Visual Enhancement - Good and Evil menu packages released

[Gonxas]

Louis before the release maybe you want to add another screen.
Resistance is Futile!: Maybe the scene where the wickeds men set fire to the rohan village. (Two Towers)
Cheers

[Disastras]

People can help by making suggestions of movies that have potential as a resource for new portraits.

Great work Louis Lux!

I posted in another random thread that I noticed one of the pictures for the dwarves is the town elder from Willow. That old cockeyed man with his little vienna snausage fingers is fantastic! Good choice on using that pic! What about some of the other dwarves from that movie. Vohnkarrrrrr! Burglecut. Not Meegosh though. If they don't match the lore because Vohnkar's beard is a goatee and Burglecut doesn't have one, then maybe add one to the pics? I know you're super busy, but that would be awesome! Also, as a reference for the wife picture, you could use Kaiya - Willows wife. There are other dwarf women in the movie as well.
The movie Legend has some good face references. There is Gump the elf(looks like a child though). There are a couple dwarfs in it that I loved when I was a kidl. I haven't seen it since then, but I remember they were awesome. Also, there is a goblin that would look great in TATW.
The German tribe leader in Gladiator would make a great looking dwarf.
Beowulf and Grendel has awesome characters that would make good dwarfs and Rohan pics (maybe Dale too. I don't know my lore that well).
The 13th Warrior offers some good viking-like faces.
I will keep looking for more, but I stumbled onto some interesting WW2 movies I haven't seen before.

[2-D Ron]

Great work Louis Lux!

I posted in another random thread that I noticed one of the pictures for the dwarves is the town elder from Willow. That old cockeyed man with his little vienna snausage fingers is fantastic! Good choice on using that pic! What about some of the other dwarves from that movie. Vohnkarrrrrr! Burglecut. Not Meegosh though. If they don't match the lore because Vohnkar's beard is a goatee and Burglecut doesn't have one, then maybe add one to the pics? I know you're super busy, but that would be awesome! Also, as a reference for the wife picture, you could use Kaiya - Willows wife. There are other dwarf women in the movie as well.
The movie Legend has some good face references. There is Gump the elf(looks like a child though). There are a couple dwarfs in it that I loved when I was a kidl. I haven't seen it since then, but I remember they were awesome. Also, there is a goblin that would look great in TATW.
The German tribe leader in Gladiator would make a great looking dwarf.
Beowulf and Grendel has awesome characters that would make good dwarfs and Rohan pics (maybe Dale too. I don't know my lore that well).
The 13th Warrior offers some good viking-like faces.
I will keep looking for more, but I stumbled onto some interesting WW2 movies I haven't seen before.

Yeah! Awesome Idea with Willow's Wife.
Would work a treat.

[Louis Lux]

I'm uploading it now! It's working smoothly, removed almost 90% of the vanilla events for the good factions and completely removed vanilla general's portrait, next release I will give more attention to dwarves and evil factions. I also plan to work a bit more on screens.

If I had a veto right on that loading screen thing, I would use it now.
Don´t get this wrong I am just referring from my personal point of view - it´s horrible.
Due to following reasons: First that white Tengwar, is totally out of place, all colors of the pic are warm ones like tones of brown and black or the golden letters. The white as a cold color fits in no way.
Further the Tengwar letters are used as a loading bar anyway, it gets a bit too much of those letters.

I understand your point, but during the game the white is hardly noticeable. The official loading screen has the ring text and the ring, can't get much redundant than that, can we?

Secondly the Logo, the combination of Alletuns Logo and some Emin Mui rocks (or so) could theoretically work imo but the transition between Logo and rocks looks bad, but could probably be reworked.

Well it's the work of John Lennon and I can't do much about it, and IMO his work is exceptional, not sure I could do a better job. The current loading screen is outdated and unimaginative, also I find the color combination of the loading screen I'm using much more fitting to the mod. I can try doing something regarding the letters and post here to get some feedback.

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Great work Louis Lux!

I posted in another random thread that I noticed one of the pictures for the dwarves is the town elder from Willow. That old cockeyed man with his little vienna sausage fingers is fantastic! Good choice on using that pic! What about some of the other dwarves from that movie. Vohnkarrrrrr! Burglecut. Not Meegosh though. If they don't match the lore because Vohnkar's beard is a goatee and Burglecut doesn't have one, then maybe add one to the pics? I know you're super busy, but that would be awesome! Also, as a reference for the wife picture, you could use Kaiya - Willows wife. There are other dwarf women in the movie as well.
The movie Legend has some good face references. There is Gump the elf(looks like a child though). There are a couple dwarfs in it that I loved when I was a kid. I haven't seen it since then, but I remember they were awesome. Also, there is a goblin that would look great in TATW.
The German tribe leader in Gladiator would make a great looking dwarf.
Beowulf and Grendel has awesome characters that would make good dwarfs and Rohan pics (maybe Dale too. I don't know my lore that well).
The 13th Warrior offers some good viking-like faces.
I will keep looking for more, but I stumbled onto some interesting WW2 movies I haven't seen before.

Glad you liked it, some people are bothered by the use of characters from other movies. I already used a couple of Beowulf and Grendel for Dwarves and plan to use more for Northmen. Dwarves are a real challenge and I appreciate the suggestions.

[Disastras]

Glad you liked it, some people are bothered by the use of characters from other movies. I already used a couple of Beowulf and Grendel for Dwarves and plan to use more for Northmen. Dwarves are a real challenge and I appreciate the suggestions.

The dwarves are my favorite, and I'm always on the lookout. Beowulf and Grendel has some really good ones, so I'm glad you could incorporate them. I'll keep lookin. Can't wait to try todays release! Thanks!

[Punisher1024]

Sweet update bro. The character portraits are very nice and the event art is really good. +rep my friend

[Devils_Advocate]

I understand your point, but during the game the white is hardly noticeable. The official loading screen has the ring text and the ring, can't get much redundant than that, can we?
Well it's the work of John Lennon and I can't do much about it, and IMO his work is exceptional, not sure I could do a better job. The current loading screen is outdated and unimaginative, also I find the color combination of the loading screen I'm using much more fitting to the mod. I can try doing something regarding the letters and post here to get some feedback.

What about making another version with the old menu and loading screen, costumized only for me?
Or can you tell me how I can change it to the old one? IMO this destroys your whole sub mod!

[Soul Firez]

can anyone tell me if this works with RC i think the descr_strat file is used in RC

[Vikerness]

What about making another version with the old menu and loading screen, costumized only for me?
Or can you tell me how I can change it to the old one? IMO this destroys your whole sub mod!

Inside the package you'll find a loading_screen folder and a menu folder. The files inside are tga. You can open them with almost any image viewer (like say irfan view). Check what images you dont like, make a backup of your old files and copy them back over. It's a matter of copy and paste.

[JonSnow]

Er, is today the day then?

[MaxMazi]

Er, is today the day then?

No Jon Louis posted this today:

I have almost every file ready, I just want to make a few more event pictures. Tomorrow I will definitely release it.

Thanks for interest though.

[JonSnow]

Huh, he posted that yesterday in my timezone...

[JonSnow]

Release??? ZOMG PLOX

[Punisher1024]

sweet cant wait for it

[Louis Lux]

Updated the OP with download link.

[Punisher1024]

Sweet I just downloaded it and put it on im trying it now.

[Basileutatos]

Really great work! downloading...

[JonSnow]

Could isengards starting generals get uruk hai portraits? Also have you thought about 300? Just for xerxes(sp?), he would make a good southerling imo. Hes not too far fetched for an easterling too.

[Punisher1024]

Could isengards starting generals get uruk hai portraits? Also have you thought about 300? Just for xerxes(sp?), he would make a good southerling imo. Hes not too far fetched for an easterling too.

I think isengard and orcs share the same generals but dont hold me to that I just think they do. But it would be very cool to see uruk genreals like lurtz or something.

[JonSnow]

They do, but you can change starting portraits to whatever you want. After that however its just by culture