av_nefardec
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Yeah that's his - I have no problem with you using it, though you might want to make sure it's square dimensions in your avatar preferences.
Just wanted to make sure someone else not into TLA was using it and distributing it
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Does Peregrin Voice: "I'm getting one!"
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I noticed your avatar - where did you get that from?
The only reason I ask is because I did a similar design for my brother's AoK modpack "Battles of Middle Earth".
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Lol I think those are at least a year/year and a half old
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That is a good gallery. I use that one along with Rolozo Tolkien's on a regular basis.
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We'll be adding a bit of a surprise to the concept art very soon...
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I don't endorse it, but you might be able to try peer-to-peer methods.
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My eyesight.
(it's not that bad, but it bothers me being such a visual thinker to have worse than 20/20 vision)
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Yeah something approaching that idea at least.
one first needs to measure the effort/helpfulness relation ?Well I was approaching the idea from a "was a member of" view, whether was a member of a team or a specific forum.
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(On a side note I have a 9'2" standing long jump
not quite effortless though )
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Bolidelich - Ever heard of Middle Earth Roleplaying Game? (MERP)
It was a pencil and paper D&D style RPG in the 80s and a lot of interesting stuff came out of it. It was a rather good adaptation to the book IMO and stayed very true to Arda's nuances.
Anyways, I have an e-book version of the "Moria: The Dwarven City" adventure booklet, which contains HIGHLY DETAILED floorplans of all the levels and deeps. It's a rather large file, so I'd prefer not to send it by itself, but perhaps I can extract just the plans and post them here.
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Well it'd be like a networked 'web' type diagram.
Take one person - ask that person all of the people he's worked with.
Then take one of those people - take all of the people he's worked with. Then you can start networking people together and see where all the connections are.
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An engine is the program that 'runs' the game, like an engine runs a car. The graphics, sound, and game content could be equated to the interior, exterior, and options on a car.
But what's more important than software is a lot of time and creative resourcefulness.
The software won't make a game for you, you use the software as a tool - everything (at least the way we are) is done from scratch. There are engines you can license, but then you're restricted by the features of that engine that wasn't designed particularly for your game.
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Well I've never played the game...how could I know what objects were in it?
Gandalf stayed in the city, but rode out of the gate to challenge the witch-king once.
But the movie messed up so many other things...what's to stop them from messing this up? That's my point...
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I'd be interested in seeing a map of 'people' related to the modding/scn teams around WFG.
It'd be like a map that shows how every person is interrelated to other people and teams and what not.
I don't know just my opinion, but I think it'd be cool
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Well in the game are you sure it's the city, or the outlying villages around its walls?
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Ah well you're probably thinking of the programming aspect, I'm sure.
What Elfthehunter is referring to is what he's been using as a Game Designer - his job is to actually come up with the content of the game, features, ideas, details, statistics, etc.
We use common office apps for those things. (word, excel, access)
Then artwork - 3D modeling software, 3DSmax, Rhino, Maya, Milkshape, Blender
2D artwork, textures, etc - Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro.
I also use a good bit of Adobe Illustrator in my day to day tasks.
As for programming, Visual C++ Studio, code version-controllers (CVS programs), and a wide array of other software is required. I'm not a programmer by trade, so I can't really tell you much, but perhaps a programmer will read this (you'd have more luck in the WFG forum than this one)
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Just to let you know that by game features, I mean in the most general sense - probably things you know already. You're probably thinking of Gameplay articles which give details about the game.
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Nope, no release date whatsoever at this point. It's way too early for a freeware, internet based project to make any predictions. Anything can happen.
Release will be a few years from now
And believe me, we're all anxious about TLA.
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Yeah I was going to say - in German class we were always taught the 1-6 system . A 5 is probably equivalent to a D- in American standards, which is like 60% for us.
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Man I probably spent on as an average over a year and a half an hour a day (some days 2-3, some days none) there, so that makes what - almost 500 hours of my life spent on those forums?
Lots of good things happened there, I remember the first time I posted, with three pictures of things I had done as a "freelance" 3D artist - an orc helm, a gondor helm, and a gandalf with a fake Photoshoped Lens Glare
The years sure go fast... *wave of nostalgia overcomes him*
And I remember when TLA first got 1000 posts in its forum, when the TLA forum was first made public (password was dwarveshateelves), and how excited we were to have a forum to call our own - that was 4 websites and almost two years ago...
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I like Text-based RPGS - MUDs and MUSHes - anyone ever play those?
I used to frequent "Islands of Myth" and "Elendor' (The premier Tolkien based MUSH experience)
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Well I voted FotR book 2, because I thought the whole movie was a better adaptation than TTT, but since PJ made some big changes in Book I that were unacceptable to me, I went with book 2.
No barrow wight, no bombadil. No glorfindel, Arwen was substituted at the Ford of Bruinen. There was no "all that glitters is not gold, nor all those who wander are lost" speech from Aragorn, which was a "key' thing to look for according to Gandalf.
There was no meeting with Gildor Inglorion on the way through the Green Hills of Tuckborough. Merry did not join the fellowship at Brandy Hall, the party did not spend some time at Crickhollow. Farmer Maggot was left out, and perhaps the most important thing that was messed up:
The movie glosses over the 17 years between Bilbo's party and the beginng of the Quest of Mount Doom like it was nothing, not even informing the audience of it. Several of my non-tolkienated friends even tried to 'argue' this with me when I made a comment of 17 years being between the two events. To them it looked like it could have been the day after, or the week after.
So I thought book II was very well adhered to in comparison - departure of the fellowship (many meetings (with the exception of leaving out the Hall of Fire and Frodo's converse with Gloin)), the ring goes south, the watcher in the water, Redhorn pass, mines of moria, bridge of khazad dum, lothlorien, the anduin, amon hen, the argonath, nen hithoel, tol brandir - all these were done wonderfully IMO, so my vote goes with FotR Book II.
Religion
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Well, what I was saying here was that the composition is the same at the ultimate level, so therefore there is no "random" pattern that came together, that to us it appears it only would have worked as one "perfect combination", but in actuality any combination would have done the same thing. This is not so much founded on scientific evidence as personal intuition, so I suppose you can equate it with religious belief, except that it does not motivate me to conquer nations and kill whole races of people because of it
Ok, I see my words may have been deceiving. It DOES create a new substance, but along with it many more problems and substances - greenhouse gases, spare parts, junkyards, tires laying on the freeways, automobile accidents, drunk driving, etc, etc. I thought the implications of the second law of thermodynamics were inherent in my statement because the second law is so omnipresent.
Yeah, my beliefs are pretty crazy, I know, but like a Christian waiting for Doomsday, I am waiting for the day when we can marvel at the Grand Unified Theory of Everything and perhaps understand the existance of such a Big-Bang Singularity (not to be confused with a 'God' who responds to people especially and has a conscience).