I'm sure this has been asked and answered many times before but not wanting to look through 55 pages, Is this mod available for download? I realize it isn't complete, but like a beta version?
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It's a small trick really : I'm using hair color as skin color and eye color as hair color (yeah i know how it sounds). I made new portrait shaders that simulates the 3 hair colors with the only one eye color (The game allows 3 colors for good shading on hair color while only 1 for eye color). Every "skin" layer like nose, mouth, cheeks, etc. are using hair color. Things that don't depend on skin color are on different layers that are not coloured.
As for the eyes, I used another trick which is putting a plain colored layer underneath the white of the eyes, letting through a fraction of the original color.
Small example with female orc eyes :
These are the different eye colors.
Here is a frame of the 2 eyes layer combined, one with the skin around the eye, the other with the white of the eye (which we don't want colored with skin color). This layer has transparency on the pupil area.
And this is the result.
The mod is not really in a fully "playable" state just yet, so not at the moment. The download link will probably be available on the original post when that's the case.
Do you have any pictures of for example king Terenas II Menethil? With his stats and stuff? Or is he still proned to change?
These step by step little teases of characters in game would be amazing to satisfy my dry and hungry hype
These step by step little teases of characters in game would be amazing to satisfy my dry and hungry hype
Lordaeron history is not yet finalised, so no. Expect great diplomacy from him, but decent-to-mediocre scores in the rest.Do you have any pictures of for example king Terenas II Menethil? With his stats and stuff? Or is he still proned to change?
These step by step little teases of characters in game would be amazing to satisfy my dry and hungry hype
Maybe some scholarship too ?
Strangely enough, the Menethil dynasty and in some way Lordaeron are the less documented kingdoms, except for the Church of Light part, by the new lore ( Legion and chronicles, so far ).
Strangely enough, the Menethil dynasty and in some way Lordaeron are the less documented kingdoms, except for the Church of Light part, by the new lore ( Legion and chronicles, so far ).
Progress is happening, things are changing. I'll detail stuff when I got more to show.
Double post, but whatever.
So as to give a little something to this thread, I might as well talk briefly about bookmarks.
Previously, we mentioned that the initial release would include solely the Eastern Kingdoms area and the Troll Wars bookmark. While the first release will still be limited to the EK, the bookmark situation is now different. At release there'll be a total of seven (7) bookmarks. I should also note that we chose the Sundering as year 1, which is important to understand the calendar in the mod. With that said, the bookmarks are, in order:
-The Troll Wars (12 May, 7200): Covers the Trolls Wars between the Amani Empire and Quel'Thalas (soon joined by Arathor). It is far from the rest of the bookmarks, which understandably might make it the least popular bookmark. It is still being included to provide variety.
-The Three Hammers (16 July. 9770): As implied by the name, this bookmark is about the War of the Three Hammers, fought between Bronzebeards, Wildhammers and Dark Irons, that sundered dwarf society and ended with the summoning of Ragnaros within Blackrock Mountain. But just because this focuses on the dwarves doesn't mean that other areas of the map won't be interesting to play.
-The Fall of Stormwind (3 June, 10000): Deals with the events of the very first Warcraft game, where the Dark Portal opens and the Horde sets foot on Azeroth, intent on conquering it for the Legion. This is the start of familiar territory for most fans, of course.
-Tides of War (21 January, 10005): Warcraft 2, starting just as the Horde launches its assault on the shores of Hillsbrad. Despite only five years passing, some massive changes have happened within the Horde, notably the death of Blackhand and the orcs, under Doomhammer, no longer fighting for the demons.
-Lord of the Clans (27 April, 10018): At this point you'd expect this to start at Warcraft 3, but instead we decided to push it back two years to when Thrall is leading an orc rebellion in the internment camps of southern Lordaeron, thus providing a more interesting starting point.
-Hunt for the Betrayer (12 May, 10022): Using Lord of the Clans instead of Warcraft 3 as the start point for the last bookmark allows us to have this: a bookmark taking place in the events of The Frozen Throne expansion, showcasing the hunt for Illidan and the Scourge's civil war in the Plaguelands.
-Drums of War (9 February, 10025): Finally, there's this. The World of Warcraft bookmark, showing the world such as it was during Vanilla WoW, including all the characters you've grown to love and despise.
So as to give a little something to this thread, I might as well talk briefly about bookmarks.
Previously, we mentioned that the initial release would include solely the Eastern Kingdoms area and the Troll Wars bookmark. While the first release will still be limited to the EK, the bookmark situation is now different. At release there'll be a total of seven (7) bookmarks. I should also note that we chose the Sundering as year 1, which is important to understand the calendar in the mod. With that said, the bookmarks are, in order:
-The Troll Wars (12 May, 7200): Covers the Trolls Wars between the Amani Empire and Quel'Thalas (soon joined by Arathor). It is far from the rest of the bookmarks, which understandably might make it the least popular bookmark. It is still being included to provide variety.
-The Three Hammers (16 July. 9770): As implied by the name, this bookmark is about the War of the Three Hammers, fought between Bronzebeards, Wildhammers and Dark Irons, that sundered dwarf society and ended with the summoning of Ragnaros within Blackrock Mountain. But just because this focuses on the dwarves doesn't mean that other areas of the map won't be interesting to play.
-The Fall of Stormwind (3 June, 10000): Deals with the events of the very first Warcraft game, where the Dark Portal opens and the Horde sets foot on Azeroth, intent on conquering it for the Legion. This is the start of familiar territory for most fans, of course.
-Tides of War (21 January, 10005): Warcraft 2, starting just as the Horde launches its assault on the shores of Hillsbrad. Despite only five years passing, some massive changes have happened within the Horde, notably the death of Blackhand and the orcs, under Doomhammer, no longer fighting for the demons.
-Lord of the Clans (27 April, 10018): At this point you'd expect this to start at Warcraft 3, but instead we decided to push it back two years to when Thrall is leading an orc rebellion in the internment camps of southern Lordaeron, thus providing a more interesting starting point.
-Hunt for the Betrayer (12 May, 10022): Using Lord of the Clans instead of Warcraft 3 as the start point for the last bookmark allows us to have this: a bookmark taking place in the events of The Frozen Throne expansion, showcasing the hunt for Illidan and the Scourge's civil war in the Plaguelands.
-Drums of War (9 February, 10025): Finally, there's this. The World of Warcraft bookmark, showing the world such as it was during Vanilla WoW, including all the characters you've grown to love and despise.
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I can't speak for other people but i'm definitely looking forward to the Troll Wars as much as any other bookmark. Thanks for the post!
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Well that is a great bit of a news. Thanks!
The Troll Wars bookmark seems to be really great idea and I am really looking forward to play as Thoradin Lothar from Arathor. I am really glad you give this bookmark a chance.
The Fall of Stormwind is "THE" date I am looking for the most though. Seeing full might of all Human and Elven Kingdoms, so as Stormwind's stalwart defence against the Orcish tides. So many choices to play here.
And from what I understand, the Lord of the Clans bookmark will encompass all the events from Warcraft 3 such as the Second Invasion of Burning Legion, Fall of Lordaeron and Rise of the Lich King.
On the Other hand the Hunt for the Betrayer will sum up story from the point when the Scourge is already invading Lordaeron and... Arthas is already a Death Knight at least?
Oh and Drums of War will by great starting date aswell.
Good job, keep going!
"Hunt for the betrayer" is at the start of The Frozen Throne campaign where Maievs hunt for Illidan starts.
So its an oportunity to start as Kael, deciding where to go with his people, Illidan taking over outland, Sylvanas breaking free from the scourge, Arthas facing civil war on all sides, Garithos trying to reclaim Lordaeron for humanity, the foundings of the Scarlet Crusade, Thrall and Cairne establishing Durotar and Mulgore as a powers in Kalimdor and not just roving hordes of nomads and other such things that happened between warcraft 3 and wow.
yes gonna make a high elves branch that rejoins the alliance i dont think 1 racist human should stop them from the alliance i know a small group does rejoin but i feel like more would of rejoined the alliance
Why did you doublepost almost exactly the same thing with a 23 minute space? xD
Lol cuz i went on again cuz it said ididnt post it and i posted it again cuz it didnt show the other one till you posted
Great, there is a potential for some survival scenarios. Garithos can be pretty hard with all his allies wiped out. Sylvanas can struggle with Arthas for dominance over the lands of Lordaeron and Keal'thas can have so many choices...
Will we be able to play as Scarlet Crusade from start of this bookmark or will there be series of events leading to the founding?
THAT
Is way ahead of current planning.
Gotta slog through all the canon events of wc1-3 first.
And some sandbox race stuff
And wow era canon as well probably
And adding the other continents
And then comes the "what if sandbox" choice stuff.
Is the Ambush at Tarren Mill going to be a thing? It doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the new lore, but it could still work as an event; i.e. by making it an ambush that Alleria and her rangers suffer on the way to meeting with Lothar, and which they brush off with human help (without getting capture as in the original since that would conflict too much with the new lore). Or you could have it as in WC2, being then an alternate way to get the elves to help you in the Second War.
Oh, of course, I was just pondering about possible player's playtroughs, not suggesting event-driven sandbox scenarios. Crusader Kings II at its base is sandboxy enough