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[Nazgûl]

After some time of negativism, it's time to post something positive again... Elrond99 - the author of the Age of the Firstborn mod, has joined the SEE Team as Unit Modeler (& Coder). Atm, SEE mostly need to finish the remaining models for the library of finished assets, so "El" was kind enough to start at once with my ToDo list... After basically no time at all, he had produced the CaH polished version of the Noldor - something I've been keen to see for a long time, since the Noldor are my favourite elves =) They turned out awefully nice I think

The shoulder plates are pending though as they weren't planned, but El added them cause the helmet made the model look a bit "thin" over the shoulders. But we might code them out before the release though... ;p The skin is donated from Eldarion, with some minor tweaks by me and El to fit this model =)

Edited by Nazgûl, 02 December 2010 - 01:19 AM.

[KingElessar2384]

Welcome back Naz, and congrats to El:) I couldn't be able to tell the difference between these skins and the guys in the movie;) It really brings in the ambience of the Prologue in film one. But I agree with your thoughts on the pauldrons. Maybe you could add more dirt and mud around the bottoms of the skirt or some of in on the armor itself cause they've been battling for a couple of years in Dagorland
Thx

Edited by KingElessar2384, 02 December 2010 - 03:44 AM.

[njm1983]

Holy moly.... Very nice indeed. I like the pauldrons, maybe theyre just a bit too big. The Elven armor always seemed much more form fitting, rather than bulky like the armor of men. Anyways great stuff! And awesome we have new teammate!

Welcome aboard!

[isledebananas]

I think the problem with them is the skin on them needs to be tweaked. They have a really big shiny spot which is quite considerable and makes them stand out oddly. The gold armor on the Noldor has always been a bit muted and darker. Compared to the rest of the armor(sans the helm) it stands out and seems not to fit because of the extra shine. Unfortunately I think the helm suffers a bit from that as well, but not nearly as much. Though I agree with njm that a small decrease in size is also necessary, but mostly I think the problem stems from the shiny feature.

[Nazgûl]

The weird thing is that the texture of those CaH parts - helmet and cauldrons, are not that bright and shiny in Photoshop. I guess it might be a "normal map" (NRM) that causes that. We'll fix that, at least for the helmet, and the cauldrons will probably be removed....

[yams in a can]

Pretty ^^.

[KingElessar2384]

Could there also be a CaH version of the Galadhrim warriors as well?

[Lü Bu]

can you show picture with normal map applyed...