The Third Age: Reborn?

**praetorian2525** · December 16, 2013, 02:28 PM

Hello all.
I am new to the modding community but have modded simple games before. I am a die-hard Total War fan and even more of a Lord of the Rings fan. Third Age: Total War is ranked 3rd out of over 20,000 mods on Mod Database. I have a dream, a huge one, perhaps impossible, but a dream nonetheless, to create some sort of complete overhaul for either Shogun 2 or Rome 2 Total War, depicting the setting, theme, and story of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I am good with computers and pretty smart, and willing to see this through, but I am only 16 so would not have access to a lot of money if that is required for this sort of project. I really loved Third Age as did tens of thousands of others, and would love to try to re-create it using a more current-gen TW game with better graphics and AI. I know I am asking a lot right off the bat, but does anyone know how I could get started, or how to find someone to help me out?
The Third Age: Total War: http://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war

**AngryTitusPullo** · December 24, 2013, 01:06 AM

Wait for the modding summit to see if CA release tools to edit the campaign map and probably easier to import new models which certainly needed for total conversion. In any case it doesn't matter whether you're 16 or 60 to do any modding. You don't need any money at all to mod. Only time.

**praetorian2525** · December 24, 2013, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by LestaT

Wait for the modding summit to see if CA release tools to edit the campaign map and probably easier to import new models which certainly needed for total conversion. In any case it doesn't matter whether you're 16 or 60 to do any modding. You don't need any money at all to mod. Only time.

How will I know when CA releases any of these tools?

**AngryTitusPullo** · December 25, 2013, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by praetorian2525

How will I know when CA releases any of these tools?

The Modding Summit. CA will not invite modders just for ice cream and pizza.

**.Mitch.** · December 24, 2013, 01:35 AM

When CA release modding tools pour your heart and soul into making a functional LOTR campaign map. Then you will hold in your hand the key to inticing other modders/modelers/artists to put in what will be comparitively easy work to complete the total conversion.

Nobody will ever consider making a LOTR mod unless what many consider to be impossible, a accurate LOTR campaign map, is created first.

**praetorian2525** · December 24, 2013, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by .Mitch.

When CA release modding tools pour your heart and soul into making a functional LOTR campaign map. Then you will hold in your hand the key to inticing other modders/modelers/artists to put in what will be comparitively easy work to complete the total conversion.

Nobody will ever consider making a LOTR mod unless what many consider to be impossible, a accurate LOTR campaign map, is created first.

Thank you very much for your reply, it is encouraging. I will absolutely put time, effort, and love into creating an accurate map if tools are released.

**Dude with the Food** · December 25, 2013, 05:12 AM

If you find textures/skins you think will be useful, you can start now. For example, I've noticed the lorica squamata could make Rohirrim armour. If watch the scene before Gandalf enters the Golden Hall, the Rohirrim guard wear scale armour and an iron collar. The squamata is that shape albeit shorter.

**pyj99** · January 18, 2014, 06:57 AM

CA release an assembly kit for TWR2

Some modders also managed to change the campaign map for TWS2 so

Anybody here investigating of TATW could be ported to warscape ?

I don't know if any modding teams have ever tried to develop tools to automate the port of mods from Med2 to warscape games ?

**praetorian2525** · January 18, 2014, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by pyj99

CA release an assembly kit for TWR2

Some modders also managed to change the campaign map for TWS2 so

Anybody here investigating of TATW could be ported to warscape ?

I don't know if any modding teams have ever tried to develop tools to automate the port of mods from Med2 to warscape games ?

Thank you very much for your reply. I don't know what war scape is or if there is a way to transfer mods, but I don't mine starting from scratch. Who knows? Maybe this could make its way to moddb.com or maybe it will just be a long private project for myself.

**Man of West Gondor** · January 18, 2014, 10:50 PM

Ok Awesome I will

**pyj99** · January 19, 2014, 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by praetorian2525

I don't know what war scape is

Warscape is the game engine used for ETW, NTW, S2TW,R2TW

I don't know if people ever managed to create automated tools to reuse textures from ME2 mods to S2TW mods for example

**Man of West Gondor** · January 18, 2014, 07:57 PM

Well I'm working on something, that is based on the books of LOTR. I made the Menu look, I just need to work on one faction for it.

**praetorian2525** · January 18, 2014, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Man of West Gondor

Well I'm working on something, that is based on the books of LOTR. I made the Menu look, I just need to work on one faction for it.

Tell you what if u ever need my help with anything specific lemme know and I'll see if I can help u out. Other than that, I don't know how much I could make this mod on my own.