the last hope of the third age
Global modification for BFME2 1.06 with Gondor, Mordor, Arnor, Angmar, Mithlond and Rhun. In the final version you can see updated graphic, optimization of performance, a lot of new units and heroes, big stone walls, more realistic ships, artillery and more.
General articles of the mod (click on image to look):
Now you have access to build big might walls and play real epic game! In the article you can see many screenshots of different walls with descriptions and a couple of videos.
TLHotTA 1.0 have really updated graphic with normal-mapping technology. This technology is old enough, but it never fully used in any other mod for BFME series. Nice precision with perfect performance - look on the screens.
Fords of Isen
As you can remember, the most popular map for 1vs1 online matches from the default BFME2 was not unique. By colors it had standard BFME set: green grass with yellow dirt. Nothing special compared to a lot of other BFME2 maps.
I decided to make Fords as rainy map with overcast sky. Respectively, the map now has more cold colors and muted sunlight and faded inexpressive shadows.
Lothlorien
In Dwimordene, in Lórien
Seldom have walked the feet of Men,
Few mortal eyes have seen the light
That lies there ever, long and bright.
In accordance with this passage from Gandalf's Song, I wanted to make Lorien a fairytale place, glorified in legends. The abode of the immortal elves now has dominant gold shades, contrasting to saturated and deep shadows. Also pay attention to leaves falling (it's better to look on it in the video), another well-fitting element of the reworked map.
Ithilien
Ithilien became a night map. As you know, this territory is located on the frontier of men's Gondor and Sauron's Mordor. So, I decided to emphasize this feature. Ithilien now has purple and dark green colors with orange-red shades. I think, these palette is great for this map.
Mount Doom
I think, there is no need to represent this land, which played the role of grandiose forge for Dark Lord. Of course, Mount Doom has bright red colors contrasting to grayish black. Don't forget to pay attention to falling ash ;]
Specular map
It's not a secret, that developers of BFME series brought some great stuff as shader model 2.0 to BFME2, which means a much graphic improving compared to BFME1. What did it give to us? Support of new shaders, improved lighting and some great texturing techniques. The developers used normal maps for creating pseudo-relief for buildings and some terrains, but specular maps were not used by them at all. But there is active functional for applying specular in standard BFME Mod SDK! I found it almost by accident, and it was a good luck.
Why am I so happy? Look on sсreenshots below (and above too) and you understand me :]
Models with normal map on the left, models with specular map on the right
Yeah, specular map allows to show reflectivity of different materials. So, thereby I got more opportunities to emphasize visual image of every unit.
For example, armored gondorians now have great reflection on their armor, so we clearly see that these units have metal as the main material:
Another good example of applying specular map is fellbeast, air-horse for nazguls, you can see some reflection on the model. And it also makes sense, because fellbeast's skin is slippery and it should have reflection:
Also, applying specular map improves lightings. On the screenshot you can see great shading from the trees on the shining armor of gondorians:
Condition textures
Ashes of War takes idea of condition textures from The Last Hope of the Third Age. If you've played in TLHotTA, you can remember, that damaged units have blood on their textures; fired units gain burnt texture, and on snow maps your army has snowed textures.
These textures is simple enough thing, but they also are very important to create a good impression playing the mod.
1.11 changes:
-better performance;
-updated units models;
-smarter AI;
-updated terrains;
-decreased armor of siege engines;
-fixed bugs.
Attention! This is Russian version (you can install it on English, or any other, version and it will work).
Installing:
-launch installer and follow instruction;
-after the install there will be shortcut icon on the desktop;
-start the mod from the shortcut.
Use launcher to activate\deactivate the mod.
Special thanks to:
-DarkWarrior: testing
-Annatar: help with graphic; models of Mordor trolls, golem, fire atronach and werewolf
-Kromarti: models of chaurus and werewolf
-Str1ker: launcher
-Di Hate: sounds
-Mithrandir: help with installer
-User NDC from The3rdAge: enhanced w3d importer (it really helps me)
-Users of BFME Modding: help with ideas
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