Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonderful Forms
Raizan 13 Jul, 2023 @ 8:28am
Request
Hello,
First and foremost, thank you for your work and thank you for being one of the first to improve the game appearance.
I haven't tried your mod yet, literally just saw it at Paradox and came running happily. I want to make a couple request. The first one is to fix the elves that (to me) Paradox decided to model out of in the wastelands of Fallout. They are demacrated and emanciated with horrible face presets and hair, while they went for one of the most annoying ear design since they clip horrible in every helmet. So here's the list of things I consider improvements if you desire to do them in this mod or a standlone:

1) Remove the ears and switch them for human, or less uglier ones if you want to be fancy but the first one works for me.
2) Switch faces and hair with humans, while keeping the slim somewhat athelete-like currently there which looks fine to good BUT seriously the faces belong to skeleton constitution males and females instead of a long lived race (long life expectancy usually would allow to look younger despite the years).
3) Something that looks odd all around the game are hands (female in particular), at least humans and elves, since they are incredible big despite the rest of the body proportions and once you use Supergrowth it reminds me of cartoons of the Mickey debut era.
4) For Orcs, if there isn't a slider I missed, can you add heads without the fangs sticking out? And more skin color options?

And a third one, a bit unrelated:

5) Make Dragon Lords able to morph into humans OR choose a human Wizard like with the Dragon Lord starting setup. Why? They get stale to me after a while, and currently using Age of Fashion the sliders do nothing for these guys. I made 6 already and they all look the same now (without clowning around). Honestly they make for cool wizards with the breath, but in human form they should be able to wear armor and the rest of items. If you care about balance then I suggest increasing their mana upkeep per turn so they can wear/use the rest of the item slots.

In this game, visual design throw me off somehow. They have done it so I only desire to play human until your mod came with a orc overhaul. In the future maybe also look for Tigrans face improvements since they look meme-ish to me right now, but one easy improvement for males of that race now that you improved females is to allow them to get buff with the slider for a more primal look since right now MALES look flimsy to me like they are all arcanist.
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Perfect Thomas  [developer] 13 Jul, 2023 @ 9:47am 
You make good points about all of these ideas.

I'm going to revamp elf faces for sure, and look into the hand problem.

I'm also still working on fixing the super growth effects, I actually plan on making super grown turn all of the races more like the orc body in the future.

I might add another preset for the orcs with the fangs removed, and bulk up the Tigran males.

The dragon idea sounds amazing but it might be a while before I can add something like that, and I'm still learning on adding to the sliders in the menu, so it might also be a bit before I can add more skin colors. I do intend to though!
Raizan 13 Jul, 2023 @ 7:10pm 
Just so you know, take it easy with whatever you decide to do. I regret my post a bit in the sense that I failed to convey this: Thank you a lot for what you have done already and I think it is really cool so I appreciate the hours you put into it and that it is also available in Paradox Plaza. Will be keeping an eye on what you release from now on, or not.

About your reply, I'm glad! I will definitely give it a shot to the supergrowth improvement... I'm currently using a mix of supergrowth with no transformations alternative enchantment and supergrowth doesn't make you taller.
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 13 Jul, 2023 @ 11:20pm 
All good! I'm quite motivated by all the support I've been getting since releasing the mod. I'm glad you've enjoyed the mod so far. Don't worry, I'll take it easy for sure! Thanks!
Raizan 14 Jul, 2023 @ 6:09pm 
I noticed the changes to the elven ruler (and all other so far), so thank you, it is working great.

But is it that I just had bad RNG or didn't notice those changes applying to the rest of the elven soldiers (the army instead of just the heroes)? I'm imagining right now that your changes are to files that affect heroes and rulers, you may want to look into making these changes to the foot soldiers too!

I haven't had too much time to play so maybe I'm wrong and it is working for all the cultural/race units too. Let me know.
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 14 Jul, 2023 @ 8:19pm 
I think I know why this is the case, each race has 3 faces it uses mostly for units, I actually kept those faces the same meaning that the majority of units will have the same basic elf faces. I might swap such faces out in the future and see if it works. I'll probs have something soon for that.
Last edited by Perfect Thomas; 14 Jul, 2023 @ 8:21pm
Gebilde 15 Jul, 2023 @ 2:12am 
Could you ad an ears and tails slider, for all race to make them mor customable?
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 15 Jul, 2023 @ 4:28am 
Maybe for ears, however, I'm unsure about tails. I do intend to move more and more things to sliders though. Might be awhile, I'm kinda new to modding this game, so I'm still learning.
Last edited by Perfect Thomas; 15 Jul, 2023 @ 4:29am
Raizan 15 Jul, 2023 @ 2:12pm 
Originally posted by Perfect Thomas:
I think I know why this is the case, each race has 3 faces it uses mostly for units, I actually kept those faces the same meaning that the majority of units will have the same basic elf faces. I might swap such faces out in the future and see if it works. I'll probs have something soon for that.
Cool, looking forward to it.
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 16 Jul, 2023 @ 8:14pm 
@Raizan I've updated it
Raizan 16 Jul, 2023 @ 9:38pm 
Elves with male alopecia:
https://ibb.co/gtZ8zpX
Humans:
https://ibb.co/5jbYd9w
https://ibb.co/KqRQFCw
https://ibb.co/2KSwmnp

Hey. updated! Don't know if it is my game but the hair isn't matching the new faces (ignore the ruler in the images above, it is just for lighting purposes)

Edit: Guess the image site I just used sucks, it is all pixelated but hopefully it gets the point across.
Last edited by Raizan; 16 Jul, 2023 @ 9:41pm
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 16 Jul, 2023 @ 10:03pm 
if you mean just the hairstyles, I can replace them for sure. That is one thing I haven't gotten to yet. The elves have so pretty poor hairstyles atm. I'll also see what I can do for the humans there too.
Raizan 17 Jul, 2023 @ 6:39am 
I expressed myself poorly late at night.
Pictures above are your modded Elves, and modded Humans as comparison. Only Elves have the problem right now where the faces don't fit the hair due to them looking bad with fine faces and bad hair. Humans are polished right now, and they can get given a retouch later but faces the new elves faces are working.
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 17 Jul, 2023 @ 2:43pm 
All good! xD
Perfect Thomas  [developer] 19 Jul, 2023 @ 12:24pm 
@Raizan Some hair got changed, should be better now!
SaintTodd 28 Sep, 2023 @ 1:07pm 
As you probably know, there's a mod that allows to give heroes bigger heads. It seems that the creator has abandoned it. Any chance you can reach out and get his work incorporated into this mod? (which is excellent by the way!)
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