Custom Content Challenge: May 2013: Dragon Stuff

[Legacy_TheOneBlackRider]

               Hmm... I hope, I don't lean myself too far out of the window (german saying '>, but I have this "mounted flying dragons" project, which I layed on ice, because my colleague, who did the hosting, which I cannot do (at least it seems so), had to drop out due to RL commintments:


Blue dragon mounted (unfinished version):


Red dragon mounted (close to final version):


White dragon mounted




These are based on this, which I already released to the vault:
http://nwvault.ign.c...s.Detail&id=468

Info from the vault-page
These are not models like horses! It's one model consisting of dragon and rider!
They are adjusted/corrected versions based on Adam Miller's dragonmodels in his module "Dreamcatcher 3 - Pit of Stars (1.09)", meanwhile part of CEP 2.3(+).


I have to worm myself into that again (it's been a while and i don't remeber, where I left off) and ATM RL keeps me very busy. But I'll give it a try!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ShadowM]

               I was going to start a project like this. I glad to see someone has already start some work into this. I'm going to do the horse way though with a new custom riding flying mount system, custom phenotype. Good job. '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               Just about complete...



The model is tied to the green dragon for animation. I just need to add a few minor details and tweak some geometry and mapping and it'll be good to go.

Since this hasn't taken too long to make, I'm thinking of adding some purple-robed dragon cultists to the mix. Purple-robed? Yes, because AFAIK that's what the Cult of the Dragon from the Forgotten Realms wears - purple robes and maks to conceal their identities. 
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Pstemarie, 06 mai 2013 - 07:43 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Mecheon]

               Another good thing would be some of the other dragon variants you don't see often. I know I've been kind of wanting some of the Ferrous dragons for a while, what with Hardpoints having just about made every other version

As for the Zmey, turns out there is a DnD equivilent to it, the Gornych, and mine is... Not going to be matching that at all. Legends usually state it has some arms up front, but I think I'll drop those to help differentiate it from the standard dragon (Well, aside from the 3 heads). But there are going to be variants! Some variety of cave dwelling and mysterious space dwelling variants that I'm sure people will get the jokes of
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_TheOneBlackRider]

               @ShadowM: Horse-system dragons: I'd like that, too! I could send you one of "my" tweaked models (when I have one in a finalized shape), so you could make them mountable for toons. I think, they are scaled to the right size.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Snugglehoof]

               http://images2.wikia...Song_Dragon.jpg

I would love to see a song dragon made available. "Song dragons resemble copper dragons in general shape, but they are more slender and possess iridescent silver-blue scales. This makes them bright and impressive in appearance."

They do not really require a custom model given their simmiliarity to Coppers. A new texture for copper wyrmlings and copper dragons would suffice. Adding a hue of mother of pearl to the new texture would likely be perfect to give it it's iridescent scales.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy__six]

               Would a suphur-lake-cave-lair-tileset type thing be too tangentially related?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               @_six has it got a humungous pile of treasure placeable? ()

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_cervantes35]

               Littered with bones and bodies of several brave adventurers as we well
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_TheOneBlackRider]

               Cave lair would be great! If you do so, please make the ceiling high enough. There are models out there, where the ancient dragons stick their heads through the ceiling... '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Jenna WSI]

               







               
               

               
            

[Legacy__six]

               No promises here.


               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               That looks amazing - how high is the poly count?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy__six]

               Currently 6600 triangles, including the bones, wings (not shown) and neck spines (which are the default, not shown). I still need to do the back legs. Not sure if I can modify the wings: the default ones not only look nasty but are made with a pretty nasty skinmesh setup too - I don't feel too confident about re-animating them so they might stay the standard ones.

Mind you, the back legs will be a challenge in themselves. They're all bent up in the 'neutral' pose.


Edit: looks like the model will be just a little over 9000.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par _six, 12 mai 2013 - 10:09 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               @Rollo: Is the dwarf working with oriental dragons? If he isn't, perhaps I'll try that. However I'm a bit lazy these days....



Jade dragon, oriental dragon god; BETA.....