I'll contact EazY_Ben for you.

[This message has been edited by CeaseDaFire (edited 03-06-2016 @ 08:40 PM).]

Hello

You certainly have my permission - I think the rest of the team would be more than happy for this to go ahead too. It might be a good idea to contact Stephen Caines or GaurdianofIsis as they played the biggest roles after the Fellowship of the Ring was released. My input after that was somewhat limited although I think they used some of my maps in TTT. I would say go for it! I think the team would be delighted to hear you're doing this.

Thanks for the reply EaZy. I'm not sure how to pm people on HG (or if that's even possible). Is there a specific way to get in touch with Stephen or GaurdianofIsis?

To give you a little more information about the project: my goal right now is to convert the units (textures, models, materials, proto, text, icons, anim, sound) and possibly some of the scenarios from the campaigns (assuming I can get them to work, I haven't tried yet). I will not be attempting to rebuild a total conversion for EE as 1) I doubt I have the skill or time to do that and 2) my goal with this unit compilation is to make it compatible with several other mods on the workshop so I won't be editing the techtree, etc. In other words, the vanilla game will be left entirely as is with the units only available in the editor. I might consider making the buildigns/units buildable/trainable in some fashion if that's something people want to see. I may even try to port the entire mod with the permission of the studio but again I'm not sure that's possible.

I'm getting some interesting results with the unit conversion. Some of them appear to work fine. Some are harder to tell. There are a few rather hilarious glitches to work out (the Balrog is throwing pine trees as his ranged attack). I'm pretty sure some of the textures didn't make it through the conversion so I'm still working on that.

Do you happen to have a Steam profile? It would be great to be able to quickly share my results with someone who worked on the mod. Otherwise I will try to post some screen shots here of some of the problem units I found.

*Also, thanks for facilitating CeaseDaFire!

[This message has been edited by Callistonian (edited 03-07-2016 @ 10:37 PM).]

Ah yes, Flipbizcuts Balrog mod! I'm sure he'd find it throwing pine trees extremely funny if he were still with us. I'm not sure how to go about contacting them - although I can say with a fair degree of certainty that they'd be happy for you to do this. Unfortunately I don't have a steam profile - but it'd be great to see some screenshots!

http://aom.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=19,29820,,10

Maybe collaborate?

[This message has been edited by Captain Obvious (edited 12-05-2016 @ 08:21 AM).]