CrazyMoose

i'd say make that tower more pointy.
this is how i actually thought it should look like
you're reading my mind

Yeah the towers not finnished wasn't sure what to put on top, I have an idea now though so I'll finnish it off tomorrow.

Ok started modelling some kind of barracks today mainly out of bordom not sure how to do the top of the tower yet the big ring in the middle would have a huge fire on it and the units would actually apear from the fire, I was thinking an idle animation of some kind of wizard who would wander out of the door. The soldier was just there for scale btw, I am also slightly worried about the size of it and am debating making it taller though it looks quite perculiar then because im trying not to make the building two large in terms of footprint so it ends up looking stretched.

Anyway this is just my idea what do you guys think.

p.s. current poly count 648

what should the poly count be roughly for a building?

You can always PM or email me Taralom ive created units before and got them in game so i should be able to help you with any of the basic problems, and i'd been modeling for years before I started with BFME (although with 3ds max 5 rather than G Max). Though it's often more usefull to post on the forums as a lot more people see your problem them and will respond if they can help

Good Luck and don't give up keep trying.

yeah my msn address is the same as my email im not on very often so if you want to have a propper meeting just let me know in the forums.

I'll PM Nolis aswell

I agree for the moment, LOTR factions should be left in until we have finnished this faction then if needed we can start changing them afterwards, I just had an interesting Idea, 4 elemental factions, fire, water, air and earth. could be interesting. Ring heros being 2 super elementals, fire and air get light, water and earth get dark.

Anyway yeah I think we leave it until these are finnished


Oh I had an idea about the king aswell, what if when he was built he came in a horde with his royale guard around him. I think hero hordes are possible. Basically his guard would be reasonably strong swordsmen and would never leave his side. I was thinking about animations and he could have a WOP type power which instead of blue magic was flames and the animation for the rest of the horde would be for them to duck.

Anyway yeah we should probbably meet on msn and talk about this stuff and get a tech tree going if you don't already.

Let me know when you have a concept for the fortress and I'll put it in game and have a look what cool flame effects I can take from the Balrog.


Edit: Oh yeah I was thinking

1) perhaps the units should have theyre faces covered except there eyes which should have a faint say golden glow? I was going to say red but thats a bit cheesy.

2) one of the powers should be a moveable black smoke which would hide your units inside it, I was thinking of this perhaps for one of the kings powers if he was in a horde.

3) All the units should have curved blades, scimitars and such, just thought it would fit nicely with the faction what do you two think?

4) we should see about getting our own forum so wer not cluttering up the general modding, perhaps you should speak to one of the Admins here Taralom and get it set up?