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[Rider of Rohan]

Point taken, How's it looking now?

Yea I won't change the design from vanilla unless it's completely appropriate i.e. giving the peasants a belt or the Haradrim chest armor. 

[Mathijs]

What I would do:

• Create harder lines between armor plates. Technically, I'd select each plate, copy-paste it, then have it 'drop shadow' on the one below it. You're looking for definition, so you need hard, sharp lines. 
• Brighter metal. In fact, I'd find a good photograph of a metal surface, and use that to create each plate. 
• Uniform lighting. Brighter spots on the tops of the shoulder armor, a ridge of bright lighting across the horse's neck and at the spot the horse's armor plates 'bulge' the most, ie. the front of its throat.

I know this is a texture patch, but I think you could stand to be a little less slavish to the source material in terms of coloration and exact design. Increase the image size, add a pattern to the cloth and its lining (think Citadel Guard cloaks), add an actual Gondorian chest plate, etc.

[Rider of Rohan]

Well I have a metal texture on overlay already so I'll use that, and it's a 512x512 . And this is going to be like the other patches so I'll be keeping to the EA design.

Edited by Rider of Rohan, 19 July 2015 - 12:52 PM.

[Mathijs]

Sure, remember though, even in the BFME1 patch we changed a bunch of designs when the original one was just too dumb.

[MattTheLegoman]

I am also sure there is room to keep the same shape but include more detail too. The Gondor Soldiers have finer detail on their armour than what I see here and the Knights of Dol Amroth should be more elaborate than the soldiers.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

C'mon, Rider, I did tell you this earlier, man.

[Rider of Rohan]

[NewErr]

One note to add in ROR's defence, the mapping for the ROTWK added units is simply terrible so is the original texture. I admire his courage to work with that.

[ELB27]

the mapping for the ROTWK added units is simply terrible

This is but a taste of the terror that EA has unleashed...

Edited by ELB27, 20 July 2015 - 04:53 PM.

[Rider of Rohan]

So as some of you guys might know, I'm helping in the BFME2 visual overhaul for Valheru's patch.
Been doing some work on the Half Troll Marauders:

 

Edited by Rider of Rohan, 25 July 2015 - 08:40 PM.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Very impressive.

[Kwen]

I don't like the highlights on the back portion of the chest piece. The front looks quite good, but the back looks rushed in my opinion.

[Rider of Rohan]

Someone want to make a Last Alliance Mod ?

[NewErr]

Do you remember the Narnia mod?

[Rider of Rohan]

Do you remember the Narnia mod?

I might still have that stuff in one of my external drives haha.

[Rider of Rohan]

Currently working on some caped animations on the 2nd Age Gondorians.

[Dark Lord]

impressive,this great, just a question, if you are going to wear full armor

[Rider of Rohan]

impressive,this great, just a question, if you are going to wear full armor

Sorry I didn't quite catch that ?

[MattTheLegoman]

Do you have a full armour set? And are you going to wear it?