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[Bart]

yeah but that's not elegant. people might wonder "how do i make a gate ?????///"

[Nazgûl]

That's true... I'll consider it

[Sûlherokhh]

I'll quickly make the button once i have your walls. Or better yet, i'll just send you the button/commandset.

[clonecommand]

Little late...Finally got around to seeing them...

Looks great! New walls are a wlecome addition. That is 6/6 factions that have walls!

About the mordor walls... Is there any way to make the gates open instead of "crumble?" When I think of Mordor, I think of huge gates slowly opening, like in the black gate thing in the ROTK... not falling down...

[Nazgûl]

No, in that case I would have done it...
I had to use existing anims and NO walls open like regular doors.
- Men slide to the sides
- Elven fold to the sides
- Dwarven sink in the ground
- Isengard fold in this manner

And the only one that "worked" with these was Isen's.

This is smart (or lazy) by EA, since all walls have no front or back, and such have the doors no front or back either. This means that from whichever direction you build them, they are going to look the same on both sides, and the doors too. The doors are also going to open in the same way regardless of if they are build with one or the other side facing front (away from castle keep)...

NOW... the "problem" is that the Mordor walls (from Dol Guldur) DO have a front and back, and so have the walls since FlameGuard did an awesome job, but not "dead on". SO... first of all, if we had a modeler that could animate them to open like regular doors, you still have the problem of having to build in such a way that the front is always facing away from the castle... to have the gate open away from the base, and not in towards it.

To manage this you should always build Mordors walls in a clockwise manner around the castle. That way they face away from the castle and the doors end up the same way. But the anim is (as long as no modeler joins the team) limited to this weird folding way :/

[Sûlherokhh]

This should definitely be in decriptionlabel for 'wallhubs' and the 'makewallspan'-button. It's easy to forget when you are not used to it.

[Nazgûl]

Yeah I guess we could give Mordor walls tooltips of their own =)

[clonecommand]

Elaborate?

Are you thinking of attaching old building to the walls? *restatment :/*

[Nazgûl]

i love ruïns so a question.

could it be posible for a faction to add ruïned parts of building to the walls
maybe it would give a nice view.

Nah we wont have ruins/rubble on the walls... sorry =p