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

[Vrenir]

Looks nice; I especially like the way that the gold mail turned out. Also, I'm sure that you're already aware of the space between his cloak and neck.

 

[The Capo]

Looks nice; I especially like the way that the gold mail turned out. Also, I'm sure that you're already aware of the space between his cloak and neck.

Yes, I am aware. I'm still looking for a suitable background.

 

[mamba]

Yes, I am aware. I'm still looking for a suitable background.

Finding backgrounds isn't easy. That being said, here are some pictures of old buildings (or replicas thereof), I still think most are too young or not entirely appropriate (the ones which are probably 'old' enough). But I figured it cannot hurt to offer you some choices

Spoiler :

Open Air Museum Detmold

Open Air Museum Bad Windsheim

Open Air Museum Unteruhldingen

 

[The Capo]

Thank you Mamba, those could prove to be very helpful to me. In he meantime I used the background from the place-holder version from my mod. I forget who made it, but it was from an LH who was supposed to be Robert something-or-other (I can't remember). I forgot to post a screenshot of Ptolemy, so here are a couple of previews of the last two I have been working on. There are clear clipping issues in a few cases, but I can fix that pretty easily.

Just like last time I will be posting these in groups of four, so there are two more to come very soon...

(I clearly haven't added shaders to Clovis yet, so he should look even better than this, I still have to do some shadering on Ptolemy, but a few parts require a bit more work for shaders).

 

[The Capo]

I have decided to work on Nasser next. and since he is just going to be wearing a suit its all about the face sculpting this might be a difficult one for me to pull off. I'm using Charles De Gaulle as a base.

EDIT: Here's a screen shot of what I did for Nasser. I think that's pretty good, any thoughts though?

 

[IgorS]

I think you're in the right way.

 

[The Capo]

Nasser is coming along nicely . I might have him finished sometime today (he's just wearing a suit, so it isn't really complicated), the only issue is the texturing; I suck at it, and while it is one of my better efforts it is still a little splotchy. So if anybody out there has the ability, or think they have the ability, to fix it up for me please volunteer. It would be very helpful.

Here's a shot of his head right now. Disregard the eyebrows and mustache because those are going to be changed (they are from the original LH and were not made for Nasser), the reason I am posting this is so you guys can see what I mean by "splotchy."

EDIT: It is snowing like crazy over here!

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

He looks a lot like Nasser!

 

[The Capo]

I think what I might wind up doing, which happens to be the same thing I did with the "placeholder" Nasser I used in my mod's playtest, is throwing some sunglasses on him. The reason for this is because I don't want to mess around with his eyes, and I'm worried that the eyes won't look right. Does anyone have any specific issues with this?

 

[Vrenir]

The only issue that I have, and it's rather selfish, is that then out of my three Modern African leaders (Selassie, Mobutu, and Nasser) two will have identical sunglasses. Of course, if you're going to wear sunglasses, Africa would be the place to do it. Other than that, no objections - the sunglasses look pretty good, and are fitting for modern Egypt.

 

[The Capo]

The only issue that I have, and it's rather selfish, is that then out of my three Modern African leaders (Selassie, Mobutu, and Nasser) two will have identical sunglasses. Of course, if you're going to wear sunglasses, Africa would be the place to do it. Other than that, no objections - the sunglasses look pretty good, and are fitting for modern Egypt.

Well I'm using him for Arabia, so that sounds like a Vrenir problem to me.

EDIT: I have actually made two versions. Which is kind of stupid now that I think about it because it is pretty easy to remove sunglasses from an LH.

 

[The Capo]

Here are the two Nassers. I still have to finish some of the texturing, but I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[Vrenir]

Thank you, and very nice work. I cannot tell you how long I have waited for a Nasser, at least a year before I ever touched the XML. In fact, I remember hoping that he would be one of the official leaders added in Beyond the Sword.

 

[The Capo]

Here's an in-game shot of Nasser. I'll probably remove the shaders from his clothing because Ekmek seems to be right, shaders make clothes look plastic. But other than that I'm pretty happy with it. Thoughts?

 

[cybrxkhan]

Very nice. I think he'd be pretty appropriate as a modern LH for Arabia.

Is he too shiny, or is that just how shaders are?

 

[Panopticon]

Wow Capo, that is really good. The nose is appropriately large.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with his eyes, apart from the eyebrows being slightly arched.

 

[The Capo]

Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate the kind words.

Being snowed in isn't so bad, I'm nearly finished whipping up Cartimandua. Although she's proving to be a little difficult to make. My concept is more difficult to put together than I thought it would be, but I'll make it happen. It should be really cool when I am finished though.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I'm snowed in too. Only reason I managed to finish that @#$% LH at long last along with the CotW.

 

[The_J]

I'll definetly use Nasser for my arabians.
Great work .

 

[Ekmek]

tuen down the color on his shaders a bit. its like adjusting material properties. i think key diffuse is the main one