Now That's Attention to Detail: The Things We Miss

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               I know that I nitpick my own models, often spending too much time trying to adjust vertices just right, sometimes by the hundredths of a centimeter (hey, they go to three decimals in gmax, I'm rounding!).

So, I was taking inventory of all the plant creature models I have already available to build with tonight.  Checking them out from different angles in the toolset, trying to figure out where I might make some improvements or best make use of the critters.

Then I zoomed in on the "small treant" model originally created by the C.R.A.P. team years ago.  In all of these years, even after my characters have slain hundreds of the things (I use them as twig blights), I never realized that they have a face!  A tiny, very bird-like, beaked face...with spikes on top of their heads.

Even older content can surprise us sometimes.  I'm probably not the only person that hadn't noticed this detail.



Any little details you've found in NWN content that has been there for years, but you've missed until later? Share it here!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Amethyst Dragon]

               And now I finally zoom in on the DLA treant that the little one is based on...and realized that the eyes blink...something else I'd missed.  '>

I generally only see them placed in areas in the toolset (where there aren't animations if you aren't in the properties window) or don't look close at their heads in-game when the lighting isn't as bright.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mecheon]

               I know your pain, AD. That's why this damn fire drake is not in your hands yet and I'll get it to you in the weekend. Plus work starting up again, but hey.

The "Small Treant" is missnamed in the CEP. Its actually a Twig Blight! Serious, that's what the model was released as in the CRAP. However as the CEP already had the modified flesh golem one they renamed it at some point

On the eyes blinking, one of my failed prototypes for the old Undead challenge back when it happened was actually going to be a reskinned treant to represent a burnt out treant. Was gonna leave out the eyelids, but never went around with it

(Lemme know if you do go and do some tree stuff, I've got some ideas of a vaguely Warcrafty nature)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               One thing I had missed until just the other day - when I was making a large cemetary/temple area - is a tombstone that has the names of what I assume is the DLA Team on it.