WW1 Units

Yanshee · Post by **Yanshee** » November 30th, 2006, 5:15 pm

JW wrote:Wow...that really does seem to be quite effective at animating. Each frame looks exactly like it should in its given position. Very nice.

Where is the Frenchman pulling his gun from though?

Yeah, once the unit's completely drawn, animating it is a piece of cake...
The french guy is wearing his gun on his back, I know it's not really easy to see, I will try to fix that, as I agree Rhuvaen about improving the shading... And I'll add a little flame when firing, at the moment I was just testing these two guys ingame, to see how they look like, and I see them firing arrows at each other...

For the bayonets, you're right about it, but they were put on the gun only before charges mostly, so I'll use them for the melee animation, which I still have to do...
And yes, I plan to add early MG, artillery and aviation, you can check that thread for more info, but it's the beginning, I guess lots of things will evolve with time and experience... http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14046

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » November 30th, 2006, 5:21 pm

JW wrote:Wow...that really does seem to be quite effective at animating. Each frame looks exactly like it should in its given position. Very nice.

Where is the Frenchman pulling his gun from though?

From his underwear, JW... That's how they won !

traverser · Post by **traverser** » December 1st, 2006, 12:31 am

Maybe you could have kids playing that it is WW1. POW!! sounds on shots, etc. Maybe if you want move animations you could have a hand pick the unit up and move it to somewhere.

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » December 1st, 2006, 6:24 am

La_vie_en_Wose wrote:
JW wrote:Wow...that really does seem to be quite effective at animating. Each frame looks exactly like it should in its given position. Very nice.

Where is the Frenchman pulling his gun from though?
From his underwear, JW... That's how they won !

Actually, you can see the rifle on his back, attached with the "cord" (Don't know what the real word is)

Yanshee · Post by **Yanshee** » December 1st, 2006, 10:09 am

traverser wrote:Maybe you could have kids playing that it is WW1. POW!! sounds on shots, etc. Maybe if you want move animations you could have a hand pick the unit up and move it to somewhere.

Sounds like a good idea, but I hardly see how to make those hands, and the little animations I did were just test actually, I'll first create all the units graphics before beginning animating them I think, so the factions gets playable faster...

I also joined a bigger picture of the french infantryman, so you can see better his rifle on his back

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » December 1st, 2006, 10:58 am

Wow.. that is actually suprisingly easy to make, I thought it would be harder. I mean, that's the stuff I make. Shows how good some things look scaled down. I just want to see how these vehicles are done.

Also, Yanshee, alot of factions have only base images at first, so by you doing that, your doing a pretty normal thing.

Good Work anyway.

Yanshee · Post by **Yanshee** » December 1st, 2006, 12:31 pm

I made 2 more units: the French Capitaine, and the French Crapouillot (trench mortar), tell me what you think of it...

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » December 1st, 2006, 2:31 pm

I think the mortar should be a bit larger, especially higher. Good work in any case.

rojoha · Post by **rojoha** » December 1st, 2006, 8:58 pm

hope this guys dont comes to game.

its good enough with The Dwarvish gun guys maybe if they look like draves it would be nice to put in Dwarves team
like the cannon but a dwafe behind instead of human

Krispos · Post by **Krispos** » December 2nd, 2006, 2:13 am

Nice vectors.

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » December 2nd, 2006, 4:13 am

Nice, what program do you use.

Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » December 2nd, 2006, 4:49 am

Yanshee wrote: Well, I have to admit one thing, these are not pixelart units, they're done in Inkscape, in vector.

Oreb · Post by **Oreb** » December 2nd, 2006, 4:53 am

Oops.

Yanshee · Post by **Yanshee** » December 2nd, 2006, 11:26 am

I reworked a bit the crapouillot, I scaled the mortar a bit up, and reworked slightly the perspective, so it looks less flat, ...

I also did a first version of the breguet, an early war french airplane, I think I'll have to rework a bit the perspective on the tail, it looks a little strange to me, tell me what you think about these...

Post by **Zhukov** » December 2nd, 2006, 12:43 pm

I know what's wrong with the tail of the plane. Not quite sure how to describe it, but I'll try to put it in words.

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Actually f*** words. Instead, here's a quick image hack to point you in the right direction. Hope it helps.
(Note that this isn't intended to be final. I reccomend you redo it yourself.)

Good luck with the era and all that. It looks interesting.