Planning to re-create "Gladiator" ;o) Get a head start and nip over to freestuff for Mike - the RT legionary is ready for d/l. VERY special guest star on this one is RenaPD (yes, THE RenaPD!) who offered to do the tex's FOR FREE, and I can guarantee she's outdone even herself on these! More than that, she actually managed to teach yours truly to do halfway decent mapping, and that's an even bigger achievement, as anyone who knows my stuff can tell you ;o) A big thanks to Shadowcat who was ready as ever to host my humble stuff - I owe you many, many saucers of cream by now, Cat ;o) So let's hear it for the greek maidens and US tabbies - you're worth your weight in dinarii to the community, ladies!

A few details : Dress up Mike in the full regalia and you should have a roman legionary from the northern border garrisons. Dress up Mike in pants, shoes and weapons only, and add long hair plus beard, and you have a nothern barbarian opponent. I've marked it as PC only, but if anyone w/ a Mac could test it (it's OBJ, CR2 and JPG only), it'd be great to know if I could change it to PC/Mac status. Any questions are welcome, I'm only an IM away. Have fun.

You guys truly made my day with this! Thank you SO much, what a wonderful, WONDERFUL gift!

oh my god!!! You are my hero!!! Thisis JUST what I need!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great!!!! Something i was looking for.Cant wait seeing this roman looking upon the blades of my loved irish-celtic warriors :O)))) Comes a P4 version also? Or what can i do to make it conform on a basic P4 male?? Many Thanks and Greetings, Webbird

The Irish-Celtic warriors were called Scotts.They invaded an area north of Brittans latter called Scottland.

Thanks to all three of you fine folkses! Lovely!

great-broad-smile yeees...but i dont know how the today - scots think about it :O)) I love irish mythology and working on Sidhe and de Danann and they are my loved irish warriors :O))) Yes i know they were on eriu bevor the later celtic. Thank you PLZ! Webbird

Thank you very much ! fine work ! Many many heart felt thanks for this wonderfull work ! did i mention a BIG thank you ! Happy Rendering, Jeff

WOW.. this is great, thip. Now I wish that I had Micael. :( IT budget is used up at the moment, I'm afraid!

heyas; killer! thanks a ton. :)

Oh how wonderful!! Thank you so very, very much!!!

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety...
we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
 
Jerry McCant

YAY!!! Thank you so very much! I NEEDED that!

Wonderful stuff.

Little bit of background to Scotti:
From the fourth Centuary AD Irish raiders from the Kindoms of Mide (Meath) and Ulaid (Ulster) and elsewhere attacked much of Northern and Western Roman Britain like their Saxon counterparts who raided along the Eastern coast.
St Patrick (Patron Saint of Ireland,17th March)a Romano-Briton, was captured in one of these raids and brought back to Pagan Ireland as a slave in the early fifth century AD.
The warriors of the kindoms of Ulaid (Ulster - not the same as the modern Province of Ulster) conquered much of Scotland. Expanding from Argyll and the Isles, the D Riata ultimatly became the ruling dynasty of Scotland uniting the Picts and Scots under their rule which lasted for centuries. The Irish raiders were called "scotti" by the Romans. To this day the Scotts speak (those that still do) Gaelic (Q-Celtic) as distinct from Brythonic (P-Celtic) which survives in Wales and Brittany in France.

"totam cum Scottus Hivernen
movit et infesto spumavit remige Tethys

When the Scot mobilised all Ireland
and the ocean was churned to foam by his hostile oars"

Above from Claudian's panegyric on Stilicho's defense of Britain in AD 399.

In addition to Scotland, Irish warriors carved out a kingdom in Wales. Many of these returned after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to found the kindom of Cashel (from Roman/Latin word for camp or fortification Castra) in Munster (southern Province of Ireland).

The man who captured Patrick and to whom Claudian's words are believed to refer was Niall of the Nine Hostages. His dual dynasty, the UNll (centred on the kingdoms of Mide (Meath Southern UNll ) and Donegal and much of the north (Northern UNll) went on to become the High Kings of Ireland (often called Kings of Tara) for much of the period until the advent of Brian Boru and his Munster based dynasty in the 10th century AD.

The above derives from the earliest near-contemporary and trustworthy Irish historical sources (Annals) as well as Roman sources.

The Legends of the Tuatha DDanann, CChulainn and the Ulster Cycle Tales, the Tn BCuailgne and the tales of the Fianna are all believed to either date to the pre-Roman period and to the early years of the Roman Conquest of Britain in the 1st Century AD. They survive in literature documents dating to the 6th and 7th Centuries AD when they were first recorded by Irish monastic scribes. They are not reliable for historical studies anymore than the Greek myths.

Regards
STORM

You guys and gals rock! This stuff is beyond excellent. Thanks so much. BTW, for a good fictional novel about Brian Boru read "Lion of Ireland". Can't remember the author as I read it ages ago but it's a real page turner.

Thank ya muchly!!! =OD

so... this is a roman fellow that would live when? would the blue fellows be closing in on him?

Hi, all! Sorry to report the first bug in the legionary - Preston Chesser's pointed out to me that the obj ref in the legionary's tunic is figureResFile :Runtime:libraries:character:thip4Mike:LegionTunic.obj ...but should be figureResFile :Runtime:libraries:character:RT4Mike:LegionTunic.obj Easiest way to correct this is to open the CR2 in a text editor and change all occurrences of "thip" to "RT". I'll get an updated version of the clothes d/l out there as soon as possible. Cheers, thip

thip This stuff is outrageously good! I've been drooling over it since your preview a while back. I'm especially enamored of the shoes, as sometime back - ha! circa 1973!! -I created a character very dear to me for whom those shoes are perfect! Thank you very much for sharing your great work! Larry F

I know it`s the wrong place but cant hold back a last word:O) ..a wise one once said "History is proven mythology" Greetings, Webbird

Thanks a bunch for this! I just read about the bug and the solution...you wouldn't happen to know how many instances of the bug there is would you? I found one and corrected it, but the tunic still isn't working for me...I've been looking for more, but have gone blind so don't know if I've missed any. :-)

My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the butt twice!

Great stuff, thanks a million times, just what I need for an idea that`s brewing.

Hi, rockets - and all of you CR2's always have two figureResFile lines (don't know why - anyone?). You must change both lines in order to point the figure at a new obj. If you still have trouble after changing both, IM me and I'll look into it immediately. I'm sorry about the trouble - an updated copy is on the way to freestuff.

Thanks again for that quick response...I guess I was looking to hard...I had found the second one and totally missed the first one (which was right up at the top). sheepish grin

My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the butt twice!

I wished you came out with your stuff a lot sooner it would have saved me a whole lot of work. Ill putting picks of my Roman Model soon. Its part of a site on Ancient Rome Im working on. I hope you dont mind if I use your clothing for the Celts and Germans I will be working on.

David - the whole "kick" in doing this stuff is knowing and seeing that it is used - be it for pics or new stuff, free or commercial. I'm as selfhishly greedy as anyone to see new stuff all the time, and I see no point in re-inventing the wheel every time you have to do a new clothing item. That's why all my freestuff items carry the copyright clause that all CR2's and OBJ's are totally copyright-free (except for resale as-is). If anyone can make something new based (in whole or in part) on my humble stuff, then it becomes their stuff and their copyright. And BTW : If you didn't catch the later legionary postings in the forum, the d/l should now be bug-free. Sorry about the mess.