Requesting Artist's Assistance

Afforess

The White Wizard
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I don't know if there is even anyone here that can help me, but I'm a terrible artist. I would really appreciate it (and give you credit) if someone could make me 10 unit buttons. I need a button for each of these workers.

If someone could help, I would be very thankful.

If not, well, I'd just have to make them myself, but I doubt they would be very good...
 
Would it not be more effective to post this in the Graphics fourm?;)

I'm going off on a rant here, you've been warned.

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The Graphics (And Units) Forum are pretty much in their own little la-la land. They generally ignore requests and do whatever they want. I've given up trying to get anything useful from them, as they've adopted an unofficial policy of "take what you want, but don't want to take what we don't have." They don't mind making new units and buildings. They do so freely, but often times, they make units or buildings that aren't usable to very many people. For instance, right now, the Graphics Forum is in full "make obscure leaderheads that no one will ever use" mode. There are no threads relating to buildings of any kind open. Only tons and tons of leaderhead galleries. Sure, the leaders look cool, but I'm not going to use them. There are already enough leaders for my taste. The Unit Graphics thread is better at not making so many useless units, but they still have that problem. I mean, I can only have so many bronze age units before it starts getting redundant.

I guess they can run things however they want, but I think it reflects poorly on them.
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Sure thing, I'll just add it to the top of my to-do list since I'm waiting for official RoM 2.8 to do anything to my mod.
 
By the way, do you need the unit graphics for each too? If so I can just reskin a few units.
 
By the way, do you need the unit graphics for each too? If so I can just reskin a few units.

That would be nice. I tried to make them look as different as possible, but it's hard without much artistic ability. See what you think of the art, and make any changes you want.

Just drop the folder in your Afforess folder in the modules section
View attachment Workers.zip
 
<rant>

The Graphics (And Units) Forum are pretty much in their own little la-la land. They generally ignore requests and do whatever they want. I've given up trying to get anything useful from them, as they've adopted an unofficial policy of "take what you want, but don't want to take what we don't have." They don't mind making new units and buildings. They do so freely, but often times, they make units or buildings that aren't usable to very many people. For instance, right now, the Graphics Forum is in full "make obscure leaderheads that no one will ever use" mode. There are no threads relating to buildings of any kind open. Only tons and tons of leaderhead galleries. Sure, the leaders look cool, but I'm not going to use them. There are already enough leaders for my taste. The Unit Graphics thread is better at not making so many useless units, but they still have that problem. I mean, I can only have so many bronze age units before it starts getting redundant.

I guess they can run things however they want, but I think it reflects poorly on them.
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No kidding. I doubt I will ever see the four wonder graphics I asked for (Red Fort, Charminar Gate, Ringstrasse, Apadana Palace) since they would rather produce Harry Potter crap. And as for leaderheads, who is going to use Rick Perry or the Cobra Commander, seriously?

If someone out there would make any of the above mentioned wonders, it would be appreciated. Please PM if you plan on starting one (or found one somewhere on CFC) so that I can edit my post in Graphics Request Thread.
 
That would be nice. I tried to make them look as different as possible, but it's hard without much artistic ability. See what you think of the art, and make any changes you want.

Just drop the folder in your Afforess folder in the modules section
View attachment 231063

I don't see any change to the original worker button that was included in the file, and the Art folder was empty:lol:
Anyway, I'll get to work on them after I get home, finish hw, and whatnot. I'll probably have them done by the weekend.
 
No kidding. I doubt I will ever see the four wonder graphics I asked for (Red Fort, Charminar Gate, Ringstrasse, Apadana Palace) since they would rather produce Harry Potter crap. And as for leaderheads, who is going to use Rick Perry or the Cobra Commander, seriously?

If someone out there would make any of the above mentioned wonders, it would be appreciated. Please PM if you plan on starting one (or found one somewhere on CFC) so that I can edit my post in Graphics Request Thread.

I might be able to, but I'm not promising anything, I'm more comfortable with skins and buttons than 3d graphics.
 
I'm going off on a rant here, you've been warned.

<rant>

The Graphics (And Units) Forum are pretty much in their own little la-la land. They generally ignore requests and do whatever they want. I've given up trying to get anything useful from them, as they've adopted an unofficial policy of "take what you want, but don't want to take what we don't have." They don't mind making new units and buildings. They do so freely, but often times, they make units or buildings that aren't usable to very many people. For instance, right now, the Graphics Forum is in full "make obscure leaderheads that no one will ever use" mode. There are no threads relating to buildings of any kind open. Only tons and tons of leaderhead galleries. Sure, the leaders look cool, but I'm not going to use them. There are already enough leaders for my taste. The Unit Graphics thread is better at not making so many useless units, but they still have that problem. I mean, I can only have so many bronze age units before it starts getting redundant.

I guess they can run things however they want, but I think it reflects poorly on them.
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I suppose the reason the leaderhead makers are in obscure mode is because most known leaderheads have been done. As for units, I suppose you have a point at that. I'm kind of notorious for making only units that interest me (and lots of other units, like the Holy Hand Grenade), but I try to fulfill requests when I can.


@Hydromancerx:

There's quite a few tutorials on art in the tutorial section. The_Coyote made a tut on making units with NifSkope (useful) and ekmek made a tutorial on LH making (its also a good tutorial for blender editing in general). It's good that you want to learn to do this stuff. I originally learned to make units so I don't have to clutter the requests thread, and LHs so I can make them to my specifications.
 
I'm going off on a rant here, you've been warned.

<rant>

The Graphics (And Units) Forum are pretty much in their own little la-la land. They generally ignore requests and do whatever they want. I've given up trying to get anything useful from them, as they've adopted an unofficial policy of "take what you want, but don't want to take what we don't have." They don't mind making new units and buildings. They do so freely, but often times, they make units or buildings that aren't usable to very many people. For instance, right now, the Graphics Forum is in full "make obscure leaderheads that no one will ever use" mode. There are no threads relating to buildings of any kind open. Only tons and tons of leaderhead galleries. Sure, the leaders look cool, but I'm not going to use them. There are already enough leaders for my taste. The Unit Graphics thread is better at not making so many useless units, but they still have that problem. I mean, I can only have so many bronze age units before it starts getting redundant.

I guess they can run things however they want, but I think it reflects poorly on them.
</rant>
Now that I think of it, I am tired of all the bronze age units and tons of leaders.:lol:
 
I suppose the reason the leaderhead makers are in obscure mode is because most known leaderheads have been done. As for units, I suppose you have a point at that. I'm kind of notorious for making only units that interest me (and lots of other units, like the Holy Hand Grenade), but I try to fulfill requests when I can.

I have probably 50 or so buildings using the Art/Empty Graphic. Lots of those wouldn't be that hard to do (I think), but instead, they do leaderheads...

Hey, while your here, Can I request two units? Hydromancerx requested these from me, but I can't do art. We need a Siege Ballista and a Petard. Images of what they should look like are in this thread. If you can't do them, well, I won't hold it against you. (too much. ;))
 
Hey, while your here, Can I request two units? Hydromancerx requested these from me, but I can't do art. We need a Siege Ballista and a Petard. Images of what they should look like are in this thread. If you can't do them, well, I won't hold it against you. (too much. ;))

That's a negative. A Petard looks damn cool, but I have an inability to make a new animation. I can do nifskope stuff easily, I can edit the models in blender, and I can do a little bit of manipulating the animations, but i can't make new ones. This also goes for the Siege Ballista. Sorry.
 
That's a negative. A Petard looks damn cool, but I have an inability to make a new animation. I can do nifskope stuff easily, I can edit the models in blender, and I can do a little bit of manipulating the animations, but i can't make new ones. This also goes for the Siege Ballista. Sorry.

Dang. Well, it couldn't hurt asking. You've already been very helpful, with your War Prizes modcomp, amongst other things.

And to think that the people who have the ability to do these spend their time making Commander Cobra... Wasted Talent.
 
I don't think Ekmek can do it either. He's stated he doesn't know too much about animations. I don't think he's ever tried unit making either; right now he's making his own mod for Colonization, Mare Nostrum. And I personally like the Cobra Commander LH (IIRC, Ekmek was trying to make some transparent face thing for some leaderhead, but failed and somehow got inspired to make him).
 
I don't think Ekmek can do it either. He's stated he doesn't know too much about animations. I don't think he's ever tried unit making either; right now he's making his own mod for Colonization, Mare Nostrum. And I personally like the Cobra Commander LH (IIRC, Ekmek was trying to make some transparent face thing for some leaderhead, but failed and somehow got inspired to make him).

Yea, Yeah. Okay. I like his Nero Leaderhead, BTW. But Skeletor? Really? Why?
 
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