Custom Content Challenge: April 2015: The Hyborian Age

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

Amazing work! GunnersaurusRex; Maybe they are too big, a part from that, Great!


Have you considered, to make it, also, as torch models, with a lower scale. They could be great wearable war-banners? And that won't implies too much work...


Thanks, any way for contributing with the challenge!

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Yeah, at the moment they're a bit too big to carry off to battle – more for planting in the ground to keep those little Conans off your lawn.

 

A torch/holdable banner is a good idea – I'll have to shrink down the snakes a bit or the poor standard bearer will be constantly toppling over in the middle of battle. Which is not good for anyone's morale. So far the only things I've made have been placeables but will hopefully not take me too long to figure out how to do a torch.

 

Before that though, I'm going to try and simplify the shadow geometry on those things as they're a little glitchy at the moment when viewed from the wrong angle. And to read some tutorials on how danglymesh works so I can get the banner to flap about a bit.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Holdable version with danglymesh & smaller snakes:

 

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

Thanks for the holdable version. I think that, it would looks better in a smaller scale for the whole banner. However I appreciate your effort anyway...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Like this?

 

 

I think you're right - it's better with the smaller banner.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

@GunnersaurusRex:

 

Forgive me if I'm becoming in a pain in the neck. But I think that the whole items, still are too big; I would prefer the placeables and the torch models, more or less in the half of their current size.

I respect that you like them so big. But maybe you could have the kindness of making alternative versions, in a lower size. Thank you.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

 

"Once, great men lived here. Giants, gods.

Once, but long ago." (Mako - Conan the barbarian 1982)

 

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The shield used by Conan at "the battle of the mounds", scene; In the 1982 movie. Two versions; Recreated by myself and added as large shield models...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               

I like the standards, both the large placeables and the smaller holdable ones.

 

I do think that holdable one could be just a little bit thinner since it's held in one, but otherwise I think it's very cool. I may even have to borrow it for followers of my PW's god of snakes (and poison, murder, corruption, and foul play).

 

Idea: Perhaps a placeable version that's the same size as your holdable version, so scripters can make an on-activated/on-used script set so they can be planted in the ground, then picked up and carried to a different location. '>

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Shemsu, it's not a problem at all – it only takes a few seconds for me to resize these things, and I'd much rather end up with something people will find useful.

 

Anyway, I've played around with the banners a bit more - as requested I've done some smaller versions of both placeables and scaled down the holdable one. The smaller placeable is pretty much the same size as the holdable so could be carried and planted in the ground with scripting as the Amethyst Dragon suggested. Also did a much smaller version of the holdable one for those adventurers shamefully lacking the upper body strength to lug around a massive great banner with a huge weight at the top all day.

 

 

So in the above shot, 2 large placeable banners, 2 smaller placeable banners, 2 holdable banners.

 

And for those among you who want to show the world how much you love the snake cult but worry that marching off to battle waving a big flag around will just make the other soldiers laugh at you, this next item is for you...

 

 

Stylish and practical!

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Carcerian]

               

Thats one of the nicest looking round shields ever 

 

 

How about the classic comic Conan battleaxe? (variants: bronze, silver/steel, brass/golden, black iron, battle dents/blood drips/smeared gore)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

@GunnersaurusRex:

 

Thank you very much for the smaller standards!

Could we have a holdable version of the standard without the banner, too?


And your new shield is very good too...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

These clichéd images of the macho hero with his feeble, girly hangers-on... I feel compelled to administer a feminist punch on the nose...

The facial expressions amuse me.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               

I think feminists would hope that a female Conan be more of an Atlanta, than a Red Sonja type. Nice babe with a sword though. Even at my age, it doesn't go out of style.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Agreed, but it was only a mild punch on the nose.

I don't think Hyboria's quite ready for the complete Charlotte Perkins Gilmore routine.

 

(Not that she couldn't be brutal - Try reading "The Yellow Wallpaper". Feminism bordering upon the Lovecraftian. The best depiction of burgeoning insanity I've ever read. There's something almost triumphant about the heroine's appalling fate...)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_3RavensMore]

               

I think feminists would hope that a female Conan be more of an Atlanta, than a Red Sonja type. Nice babe with a sword though. Even at my age, it doesn't go out of style.

 

Speaking as a feminist, I can say without reservation that I unabashedly prefer Red Sonja over Atlanta.  As for the second part, the beauty of the human body--male or female--never will go out of style.