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[Irenë Hawnetyne]

As some modders among you may have noticed, I've started to do select textures and models for mods, rather than just attempting to build mods solo, leaving coding, modelling, designing, and texturing down to me. This meant that I never really finished any of my own mods.
But, when I cut out the largest part, coding, I found that I could do things a helluva lot better than before; for the king of the dead94's Silmarillion Mod, I designed, well, just about everything graphic-based, apart from the maps. This includes monsters, loadscreens, GUI, advertising (wallpapers & signature images) and ... well, need I go on? It's a lot of work.
More recently, though, I started to work on the beta Legend of the Weapons mod, by Dragon Rider, mainly modding the UI.
Both these mods' signature images are in my signature, below.


Legend of the Weapons
English Splash 1 & 2

Main Menu Loadscreen (load_w_ea.jpg)


Silmarillion Mod
English Splash



If anyone wants me to contribute or help with any mods, feel free to message/email me a request!

Edited by FellbeastIII, 16 August 2011 - 09:00 PM.

[Yarrum]

Nice job. Those are some quality images.

[Unknown]

I love the Battle for the Silmarillion one
Looks reall good

[Phil]

I like them.

[Elric]

I still don't have words to describe the Legend of the Weapons stuff. But i do have a face for it:

[Neth]

Nice ones, interested to see the 3D stuff, you mean models and that?

[Elric]

You can find some more of his art including models here: http://obsidianlake....rt.com/gallery/

[{IP}Solstice]

You are a pretty good graphics modder

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Here's my Silmarillion Mod models


Annoyingly, I can't for the life of me rig or bind them, despite having made the models and texture maps by myself.

[Elric]

I still think your amazing.

[Unknown]

They look good.
For your rigging problem, try and break it down.
I mean try to rig it. Look in W3D and then fix any problems
Continue this loop until the model looks good
Also, do you need to rig the building?
Does it require any animations?

[Yarrum]

Those are some nice looking models. For the binding issue, it all comes down to practice, but, at least for human-shaped models, it's quite easy to get the hang of. One of the downsides to binding in RenX as opposed to 3ds Max is that you can't weight vertices between different bones to obtain a smoother result, but it's not really necessary in BFME. To get started, try simply re-binding a human model according to Rob's excellent tutorial. Once you can bind a human well enough, I'm sure you can take care of that Balrog, especially since you'll have the vanilla Balrog model to compare it to in the w3d viewer.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Thanks for the help Yarrum. I haven't a doubt it'll prove useful in days not too far from here!

Edited by FellbeastIII, 18 August 2011 - 05:36 AM.

[Neth]

Nice, looking forward to seeing some more models

[NewErr]

Looks good ,if your model doesn't vary too much from the original one ,it's pretty easy to rig , The Balrog tho has many many bones , it's not recommended to start with that kind of stuff yet , but you will see how things work in time , experience just makes it better .

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

My god. This is... terrible.

[Elric]

....... nough said ...... 

[Pasidon]

 

But this is a great drawing.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Pfft. It's not mine. Well. It's borrowed and modified free stock photography. But we've all been there, right?

[NewErr]

I'm still there.