PHoD Things

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

I keep getting poked with sticks with regards placing a vast pile of unconscionably strange PHoD Weirdo Skyboxes on the Vault. And I said I would. Probably about twenty times over the last year or two...

But don't worry - I'm dealing with it. Finally.

No, really, honestly, properly this time.

Here you see that even when doing strange nebulae, the Shabby Hyena Loony feels compelled to become even more strange and add seethingly unlikely but nevertheless patently sinister things... A lot of Demoness Tales takes place in Ancient Outer Eldritch Void Warp Anomaly Weirdo Places and my Skyboxes tend to reflect this. Hence calling the proposed Hak "PHoD Weirdo Skyboxes".

There are several Giger Skyboxes which are mostly linked to a completely new Giger Tileset I'm building in slow motion at an imperceptible rate.

Currently, I'm at the stage of going through all my Skyboxes and selecting those which A:- might actually be of use to someone other than me and B:- aren't crap.

Once I've got them sorted out and have arranged a 2da in some believably coherent fashion, I'll have to get a screen capture for ALL the Skyboxes - around fifty at the moment but that may change - so that I can plaster them on the Vault so's you actually have any idea what the things actually look like... But the PHoD Weirdo Skyboxes ARE on the way.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Problems, problems, problems...

I thought I had made about fifty Skyboxes for NWN, this figure based loosely upon a wild guess. Now that I'm actually rummaging in the Big Box I discover that I have subliminally failed to register the numbers in the 2da and have, in fact, made no less than one hundred and thirty-six Skyboxes... which is an unfeasibly vast pile of them to go heaving about at the Vault. And some of the early ones I did millions of years ago - when I clearly had no idea what I was doing - are completely rubbish. I want to go for quality rather than quantity.

Even so, weeding out the useless ones and stamping upon them until they're dead, there are still more than I thought. A lot more. So I'm deleting the rubbish from my own Skybox Hak, unable to avoid improving a few of the better old ones as I go, and then trying to narrow down a selection for the Vault that might actually be of use to anyone but me. And doing a screen capture for each one so that you know what they look like.

And I now completely hate these screenshots. That's a 20x20 Tile Area in these images, but because it's an empty black blob - to better show off the Skyboxes, I thought - there's no sense of scale, so the Skyboxes look like a poster on a wall three feet away. This irritates me, but, besieged by huge, lumpy, half-built Spleen Creatures as I am presently, I haven't the time to scrap everything and start fabricating a suitable area to show off each Skybox in a logical and interesting setting...

(By the way, E Space is a notation of the Exo-Space/Time Continuum, not a drugs reference.)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Suddenly, horrifyingly, PHoD's Dog appears here for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AT ALL!

Feel free to go "aaaaah" but watch your fingers - she's not as cute as she looks... and is here simply in flagrant disregard of BioWare's policy regarding utterly spurious and irrelevant posts. But what does it matter now?

 

Shabby Hyena Item morosely considers the death of these forums, reminded of his pet hate of "impermanence". Everything one loves and cherishes is inevitably going to go to dust, sooner or later. Can't be avoided. But it still sucks. Not that these forums vanishing mean all my NWN stuff is going to vanish, but it's still sad, still another reminder that everything we do and put effort into simply sinks back into the elemental ooze the moment we turn our backs on it for two seconds. I hate change, for all its relentless inevitability...

 

Don't know whether I feel like just packing it all in right now or madly trying to plaster another fifty pages of this thread into existence in the next few weeks. Which, to make them proper pages about actual stuff I'm making, will be a lot of work... Anyway, for now, Skyboxes...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Yes, Skyboxes, and not Dogs at all...

I've been poked with a stick with regards including the Skyboxes I did for a few of the CCCs.

Though I now view them as being of secondary quality, at best, I suppose it makes some sense since some of them, such as the old Athas Skybox, above, have been added to with things like the other Athas Skybox, below, which didn't make it to the Dark Sun CCC.

Anyway, stuff's being crammed into a Big Box and there should soon be a gelatinously vast pile of Skyboxes on the Vault of a generally strange cast... strange Skyboxes, that is, not the Vault...