Well, while people are waiting for the beta, here's something to keep people interested. this is a render shot of the weapons collection for the Wild Men of Druedan.

Some more images may come along later...

Suzerain.

Oh and please note, these are only a sample of some of one particular "faction" or "culture's" weapons... not all of them, and not for every race/faction/culture.

-- D

And now, a work in progress.

this is the army equipment for one particular race - from lances to knives.

Enjoy.

Suzerain

Awesome looking...

Hurry up with the damn beta 1.
I bought bloodmoon just for this...

Thanks Suzerain, their lookn good. The mace in the untextured weapons screenie looks fun (is it mace or bonny knocker? hahaha, just an excuse to say bonny knocker... carry on).

Can't wait to see some more screenies roll in, hope so.

Thanks again... although I feel my apetite is still a tad dry...

hahaha, good stuff, good stuff!

Very awesome! Those wood textures are amazing! I really love that axe and dagger.

Thanks for the screens!

Nice, thanks for the teaser! Texture work on the top group looks great, can't wait to see the next group completed. The spears look about 100x better than that of MW, and the wood handle/rock head axe is awesome. If the beta is going to showcase this kind of work, take all the time in the world...ok...maybe just a few more weeks

Nice, very nice! Does anybody (outside the lucky few) have a clue as to what race/tribe/faction the second set of weapons belong?

WOW! Amazing screenies...



I think those second set of weapons are for a Haradrim(sp?) army due. It cant be Rohan because it would make no sence for them to have long bows riding horses all the time. If it was a recurve bow thats different. I dont think its a Gondorian army because some of the weapons look a bit crude for the superior Godorians. Definitally not orcish... Or elvish again with the crudness... I picked Haradrim also because they look like the weapons of a berserker.

I(we) want more
moooooooooooreeeee !!!!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoooooooooorrrrrrrrreee !!!!!!!

muahhahaha

thanks for the screens!

I think the second set is Gondorian because of the lances. I don't think Haradrim use lances.

Great looking renders, thanks for giving another peek into the great posibilities within this mod.

Keep it up, as we all are anxiously waiting for any new development

Thanks! I'v been waiting months to see such things!
I wanna have them... NOW!!!!!!!

is that ball n chain animated?

Wait and see....
(JK!) Ya... Just looking at the top screeny I think I died last night and went to heaven...
(HOLY #@$@#$@#$%#%) those are amazing.........

Looking very good. Can't wait to get them in game.


Oh, and I just have to say - what mighty choppers you have there.

THOSE SCREENSHOTS ARE GREAT!!!! i havent seen a new screenshots or else the "old 1" i the official side in a long time.

KEPP UP THE GOOD WORK

KEEP UP TEH GOOD WURK!!

RELEASE TEH BETAA!

YAAHRHARA MMORREEORE!
...n00bs...



They look great you guys, whatever vacations you take after this is done, I daresay you deserve them. Keep on slogging, and remember that perfection is better than appeasing the ignorant masses of newbies.

There is no need for attacking the newbies once again, Ancalagon. What is wrong with saying "keep up the good work"? It's not like they're actually provoking anyone.
But nonetheless, these pictures are great, suze


pharzon..

I especially like the hammer. I've always wanted to beat somebody down with one of those. heh

In response to Phazon:

I know, it was wrong to slander the new folk. Sometimes I get cheesed at newbs and I forget where I came from. Also, I had a crappy class before I posted that, so I was in a sort of foul mood. I apologize if i offended any new person, and hope that they may not think me a troll or a schmuck

Cool screens. Very realistic

Very nice work on the first set suz, some nice texturing there. Second sets either Arnor or Gondor, possibly both. Dunno if that flails gonna work ingame though.

i always thought the devs were kahrenz suze morgoth wookie and ofcoarse daerk (with wookie and kahrenz recently added (in other words jsut before or jsut after the forum transfer))
but now that i realize Casuir's low post count it all makes sence and suze good job tho you are still second fav because of daerks greatness and him being the first and buying the license and soooo many other things


(i hope this makes sence

MEMod Devs-

Morgoth
Suzerain
DiseasedPunk
Wookie
Kahenraz
Greywolf
Casuir
Eärendil
Dark Lord Sauron

Daerk-
Daerk

You schmuck!

Joking..

I think an animated flail could be managed in the game.

Just couldn't be super smooth because it'd crush FPS.

I could animate it if I could get a realistic physics script for 3ds max 4.2

Ancalagon....

its ok i think that i posible do the same

But that with the troll and the scimhuch, i must say that i laughed

(i hope that i got more exp )

How would it kill the FPS? An animated flail would not necessarily [sp?] have to use a physics engine, although it would be welcomed.....

Hmmm... Maybe the second set is Gondor. I know the mod is based on the canon of Tolkien's Novels... However, the swords in the second set remind me of Boromir's sword from the movies because of the twists on the handle guards... Maybe it's just a coincidence or maybe it's just me? Now that I've thought of this though... It makes me curious... Is it mentioned if the armies of Gondor used axes, flails, and maces in the novels? I always thought they were all about the spears, long swords, and shields... I think it's the movie's portrayal burned in my mind! I gotta go re-read those novels again! By the way, the progress you guys are doing on the mod looks spectacular as these new screemies prove, can't wait for the beta and of course for the final version! Thanks a lot guys!

The only thing that kills the possibility of the second set of weapons being Gondorian or Arnor(ian?) weapons is the wicked looking blade, and the scimitar-ish looking blade as well. I would say either Haradrim or Southeron. More than likely being the former, but again it's MHO...

The "wicked" sword is a flamberge and the "scimitar" is a falchion. Both, along with the rest in the pic, are european medieval style weapons. The only culture in middle earth which they should belong to are the decendants of numeneor, Arnor and Gondor.

Give Suzerain a bit of credit, hes more than capable of coming up with something a bit more imaginative for the haradrim.

They don't look half bad Very well modelled, and quite aesthetically pleasing

But one point...and I hope you might be open to constructive criticism...

Well I think that someof the swords in the second picture look a bit weak? It could be because they're untextured, but they just don't have the same appeal/demeanour(if that's the right word) as compared to other sword model's i've seen...

Sorry to be one of the first to critisize But I still think they are very veyr nicely modelled weapons, and the textures look stunning! Well done team!

As for who I think the first bunch belong to....I say the woodman...of umm...I forgot the proper name, but the woods to the north of the White mountains, who have Ghan-buri-Ghan as their chief.

Edit- Whoops it already says that's where they're from.... maybe I should read the posts better But it was still correct...yay!

Think of how you'd have to script and then animate a flexible weapon like a flail.

First - you'd need different shots for whether it hit or not. The only advantage of the flail is that the chain can hit the side or top of the shield and then the head of the weapon continues through to hit the target. Also, the head of the weapon is never really on the same plane with the handle(haft) of the weapon. There would have to be not just one model, as there is for the sword and other weapons, but several that would have to be integrated by scripts to interchange at various points in the swing.

Now - the scripting - You would need to have different Armor classes for the PCs or NPCs depending on whether the character who was being fought against was using a flexible weapon or not.

If it's been done, I definitely give credit to the designer, and I would love to see it.

Daerk put up a link to a great 7min movie that one of the (ex)memod devs had made before going off and joining some professional company or something. It showed... well I won't say anything more. If Daerk feels that this can be made public on the forums he'll make it public. (atleast it was spoken of in the public #memod room so i thought it may be spoken of here).

Oak

is it an memod video or a video just showing off the guys talent? what is it?

come on, we don't want to hurt anyone, just a link

7 min, it must be incredible

Suggestion: While you're showing off work, how about an extremely blurry pic of an unskinned hobbit model?

=D

Swing for the fences, val... swing

-val

Maybe things like the video that is 8 minutes showing off all of Middle Earth in beautiful detail, with some of the best music ever... will be enough to get you guys into the damned IRC.

nevermind

Hey it's easy, if you know how!

What kind of an error message is it giving you?

There could be a button "add chanel" or something like that, click it, enter Memod and then accept.

Then in the list of chanels there will be #memod, double click in it and then, you have to enter the world of Memod-IRC XD

Once you're connected to any irc network type

/server irc.freenode.net

/join #memod