MP Medieval Age of Blades - AoE II based multiplayer mod

[Austupaio]

I see you found the spiked mace, your militia is very militia-y! 

 

[Albertus Magnus]

Thanks!

Here's the first version of the Cavaliers armor (the rest of the equipment isn't meant to
fit to the cavalier!)

 

[Revan Shan]

Thanks!

Here's the first version of the Cavaliers armor (the rest of the equipment isn't meant to
fit to the cavalier!)

Great! The militia looks wonderful now too.

 

[Austupaio]

Really, the whole armour should be bulkier, but it's a nice start.

So do we absolutely have to be blue? I always played as Green or Grey. 

 

[Albertus Magnus]

Well... as far as I know some items like horses and helmets don't work with heraldy,
that's why I would need a hundered textures, when I do everything in every color...
And I would have to write a code, that changes the computer faction color, you choose
to a different one. I think I can do that, but I make small steps... so for now blue is good 

...and yeah I will make it bulkier

 

[Revan Shan]

Well... as far as I know some items like horses and helmets don't work with heraldy,

I think they can, ask you1 from the Warsword team if it's possible. I think he is doing it with the Bretonnian faction.

 

[Austupaio]

I think those are actually textured with the heraldry, rather than using a banner. Not positive on that.

Well, if you ever did work out a system, Albertus, I'd happily do the tedious chore of re-texturing every single object in the correct colours.

 

[Albertus Magnus]

Now he isn't as hungry anymore 

 

[Austupaio]

Looking better, considerably; although I'd suggest going even a bit further. The cavalier's armour appears to be quite heavy.

Maybe give the spaulders a boost, too.

Good luck when you get around to this fellow, just found this gif sitting my documents.

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[Revan Shan]

Looking better, considerably; although I'd suggest going even a bit further. The cavalier's armour appears to be quite heavy.

Maybe give the spaulders a boost, too.

Good luck when you get around to this fellow, just found this gif sitting my documents.

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The cataphract and the conqueror were my favourite units.
Note: I hope this mod can get the AoE 2 animations as well...

 

[Austupaio]

Eh, reproducing the animations would take a long time, not serve a real purpose.

As far as I'm aware, each unit only has one attack animation anyways, right?

 

[Albertus Magnus]

Looking better, considerably; although I'd suggest going even a bit further. The cavalier's armour appears to be quite heavy.

Maybe give the spaulders a boost, too.

Good luck when you get around to this fellow, just found this gif sitting my documents.

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The cataphract and the conqueror were my favourite units.
Note: I hope this mod can get the AoE 2 animations as well...

The Animations? Definitely not. I never made any rigging and I believe it's a lot of
work. And usually the AoE units are seen as a few pixels, so I believe the Warband animations
will do a good job as well.

...by the way... next to modding right now I'm doing some painting on my living room door.
It's not yet finished, but I like it a lot. (the size is about 1 meter x 1 meter)

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[Lumos]

By the way, I noted something about Byzantine culture. Just to tell you (of course you probably know) that the Saracen-style Byzantine buildings in AoE II are a mistake. Ensemble/Microsoft must have thought that Byzantines = Turks or something, because everyone knows that Byzantines are Greek, therefore they should not have Saracen/Turkish buildings.

In AoE II I really liked the Tarkans - fast, although a little expensive, but really powerful and with good HP. And I loved the Huskarls. Fast, cheap, in age IV you make them super fast, (almost) immune to archers, good attack when Elite and upgraded.

And I'll say this again: All four thumbs up for this mod.
P.S.: It seems that the other one is dead, so this will be it. But why only 7 factions? Or it's only for the first versions?

 

[Austupaio]

That's interesting, I assume it's stencilled?

 

[Albertus Magnus]

That's interesting, I assume it's stencilled?

Yeah I made a concept and then designed stencils for it, put the lines on the wall with a pencil
and now I'm only painting it with colors.

By the way, I noted something about Byzantine culture. Just to tell you (of course you probably know) that the Saracen-style Byzantine buildings in AoE II are a mistake. Ensemble/Microsoft must have thought that Byzantines = Turks or something, because everyone knows that Byzantines are Greek, therefore they should not have Saracen/Turkish buildings.

In AoE II I really liked the Tarkans - fast, although a little expensive, but really powerful and with good HP. And I loved the Huskarls. Fast, cheap, in age IV you make them super fast, (almost) immune to archers, good attack when Elite and upgraded.

And I'll say this again: All four thumbs up for this mod.
P.S.: It seems that the other one is dead, so this will be it. But why only 7 factions? Or it's only for the first versions?

Probaly (in the first versions) I won't have different buildings for cultures...
I'll explain:
The scenes in Mount and Blade are static, so putting a building into a scene is quite complicated.
So you need a seperate scene for every possible combination of buildings...
That's why I decided to make different scenes, for different sorts of buildings.
Still there are many scenes:

Towncenter-scenes:
(Towncenter, TC+1 House, TC+2 Houses, TC+3 Houses,...) right now I got 6 scenes

Fields-scenes:
(Empty scene, Mill, Mill+1 Field, Mill+2 Fields, Mill + 3 Fields,....) right now I got 9 scenes

Economy-scenes:
(Empty scene, Lumber Camp, Stone Camp, Gold Camp, LC+SC, LC+GC, SC+GC, LC+SC+GC) 8 scenes

Military-scenes:
(Empty scene, Barracks, B+Stable, B+Archery R., B+S+A) 5 scenes

Fortification scenes:
(empty, wall, castle, wall+castle, ...maybe more to come) right now 4 scenes

All in all right now those are 32 scenes Doing it for two cultures would mean I'd have to make 64 scenes.
The work might not be a problem, but the size of the mod would also increase...

 

[Al_Mansur]

This song of AoE II is great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIRwuZQFIrs

 

[Albertus Magnus]

I really like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAV3bY66aL4&feature=related

...but I guess using the original soundtrack would cause me some problems, right?

 

[Austupaio]

Uh, I think Microsoft has dropped the rights on those and even if they haven't, Microsoft games allows the use of their content for non-profit venues with accreditation.

You're fine.

 

[Revan Shan]

I really like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAV3bY66aL4&feature=related

...but I guess using the original soundtrack would cause me some problems, right?

Miscrosoft will never hear of you... so... no.

So that you know keep in mind that a lot of mods are using the original soundtrack of multiple games. Take 1257 for example, it uses music from Medieval 2 Total War and nothing happend to it. Well... somth happened: it became better.

 

[Austupaio]

Microsoft games allows the use of their content for non-profit venues with accreditation.

Which also means, now that I think about it, you could rip their art for the loading and titles screens if you wanted. I'd certainly not complain about the change.