Author Topic: Ancient Egypt Faction ( alpha2 released ) (Read 122666 times)

assassin · « **Reply #150 on:** 9 June 2009, 16:11:05 »

I think the size is to emphasize a supernatural (or godly) power.

titi · « **Reply #151 on:** 9 June 2009, 19:45:00 »

Its very interisting to follow this discussion and shows me that I might be not completly wrong with what I did.
Currently its probabaly a bit too big, but I also think it shoul be a big unit.

weedkiller · « **Reply #152 on:** 15 June 2009, 20:01:40 »

finished some first moves, the textures are sadly not satisfying atm, if you want to improve, here you go xD
chariot.blend

titi · « **Reply #153 on:** 21 June 2009, 21:08:03 »

I found some time to create a black spearfighter and a egypt spearthrower.
Everything is full animated.

g3ds/blend file/texture:
http://www.titusgames.de/egypt/spearman/spearman.zip
http://www.titusgames.de/egypt/spearthrower/spearthrower.zip

DVD · « **Reply #154 on:** 21 June 2009, 22:34:08 »

I like this mod so far it seems to be coming along quite nicely.
I'm surprised that there hasn't been a mention of Nile crocodiles.
or Sobek, the crocodile God. he's basically a mummy with a crocodile head.

in fact, nile crocodiles kill more humans than any other wild predator in the world.

haha, I know you guys prob. have the mod essentially figured out, but ideas don't hurt. usually.

MadElf · « **Reply #155 on:** 21 June 2009, 23:52:14 »

Quote from: DVD on 21 June 2009, 22:34:08

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a mention of Nile crocodiles.
or Sobek, the crocodile God. he's basically a mummy with a crocodile head.

in fact, nile crocodiles kill more humans than any other wild predator in the world.

haha, I know you guys prob. have the mod essentially figured out, but ideas don't hurt. usually.

We already had Nile Crocs idea... But is not practice since they live monstly on water.
I like the warriors, are the darker-skinned ones a update of the other one?

GlestNewb · « **Reply #156 on:** 22 June 2009, 05:07:58 »

Whoa this is a nice mod. I like everything so far XD

DVD · « **Reply #157 on:** 22 June 2009, 07:52:13 »

Quote from: MadElf on 21 June 2009, 23:52:14

Quote from: DVD on 21 June 2009, 22:34:08

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a mention of Nile crocodiles.
or Sobek, the crocodile God. he's basically a mummy with a crocodile head.

in fact, nile crocodiles kill more humans than any other wild predator in the world.

haha, I know you guys prob. have the mod essentially figured out, but ideas don't hurt. usually.

We already had Nile Crocs idea... But it is not practical since they live mostly on water.
I like the warriors, are the darker-skinned ones a update of the other one?

Oh, sorry, I must have missed it when I read through the forum.
I see your point.

I too am liking the new skin tone. BTW

titi · « **Reply #158 on:** 22 June 2009, 08:47:34 »

No, currently these are two different units. The black spearfighter is something similar to the tech swordman and the other one is something like an archer( range unit).

titi · « **Reply #159 on:** 23 June 2009, 23:30:03 »

well,.... no GLADE work yet, but next time....

Here is a first screenshot of the new pharao. He still needs some texture improvement and all kind of animation and so on.
Its really only a first shot! It looks ok, but does it look egypt enough??

John.d.h · « **Reply #160 on:** 24 June 2009, 02:20:10 »

Nice. Are they going to be somehow restricted in the number of pharaohs they can have, or is it just a normal unit? If it's just a normal (albeit powerful) unit, then maybe he should just be a priest or something. It looks good, but his clothes might look better if they were more ornate.

titi · « **Reply #161 on:** 24 June 2009, 07:28:31 »

I already think its already too ornate! As far as I know in these days everything was kind of dirty.
White clothes was something very special and only very rich people could effort them.
So I think pharaos often wear white clothes.

assassin · « **Reply #162 on:** 24 June 2009, 12:04:18 »

I think if the gold was a little bit more bright yellow then it would stand out more...
I like the models!

Mark · « **Reply #163 on:** 24 June 2009, 19:13:55 »

Yeah, make the pharaoh a little more detailed, because 1. it would look cool, 2. in those days he was teh richest man, and 3. he has to stand out a bit!

Goood job so far! Those models are amazing!

-Archmage- · « **Reply #164 on:** 24 June 2009, 21:03:40 »

awesome models titi

gameboy · « **Reply #165 on:** 25 June 2009, 02:44:20 »

Quote from: titi on 24 June 2009, 07:28:31

I already think its already too ornate! As far as I know in these days everything was kind of dirty.
White clothes was something very special and only very rich people could effort them.
So I think pharaos often wear white clothes.

NO the sign of royalty was purple clothing, because purple dye was the most expensive available.

titi · « **Reply #166 on:** 25 June 2009, 08:13:02 »

@Mark and archmage: thanks for the kind words

@Gameboy:
I thought this purple thing was in medieval europe later on?
Or was it also a known color in ancient egypt?

Update:
All info I can found is about something called lapis lazuli a blue color ( used to color luxury things, not clothes )
and green malachit crashed to powder to color the womans eyes. But I cannot find anything about purple.

Update2:
OK, I found something. The phoenicians are the ones who discover how to make the purple color from snails.
They lived side by side with the ancient egypts in the eastern mediterranean region. So I think purple was known.
Nevertheless I'm still not shure if I will use it

Mark · « **Reply #167 on:** 25 June 2009, 21:28:00 »

Since we don't necessarily know what the egyptians wore, other than what is shown in hieroglyphics, i see it as a matter of what fits our minds idea of an egyptian pharaoh. Some people, when asked to mention the first thing that comes to mind about egyptian pharaohs would be a unit in a game, or in some movie. I, personally, have never seen a pharaoh that wore purple dyed clothes, (only noblewomen)in a game or a movie. I think that the pharaoh looks good in white, and since i don't know for sure what colors they really wore, i think what you have is fine. However, if it were to wear purple, here's what i think it should look like.

gameboy · « **Reply #168 on:** 26 June 2009, 02:44:20 »

white is good, but i guess he shouldn't wear anything on top, he should bare chested with a large necklace, like in the picture above.

John.d.h · « **Reply #169 on:** 26 June 2009, 04:23:27 »

I think the arm jewelry would be a good addition.

titi · « **Reply #170 on:** 26 June 2009, 23:24:27 »

My design was inspirated by the following picture. It shows an egypt god called horus or the pharao as horus. I thought it was a picture of the pharao when I started to create my model. So I might be a bit wrong here to model the pharao like I did, but as it turned out, it was not completly wrong and the pharao representing the war god horus might be a good choice fo the glest game.

read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus#War_god

weedkiller · « **Reply #171 on:** 1 July 2009, 19:14:02 »

finished some anis; its probably too big atm, you can try playing it as replaced tech/archer

chariot_blend+g3d

-Archmage- · « **Reply #172 on:** 2 July 2009, 01:57:54 »

nice, but i think you should add reins

Omega · « **Reply #173 on:** 2 July 2009, 05:15:56 »

Why? I haven't tried it, but I doubt you'll be able to see the reins in glest at that zoom level. Unless you make the reins so big that they look bad, it doesn't seem like a good idea...

-Archmage- · « **Reply #174 on:** 2 July 2009, 22:46:51 »

well i have tried the model animations, and i think it would help

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