Afew small suggestions for future patches/expansions

[TwoScoopsOfViking]

Something I thought about while I was playing;

Anyway to edit the appearence of walls to give them a more intimidating appearence?

I think the Shengou (sp?) mod team figured out how to edit walls, or maybe just gatehouses and towers. But I think it would add alittle something to siege warfare.


Another suggestion and maybe some sort of "fix" for the places such as Helms Deep.

Could the terrain itself be edited to depict the various fortresses? Maybe cliffs or hills could be shaped. Might look cheesey but then again I'm not a modder so I dont know how it would turn out.

[Aradan]

The textures of the walls can be edited I believe, but it's not amongst our first priorities I'm afraid. The walls themselves are much harder to do and afaik the mod team that managed to do it has refused to share their knowledge with anyone else. Nope, we can't change the battle-map to what we'd like it to look like, the engine draws off the strat-map to make it and cannot be manipulated to that extent.

Thanks for the suggestions though. Even not very possible, still a motivation for us to think of stuff to improve.

[I Am Herenow]

afaik the mod team that managed to do it has refused to share their knowledge with anyone else

Well, Blue Lotus and EB have both done it IIRC so that's already 2 teams that can tell you what to do.

[Aradan]

Yes, but both have multiple guys dedicated to only that thing, not the other way around. Taken into consideration though.

[WImPyTjeH]

Editing walls is not the hardest part and can be done by everyone (everyone = experienced coder with good modelling skills)

What Zanghou did was: they managed to make a platform upon buildings on which units could walk, and THAT's pretty damn special.

Editing settlement is really heavily underestimated. It's *freaking* hard and that's an understatement... :wink:

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[coinich]

Yeah, I heard some mention of platforms, which I'm guessing are coded paths where units are able to go on, and they "might" (just guessing) not be for only walls.