Ethnic riflemen development thread

[bernie14]

I think lighter pants would be better

agreed

And a grey skin for the CSA too, please !

i cant deny you...your wish is my command!!

look below

great pic for the persian

the chinese i am not too sure about, they look like US or japanese late 19th century with indian turbans

 

[Nutty]

i'm still having "conceptual" difficulties with the brits....your 95th rifles is very nice and i could probably fix it in little time, but the classic "red coat"/victorian boar war type brit and the highlanders would be nice as well....

You're right, you've got to have the redcoats, but I think the redcoats should be musketmen (and we have the nice Colonization model already), as the regular infantry took quite a while to start using rifles.

Apparently, the red jackets were already being phased out during the Beor Wars.

Highlanders, yes! You gotta have redcoats in kilts.

BTW...I converted your 95th rifle to fbx, but havent made the gr2 yet to test it...did it work for you?

I didn't include my gr2 because though I can make one that looks good in Granny Viewer and Nexus, it still won't work in-game. Gedemon suggested trying different fScales, but that didn't help.

ANY REFERENCE PICS FOR CHINA, ARABIA, ETC would be appreciated
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how about civs like rome, songhai, persia, siam (vietnam?) etc?????

Yeah, musketmen and riflemen are tough for the colonial era of a lot of these places, as they were all being subjugated by firearms, so it's going to need some imagination to do something more than changing skin tones of their colonial master's uniforms.

Some ideas for Songhai:

Spoiler :

1. These are Abyssinians defending Italians in the 1930s (yeah, wrong era, wrong end of the continent):
   
   
   
   
2. Conceptually, the Dohomey Amazons would be a great UU, though deciding between going bare-breasted or with ugly house-dress uniforms is tough:
   
   
   
   
3. Maybe this: "The Queen and Her Soldiers: Men of the West African Field Force at Balmoral" (1900):
   
   

 

[That nerdy kid]

the Chinese aren't very good, but you have to understand that all of Europe wanted to take over China, so its soldiers were mostly rebels.

Here is them from 1911, but these are more like infantry than rifleman (stupid that they added infantry as an entirely new unit)

 

[That nerdy kid]

sure its from the wrong time, but the Vietnamese had the same weapons as rifleman do.

(italy)

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

Iroquois rifleman

 

[bernie14]

the american riflemen (both union and confederates) are up!!!

THANKS for all the contributions

french and russians are next.....

right after i finally check out nutty's riflemen.....

 

[Hulfgar]

great work bernie !

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

Impressive ! It will look good on the US map from the explorer's map pack, for sure !

 

[Dadaloglu]

Great work again,we are looking forward to see your next unit

 

[That nerdy kid]

thanks alot and does anyone know if there is a mod for Austria-Hungary? because i have some pics for them too... if you can find a mod can you post it here?

I found a mod for it so if you need pictures for it here they are:

 

[bernie14]

thanks again everyone!!!

@nutty...

I have good news, your blend files seem to be working perfectly.....

i am not the best troubleshooter, but off the top of my head, i can suggest several things to check for.....

1. when you export your blend to fbx, make sure u are in object mode and everything is "selected". i always make sure EVERYTHING is slected (a little OCD ) by making sure all of my meshes are selected in edit mode, then, go to object mode and again making sure everything is selected...

2. make sure you are exporting your blend to fbx with the correct settings (pretty sure it is in Deliverator's or possibly Lemmy's tutorials)

3. i always use the nexus buddy "OLD" to make the gr2 file

4. the nexus buddy is not perfect, check your gr2 with granny viewer to make sure it came out ok, you wont see the texture but you will see the mesh...sometimes nexus buddy does not make the gr2 "perfectly" but just double check that you have assigned your textures and material correctly and give it another go..

good luck!!

 

[Nutty]

I have good news, your blend files seem to be working perfectly.....

You got them to work in-game?

EDIT: Er, I guess that's what the screenshot was for.

Well, that's what I've been doing... I wonder what I'm missing.

Nonetheless, thanks for checking it out!

Would you mind sending me the fbx's and gr2's you made?

 

[takkyon]

Spoiler :

This isn't a particularly good image, but it has riflemen from all eight members of the alliance that quelled the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. From left to right there are Britain, United States, Russia, British India, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Japan.

 

[bernie14]

You got them to work in-game?

EDIT: Er, I guess that's what the screenshot was for.

Well, that's what I've been doing... I wonder what I'm missing.

Nonetheless, thanks for checking it out!

Would you mind sending me the fbx's and gr2's you made?

sure, they are attached....

This isn't a particularly good image, but it has riflemen from all eight members of the alliance that quelled the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. From left to right there are Britain, United States, Russia, British India, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Japan.

actually, quite good, i can get a lot from the structure of these "real life pics"

 

[bernie14]

here is a 1/2 arse prototype frenchie....

i dont know if i sould make light grey or dark blue coat...

perhaps a mix?

 

[Dadaloglu]

Dark blue would be better i think

 

[Hulfgar]

Dark blue would be more accurate I think.

 

[Gedemon]

for 1870-1914 period I also think that dark blue is better :

Spoiler :

http://antan.unblog.fr/tag/uniformes/

light grey came later during WWI


edit : a lot more here : http://antan.unblog.fr/planches-sur-les-uniformes-du-xixe-siecle/

 

[bernie14]

awesome resource!! thanks....the grey coat i attached above said 1877....but by the looks of it, the grey (pre-ww1) seems to be either imperial guard or africa (zouave?)...

i did both....post pics later.....

 

[Savoyard]

I have more Persians:

Spoiler :