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[Unknown]

1^st June 2012 Update!

Hey people, we are officialy starting our weekly topics which shall be held every 7 days

Note: This update will be quite big due to being the first

So to start off, the team is officialy declaring the From Book to Game join.

From Book to Game is the Company which shall be creating 4 mods:

• Lord of the Rings
• Quenta Silmarillion
• Dunedain
• The Hobbit

1) Lord of the Rings

This mod shall be focusing on the 3rd Age during the War of the Ring and the battles against the Dark Lord Sauron.

This mod shall bring the 6 original factions and enhance them all:

• Men
• Elves
• Dwarves
• Mordor
• Isengard
• Wild/Goblins

This mod shall bring in new heroes, powers, units, structures and spells.

Check Facebook (http://www.facebook....hFromBookToGame)

ModDB (http://www.moddb.com...om-book-to-game

And Revora (http://forums.revora...m-book-to-game/)

for information

Northern Mirkwood and Borders of Lorien by Bofur01

2) Quenta Silamrillion

Set in the First Age of Middle-earth, this division of From Book to Game follows the campaign of the fallen Vala, Melkor, in his quest for domination over Arda. There will, in later releases, be implemented an all-new 'War of the Ring' feature, with this mod's unique Arda 'Living World Map'.

Also, new never-before-seen units such as Cave Drakes and Vampires, whom appear only in the books, have been brought to life for the first time on-screen!

• Edain
• Noldor
• Naugrim
• Angband

Credit goes to FellbeastIII

So far, these maps have been completed by future4:

• Hithlum
• Lammoth
• Legolin River
• Mithrim
• Nan-Tathren
• Nivrim
• Ramdal
• Talath Dirnen

3) Dunedain

The Dunedain mod shall focus on the Dunedain of the 3rd Age, no Arnor.

With their elite skills, the Dunedain can stealth and are very skilled with the bow.

This mod shall not be over-done or over-worked but it will only add this single faction for now.

Expect a BETA release soon!

Here is Aragorn as one of the Dunedain along with the Chief of the Dunedain

Credit goes to {IP}Apollo

Here is the Dunedain Farm where the resources shall be collected

Credit goes to FellbeastIII

Here are the Dunedain Spearmen for the anti-cavalry

Credit goes to xxxMr. Xxxx for the model

Here are the Dunedain Swordsmen for the basic fighters

Credit goes to xxxMr. Xxxx for the shield and {IP}Apollo for the rest

And finally here is the Elite Dunedain which are very skilled

Credit goes to {IP}Apollo

4) The Hobbit

The recently introduced "The Hobbit" sub-mod will contain a brand new campaign based on the journey of the Hobbit called Bilbo Baggins. This campaign will be greatly inspired by the upcoming Hobbit Movies by Peter Jackson, which will be released in about 6 months from now. This means that work on the mod will also start when the movies are released. Stay tuned for this excellent new upcoming campaign, the team will enjoy making it.

~ Fredius

Credits to the team:

• Unknown/Clank234 - Division Leader {LotR}, Secondary Coder and Skinner
• FellbeastIII - Division Leader {QS}, Coder, Skinner, Head Modeller and Head 2D Artist
• {IP}Apollo - Division Leader {Dunedain}, Head Coder, Website and Software Coding
• Fredius - Division Leader {The Hobbit} and Head Mapper
• Ridder Geel - Advisor, Consultant and part-time modding
• ReallyFat - Tertiary Coder
• Yaroslav - Coder
• Marsbar - Coder
• Modboy451 - Coder, Scripter and Modeller
• luh-koala - Head Skinner and 2D Artist
• TheEye - Modeller
• Bofur01 - Secondary Mapper
• future4 - Tertiary Mapper
• past5evermark - Mapper

Edited by Unknown, 29 May 2012 - 01:44 PM.

[Mathijs]

I could be mistaken, but I believe you might have messed up the clickable image links. They only display part of what seems to be a bigger picture.

[Unknown]

I could be mistaken, but I believe you might have messed up the clickable image links. They only display part of what seems to be a bigger picture.

Ah yes, they are actually made like that.
How would I go about making images that have just the pictures and none of the extra background?
Because it's just white in the background to blend in with Revora's background

[Mathijs]

What I usually do is make thumbnails and make them clickable through html, and have them lead to a full render/screenshot.

[Unknown]

How would I go about doing that?
I'm not an expert at using revora

[Mathijs]

Like this:

[url="URL OF YOUR SCREENSHOT GOES HERE"][img]URL OF YOUR THUMBNAIL GOES HERE[/img][/url]

Edited by Matias, 29 May 2012 - 07:07 PM.

[Unknown]

Okay, thanks a lot
I'll fix this up tomorrow
By the way, can I perhaps speak to you on MSN quickly?

[MattTheLegoman]

Ha yes, I actually understand the mods now.
If you guys remember I gave you Nargothrond.which will I believe will fit nicely into Quenta Silmarillion.
I have been contacted, but I will reject a fourth mapping job, but I will change Nargothrond to your specifications if needed.
P.S. And help your mappers.
P.P.S. Great job guys (and girls if there is any?).

Edited by MattTheLegoman, 30 May 2012 - 12:28 AM.

[Elric]

Thanks for the support everyone!

[Ridder Blauw]

Here is Aragorn as one of the Dunedain along with the Chief of the Dunedain

Credit goes to {IP}Apollo

If you're going with the Dunedain during or just before the War of the Ring, Aragorn was the Chieftain of the Dunedain. So you can't have Aragorn and a Chief of the Dunedain if you go with that time period.

[Unknown]

It's just for another hero
But we'll change the name
I didn't make the tech-tree

[Elric]

There were 16 chiefs and some of them were chiefs at the same time. I will agree aragorn was the only one of his time. But I named the hero that to represent all the other 15 before him

[Ridder Blauw]

So you're throwing timeframes together?

So people who were dead around the war of the ring will be featured?

Edited by Ridder Blauw, 03 June 2012 - 07:50 PM.

[Elric]

we are talking about it. We will let you know are descion

[Ridder Blauw]

It is not a necessity though, you have the rangers of the Gray Company that you could include as heroes, even though not each of them carries a name (which in the end, matters little).

Edited by Ridder Blauw, 04 June 2012 - 05:46 AM.