The Poilu's have arrived: Weapons and Player models news - Verdun Game

The past two months saw intensive action on the Verdun front. To start with we have finished the French player model which has been modeled by JRDavis, optimized by Fabiodan and textured by Leonidas.

It represents a fully equipped french soldier ("Poilu") as we would expect him at the battle of Verdun. Wearing the m1915 greatcoat, the m1915 adrian helmet (visibly damaged and without the fabric cover). Carrying The m1914 campaign pack with spare boots, cooking gear and the canvas knapsack. On the belt we see the m1877 bottle and the Lebel ammo pouches. Obviously we created merely the standard french soldier so expect many more variations in further versions of Verdun!

Secondly, the long development of the French Fusil M1886-M93 "Lebel" rifle has finally been brought to an end with modeling from Sol1dand texturing from Leonidas. With the Lebel being finished the french arsenal of weapons for our first version(s) is almost completed. The m1892 revolver will see appearance soon.

Next to the Lebel, we have another weapon that some of you might not have noticed. The French Fusil Automatique RSC Mle. 1917, which basically is the semi-automatic version of the Lebel. This will be one of the french more special weapons, due to the fact that only 80.000 of these were ever produced. This artwork has been modeled by Gunwizard and textured by Saruman-23.

This past two months also saw testing on the multiplayer department, with the animation system being improved and revised by Gunwizard to be more compliant with network optimization.

In this news we also want to take the opportunity to mention that we have an open position in the coding department. We are looking for someone to handle Shaders and is capable of working with the Ogre's materials and CG.