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[Mathijs]

And the new Rohirrim:

 

 

Combination of Weta's Royal Guard and regular Rohirrim designs to reflect their status as elite units in BFME2.

[Rider of Rohan]

The Fourth Overhaul Part 1:

Men of the Riddermark

 

Next up: the Rohan portion of the Men of the West faction. As you're probably used to seeing by now, each hero and unit has received significant visual updates.

The heroes in the Men of the West faction are some of the worst looking vanilla models in the game. We hope you'll agree they look a lot more dignified in our HD pack.

 

The Rohirrim

 

 

In BFME2, the Rohirrim serve as the mounted elite of their faction, so we opted for a more powerful and standardized look, reminiscent of Weta's Royal Guard designs

but mixed with regular Rohirrim design features.

 

Théoden

 

 

The King of Rohan is now properly rendered, his intricate armor displayed in full detail. In addition, his horse has been given the armor seen in the films.

 

Éomer

 

 

The Third Marshal of the Riddermark has received a complete overhaul, now riding into battle in shiny 1024x1024 texture quality.

 

Éowyn

 

 

Same as above, really. We gave her a fresh new model. There's only so many ways to describe that.
Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Fourth Overhaul.
~ Rider of Rohan & Mathijs

[Nazgûl]

Very nice =) Is it permitted to use these models/skins in other mods?

[Mathijs]

Not by default, no. I'm open to requests, however. And the way this pack works is that if a mod doesn't replace a certain unit (say Gondor soldiers) and people have the pack installed, the pack's art will be used anyway.

[Nazgûl]

Ok, I understand.

[MattTheLegoman]

While browsing through Adobe Behance I found some concept art for the Spider Riders in armour. While your model uses a scaled Moria goblin armour, their design here is different. Everything looks fantastic by the way! I am only wondering if you wanted to use a different design for the Spider Rider armour. =D

 

Behance artist: https://www.behance....Michaelcomputer

[Rider of Rohan]

Thank You!

And that model is in the game and still under the Spider Rider files and it has no placed texture and is uv mapped oddly. One can put it together or restore it, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort when something better can be put into place.

[MattTheLegoman]

Ha, before commenting I looked in game to verify that the armour did not make it in, I couldn't find the Spider Rider model. I do not appreciate their presence so forgive my ignorance of them. =p

[Rider of Rohan]

"muspidrider_skb"
"muspidrider_skn"
"muspidridr_skn"
And an armoured version to the current spider rider is
"muspidridr_sknc"

[Mathijs]

 

[Mathijs]

[Phil]

That's one happy Boromir!

[Mathijs]

Here's another happy camper:

[NewErr]

Thranduil 2.

[MattTheLegoman]

With a Gnomish short short?

[Mathijs]

Short *sword? Indeed, I gave him a famous blade of the Gondolindhrim.

 

Several 'Thranduil 2.0' comments have hurt my delicate feelings, so I iterated on the design a little:

 

[NewErr]

Better.

[Rider of Rohan]

A small teaser for the impending update

[Rider of Rohan]

The Fourth Overhaul Part 2:

Men of Gondor

 

Next up: The Gondorian part of the Men of the West faction.

 

Gondorian Soldiers

 

 

The Soldiers of Gondor are redesigned to look like the Soldiers seen defending Gondor in the movies, and as basic units for the Men of the West faction, they are greatly optimized for performance.

 

The Tower Guards

 

 

The Tower Guards have been given the same treatment as the Gondorian Soldiers.

 

Rangers of Ithilien

 

 

The Ithilien Rangers have been thoroughly redone by DúnedainRanger and capture the feel of a proper elite unit. 

 

Faramir

 

 

 

 

The versatile Captain of Gondor has been given a complete makeover, also as a bonus, when dismounted he has his Ranger costume, and when mounted he wears his knightly armor. 

 

Boromir

 

 

The sturdy, high definition Captain of the White Tower wears his iconic Fellowship of the Ring costume. 

 

Aragorn

 

 

The King of the Reunited Kingdom wears his Black Gate attire from the films.
Stay tuned for the next Overhaul.
- Rider of Rohan & Mathijs

[Bofur]

Just reappeared for a bit to say this thread is utterly beautiful, can't wait to see more