Warhmmer 40,000 Unit Pack...

[Smoking mirror]

I love the Tau (my favorite faction from Warhammer 40000) I don't play much civ anymore (except for warhammer 2.0 ) so this is the first unit I've actually downloaded to use in a long time.

Is the Death green for a reason? Did you just not switch that to yellow then? I imagine it wouldn't make a difference in the game if that is the civ-color, just asking.

I forgot to change the death colour before I uploaded the zip. it doesn't have any effect on the unit in game, but I thought It'd be good if the default civ colour was the one people are most used to seeing the tau in.
Thanks for the feedback.

I'm thinking of making the crisis battlesuit next..

 

[daengle]

Sorry, but I don't get your tag line -

"Stop Dancing! Stalingrad has Fallen"

In the winter of 1942 Stalingrad didn't fall. It was the high water mark
of fascist expansion in Russia.
The successful defence of Staligrad was where that the momentum of the whole war turned. The Nazi's were stopped, and civilization saved.

 

[Smoking mirror]

Sorry, but I don't get your tag line -

"Stop Dancing! Stalingrad has Fallen"

In the winter of 1942 Stalingrad didn't fall. It was the high water mark
of fascist expansion in Russia.
The successful defence of Staligrad was where that the momentum of the whole war turned. The Nazi's were stopped, and civilization saved.

Read "stalingrad" by Anthony Bevor, the nazis had told all thier people that stalingrad was already taken, and the war was all but won. When the russians smashed army group south and encircled the 6th army hitler (and the rest of the nazi comand) had to swallow thier words, and tell the people that they had lost the war.

 

[aaglo]

That Tau is quite colourful - the whole armor is civ-coloured. A bit strange, but unique. Also, where are the civilopedia pics?

BTW, I'm amazed, that no-one has yet mentioned the misspelling in the thread title (its Warhammer... )

 

[hIdDeN_eViL]

not a fan of warhammer
but these units are quite good. i'm sure i can adapt some of them somehow.

 

[Smoking mirror]

That Tau is quite colourful - the whole armor is civ-coloured. A bit strange, but unique. Also, where are the civilopedia pics?

BTW, I'm amazed, that no-one has yet mentioned the misspelling in the thread title (its Warhammer... )

Didn't notice the spelling mistake.
You may notice that the preview images at the begining of the thread are 128X128 pixels in size, I'll make all the Civlopedia pics out of them later once I've finished the unit animations (quite a few to go yet). Unles anyone else feels the urge...

warhammer 40K soldiers are all very colourfull, Making his armour civ coloured allows more than one Tau faction to be in the same game. Admitedly it does reduce the number of colours available to the unit, and reduces overall quality a little, but I like civ colours.

 

[Smoking mirror]

Tau hammerhead tank uploaded, preview in second post.

 

[Kinboat]

Cool Is the Blue area in the animated preview the civ color?

 

[aaglo]

No, the red areas of the animated preview are civ-coloured. They look very good in the finished animation (and I'm not the greatest fan of large civ-coloured areas).

BTW Smoking Mirror:
The hammerhead animations seem to be a bit grainy - especially the yellow turrets in the top-part. Do you know what could cause the 'graininess' (is it possible to increase the anti-aliasign - or does that make things too fuzzy)?

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

BTW Smoking Mirror:
The hammerhead animations seem to be a bit grainy - especially the yellow turrets in the top-part. Do you know what could cause the 'graininess' (is it possible to increase the anti-aliasign - or does that make things too fuzzy)?

Graininess is probably caused by the method which Smoking Mirror used to convert the storyboards from true color to 256 color. If you use "nearest color" you won't get the graininess, but sometimes the colors can run together a bit. If you use dithering, the colors won't run together, but the image turns out grainy, so I never use dithering for any of my units, and only use it for leaderheads.

Anyways, I think I'll be using that blue imperial guy for the Returner UU for the Returners in my FF mod. He's close enough to the descriprion Sword of Geddon gave, and I could just say that the laser rifle he's using is one of Edgar's inventions

 

[Smoking mirror]

The grainyness is caused by a combination of no antialiasing (I don't like the effect it has on glow effects) and overly complex textures. I could probably sort it out by using smaller, les complex textures and avoiding the glow effects. I may try that for future designs.

I do use some smoothing effects on the finished storyboards to try to avoid this, but it doesn't always work out.

 

[Smoking mirror]

Just posted the flicks for the Daemon.

 

[Bluemofia]

If only the WH40,000 mod is finished...

 

[odintheking]

Finally, I've been waiting for that daemon forever! Thanks!

 

[Goldflash]

If only the WH40,000 mod is finished...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You want the mod finished? MAKE ME THINGS.

 

[Bluemofia]

Sorry, but I don't know how. I gave the Tau Fire warrior an INI file to make it work though...

 

[Camber]

I hate to be a pill, but is SM still working on the pedia icons, sounds and .ini files for these?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Unknown....

 

[Goldflash]

He said he wasn't going to do it.

 

[Camber]

Is someone on the WH40K mod team doing it?