Custom Content Challenge: April 2013: Drow Stuff

[Legacy_MerricksDad]

               @Draygoth, are your drow skins, or piecemeal still? Your colors and lightning are much better than mine, but I was going for med-poly med-texture in a way that would allow easy mod by users. I'm starting with Sims2 skins for my base and working up from there.

And hey, here is an update: I got 6 drow completed, working on a priestess now. She'll be done tomorrow. Still need to fix the shadow bug on the draegloth before release.

I call this one "Picnic in the Forest"


From left to right: Draegloth (8ft), Mercenary, Warrior, Stinger, and Rogue

This one shows off drow05: Archer and drow06: House Guard


               
               

               

                     Modifié par MerricksDad, 15 avril 2013 - 10:44 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               The armor is skin, and the rest of the model is piece.


               
               

               

                     Modifié par Draygoth28, 16 avril 2013 - 12:29 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Builder__Anthony]

               Glad i didnt finish my drow areas.maybe i could make something nice for the lizzards adventure wise..
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               Had some time to take a Spider and hit it with big bricks - NOT a real Spider I hasten to add - and came up with a sort of weird Drow Idol whatnot.
Two versions, one with emitters, one without. Basically, just your typical enormous stone Spider mounted between spiky things with weird votive dais thing underneath. Gives your Drow something new and different to worship.

(Sorry, AD, more Spiders!)
               
               

               

                     Modifié par PLUSH HYENA of DOOM, 16 avril 2013 - 04:55 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               Amazing work, all of you guys!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               Very cool wall spiders.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Ssythilac]

               The amazing work you guys are making for this challenge motivated me to start a project in an underdark environment, with a few tileset improves and changes. Here are a few images:

http://social.biowar...lbum_id=1331148

I can`t hardly wait to use your drow stuff in this module!

Also, an idea: drow/underdark related inventory icons. Spider things, drow house pins, stranges mushrooms and these sort of stuff.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Sheesh, I only did a whole bunch of fungi inventory items for the plant (February) ccc. Some people have short memories (now what was I talking about? ()).

TR
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 16 avril 2013 - 09:57 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               A pair of Drow scimitars....


               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MerricksDad]

               Kinda finished my drow priestess today. She's got a serious bug somewhere that only lets me play her for about 15 seconds before NWN crashes. She does look pretty good though.



I've reduced her poly count by about half now and still no go. I'll have to undo the skin and see if thats it or if its the bones.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MerricksDad]

               @Jenna WSI, about robes and armor parts:

My drow are already in robe form, with some accessory items floating over the robe which attach to the normal body parts, such as torso_g and pelvis_g nodes.

As for making robes for humans and elves out of these drow, it should be easy, but know that my drow slightly defy the normal elf and human p models. what I mean is that while they still reference the normal a_ba/a_fa animation sequences, they have their body parts shifted from the normal positions. In general, the arms are in or out X and Y a few cm based on sex, and the torsos are positioned Z+10cm from the norm in both sexes. I use this primitive technique to make my elves look more thin than humans, but generally not much shorter. Very much unlike the NWN standard elves. A few side effects exist with how I am doing my drow. One of those happens to be that two-handed weapons might look a little odd (due to arms being shifted). Basically the weapon appears correctly in the main hand, but the offhand might not line up correctly where you would expect it to.

As for creating body parts from them, well that is another story completely. Not many of the parts you might find in the robe could easily be made to fit the normal wood-block style nwn characters. I won't say you can't try, and you can certainly pull textures out of my files to work with. Basically you would be better off starting from scratch to obtain geometry like this for NWN standard sized elves/humans. In fact, you might just want to use the texture bits and wrap them to existing body geometry. I'm trying to keep my textures put together in such a way as to allow swapping chunks in or out easily (mostly so I can do it myself).

Hope that helps. When these are released you will definitely see what I am talking about.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               7 is not a bad number.


               
               

               

                     Modifié par Draygoth28, 17 avril 2013 - 02:09 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Draygoth28]

               Did you fix your crash issue with the Drow Priestess? If you have shadows on the skin, this sometimes causes crash issues.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MerricksDad]

               Not yet no, I got to playing with the internet downloading images for more drow instead '> I totally missed the 2012 official content, minis and what not and kept forgetting to view them when I was at coffee shops. Lets see, I have some objects which may cast shadows upon the skin, but I do not have a trimesh associated with the skin so its not casting its own shadows or anything (is that even possible? I was unaware...) I have another female model (the archer) which also does not compile for viewing in nwnexplorer, and occasionally also stumps the game on model unload. The same happens with the skinned draegloth on onload. The draegloth definitely has a shadow issue because as it moves sometimes I can see a poly spike over to 0,0 and back really fast. Probably something in the head since thats where it seems to come from.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               Did someone ask for a Spider shuriken?