Kickstarter - Visible Artwork for HPS games!

[spelk]

I'm only pulling your legs, but I wish there was a Kickstarter project for a decent artist to do some revamps of HPS' 3d graphics.

After traipsing around a regimental museum and watching a massive room sized diarama depicting of the battle of Waterloo I was sucked in to purchasing Campaign Leipzig from JTS. My enthusiasm knows no bounds. Upon loading the game up, I want to see the armies, I want to command them, and I get this eye jarringly tiny non distinct splashes of pixels - presumably designed many years ago when screen resolution and gamers expectations where very much lower than todays possibilities.



I just want visible depictions of these armies. Not smudges from a distant time long gone! This stuff is being peddled today as new! But ultimately most wargamers put up with it because it's all we've got. They use the 2d view. They change their desktop resolutions down. They cope.

I've even considered ripping the art assets out of Napoleon Total War .pack files and using the "card" images instead of the pixle mash that is served up in the 3d mode. In fact I've thought perhaps the same could be done with Imperial Glory or Cossacks games. But as a wargamer, I shouldn't have to start ripping out art assets just to make the game palatable to me.

This isn't a one off, I have a number of HPS games that have the very same problem, and no one seems to want to fix this issue.

I would be willing to put money into a Kickstarter to give me some visual clarity for my soldiers!

So if someone here can draw a collection of men in a line of fire, with suitably coloured uniforms, you'll have my support.

Ok. Rant over.

[Gusington]

^I don't mean to poke you with a stick but...that screen shot doesn't look so bad to me.

[Jarhead0331]

Why not just play Napoleon: Total War?

[spelk]

^I don't mean to poke you with a stick but...that screen shot doesn't look so bad to me.

You see, you think this is acceptable! You've been coached over the years into thinking this is how your Nappy troops are meant to look. ;)

Surely you can't be all that happy with graphics where you can't distinguish anything but a jumble of pixellated colours?

Perhaps it's just me - but I can't get any enjoyment from the game in 3d mode, and even the 2d mode doesn't scale well.

It's not just the fact that the troops don't look right, visually - they're downright harsh on the eye. But I could probably live with single unit busts like in Unity of Command, or even 3d block representations - just something that would present itself better visually. These graphical (sub) standards have been peddled for far too long!

But seriously, in this day and age, it could look a lot better. Couldn't it?

[spelk]

Why not just play Napoleon: Total War?

It's not really the 3d real time soldiers thing I want. I'd prefer the turn based approach, with the nice cards to look at. But hells bells those HPS sprites could do with a makeover, even if its from an indie artist. We see better artwork on free web based platformer games!! :)

[Staggerwing]

Why not just play Napoleon: Total War?

It's not really the 3d real time soldiers thing I want. I'd prefer the turn based approach, with the nice cards to look at. But hells bells those HPS sprites could do with a makeover, even if its from an indie artist. We see better artwork on free web based platformer games!! :)

Go see what the Volcano Man's got to offer. He does graphic mods for almost all the HPS titles:

http://volcanomods.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

I believe you'll have to create a profile to d/l any mods though. No biggie.