#STARTERS ORDERS 6 HORSE SPRITE MODS MODS#

Colour coding for side is a general side 0 =warm / side1 = cool. Theres still remnants of it but just for interest.

better were red/orange, middle yellow, poorer blue/green but feedback suggested it confused their faction. With Barbarians there was a differentiation using shield colour. With Romans, usually the less experienced troops have paler shields, so I think its plain leather for Side0 and white for Side1. Obviously Hoplites, with their variety of patterns on bronze shields, don't follow this. When you have metal shields such as the Pikes and some cavalry, white is raw, bronze regular and iron is elite. For some reason you need your gloss values way down to get a decent highlight. Get either one wrong and at best it'll look silly. its a combination of diffuse colour, spec colour and gloss. Most people couldn't tell the difference between subtly different levels of shine at this scale so you need extremes. There isn't really a halfway point so units that are 'protected' ie.

I use a fairly strict, totally matt or high shine to emphasise the difference between armour and cloth, so armoured units should usually stand out. start up a battle of Germanic tribes and you'll see the superior units clearly have brighter and more decorated clothes. Elite troops or generally better troops have brighter, more saturated costumes, often with more detail, colour and decoration. The idea being that you can get a vague sense of where the strengths and weaknesses are in your line without examining every unit one by one. Likewise Raw troops on the whole will be lighter, paler and less decorated. can you imagine how much more painful it would be if you couldn't tell your lights from heavies at a glance? While I've had requests/orders to mix up the horse colours so they're more realistic. Heavy Cavalry have black horses and anything in between, shades of brown. This goes for light cavalry too who'll usually have pale horses. Lighter troops are usually pale in tone. Figure proportions are based on older minis that tended to be short and stocky rather than realistic or heroicly proportioned. Generally you should be able to paint it or stick a transfer on it. Colours are broken into base, highlight and shadow wash and a very simple top to bottom, light to dark shading. The overall look is based off fairly quick table top paint jobs. Don't anyone feel you have to follow them or will be verbally pummelled for ignoring them. (But be assured that these are provided by way of explanation only.

This has been scraped together from posts made during beta and is a bit messed up but it represents some of the conventions I try to stick to. We have to strike a balance between looking good and being usable.

#STARTERS ORDERS 6 HORSE SPRITE MODS MODS#

Since some of you guys and gals are starting to make cool looking unit mods I figured it might be beneficial to outline some of the conventions I try to follow.

Starters orders 6 horse sprite mods