The team has been busy yet again, I won't bore you with the formalities, I'm sure your here for a peek at our progress and we shan't disappoint!
First of all, what's new? Well the logo heading this week's article was designed by none other than our brilliant Taylor_Mouse who had a bit of free time after finishing his base orc model, shown below.
It looks fantastic, as you can see he has fleshed out the body, making it slightly broader and adding some muscle detail, before smoothing the whole thing ready for armour/weapon/detail to be added for each individual model to follow.
Moving swiftly on our new 2D artists have been busy to! Pangahas from the hiveworkshop has drawn us up a stunningly detailed concept of the Barracks, used by the State of Theramore (more racial info can be found over at the hiveworkshop).
Another artist, whipped us up a nice map/splash screen, what use we'll have for this yet, we honestly don't know but it deserves an honourable mention for it's pure artistic prowess:
There has been a fair bit of lore and racial tweaking too, but we have yet to decide we are going to format/upload large chunks of text to moddb, however don't despair you can still find all our latest work at our thread here.
Also be sure to check out our new 'Community Contribution' system that will anyone of any skill level or with any free time to help us out, without committing themselves to the project. We understand the community wants a massive in say in this and too many want to take part, so go over check it out and perhaps you'll be rewarded for your efforts!
That's all for this week folks, we plan on updating every Monday though depending on the rate of work flow it could become more or less frequent during certain periods, thanks once again for your continued support and we hope to see your ideas & contributions on both moddb and the hiveworkshop.
All the best, The WC4DT.
Yes hes got a point guys.
"Hey Otter thanks for the warning, we did think about this, which is the reason for 'officially' labelling the mod as "Warcraft IV: Starcraft II" or Wc4:Sc2. The name 'Warcraft IV: The Legacy of the Damned' is merely a pet name/lore name.
But thanks once again for the warning, it was polite and well thought out! +1
EDIT: If it comes to it, we will be more than happy to change it's name on Blizzard's behalf ;)"
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As for the orc, yes it is low poly, this is merely the base for many models to follow - our modeller has left a good chunk of poly allowance for armour/weapons and detail on further versions of the model.
Also remember that this is an RTS, not an FPS, the model poly counts are considerably lower, neither is the Orc properly textured yet.
Thanks for the feedback though!
+1
- The WC4DT
Good idea, but Blizzard will have a problem and you are gonna get even more problems. Change the name, don't use Warcraft, make your own name.
For the orc, really great and good made, I can't even wait for your seeing your heroes ;D
Too bad it will only stay in my dreams, I don't have starcraft and here in brazil it's harder to find games ¬¬
you sequeled the wrong games, i'd rather see blackthorne 2, lost vikings 3 and rock 'n roll racing 3
:)
Is this for warcraft III?
This is a mod for Starcraft 2
leilei, We are catering to Warcraft 3 fans who feel alienated by WoW.
xXMaNiAcXx, Warcraft 4 is a pet name. the mods full official title is: Warcraft 4 Starcraft 2 The Legacy of the dammned. Thanks for the support, the heroes will be excellent. You may have noticed a post above stating our expaination for our name.
Also, Sc2 is very available in brazil, i assure you, several modders i know live in brazil, and have been quick to get their hands on a pre-order of Sc2.