New Building Placeable Imports

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               I'll set up one of the themed packs to include the nifs and kfs as well as obj and mtl files your way so you'll have both to work with.

Haven't heard from KM today. When he gets a better grasp on things, maybe he can be persuaded to do a tutorial with some pics on how he got the kfs to work with the nifs in max
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               Jungle Group 1 done and uploading now ;

WP2 - 2 Gorillas, male and female plus Vulture. Includes nif, kf, obj,mtl and dds textures plus basic sound files.

ZT2 - 3 Gorillas and 3 Elephants - male, female and baby, Spotted Hyena, adult and baby, King Vulture. No kf files, but nif, obj, mtl and dds textures. Textures have alt version for sick and dirty versions. Sound files included.

Sending a copy to KM as well. If anyone else wants a copy Let me know and I'll send them your way to play with.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ShadowM]

               Just a picture of how the jaguar experiment went. I took a jaguar model with 10k poly and took it down to 1200 and fixed the texture smearing.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               ShadowM, those are nice. The textures look good though the body seems a little strange - they probably look better in action.

I have most of the big cats available if you'd like more to play with, already low poly.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               Good work on the Jaguar ShadowM. I am working on the Lion male now but the model looks blocky, even after I add smoothing. Randomdays any chance you can send me some of the Big cats as well. I have the two versions of the gorilla's done and am looking at the elephant variations from Civ 4  thanks to Tarot showing me the nif plugins that Killmonger posted and I over looked.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               @ShadowM I take it that the jaguar on the left is the before texture correction and the one on the right is after? Also compared to the figure in the foreground, they're a bit big aren't they? Texture on the one on the right looks good BTW.

@Randomdays I currently have an old game called "Loki" installed that is a diablo wannabe. It apparently uses the nif format. Doing a search in windows reveals 1100+ nif files. The thing is I don't know what files are needed as further exploration reveals a number of different file types including dds and tga. Not only that but there is also a separate directory labeled textures! Would you care to post a short piece on required files.

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               Draygoth, I'll assemble the cats and send them your way

Tarot, Each game does things different. To find out what textures a model requires, download and run nifskope - I think Killmonger posted a link to it if you can't find it. When you look at the mesh you can see what it needs for texturing. Example below




               
               

               

                     Modifié par Randomdays, 10 février 2014 - 12:23 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               Putting the Big Cat Pack together and sending now.

A Note on Nifskope - Besides viewing and editing nifs, it can export to obj if needed.

WP2 - 8 Big cats. Only one set of kfs for the tiger - I assume the rest use the same animations. Limited sound files. Nif only on all these since you have a handle on those now.
Black Panther, Cheetah, Jaguar, Leopard, Lion (male and female),Puma, Smilodon and Tiger

ZT2 - 7 Big Cats. No kfs. Sound set for each animal. The Lion has male and female. All have a cub version. Nif only. Couldn't find the texture for the Black Leopard anywhere in the game directory for some reason.

Cheetah, Jaguar, Black Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Florida Panther, Bengal Tiger.

EE2 - A tiger and a Vulture I had missed before. Nifs, kfs and sound.

The ZT2 rar is 18 megs - If you don't see it, the attachment might be too big - I'll reup and split it if I have to.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Thanks for the response. As an aside the "florida panther" was/is (not sure if it's extinct) just a local version of the cougar/puma/mountain lion/20+ other names.

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               As a person living in Florida I can tell you they're not extinct yet. We also found out there's a little difference between them and the rest. We tried bringing in some cougars from the west to improve the population and gene pool and they didn't do too well, the implants and the mixed young as well.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               Got them thanks. They look nice. Now that I'm loading the nif I see what KM is talking about with the animations. I'm just not sure I can get them into NWN.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Killmonger]

               Very good works Draygoth28 and ShadowM !!
I just think it's great....


Really nice...
A nip, a tuck, a bit of scaling and skinmeshing and voila, these critters are gonna be tremendous !!
(One request:    Please don't let the elephants move like oxen)

As for the kf animations, with some limited successes,
I'm still working out how best to capture them upon the Nwn mesh.
Each file <source> has numerous interlocking dependencies which inhibit the information transfer...
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               You wouldn't have a bear, wolf, or boar model would you Randomdays?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Randomdays]

               Bear ; Civ 4 with kfs,
         ZT2 - Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear, Spectacled Bear and Panda Bear, all with cubs, alternate skins and sound
         WP2 - Grizzly Bear, Polar Bear and Panda Bear with sound and kfs.

Boar - http://tf3dm.com/3d-...boar-32845.html
         EE2  - Boar with kfs, sound

Wolf - Civ 4 with kfs,
        ZT2 - Gray Wolf, Ethiopian Wolf with cubs, sound and alternate skins
        EE2 - Wolf and White Wolf and Coyote, sound and kfs

I don't know if you could use the war elephants, but I found some more varients that I could send  you if you want.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Randomdays, 13 février 2014 - 09:30 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               Send anything you'ld like. I will check it all out. If there is something you specifically want just let me know and I will add it in. Sorry I hadn't said this before but thanks for your help.