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DarkAtom
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 21, 2025 02:12 AM |
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Now I realised that she looks different in that sprite than in ToW. The ToW version is fine in my opinion - I do agree with you that this greener version maybe needs more contrast. The green hair is completely fine, though. IMO the ToW version with the green skirt added looks nicest.
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53lm
Hired Hero
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posted April 21, 2025 06:27 AM |
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bg said:
I keep wondering about this. Maybe the problem is the lack of contrast between the green hair and the green skin? And the leaves on her bra?
How about simplifying her bra, darkening her hair and experimenting with her skin tone?
  
I'm not a graphic designer but I type hair color as the biggest problem.
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LordInsane
Known Hero
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posted April 21, 2025 12:14 PM |
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FirePaladin said:
1. Paladins are a concept which appears in H1 and H2 as well.
2. The Paladin in DoR is not all that inspired by the one from H5: the only overlap is the winged helmet. Most inspiration has been taken from NWC graphics. And as far as I'm concerned, it's also a little nod to King's Bounty by Katauri. At least in terms of appearing in the game, not by visuals, for it differs from that one.
There's also the practical issue that the Crusader limits what you can use to differentiate the Paladin visually. "Big plume" works less well when there's already two Castle units with it, and you need something to not make it look simpler and less "aristocratic" than the Crusader. The wings at least look less silly than many other possible crests, and are easily visible at H3 resolution.
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bg
Tavern Dweller
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posted April 21, 2025 05:08 PM |
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Edited by bg at 17:39, 21 Apr 2025.
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"Big plume" works less well when there's already two Castle units with it, and you need something to not make it look simpler and less "aristocratic" than the Crusader.
I would do as follows: the base has one plume, as it currently has:
And the upgraded version has a larger, double plume:
 
Somewhat like the champion from H2:
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TrueMefista
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 21, 2025 06:35 PM |
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Actual historical helms often had pretty ridiculous decor, maybe have it trail into a gryphon's head?
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mitsche91
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 22, 2025 01:46 PM |
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So, as you can see in Discord the team tries listens to community‘s proposal. You can see the currently version of the Viking. The color sceme includes less different colors (the pink has been deleted completely for example). I‘m looking forward to the next presentation of the units.
@bg:
I can just share my point of view. I don‘t think there are many players here in this Community who just share a post and never care about the final result. I played ToW or VCMI in general many hours. But my problem with this is the stability of VCMI (although it became much better than 1 or 2 years ago) and like it has been written here already there are many mods or parts of them which doesn‘t seem to be finished. So because of the two reasons and the better grafics I play VCMI/ToW very rarely nowadays compared to HotA. And I liked the idea, I liked the visuals although some of them didn‘t fit perfectly into H3. So I agree, some models could certainly be better or more fitting. But now comming to the next point: Probably in your opinion I am somebody who writes just „good“ things about news of some mods. The thing is (and probably I‘m not alone with this) the huge lack of creativity. I admire the moders, who invent new town concepts, new models/units, new lore stuff that still fits into the existing lore. Also I am impressed by people who can give such a detailed and profound criticism. So I can say I like one concept more than another one; I can say that something is good, but anything is missing without beeing able naming it. I hope it is understandable what I mean.
And the last point is about the over-detailing. Maybe the improvements like HD-Mod lead to the possibility that more details can be shown. So you could be tempted to add to much details just because you can. So that is why working in a team (and with a community) can be usefull 
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FirePaladin
Promising
Legendary Hero
DoR Modder
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posted April 24, 2025 05:08 PM |
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The image in question:
We'll see when and how we'll show the new and improved lineup. The Viking is actually one of the units with the least changes. But I can confidently say that the team is finally happy with the creatures.
@bg
I like the idea with the colored plume. Might be worth trying.
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Morton
Tavern Dweller
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posted April 25, 2025 04:13 AM |
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LordCameron
Famous Hero
Veteran of the Succession Wars
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posted April 25, 2025 04:32 AM |
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Looks pretty much straight out of Heroes III
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