Book Re-Textures

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               Ok, finished the stripping of the books, then I had some fun with some textures. I tried the tiger eye and have 2 variations there, that lead to a tiger and jaguar skin lol. The others are a ruby and emerald and a variation on one of the books colors to make it look like stone. I'm adding this to the original file on mediafire I'll wait a bit for a vault submission and we can lump everything together if everyone is cool with that?




 New Source file with everything:  http://www.mediafire...ooks_Source.rar
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 10 janvier 2011 - 04:39 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               They look great. Is a nearly completely transparent book possible? I have an ancient (1st ed. judges guild) module that has an invisible and levitated book in it. Also, given that you have the size of icon used is there any chance of making something larger or smaller? Also any chance of new underlying book designs?



Keep up the good work.



TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               Yes, yes, and yes. However I would think larger and smaller would create a new item altogether as far as the parts are concerned because you would need a full set of parts for each. I don't know how much of a pain that is to throw into a hak that would be cep compatible, etc. I grabbed some Rune Symbols last night that I will cut out and put on the covers of the books (maybe those would be good to use as the invisible books).

Something along these lines with the book semi transparent so it looks ghosted or something:



All kinds of options really.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 10 janvier 2011 - 01:16 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Looking good. Which image editing software do you use. If it's either Photoshop or Gimp then you might find Obsidian Dawn might be useful for extra resources. Properly used brushes can save you a lot of time and effort, cutting out the need for a lot of cutting and pasting. If you use something else, the Resources & Stock Images section of Deviant Art is agood place to look. Actually DA is good for pshop and gimp as well.



Hope that helps.



TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Estelindis]

               Thanks for the new source file, Birdman.  More stuff to play with!   :-D



I've broken up the details into two sets of parts and coloured them all four different ways.  (The books themselves comprise the third part; I coloured each one four ways too.)  The thing is, even though I have nine sets of parts for the details (eight really, but one is blank for plain books), only five show up in the toolset. Does anyone have any idea why this might be?



Here's the hak if anyone wants to take a look (but it doesn't have Birdman's awesome new set of books yet, just a few standard ones - and a few of them are coloured ickily - this is just an alpha version).
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               

Tarot Redhand wrote...

Looking good. Which image editing software do you use. If it's either Photoshop or Gimp then you might find Obsidian Dawn might be useful for extra resources. Properly used brushes can save you a lot of time and effort, cutting out the need for a lot of cutting and pasting. If you use something else, the Resources & Stock Images section of Deviant Art is agood place to look. Actually DA is good for pshop and gimp as well.

Hope that helps.

TR

I use photoshop cs3 at work and 7.0 (oldie) at home. I use DA quite often for different projects as a matter of fact that is where I got the rune from and a few dozen others as well as some other stuff I will be playing with. I haven't ever made any brushes (to address your previous post about making them) so I would have to check a tut for it no biggy but I'm not sure a book brush would be up anyones alley lol. I might reinstall NWN 2 and see what they have for books, but I don't have fond memories of it eating my DVD drive with that stupid securerom garbage. Barring that I will be looking for more books to source or attempting creation myself I guess lol. I'll check out obsidian dawn, thanks for the resources they are much appreciated.

Estelindis wrote...

Thanks for the new source file, Birdman. More stuff to play with! :-D

I've broken up the details into two sets of parts and coloured them all four different ways. (The books themselves comprise the third part; I coloured each one four ways too.) The thing is, even though I have nine sets of parts for the details (eight really, but one is blank for plain books), only five show up in the toolset. Does anyone have any idea why this might be?

Here's the hak if anyone wants to take a look (but it doesn't have Birdman's awesome new set of books yet, just a few standard ones - and a few of them are coloured ickily - this is just an alpha version).

You are running the hak by itself right (had to ask)? I'm lost when it comes to hak resources other then extracting stuff via nwnexplorer. I'm going to go get giddy now from all the kind comments.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 11 janvier 2011 - 12:14 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Estelindis]

               Yes, running the hak by itself.  Should have sent a demo module with it, sorry.  But it's super-easy to check out - just make a new item called "books" and go nuts.  (Though, again, I apologise for some of the colour choices.  I know they're not nearly as nice and yours.  [And this comment is not "kind" - it's simply accurate!]  Just want to get the thing working before I invest too much time in prettifying.)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Birdman076 from the tuts I've seen, making brushes is quite straightforward. You'll find tuts on both sites. For ease of reading I'd download all the tuts from od for pshop as there's not that many. Here's a quick-link to them. However od is best known for the quality free brush-sets on their site. And no I'm not connected in any way, just a fan '>.

TR
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 11 janvier 2011 - 01:39 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               And here's a quick-link to some brush making tutorials on da.



TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_virusman]

               

Estelindis wrote...

Here's the hak if anyone wants to take a look (but it doesn't have Birdman's awesome new set of books yet, just a few standard ones - and a few of them are coloured ickily - this is just an alpha version).

The link appears to be broken.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Estelindis]

               

virusman wrote...
The link appears to be broken.

Whoops!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Estelindis, 11 janvier 2011 - 05:44 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               I found some more books lol.



Will be adding to the source file as well. Now to work on textures like stone, gem, etc.

The one with the person protruding is NOT Han Solo.



New source file with additions: http://www.mediafire...ooks_Source.rar
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 11 janvier 2011 - 06:25 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_TheSpiritedLass]

               Awwwww, no Han Solo?  *playful pouty face*



Looking amazing guys (and gal)!  

Not that it looks like you need it, but here are some book icon haks off the Vault if you wanted more parts and pieces.

http://nwvault.ign.c....Detail&id=1597

http://nwvault.ign.c....Detail&id=2139

http://nwvault.ign.c....Detail&id=3923

http://nwvault.ign.c....Detail&id=3945

http://nwvault.ign.c....Detail&id=5647

http://nwvault.ign.c....Detail&id=4227
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               To clarify the unlinked links above



LOK- Book Icons by Danmar

NewBooks.hak by David Chevalier

Books of the Gods by ZippyGraphics

Colored NWN books by ZippyGraphics

Ketaros - 1000 Icons Pack (Upgraded / Bug fixed) by Ketaros

Gods of Forgotten Realms by ZippyGraphics



Hope this helps

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Birdman076]

               Thanks Tarot. I took a look at those haks and there really wasn't anything I could tear apart to use for the parts based system. I have a couple of trains of thought on the books now, 1st would be the parts based system which would need books of a specific orientation to match up with the other parts. And 2nd totally new books which would be the last compilation I did, new orientations, sizes, etc so there are more options then just books facing the same direction, looking the same other then hardware and cover art.

That being said, the parts based is broke up into 3 parts. This means we can reskin the base books with stone, gem, etc or change the base book entirely as part 1, add new scrollwork, locks, end caps as part 2, and maybe do the spine of the book or something totally new as part 3 since one is not currently being used. Suggestions?

I have a couple of questions concerning the parts based system for the books.

What is the cap on how many of each part? 255?

Is it going to be CEP compatible?
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Birdman076, 13 janvier 2011 - 01:23 .