Improvements to GeneralMatts austro-hungarian hussar

cool3a2 · Sep 4, 2010

I was not fully satisfied with the textures GeneralMatts provided originally when publishing his hussars, so I did my best to improve on them, although I'm not talented in texture work.
Changes:
- The green I'm using is somewhere between Matts dark and light version, although it's closer to the dark one.
- I've enlarged the main textures size to 256x256 instead of 128x128 and sharpened it, which makes the decorations on the chest less blurry.
- Made a blue uniformed version.
- Gave some structure to several parts of the textures (blue helmet, trousers, uniform, saddle) as previously, large portions of the texture shared the same colour which made the unit look a bit odd - with this, I wasn't too successful, to be honest.
- Added gloss to the saber.
- Made the gloves a bit darker.
- There a 3 different textures for the horse: black (GeneralMatts original texture), dark brown and light brown.

The package includes Arians button.

Credits:
- GeneralMatt, original unit
- Arian, button

Preview:

Spoiler :

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Wonderblunder · Sep 4, 2010

Nice job. though I do have one complaint. IMO, The horses could use some improvement. They textures are a little too dark.

cool3a2 · Sep 5, 2010

Hmm... maybe you are right. They are lacking some contrast as they are now. On the other side, they are not the focus of the unit. Still, I'll give it a go.

cool3a2 · Sep 5, 2010

Sry for double posting, but otherwise you might miss this preview of a brown horse.

siam · Sep 6, 2010

Nice work! ... agree with "too dark horse" but now it is too red ... a bit yellow.. would u?

cool3a2 · Sep 6, 2010

Hmm... I personally like it, but I could provide several textures and everyone could use them at will. Also, the horse used for this unit, is the mongol mounted swordsman which already is yellowish. I could use that texture, transplant the saddle and copy over those lighter parts at the head and the leg.

Arian · Sep 8, 2010

cool3a2 said:
Hmm... I personally like it, but I could provide several textures and everyone could use them at will. Also, the horse used for this unit, is the mongol mounted swordsman which already is yellowish. I could use that texture, transplant the saddle and copy over those lighter parts at the head and the leg.

A team-color version of these guys would be great!
BTW here's a simple button:

veBear · Sep 9, 2010

Arian said:
A team-color version of these guys would be great!

Agree! Nicde work BTW :goodjob:

Edit:
Charle here made a great tutorial
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=367092

cool3a2 · Sep 9, 2010

Thanks for your button (looks good, too) and your nice words, guys! Well, I'm actually not a friend of teamcoloured units, especially in case of a unit like this that is actually made to be a unique unit anyways. Still, I might give it a go. The only problem I see, is, that I don'T know what to put into teamcolours. That white part on the chest probably, but besides of this?

Arian · Sep 9, 2010

cool3a2 said:
Thanks for your button (looks good, too) and your nice words, guys! Well, I'm actually not a friend of teamcoloured units, especially in case of a unit like this that is actually made to be a unique unit anyways. Still, I might give it a go. The only problem I see, is, that I don'T know what to put into teamcolours. That white part on the chest probably, but besides of this?

I suggest the hat!

cool3a2 · Sep 9, 2010

The hat. Okay, if you want me to, I can do that, I think. Although it was part of the uniform and thus its colour was probably fix. Anyways.

For now, I have updated the package with the other two horse textures (the dark brown version is a bit less reddish and there is also a light brown version) and Arians button. Also, I've added my xmls including the artdefines, the unitinfos and civilopedia texts in english, german, italian and hungarian. See post #1 for download link.

I will update the first post and the file db entry with fresh previews in a second.

cool3a2 · Sep 9, 2010

Alright, I have a first picture of the teamcoloured version to show. If you ask me, I should turn the feather into teamcolours instead of the helmet, but I leave the choice to you.

Arian · Sep 9, 2010

Looks good to me. What about giving the saddle/blanket? of the horse teamcolor. That way the hussar himself keeps his colourful outfit.

veBear · Sep 10, 2010

I say add it to the horse, but keep what you already have of teamcoloured parts

cool3a2 · Sep 10, 2010

Okay, that should be possible. I'll give it a go this evening.

Arian · Sep 10, 2010

cool3a2 said:
Okay, that should be possible. I'll give it a go this evening.

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

- B.A. Baracus -

The_J · Sep 10, 2010

veBear said:
I say add it to the horse, but keep what you already have of teamcoloured parts

Yeah, teamcolored horses :goodjob:

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cool3a2 · Sep 10, 2010

Another preview with the saddle teamcoloured. More wishes?

Arian · Sep 10, 2010

cool3a2 said:
Another preview with the saddle teamcoloured. More wishes?

It looks fine imo :goodjob:

cool3a2 · Sep 10, 2010

Okay, I'll wait till tomorrow morning (now it's almost quarter to 12 in the evening where I live) to see if there are more suggestions. If there won't be any, I'll upload v1.2 of the package then.

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