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[NewErr]

So lads ,

I will be polishing the Gondor units , starting , of course The fountain guards .
Here is a little teaser, I have scratched a helmet and mapped with the Original SEE skin . Enjoy

Edited by Nazgûl, 28 November 2010 - 10:52 AM.

[Nazgûl]

That would be the skin donated from Eldarion off course

Amazing and stunning work Val! You are much welcome to SEE, regardless wether we start over from scratch of a past beta. Nice to see a happy topic again =)

[Prince of the Dark Forest]

Very nice... Good to see you on the job! XD

[Lauri]

I would make a couple of new cuts to make the edges at the outer-edge of the eyes flow better in a model\texture ratio. Now it cuts through the flesh, and the flesh is shown on the helmet model.

Hard to explain for one that isn't a native

[NewErr]

I get it , it will be modified , It's still a WIP .He won't get his eyes or face cut in the helmet .

[Nazgûl]

My guess it's the skin that needs a little tweaking... but yeah it's a WiP indeed =)
We talked about Val perhaps adding the little "flower" thinghy (see image) as well, on the forehead part... Then there's the issue of a suitable head. Maybe the Gondor soldier head... maybe Faramir... We'll see what he comes up with before mounting onto the Fountain Guard body. He'll also slap on a pair of new shoulder pads. Should look awesome indeed =)

Edited by Nazgûl, 22 November 2010 - 10:23 PM.

[KingElessar2384]

This is simply beautiful!!!!!!! A kingdom in darkness now is rebuilding to its superior glory KEEP ON WORKIN' man

[Nazgûl]

I was a bit curious about what I could do with them wings, so with some skinning and a temp fix from RG (to enable alpha in the textue) I got this... However, the mapping is a bit off so the result is not what I see in Photoshop

[Arthadan]

Nice!

[NewErr]

Yeah indeed , Eldarion's skin of the wings had a perfect semicircular shape , so because the model had no simetry from top to bottom I had to resize de map , so it does not show all the skin .

[KingElessar2384]

Sweet wings

[yams in a can]

Is the skin the only over hall? Fountain Guards were very small in number. I think you said for them to be a single unit, and I agree with that...

Sweet tower guard ^^

[Nazgûl]

What? You mean the only overhaul? No, it's a scratch made helmet model from Val, and a tweaked Eldarion-skin from me. I changed the metallic texture into what I perceive as metal look using some highlighted details as reflections, mostly in rims of the armor, and then I added the new texture for the wings, using alpha channels to "cut" the wings into actual shape =)

We did however make a misstake when we remapped the wings, accidently using the area for the spear as you can see... We'll fix that
Final screens will be posted tomorrow I guess =)

[Ed Of The 3rd Kind]

that looks stunning, good job guys

[Nazgûl]

GLad you like it my firend, it's mostly the work of Val and Eldarions "old" skin as base though. They're truly artist, like you btw I love working with talanted people =)

[MirkwoodArcher]

Amazing work! Looks really good. Fountain Guards are one of my most favorite looking of Gondor's army.

Edited by MirkwoodArcher, 26 November 2010 - 11:17 PM.

[Kwen]

Hey I recognize that skin!

[Nazgûl]

YEah, like I said... It's Eldarions, and it's already in SEE. Even 4.5 I think... I just tweaked it a little =)

[KingElessar2384]

Oh my, I'm going to cry now, it's to beautiful

[Kwen]

YEah, like I said... It's Eldarions, and it's already in SEE. Even 4.5 I think... I just tweaked it a little =)

Well I've used the same (or very similar) skin in MME for a long time. With his permission of course.