African missionaries

Polycrates · Oct 3, 2007

EDIT: these missionaries are now a part of my african noncombatant set with a bunch of great people and spies and stuff as well. You should probably download that instead

For your heathen-converting pleasure, a set of alternate missionaries out of darkest Africa. A couple are more just "alternate" versions that happen to have African heads, while a couple of others are more specifically African. Figuring out how to make an African version of missionaries for religions not normally associated with Africa is not a particularly straightforward task, so if you have any suggestions, or just want to tell me they're crap, please go right ahead!

The Christian one is kinda based on Desmond Tutu, with just a recoloured head (I was going to change the head but decided I like it as is)
The Confucian is based on, of all things, Futurama's Kwanzaabot

It's hard to see in the screenie, but the jewish one has a yarmulke and shawl

SCREENIE:

Spoiler :

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Alternate version with just the skin changed here

woodelf · Oct 3, 2007

They look pretty cool. Nice.

Can you start putting your new work in the updates thread in my sig so I can remember to add them to the Civ4 new stuff Update? Thanks

Dom Pedro II · Oct 3, 2007

These are absolutely beautiful! Thank you

NikNaks · Oct 3, 2007

Really, really good :goodjob:

sepamu92 · Oct 3, 2007

Excellent! The Islamic one is very original and realistic! :goodjob:

Chuggi · Oct 4, 2007

I like the Islamic one also and the Hindu's paint is great

but with the Buddhist one I would change his robes back to yellow/orange as they are the traditional colour for Buddhists.
As I said in your other thread feel free to request reboning so you can make more unique-looking units (or you can learn from the tutorial, the first time for me I failed then I tried it a few weeks later, following the steps carefully and succeeded )

Polycrates · Oct 4, 2007

Chugginator said:
with the Buddhist one I would change his robes back to yellow/orange as they are the traditional colour for Buddhists.

I'm certainly no religious scholar, but I picked the crimson colour because I know that at least in Tibetan buddhism, a lot of the monks wear red robes. I think red is followers of the dalai lama, and yellow is followers of the panchen lama. Of course Africa isn't Tibet, but I figured the red made a good excuse for variant clothing that's still reasonably recognisably buddhist. If you prefer the yellow though, I've still got it in this set.

As I said in your other thread feel free to request reboning so you can make more unique-looking units (or you can learn from the tutorial, the first time for me I failed then I tried it a few weeks later, following the steps carefully and succeeded )

Heh, thats a very dangerous offer! I think I could probably do with a bit of a break from the unitmaking though...maybe even play through a full game with my new zulu dudes

Thanks though, I'll certainly keep it in mind! But yeah I tried for ages to get an oromo riding a horse and managed to crash my game or nifviewer or stuff up blender every time then gave up in frustration and figured that just wasnt my thing. Making a head with an afro in blender is the height of my modelling achievement

Chuggi · Oct 5, 2007

Polycrates said:
I'm certainly no religious scholar, but I picked the crimson colour because I know that at least in Tibetan buddhism, a lot of the monks wear red robes. I think red is followers of the dalai lama, and yellow is followers of the panchen lama. Of course Africa isn't Tibet, but I figured the red made a good excuse for variant clothing that's still reasonably recognisably buddhist. If you prefer the yellow though, I've still got it in this set.

Well I'm not buddhist either

so I was just going on what I thought which isn't that accurate sometimes. Oh well, I still prefer yellow, I'll use the other one

Polycrates said:
Heh, thats a very dangerous offer! I think I could probably do with a bit of a break from the unitmaking though...maybe even play through a full game with my new zulu dudes Thanks though, I'll certainly keep it in mind! But yeah I tried for ages to get an oromo riding a horse and managed to crash my game or nifviewer or stuff up blender every time then gave up in frustration and figured that just wasnt my thing. Making a head with an afro in blender is the height of my modelling achievement

I think danrell already has an oromo on a horse in one of his sets (maybe the ottoman one). Also I haven't had a proper game of BTS yet because I was too disappointed in the ethnic units that came with it, so I'm waiting until I finish my own personal mod before I really play.

Cruel · Oct 10, 2007

Excelente! They´re beautiful!!

Badhron · Jan 27, 2008

Could you post the xml you used from ArtDefines_Unit.xml
I've done something wrong and the units appear completely blue

troytheface · Jan 28, 2008

yes, original and the kinta cloth pattern is visually striking. Clever.

Polycrates · Feb 1, 2008

Badhron said:
Could you post the xml you used from ArtDefines_Unit.xml
I've done something wrong and the units appear completely blue

Here's the XML:

Spoiler :

Obviously you need to have the unit art files in the directories specified in the XML. To be honest, I suck at XML and I just use Varietas Delectat (you can find it in the graphics modpacks forum) which is a fantastic mod that includes huge numbers of unique unit graphics (including these guys and most of the other african noncombatants). Actually, the XML I posted above is just pulled straight out of that mod anyway.

African missionaries

Polycrates

Emperor

woodelf

Bard

Dom Pedro II

Modder For Life

NikNaks

Deity

sepamu92

Prince

Chuggi

Espada

Polycrates

Emperor

Chuggi

Espada

Cruel

King

Badhron

Warlord

troytheface

Deity

Polycrates

Emperor

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