SP Antiquity Roma Invicta Beta 3 (Updated March 5th)

[RR_Raptor65]

The time has come!
The Roma Invicta Beta 3 is here!

Mirror


Dolabra
Fulham Gladius
Hasta
Lorica Segmentata
Mainz Gladius
Pilum
Pompeii Gladius
Pugio
Spatha I
Spatha II
Spatha III
Gastraphetes
Scutum
Lorica Segmentata
Lorica Hamata
Centurion Hamata
Praetorian  Segmentata

Beta 1 Screenshots:
Screen 1
Screen 2
Screen 3
Screen 4
Screen 5

Planned features:

Colleseum Arena with Gladiators
New world map
New Factions/Troops


Heres some other features I'd LIKE to implement but lack the experience to make happen:

Naval Battles
Last Days style war system
Civil Wars (You can attack your own faction and attempt a takeover, and random AI faction civil wars)
Tribal system (Can Ally with other tribes, or attack them)

 

[ShangTang]

Everything looks good except the pugio's blade looks a bit too wide for a dagger of its size.

 

[Lhorkan]

Well I suppose I won't have to do anything anymore then.

 

[Henderson]

Well, Lhorkan, not exactly, we need two wrecked Bireme

 

[Lhorkan]

Well, Lhorkan, not exactly, we need two wrecked Bireme

Yeah I'll get started on those.

 

[Henderson]

thanks

 

[Lhorkan]

Is this a good one?

 

[omegamann]

Great work Raptor,
this will go a long way to the kind of repository I had hoped for.
I dont see a problem with the pugios blade:
http://www.ancientedge.com/product_40_detailed.html
I hope you will also do the different evolutions of roman scuta and also model the roman cavalerie shields.
I am also glad that you will do a basic tunica, and dont forget the footwear

 

[RR_Raptor65]

The Pugio is just fine, I took the picture at an angle to show the smoothing groups on the blade better.
It looks like this one:
http://www.romanauxilia.com/Exploratio/munich/daggers1/Imgp6475aa.jpg
Only... newer...

I figured if anyone wants to be a 'Civilian' or a Velites, ect, they might want the plain tunic (Which will come in off-white and red). The Lorica will come in just off-white though.

 

[omegamann]

OK since you are on this stuff already...
(though I guess Lorkahn and Henderson will also be hard at work creating Roman items)

Will you also do the wolfshead cap that velites used as a helmet?
And similarly what about the animal skin helmets and capes of the signifiers? (Lion, Bear and Wolf)
And also whom do I have to bribe with what to get accurate models of gladiatorial equipment for the game?
I think it would be great to use a concept like the arena fights in Zendar with acurate roman galdiatorial classes.

 

[RR_Raptor65]

Updates:
Clipeus
Coolus C
Centurion Imperial Gallic H
Imperial Gallic H
Italic G
Scutum

I can do the Wolf's Head cap, but I don't see any point in adding Signifers or the Signum itself, be slower than a polehammer and do about as much damage as a boar spear...

As for Gladiator armour, unless someone beats me to it or I'm unable to add these weapons/armour to the game, I guess I can do a Gladiator line, but I doubt the net used by the Retiarii would possible unfortunatly. Would be bloody hilarious to net someone and stick him with that Trident though...

 

[Henderson]

HOLY CRAP! DUDE!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mitsuhide]

Wow... that is amazing work! I can't wait to see some of those in the game!

Mitsuhide

 

[omegamann]

some images of gladiator types:
Note all galdiators except scissor and cruppelarius would not wear upper body armor or tunica though:
http://www.gladiator.at/index2en.html
http://www.ludus.org.uk/

Ill try to get my photos from the roman festival in xanten and also some scans from my osprey books online this weekend.

 

[Kniggit]

ooooooohhhh. I like the variety of the helms, very historic looking, i wouldnt mind kickin some ass with that crested gallech heheh. These are going to be textured right??? Cant wait to see em finished.....

Ian

 

[n00854180t]

Nice models, but you're going to have to bring the polygons down a lot. 1000 polygons for a weapon is pretty high.

 

[RR_Raptor65]

Glad you guys like em all. Thats all for now though unless anyone has any suggestions, the Lorica Hamata and Squamata and a Balteus will wait till Armagan releases the tools since they need to fit close to a body, and in the end I can probably just edit a Hauberk to remove the sleeves/change the lengths and retexture it with no problem. On to textureing, but before that I'm going to optimize the Mainz and the Spatha I and II, I suspect the poly crunch is coming from the bone grip, but I may have forgotten to delete some cylinder caps

Now I gotta warn ya, I'm no great texture artist, and alot of these will end up being photoskins (Nice ones though, I got a 5.0 megapixel digicam!) so if ya don't like what ya see, offer to reskin it to comething better.

 

[RR_Raptor65]

Weapons are all skinned:
Dolabra
Fulham Gladius
Hasta
Mainz Gladius
Pilum
Pompeii Gladius
Pugio
Spatha I
Spatha II
Spatha III

 

[Nairagorn]

Ooohhhh baby those look goooood

 

[Sina]

http://photobucket.com/albums/y269/odedfehr/?action=view&current=bitticopy.jpg

Here are the shields I made. The last one looks strange because I had to fix the image with photoshop ( it was the only photo of that type of shield and it was from a side perspective )

Each shield has about 90 faces / 120 vertices ( or in other words 22 kb)