit :).

[-Praetor-]

Neato. Here's thought: There's like a little victory animation that plays for about 1 second when soldiers take a city square or kill all the enemies in a siege battle.(most common occurence of the animation playing) Perhaps you could spice it up abit :).

What does the soldier do? I don't remember.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Oh you can manually specify that certain units must retreat with Ctrl+W/flag button.

[Darius]

I'd just be happy happy for a "fall back in formation" order, but alas they only know how to expose themselves to attack from the rear every time.

[Ludens]

What does the soldier do? I don't remember.

Stab with their weapons towards the sky. On the interface, the unit activity is listed as "celebrating". Soldiers with two-handed weapons are more passive in their celebration.

Oh you can manually specify that certain units must retreat with Ctrl+W/flag button.

But that's simply marching away. He's asking for a fighting-retreat button.

[Christianus]

I suggest longer "celebrations". More roaring and cheering:D

[Phalanx300]

Getic light cavalry is finished and integrated in the build. - JMRC

I gues we know for sure now which faction will be next previewed.

Anyways, I'm wondering if there is any chance the Batavians will be in as a unit perhaps?

[-Praetor-]

Not in the first release, that's for sure. In the next release perhaps, I dunno.

[antisocialmunky]

What does the soldier do? I don't remember.

I think they just pump their arms in the air and look up.

[-Praetor-]

And what else do you want them to do? Dance Samba?

[Phalanx300]

Not in the first release, that's for sure. In the next release perhaps, I dunno.

Next release?

I just figured seeing that the Batavians had a speciality compared to other Germanics and according to the Romans were some of the best of em. Seems more worthy then the Chaucii which seems like it was just any other Germanic warrior.

[antisocialmunky]

And what else do you want them to do? Dance Samba?

Perhaps... Its your call if you want to put in an easter egg instead of an animation that you'd only see for 1 second.

Maybe you should look at some random Final Fantasy victory dances or something for inspiration.

[Banzai!]

antisocialmunky I still have to redo the weightings of the unit as there were some technical problems with it. But still that's where you like to look at?

As for the guys face it's an guy from the band Charger:

And using that I made this:


Anyhow he does resembles Sean Penn.

I have nothing more to say from now on.

Very nice. Do you use zbrush to make your faces? I know automated facegen like programs are being used by some modders to make faces.

[Tux]

Nah just Photoshop and various images which I use to make panoramic(360) textures. ZBrush I'll use for general and other units which will require more detail than the normal maps created from the diffuse one.

Yes I know some too but I prefer to them manualy.

[-Praetor-]

That hoplite is getting impaled by a newly skinned unit. Can you guess by whom?

[Phalanx300]

Getai Skirmishers?

[bobbin]

Ermm..Prodromoi?

[Ca Putt]

Thrakioi Prodromoi?

[DaciaJC]

That hoplite is getting impaled by a newly skinned unit. Can you guess by whom?

I require that more of the image is shown in order that I may make an educated guess. At the moment, it appears as though a horse head shooting spears from its right eye has been photoshopped into the picture.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Getai Light Cavalry?

[Griggori]

it appears as though a horse head shooting spears from its right eye has been photoshopped into the picture.

Best. Unit. Ever.

[Christianus]

"A little experiment: http://yfrog.com/15snapshotqp
about 3 hours ago from choqoK"

Ehhh?

[bobbin]

He's trying to make new fonts by the looks of it, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is there because that sentence has all the letters of the alphabet in it.

[-Almogaver-]

interesting...

[Phalanx300]

Finished the model of an sweboz spearman unit. -Tux

Seems like there's a lot of focus on the Germanic and Dacian units lately.

[Mister V]

He's trying to make new fonts by the looks of it, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is there because that sentence has all the letters of the alphabet in it.

No way, the quick brown fox must be a new unit. After release I'm sure we'll see whining threads about how "the QBRs are way overpowered!!1" and then someone will bring up evidence to support their claim that lazy dogs are, in fact, not as lazy as they seem.

Seriously, though, even though I don't use Twitter, this thread reassures me that there is constant progress. I'm prepared to wait as long as necessary, but it's always good to see the progress bar going forward, even if it's by 1 pixel.

[-Praetor-]

Perhaps we are a bit guilty of not revealing enough visal material to you guys. The work is going on inside the internal forums, and each day, many different areas of the mod progress a bit further towards completion. One day a new unit gets skinned and incorporated into the build, various strategy map settlements get done, and some textwork or the history for one of the new factions gets written. All that in one single day. In the next one, some animations get worked out, a CTD gets fixed and an artist makes a model for a battlemap unit. And that is only a fraction of what's done each day.

But most of the work doesn't get previewed, because it isn't very exciting for gamers to discuss archaeological finds in Tylis, or the development of language and phonetics around the Elbe region, isn't it?

So, please don't think that because we don't say anyrthing the work isn't getting done. Perhaps we're too busy working on the mod that we don't have time to give you a preview!

Just stay tunned. Some day, your patience will be rewarded with a preview or something more.

[Phalanx300]

But on Proto-Germanic, I've read that it has been reconstructed using modern Germanic Languages and going back. Do you guys get you information about it somewhere or do you reconstruct the language yourselfs?

[The General]

Perhaps we are a bit guilty of not revealing enough visal material to you guys. The work is going on inside the internal forums, and each day, many different areas of the mod progress a bit further towards completion. One day a new unit gets skinned and incorporated into the build, various strategy map settlements get done, and some textwork or the history for one of the new factions gets written. All that in one single day. In the next one, some animations get worked out, a CTD gets fixed and an artist makes a model for a battlemap unit. And that is only a fraction of what's done each day.

*Eyes widen open*

So... much... done... awesome!

But most of the work doesn't get previewed, because it isn't very exciting for gamers to discuss archaeological finds in Tylis, or the development of language and phonetics around the Elbe region, isn't it?

Says who? That would be most interesting to read... Not to perhaps everyone, of course, but to some, myself included. Every now and then I waste hours clicking related articles links on Wikipedia's linguistic articles.

[-Praetor-]

But on Proto-Germanic, I've read that it has been reconstructed using modern Germanic Languages and going back. Do you guys get you information about it somewhere or do you reconstruct the language yourselfs?

I will let knowledgeable team members answer about this.

Says who? That would be most interesting to read... Not to perhaps everyone, of course, but to some, myself included. Every now and then I waste hours clicking related articles links on Wikipedia's linguistic articles.

Let me rephrase:

(...)because it isn't very exciting for most gamers (...)

Seriously, most of that kind of stuff is debated internally. We would better like to show you accorded postures, not debate that is essentially subject to modification by the adoption of a new posture, or the revealment of new information on the matter.