Custom Content Challenge: April 2015 (for real): The Small Details

[Legacy_kuronue bloodlust]

               

Speaking of the steampunk stuff for the new CEP are makeig me droll so I think i will try and whip up a quick module that uses quite a bit of them. '> love the mchanical creatures PHOD do you plain to make a pack ver of the horse?

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Definitely doing both small Animal Idols AND large Animal Statues for this month - maybe some other stuff too...

Doing statues of animals like Sharks and Wolves and Panthers and things, I really want to get a sense of the power, grace and beauty of these creatures, as I would if I was sculpting in clay... but unfortunately I'm not as good with gmax as I am with clay and working with BioWare's lumpy, decade-old animal models as a lumpy base makes them a bit, well, lumpy... but I've done what I can to make the poses interesting rather than just have them standing around like a horde of zombie baboons...

I think the Shark and the Wolf are the best results so far. Being immensely fond of both animals, I probably put more effort into them than some of the others. I've also had a lot of experience with both so I know implicitly how they move, which I think helps. Some of the other creatures that I'm not so familiar with have been trickier to do. I haven't spent much time around boars (though it came out quite well) or bears or eagles and such...

And below, for reasons not wholly apparent, even to me, I decided to create a statue of one of my Giant Predator Rats (from the recent PHoD Ultimate Rodents Hak). Exactly what depraved coypu-worshipping cult are going to go crafting fine statues of reeking, flea-encrusted humongous Killer Rats, I do not know, but it came out quite well... Also shown, Panther and Eagle.

I've done other animals too, but I'm not going to go piling pictures of everything in here like a demented picture piling thing - this is just to assure everyone I haven't JUST been messing about with Rubbish Penguins...

Kuronue - um, what Mechanical Animals are we talking about here? The ones I did way back many millions of years ago on the old IGN Vault? I'd more or less forgotten about the Mechanical Horse I did for that. Looking back at all the old stuff I did, I now identify most of it as being finest quality rubbish. If I was going to do a horde of MechAnimals NOW, I'd go about it very differently and they'd be much better.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadowing2029]

               

Going to send some spellbook-like looking books (items).

Okay some will be normal.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

OK, I know it's late in the month but a thought struck <gerroff! You stupid thought> me. There are quite a few books being done this month. Could someone make 1 or more battered volumes that do not look like the ones from Fallout 3. In other words book(s) with lots of missing pages and/or badly stained covers and/or damaged covers that still retain some vestige of their original colour. 

 

Note this not a request just for full 3D models, inventory icons would be fine as well.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_kuronue bloodlust]

               

Im wondering when soeone will adress the lack of cosmetic vanitys in the game? larger furniture can leand its charm as well.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

Just a quickie to let you know that I have made some really mankey (UK slang) book icons.

 

            

 

          

 

In order to get the level of detail I wanted, these are large 64 x 64 pixels in size. Due to this size they can't be added to the standard book icon slot. Because of that I will be sending these as loose icons not packed in a hak. BTW the 3rd one on the bottom row was genuinely a dogs dinner  .

 

Book icons and prefabs sent in.

 

TR

               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 22 avril 2015 - 01:01 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_kuronue bloodlust]

               

have you tryed saving as a diffrent file type? what am i saying nwn isnt too frendly for better file formats. :/

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

OK, I admit it... Some of my "small details" are getting bigger... A LOT BIGGER...

The Port Seadeep Institute, a museum in Demoness Tales from which assorted deranged expeditions to find things best left not found is supposed to have a life-size statue of a Dinosaur outside its main entrance. It does in my drawings anyway. But up to now, in my Modules, there's just a Dragon statue that isn't quite what it should be.

SO, since I was doing Animal Statues, I suddenly thought I'd get a proper Dinosaur statue for the Institute and thus instantly applied a big brick (very respectfully and from a safe distance) to one of my favourite large theropods, the Acrocanthosaurus... and now I'm wondering if I shouldn't statuify my Spinosaurus and have TWO Dinosaurs flanking the Institute doors...

No idea if a zonking great Acrocanthosaurus, or any other Dinosaur statue, is going to be any use to anyone else but, as usual, my CCC entries tend to be things I need myself... Just rename the theme in your mind as "Monstrously Huge Details".

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mecheon]

               

Is it modern Spinosaurus with its hilariously small legs?

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

@kuronue bloodlust

 

Those are just illustrations. They are saved in png format. They are not the actual icons, The icons are in tga format, with different filenames and will be available when the results of this months challenge are released on the new vault.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadowing2029]

               

PHOD where can i get creature version of your statue?

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_kuronue bloodlust]

               

@kuronue bloodlust

 

Those are just illustrations. They are saved in png format. They are not the actual icons, The icons are in tga format, with different filenames and will be available when the results of this months challenge are released on the new vault.

 

TR

MY point exactly tga has a bad habbit of loosing detail when it gets smaller. hmm I wonder if you scaled some featured down in png format you might be able to keep the general idea and shrink them enough to fit in the 2x2 square scalee for a normal book... other than that I am game for sseeing a lareger book if you can sit there and store spell scrolls or reagent recciepies in it XD but than again i do focs on PVE.

 

PVE is kind of my specality but I didn't leave the PVPers out entirely they have a little arena and a easy acess shop for them as well as players who prefer to level a little before going all in on a server. I am having a few tripups in the deelopment I had to redo my entire server because of a crruption issue with the old cep but thats ok I didn't get very far to be honest.

 

This mini mode im workingon is a break form the normal server so I can tink of a area that has been giving me grief (the crafting system)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

Shadowing2029:- The Acrocanthosaurus is from the Jurassic Park - Operation Genesis game, with a few tweaks (and a statue texture) by me.

I pulled all the Dino models from JPOG a long while back, along with textures and voice sets (roar sets?) with the obvious intention of turning them into Creature models. The geometry is easy, the animations are not. I keep messing round with them from time to time but, doing completely new animation models for all these piles of Dinosaurs is more than ordinarily daunting.

Thus far I've only got the Spinosaurus and Kentrosaurus done as Creatures and they both still need work. Given the frustrating battle I'm STILL waging with the ALIEN3 type Alien (see ALIEN thread) with regards its animations, I doubt the PHoD Enormous Pile of Dinosaurs Hak will be on the Vault in the very near future.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

@kuronue bloodlust 64 x 64 is the pixel size. Each square in the inventory is 32 x 32 pixels. Therefore my icons are 2 x 2 inventory size which does not match the standard Bioware books. To be honest, I have found that dds can (but not necessarily will) lose detail. These textures have been visually inspected and appear to be identical to the png illustrations I posted.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadowing2029]

               

Finished the books (screenshot is coming soon)