If Bluedragon's triggerwork is only half as good as her Map Design, she's really good.

Very impressive. I have a question. I have no idea about modding, but isnt it possible to use higher resolution textures on your models? Is the game prevent you somehow from using higher resolution textures in your models? Or you dont use higher resolution textures for perfomance reasons? Also i saw some very big and complex maps, how good will they perform compared to normal compaigns of aom/aot? Maybe you need to issue different system requirements than the ones that aom/aot has?

I don't think that will be a problem for the maps, but i think the mods resolution is (quite) low because of performance reasons. Remember, there are going to be ltos of mods in each scenario.

Bluedragon's bridges are very original and well done

Actually Ben, the resolution of the textures on the mods is very high. 4 times the size in each directiom. That's really the highest you can have. If you scale it again (8 times), it gets a bit crazy.

Though, higher resolution doesn't really effect performance that much because AOM has mip mapping.

Meaning if a texture is farther away, AOM lowers the resolution of the texture to increase speed.

lol, once again my lack of modding knowledge has been shown!

I wish you'd have the Scouring of the Shire. I love it that chapter. In my opinion, it's the best part of ROTK.

It might be coming up in the extended edition

there might (probably will) be an extended edition of our project which will come out later, after our main one is released.

edit: ben and I posted pretty much at the same time, so i didnt see his post when i made this one..

[This message has been edited by Razzia (edited 08-25-2004 @ 08:45 PM).]

Just what size are you using for each texture for a standard unit say the hoplite for eg?

We're not modding a hoplite.

For regular soldiers (gondorains, elven soldiers, etc.)
Mostly 2x, but sometimes 4x.

For specific characters, 4x

For very slight changes, 1x or sometimes 2x.

Someone is making a similar mod pack from Empire Earth, so far it looks pretty good.

http://www.geocities.com/xdfsite/

Sounds promosing but even if it will be finished, BFME is only a few months away. If you're a lotr/rts fan you are better of getting that game instead of waiting for mods wich rarely get finished.

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Actually, if you have been reading the first post in this topic, you'll see that most are already finished.

Only 10 or so are left and considering the speed at which we work, we'll have this modpack ready really soon. Then all that's left is the mapping and, on average, each mapper has about 4 scenarios to do. And they've already had a head start. So, we'll have this project ready before BFME comes out.

Besides, some people might not like the new things they're adding to the gameplay in BFME. I've heard they're simplifying a lot of aspects of RTS.

we're making a lotr mod that will appeal to aom fans as well as lotr fans. bfme might not appeal to some aom fans, which is where we come in.

Heres three new screenshots from fangorn:

Taproot cave 1

Taproot cave 2

Waterfall

Has the modpack finally been distributed to your mappers?

Not yet, but i believe its in its final stages of development.

AoMP, if it was, we'd be telling you guys.

But it's nearly done. We just have a few mods left to do.

A 100 unit modpack takes time, you know.

I think its great!!

Good job

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This is incredible work. Can't wait to play it...

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I'd be amazed if it didn't.

wow, lol now wonder why it hasnt been finish yet. and dnas is doing most of the modpacks. when the campaign gets released, no matter if the scenarios are good or bad, it wont get less than a 4.5. oh i remember that iy'll be first release at aomfiles ah well...at least i can review it there

yeah its gonna be first on aomfiles, but i don't think the delay will be all that long. probably a week or something.

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So even if the campaign sucks it will still get a 4.5, that is very strange.