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« Reply #60 on: January 21, 2014, 11:11:37 am »


               Those are a great, Thanks for making those. Krynn constellations, looks the same like or constellations, just like groups of stars. The elaborate drawings in the reference pictures, only shows what people of krynn see in their constellations; In the same way like whe see pegasus, mythological heroes, a dragon, etc in ours.
Maybe my only suggestion would be to not include more stars than those from krynn; The background could be decorated with nebulae, instead...

Actually, I agree with TR about the black moon. However your interpretation of it is also nice.

BTW: I'm quite impressed, by that amazing female creature. I suppose that is something from your demoness module.....
               
               

               


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« Reply #61 on: January 22, 2014, 02:28:34 am »


               Tried making the black moon just a black disc, but it didn't look good at all. Without some semblance of form it looked kind've like an error in the texture. And I didn't want to completely abandon it.

I suspect sticking nebulae in might make the Skybox look more suited to floating about in outer space rather than being a night sky seen from a planetary surface.
Might be an option to delete most of the stars and put in a veil of atmospheric clouds, picking up light from the moons (the red and white ones anyway). But those would block the constellations a bit. Probably have to start again from scratch and I haven't really got time before the month ends to do that.
I could take out most of that starfield to the East if you like and put something else there. I've got plenty of nebulae and stuff in lots of my other Skyboxes done for Demoness Tales. I still think it might look a bit too "sci-fi" though...

Unless of course, there's SUPPOSED to be a nebula visible on Krynn that nobody's told me about? If so, what colour is it?

(PS:- As to the female creature, she's a sort of Nature Goddess, a kind of Supreme Empress of the Dryads... vaguely inspired - especially the spikes on her back - by Giger's excellent designs for Sil in the deplorably rubbish film "Species". Since a life-size version of Sil stands right beside my computer, she tends not to be far from my thoughts... I've started doing custom models for most of my main characters recently rather than bother trying to make body parts for enlarged human phenotypes for creatures that aren't remotely human... Funny thing that, none of my PCs are Humans or Elves or anything "normal" like that.)
               
               

               


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Legacy_Shemsu-Heru

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« Reply #62 on: January 22, 2014, 12:55:26 pm »


               Nebulae was just a suggestion to replace most of the starts; But probably you are right and some clouds are a better choice. However forgive me for disturbing. You have already have made a great effort adapting the krynn's astral-bodies to NWN. I really apreciate that, and I don't wish to bothering you; Your actual Sky-box would be good enought, thanks for that.

PS - Adding the constellations that don't have been included yet, in the East site sounds good to me, In order to be more inmersive. Thanks again for all of your work.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #63 on: January 22, 2014, 07:58:46 pm »


               Still not enough space for all the constellations, but I'll see what I can get in on the East alongside Morgion...

Trouble is if they go too close, you can't tell where one ends and another begins.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #64 on: January 23, 2014, 06:22:44 pm »


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Here are some tinker gnome heads. Male heads have been made from free models at http://tf3dm.com/. And the female head is CODI hive female citizen, "gnomished"...
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #65 on: January 24, 2014, 12:56:12 am »


               Nice work, Shemsu!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #66 on: January 24, 2014, 04:24:58 pm »


               Sorry for my silence - RL caught hold of me.
Again: looking forward to all this!

@PHOD -skybox
That is a beautiful skybox and I would not dump it because of the black moon - It's your interpretation!
I do have an idea for an alternative (2nd version) though: For the black moon, how about choosing a part in the skymap, which is mainly black with ony a very few stars here and there, And a few of them make the faint outline of the moon. This way, it would not look like a hole in the texture, I think. The human eye will make out the shape or imagine it. I'm no good with graphics, but I think, it might work.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #67 on: January 25, 2014, 08:42:32 pm »


               PHoD has become ever more entangled in the ever more complicated CC for ALIEN vs DEMONESS...
Thus, for fear of forgetting what months are when, I've bundled up the Krynn stuff and sent it in. This includes, all three Disir...

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...plus TWO versions of the Stahnk.
The Lesser Stahnk, as seen at the top of this page, and the Greater Stahnk, as seen here. Just the same model rescaled, the Greater Freakish Undead Animal is BIG. No, not just big... It's HUMONGOUS!
And it reeks too.
Also, there's the Skybox.
I redid the East side and managed to add two more constellations - Majere and Branchala. Also raised the red moon and the Paladine constellation a bit so that it appears better over raise/lower terrain.

Back to trying to figure out how to make Aliens crawl across ceilings...
               
               

               


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« Reply #68 on: January 26, 2014, 06:25:22 pm »


               Helmets delivered:
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Next: Packing up my placeables.

I will not include those tiles I sent screens of, since they don't meet the idea of the CCC (as it was discussed earlier - see some posts back).
               
               

               


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« Reply #69 on: January 26, 2014, 06:41:12 pm »


               

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Here is a head that I had made some time ago for my dragonlance module...


@Shemsu-Heru: Somehow out of place,  :whistle:but I can't PM you, Shemsu, and I always wanted to ask this, but time slipped through my fingers... So, what is that module / will that module be, if I may ask?
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Shemsu-Heru

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« Reply #70 on: January 26, 2014, 10:43:05 pm »


               @TheOneBlackRider:

It's just a personal module, It's not posted anywhere. Actually it doesn't have any adventure content. It's only a collection of DL NPCs and creatures with their official 3.5 E stats. i have similar modules for diferent D&D settings, They were thought to serve as base for adventure modules, but, for the moment, I haven't done any adventure with them...

BTW: Nice helmet, howeaver if you let me a suggestion, give them a little more detail, would be grat, like small "horms" in the lower plates, more detail in the testure in the style of DL art.

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« Reply #71 on: January 27, 2014, 01:46:21 pm »


               @Shemsu-Heru:
My abilities with Gmax are still pretty basic. This is the first time that I fiddled with helmets...

To quote myself: "I didn't manage to get all those golden decorations of the original paintings done, so they are a kind of "trying to get close to the original"-versions."

Believe me: I tried a few ways (objects, textures) but it all didn't look very well. Plus the fact, that I'm not PLT-able so it limited me on additional objects to apply additional textures without loosing the possibility to tint.
And getting additional objects on a curved or tilting surface is not that easy to do (at least for me). It took me quiet a while to get those golden decoration stripes positioned...

BTW, I orientated myself on the Larry Elmore-drawings.

But feel free to grab them and improve, tweak, redo, ... them.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #72 on: January 27, 2014, 03:30:37 pm »


               You guys are doing a great job with all these CC additions. Nicely done! '<img'>
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #73 on: January 27, 2014, 11:18:18 pm »


               

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Declared/Intended Projects:

Dragonlances (item models) by Shemsu-Heru
Kender Heads (halfling parts) by Shemsu-Heru
Ice Rider (placeable model) by Shemsu-Heru
Tinker Gnome Heads (gnome parts) by Shemsu-Heru

Emailed/Downloaded Projects:

Castle Solanius (prefab areas) by oOKyeOo
Disir (creature models) by PLUSH HYENA of DOOM
Stahnk (creature model) by PLUSH HYENA of DOOM
Krynn Night Sky (skybox) by PLUSH HYENA of DOOM
Dragon Highlord Helm (helmet model) by TheOneBlackRider

Four days left until the end of the month?  I should think about making something.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #74 on: January 29, 2014, 06:21:53 am »


               I just delivered my (recently created) placeables. There are more than showed in the "teaser" from the first page. According screens are in the delivery.

This packaged does NOT contain those tiles I've been sending screens of (Dargaard Keep, etc.), because it's not with the spirit of the CCC (see opinions on that in earlier postings).
               
               

               


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