Heroes of MiddleEarth

ive started work on anopen RPG campaign (thnik Orc in warcraft TFT) where u r in the Lord of the Rings world of MiddleEarth. U r gonna be able to travel all over and see all the places that JRR Tolkien described in the book, whille completeing quests and such. i am still working on the Last crane, so dont count that out yet (click the link in my sig)

here's a screenie of the shire so far::D

Hahaha! That's a good idea with the barrel stuck into the hill! :D
I imagine that it's just a placeholder and you're going to make some door/window doodads in the future right?

For a very early screenie it looks pretty interesting. I'd advise you to spice up the terrain a bit by doing the following:

1. Use more than 1 texture. You've got the "golf-course" look going now by just using the "short grass" texture all over the place.

2. Use a custom tileset. The "rock" paths just aren't natural. You'd be advised to use a combination of dirt / rough dirt for your pathing. Exposed rock is good in some places, but used very sparingly.

3. Make the trees bigger. Set their minimum scale value to something like 1.20 and their max to 2.50 or something like that

4. PILE ON THE DOODADS. Load that map up with flowers and shrubs and boulders and shat.

I shall sit in anticipation of further screenshots.

-Bejoty

lol, y thnx for the comments! that is a early version, ive alredy spiced it up a lot, but i dont feel like showing the newer version. here's a screenie of wat i hav so far on isengard::D , o yea btw, i cant model, so unless i get some doors/windows, thats wat the doors r gonna b : p

how do these races sound?

Man
HighElf
WoodElf
Dwarf
Hobbit
Istari
Orc
Uruk-Hai
Goblin

do these sound ok? if i left out any plz inform me:D

You want to make a Istari race ??? That isnt a good idea cause there are only 5 Istari in Middle-Earth: Gandalf,Allatar,Pallando,Saurman and Radagast. so you want to make a whole race out of it hmmmmmmmmm.And wood and high elves thats bad,too. the elves in lorien are grey-elves but there leader galadriel is a noldor (high elv) and the elves at elrond are sindar, so they are not real high elves, yes the are higher than the grey-elves but the real elves are the noldor and vanyar.the elves of thingol are wood-elves , so there must be somwhow 3 elv races

PerikleZ u REALLY need to get out more, lol
Anyway nice screenshots swordmaster, as shadowfax said, nice idea with the barrels and... well, shadowfax summed all the stuff i was gonna say emote_confused
Good work, keep it up!

ANOTHER Middle Earth map? Seriously, the idea is being way overdone. My advice would be to ditch it and come up with an original concept...Everybody and his brother is working on a Middle Earth map.

im doing this just for my pleasure, and im probably not gonna put it up for dl, but i might if its good enough.

o yea btw, about the istari: once u choose them, ur gonna start off as one right off th bat, and u wont get to choose a class for them cuz they're like the wizard people

o yea btw btw. im sorry becuz this thread belongs in the cmapaign discussion cuz this is gonna span over multiple maps:D

Thank you for showing me that theres still some intelligence in this forum.

wat did u mean by that?...:bgrun: