Elf Archer

[Civitar]

Here he is, an elven archer for Civilization 5! He uses Archer animations for some reason .

DOWNLOAD HERE​

I assembled him myself using pieces from topsecret's Gondor Third Age and Last Alliance Elf unit packs. Figured that an elf archer is the most commonly needed unit for fantasy mods, so I got to work.

 

[Greyborea]

Nice indeed, so is the Kraken.
One comment though on this one, maybe the lower part of the tabard would benefit from minor embroidery, similar stuff. One has to be picky to justify one's existence

 

[Civitar]

Feel free to reskin as much as you like, I didn't make or modify this texture, it's the Kievan Rus militia archer body that topsecret used. This unit isn't for me, it's for any modders who need an elven archer. I already have a reskinned one in Warhammer, you can see it if you follow my sig.
Any requests for the last fantasy unit?

 

[Nutty]

maybe the lower part of the tabard would benefit from minor embroidery

Something like this?

 

[Civitar]

Good grief Nutty! That's brilliant! Could you help with my Warhammer models perchance? I'm fine with the meshes and skeleton, but my Warhammer skins are nothing special.

 

[PawelS]

Nutty's version looks great, I will use it as the Elvish hero

 

[Greyborea]

Something like this?

That's great Nutty and Civitar, you should team up together!

 

[Nutty]

Could you help with my Warhammer models perchance?

Show me what you've got, let me know if you have any ideas, and I'll see what I can do for you.

 

[Civitar]

@Nutty: Check out my Warhammer thread, you'll see all the units I have so far. I'm warning you, the collection grows fast. I'd like all the color schemes to stay the same, but if you could do stuff like give the high elf archer a belt to hold his quiver or the spearman a better sref that allows you to see the chainmail pattern, that'd be wonderful.

 

[Nutty]

They're looking great so far, except you haven't posted any of those files yet, have you?

 

[Civitar]

No, but I can send them to you. Never mind about the spearman, v2 is fine with me. I'm also doing a better model of the archer, with a longer skirt, so wait til that shows up.

 

[PawelS]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I have a question: The sref file in Nutty's version is very big (over 5 MB)*, and I'm looking to reduce the size of my mod. Is there safe way to make the file smaller?

*In the original version too, but Nutty's reskin is what I'm using.

 

[Civitar]

Yeah just scale it down in GIMP or Photoshop or whatever you have to a smaller size.

 

[PawelS]

Is it OK to use compression like DXT3?

 

[Civitar]

Yes, I always use that for unit textures.

 

[PawelS]

Thanks!