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[SpuneDagr]

SpuneDagr has withdrawn from society.
SpuneDagr has claimed a PC.
SpuneDagr sketches pictures of a massive fortress.

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SpuneDagr has begun a mysterious construction...

UPDATE: Screenshot on page 3.

[existent]

Ummm.... when you're done, can I have that for my LotR mod? Pretty please?

[rhinelander]

I hope you succeed.

[SpuneDagr]

Ummm.... when you're done, can I have that for my LotR mod? Pretty please?

Is it actually possible to take a finished fortress and put it into another world file???

[existent]

Ummm.... when you're done, can I have that for my LotR mod? Pretty please?

Is it actually possible to take a finished fortress and put it into another world file???

Well, if I abandoned and uploaded the world save, people could reclaim.

[SpuneDagr]

Oh. I thought you meant, like, populating a meticulously-created Middle Earth map with accurate cities and then uploading THAT for people to build or adventure in.

[existent]

Oh. I thought you meant, like, populating a meticulously-created Middle Earth map with accurate cities and then uploading THAT for people to build or adventure in.

That would be awesome..... but impossible. Alas.

[sweitx]

Oh. I thought you meant, like, populating a meticulously-created Middle Earth map with accurate cities and then uploading THAT for people to build or adventure in.

That would be awesome..... but impossible. Alas.

Huh, I thought you can edit the map generation (define elevation, water leve and anything).
Of course, the detail won't be there.

[existent]

Huh, I thought you can edit the map generation (define elevation, water leve and anything).
Of course, the detail won't be there.

Well, I'd someday like to take Perfect World and paint a map of Middle Earth, but a big-ass Minas Tirith savegame in there would be awesome too.

[SpuneDagr]

Work is underway. The outer wall is 200 tiles wide. The innermost Citadel stands 30 z-levels above the plain, and the White Tower of Ecthelion is planned to stand an additional 15 z-levels above that. Each level is 5 z-levels above the previous.

Assuming each tile is a 10 foot cube, the scale I'm using is 1:2 - half-size, which is still pretty dang big. There will be plenty of room for all my workshops, living quarters and stockpiles. All walls are coated in a polished layer of granite blocks, except for stuff I REALLY want to draw attention to, like the tops of the walls and the white tower, which will be marble.

Embark point was 5x5, with a 30 z-level cliff. Most of my time has been spent carving out the cliff face.

Please don't judge me too harshly, I am using a couple cheats: dwarf speed is set to 0, and temperature and weather are disabled.

I'll post some stonesense screenshots as soon as I have something worth looking at.

[existent]

You, sir, are beautiful.

Where did you get the specs? Did you simply find a picture, using an object to scale? Or did you just roughly approximate on your original sketch? Or, were the dimensions online somewhere? I might be tempted to do a Helm's Deep if I find the time.

[SpuneDagr]

I did a few google searches. Common opinion puts the diameter of the outer wall at around 3700 ft. The book tells us each level is 100 feet high (my scale makes this 5 z-levels). Most of my detail ideas are (will be) based on the movie version of the city, but not all.

To make the circles I used the circle tool in photoshop, with antialiasing turned off. I zoomed way in so that each pixel was one tile. While working on this, designating areas to be dug out, walls to be built, etc, I have a blown-up printout of my pixel image for reference. Counting all the damn tiles by hand is very time-consuming.

[existent]

I did a few google searches. Common opinion puts the diameter of the outer wall at around 3700 ft. The book tells us each level is 100 feet high (my scale makes this 5 z-levels). Most of my detail ideas are (will be) based on the movie version of the city, but not all.

To make the circles I used the circle tool in photoshop, with antialiasing turned off. I zoomed way in so that each pixel was one tile. While working on this, designating areas to be dug out, walls to be built, etc, I have a blown-up printout of my pixel image for reference. Counting all the damn tiles by hand is very time-consuming.

That's sort of what I thought. Fortunately, making a Helm's Deep will be easier, assuming I ever actually do it.

I'm really excited to see where this goes. Mind if I link to this thread from the WotR mod?

[NW_Kohaku]

... I'm not sure whether this looks more like a Ziggurat or Atlantis...  Technically REAL Ziggurats were square, though, so I guess it's Atlantis.

Are you making the walls out of Orihalcum?

[Cruxador]

... I'm not sure whether this looks more like a Ziggurat or Atlantis...  Technically REAL Ziggurats were square, though, so I guess it's Atlantis.

Are you making the walls out of Orihalcum?

It's Gondor, dude. And the walls should be marble. But the spur thing should be all natural (and unsmoothed) stone, if we were to try for accuracy there.