Mount and Blade Mod - A great breakdown on environment work (it's in polish though)

JasonLavoie

So pedro (Bitmap) just sent me this link, and it has some great break downs / examples of this mod this team is working on for Mount and Blade. It is in polish, but I think you get the idea, some of the more technical stuff I think is dealing with maybe how they work their shaders or something... be kinda cool to get this translated.

Either way, this is a must see I think... Some great work, and some cool examples on modularity, getting the most out of your texture space etc.

http://max3d.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=59525

Vrav

Sweet thread! I remember seeing this guy working on these buildings over a year ago at the taleworlds forum... I love how people are modding the game to be less quaint. Since the game was in development for five years, and started off with efficiency in mind (?), the graphics have grown really dated.

I haven't seen anyone make a really good character art mod - at one point I was determined to take that upon myself, but didn't get very far - should get back on that!

I like the stylized aspect of the structures in that guy's mod. I hadn't seen the modularity in effect like that before. There are a couple other mods that add realtime bloom/hdr crap, basically enbseries; it's fun.

[Deleted User]

Translation would be awesome, really good work

ZacD

nice roofs, makes me want to make some low poly buildings

lefix

i was slightly confused at first, polished buildings in polish
nice thread tho, did point out quite a few interesting ideas that i would probably never have thought of. thank you

Jeremy Lindstrom

yeah I'd kill a small baby to get that in english.

JasonLavoie

Anyone know any of the devs, maybe we can con them with love to get the translated?

Axios

Now, I don't know Polish, but I'm learning it from this thread.



So Deski means planks,... and Tynk means plaster, so that means Deski + Tynk means, wait for it... planks and plaster. Good, one picture down, eighty to go.

PixelMasher

wow thats awesome man, cool breakdowns and some fantastic art! cheers mate.

rasmus

Once more, IN ENGLISH.

Ben Apuna

Nice link! thanks Jason.

Eric Chadwick

Does anyone know Russian? This OCR software might do the trick, to convert the text in the images from Polish to English.
http://www.cuneiform.ru/eng/

Well at least the images themselves are pretty easy to understand.

Sandro

Wow, no idea what's written there but picked up tons of great tips by just looking at images... I need to save them in somewhere...

Rick Stirling

It's great - but do you really need it to be translated? Surely the images do a good enough job on their own to convey the concepts?

adam

I facepalmed @ you Rick Supporting literature is always better!

Anyway, FANTASTIC find. I'd love to read what they have to say.

Ged

cool stuff, really nice quality, in fact it makes me want to play this mount and blade game...is the game cool?

JasonLavoie

A good friend of mine worked on it (He did a lot of the voice acting etc.) and has been praising it (same with the community as well) I have not yet had a chance to play it, but I heard it is very fun, and the combat is what makes it shine apparently.

I think there is a demo on steam floating around, I may have to give it a try as well.

Autocon

Possibly one of the best tutorials out there. Especially on modularity. Shame it is in Polish but most of the concepts are depicted so well you dont need to read it.

Hope it can be written up in english

frubes

got one of the guys at work to take a look. It pretty much just says what is displayed in the pictures.

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmax3d.pl%2Fforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D59525&sl=pl&tl=en&history_state0=

The google translation is fairly accurate but obviously it cant grab whats in the pictures.

My colleague said the stuff in the diagrams at the bottom was talking about time saving workflows and how they managed to really hone their flows to get the same result in half the time. The only other bit was about how they used the assetts modularly but thats kind of evident from the images.

Neat to see though.

SimonT

Yeah it's not english but i think the pictures say emough. The most interesting point was the roof-thingie for me! Really nice that he obersved the standpoint of the player and the angle the player will see the roofs.

Emperors Teeth

Epic-ly brilliant. I can glean enough without reading the language to see how great that work is.

Ghostscape

These are awesome. The thatched roofs thing was especially interesting.

MoP

very cool stuff, that guy has done a lot of work!

dejawolf

JasonLavoie wrote: »

A good friend of mine worked on it (He did a lot of the voice acting etc.) and has been praising it (same with the community as well) I have not yet had a chance to play it, but I heard it is very fun, and the combat is what makes it shine apparently.

I think there is a demo on steam floating around, I may have to give it a try as well.

pick it up. i've played it for years, and been modding it on and off as well.
some guy even made a battlestar galactica space combat mod for it..

[Deleted User]

It certainly is a great game.

cw

if you really wanted a translation I could ask the chap nicely, he works here. pm me if its serious and I can find out.