Middle Earth DEM Project

[monks]

Gotta be a topo really. I had a brief lok at the Covenant map the other night- that and Narnia. Both look pretty small compared to Tolkien. definitely doable. I guess you'd want ot get a lot of the details right- but that'd depend at what detail you built it.


I forgot that he wrote the last 4 books..! I've not read those.


There are other worlds that'd be more challenging, like you say Harn. That'd be really nice to see, and I half think it must have already been done surely. World of GreyHawk, Runequest, Powers and Perils...Rolemaster worlds, the list goes on! )


Good luck with the studying. Yeh, I think you'd get a bit more job security from teaching!


Haha, the world ending..? that's warped! Yeh, I should read them at some point. Nothing wrong with being a geek anyway- most of the pioneers in computer games came from the pen and paper roleplaying world- even Carmack ran his own Campaign!

Good news!..I think the software bug should be fixed within the week, so we can crack on

monks

[Silverleaf]

There are other worlds that'd be more challenging, like you say Harn. That'd be really nice to see, and I half think it must have already been done surely.

Well, there was a thread at Lythia (the official home of the Harn Forum) sometime back where a guy was designing some 3d models and had modded what was going to be a single town. He had just the basic terrain laid out, otherwise nothing substantial has been done with the world proper. Truth be told, I have no interest in modding the entire world of Harn - the mainland is called Kelestia. The island of Harn, now that is a different story all together.

The Last Chronicles is, IMHO, the best work that Stephen R. Donaldson has done in the series. Well worth the read.

Cheers,

[monks]

Didn't get a notification of reply for this thread in my inbox...hmmm. So apologies for not responding.
Yeh, I bet there's loads of personal projects like that that have come and gone over the years, Minas Tirith project for one (unbelievable that that all went to waste like it did) I suppose the hard part is finding a permanent home for them, for the assets. I think at least with ME-DEM we've been around for quite a long time now. We're not quite there yet but I'm hoping that in a month from now we'll have a version 1.0 finally...!

Well, I've got my license for World Machine 2.2 Pro so we can move on with the project again now!

monks

[monks]

After a bit of trouble (bazungus understatement ha!), I've combined the Mordor quad with full tile set and added hills, lowlands and wetlands. I've also added flowmaps from Wilbur to add tributaries to the rivers. Not sure how well that will work out but I though I'd try it.

www.skindustry.net/medem/files/Phase2/Te...1/WM_tmds/Pic_01.png

www.skindustry.net/medem/files/Phase2/Te...1/WM_tmds/Pic_02.png


The next step is to build the tile set to put through Robes' Make and create the mountain masks which control the mountains blended in with the texturer.

monks

[CP Sennett]

Some great work here guys.

[monks]

Thanks CP Hopefully we'll be able to post some pics of progress in a couple of weeks.

monks

[Ihmemies]

Correct me if I'm wrong.. but apparently there are no files available for public yet?

I'm planning to do Minas Amon in Minecraft (I know it's been done a thousand times) and I'm in need of a b&w heightfield.

Would you happen to have a heightfield of the White Mountains? A smallish 2-4km area with some mountains and a small part of Pelennor would be more than enough

Making realistic, good-looking terrain is not that easy and seems you have a lot of experience in doing that... Anyways, whatever the answer, thanks in advance and good luck with the project. Hopefully it will get finished & published some day!

Edit: seems my reply sits in some Adminstrator limbo, and I can't use private messages, so I suppose I can only wait >_>

[monks]

Hi Ihmemies, sure you can. We're currently in the middle of a build in which we're adding much more realistic mountains to the whole map. I'm actually running a test at the moment on that precise area you're looking for. If all goes well, I'll be able to let you have it within the week. We've just got a wee problem to iron out.
Btw, do I know you from somewhere else..? From Yahoo Fan modules perhaps? :-D

We took the ME-DEM ftp off public access because I found a lot of my Tolkien research on a Chinese site that was earning money for hosting document files. The woman was making money from my stuff, indirectly. She didn't ask me for permission to take it either- probably used a crawler bot to get the files. Since we don't get a lot of people seeking to use our stuff, we didn't see any benefit to keeping access open anymore. If you register at ME-DEM we could work something out better

monks

[Ihmemies]

Hi Ihmemies, sure you can. We're currently in the middle of a build in which we're adding much more realistic mountains to the whole map. I'm actually running a test at the moment on that precise area you're looking for. If all goes well, I'll be able to let you have it within the week. We've just got a wee problem to iron out.

I will wait then. Minecraft has excellent tools for geometric shape generation but no good natural terrain editing tools. Map editors have possibility to import heightmaps so I was interested in trying out what kind of results it produces.

Btw, do I know you from somewhere else..? From Yahoo Fan modules perhaps? :-D

Only service I've used from Yahoo is flickr. I found me-dem project only today so probably we don't know each other

We took the ME-DEM ftp off public access because I found a lot of my Tolkien research on a Chinese site that was earning money for hosting document files. The woman was making money from my stuff, indirectly. She didn't ask me for permission to take it either- probably used a crawler bot to get the files. Since we don't get a lot of people seeking to use our stuff, we didn't see any benefit to keeping access open anymore. If you register at ME-DEM we could work something out better

That is understandable. I registered at me-dem.org's forums with same nickname.

[monks]

I can give you this terrain I've been faffing around with.
This doesn't exaclty match our project data, but then we've not really mapped the terrain down to the resolution that you'll be working at, I think it'll be good enough for what you want.

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...n_strata5b.png


How much of the mountain do you want?
What file format and resolution?

monks