Middle Earth DEM Project

[Starbuck777]

Hello monks,

I'll check out those links.

I am part of a small gaming group that wants to play MERP, but we live in different parts of the country. So we have been trying to find an online way to continue our characters adventures. We are using Blender to make some of the assets and will be using Unity as the "gaming " engine. We are collecting as much data on Middle-Earth as possible, for table-top as well as online RPG, hence my previous heightmap post.

I would not call it a mod, we originally wanted to use Oblivion to mod, but it's only single player.

Thanks for the info

[monks]

Hi, that sounds cool. I much prefer multi player and even more co-op mode, but it's so rarely supported. Still yet to finish Oblivion- been far too busy making this terrain model!
We were approached a few years ago by a team who wanted to make a BattleField 2 mod. The deal was that we let them use our assets, in return for using their assets (that they could) such as 3D models.
If you register on ME-DEM we can discuss it there.

Cheers,
monks

[Redrobes]

So is this a true role playing thing then or more of a MMORPG ? If its RPG then using a VTT would be a good way to go and therefore a 2D map with top down icons. Its quite extreme to go 3D for RPG. If you do then the res of the terrain would be very low at character scale where the action would be. Even a very very high res terrain would be a few hundred feet if not more for the whole land of Arda. Also, if doing this in 3D, what would you use for the towns and cities ? When 2D you have the maps for them from various places.

[monks]

Hey, this is probably somewhere around 20-30K in res.

A couple of the mountain ranges need sorting out for this run (they're too high), and most of them ultimately.
Eventually, I'll model the hills more fractally- give them better drainage and they'll look much more authentic.
There are floodplains and beaches in here too

When we upscale it, it will loose a bit of the noise. I think there should be a few more smoother plains in there but hey, this is a demo.
In any case, we're certainly not short on terrain features for OuTerra's fractals to get hold of.
We're working on a 40K terrain for ProLand and OuTerra.


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monks

[Ryan K]

Sweet, dude!

[Ascension]

Looks fantabulous.

[monks]

For anyone interested, the ME-DEM crew had our picture taken : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNP7R1-cBvA

RedRobes is at the back with the red tie (of course). That's me on the right. My hat slipped.
...haha

monks

[Ascension]

Huh...I thought for sure that you were the second from left.

[Ryan K]

Well, it's good to finally be able to put a name to a face. Word.

[monks]

it tickled me that.

Starbuck, did you reg on the ME-DEM boards?

We've got a new 40K demo out to Brano, the OuTerra dev. Eric Bruneton has given us an improved demo of ProLand.
I'm currently having a play with Terragen 2.

monks