Chapter One - The Shire ( Silver Edition )... This might be it :O

AHH I finnally began remaking Chapter One - The Shire, since it was first released last year, it was an okay map, though i thought to myself the terrain could be better.

And now it has ( i believe )

This will be a more expansive and more funner version of " Chapter One - The Shire ", with more custom music, more small cinematics, and finnally creatures to fight , and it will also have a more indepth felling to it then the other version.

The silver edition has models from the HIGH RESOLUTION PACK , found on
WC3 Campaigns, by M2D. To my sadness it is 50 MB big, but i hope to lessin this size to anywhere from 10 - 30 MB. ( Im shooting for 16)

for now, the terrain is 15 % done ( i started today at 4 :00 xD)


i hope to release it in a few months... yaa

lol all the screenshots were takin at midnight ( which is why its so dark looking )

but its supposed to be all shiny and happy looking at day time ( which is most of the game)

Ohh ya, by the way... i know the houses look NOTHINg like the houses in LOTR... but i couldn't help NOT using these houses

Edit : Added The Inside of Frodo's House , Bywater, and a chestnut tree near lothos house.

You could add a bit more tile variation to the terrain, as its really only the one grass tile and the road. In a couple of places there could be a bit more height variation, although its mostly fine in the terrain, theres only a couple of places. Also maybe a bit more different types of environmental doodads, like maybe some rocks or some different kinds of grass/bushes/shrubs.

see i would add more... but if i do, lag will increase..

so i try to keep the shrub levels low. hehe

but thnx.. the tile variation will definetly be fixed

Bump -- Ya added more screenies

the last 3 in decending order :
1) inside Frodo's House ( only the 1st floor )
2)a chestnut tree, which is inbetween Lotho's house, and Frodo's house. ( you can enter Both.)
3) this is Bywater, the town adjacent to the Hobbiton. ( You can enter the Inn, and you can enter that castle

hum it looks nice.. but it Doesnt look like at all to hobbiton.. but meeh its your cinematics not mine..

Well the interior of Frodo's house, in my opinion looks to big. If I remember hobbits houses were a lot smaller then that (especially in height).

I bet you could make a more shire-like place.

yeap .. speacialy with the hobiton doodad in the UTM..

Hmm, IMO the high res isn't suited for it. The outsides, yes, but the insides sort of 'require' Olof's model pack of the shire. Hobbit houses are small in size (so small Gandalf bangs his head) and usually not exactly so empty, but that's something no terrainer seems to be able to overcome >_<.
But it looks good, keep going

well i know what you all mean, and i was thinking that at first , but ...

if it was small, the custom camera would totally screw you over in the houses, so it would be unbearabley pain ful to play this map if the houses were small.

and i know the houses look nothing like the Shire houses, but when you play it ( ive already tested it out as you see ) it has a nice " The Shire " feeling... i dont know why

about the hobbiton doodads, i have those in the map, but the obly thing being used is the coat racks, bookcases, and desks.

trust me, it didn't look that good when i made a hobbit house. Verysmall, and cartoony,.. it just wouldn't have been nice.
but i hope that the high resolution and feel to the game would compinsate.

Are there any good Hobbit models ? i found none on the Hive :/

why not a simply reskinned villager? like this one -->VillagerMale - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site

ahh very nice indeed.

i might use this.

need to clear some space for my map though , cause itz at ( 48 !! ) Megabites... which izz way to big

im gonna add a few screenies in a couple hourz

---- Project closed -----

This project, which was making great headway, has been canceled to due a number of reoccuring problems, especially with the models. The map size increased to 100 MB due to a model malfunction, and has now been destroyed xD
i plan to restart it, but it would take a whole lot of inspiration and stuff. so i will probabaly not.

it seems that all the textures tie together with all the models, making it very complicated to reduce map size.