New unit: French Musketeer mid 17th C.

Here is my new unit: a French Musketeer mid 17th C. It come in two versions:
civ color and non civ color.



A preview:



Here are the files

Download Civ Color


Download Non Civ Color

Enjoy!

Cool unit !!!
It`s seen that he is made with love and care.

Sandris said:

Cool unit !!!
It`s seen that he is made with love and care.

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Thanks Sandris! And many thanks for your help! Whitout your help (and Vuldacon too!) I cannot made my units!

Ahah! Just what I've always wanted! THANK-YOU for a musketeer with a rapier. D'Artagnan, Porthos & Aramis here we come!

Kewl! I like the Pedia Icon alot!

Very nice Just one question though: why doesn't he bring the stock to his shoulder before firing?

Best,

Oz

We should know by now you are being sarcastic, right, Oz?

Very well designed and animated.

Sweet unit! Your going strong Imperator.

Nice unit Imperator! I like the muzzle smoke a LOT! It looks very natural.

Nice job, I think you could have used more smoke those early muskets made clouds of smoke but that is a minor thing.

Stormrage said:

We should know by now you are being sarcastic, right, Oz?

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No, my bad, sort of. When he shoulders the weapon, the stock doesn't go to his shoulder, but the Attack A shows him handling the weapon correctly. So it's really just a one frame jump - either that, or a trick of the eye ...

Sorry to nitpick, imperator; regardless, I do stand by my praise

Best,

Oz

Mithadan said:

Ahah! Just what I've always wanted! THANK-YOU for a musketeer with a rapier. D'Artagnan, Porthos & Aramis here we come!

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Sorry Mithadan but this is not the Musketeer like Portos, D'Artagnan e Aramis. You need a Royal Musketeer or Musquetaire du Roi.

Voilà:



I'm working to this unit and I hope that for next month it will be ready.

Ozymandias said:

No, my bad, sort of. When he shoulders the weapon, the stock doesn't go to his shoulder, but the Attack A shows him handling the weapon correctly. So it's really just a one frame jump - either that, or a trick of the eye ...

Sorry to nitpick, imperator; regardless, I do stand by my praise

Best,

Oz

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The stock does go to the elbow.. it just doesn't show.

Actually, when comparing it to some of Sandris' units I found several units that (of Sandris) that seem to fall a little shorter in this area. Don't get me wrong, he did just fine on some of them and since I haven't d'loaded the great majority of his gunpowder units I have no idea how many units turned out there various ways. Here's what I found and am actually starting to wonder if it is a small bug...

Sandris' French Fusilier 1812 and this French Musketeer are on the right, three units from Sandris' Indian Rifleman pack on the left


The stock can be seen protruding on all the Indians while the two Frenchmen have it nicely tucked away. It may or may not be obvious enough to make anything of but upon examining the Indian's fortify storyboard it appears they were holding it nicely tucked just like the French before going in to the attack animation.


This plays into a slight hitch in-game (though it is played at a slightly higher speed so not quite so noticeable).


[edit] After checking his thread I found that he apparently did them over:

Sandris said:

Does the new rifle shooting position look better ?

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So I'm guessing he accidentally reuploaded the old animations..??

Whoops, that went a little ot. It all started out saying that your animation looks good Imperator! The talent of both these guys is nothing to sneeze at.

Actually, I hadn`t remade Indian riflemen`s animations yet, that`s why they differ to riflemen which were made later.

I like the "yet" in that sentence

That's a Very Good Looking Unit imperator1961...a Very Flamboyant Figure, Love the Hat

I agree with everyone else; very nice!

I 'specially like the pedia icon!

I like the preview of the "Kings" musketeer all for one and one for all.

imperator1961 said:

Sorry Mithadan but this is not the Musketeer like Portos, D'Artagnan e Aramis. You need a Royal Musketeer or Musquetaire du Roi.

Voilà:

I'm working to this unit and I hope that for next month it will be ready.

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Oh mama, now what am I going to do? Have two French musketeer units? Oh, the superfluousness of it all!