Warcraft: A New Dawn

[Grey Nightmare]

@Warlord/Debode - Pandaren? Yeah... uh... no. Sorry : )
- Ogres? Maybe, I won't say anything other than remind you that Rexxar did indeed incorporate them into the horde within the TFT bonus campaign.

- WoW models are indeed placeholders, although there not without issues so were hoping to replace them ASAP!

- Yes it's the dwarf base model (the earlier pics) which Taylor has now expanded into the 'Dwarven Sniper'.

@DeathRaider - Hey thanks, always nice to get some positive feedback.
I am kinda puzzled though, if your texturing for the UDK (Kit not kid?) why would that stop you from texturing for us (if you have the time to terrain anyway??)

Sorry that just seems rather illogical

Thanks for the offer anyhow, were not looking for terrainers just yet, but we may be in contact!

 

[DeathRaider(MMT]

Ahh yes to answer your question i work rather slow with textures so i dont really like having two projects on the go, just takes long time.

 

[The World Is Flat]

@Debode, Exactly.

@Deathraider(MMT

We'll we will look into openings for you, if you could post a resume of your terraining and modding achievements, that would be wonderful.

 

[DeathRaider(MMT]

Nearly every project i was in died out or was never finished, i can make you a terrain and screenshot it how does that sound?

{EDIT}
Sorry for the double post, heres the terrain i started working on today, not really finished but i ran out of ideas for today lol.

 

[The World Is Flat]

I will try it out.

Edit. looks alright, you might want to add more flora/debris.

If you can, try making a melee map.

 

[rcshaggy]

I would love to join this, but I know nothing about the Starcraft II editor and I have my own projects to worry about so it wouldn't work out at all.

 

[The World Is Flat]

We are very strict about who joins, and only accept highly skilled, motivated individuals with a passion for making mods and games, You would have to express a specific capacity to devote large amounts of time over a long period to join us.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Passion > Skill

You can't teach a person to love doing something but you can teach someone how to use a tool. So don't be afraid to apply people!

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Honestly I don't know why he posted that at all.
"I would like to join, but I'm not going to anyway"

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Model finished, up to the animations

T.

 

[SasuhKun]

Woot. You guys win already so much rep with all the incredible WIPs and etc that rep is not worth a damn thing right now... xD

Good job, as always.

 

[Deolrin]

I think the texture looks extremely low-quality compared to most models in SC2, and obviously lacks normal and specular maps, which make models in SC2 what they are really. Without specular and normal maps, models are on par with WC3 models on quality.
The mesh looks great nevertheless.
I suggest you to find some 2D artist to make the textures, though.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Incase you forgot, this is an RTS, not an FPS, It will look fine from the distance, and even better with normal, spec, and diffuse maps.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

mmm, in the image, which is a jpg,( so not the best quality ) it HAS normal mapping and specular mapping....

T.

 

[Dentothor]

awesome. but im in agreement with Debode

 

[Deolrin]

No, seriously, I know what you're saying, but the in-game units are much more... Clean. Detailed. High-quality. I don't know... It's just that the quality of the diffuse on that one sort of sketchy, grainy; And the normal\specular maps are close to invisible, if there ARE actually any specular\normal maps in there.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

btw, debode, aren't you a skilled texturer ?

T.

 

[Deolrin]

No, I'm not, what are you talking about?

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Now I don't know much about texturing or 'maps' so I can't comment on that but the texture quality is by far superior to several sc2 units, the (standard) marine for e.g. couldn't be more bland imo, as TWIF said the current quality will do very nicely, the only bit I would gripe at is... What would be teamcoloured? :/

 

[Deolrin]

The marine texture's quality is not as bad as you make it out to be:
http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/1/14/Marine_SC2_DevRend2.jpg

 

[The World Is Flat]

He said its bland, not poor quality.

The point is, its not any issue You'll notice, and It will look better when the mapping is complete.

Cool it Kid.

 

[M0rbid]

Story:
When becoming old enough for combat, every young orc gets an orc clan dagger as his very first weapon. This very basic orc weapon is rather heavy and needs the muscles of an orc to be carried. Even for young orcs it's a task to fight with this weapon, still the honour of gathering it is immense, so that this very basic orc weapon is still rather important in orcish traditions.


Note: It's a very quick sketch of very bad quality but I felt like sharing it with you all So here you go. Also I am not sure wether this is useful at all...

 

[SasuhKun]

The pauldrons and the gloves could be the team-colored pieces.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Good idea SasuhKun.
TWIF We need to talk about this thread, tonight I'll probably write up some BB code to redo the front page it's kinda... WTF?! atm

But long-term it's a mess... We either need a new thread or a sub-forum or our own forums etc (damn you 1and1)!

M0rbid I really like that, conceptually I'll be honest and say it's not that ... useful.
But I will DEFINITELY find a use for a piece of artwork like that
Website art/loading screens/videos it'll fit in nicely somewhere

Cheers man!

 

[Taylor Mouse]

I agree with SasuhKun, but first, I'll need to get it in game, decently

T.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Yeah, let us know when you've gotten to that stage.

I am with you there, I was thinking gloves myself, But alot of people on our ModDB think a fedora might be nice, a TC fedora?

@ grey, Righto, just email it or w/e

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

M0rbid I really like that, conceptually I'll be honest and say it's not that ... useful.
But I will DEFINITELY find a use for a piece of artwork like that
Website art/loading screens/videos it'll fit in nicely somewhere

Has the website been updated in a while?
That could probably use some additional concepts

 

[Grey Nightmare]

@TWIF - will do and - they do, where are those comments!? :/

@Wolf - No, I'm actually going to tweak it right about... now? Or in an hour or so!
So you have suggestions nows the time

@Taylor - Yeah that's a good idea, easier to change TC after


EDIT: Been messing with the site all night got absolutely f*ck all done, I tell you I could MURDER 1and1 employees all day and my lust for vengeance would not be sated. -.-

 

[SasuhKun]

I really wish I could actually try to be frequent both here on the website, to help you guys brainstorm. But oh well, it's fate. All I can do is give some quick glances, grant some little suggestions and wish you the best of luck. Keep up all the good work done until now, and do not give up!

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Thanks Sasuhkun, that's all we dare ask for

Speaking of the site, finally got round to a major update. Added some new things, changed a thing or two, different comment box system etc.
No more 'information' as such yet, that'll be along shortly.

I'll let you guys figure it out yourself, more IMPACT that way

 

[tagg1080]

Is there any actual progress that is presentable yet?

I am just curious.


Even a demo or teaser of any sort would be badass.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

We are currently discussing a few teasers, a demo (to my knowledge(I'm really just the production(not dev)side of things)) is still a century or two away.

With something like this Art Assets are the biggest form of progress, turning an rts into an... rts. Doesn't exactly require hours and hours of mind boggling maths, coding and systems. So 'progress' has been show in great abundance already.

 

[The World Is Flat]

The issue is just the fact that the data editor IS so powerful, Each unit is complex to design to any efficiency, especially with the abilities we want to include and the new systems, but we are at a point where i can say pre-alpha is a month or two away.

 

[tagg1080]

Is the data editor really that big of a road block?

That sucks, maybe keep trying to get some1 with solid knowledge in it?

 

[The World Is Flat]

I have an extremely solid grasp of it, I am the only one doing the data editing AND most of the design work atm.

If you know anyone, let us know.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

tagg, once again I can't help but feel like your trying to piss us off?
If ANYONE complains about you being off-topic or unconstructive again, I WILL report you.

So please a tad more... helpful or comments or no comments at all, thanks.

 

[tagg1080]

tagg, once again I can't help but feel like your trying to piss us off?
If ANYONE complains about you being off-topic or unconstructive again, I WILL report you.

So please a tad more... helpful or comments or no comments at all, thanks.

I am not trying to piss you off; I am just blunt.

I asked if you had anything that was physical done yet.
Then I said that it sucks that you don't have someone that can just make 1,000 units in 5 minutes.

 

[Turminator8]

I am not trying to piss you off; I am just blunt.

I asked if you had anything that was physical done yet.
Then I said that it sucks that you don't have someone that can just make 1,000 units in 5 minutes.

It came off as an insult... That's probably why they took offense the way they did.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Well in that case, my aplogies, but as turm said it came across a bit rude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtmOLTMqPg
"An 'expert in using the tool' took a day and a half to make the Uberlisk."

That's why this mod is not being done overnight

We ARE making progress when we have something worth showing, don't worry we will!
We have no plans for this to become yet another 'hype' and 'not deliver' cliché.

 

[Turminator8]

Hey, I had some free time so I created a Burning Legion Layout.. I'll upload it here when I'm done if you want.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Hey Turm that's great, I'd love to see it, thanks man.
If you could email it to

[email protected] or [email protected] that'd be grand =)

Or yeah even just upload it here ;0

p.s. I added that gameinfo subsystem routine to the site, would you mind checking it out seeing if that's what you meant?
Same with featured articles (kinda).

 

[Turminator8]

Hey Turm that's great, I'd love to see it, thanks man.
If you could email it to

[email protected] or [email protected] that'd be grand =)

sending it now

p.s. I added that gameinfo subsystem routine to the site, would you mind checking it out seeing if that's what you meant?
Same with featured articles (kinda).

It's great! That's pretty much what I was thinking. That way, when there's more info to give, it can be organized into sections under Game Info.

Looks great.

 

[NextGenHuman]

Hi all! I've been watching your project almost sice begining and i see that it can be done. Im beginner in modeling and texturing myself but i've made some modeles (untextured and unanimated) that might help you and i want to give them to the team.

 

[Turminator8]

unfortunately I don't have 3ds MAx on this computer so I can't look at them

 

[NextGenHuman]

I understand...I'll detach the archive and i will try to add more modeles...... in the meantime maybe you will find a way to see them. Ok?

 

[Turminator8]

sure thing I can get my laptop right now and look

 

[NextGenHuman]

I've added some more modeles. I hope they will help you. I will continue making modeles for you ( especially doodas...i think..until i learn more ) because i want to support this project even if i'm at the begining.

 

[The World Is Flat]

If you could provide screenshots that would be lovley.

 

[NextGenHuman]

There are the screens!

 

[Turminator8]

Very cool!