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[Mythos_Ruler]

Need oxen and a cart for the Mauryan trader.

[lilstewie]

Very easy. Bullock carts have existed in the subcontinent sense the Indus civ and still exist in modern times.



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Here's a nice cart..

Make it less ornate I guess and without that lion head. I like those openings on the cart above too. Looks like the railing design that pops up all the time in the reliefs.

Edited by lilstewie, 24 December 2012 - 03:04 AM.

[lilstewie]

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INDIA - FEBRUARY 17: Medallion decorated in relief from the balustrade of the Stupa of Bharhut, Buddhist monument, Madhya Pradesh, India. Indian Civilisation, 2nd century BC. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Found a relief of a cart design from that period. I'm sure there were many designs.

Edited by lilstewie, 25 December 2012 - 11:49 PM.

[Pureon]

Thanks for the references lilstewie

Making the cart won't take very long, but modeling, texturing, and animating the ox is another story. We may have to use a horse for now.

[lilstewie]

Pureon, on 25 December 2012 - 08:25 PM, said:

Thanks for the references lilstewie

Making the cart won't take very long, but modeling, texturing, and animating the ox is another story. We may have to use a horse for now.

No problem.

[Gen.Kenobi]

I'll do it. Sounds easy and fun to do.

Expect updates after the holidays season

[Pureon]

Gen.Kenobi, on 26 December 2012 - 12:26 AM, said:

I'll do it. Sounds easy and fun to do.

Expect updates after the holidays season

You'll model, texture, and animate the ox for us? Great

[Gen.Kenobi]

Well, I suppose I could try.
As long as someone rigs the ox model that I'm supposed to model - given that I'm sucessful on that task - I think I can do it.
I need to start animating either way. Maybe this is a good opportunity for me.

[Pureon]

Oh would you not be able to rig it?

[Gen.Kenobi]

I can try, but I'd need someone with experience to review it, as I never did a rig from scrath - I mostly used Blender's rigfy add-on, but it doesn't works ingame and only for bipeds...
I am not an animator. But that doesn't stops me to learn it.

Anyways, I've started to research the ox anatomy.





I'll dump what I find interesting here. If someone comes up with something better, please post it here too.

[Enrique]

I played around with the wildebeest mesh and matched those references and others, if someone wants to try to texture I'll post it here.

[Pureon]

Enrique, on 26 December 2012 - 12:50 PM, said:

I played around with the wildebeest mesh and matched those references and others, if someone wants to try to texture I'll post it here.

Nice. Daniel want to take it from there?

[Gen.Kenobi]

Sure. I'll try to texture this beast

[Enrique]

Here you are

Attached Files

•  ox mesh.zip   119.79K   23 downloads

[Mythos_Ruler]

I feel like the hump on its back should be more pronounced and the body should be fatter.

[lilstewie]

Zebu

Zebu Oxen

Edited by lilstewie, 26 December 2012 - 07:53 PM.

[poVoq]

Hmm... actually to my experience living in Nepal for 3 months, something like this (buffalo cart) is much more common than oxen carts.



Not sure about Mauryan time though

[lilstewie]

poVoq, on 28 December 2012 - 11:10 AM, said:

Hmm... actually to my experience living in Nepal for 3 months, something like this (buffalo cart) is much more common than oxen carts.



Not sure about Mauryan time though

True, water buffaloes are there, but I think Zebus were used more.

[Shield Bearer]

I can confirm that. I see a lot of Zebus here.

[Gen.Kenobi]

So... I should transform the model into a Zebu, right?