Skinned Majesty Models.

I'm going to be updating this thread every so often- days, weeks, months- with newly skinned Majesty models for my mod, that should be bundled up and placed in the gallery after receiving any critique you might care to make. I might even listen. ;)

(Skinning is actually done in Bryce 4 via wavefront .obj export, but rendering options have been configured to give a decent match for eventual in-game appearance. I think.)

For now, here's the Level 1 Palace. You may have seen it before, but the walls have proper battlements and there are other sundry small improvements.



Here's the Warriors' Guild. Different angle from the original game sprite, but otherwise quite similar.



And the house model. I'm on a roll.



Blacksmith, level 1. Apologies for the appalling transparency dithering.



Marketplace, level 1. May need a little more work here and there, but roughly in order.



Warrior model. Your basic, bread and butter meat shie- *cough* stalwart defender of the realm.



Taaax Collector...



City Guard.



All constructive comments would be appreciated. Yours,
Alfryd

you are kidding me. how much time did you put into this!!?!

it looks over the top of blizzards standards, thats for sure.

no cnc from me. imo, its perfect.

-flames

EDIT: unlucky for you, i cant give anymore rep for today. +5 for u tommorow.

Since flames took the optimistic approah, i won't.


That will change in war 3. I wish to see a repost of war3 rendered skins in this case. I do 3ds max, and the skins are godly. War 3 reduces, thats all.
Still, i like it.

I would like a flag. Thats about all. Oh,, and a palace is a leasieurely place. THats a fortification you have there. The palace at versailles had NO BATTLEMENTS ATOP WALLS. It has gardens and stautues. ANyays, jsut picking at the bones sicne nothing else is wrong.....

dam straight!

thats some impresive work.. though Horus is right... thats more of a... battlement/viliage/war base/????

I look forward to trying to find something wrong with anything else!

-Garith

Not to worry. Subsequent tiers appear more luxurious and 'palacial.' I'll try to get a shot in-game some time in the near future.

It looks really good. No CnC here.


What was the original like, btw?

Ah Majesty, the only strategy game where your units have minds of their own. They would only do what you want them to IF you provide a reward. That was its downfall for me. I prefer absolute control.

Power freak.

lol, but really. thats great work.. keep it up..

hey! alfryd, for your madgesty mod, you made an interface right? can you send me the human template (all bound into 1 long file) please? i dunno how 2 get it myself. Cheers,

-garith

If you have a basic image editing program, there should be a number of utilities for .blp extraction on this site. I think they have Mac utilities for this too, but if not, take a look at www.macstorm.org.

I've attached a pic of the original sprite. There ae substantial differences, but you're right- there is a flag!

It's true that Majesty takes complete unit control away from you. On the other hand, this eliminates early rushes, harassing, using units as meat shields, and various other tactics I detest with the very fibre of my being. What I find irritating isn't so much that my heroes need rewards to do my will (which necessitates a healthy economy,) but that I have to entice them en masse, instead of as individuals, and there are only a few things I can ask them to do. I can put a bounty on the head of a troll for 200, but I can't get my stealthiest rogue to tail the enemy paladin for 100 gold a day. There are plenty of ways Majesty could incorporate both more Sim and RTS elements and be the better game for it, but that's a discussion for elsewhere.

Just added the Warriors' Guild. *Might* have the House model up tomorrow... possibly.

I'm in luck. House model up'n skinned.

*jelouse*

nuf said.

wow! Erwt jelous? now you know those sins are REALLY good!!!!!!!!

-Garith

LV1 Blacksmith model up.

House model, under construction in-game (courtesy of Jigrael:)

Image quality is somewhat lower, IMHO, but decently close to the Bryce rendition. I'll try to get shots of the others in-game in the near future.

EDIT: New shot of stand animation is up above. it looked well enough that I was happy to replace the Bryce version. :)