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Orthanc

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Orthanc (Model)

Very nice model, though a version with custom skin (or at least making the tower less black and more brownish and grey) could be cool too
It's suppossed to be pitch black, not brown.

Wow Truely Amazing Moleman!
What Program did u use ? vertex modify?
Yes, with vertex modifier



And I'm working on Barad'dur now...
 
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Very nice olof. This i like.

Hmmm i need to catch up with whats going on here i am absent for close to 3 months and theres what 168 models i think it was :)
 
Looking forward to Barad'dur alot. But isn't the top supose to be circular? I havn't seen in-game but from what the screenshot looks like its more of a sqaure.
You are talking about Orthanc right? the Orthanc model isn't perfect, in order to save size I didn't add all the tiny details it should have, if I did it would take much more time to make and would make maps really slow, anyway the top of Orthanc is not circular, it's six sided.

and btw, Barad'dur is about half done.
 
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I don't want to start a long discussion here, but anyway: the brown might have been wrong, but at paintings, as wéll as pictures from the movie, Orthanc is grey... Maybe you saw the shadowed side of the tower, but it ís grey to my knowledge...

Besides from the black skin, it's a great model and definatelly the best model available atm for Orthanc

Pictures:
http://img-fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/images/orthanc_ttt2.jpg (véry small picture, however, it is a shot from the movie)
http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/lotr_feature/guest0104.jpg
http://fan.theonering.net/middleearthtours/orthanc.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/sarouman99/images/Fantasy/Orthanc.jpg (as you can see at the border of the big 'circle' around Orthanc, the visual side of Orthanc is the side that isn't lighted by the sun)

(About the sphere in top of the Orthanc: The tower has no sphere, but you might be confusing this model with Saruman's staff, that does have a sphere hovering in the middle of those 4 uh... walls)
 
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Yea ok had a look Orthanc is 6 sided.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/bob27/images/bfme2/orthanc.gif Olofmoleman's model looks alomst identical to this one which is from bfme2, and in bfme2 they got alot of the details right. The shading down the side is almost identical to the shading down the side in bfme2 as well.
 
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Oh and btw I found a program that exports models from the .big files for bfme2 and a plugin that can import them into gmax. I've tried it and failed horribly because I can never get the exporters to work :( But u might be able to do it so if u want some models and maybe textures to base the models off? Just pm or email me.
 
Oh and btw I found a program that exports models from the .big files for bfme2 and a plugin that can import them into gmax. I've tried it and failed horribly because I can never get the exporters to work But u might be able to do it so if u want some models and maybe textures to base the models off? Just pm or email me.
No thanks, I only use base models because I can't animate. what's the fun in that? just copying stuff and posting it.
 
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I want to make a map ( i don't know if i arrive to finish it ^^ because i have never finish a map !! but i think i finish it) her name is : The return of the One ring I don't know if it's the name but it's my idea ! i use this model : sauron, orthank, barad dur. GOOD JOB OLOFMOLEMAN YOU ARE MY FAN !!! ;)
 

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Wow Olofmoleman doing perfect models not only for Star Wars but LotR and prolly even other at all. 11/10
 
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This would be good if it had a die or decay animation, but alas it doesn't and that renders it useless for my needs.... It's also kind of unfortunate that you appear to simply be extracting models from other games.
 
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Hey guys ! i was wandering where i could find models for the fortress of orthanc, the walls the gate etc ^^
 
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