-- Preview of Elves --

[Agisilaos]

Awesome work guys. just superb !!!

[AliAS]

wow one of the most beatiful models ever

[Salty]

Really cool...cant wait

[Armatus]

I am at a loss for words...

Brilliance! is the only thing that comes to mind

[Nakharar]

Nice

[TREG]

I'll be the voice of criticism. Your units look nowhere near as good as vanilla units. They should have more polys, slightly better shaped arms, and without bump mapping they look really flat.

It's a great base though; could we see some anti-aliased screenshots?

[Armatus]

I'll be the voice of criticism. Your units look nowhere near as good as vanilla units. They should have more polys, slightly better shaped arms, and without bump mapping they look really flat.

It's a great base though; could we see some anti-aliased screenshots?

You must have better eyes then I...

[TREG]

I think it's mostly the lack of bump-mapping and the poor-looking cape textures on the armored units. Bump mapping would really help.



These arms are blocky.

It's almost as though whoever took the screenshots has their M2 game playing on low quality.

[Armatus]

It could be the pc resolution of the screenshot?

[TREG]

No, it couldn't - the screenshots are obviously cropped, and either way I am talking about the amount of detail present in the units, not the size of the picture.

[CeLeXeT]

This is a unit preview for this modification ol'boy. Not a skin pack. These units will come with the mod itself.

I don't sense? If you refered to explain matter?

[TREG]

I don't sense? If you refered to explain matter?

They're custom models, not just skins.

[< Shved >]

TREG it is bug fixed old screen, sorry

[TREG]

Ah. Regardless, what Unit Quality setting were these taken on? If it's on Highest, you could definitely use some fairly major tweaks to your textures and to a lower extent the models.

I'm not attempting to knock the quality of the work - it's pretty good - but I think that you could probably do a whole lot better with not a lot of effort if you just worked on the right things.

[SHREDDER]

I did not understand essence of claims.

with the normalmap all right. Their original appearance STRONGLY depends on direction of light. In game they look absolutely normally.

Amount of polys and permission of elements of textur higher what in vanill...

PS: In general - pleasing all is impossible and I do not aspire to it

[TREG]

Well, regardless; if you have applied normal maps to the units, they don't really show well in the foggy evening they're in right then. Could you humor me and take a picture of them in, say, a brightly lit desert at Midday, with some higher anti-aliasing applied in the program itself?

I'm only asking because if the units are better looking than they appear in that screenshot (to be fair - the 'fog' setting doesn't really do any of the units in vanilla justice either), you're not doing yourself any justice by advertising screenshots that don't look quite as good as they could be.

[SHREDDER]

TREG
Friend - a long ago outlived that time when offended me or irritated a critic. I perfectly know that criticism allows to perfect the abilities.

BUT! Pictures of screen which are in prev'yu is a not final version. I showed them in order that to show progress of development. And they serve this purpose perfectly.

[Douchebag]

my dreams coming true....will this be for Kingdoms?

[< Shved >]

@DigitalMarine
Yes

[Manco]

Wow, when did you guys start this mod? This is the first I see of it and I can't believe I missed it.
I approve!

and where is thet Shredder, for he must be repped!
(one remark though, the Noldor guys seem to have very broad shoulders compared to their heads, or are those pauldrons just really huge?)