Thanks everyone for your kind words!
murphy9926 said:
Will there be certain banners just for the player to choose from or will they all be available. Id like to see that the player has a unique flag that only they fly.
Other then most peasant and mercenary units i don't see why followers of a lord shouldn't carry his colors. Would make battles between lords much more realistic as the colors clash.
This is not a mod, this will be just a graphic fix. You can use any of the flags, and lord whose flag you are stolen will get "default" flag (red checkers in vanilla, red-blue checkers with silver sunburst in my version). There aren't any lord who got "default" flag at start.
Obviously, if you want to left all lords with their flags, you just should choose "default" one yourself. And obviously, you can use any banner from any source, overwriting red checkers one or my sunburst one to have unique customized banner.
+1 modding skill for an Epic Win.
Great job.
Of course, if anyone wants to change this approach to something more elegant - that is fine. My flags are free to use/modify for every modder, of course in exchange for due credit.
The one thing that plagues me at the moment is the fact about some... distortion in textures' files. We have 1024x1024 textures, 3 banners vertically and 7 banners horizontally. 1024/7=146,(285714) and 1024/3=341,(3). I am using 140x340 because this is pretty close. But as everyone who checked banners' texture files know, they are somewhat crooked and different, not all of them even got similar size and borders in between aren't always sharp enough. I understand that somewhere it is said for every lord which banner, which parts of banners texture file he should use - like "from point with coordinates x.y to point with coordinates x1.y1" or something.
If anybody knows which file should be fixed to make all lords using straight 140x340 without any borders - please, tell me about that.
Another thing I've noticed while checking out all lords and their banners: the ones used by claimants are also used by five Rhodok lords. That's the reason why none of claimants (except Kastor of Veluca) got their faction's tincture in their banners. I tried to make them fitting both for claimants and for some unknown Rhodok lords, but I think I failed in case of Dustum Khan
Well, no matter.
As you can see, my banners looks pretty bright and clear, I know that not everyone loves this, but I had three reasons in mind while doing them without dirt, with bright colours.
1 - These are the flags for royalty. Let everyone else be covered in mud, Kings should differ.
2 - Theoretically it is much more easy to "stain" an image than to clear the stains, and thus any person interested in making my banners more dirty and grim is welcome to do this.
3 - While I do have several years of professional Photoshop experience (ex-graphical designer, ex-chief of design department, all that ****), I don't have an idea "how to do awesome stains" right away in my head. Of course, if I will spend some time thinking about this, I'll find some algorithm, but not really interested in doing this anyway, because of reasons #1 and #2.
matt b said:
actually, there are 4, but I had to look at the item_kinds1.txt to figure that out. You've got the heraldic mail with surcoat and with tabard, and apparently there are 2 heraldic mail with tunics, which both appear in game as simply "heraldic mail". I can see why you could only think there are 2, the tabard and both of the tunics look extremely similar to each other.
Ah, well this fact doesn't changes anything
I think even peasants could have at least coloured ribbon on their arm. If you will check top left screenshot of guy in Harlaus' colours, you can see that heraldic mail already covers this - part of heraldry wraps around the arm.
Well, even if we count peasants out, it doesn't changes the fact that more advanced faction troops simply must show some respect and loyalty to their lord in displaying his colours.
Lokai said:
Those banners are fantastic looking, im also rather unimpressed by the vanilla banners. I will definitely download this once you get it done =)
Actually you can use them right now, at least kings could get some love in form of fancy dyed cloth hanging around
Oh well, time to draw some Swadian flags anyway
See you later!
