Warhammer fantasy units/graphics preview/development thread

[Mistfit]

it looks like they are doing the "YMCA"

 

[aaglo]

Maybe you could make a paradrop animation for the ghost?

Of course - I'd be fool not to do it (propably you mean "the ghost rising from the ground" - type animation )

 

[Yoda Power]

I was thinking ghost from ground too, but that's sooo last month. How about it comming blowin' with/from the air?

 

[sourboy]

Are you still working on that Pegasus Knight? That unit was awesome.

 

[Gomurr]

The unit looks pretty cool, Aaglo. I definately like the whole 'ghostly soldier' thing better than staying true to Warhammer's Etheral Hosts models. My only concern is how the transparency will look when in game - one might not be able to make out the unit at all if too much is transparent. But aside from that minor concern, I think it's good. It might look better with a long sword, but that's just personal preference, so ignore me if you like the axe.

One idea for it's paradrop animation, and I don't know if it's possible, would be to have is materialize out of thin air. I don't know anything about animating, but if you could have it start it's paradrop animation wholly transparent and gradually become more and more visible, I think that might be a cool way to do it. I dunno, just tossing out ideas.

 

[Drift]

Are you still working on that Pegasus Knight? That unit was awesome.

Pegasus Knight is Kinboat's project, not aaglo's.

That being said, I'd like to see the Pegasus Knight finished as well.

 

[aaglo]

@sourboy:
yeah, that pegasus rider is kinboat's project, not mine.

@gomurr:
I'm pretty confident that the transparent unit will look just great. And that "appearing from thin air" is very simple to do - And I think it would look just good

 

[sourboy]

Ah sorry, you pump out so many Fantasy units so fast that I often forget that others make them too.

Either way, you two are far & away the best unit creators. I look forward to all your creations.

 

[aaglo]

Hmmm... here's something I sick. A Nurgle plague demon (barf). The head is not final (it's only stretched and squashed bonegiant's head), so I'll modify that a bit more. The blue pores are - indeed - going to be civ-coloured

What do you think of this? I admit that it's a bit cartoony, but hey - blobs are cartoony - always

 

[Drift]

It looks... sick.

Seriously, great stuff.

 

[Gomurr]

yes, definately very disgusting. Well made. I have no suggestions

Though I do feel compelled to mention that demons like this Unclean One and other great demons are, as I understand it, pretty rare. As such, I think the more common demons - Bloodletters of Khorne, Daemonettes of Slaanesh, the Plaguebearers of Nurgle and the Horrors of Tzeentch - would be more needed in the game. I know you're just fulfilling a request, so this comment is more aimed towards the future-demon requesters.

But yeah, the demon looks nauseatingly good.

 

[aaglo]

There is already that "lesser daemon" -unit in wh2, which looks a lot like a horror of Tzeentch (does that word tzeentch come from change?). And there are already an abundance of chaos units - aren't there?

 

[Steel General]

BLECH!!!

Seriously disgusting, reminds me of oozing pus filled sores.

Nice job again aaglo

 

[Gomurr]

Originally posted by aaglo
There is already that "lesser daemon" -unit in wh2, which looks a lot like a horror of Tzeentch (does that word tzeentch come from change?). And there are already an abundance of chaos units - aren't there?

I don't know of any Chaos unit that looks like a Horror. There's something that could be a Chaos Spawn, it that's what you mean. And there's the Balrog unit that looks like a Bloodthirster or whatever Khorne's great demon is. But for lesser demons, the only one I'm aware of is the Blood Hound and the Chaos Spawn. The lesser demons of individual chaos gods are absent.

However, I don't mean this as a request for chaos demons. Personally, I don't like Chaos much, and don't particularly care whether they have a solid roster of demons or not. I just thought it slightly silly of people to go requesting great demons like the Unclean One when the common demons are still absent.

 

[aaglo]

I don't know of any Chaos unit that looks like a Horror. There's something that could be a Chaos Spawn, it that's what you mean. And there's the Balrog unit that looks like a Bloodthirster or whatever Khorne's great demon is. But for lesser demons, the only one I'm aware of is the Blood Hound and the Chaos Spawn. The lesser demons of individual chaos gods are absent.

I was talking about this guy (called deathclaw)

 

[Yoda Power]

Wow it's nice, and ehh.. special. Got a picture of the model?

 

[Gomurr]

@aaglo
Yeah, that was the unit I assumed you were thinking of. But considering how horrors look, I think it looks about as similar to a Daemonette as a Horror.

Demons of chaos are presently poorly represented - though personally I could care less if they stay that way. Dwarves and Elves and Skaven and Ogres are, by far, more important in my opinion.

 

[aaglo]

Hey, here's an ingame pic of the ghost I'm working on. Now, actually it presented some strange palette difficulties, but - this is the best I can do (since the shadow-lines aren't actually shadows - they are just different shades of gray it seems... or am I just blind?)

 

[Drift]

Well, it doesn't look bad, but I know for a fact that see through units can be made. However, your knowledge of unit palettes is probably greater than mine so I could imagine that you've already tried it the way I would do it.

I actually like the way it looks. A lot.

 

[aaglo]

Well, now I'm sure that it is a transparent unit (using only the palettes on the two bottom rows), but it also uses one non-shadow palette (white). It looked worse without that white opaque colour. sorry about doubting the see-througness of this unit - of course I should know better