Some help with a faction set

[Geo]

 

[JarlWolf]

Right, here's the bases for house Satori completed... note I have not added your custom logo or leaderhead picture, because I do not have access to the former and the latter seems to be having issues on your account. If need be I can search up a background for you, or add it in later. 

[Sigma]

Nice! Those bases look perfect!

Do you have an un-defensed version? I may want to make some tweaks on them, but otherwise they're great! What game did you get them from?

[JarlWolf]

I got most of the buildings from the first Age of Empires, the Oriental buildings from far east factions. (AKA, if you ever played AoE1, the Shang, Yamato... and I think there was one other faction from the far east?)

As for the defences, I hated doing those walls, I find vanilla style walls are ugly for custom factions and hard to put in place. Very difficult to do and its generally not that great of results.

If you want, I can make more appropriate walls if you want, they'll look better and go with the theme.

And there should be two whole rows of ones without defences.

[Sigma]

No that's okay, I'll take care of the defenses I'd hate to make you do something that you hate doing, especially since you already helped me out in tracking these down. I really appreciate it and of course I'll give you full credit on the pcx.

And yeah it took me a second to realize that I could just copy the first and fourth rows. Awesome!

[JarlWolf]

I like doing graphics mind, and custom walls I can make and like doing, its just I hate using the vanilla walls and placing them. They are a really hard task that I find aren't as rewarding.

I'm glad you like it though. My only request is you put my logo on the pallete, I forgot to do it. Just put in collaboration with



(Just copy it into the thing, on the side.)

[Buster's Uncle]

Have I ever written up the efficient way to do shields?  That is, what have I written about how to place them and all?

[JarlWolf]

No idea, and if you have, I haven't seen it yet.
 

[Buster's Uncle]

Towards the bottom of this article http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=21 I cover it pretty well...

[Sigma]

Wow, that is actually genius and is way smarter than how I have been doing it (dropping the shields on a layer atop the base, lowering the base's opacity so the shields stand out and then erasing the shield that would be obscured by the base)

[Buster's Uncle]

It took me a lot of factions before I hit on that technique.

Fellers, you gotta read all the articles.  They're a pretty complete course, by design.

[Geo]

Fellers, you gotta read all the articles.  They're a pretty complete course, by design.

Patience, grasshopper... 

[Buster's Uncle]

You're the grasshopper, and I'm just sayin'.

-Also, you're welcome.

[Sigma]

Finished with Satori! Thanks for the bases JarlWolf and the suggestions about the defenses BU!

I'll update her portrait sometime in the future to try and fix that discoloration under her jaw, but for now I think I'm going to move on to Apollo Industries.

[Buster's Uncle]

Not mentioning credit and scanlines, because I'm sure they're going to happen when you're truly satisfied that you're finished.