[Adanorcil]

I feel like a relatively easy thing to model. Care to grant?

[Cathartis]

Sure thing, Mr 'Norcil.

[Cathartis]

Wow, this one got away from us... anything in the way of an update on this, Ada? If there's no post within a week, it'll be revoked.

[Nemon]

This one is super important now that we've opened the ash swamp claims. Uld Vraech is supposed to be next one up...

[Adanorcil]

[Nemon]

[Adanorcil]

Updating with pictures.

[Nemon]

Any chances for pictures alongside other BM stuff? Also BM ground textures to have consistency if possile.

I'm thinking the green color could be slightly darker, maybe even the trunk.

[Haplo]

Any update, Adan?

[Nemon]

Is this one progressing? I'm eager to test these trees in the CS - we don't have many map 5 claims before starting with the Uld Vraech part.

[Adanorcil]

Sorry guys, been busy with getting the SE claims up to speed. I have updated these a little in the meanwhile, but until I can get the Blender nifscripts to work in 2.5, I can't export them. I will get on it after this week.

[Nemon]

Imma put some herp in this derp, too. Any summer progress happening here?

[Nemon]

I guess this one is on hold until the Necrom claim is done?

[Haplo]

Now that you have handed off the SE stuff you were working on, what's the 411 on this, Adanorcil?

[Haplo]

Please post an update within the next week or this claim will have to be revoked.

[LiberumAvis]

I take it, right?
The main part will be ready to next week.

[Why]

Transferring claim ownership, this has been discussed with Adan. If you could upload those WIP files here Adan that'd be great. Good luck LiAv and please ask any questions you have here in this thread!

[Adanorcil]

Hey, LiberumAvis. As requested (and as I should have done a long time ago), I'm dropping the WIP models (and original PSD texture files) that I once made here. Feel free to ignore these completely, but use/alter them as you see fit if you want to. The (high resolution) PSD files make the archive rather big, so you'll find them on my Dropbox (allow some time for uploading):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35517884/MW%20trees.zip

The idea was to use alpha textures to create that gnarled, dense look. Unfortunately, that doesn't work too well in the game because the planes with these textures on them are still shaded as such, which means you get the funny effect of dark and light sides to seemingly unrelated branches. A less flat/regular topology for the planes might remedy that, I don't know.

In any case, good luck.

[LiberumAvis]

Thank you, Adanorcil.

Also, I will probably disappear from the forum for a few days, but I'm working on.

[LiberumAvis]

I'm busy lately, but I have time to finish this week, I think.

There is one question - can I use this model as an example in my guide? I will not share this models, only the screenshots and description on their example.

[Adanorcil]

Not sure what guide you are referring to, but I don't see any problems with that. All of TR's models are available to the entire Morrowind modding community anyway, so go ahead.

Or are you talking about the model I provided a few posts earlier? In that case, use it in whatever way you see fit. I lay no claim to it whatsoever.

[LiberumAvis]

Well, I corrected Adanorcil's meshes and completed them.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8322643/Uld%20Trees01.rar
There are meshes for http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6629/trantlerfir.jpg

not all done, I'm going to optimize the texture when it is ready all claim.

About the first art: what size are assumed to these things? These plants belong to the same species that in another art?

[Why]

They're a different species for sure, but I'm not sure about the size. I'd say about 1.5x character size would be cool but I'll ask Nemon just to be sure. Having multiple versions for different stages of growth (varying amounts of 'layers' of scales) would be awesome too, and snowy/non-snowy variants.

[Nemon]

1.5x to 2x character size would be nice.

[Mwgek]

I like this! Don't forget to decrease the texture size.

[Adanorcil]

The other concepts strike me as something bush-like, so the size suggested by Why and seems about right to me.

Like what you did with the antler firs. It's definitely an improvement over mine. Others may disagree, but I was thinking that a few variations could maybe be useful: a version of the big one with different arrangement of branches, a mid version where some of the husks of the juvenile one are still present, but folded open, ...

[Myzel]

Great looking models!

[Cathartis]

Woah, those are pretty sexy :O

[Haplo]

Those look great. Nice work, LA!

[LiberumAvis]