unit artstyles

[Kreatur]

C2C has a big variety of cool units. but there is one thing that bothers me. most units especialy the newer ones always look the same regardless wich civilisation you play. sometimes the unit artstyles of civilisations look totaly wrong. why does my italian medieval units look like an ancient greek one ?

the question is where should we get all the required unit artstyles ? And is it wise to implement more, because more artstyles increase turn time right ?

we could use the various artstyles of the different hero units we already have and use them as artstyles for normal units of different civilisations as well.

i mean we have dozens of hero units with its own unique artstyles and every artstyle consumes memory regardless if the hero is actualy in play ore not.
in my opinion its a huge waste.

the advantage of reusing the hero artstyles would be more variety in the look of the different armys. the dissadvantage would be that heros are not unique in there appearance any more.

i have some examples wich hero arstyles could reused as normal unit artstyles of different civilizations.

here are some examples what i mean

alfonso - portuguese knight
arthur- holy roman knight
el cit - spanish heavy calvary
rommel- german light tank
patton- american light tank
theseus- greek swordman
trotzki - russian trensh infantry

and sorry for creating another thread, i havent found an existing one about this topic and the normal units threat is more about adjust units charakteristics than their look

 

[bill2505]

i agree.

 

[emidurand]

I agree with you. I've played to Realism Invictus that uses to change the graphic of each normal unit, depending on the civilization they belong to.

For example.

Roman medieval infantry is not a legionary with a medieval armor (roman rifleman, with the legionary helmet is not tollerable! ). It has the graphic of a Longobard axeman, regarding the historic period.

Another example:
USA rifleman is not just like other riflemen. It has the Union uniform. Great Britain has the red uniform with white helmet and so on. Each civilization has its own look. In all eras.

How we can import Realism Invictus graphic into C2c?

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

So which art style should you use? The fact that you chose Italy at the start does not mean that your nation is Italian in C2C. If it were possible I reckon you should be asked each time you build a culture if you want to switch your art style to that culture but I don't think this is possible.

This means that art styles that we can provide are limited to the grouping ones at the start only.

 

[Hydromancerx]

Well not all units have a "flavor" and not all civs have a unique "flavor" for their civ.

 

[strategyonly]

OK, i am getting intrigued here.

But i am really getting confused by this statement and below in the first post, sorry:

"we could use the various artstyles of the different hero units we already have and use them as artstyles for normal units of different civilizations as well."