The Official WIP Screenshot Thread

[beerin]

looks fantastic!

[Gen. Chris]

You mean the Cult Swords,I take it? These still exist, but they've been tweaked with regards to texture (slightly).

Yeah, my bad. I like Adunabar but the Cult Swords look odd...I can't explain it though.

[Thangaror]

Yeah, they don't wear helmets. Mail coifs do look weird.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Mail coifs do look weird.

But were, frankly, used a lot more than helmets in the High medieval era

[Éorl]

To bridge the time until the next preview of units in battle, here's some progress with vegetation:


Fangorn WIP:








Fertile Temperate Grassland:

[Conqistador]

Incredible, but shouldn't fangorn be a "dark" forest?

[Athenogoras]

Nice grass...reminds me of the ending seen in "little house on the prairie"

[Éorl]

Incredible, but shouldn't fangorn be a "dark" forest?

Yup, that's why I call it WIP. I'm currently refining the canopy elements of all tree models, as well as the contrast and saturization.

I wish I could make it look like that matte I did, but that's a bit too much for the engine to handle, I'm afraid...

[Nelduin]

Amazing pics. I love specially Fangorn's one.

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

AWE-SOME!

[Conqistador]

ANyways it is nic man, don't bother because of my opinion, your work is appreciated!

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

*slobbers*

[Dictator Of The Roman Republic]

PPWAAORRRR!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Ajidica]

Woah!
I noticed the loading screen is a different style then the current FATW ones (it looks more like the TATW loading screens). Will all the loading screens be like that?

[Aradan]

Yes, our new LSs are matte paintings.

[Thangaror]

Despite looking really great, I'm not sure wether I will like that.

[Ajidica]

I agree with Thangaror. I'm not sure looking at matte paintings of nature, however stunning, are fitting for when I am sending my Gondorians into a last-ditch battle against Harad. I can't say I am a fan of the filters applied to the current LS pictures, but they fit the atmosphere of FATW better. (Plus the pictures of the the Battle of the Pellenor Fields with Rohan always gives me goosebumps!)

[Nelduin]

I love the new ones. Even if the actual are good

[Lungorthin]

The loading screen looks really nice Eorl! Though I think the old ones were somehow more appropiated for this mod. This loading screen looks to 'real' for a book based mod as FATW in my opinion. I think that this matte painting would fit more for movie based mods like TATW and LOTR-TW. Though I still like the loading screen you made Eorl and I appreciate all the work that has gone into it, and of course for the sake of variety new loading screens are a nice addition! I just don't think it fits in very well with the overall style of Fourth Age.

[Éorl]

Frankly, I'm not the only one doing matte loading screens (that was my one go at it) - a few artists have joined us to do stunning loading screens. If these are the only type of LS is not set in stone, however. We will discuss this in the dev forum!