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

[The Capo]

Yeah, these two I already have a very good concept and when I have a good concept decided I don't need much advice on how its looking. This is what happend with Hiawatha and Cleomenes, and if you look at the "evidence" surrounding those LHs you'll notice that it takes me like a day or two to make them. So there isn't much a point to putting together previews when its going to be out in a few hours anyway. Having said that, I haven't started on these at all, so I am by no means saying to expect them in the next couple days.

EDIT: I have updated Cleomenes to have a darker plume.

 

[achilleszero]

I am going to make Cetshwayo and Lalibela next. I won't tell you who I am going to use as bases for them, but neither will use a current African leader as a base.

Excellent another Zulu leader, but who is Lalibela?

 

[The Capo]

Lalibela was an Ethiopian King.

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

Not to mention an Ethiopian saint. An important one, too.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I would really like a Lalibela.

 

[Berenthor]

I love the greek leaders, especially the Alexander with crown. I find it better than the laurals . Is it possible that you add your latest additions (Marcus Antonius, the greek leaders, etc) in the first post with a picture? It is a little easier to find than going through the thread. Keep up the good work.

 

[The Capo]

I love the greek leaders, especially the Alexander with crown. I find it better than the laurals . Is it possible that you add your latest additions (Marcus Antonius, the greek leaders, etc) in the first post with a picture? It is a little easier to find than going through the thread. Keep up the good work.

I will update my first page at some point in the next few days. Marcus Antontonius is not mine though, its pencilgod's. He has just been MIA latlely and never uploaded the file so I did it for him. It isn't difficult to find these files, they are all on the first page of the leaderheads download database.

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

What's the point of having Lycurgus as a leader if the whole reason that Sparta was powerful is that he never returned there?

 

[achilleszero]

What's the point of having Lycurgus as a leader if the whole reason that Sparta was powerful is that he never returned there?

What do you mean "never returned"? Of course he returned. After he returned is when he did most of the stuff that is attributed to him.

 

[The Capo]

Feel free to use Cleomenes as whomever you'd like. Lysander, Leonidas and Lycurgus are all options. You could even use him as someone else if you want to. It doesn't matter to me at all.

I have decided to make a new LH, sort of, for my mod which will be Maurits van Nassau. I had him in my last mod but I was using the Van der Donck LH. I am going to give him some military attire since he is an aggressive Dutch leader in my mod. Basically I am going to take my Gustav Adolph (version 1 though) and add a helmet and change a few things up. I also posted some Dutch Industrial units in the database if anyone is interested. This is not going to interfere with my regular LH making schedule. Well at least it shouldn't.

Right now though I am actually adding flavored units to my new mod, and the pace is going slower than I thought it would (props to Avain, Mamba, Chuggi and everyone else who made mods with flavored sets, its very tedious), but I have some GREAT ideas for the new leaders and I might actually start on Cetshwayo, Askia Mohammed and Lalibela very shortly. So we'll get a nice set of African leaders. I also plan on updating my Solomon, Richelieu and Amenhotep III (it is listed as Egyptian Pharoah in my gallery) because those are among the first LHs I made, and I am MUCH better now.

 

[The_J]

Good to hear .

 

[IgorS]

I have decided to make a new LH, sort of, for my mod which will be Maurits van Nassau. I had him in my last mod but I was using the Van der Donck LH. I am going to give him some military attire since he is an aggressive Dutch leader in my mod. Basically I am going to take my Gustav Adolph (version 1 though) and add a helmet and change a few things up. I also posted some Dutch Industrial units in the database if anyone is interested. This is not going to interfere with my regular LH making schedule. Well at least it shouldn't.

Interesting! I really want to see how it will come out!

 

[The Capo]

Hmm, well it seems I may have been a bit premature. I can't find the LH that had helmet I was going to use. I don't remember the name of the LH or whatever, but I THINK it was either a Portuguese or Spanish leader that someone made for Colonization. I looked through the database and could not find it. For all intents and purposes it probably isn't around. The only reason I was going to make a new Maurits was because I remembered this LH the other day. So it looks like I'm going to have to nix that plan. Sorry to get your hopes up.

 

[Ekmek]

i think they took it from the conquistaor unit. you could probably find a unit that has a piece close enough. adding unit parts to leaderheads is easy but you have to subdivide and shape and improve the texture to get it to match.

 

[MadmanOfALeader]

Lycurgus was the lawmaker who wrote down the Spartan laws and told the Spartans to keep them until he came back. He never did.

 

[The Capo]

i think they took it from the conquistaor unit. you could probably find a unit that has a piece close enough. adding unit parts to leaderheads is easy but you have to subdivide and shape and improve the texture to get it to match.

I guess I can try, but I have NEVER had any luck importing units into Blender for some reason, and I am HORRIBLE at texturing. So we'll see what happens with that. It was just something I thought I should do, Maurits was a General, and in my mod he's basically dressed up like a pilgrim, so I figured it'd be better if he had some military clothing on.

 

[The Capo]

Well I'm getting the hang of the new Blender, which is different enough that I have to learn some new things but this is kind of my idea for Maurits van Nassau. The helmet was actually made by Bernie14 (I ripped it from his Spanish Musketeer). I think I am going to add a feather to it, and I'll probably give him ruffles ala Willem van Oranj rather than that collar he has. I'll also reskin him too. It isn't too complicated an LH but I think it will look pretty cool when it is finished. Obviously I have to remove some parts of the head so it doesn't clip with the helmet, but I think its pretty decent and is much better than the Van Der Donck LH (at least for Maurits, who was a commander against Spain).

 

[Ekmek]

Well I'm getting the hang of the new Blender, which is different enough that I have to learn some new things

yeah it takes some getting used to but i ended up liking it better. especially textured mode reading dds files and seeing it in edit mode so when i move a dot or polygon i see how it stretches. the thing i hated most though was that marking seams in uvmode, which i used to isolate parts, doesnt work the same for marking seams in edit mode, in fact it only applies to mapping the uvs. so you have to use the hide polygons method that i describe in my tutorial in place of that method you may be used to. i hopr my tutorial helps with the changes

 

[achilleszero]

Right now though I am actually adding flavored units to my new mod, and the pace is going slower than I thought it would (props to Avain, Mamba, Chuggi and everyone else who made mods with flavored sets, its very tedious), but I have some GREAT ideas for the new leaders and I might actually start on Cetshwayo, Askia Mohammed and Lalibela very shortly. So we'll get a nice set of African leaders. I also plan on updating my Solomon, Richelieu and Amenhotep III (it is listed as Egyptian Pharoah in my gallery) because those are among the first LHs I made, and I am MUCH better now.

I am eagerly looking forward to your updated Soloman and Amenhotep as I would like to use them. Also that 2nd Zulu leader you mentioned making a while back.

TheCapo, a while back you posted a list in the unit request thread of ethnic units you needed. Do you have an updated list of what you still need, that you could send me?

 

[The Capo]

I am eagerly looking forward to your updated Soloman and Amenhotep as I would like to use them. Also that 2nd Zulu leader you mentioned making a while back.

TheCapo, a while back you posted a list in the unit request thread of ethnic units you needed. Do you have an updated list of what you still need, that you could send me?

Yes, I'll update the list and send it to you. Amenhotep and Richelieu are just going to get minor fixes, Solomon is going to be changed pretty dramatically.