Melcher's Leaderheads

Hehh, 5 requested LHs? :p
It's a little much, don't you think?
Especially after Melcher said he probably won't take any requests for a while (if ever)
 
It's Wu Zetian,not Wu Zetain.
By my opinion there already is a good Sejong and there are two good Wu Zetian leaderheads.
Sadly enough I think melcher has quitted making non-fictional leaderheads.


thank you for the correction, but in my opinion the art for Wu Zetian isn't as impressive as the other women LH... but anyway, I'll just use Empress Dowager as Chinese LH
:hmm:

and for Sejong, he looks like a rip off of an unknown Chinese Leader and his face is not historically correct.. at least Taejo is right, enough to make my Korean friends smile:)
 
and for Sejong, he looks like a rip off of an unknown Chinese Leader and his face is not historically correct..

It's a reskin of Taizong, official LH by Firaxis.
Released in the chinese version of Civ IV
Having said that, I agree with the historically not correct, but the LH quality is not bad at all
 
I'll just use Empress Dowager as Chinese LH
Do you mean Cixi?
If so,do NOT use her as a Chinese leader,she was an EVIL empress who was one of the worst leaders in Chinese history
There were good empress like Empress Wu Zetian and Empress Xuan that you can use.
 
thank you for the correction, but in my opinion the art for Wu Zetian isn't as impressive as the other women LH... but anyway, I'll just use Empress Dowager as Chinese LH
:hmm:

and for Sejong, he looks like a rip off of an unknown Chinese Leader and his face is not historically correct.. at least Taejo is right, enough to make my Korean friends smile:)

What was wrong with this Wu?

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If you want to further improve your Wu, make the eyes and the mouth more realistic
Those are the only 2 weak(er) points IMO
 
Do you mean Cixi?
If so,do NOT use her as a Chinese leader,she was an EVIL empress who was one of the worst leaders in Chinese history
There were good empress like Empress Wu Zetian and Empress Xuan that you can use.

Yes, that's right Civ... Cixi is Empress Dowager.. hahahah.... That's okay, I am making a collection of wicked LH's including Hitler, Pol Pot, Nero, Ivan The Terrible etc.... but It will be like a plan..
I wish someone can make Queen Mary Tudor of England or Jose Rizal :please:
 
Good Day Melcher! your talent in making LH is truly remarkable... I also give credits to those whom I think is good in making LH's (namely Novator, Pencilgod, Ekmek and Saibotleih)...
now to my request... can you make a better version of Wu Zetain (much like in civilization 5)... to tell you honestly... I've seen all Wu Zetain leaderheads and I don't like it.

Other requests will be
Jose Rizal (Philippine National Hero)
King Sejong (better version) I've seen some created LH's but they're not okay for me.
Oliver Cromwell
Queen Mary Tudor aka Bloody Mary

well it's up to you if you just choose one but I would likely appreciate if you picked Rizal or Sejong... salamat po:clap:

Enjoy creating LH's

Thanks!
As already mentioned by other people i don't plan to create anymore historical Leaderheads.
Maybe someday i will give it another shot. But as i'm not intrested in one person you mention, it's not likely it will be one of these. Sorry.

Melcher... about those fantasy LH's... you still creating those? In that case... would it be possible to create your generic Snow/Mountains a bit like a Norse king? I had specifically Sigurd I of Norway in mind. He could be a half-generic guy that could work well for both purposes you know ;)

Yes, i'm still working on those. Will see what i can do, but not sure if this will work.
 
Hey, folks!
Really busy lately and not much time to make some new funky stuff.
But slowly, there's some progress. Awesome!

So here is the most recent screenshot from the Leaderhead showed above.
Some small ninja-changes here and there, nothing big.:mischief:
Background isn't completely finished yet. In the final version there will be an animated small waterfall and animated fire aswell.


Spoiler :

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First screenshot shows the basic idea, a background that is less dead.
The trees, the moon, the sky, the waterfall (currently behind the trees) and fire will be animated. So quite everthing that we normally expect to move.
Also the background is build in layers (and some 3D models), which adds some depth. Especially animated objects in front of static objects.

And the background is full affected by the same light as the leaderhead, which will change (slowly gets brighter and darker) during the scene.

Sadly this really quick bunched up .gif (meh gif - bad quality) dosen't show how smooth and nice this is ingame. Love it! :)

And here a normal one.

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But will need some time before i will release this one.
First i need to finish my Isometric-Terrain for TAC. :)

If you are curious what the hell that is, here you go:

Spoiler :

Vanilla Civ4Col - randomized map

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-Vs-

Melcherized randomized Civ4Col map

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Still, more an alpha version until now.
 

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Awesome.
 
That Isometric map... no chance of having it converted to Civ4 when finished? :mischief:

Yes, i have thought about that too. Could be tricky and there would be quiet some work involved. Not sure about the shadows. Colonization casts them dynamically. So you can easily rotate them via the light source.
 
melcher kürzer;11640636 said:
Hey there!
I've skipped the hole units as leaderheads thing, mainly because it would be still a good amount of work to make it look nice. And why shouldn't i (or you) just make a real leaderheads instead then which will look much better.
I will use that for the background settings in the future.

So, i'm currently working on some leaderheads for my fantasy scenario. I already have concepts for 5-6 races (desert, wasteland, snow/mountains, jungle, grasland).
I'm still looking for some ideas. Therefore if you ever wanted something specific in that section, let me know. Now is your chance, maybe i will like it.

And here is a little preview of the most advanced LH right now. She will lead some sort of desert people. Still need some work.

Some of you may think: What the hell is that? That's not an useful armor at all! What's all the unnecessary stuff except the bra doing there. Well.....:mischief:

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Anyways, i will release them when they are done, even if there is not much need for LHs like this. :)

This lady going to be released soon? She looks pretty complete
 
Didn't you see the last post on the previous page?
 
It's the same LH, only lot's of improvements were made since
 
melcher kürzer;10235639 said:
Thanks! This is really nice to hear.



Nah, the head is only slightly modified by me (the mouth). :D
I have textured/retextured more or less the rest. The cloak is completly new (texture) and was the toughest part. Over the torso, the left breast and then falling behind joining the arm. And only black. Uagh. But finally it looks pretty good ingame.
And the background picture was a tough one too.



Oh, didn't know that. I hope he don't mind. :(



Thanks!
You forgot Elizabeth.:D
Personally i don't like it when you can see the LH base model. So i try to make them as unique as possible. Using a different head and an other animation set is the key.
But not everthing.
As an example, i used for all three female leaders the same head mesh from pirates.
Normally i start with something like that:
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Melcher, I know, you do not do any requests and almost stopped working on leaderheads, but I have one request: Is it possible to upload the leaderhead from this picture? Maybe I could use her.
 
@Kathy:
You should probably better try to contact melcher in the German CivForum.
(He hasn't been around in this forum for many months.)
 
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