Unit Request: Macedonian Phalanx

[Colonel Tigh]

Whoops, sorry Misunderstood you lol.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

UPDATE:

I decided to update the unit with a smaller shield and different shield design. There's also a second "attack" animation (possibly the "defend" animation that was talked about on these forums a few months back), where he goes down on one knee and keeps his sarissa firmly on the ground. It's the last animation in the sequence below - coming after the "walk" animation for Steph's SSS.

It's mostly rendered now, and I honestly don't have time to redo it again . However, the good news is that I'm going to try to concentrate on getting a few new basic Greek units out by early-mid May (though I'm not taking requests ).

 

[Colonel Tigh]

Looks brilliant!

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Looks brilliant!

Thanks! I just noticed a glitch on the southwards facing anims, where the shield and the tunic intersect. I'll sort that out!
EDIT: glitch removed - it was only in one frame, so not too difficult to sort out .

 

[Keroro]

Lovely, it looks very much like the image that I had in my mind for this unit. I love it. The crouching animation should be useful too - it might be useful as a fortify anim.

It's mostly rendered now, and I honestly don't have time to redo it again . However, the good news is that I'm going to try to concentrate on getting a few new basic Greek units out by early-mid May (though I'm not taking requests ).

Not taking requests??!?!! I look forward to whatever you come up with though.

One question that I forgot to ask so far - what is the civ colour on the unit?

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

One question that I forgot to ask so far - what is the civ colour on the unit?

Blue is the civ colour; the actual Macedonian civilization will be a light purple; therefore this guy should be about as authentic a Macedonian as you can get with the paperdoll male!

Just a thought - what about using the crouching animation as a "fidget?"

 

[Keroro]

Blue is the civ colour; the actual Macedonian civilization will be a light purple; therefore this guy should be about as authentic a Macedonian as you can get with the paperdoll male!

Just a thought - what about using the crouching animation as a "fidget?"

I thought that it must be the blue. The Macedonians are purple in my scenario too by the way. On the fidget - I guess that it is possible, but I'll do some tests when I get my grubby little hands on it. There are going to be quite a few of these chaps in my scenario, so I'm a little worried about them all crouching down in time with each other. Still, I'll definitely find a use for it.

 

[Partizanac]

Just a thought, maybe he should take his helmet off and scratches him self on the head, as a fidget?

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

It's a nice thought Partizanac. I don't tend to do fidgets when I do units. When I put the unit together, I'll put the crouching as "defend" - whilst it won't really be seen that often in-game, at least it separates it out for those who have a different use for it .

 

[NavyDawg]

I've had a crack at this:

There is, however a problem . The sarissa is so big, this is the only direction it fits properly in!!

As I see it, I have three basic options:
1. Resize the unit - but to fit the sarissa into the all frames in every direction would mean that the guy would have to be about a third of the size. Clearly I can then organise for the frames to be done at three time the size to make the guy the same size as other units, but I feel that the sarissa would be too big.
2. Resize the sarissa - the most obvious answer. However, it would have to be a third of the size to fit it in and that would look poor in some directions. I could do a time-exhausting different size for each direction to make it look okay.
3. Re-do the unit with the normal Kinboat spear, but still have two hands holding it.

Any thoughts?

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. You could use a larger frame. Here is a template for a 240x240 frame in Poser:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=191725

It should have the same angle and scales as the 100x100 template. Maybe this will help in the future. Great unit BTW. I can't wait for this mod...

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Thanks, NavyDawg !! That will be useful to me in the future .

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Theres also Utahjazz's horse setup availible in his prop thread I believe. Its great if you want to make some horse units.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

MUnit possibly?

@ R8XFT: Also, this current and coming week are going to be insane. Psych test, sociology test, and we are upgrading a server to a webserver in one of our Net Admin class. So I will more than likely not be able to get the currently collected images to you. I will work on them some during the week and more during the weekend, but things are going to be pretty hectic.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

No worries, Tank_Guy#3, I sure know what a busy RL schedule looks like . Incidently, I don't do munits myself (I don't actually like them), but once released, those people that do are welcome to use the graphics to make this a munit if they wish .

 

[Keroro]

Speaking of release dates, is this unit only going to be available as part of Anno Domini, or will it be released in advance? And if you want any 'feedback in advance' on any other Greek/Macedonian units then I will be happy to bore you with trivial details as and when necessary.

 

[Colonel Tigh]

I second Keroro...

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Speaking of release dates, is this unit only going to be available as part of Anno Domini, or will it be released in advance? And if you want any 'feedback in advance' on any other Greek/Macedonian units then I will be happy to bore you with trivial details as and when necessary.

Okay...don't bore me ; though I've released this unit early for you . The thread is here.