The Capo's LH Gallery and Self-Help Thread!

[MadmanOfALeader]

Oh, I didn't notice he had crosses on his crown.

 

[The Capo]

Do you guys not read the posts I make at all?

Here's an in-game preview of Solomon. I intend on reskinning his crown but I'm a little at a loss for an idea here, if anybody had some suggestions on what its texture should be that would be helpful. Also what does everyone think of the skinning on the clothing?

This is NOT going to be the final crown.

 

[The Capo]

Well, I just put a generic gold texture on the crown. If I can't find something better I'll just use this. I don't think it looks that bad, maybe a little plain, but not bad.

 

[cybrxkhan]

This doesn't concern the texture of the guy, but I thought your current background is historically inaccurate (if you've changed it, then woe to me ). Concerning the menorah in the background, if I remember correctly (and if I'm wrong please correct me), the Menorah was used to commemorate a successful Jewish revolt against Seleucid or Roman rule or something, meaning that it came several centuries after Solomon.

To make it short: Having the menorah in the background is anachronistic.

However, I'm sure you know that I know that that's not really important anyways - getting the LH right is more important, and this is just merely a suggestion.

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He's looking pretty nifty, anyhow!

 

[The Capo]

Well it isn't really a Menorah, if you notice it has less candles on it so its really just decoration, I just called it that for some reason. Although he does have one on his robe so that might be problematic.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Of course if you can't easily fix the one on his robe we won't hate you for it.

But other than that menorah-looking thing, I like his background too.

 

[The Capo]

Well, I'm thinking of releasing him now. Should I or what? Here's the latest in-game shot, its basically the same as the last one but I did reskin the crown and I kind of like it the way it looks.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Looks pretty cool. Is the background brighter than it was last time? Because I'm thinking that for some reason...

 

[The Capo]

Looks pretty cool. Is the background brighter than it was last time? Because I'm thinking that for some reason...

No, the only change I made was the texture on the crown. Other than that everything's the same.

 

[mamba]

Well, I'm thinking of releasing him now. Should I or what? Here's the latest in-game shot, its basically the same as the last one but I did reskin the crown and I kind of like it the way it looks.

Is it just me, or is his beard lighter than his hair ?

I certainly like him better than the last version

 

[Ekmek]

it doesnt have shaders. you just have to change a flag to yes. see my guide it takes 5 min. seriously.

 

[The Capo]

Thanks Mamba, and yeah I have to make his beard a bit darker, I totally forgot to do that so thanks for pointing it out.

it doesnt have shaders. you just have to change a flag to yes. see my guide it takes 5 min. seriously.

Alright, I'll add shaders to him and then I am going to release him along with Dido and Nehru (maybe Cetshwayo too). I am going to try to get that done by the end of this week. Although Nehru might take a while, I am using Julius Caesar as a base and I have a lot of work to do on the face, plus I gotta get his hat to look right, so who knows. I like putting them out in groups so I can edit my LH gallery image row by row.

EDIT: I attached a little preview of what I'm doing for Nehru so far. The one thing that I'm a bit worried about is that I am trying to make him look a lot different from Caesar, but at least as far as the shape/structure of his face goes he looks pretty similar to Caesar. But I have made a few changes already (not pictured) so I hope it looks pretty good.

 

[The Capo]

Here is a preview with some texture on him. Believe it or not I did make changes to the model's face, but it still looks a lot like Caesar. I put up an image of Nehru for comparison, he doesn't look much different from Caesar, but I still have to do some things to get him to look different. I think one thing I can do is make his nose shorter, other than that I'd appreciate some ideas to make him look a bit more like Nehru and less like Caesar. The hat is NOT textured, I just left it like that because it will be white but I haven't made a texture for it yet. So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated on this one, while putting the clothing and everything together was quite easy, the face may take a few days to get right.

Also see where the collar doesn't have texturing, how do I get that part textured? If anyone knows that would be good too. Other than those things what does everyone think?

 

[Vrenir]

The man had a type of collar named after him; I think that you ought to try to give him one. Perhaps you could adapt a military collar off of San Martin, Bismarck, or Napoleon.

As for Solomon, very nice work. I don't think that he'd be allowed in the Holy of Holies (where the Ark is) though. I'm pretty sure that even for the king that's a death penalty offense.

 

[The Capo]

The man had a type of collar named after him; I think that you ought to try to give him one. Perhaps you could adapt a military collar off of San Martin, Bismarck, or Napoleon.

Hmm, I guess I could try that. I didn't even think about that really, I might not wind up doing it though because it may not look right with the shirt. I'll look into it though.

 

[The Capo]

As for Solomon, very nice work. I don't think that he'd be allowed in the Holy of Holies (where the Ark is) though. I'm pretty sure that even for the king that's a death penalty offense.

Yeah, I thought about that, but I still think it looks good and it is Solomon's Temple after all.

 

[Ekmek]

ceasar's cheek bones are too prominent. select the cheek bones and highlight a few polygons outside of it and transform/resize them to be smaller then use the smooth functions a few times to siften it out. you may have to pull a few of the vertices/dots to make it even also.

the nose might have to be completely highlighted and rotated a little bit and shrink it on the y axis a tad.

atleast thats what i'd do

 

[The Capo]

I worked around with the nose a little bit, I think it looks much better now. I'll also try to tone down his cheekbones a bit too, although that isn't as much of a problem as the nose was (I think at least). I also softened the texture on his cheeks a bit too. I think its starting to look more like him. I am going to make his hat a bit smaller too, so it fits him more like the image. What do you think so far?

EDIT: I updated the picture, I toned down the cheekbones and made his hat a bit better looking. I think if I just made his nose a bit wider it would be pretty close.

EDIT 2: And Ekmek, if you're still out there, how do I get the texture on the collar to show up on the reverse side? See how there is a "hole" there?

 

[Vrenir]

Thinking about where I might alternatively use this fellow, I find it rather ironic that he not only resembles Nehru of India but also Ali Jinnah of Pakistan.

 

[The Capo]

Thinking about where I might alternatively use this fellow, I find it rather ironic that he not only resembles Nehru of India but also Ali Jinnah of Pakistan.

Yeah, he does look pretty similar actually, all you'd really have to do is retexture the hat to black and remove the flower. I don't mind what the LH is used for when I am finished, so if you want to go ahead and use him for that if you prefer.

EDIT: Although I did make his nose a bit wider, so he doesn't look as much like Jinnah, Jinnah had a thinner nose, but I don't think it matters that much either way really. Actually now that I look at it, the place-holder LH I threw together for Nehru that is in my mod's current playtest looks more like Jinnah than this does, I suppose at some point I could actually turn that into Jinnah if you really want the leader and don't mind waiting a while.