Medieval Balkan Unit Pack (begun 28 Feb, 2008)

[Micaelus]

First off, thanks all for the comments. The civ-colored ones should be getting rendered tonight and tomorrow, so not too long a wait there. (Thanks Partizanac for pointing to my first post. ) I may try the spot light trick Vuldacon suggested and lighten up the civ-color versions too.

Anyway did anybody notice a little bouncing in the attack ? The whole figure seem to go up and down like it's not tied to the ground (or is it just me ?) They look great anyway, just a little correction...
EDIT: 300 posts

About the preview animations: If you notice them being jumpy in the attack animations its because I had to paste those frames in individually and I may not have been as careful as I could have been. (This is because the attack animation was captured with a larger frame size to get the full extent of the spear thrust.) There is no problem in-game.

Sorry all for the slightly sloppy preview animations, but that problem seemed minor and it had taken too much picking around to get them to be that stable already...I hope its not too distracting.

 

[T-mun]

Maybe that's because you didn't give your unit the "drop to ground" setup at the start of the process ? If you do it afterwards it's all messed up...

 

[Quinzy]

It's just in the preview mate, it's fine in the flics

 

[Mithadan]

Frickin' wicked cool. I actually really like the darker pallette. More gritty, less Erol Flynn, is all good.

 

[T-mun]

It's just in the preview mate, it's fine in the flics

You're right I've just checked. But how could one mess up a preview
Micaelus, could you do better ones ? It won't take more than a minute...

 

[DragonBird]

Awesome stuff. Spears are a bit long to wave around like that for my taste though.

 

[Mithadan]

Spears are a bit long to wave around like that for my taste though.

Good point. It's ironic, actually: R8FXT's Macedonian Phalangite holds his sarissa so far forward that the overwhelming majority of the super-pike is behind him (rather defeating the purpose, I daresay), whereas a lot of other recent spear units seem to be carrying pikes! I suppose such comments should be brought up in the development threads, though. (Sorry.)

 

[Micaelus]

Civ-colored versions of the Bulgarian and Serbian Spearman uploaded.
Byzantine Spearman added to the pack. It includes civ coloration.

 

[Stormrage]

Great! Thanks!

 

[Kyriakos]

Great work Micaelus

 

[Ares de Borg]

Very nice units, especially the Byzantine and Bulgarian ones. I can use them for the Greeks in my Game (which are combined with the Byzantines). Too bad rifleman never finished his version of the Varangian guard.

Well done, please do more.

 

[KingArthur]

These are very nice. I like the lighting the way it is: it gives your units a distinctive and realistic style

 

[Partizanac]

I really like the civ colored ones I think I'll use those

can't wait for the swordsmen

 

[Grandraem]

The textures on these units are great. Excellent units.

 

[imperator1961]

Hi Micaelus! I noticed you want add also Balkans swordsman. This is a well new! I nedd some swordsmans for my Mod, and if you made this units I will happy to add these to my Mod.

 

[Micaelus]

Four swordsmen uploaded, all with civ-color
Many thanks to themanuneed, Sandris, Stormrage, Mithadan, Plotinus, Quinzy, Swargey, Azmorg, and Ares de Borg (and any I forgot) for their criticism on the animations and model!

 

[Ares de Borg]

Sweet! I have a place for those. Thank you!

 

[Grandraem]

Sweet! I have a place for those. Thank you!

My thoughts exactly.

Great work again, Micaelus. Your units are beautiful and well animated.

 

[Ozymandias]

*sigh* Absolutely beautiful work. Now, about that Civ-coloring ...

Best,

Oz

 

[Partizanac]

Thank you Micaelus, I'm forever in your debt!