The Official WIP Screenshot Thread

[Agent007]

Also, as I've stated before, I've done some art for MasterOfNone's first puplished novel in my spare time, and I've also laid a solid ground work for a new mod after Dominion of Men releases.

Oh boy, oh boy. I sense that Winter may be coming [is it for Rome?]
Anyway, I'm also one of those who have been waiting for the full release of FATW since 7 years ago, so I can wait some more months (I guess ).

[Éorl]

Mary Xmas, and a hippie new year.

No unit previews (yet!!!), but I found some stuff you might not have seen yet - taking you to a journey to some signature environments of Middle-earth.

MORDOR (screenies from my tests for lighting and skydomes - skydomes courtesy of RS2, I edited to make them a bit more gloomy and tile neatly):

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EDGE OF FANGORN:

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Aaaand *drumroll*

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LORIEN FOREST

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Note: The Mallorn are huuuuge! They are so tall that if you raise the battlemap camera up high, it barely scrapes the lower branches and leaves. However, they are spaced so that you can still comfortably spot and select your units and follow the movements of the enemy.

[TheDarkKnight]

Mary Xmas, and a hippie new year.

No unit previews (yet!!!), but I found some stuff you might not have seen yet - taking you to a journey to some signature environments of Middle-earth.

MORDOR (screenies from my tests for lighting and skydomes - skydomes courtesy of RS2, I edited to make them a bit more gloomy and tile neatly):

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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EDGE OF FANGORN:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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Aaaand *drumroll*

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LORIEN FOREST

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Geekgasm...

[Aradan]

I think the Lorien shots need a Mumakil unit in them, for comparison's sake.

[Éorl]

I think the Lorien shots need a Mumakil unit in them, for comparison's sake.

[Nelduin]

I can't find any word... awesome, as always ! +Rep

[TheDarkKnight]

Eorl, thanks for the update. I look forward to any future previews

[fireblade]

Wow, stunning... I can't wait to fight hordes of orcs in mordor.

[Dejeyo]

Stunning! Can't wait to battle around Lorien and Fangorn.
Thanks Eorl!

[Thangaror]

Great work, as always. Mordor looks fittingly gloomy, smokey, dusty.

Mary Xmas, and a hippie new year.

[Casual Tactician]

Mary Xmas, and a hippie new year.

No unit previews (yet!!!), but I found some stuff you might not have seen yet - taking you to a journey to some signature environments of Middle-earth.

MORDOR (screenies from my tests for lighting and skydomes - skydomes courtesy of RS2, I edited to make them a bit more gloomy and tile neatly):


Note: The Mallorn are huuuuge! They are so tall that if you raise the battlemap camera up high, it barely scrapes the lower branches and leaves. However, they are spaced so that you can still comfortably spot and select your units and follow the movements of the enemy.

Great work. +rep
I suppose the new custom environments will give TATW it's own unique battle experience?! Will there perhaps also be some more/new 'skins'(?)(not sure if that's the correct term) for buildings and such (in later releases)?

[Conqistador]

Don't you mean FATW?

[Casual Tactician]

Tar and feather me! Your right, of course.

[Aradan]

The battlemaps of FATW will indeed have their very own unique atmosphere; very Tolkien-ish, we feel. As for battlemap buildings, we have permission to use material from other mods, and when I get done with other things, I'll try my hand at implementing them and see how it goes/looks.

[Casual Tactician]

The battlemaps of FATW will indeed have their very own unique atmosphere; very Tolkien-ish, we feel. As for battlemap buildings, we have permission to use material from other mods, and when I get done with other things, I'll try my hand at implementing them and see how it goes/looks.

Great news! Hope the implementation will work. Actually I was only thinking of dark/black walls for Barad-dur and the like, but that sounds even better. I haven't got FATW-TNS installed atm. I buggerd up my installation some time ago and I'll wait for DoM to come out. Your great VI is still installed though of course.
Since the release of tatw3.0 I've been playing that with a good submod compilation a bit and I'm quite enjoying it (is it considerd heresy to say that here?), although it's somewhat lore-raping and me not being a big fan of the Peter Jackson movies at all. Actually all his films are crap imo. Look at his miserable 'King Kong' adaptation, he should have stuck to films like Meet the Feebles which at least have some trash-appeal.
What I miss though is the lore-correct and true 'Tolkien-ish' atmosphere you mentioned. I'm no Tolkien expert (only read LotR, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin a good while ago), but FATW feels more like the Middle-earth I imagined when reading the books, even though it's only based on some short notes. Looking forward to DoM!

Regards!

[Éorl]

...although it's somewhat lore-raping and me not being a big fan of the Peter Jackson movies at all. Actually all his films are crap imo. Look at his miserable 'King Kong' adaptation, he should have stuck to films like Meet the Feebles which at least have some trash-appeal.

On an off-topic note (and to give credit where it is due), Peter Jackson's The Frighteners is an excellent movie (and his best in my eyes, so far).

Also, PJ's Lord of the Rings movies are not bad - they are different to the books in many respects, though.

Meet the Feebles - yes, that's a movie you can't and shouldn't do with real actors.

...but FATW feels more like the Middle-earth I imagined when reading the books

That's what we are striving to achieve, and why this takes so long (like Tolkien's own works).

[TheDarkKnight]

On an off-topic note (and to give credit where it is due), Peter Jackson's The Frighteners is an excellent movie (and his best in my eyes, so far).

Also, PJ's Lord of the Rings movies are not bad - they are different to the books in many respects, though.

Meet the Feebles - yes, that's a movie you can't and shouldn't do with real actors.

That's what we are striving to achieve, and why this takes so long (like Tolkien's own works).

Just don't take 12 years...(or however long that was)

[Éorl]

Well, we finally managed to nail the last remaining signature landscape of Middle-earth: The Dead Marshes.

We tried several methods, but it seemed impossible to make the game generate lakes, pools and puddles in a flat landscape - until now:

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Note that these images are unedited tiles - this is how the fertile grassland climate/swamp groundtype combo now looks in Dominion of Men.

[Legio]

That looks like a fun map to do battle in.

[Éorl]

As befits the Dead Marshes, the maps are pretty deadly:

-You should deploy units individually, because if you group-deploy, units on the far flanks could be placed into the water areas (which you can't when placing them individually), which might lead to death by drowning if the water is too deep.

-Routing units may run into water that is too deep, making them drown.

But hey, who said that fighting a battle with huge armies in a swamp is easy?

Testing needs to be done, though. For now, I'm glad that I managed to get this nice battlemap translation.