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Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« on: November 01, 2012, 03:34:16 pm »


               This month's challenge is "Sea, Air & Land Travel":

On the sea, under the sea, through the air, over (through?) the land. What contrivances, what wondrous beasts of burden, what amazing scripts are lurking out there, just around the next bend of someone's mind :-) Specifically, Galleys & triremes are under represented. Submarine artifacts are nearly non-existant. We *do* have a good selection of airships... What about aerial tilesets to travel through? And land. We really need a place to showcase Draygoth's excellent contrivances ;-) I'd also like to see fortified inns, caravanserai and toll houses. Romany wagons. Then there's all the items that are particular to certain sub-cultures. I'd like to see a ship pulled by matched hippocampus, or an airship pulled by matched Greater Swans. Let's get some creatures in there, and some cargo...


This theme was suggested by Rolo Kipp.

Guidelines:
  • It must be fully working in game.
  • Use of vanilla NWN or publicly available texture is fine, though state-of-the-art amateur's work would require 100% original work, but that's up to you.
  • Teamwork is welcome.
  • Beginners most welcome, don't be afraid, just try, you'll be surprised!
  • All submissions must be finished, working, and emailed to NWNCCCMakers@gmail.com (or a non-Vault link provided) by December 1st, 2012 at 10 AM EST. Sooner than that is perfectly fine too. ;-)

Somethings you could include in the download/email that would make packaging everything up easier and faster:
  • 2da lines needed.
  • Screenshot *from in game* for use on the vault page (this also gives me hints on how to display the new goodie).
  • Portraits (if needed) of your new goodie. ** Placeables and monsters should include a portrait. **
  • Inventory icons (if needed) of your new goodie.
  • Any credits you would like listed.
  • If this is your first entry, please tell me what name you would like your work listed under and provide a link to your other NWN content if you want that displayed as well (the link bit is totally optional).
  • Also if you would like an invite to the CC Makers group, send Rolo Kipp a friend invite. The group is nothing spectacular, mostly just documentation on 2da lines.
  • If you are doing tileset content, *please* let me know ahead of time so I can get you the set and itp files to work with. I’m horrible at merging those so this bit you will need to provide.
Remember, the Challenge is all about fun, sharing, creativity and surprise!

If you have concerns/questions about this month’s Challenge please post in this thread.

If you want to discuss the Monthly Custom Content Challenge idea as a whole or wish to submit ideas/themes for future monthly Challenges, please post in its thread here
***When submitting a new theme, please provide a title and short summary of the theme.***

If you have a technical question about some custom content creation, please create a separate thread so that the answers can be found later by anyone, not just people interested in this Challenge. We'll try to help!

Have no fear and join the fun!

And finally, you can: 

Submit theme suggestions.
Vote for December's CCC theme.
Email content to: NWNCCCMakers@gmail.com
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Pearls

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2012, 03:44:26 pm »


               can i submit content with credit that isnt mine but otherwise will never be used? rubies left unfinished models on our ftp that fit the theme
               
               

               


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Legacy_NWN_baba yaga

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2012, 04:17:32 pm »


               interesting question... no way to contact rubies?
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Rolo Kipp

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2012, 04:29:43 pm »


               <feeling quite sad...>

I would personally welcome anything of Rubies, however indirectly it gets here.

<...and missing the queen of pixies>
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Shemsu-Heru

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2012, 08:51:19 pm »


               I would like to ask how many vertices, more or less, should have a placeable or tileset part ship, to work properly in NWN; Thanks?
               
               

               
            

Legacy_KlatchainCoffee

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2012, 09:37:02 pm »


               A random idea: underwater travel? Someone was talking about doing sea-currents a little while back.

Also this:

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/191/index/10423032

A shameless bump, but surely this stuff belongs here. '<img'>

*paddles off with dreams of a complete 'sea-wave'/travel tileset*
               
               

               


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Legacy_Cestus Dei

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2012, 10:01:32 pm »


               Rolo's doin' his Regional Mod system.

Some folk may think I get tha month ta relax, seein' how the old wizard has all tha work ta do.

Some folk don't know Rolan de Kip pen Han so well.
Wants me ta be "prepared" should Dragons win fer December. 

Heh.

I be prepared ta drink his ale an' give thanks fer it this month. Nuthin' else.

Well, them Pixie Wings. But nae more than thet.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Asymmetric

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2012, 10:42:31 pm »


               @Shemsu-Heru
The carack in Worms seasonal forest tileset has about 4000 faces, my dhow has about 3400 faces. So 4000 should definitely be okay for a 3x1 tile group (or a placeable that size). You can probably go even higher.


I'll do some wagons for this month. Halfling wagons perhaps, I have been working on them for 2 months and never finished.
               
               

               


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Legacy_Just a ghost

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2012, 08:38:05 am »


               I'm going for the kindergarten stuff: I think I'll try my hand on a raft. Probably both placeable and tile. Which brings me to part two... would it be nice to make a dedicated tileset with is pretty small and just aimed at ocean and beach? generally that's all you need for a sea scenario, and we could place all our tiles in that. Makes life pretty easy for folks, I'd say.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Shemsu-Heru

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« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2012, 09:34:39 am »


               @Asymmetric: Thank you; I think I'm going to start with a bireme, as a placeable, and maybe I'll try to learn enough about tilesets, in order to add it to rural or city TS. Perhaps you could recomend me a good tutorial about it, thanks....
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Tarot Redhand

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« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2012, 11:59:54 am »


               Just a thought, do all the vehicles *have* to be DnD? What about d20 modern? Such as a landspeeder from star wars? Thunderbirds 1 & 2 etc.

Just a thought.

TR
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2012, 12:02:20 am »


               @Tarot,
I don't think so, not all the content thus far has been D&D related, so you're probably fine.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_AndarianTD

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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2012, 11:41:09 am »


               Just had a chance to check and saw that this theme was finally selected! It's of particular interest to me, since I might  actually have something to contribute to it. I did have a question first, though: is the CC challenge exclusively focused on art assets and 3D modeling, or are other cc related works eligible as well? I'm thinking specifically of a script system, but the question could apply more broadly for example to things like sound and music as well.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_henesua

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2012, 01:01:51 pm »


               It all counts, Andarian.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Rolo Kipp

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November 2012 Custom Content Challenge: Sea, Air & Land Travel
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2012, 05:23:00 pm »


               <feeling a bit...>

My contribution this month will be my Regional Mod system integrated with Failed.Bard's dynamic forest.  So, yeah. *Any* original content, in my book ;-)

<...self-conscious>