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    Default Re: Various Unit Cards Minimod - Dwarves of Erebor Added

    I have added cards for the Lorien faction in Forgotten Realms of Middle Earth and other submods using those units. They are available from mediafire since I am unable to attach files to my posts (I don't know why and if someone has a clue what may be the case I'm all ears). http://www.mediafire.com/download/6j...v23t/lorien.7z



    From left to right: Sentinels of Cerin Amroth, Lorien Infantry, Lorien Spearmen, Galadhrim Marchwardens, Galadhrim Bodyguards, Lorien Archers, Rangers of Lothlorien, Lorien Lancers and Scouts, Buggy Ents that Crash my battles but got a card anyway because I'm such a forgiving ruler.
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    Attachments now seems to work with another web browser!

    Here we go with the ugliest faction in my opinion so far, not because of lacking modelling skills but more because they are so stupidly uniform with their green cloaks everywhere. But the roster has some variation and the central position is fun so I might even play them some day...



    Frome left to right: Militia, axemen, spearmen, dismounted eored lancers, swordsmen, dismounted royal guard, riddermark axemen, archers, royal archers, helmingas, scouts, bodyguards (likely not visible in the campaign), riders of rohan, eored lancers, royal guard, riddermark skirmishers, horse archers and eored horse archers (I think that's what they're called) and finally royal horse archers.

    Rohan is Milan, which suits the green colour, so unpack and paste the cards into the milan folder.
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    Default Re: Various Unit Cards Minimod - Rohan Added

    Hi Maltacus,
    great to see that your work will be continued - beautiful and much work again

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    Nice work. +rep

    One thing though, dismounted royal guard and royal archers battle card, they look weird with that black behind their helmets.. Is that the helmet tail or wrong Alpha Channel?
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    Thanks. Yes, it's the helmet tail. Maybe I should remove it altogether?
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    I think your cards look great as they are. I personally wouldn't change a thing. Great work as always Maltacus! +rep

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    Well done. +rep
    Looking forward for complete remade unit cards

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    Here is an edited version of the royal infantry without the black tail for those who prefer it that way. I think it probably looks better. Each to their own. Unpack and paste the milan folder into the data/ui/units folder...you know the drill by now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maltacus View Post
    Thanks. Yes, it's the helmet tail. Maybe I should remove it altogether?
    IMO, it would look better. I have downloaded your files and checked them, and, I think I know what happened:

    When you had selected the part of the unit for the battle card, you probably overlooked the tail in Alpha Channels as seen in the picture here:

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    Best thing to do when selecting the part for the final card is to switch to Alpha Channels, and, make your selection there. At least I do that when making them with Photoshop.
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    HAHAHAHAHA!

    Alpha channel? I've heard the term but I don't even know what that is! I don't have Photoshop but that doesn't matter much since GIMP has some function to edit or view those as well...I think.

    OK, the comical thing here is how low-tech my approach is in comparison to what you describe. I select part of a screenshot with GIMP Free Select Tool, copy it and scale down to fit somewhat in the space allocated for a unit card, sharpen it and increase contrasts and that's it. In the Rohan case I had selected the helmet tails along with the rest of the soldier since they are part of it and they're black because the weather was cloudy on that custom battle field and that's that.

    Now I'm curious; Elvenkind, what's your approach to making unit cards?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maltacus View Post
    HAHAHAHAHA!

    Alpha channel? I've heard the term but I don't even know what that is! I don't have Photoshop but that doesn't matter much since GIMP has some function to edit or view those as well...I think.

    OK, the comical thing here is how low-tech my approach is in comparison to what you describe. I select part of a screenshot with GIMP Free Select Tool, copy it and scale down to fit somewhat in the space allocated for a unit card, sharpen it and increase contrasts and that's it. In the Rohan case I had selected the helmet tails along with the rest of the soldier since they are part of it and they're black because the weather was cloudy on that custom battle field and that's that.

    Now I'm curious; Elvenkind, what's your approach to making unit cards?
    Alpha Channels are like a mask, areas painted black on a mask are protected, and areas painted white are editable as you can see in my previous picture. Areas painted black are transparent and when you copy paste the image with Alpha Channels onto another picture, only the white area will be shown in that picture.

    I first started with Gimp too, but wasn`t satisfied with the results, so, I bought Photoshop to use it with Milkshape method.

    I find the model of the unit and texture, convert them so I can use them/ import in Milkshape.

    Then make a pose of the unit, take a screenshot of it with Milkshape`s own utility, open Photoshop and import the screenshot.

    Edit out the blue Milkshape background, add Alpha Channels, sharpen the image using various Photoshop features, increase/decrease contrast if needed, scale the damn thing and save it as Alpha Channel.

    More info here:
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-and-Photoshop
    http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/f...f=9,6866,0,all

    Plus, making Mounted Unit cards: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...26#post5251826


    Also, sometimes I use screenshots with CinEditor for some units if they are a trouble to make, then just edit them in Photoshop, sharpen them ( or add layer masks) contrast them, scale and add Alpha Channels.

    You can get Photoshop CS2 for free, it has been released by Adobe due to cutting down some servers.
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    Ah, those are familiar. I think I've seen another link to one of the tutorials earlier in this thread. If you photograph directly from a modelling program, how do you make light effects (shadows and light coming from one side and such)?
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    Photoshop has one feature which allows you to add sunlight effect, and another which is called Burn/ Dodge, it darkens or lights up the parts in the picture.

    I do find the easiest way is to make a screenshot using CinEditor, and edit the card using your own preferences, contrast, sharpening, reducing noise levels..

    Photoshop has so many features to play with, but, Gimp is a great program too, it lacks just some things which are not that important for making unit cards.
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    Some very nice cards here.
    Just one thought for future works though, some of the images encroach on the space set aside for unit numbers. This can make it difficult to easily tell the number of men in the unit.
    In future you might want to make a layer mask on your template, and pose the unit image to avoid blocking that area.

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    The problem is, if you let the space for the number it can often happen, that you will cut parts from the unit image

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    Could the 1st post be updated to include the dwarfs on page 4 and Rohan from this page.. Just for convenience sake

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    Fixed, I think. Everything should be in the first post now. The dwarven catapult card may be different from the preview, if you absolutely want the one with a fireball you can find it in the attachment to the dwarf post on page 4.

    Late response, I hadn't seen your request until now. Nice to know people are still noticing the submod.

    And goodbye encouraging high download count...
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    Great work Maltacus, I recently ported most of these to DaC for folks that play that mod since it uses a lot of 2009 vanilla cards.

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    Here are cards for MOS that I have started to do some work for, but many fit in with other mods too as well as vanilla Third Age. I will keep this post updated with new mashed unit cards*.

    As always, backup the units folder or the specific factions folder before use.


    *Mos in Swedish means mash, as in mashed potatoes (Swe: potatismos).

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    sweet!
    good job.

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