LotR mod: New Uruk-Hai model

[Duke John]

Hello everybody,

I've been following the LotR mods on these boards and I have found that they're not going the right way. I've got plenty of ideas concerning making a LotR mod myself, but first I wanted to create new models to use in the game. Well then, here's the first model I've created. It's all finished I now only need to animate it and create .bif files for it.

Below is my Uruk-Hai swordsmen:

Hopefully this image will inspire more people to put some effort into the LotR mods. When I'm done with a model I will make it publicly available so that everone can test them out.

I'm creating these models with a 3D program and altough this goes alot faster than drawing frame by frame I don't have enough time to do all the races of Middle Earth. The coming months I focus on the Two Towers movie; meaning Uruk-Hai swordsmen, crossbowmen, pikemen and Rohan Riders, spearmen, bowmen.

So tell me what you think of it, I'm so curious after all the work...

Greetings, Duke John

[Brother Derfel]

WOW

I like it.

It would be great if people could get a LOTR mod done. Sorry I can't help, I have absolutely no modding skills or time to mod in.

Keep up the good work.

[Alrowan]

wow, thats really impressive, keep up the great work

[Gregoshi]

The Org welcomes Duke John and his Fighting Uruk-Hai Guys? Where'd everyone go? We need to welcome Duke John and a few thousand of his Uruk-...


Gregoshi routs...

Very nice work BTW.

[SmokWawelski]

You probably have the biggest potential to actually accomplish something here. Keep these babies coming. I like it a lot, and hope that you can get your thing to work



[Smok follows Gregoshi into the bushes]

[Sir Robin]

Good work.

Anything that will bring orcs to the Total War battlefield I am all for.

The problem of course is that I have absolutely no talent or skill to speak of.

Except for upsetting my wife and coworkers.

[Emp. Conralius]

Great job Duke John It's your first post and you knock us all on our arsses

[Bane]

Excellent job

[shand994]

Looks good. keep it up

what program do u use to make them??

[Massi]

Hi all
and hi to Duke John
John, I would really really like to play a LOTR mod
I read also on another thread about at least other 2 groups trying to do that, but stil not being able to merge and finish the work.
(and maybe you can contact them... just an idea)

I wish you the best luck

PaladinoMassi.

[Gregoshi]

Greetings and welcome Massi. Nice suggestion but it sounds familiar:

One mod to rule them all.
One mod to find them.
One mod to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Modders where the stat files lie.

[vortex]

I think most everyone would want to play a LOTR mod - its good to see some people working on it - keep up the good work Duke John I'll be interested to see your next model - you have a great start

[Duke John]

Well first of all, thanks for all the great responses Here's another just to get a clearer picture of the model:


For the ones who are interested:
A 3D program such as Lightwave or 3Dstudio are great programs to make models, though it took a few days to understand how it all worked. Then I animate them in 12 frames and save the output as images. Then I paste the Uruk-hais into bitmaps which I then convert into a bif using BIF-reader.

There should be indeed just one Lord of the Rings mod, otherwise people can't play together on the internet, which is my ultimate goal. Then you can recreate all the great battles in the book/movie, and that is so cool...but a few months a way.

Greetings, Duke John

[Swoosh So]

Your lotr mod have you a playable beta at the moment?
Forget vikings If you can pull this off this could be the greatest mod sofar


Swooooooooooosh

[Swoosh So]

excuse me i have a short attention span at 08:00 nice animations i hope someone can use them.

[Makkadam]

Excellent

Keep em coming.

[kyodai-britishbeef]

well done duke john those models are really great, and i hope u get a working mod up and running.

[Duke John]

I can tell you one thing:
There will be Lord of the Rings mod.

I think the biggest problem modders had to face was making units that represent the Middle Earth armies, since I have tackled that, the way will be almost free to a complete mod. The next problem will be making a Middle Earth world map (or part thereof). But I believe work is already started on that by some people.

Although we're not all modders, all help I (or we if other modders contact me) can get will be usefull. So once I get a beta version of this mod, if you can find a glitch, spelling mistakes or whatever and report it, we will get closer to a perfect LotR mod.

Gregoshi and SmokWawelski did forget something when they hid in the bushes; the ancients Ents can be animated too.

Greetings, Duke John

[Dimeola]

Excellent mesh bro....cant wait to see the results. Would offer to help but am just starting to learn Max. I believe there is an Ent mesh at either 3dcommune or renderosity.

Dimeolas

[Duke John]

Well, still have some problems with the making bifs. The palette I have when creating .bmp's conflict with the palette of the program readbif. The models aren't really colourfull in this way. And I finally figured out how to make the green transparent on the different layers. I'm using 4 different programs to create the units, so please be patient.

But to further wet your appetite here's a test I made using the Uruk-Hai unit (of which I have already the standing and walking frames).



Greetings, Duke John

[Dimeola]

Wow, they look excellent.
Dimeolas

[Gregoshi]

Oh yeah Great work.

[vortex]

They look great, keep em coming

[GoldenKnightX2]

Quote[/b] (Duke John @ May 17 2003,02:09)]Well first of all, thanks for all the great responses Here's another just to get a clearer picture of the model:


For the ones who are interested:
A 3D program such as Lightwave or 3Dstudio are great programs to make models, though it took a few days to understand how it all worked. Then I animate them in 12 frames and save the output as images. Then I paste the Uruk-hais into bitmaps which I then convert into a bif using BIF-reader.

There should be indeed just one Lord of the Rings mod, otherwise people can't play together on the internet, which is my ultimate goal. Then you can recreate all the great battles in the book/movie, and that is so cool...but a few months a way.

Greetings, Duke John

How did you make that

[Duke John]

Now I've got figured all out, and it's all pretty simple. There just so many edits I must make in Paint Shop Pro before I have all the animations properly.

But my Uruk-Hai unit is reaching it's completion, I've got all the animations except die finished and will release it soon. So make sure you chech the Main Hall and the Dungeon for updates and downloads

Greetings, Duke John

[Dionysus9]

Wahooo Looks like a breakthrough there DJ Nice work, and especially promising to see them all lined up in formation with a unit flag.

I wonder...since .bif's dont have anything to do with combat stats, if you can change your own .bifs without damaging the Multiplayer playability of the game.

So, lets say I wanted to make my Militia Sargents look like Uruk-Hai...could I do that and still play MP online?

That would be very cool.

[Duke John]

Yes, you will be able to do that. Oh, just think of the possibilities

[Gregoshi]

Duke, keep your mod announcement in the Dungeon and here (the Entrance Hall allows all topics). The Main Hall deals with single player campaigns, not mods. Everything has its place, and a place for everything.

[Duke John]

The Fighting Uruk-Hai are released onto the battlefields of Total War

To download go here.

Any further updates will be in the Dungeon.

Greetings, Duke John

[Ser Clegane]

Quote[/b] (Duke John @ May 18 2003,16:50)]But to further wet your appetite here's a test I made using the Uruk-Hai unit (of which I have already the standing and walking frames).

wow - spectacular

Never used a mod on TW before

But this one will have me reconsider

Great work