Version 1.36 (previously announced as 1.35) has been finished for a very long time now but one piece of content is determining its release and that is the new custom Bullgryn and Ogryn units. The development of said units has been a nightmare. The original work done in Blender was imported into 3DS Max, fully rigged with materials ready to go but once exported, the model metaphorically shattered, having the rigs ruined partially, smoothing destroyed, and the meshes somehow divided into individual polygons rather than being objects.
User Cneus came into the picture and has graciously been helping to animate the model and fix up whatever breakage was done but his work alone hasn't been enough to fix every problem. Now with the Bullgryn and Ogryn being separate work loads, the fixes have to be replicated for both models, rerigging, resmoothing and sometimes reimporting objects that were misaligned or resized accidentally in the process. Being that this is my first real effort to get an actual model made for DoW, the whole dilemma has been rough, but hopefully we can get the method of model creation down to a smoother procedure once I'm use to all the god awful problems and errors that come with 3DS Max or the DoW modeling scripts.
So what about 1.36?
Well, originally 1.36 would be released after Imperial Guard were finally given a new unit to play with, but now the goal has been changed for a release by the end of May as development has been taking way too long, so much so that planned content being made for the NEXT version, 1.38, has been worked on and added into the next release. I've been adamant about making sure future versions of the mod would take less time between releases but trying to tack on a whole new unit model has extended things way too long. We're not likely to finish Bullgryn for 1.36 and will have to save them for 1.38's eventual release in the future. In the meantime, I'm hoping to substitute the new unit spot with Plague Marines and possibly a Great Unclean One for Chaos. Fingers crossed.
