[Altered Melee] [ALPHA] Lord of the Rings : Peoples of Middle Earth

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jun 18, 2014

Working on Gondor faction.
Working on Minas Tirith, Shire and Land of Nurn.
Moria terrain finished.
Testing & discussing MOD packaging.
Screenshots added.
Still looking for team-mates.

Heinvers · Jun 18, 2014

Awesome. Great job so far. Congratulations to the whole team.

Valandil · Jun 30, 2014

any progress guys ? im so sorry to cant't work on terrain now... but i will soon!

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jun 30, 2014

I've been quite busy too... But I just have to finish spells and upgrades to finish the Gondor faction.

Valandil · Jun 30, 2014

Gondor faction =)

I just want to tell you this, why dont you unit umbar with harad and dunland with isengard ?

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jun 30, 2014

Because I want the MOD to be epic and with all peoples of Middle Earth. It will enable to release several updates with brand new factions! Besides, like this, there will be 7 factions for the Evil side, and 7 for the Good side ^^!

Valandil · Jul 1, 2014

So an idea to be for umbar maybe create some black numenorean knights, soldiers and archers ... and pirates of umbar ...
Rhun and Khand you can doit together, because its the same people, called variag, like people of far and near harad...

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jul 1, 2014

Ok for Variags, but Black numenorians for Umbar? I don't really understand ^^"

Heinvers · Jul 1, 2014

I see that everything is fine

Keep the pace. Good luck

Valandil · Jul 1, 2014

judotrente said:
Ok for Variags, but Black numenorians for Umbar? I don't really understand ^^"

umbar was the ancient haven of numenorean, after the dawnfall of Numenore black numenoreans parted for umbar and lived there until the war of the ring, The mouth of Sauron was black numenorean too and probabely he was from Umbar

Seferantus · Jul 30, 2014

Shin here,
might join this project as 3D modeller, and you requested some models at CR but I deleted all my WC3 Stuff long ago so I would do it from scratch this mod might have some potential.

How am I able to contact you?

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jul 31, 2014

The development of the MOD has stopped for a month, but now I'm ready to keep on working on it!

Seferantus said:
Shin here,
might join this project as 3D modeller, and you requested some models at CR but I deleted all my WC3 Stuff long ago so I would do it from scratch this mod might have some potential.

How am I able to contact you?

Yes, you can contact me by private message on THW and I sent you my email and Skype account!

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Aug 5, 2014

Gondor faction almost finished.
Working on gap of Rohan, Shire and Land of Nurn.
Screenshots added.
Still looking for team-mates.

Deleted member 219079 · Aug 5, 2014

You need custom melee AI? I'm creating one, expect a download in 1 to 2 years ^^ You can see my progress here:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/lab-715/custom-ai-255003/

metocan02 · Sep 6, 2014

Dvarves are like in BFME 2

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Sep 19, 2014

Gondor faction finished.
Working on gap of Rohan, Shire and Land of Nurn.
Working on Mordor Faction.
MOD system improved.
Still looking for team-mates.

galactcus · Sep 23, 2014

hey friend want to help me with my project??
i need some of your models and i have some that you may want

hehe
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/map-development-202/lord-rings-defense-minas-tirith-239418/

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Sep 24, 2014

I'm not interested in your models. Tell me (in private) which models you would like and I'll see what I can do.

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Nov 6, 2014

Working on gap of Rohan and Land of Nurn.
Working on Mordor Faction.
Working on artworks.
Screenshots added and looking for a better Galadriel model!
Still looking for team-mates.

Ragnoras · Nov 7, 2014

say i m here to ask, how many heores are there for each faction and wht kind of Ai do you want, i can do alterned melee ais

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Nov 8, 2014

At the moment one hero per faction (others will come later), and a melee AI close to the wc3 default one but with all these custom units

!

Ragnoras · Nov 8, 2014

eell maybe i can, since ai editor can magange up to 3 heoes but unfortunalet.. can only stand up to lv 10 heores

Shanghai · Nov 15, 2014

realy great project where did you get the troll model from? looks like bfme

realy good.

Heinvers · Nov 16, 2014

Good stuff you got going on around

Shanghai · Nov 21, 2014

I would love to have a goblin model

givbe it to me baby! and btw realy nice map ur making. none of the lotr maps actually have bfme like models! so this will be better.

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 12, 2014

Working on gap of Rohan and Land of Nurn.
Mordor Faction finished.
New screenshots added.
Still looking for team-mates.

Heinvers · Dec 12, 2014

Oh hello there, good to see you working on it

Sunreaver · Jan 14, 2015

How is this going

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jan 14, 2015

Slowly, very slowly... Almost the whole team has disappeared... But at this day the 6 first factions are almost finished, two terrains are done, a good protype of mod console is coded (to switch between the regular wc3 and the moded PoME). I hope I'll manage to release a decent BETA version

!

Antimatter · Jan 23, 2015

cant wait for this!

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Apr 14, 2015

Hey there! I'm "back" with some news about the project!

At the moment it is dead due to the lack of people who join the project (those who joined stopped to work on it). One day I'll perhaps try to release a decent version... I don't want all that work become useless, so here is the link with the last dev-map. It includes more or less the 6 first factions (some bugs remain, upgrades are lacking a little, etc...) but to my mind it is playable for someone who wanted to feel the concept of this MOD. A last detail, the MOD is in French, sorry about that, it was planed to be released at least in French and English, but the translator has disappeared ^^...

If someone is interested to continue the project please contact me, I have other resources that could be very usefull (terrains, models, a protype of MOD console, etc...)

EDIT : if you want to test it in multiplayer you'll need to download a tool developed by someone on the Hive (his name is A Void if I remember well). However I've never tested it in multiplayer, maybe it is quite buggy

Sunreaver · Apr 15, 2015

I will check it up

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 15, 2016

Buuuuuuuuuuuuump!

After a long period of time, I'm back to work on this project! New kickass models have been found, here are some examples :

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https://postimg.org/image/buernae07/

Isengard - Light and heavy warg riders

Isengard - Hero and bowmen

Goblins - Giant spiders and boar riders

Goblins - Azog and mountain giants

Silvan elves - Light swordmen and elite bowmen

Updates on the thread incoming!

Valandil · Dec 15, 2016

great news ! Glad you are back !

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 16, 2016

The Goblin faction will be the Misty Mountains. Buildings have been reworked. New unit models have been added. Here is a look what the Misty mountains faction should look like!

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https://postimg.org/image/r9f4p7441/
Screenshots also updated for Gondor, Dwarves and Silvan elves. Main thread updated too.

Still looking for team-mates.

UmbraUnda · Dec 17, 2016

This project looks nice. Would like to see the Drawves get better architecture though, maybe give those plain wooden buildings to Rohan and give the Drawves "Northrend" Human structures, which look more stone built more suited to Dwarves - look up the skin pack, there's a bundle somewhere here on hive.

Nice array of custom models - with the new map size limit this project has some real potential. Good work, keep it up.

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 17, 2016

UmbraUnda said:
with the new map size limit

It isn't 20 MB anymore? I've been away more than a year, I've maybe missed the information.

EDIT : if you talk about the multi-player map file size.

Valandil · Dec 17, 2016

it is 128 mb now you can play maps of this size on battle.net

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 19, 2016

Valandil said:
it is 128 mb now you can play maps of this size on battle.net

That's good news! In that way, in worst case scenario, I'll be able to release stand alone maps instead of the MOD package!

I spent the last two days working on some creeps, some screenshots :

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Nimwaithes and rock giant

Bronze drake

Wargs and barghest

Cave troll and orcs

Hill trolls

UmbraUnda · Dec 19, 2016

Hell yeah - I'm digging all those custom models. Nice job grouping them according to the lore.

On a side note - some of the models look dull and lack contrast that others have. Run those on Photoshop and raise the contrast to liven them up.

Good work, keep it up.

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 20, 2016

UmbraUnda said:
Some of the models look dull and lack contrast that others have. Run those on Photoshop and raise the contrast to liven them up.

Yes, you're right! I'll try to find time to fix that...

UmbraUnda · Dec 22, 2016

judotrente said:
Yes, you're right! I'll try to find time to fix that...

Let me know if you want me to do it for you, or if you need help with anything. Keep up the good work.

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 22, 2016

UmbraUnda said:
Let me know [...] if you need help with anything

Help is welcome for textures contrast balancing! I'll send you the Silvan elves (it is the faction that is the closest to release) models and textures.

Do you have other skills? Terraining? Modelling? Animating? Making artworks? Making triggers?

EDIT : screenshots added for Mordor

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UmbraUnda · Dec 23, 2016

Alright, sure - send as much as you want and I'll get it done when I can. Yeah, pretty much everything but I lack animation experience, been messing around with mdlvis a bunch. but I'm not looking to join your project. I'm working on my own right now. Just lending a hand so your art assets look better, plus adjusting skins only takes a minute so it's a quick fix really. Also - I'll be posting my project on this forum soon, hope you check it out.

Those Trolls are looking good, could be scaled a bit bigger though, same with the riders in the front row. Some buildings could be bigger/too so there's some consistency. Wait till you see my map... All units are the size of a door way so buildings have realistic size.

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 23, 2016

UmbraUnda said:
I'll be posting my project on this forum soon, hope you check it out.

I will!

UmbraUnda said:
but I lack animation experience.

Too bad... I have crazy LOTR models, found on a chinese website. They are awesome but not animated...

UmbraUnda · Dec 23, 2016

You respond quick, just edited my last comment btw.

Nice. O wow, damm. Well, I've been looking for an animator but most here on Hive don't do work for anyone except themselves - but I caught one in the chatroom once and he taught me some basics. The only way to get an animator is to pay them... probably xD

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Dec 28, 2016

Hey guys! I was thinking about the different releases of the MOD (release + expansions with new factions and new mecanics) and I would like to have your point of view on the question. Do you think that releasing the MOD for free with 4 factions and making a crowdfunding for expansions would work? I'm supposed to find a new work, and developing the MOD take me a lot of time, so I'm trying to find solutions

UmbraUnda · Dec 29, 2016

It's up to you in the end - however the odds of making a lot of money off a wc3 is very unlikely. Honestly its easier find work and do this in your free time for fun.

Not to say you couldn't make a lot of money off a game, its just that not that many people are on wc3. Maybe if you exported everything to a Unity based rts system you could release it as its own game and then would be a lot more marketable so people would donate more for it and its expansions. Good luck

TheFrenchLeprechaun · Jan 3, 2017

UmbraUnda said:
making a lot of money

It is rather earn a little money to avoid having to find a new job ^^! I'm not looking for making benefit, just for free time to release this MOD quicly. I'm lazy as fuck when I don't like what I do, but when I like it...

Other points of view on crowfunding guys?

Here is a new screeny!

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Gondor - Aragorn, Boromir, Gondor Bannerman and Citadel guards

UmbraUnda · Jan 3, 2017

Oh ok. In that case, make a patreon and a youtube account then. Patreon will get you a monthly income + youtube videos will make additional income for you if you put ads on your videos + it will advertise your project and your patreon if you put links. That's what Gaia's ORPG does. I'm thinking about making one soon but for a different project...

Nice models as usual - love those guards. Is that Aragorn all the way to the left? He looks relatively dark and his sword seems small, unless its just a weird angle.

[Altered Melee] [ALPHA] Lord of the Rings : Peoples of Middle Earth

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