Author Topic: Custom Content Challenge: April 2013: Drow Stuff  (Read 2816 times)

Legacy_Draygoth28

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« Reply #75 on: April 11, 2013, 07:14:25 pm »


               That is wickedly cool
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #76 on: April 11, 2013, 09:35:29 pm »


               @draygoth28: That drow standing next to your latest mount has a great outfit. Would you be willing to share? I understand the boots were from a Q model iirc, but I have yet to find them for download. I also like the skirt quite a bit
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #77 on: April 12, 2013, 12:08:36 am »


               Shemsu-Heru: Great! One of the best ideas I have seen in a while for a drow`s bow. Keep the good work!
               
               

               
            

Legacy_MerricksDad

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« Reply #78 on: April 12, 2013, 01:02:19 am »


               Excellent drow bow. I'm working on a few more drow and one specifically needs a wicked bow, so I think I might just release her without the bow and let folks use yours. Save me the trouble!

To answer a few questions since I've been gone:

My drow are going to be released with a replacing and non-replacing appearance 2da so you can choose. I figure some people will like to use them as replacements for the non-dynamic drow in the toolset, of course others might want them as additional drow.

They obviously don't match the OC drow in color or size, or in texture quality, so they WILL look odd if used together.

So I am up to 1 male drow warrior FULLY completed, two drow female rogues with some texture bugs, an 8-ft draegloth with a shadow bug, and a female drow in half-ish-plate in final texture stages. Plans continue for two robed male wizards, a spider-silk robe priestess, a cloth robe priestess, and two more male warriors, as well as a female archer. Whats that? 12ish total drow-stuffs to play with. If I get time, I'll whip some more spider egg together and birth some more. I really wanted a chitine, but I don't have time for animations right now.

Ok, so check out the picture entitled, "happy family" hehe. Only the male is complete. The females will get some more accessories before release. I have no intentions of doing a female draegloth '<img'>

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in this one, you can see I un-eye-ed Wes Studi's head and gave it some custom highlights and what not.

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Just a warning on my drow: so far they are about 1600poly each and high texture. I got some work to do on the textures still as some of the models have two skins, each calling texture from a separate file. I'm experimenting to see what NWN can handle...answer is: not much.

The male causes a small hop in the game to load, and the females cause substantial lag at the moment. Unfortunately, the engine is apparently loading the skin and texture individually for every instance of the drow, so my drow at the moment are NOT very good for large encounters. I mean once it loads the hoard yes, but if you want lag-free single-player drow-carnage, then my drow are currently not for you!

Anyway, it seems like the texturing is taking the longest, and I haven't even worked in any shine on the females yet. They are just flat colors in the game, and look horrible so far.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #79 on: April 12, 2013, 01:03:59 am »


               I was thinking of making them have on-model weapons. Is that useful to anybody? If not, maybe I will just release a gmax file with a bunch of drow-style weapons somebody else can make and release later.

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Better yet, maybe I will include with the release an additional baseitem which is just for monster specific weapons. It could include all my drow custom weapons and make a great spot to put dynamic giant clubs, demon swords and what not. That way you can make the balor have a choice of weapons, like in infinity engine games, the units usually had two if not 3-4 weapons to select as BAM overlays. Even diablo 2 has 2-3 weapons for some units. I don't think I'll go as far as including feats and stuff for it, but it should do the trick with some custom editing.
               
               

               


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« Reply #80 on: April 12, 2013, 07:38:33 pm »


               really cool stuff guys and @merricksdad, the armor of the 2nd drow female is awesome!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #81 on: April 12, 2013, 07:42:10 pm »


               These drow are really cool.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #82 on: April 13, 2013, 02:26:35 am »


               Those look great. Could they be made into robes or armor pieces easily?
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #83 on: April 14, 2013, 02:52:19 am »


               Are any of these great Drow models over rides. I have one I have been working on, but I can make it a creature instead of an over ride if there will be an issue.

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Maybe I shouldn't add these to the CC event. They are just compiled model parts, I didn't create any of them. I just thru them together.

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« Reply #84 on: April 14, 2013, 10:12:55 am »


               @Draygoth28 - of course you should include them. Just because you made them from various body parts doesn't negate that. It's what you made them into that's important. Leaving them out would be like refusing to share a cake because it's got eggs in it (ie the majority of home made cakes have eggs in them).

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« Reply #85 on: April 14, 2013, 04:20:58 pm »


               @Draygoth28
your drows are very cool so yeah please include them. Colors are perfect imo!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #86 on: April 15, 2013, 04:22:55 am »


               ok, done with Drow. I will make them into new creatures, and package it all up when I get new textures from Baba yaga for lizard mounts.

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« Reply #87 on: April 15, 2013, 04:26:08 am »


               Impressive!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #88 on: April 15, 2013, 11:58:42 am »


               Wow Draygoth - those are some of the best Drow I've ever seen. I can't wait to toss them in my override.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #89 on: April 15, 2013, 03:03:10 pm »


               Neat-o!