This is amazing thank you for this

They look cool, but the ones who have a dwarf beard look really weird, lol if it was that dwarf helmet who have a metal beard, ok, that one looks great... now the literal dwarf beard, not so much

At about 99% for having a Warhammer 3 version. Broken models and whatnot fixed (except for the brettonian bucket helmet. Still trying to fix it). Then I want to try and make a more attractive mod image. Though if anyone is artistically inclined, I would be happy to accept help and credit the contributor.

LOL, I just noticed the one with a goblin corpse used as a flag.

Wow, you really had a lot of fun with this didn't you? I'm still finding new variations!

I'd like to try and port and expand the mod. I was waiting for the dust to settle with the tools I used to make it in the first place, so I didn't have to do it all over again. It is still gonna take a bit, hopefully not too long.

@Garuk Seln Do you intend to port this excellent mod to Warhammer 3? If not, would you mind if I give it a try and credit you?

Whoops, thanks lingling, I think I've sorted it.

Hey, I found a small bug. You left a rigid_model of the beastmen giant in the files that causes it to glitch out ingame because there's an ogre mixed in

A small fix for a part that wasn't moving properly and also something new I thought I'd try. Instead of the maneaters having a color scheme based on the faction they are fighting for, they should have a wider variety of color schemes from each other in a single unit. If this proves too confusing, I'd be open to changing it.

thanks, I'll try the unsub and resub thing, I didn't think it was needed since I can see Greenskin stuff but I'll try it anyway.

So, loading up custom battles as various factions, everything seems in order for me Thrakerzod. Sometimes steam refuses to work properly in terms of downloading. You can possibly try unsubbing then resubbing if you're not seeing things.

From a vague look, it seems like it theoretically should be fine, but I'll do some tests later Thrakerzod to make sure something isn't wrong on my end.

In a general note, I forgot, tomb stuff is for sword and pistol only, 2h animations make for really bad clipping that I was unable to resolve.

come to think of it I've not seen any Lizardman themed ones either (again, I mostly play as Norsca ), I remember checking in Custom Battles when this page first said that Lizardman ones had been added and I didn't see any (playing as Empire in order to try and see them). are Lizardman ones just very rare?

I'm not sure if it's an error or if they're just rare but I've not noticed any Norscan themed ones turning up at all for either the Great Weapon ones or the Pistol ones, I thought it was because I mostly play Norsca and that you'd restricted them on Norscan ones but then I started an Empire playthrough today and still can't see any Norscan ones

Dwarf ones seem common though, normally I find that at least a third (and sometimes over half) of the unit will be Dwarf ones. is that a result of there being more Dwarf themed variants or is it something else?

As far as game 3, if I can take the models with no, or incredibly minimal work, then I plan to. If they change how their models work and I have to redo everything, then very likely no. Time will tell in a short while.

Update: attempted to add mercenaries with Tomb King swag for non-tomb king factions.

Thrakerzod, unless I made an error, the only restrictions right now should be high elf factions won't see high elf stuff, tomb kings won't see tomb king stuff, and lizards won't see lizard stuff. In these cases, I see it as a matter of pride and overwhelming feelings of ownership of anything they would see as even slightly belonging to them for those cultures.

why is it that they don't appear for the factions they have equipment from?

like for some factions (High Elves, Dwarfs, Brettonians and Lizardmen) I can understand the idea, the Lizardmen certainly won't want the Ogres snagging their stuff, but why'd a Greenskin avoid hiring an Ogre just because he has a goblin tied to a pole on his back? I doubt the Norscans would care much if Ogres nabbed a few things from another tribe.

will this mod be ported to game 3 and if so will the Ogre Kingdoms at least be able to recruit all the Maneater variants?

Oh please make tomb kings ogre mummies!

Update: Finally got some greenskin inspired stuff out for all factions, will probably look at making a few distinct weapons for them in the future. This is probably going to be it until after Warhammer 3 releases, unless it's something very simple.

Know I haven't added anything in a bit, got kinda burnt out adding so many models and not really being able to actually play the game. Work is proceeding on some Greenskin inspired ideas, since I saw that being requested a few times.

Update: Added some weapon models to the high elf version.

Update: Models with high elf looted bling implemented for all non-high elf factions. Weapons still in progress and probably need a little more bit bling on the heads, but I figured they're about 90% done, so now is a good time as any.

Awesome models!! Absolutely love your work!

Update: Sorry, no new models today, though they are being worked on. Just cleaning up some bits on already existing models.

Never used maneaters until this mod. Your work improves the game

You're welcome I'm glad I could help you out. I saw you had a problem and I knew the answer so I had to share some of the things I've learned.

Updated so that lizard variants will not appear for lizardmen factions. Thanks a million to Lingling for pointing out how.

@Lingling You are a damn lifesaver, I was totally unaware of that method. You have saved me so much time and pain, you are awesome!

Oh and might I suggest Greenskin Maneaters :P

Nice mod the Maneaters definetly needed more variation. Some textures look a bit stretched from making the assets bigger but all in all I like it a lot.

As for your problem: You don't need to fiddle with scripts in order to have different variants appear for certain factions. Simply create new variantmeshdefinitions with the variants you want for each faction and add them to the unit_variants_table. You need to copy the Maneaters unit and make a new entry for each faction. Then you can change the field variant to the respective variantmeshdefinition for that specific faction. This way the Maneaters will change their appearance depending on the faction without creating copys of the units or scripting. You can take a look at Cataphs Southern Realms for reference, he changes the look of the state troops for Tilea, Estalia and Border Princes that way.

Alright, got some ogres with lizardman based equipment. Now, the reason for the delay hasn't been resolved. I've gotten to the point where the factions the ogres have snagged stuff from wouldn't hire them, but I have to make entirely new units to exclude certain ones from showing up. However this involves scripting how the ogre camp choices appear, which is complicated and I am quite inept at even simple stuff. I intend to make it work, but I have no estimation of what that time frame will be.

Updates are going to be delayed a bit more. Messing with recruitment through scripts and I'm really bad at scripting, but hopeful I'll figure it out in a bit.

New models should arrive within a few days. The framework of how they're being implemented is going to change to allow different variants for different cultures, however it will break compatibility with overhaul/rebalancing mods and very likely saves made previous to the new version. If you have a game in progress that you want to complete, I recommend making a personal backup.

Works great now greatwork :D.

Yay, no more floating ogre heads. Thank you.

I am hopeful that ogre variants with looted lizardmen swag will arrive this week.

Graphical issues with vanilla ogre units should be fixed.

Problem located, fix should be in an hour or so.

@MR.calas I've only been loading the changed units in custom battle, so I hadn't seen the standard ogres having graphical issues.

They definitely are, so I will try and investigate and resolve why as soon as I can. Though I do admit that I am puzzled as to why vanilla textures and whatnot should go wrong, they should be unchanged for that path.

It seems the mod is causing standard Ogres to to either have a glitched out torso that doesn't exist or an weirdly textured head.

woooo, nice job my friend!

Should be updated with a range of Norscan models, using default maneater weapons for now, will get custom weapon models in most likely a week or two.

"Some have fought for the Empire of Cathay and are equipped with the famous longsword of that land as well as lacquered bamboo armour. Others who have served with the Empire have a brace of handguns converted into pistols whilst those who have travelled to Ind might have one of that lands curved swords and be covered in gold jewellery."

Found this interesting tidbit, figured it might help

Love the work m8, I look forward to the updates!

Again, I might be able to. Ogre units are given with a script and I am much less familiar with those. It would involve making clones of the maneater units that decrease what they're compatible with as unit appearances cannot be dynamically controlled with scripts. However, this is far back on my list of priorities, especially right now I am focused on trying to finish some Norscan influenced models.

hello , congratulation for your work , is it possible to make them standalone for each culture?
we can considerate mercenaries orgres were equiped by their own employement by stuff from each country with witch they will fight

I probably could, I have very rudimentary knowledge of script stuff. I don't really have any intention to right now, because the plan wasn't to have each culture use only ogres with their culture's equipment, it was to represent their tendency to adopt foreign equipment and have a wide range of variations in a unit.

you could make it depend on the culture hiring them

Great idea, looking forward to even more variety. Just like the bitz gluing days of old!