Posts from NHF – new heroes for Heroes V 3.1. Auto-translated

Good evening. Absolutely! Repainting repainted things. Since February!? But the latest models were created in a day or two...:confused:

SRD, you messed up with the bow yourself; look at how the bow file is made by others. You need to carefully cut out the same piece! And regarding the model... Why did you delete it? There's nothing лишнее here. Everything is as it was in the original. You shouldn't have touched the bottom of the dress! You can only delete some of the overlays on the dress from the top. I don't know about the flickering; it's all 1:1, so it shouldn't be happening.

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Leave this inventory alone. We've already bothered the artists enough. We've been working on this since February. Just bring the overall color of the entire model closer to what's in the picture, and everything will be fine! Yes, leave the boots! I really like them. And the tattoo too.
But we won't be able to make all the heroes look exactly like they do in the pictures anyway... We don't even have that as a goal. Getting as close as possible to the picture is enough.

Regarding the bow – if you rub that part of the bow, will the bow remain intact? – when I erased that piece on Faidan's bow, it became somehow incomplete.

There will be some minor blurring. Take a look yourself. There are no other options...

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Simply changing the color is not an option - the texture needs to be redrawn.
Explain it to me like I'm an idiot. Why change it? You won't be able to make a perfect copy anyway, and you might introduce more errors. After all, the model already has the necessary protrusions for its texture.

Maybe it would be simpler to do it like this?! Add a bow with an effect... a combined effect!

The drawing doesn't fit - there's too much extra stuff, I'll finish it tomorrow and post what I get, I don't need the original textures - I'm not repainting, I'm redrawing, so I just need to know what and where it is located (coordinates), and this is visible in the green texture.

Is it really worth it? Just because of a small hole in the bow.

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Well, look...)))

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Question for Psathe about the bow. If we apply an effect to it, we naturally need an animated version that repeats all the movements of the old one, right?
Then there are two ways: the first is to re-insert it into the hands of all heroes, roughly speaking, attaching it to one of the bones of the hand. Or we can attach it to the bow, but I think we'll have to create several effects for different animations, like with arrows. (I'm not entirely sure). But either way, it's a long and tedious process. The second option is to overlay a complete model, erase everything, and leave only the bow. But in this case, we'll add another N number of polygons, which will further load our game....(((( What other options are there?
Are we really creating problems for ourselves? Or am I missing something? Erased heroes, their textures are not visible, but the polygons are still there, right?

And another question. Sometimes it's possible to disable a mesh in the geometry files, usually the last one, but I don't remember exactly, I haven't tried it in a long time. So, a disabled mesh won't add polygons, right??? But we won't be able to apply effects anymore? I mean, we could dig around in the model and, for example, disable the elephants under the carpets. We can also disable the model of Duncan's horse, I don't remember if I did it or not... Maybe there's something else to look at... Or is the skinning worth it? And will the lighting of these parts of the heroes disappear? I understand that with Duncan's horse, we need the lighting for the mages, and effects don't seem to provide lighting. But the elephants under the carpets are not relevant...

Don't change the icons for the twins. Firstly, the icons themselves are still worse than the ones from the 5th game. Secondly, this mask looks bad, even though I made an almost exact copy, repeating all the angles and curves, and it just doesn't look quite right in 3D. Today I'll be making them based on the 5th game. Now I'll start with Ranlith.

Psatkha, can you make a head for Alastor? He's the ugliest one. At least the skull, hair, beard, and horns. We can find something that works.

Send the finished ones to my email... if it really looks bad, then we'll use the version from the 5th game!