The high elves

dtw · Post by **dtw** » September 16th, 2005, 8:57 am

I can't wait to play with these guys

Post by **Jetrel** » September 17th, 2005, 2:47 am

I'm not actually working on them for some weeks - in the meantime, you can expect to see a bunch of other stuff improve, such as the dark adept line (wayfarer has been giving some very nice help on those fellows).

Actually, I've edited the base frame of the sylph, which will be part of the faction, to a better look - this may not go in until the rest of the faction goes in, since these guys will have considerably different abilities, and hence unit images, than the current units.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » September 17th, 2005, 8:45 am

Maybe you can tell me why the sylph line was dropped from the wood elves and then came back?

Disto · Post by **Disto** » September 17th, 2005, 9:19 am

Because it was going to be used in the high elves but when it became clear the high elves weren't going to make 1 they put it back.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » September 17th, 2005, 9:24 am

Will they get removed from the wood elves again later? I mean, if the high elves go into 1.2 (or whatever)?

Disto · Post by **Disto** » September 17th, 2005, 9:30 am

Yes i believe so.

Post by **Darth Fool** » September 17th, 2005, 8:16 pm

Jetryl wrote:I'm not actually working on them for some weeks - in the meantime, you can expect to see a bunch of other stuff improve, such as the dark adept line (wayfarer has been giving some very nice help on those fellows).

Actually, I've edited the base frame of the sylph, which will be part of the faction, to a better look - this may not go in until the rest of the faction goes in, since these guys will have considerably different abilities, and hence unit images, than the current units.

Hmm... I don't know. the new face looks kind of flat compared to the old one...

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » September 18th, 2005, 4:59 pm

Yep, IMO the old face looks better.

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » September 18th, 2005, 5:13 pm

I like the new face a lot more, but thats just me

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » September 23rd, 2005, 8:57 am

I think that the poses should differ from each other a bit more, it's hard to make a difference between the, the only differences right now are the headdresses.

Post by **Jetrel** » September 23rd, 2005, 9:43 pm

martenzo wrote:I think that the poses should differ from each other a bit more, it's hard to make a difference between the, the only differences right now are the headdresses.

Uh dude - there's only going to be one sylph in the game.

As for the face, I've changed it to remove the dark outline on the top of the eyes. Though it may perhaps seem the slightest bit more flat, it looks, to my eyes, to be a lot more stately and delicate, which is more important in my eyes.

Amongst other things, the presence of the dark outline gave the impression of dark eyelashes, and in my opinion, dark eyelashes (especially on the lower lid), unless a person's ethnicity causes them to naturally appear, make women look trashy. Eg, a woman from india with dark eyelashes will look fine with them, a pale, scandinavian woman with artificially dark eyelashes, will look to be, in the most literal sense of the phrase, "tarted up".*

*It can be deduced from this that Jetryl prefers women to not use makeup (or men for that matter =\ ). Lipstick is icky.

dtw · Post by **dtw** » September 24th, 2005, 6:50 am

My girlfriend wears very little makeup - grrrrrr

appleide · Post by **appleide** » September 24th, 2005, 7:55 am

I like high elves!

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » September 24th, 2005, 12:11 pm

I didn't mean the sylph, I meant the three upper units on that picture.

Arthelorn · Post by **Arthelorn** » September 24th, 2005, 12:19 pm

Those are all Sylph graphics. The one furthest to the left is the oldest, the middle is slighly newer, and the far right of the top three is the newest version.