Initial progresses on the Shadow Realm community-made expansion (News)

The community-made expansion is making progress and it is time to have a quick look at one more unit from the new Dark Elf Dwelling, an ancient faction which might return, and one of the structure encountered in the Shadow Realm!

An Article by Hiliadan

About 3 months after the first piece of news announcing the community-made expansion, it is time to give a few updates on the project!

As announced in the first article, the Shadow Realm expansion will add one new layer (the Shadow Realm), one new race and one new dwelling. More content may be added if the volunteers working on the expansion manage to complete it in their free time. The dwelling will be the Dark Elf Dwelling, which has been developed mainly by Gloweye (idea and coding) and Charlatan (art).


Dark Elf Sharpshooter by Charlatan, work in progress, made in Blender

The Dark Elf Dwelling is well advanced. As for the rest of the project though, it currently lacks someone with skills in using the software Maya to weight paint the 3D models developed by Charlatan for the Dwelling: if you are or if you know of any such person, please contact Hiliadan or any other person involved in the project! The project would also welcome very warmly any person with other graphical skills (icons, 3D models).


Archon models developed by Flenoom, in collaboration with Zaskow, which are parts of the assets the expansion could use

The team working on the expansion would like to sincerely thank Triumph Studios for their support to the game and to the expansion itself. Triumph fixed many bugs in their latest v1.705 patch and took time to work on one issue specifically hampering the expansion (related to the map editor’s way of dealing with memory).
The fix from Triumph may allow us to also include some nice maps (and maybe more) in the expansion!


Example of structures that players will encounter in the Shadow Realm, the Sword of the Ashen Rose, by Charlatan, made as a tribute for Ramlethal (a.ka. Shiara384 on the AoW forums) - several of the structures that will be included in the Shadow Realm were first made in tribute to players who helped Charlatan in his work, and are now included in the Decodence mod

The expansion progresses slowly but progresses nonetheless. We will keep you updated: more on following news!

Published on Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

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