The preview thread

[General 666]

Btw i had uploaded it, if you still want it you could pm General666 who (i think) has it (9 people had downloaded it before i replaced it).

Tsk ,tsk ,tsk. Now I shall spread your files ???

 

[Kyriakos]

Why not?

I wanted to ask you all if there is any particular graphic you want to see made. Anything that is not terrain or a city, since i dont want to move to terrains, and a city takes a while to make. But any resource, or something inthe terrainbuildings.pcx i could do

 

[Kyriakos]

I've been having a very hard time trying to find an image of a medieval lighthouse. Did they even exist? There is the ancient Pharos of Alexandria, but nothing medieval seems to appear in the searches.

Anyone know what they looked like?

 

[Vuldacon]

Medieval Lighthouses were small towers where candles were placed in front of silver plates to reflect the light

Seriously... here is a Link that shows the Earliest Lighthouse by the Egyptians:
http://library.thinkquest.org/5286/history_of_lighthouses.htm

 

[Kyriakos]

Well i could just make one huge candle

And that in the link is the hellenistic lighthouse of Alexandria. I had modelled that, but it is not medieval.

 

[Vuldacon]

yes but because that was the First Lighthouse dated 283, you would have to model Fires by the Shore

 

[Kyriakos]

This is a new resource, which can be used to enable some units. It is a shield and a spear

 

[Kyriakos]

And a Byzantine Christogram version:

 

[Kyriakos]

Such resources could be usefull in a scenario where at least some of the nations can send merceneries to other ones. For example the Byzantine Empire would have only one Byzantine Armies resource, probably somewhere in Anatolia, but in Scandinavia there could be a number of army resources, so that the Byzantines could buy one, and build a high maintenance building that auto-produces varangians for the duration the resource is held

 

[tom2050]

I like em... in an epic game, they could even be used as a rare weapons or armor cache resource, that allows certain soldiers to be outfitted.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is there any particular round shield emblem you would like to see?

 

[Cimbri]

Ancient Macedonian star, perhaps?

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

I should have clarified that these will be medieval only

Also i tried to make them the easy way, with a texture of the shield as a png, but it didnt work, so i am actually modelling the texture.

Now there are three around:

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

Very nice work.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you

These are mostly a parergon though (something of less importance, being created at the side) so i will probably wait untill i have some building resource, and upload it along with the shields

 

[Samez]

How about a (green) crescent for the shield?

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Kyriakos]

This is a victory point location (the Arch) :

 

[Vuldacon]

Kyriakos... I like the Shields and Victory Point Location. Nice additions

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you Vuldacon

I decided not to upload the shields: they are a bit on the simple side, and moreover not very similar in colours, or general feel to the rest of my better resources.

But in case anyone wanted them, i post here this png of all four so with a little copy/paste you can use them