H3SW Recruitment Point - Enroth Needs You!

The Death Knight presented in the second promo screenshot is really great.

tophatchild wrote:

Here you are a sample of the dark knight!:



:pirat:

And this one is too really well done, perfect look for Heroes 2; I think it will perfectly fit for a neutral creature, specialized in attack. My knights would love to recruit it.  

Great work! Great looking!

Thank you, Unknown_Hero. Your constructive feedback is really appreciated. I'll open a new thread for showing up all my creations. I have some ideas in mind to be developed!

I actually wanna help with pixel and concept art. I don't know to make animations yet, but pixel art is fairly easy. As I have spare time now, I will work on making pixels and improving my skills. I will show my progress (I've never made pixel art before). Before I start, I just need to know if you need me and want a fresh-men do stuff for the mod.

I think it's a good place to put together all pixel art, that we're in need for v0.8:

1. Elf dwelling standing on two hex.

2. Black knight dwelling
3. All monster miniatures on an adventure map repacked
4. A new school of magic
5. Enlarged/new school of war
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xwgu93iaj7wd06/towerdefn1.png?dl=0
6. Help with polishing portraits is always welcomed
7. A well as with maps
8. Helping with preparing 44x44 artifacts icons
9. Making new underground mountains
10. Develop of Artillery skill:

11. New quest guard
12. New seers huts

Not that important right now:
1. Preparing battlefield obstacles
2. New battlefields for terrain overlays
3. Walls + siege battlefields
4. Tons of animations for new units
5. Remaking townscreens in 800x600 with a new buildings

I can give all important informations and resources for every volunteer interested in working with us, but of course you can make something completely new, if you feel that SWmod absolutely needs it

EDIT:

green = done

Uhm wrote:

5. Remaking townscreens in 800x600 with a new buildings

Really? that's a LOT of work.

Uhm wrote:

8. Helping with preparing 44x44 artifacts icons

These are map objects, right?

Uhm wrote:

12. New seers huts

Looks like an easy and pleasant job. I will try. Maybe I will start with these.

I will need h2 palette and several tutorials/guides/tools you used. I'm used to gimp, therefore I will use this program.

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Uhm napisał:
5. Remaking townscreens in 800x600 with a new buildings

Really? that's a LOT of work.

Nobody said that it will be easy

From what I've seen on df2.ru currently Morbidus works on artifacts. There's still a lot to do, so if you are interested, they should look like that:


Palette is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k539ehphd5ns7tm/H2Palette.bmp?dl=0
but if you need it in some specific format, I can look for it, we've got .act and .txt for sure.

As for tutorials, I was also looking for them on the Internet, but none of them is meant specifically for heroes. I would suggest you to start with remaking some of existing bitmaps from the other games (Orzie doesn't have to know XD) or M&M series. You could also try sketching, but you have to be very patient I will ask Orzie about Might and Magic 3-5 resources, we've got on dropbox some nice looking images, that can be used further.

I actually have got tutorials written by myself, but they are only in Russian for now. Probably, I will find time and inspiration to translate/update them properly a little later.

http://forum.df2.ru/index.php?showtopic=34950

I would really like to have some material to work on. Currently I'm drafting creeper (possibly new creature). Also, who is the main graphic and where should I ask for help?
here's my draft so far
https://i.servimg.com/u/f68/19/40/53/38/sludge10.png
Tell me if the style and proportions are good enough and should I continue working on him or rather focus on something else for now?

We don't have main graphic. We're adding remaining graphics or making something we would like to have in-game and if it doesn't face with opposition, it will appear in Mod. Your sketch has good proportions, but creatures' overall form is a puzzle for me. I must warn you, that currently we've got enough creatures, so if you really want to make completely new one, you will have to do it alone. I believe Dr Slash can give you some advices, as he prepared many static unit forms, as well as fully animated pirate.



Moreover, I think you should see this, it can be quiet usefull

http://rjanes.com/tutorials/pixelling_a_monster_sprite.php

Campaign cutscenes:
Are you planning your own campaigns to boot with, or include later on? As Heroes 3 built differently, are you planning to pull in-between map cutscenes? Those would require some voice overs, to make it H2 wise as much as possible.
Yeap, i would be up to dub.

The campaigns will be probably H3-styled, but voiceovers are a valuable addition. Yet, we plan to concern campaigns for later releases, which are somehow postponed - right now we need to finish more basic things.

But hey, it's very nice to hear from you. I actually have some experience in voiceovers too and I know how it is hard to make an artistic feel, especially when English is not the mother tongue.

Understandable.
Well, i just keep practicing, actualy i will participate in a small act next month where i have to be revolting, literaly. Much drama!
Just consider me available around with this.

Hi All!

I have few ideas about creatures and also can offer my modest skills in pixelart.

Geckatonheyr wrote:

Hi All!

I have few ideas about creatures and also can offer my modest skills in pixelart.

I like your style

Nice work, Geckatonheyr! Although I don't think we currently need any changes to existing HoMM2 creatures. One thing we need the most right now are creature animations, so any help with those would be very welcome. In cae you are willing to try your hand at animating units, you could start with the Tribal:
We already have drafts of walk and death animations, but we are still missing animations of him attacking in three directions, an idle animation and him getting hit.



If you'd prefer to work with static sprites, you could look into improving the current concept of Treant (tier 6 Witch creature).

Keep up the good work!

Dr Slash wrote:

Nice work, Geckatonheyr! Although I don't think we currently need any changes to existing HoMM2 creatures. One thing we need the most right now are creature animations, so any help with those would be very welcome. In cae you are willing to try your hand at animating units, you could start with the Tribal:
We already have drafts of walk and death animations, but we are still missing animations of him attacking in three directions, an idle animation and him getting hit.



If you'd prefer to work with static sprites, you could look into improving the current concept of Treant (tier 6 Witch creature).

Keep up the good work!

Hi DJ.

I can try if you dont mind. But also i see that this unit too smooth. May I make some adjustments to this model?

Ok, cool. Any changes to the Tribal are not recommended, since the team is content with the his current look and besides we already have two animations that are based on the existing concept.

Dr Slash wrote:

Ok, cool. Any changes to the Tribal are not recommended, since the team is content with the his current look and besides we already have two animations that are based on the existing concept.

Okay, no problem. Where can I find source of current Tribal animations?

If you mean the .psd files, actually I don't even know if those still exist somewhere, to be honest. If you mean you need separate frames of animations, I believe it's possible to import those from .gif as different layers into photoshop.

Dr Slash wrote:

If you mean the .psd files, actually I don't even know if hose still exist somewhere, to be honest. If you mean you need separate frames of animations, I believe it's possible to import those from .gif as different layers into photoshop.

Yep, something like this . It`s a pity but i'll try to take all frames. Btw, do you need a small tribal for non-combat screen?

You can just open gif files in Photoshop and it will put all the frames on separate layers.

Yep, we already have a mini version of the Tribal for the adventure map.

You can try to make an animation for it; with got only first sprite:

Dr Slash wrote:

If you mean the .psd files, actually I don't even know if hose still exist somewhere, to be honest. If you mean you need separate frames of animations, I believe it's possible to import those from .gif as different layers into photoshop.

We actually have the PSD for the Tribal's Death animation. You just asked the wrong person.

P.S. Слэш, ты бы уже зарегался на дропбоксе, чо как не родной, ещё и людей пугаешь тем, что у нас якобы нету псд)

Однако где там .psd с ходьбой, я так и не понял.

А он у меня как раз есть, кстати) Нашёл таки:

https://vk.com/doc21561663_437760998