Author Topic: Opinion Poll: How do you represent your extraplanar areas, and what skyboxes do you use?  (Read 437 times)

Legacy_MerricksDad

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While modifying base concepts for my own personal campaign back in the early 2000's, I thought about the planes as written in the various WotC products of the time. It occurred to me, that many of the off-prime areas, including the inner and outer planes, could be represented with a concept of planets, and extra-dimensional planet-like places with different physics. I then wrapped that idea around a new cosmology and planes concept, which brought a lot of the Planescape concepts into a new rules set for my campaign.


 


Bringing my particular extra-planar module to NWN, containing the city of Dark's Gate, requires that I bring at least some of that other-world magic to NWN, and I may have to settle for skyboxes for much of it.


 


What skyboxes have you come up with to represent your extra-planar areas? Especially those of Gehenna, The Plane of Shadow, Baator, Bytopia, and Hades.


 


For one of my lower planes, I imagine a spherical world with the inside blown out into space. The demonic inhabitants live not just on the outside, but the remains of the inside, and floating innards. From the perspective of those living within, you can look up and all around to see the shell of the world with various clouds and rock fragments floating freely. I think this could be easily represented with a good skybox, much like the PS:Torment video showed the torus world of Sigil, with its overhead cityscape.


 


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Legacy_Verilazic

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Hm, interesting. Makes me think of a Dyson Sphere, though that's a bit of a different scale. I read an old sci-fi book a long time ago about one where the entire inside of the sphere was like the surface of a planet, except thousands, perhaps millions of times more surface area.



               
               

               
            

Legacy_MerricksDad

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Or what if the plane of shadow had a day star, but it never left the horizon and was at least as far away from the planet as say mars or jupiter is from our star. It might look like this all day long....


 


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Legacy_Tarot Redhand

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@Verilazic - Check out the "Pellucidar" series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.


 


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Legacy_Borden Haelven

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Funny you should ask this, I'm learning to build in 4DSMax just for building an extraplanar level for my mod...



               
               

               
            

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I like Six's otherworldy, ghost trees tileset in combination with one of those crazy skies that are out there.


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There is nothing to those areas but I think they set the right mood for an ethereal, shadowy nether region.



               
               

               
            

Legacy_MerricksDad

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Legacy_meaglyn

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The nether region stuff is happening in the ccc thread...



               
               

               
            

Legacy_MerricksDad

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If you take the first image, and the second image I posted, and mix them together, you can get something that looks like this:


 


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