[FCG] Helkori Plains, and its flora
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I don't really consider this as inspiring, Harke... You should try to spend more than 5 minutes on a concept.
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Here's one.
Ahh, browns! They can be interesting if you can mix in purples, oranges and golds.
[img]http://www.niceboots.org/~evergrey/Tamriel/Helkori1thumb.jpg[/img]
Larger:
http://www.niceboots.org/~evergrey/Tamriel/Helkori1.jpg
Mmm feels good to make plants again!
*edit* Hmm, it looks a little related to lb00's plant... which could be good or bad, I guess. But now that I think about it, in a lot of places there are different plants in the same biome that share some similar traits, so it could make things look not as piecemeal?
Anyway, lemme know what you think.
[img]http://www.niceboots.org/~evergrey/Tamriel/Helkori1thumb.jpg[/img]
Larger:
http://www.niceboots.org/~evergrey/Tamriel/Helkori1.jpg
Mmm feels good to make plants again!
*edit* Hmm, it looks a little related to lb00's plant... which could be good or bad, I guess. But now that I think about it, in a lot of places there are different plants in the same biome that share some similar traits, so it could make things look not as piecemeal?
Anyway, lemme know what you think.
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This one's sweet For me it looks more like that one made by Elfane, only that his had spikes, and your has leaves. I'm not sure yet which to choose(from all of the posted concepts)
PoHa: how can we best this trio of trouble? who will save us from this menace of sub-par models? what will we do?
PoHa: I know! we'll shoot an Aro at them
Aro: you have only one Aro missile!
PoHa: yes, but its heat seeking and quite possibly indestructible
How to do not become a modeller - by Stryker:
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PoHa: I know! we'll shoot an Aro at them
Aro: you have only one Aro missile!
PoHa: yes, but its heat seeking and quite possibly indestructible
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I think the two, well all three of the having stuff in common plants would be complimentary.
Mine, if it wasn't clear from the illustration, grows in spirals.
I think, taking the stuff that's in this thread, that it'll look really cool. Great designs in here, imo.
PS- cracked dried mud is cool looking- be sure to only use it in flat areas. When I lived out in the desert, I only ever saw it happen in relatively flat, low parts where water would pool after a rare rainstorm.
Mine, if it wasn't clear from the illustration, grows in spirals.
I think, taking the stuff that's in this thread, that it'll look really cool. Great designs in here, imo.
PS- cracked dried mud is cool looking- be sure to only use it in flat areas. When I lived out in the desert, I only ever saw it happen in relatively flat, low parts where water would pool after a rare rainstorm.
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[img]http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3396/vinetreeqc8.jpg[/img]
This one is not really a tree it is a vine that takes over trees hence it can look very different from case to case.
It starts out as a small vine at the base of the tree, as it grows it starts to hug the tree all around. By the time the vine reaches the trees crown it has grown enough to "steal" all the water from the host. The hosttree dies and makes room for the vines leaves.
To the right of the tree you have a small bush that have berries that grows two & two. To the left you have an ugly ass flower.
[img]http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2743/mushtreewb1.jpg[/img]
Just a damn tree, I call it a mushroomtree.
Also no savanna like region is complete without Acacia trees
[url]http://www.veeriku.tartu.ee/~ppensa/Acacia1.jpg[/url]
They are'nt coloured because I am tired of plants and trees.
Enough is enough!
This one is not really a tree it is a vine that takes over trees hence it can look very different from case to case.
It starts out as a small vine at the base of the tree, as it grows it starts to hug the tree all around. By the time the vine reaches the trees crown it has grown enough to "steal" all the water from the host. The hosttree dies and makes room for the vines leaves.
To the right of the tree you have a small bush that have berries that grows two & two. To the left you have an ugly ass flower.
[img]http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2743/mushtreewb1.jpg[/img]
Just a damn tree, I call it a mushroomtree.
Also no savanna like region is complete without Acacia trees
[url]http://www.veeriku.tartu.ee/~ppensa/Acacia1.jpg[/url]
They are'nt coloured because I am tired of plants and trees.
Enough is enough!
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Request completed! All needed flora claims are now aviable for claiming for modellers. Thank you, Concept Artists
Sidenote for Gez: We still need rocks for Helkori. I'm gonna consult you via PM about this.
Sidenote for Gez: We still need rocks for Helkori. I'm gonna consult you via PM about this.
PoHa: how can we best this trio of trouble? who will save us from this menace of sub-par models? what will we do?
PoHa: I know! we'll shoot an Aro at them
Aro: you have only one Aro missile!
PoHa: yes, but its heat seeking and quite possibly indestructible
How to do not become a modeller - by Stryker:
[00:13:]Stryker: no tutorial, no no no
PoHa: I know! we'll shoot an Aro at them
Aro: you have only one Aro missile!
PoHa: yes, but its heat seeking and quite possibly indestructible
How to do not become a modeller - by Stryker:
[00:13:]Stryker: no tutorial, no no no
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pulling some atmospherics from wiki:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/View_from_connors_hill_panorama.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Botswana_Nxai_Pan_NP_Baynes_Baobabs.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Kiang_West_savanna.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Gazella02(js).jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/African_safari_route.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/View_from_connors_hill_panorama.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Botswana_Nxai_Pan_NP_Baynes_Baobabs.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Kiang_West_savanna.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Gazella02(js).jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/African_safari_route.jpg
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sorry if this is necromancy, but i didnt know where to put it. i recently went to ohio and i thought these plants were cool for hammerfell.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23193006@N02/2683023589/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23193006@N02/2683023589/
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My summer job is gardening, and I just realized I haven't contributed at all to flora!
I've got some ideas, namely herbs that could be useful in alchemy. Also, a lot of herbs like dry soil which fits the Hammerfellian climate. Lavender, rosemary, and thyme all do well in dry, Mediterranean-like climates, appropriate for Hammerfell.
There's a lot I could think of off the top of my head... echinacea is also fairly drought resistant, as is nepeta (catnip). There's more, I just have to sit down and think about it.
pics
rosemary
[url=http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rosemary.jpg][img]http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2397/rosemary.th.jpg[/img][/url]
nepeta
[url=http://img269.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nepetawl.jpg][img]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3499/nepetawl.th.jpg[/img][/url]
lavender
[url=http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lavender6.jpg][img]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4158/lavender6.th.jpg[/img][/url]
thyme
[url=http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thymehighlandcream.jpg][img]http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9848/thymehighlandcream.th.jpg[/img][/url]
echinacea
[url=http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=echinacea600w.jpg][img]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2286/echinacea600w.th.jpg[/img][/url]
My summer job is gardening, and I just realized I haven't contributed at all to flora!
I've got some ideas, namely herbs that could be useful in alchemy. Also, a lot of herbs like dry soil which fits the Hammerfellian climate. Lavender, rosemary, and thyme all do well in dry, Mediterranean-like climates, appropriate for Hammerfell.
There's a lot I could think of off the top of my head... echinacea is also fairly drought resistant, as is nepeta (catnip). There's more, I just have to sit down and think about it.
pics
rosemary
[url=http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rosemary.jpg][img]http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2397/rosemary.th.jpg[/img][/url]
nepeta
[url=http://img269.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nepetawl.jpg][img]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3499/nepetawl.th.jpg[/img][/url]
lavender
[url=http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lavender6.jpg][img]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4158/lavender6.th.jpg[/img][/url]
thyme
[url=http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thymehighlandcream.jpg][img]http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9848/thymehighlandcream.th.jpg[/img][/url]
echinacea
[url=http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=echinacea600w.jpg][img]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2286/echinacea600w.th.jpg[/img][/url]
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Elfane your art totally wins!
Tyrion, some of those plants are pretty cool actaully, and you got me thinking, maybe also a tumeric plant, those are pretty rockin' and hardy plants,
Tumeric
[img]http://www.oller.net/turmeric2.gif[/img]
also, some Wierd Mushroom I saw once:
[url]http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/nara_mushroom.jpg[/url]
And I can't forget this Australian beauty called a Sturt's Desert Pea which would probably work quite well in hammerfell.
[img]http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/general/plants/p_spec/images/wildflo/sdp.jpg[/img]
Another example:
[url]http://image16.webshots.com/17/8/7/59/188280759shrIFF_fs.jpg[/url]
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Tyrion, some of those plants are pretty cool actaully, and you got me thinking, maybe also a tumeric plant, those are pretty rockin' and hardy plants,
Tumeric
[img]http://www.oller.net/turmeric2.gif[/img]
also, some Wierd Mushroom I saw once:
[url]http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/nara_mushroom.jpg[/url]
And I can't forget this Australian beauty called a Sturt's Desert Pea which would probably work quite well in hammerfell.
[img]http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/general/plants/p_spec/images/wildflo/sdp.jpg[/img]
Another example:
[url]http://image16.webshots.com/17/8/7/59/188280759shrIFF_fs.jpg[/url]
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Tyrion, Lavender and Echinacea are already in Oblivion, and it would be trivial to add them into the Helkori Plains, however, I don't think they have the right feel.
And as for Harke's oxalis (yes I know that was forever ago), why bother to draw concept art when you can just ink to the plant you wer talking about?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OxalisTriangularis.jpg[/url]
Anyways, Oxalis don't really fit well, as they have high water requirements and tend to be found on moist forest floors among redwoods.
For trees, might I recommend some large Euphorbia, like, say, these Euphorbia candelabrum?
[url]http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/69/Euphorbia_candelabrum488340183.jpg[/url]
[url]http://fichas.infojardin.com/foto-crasas/euphorbia-candelabrum.jpg[/url]
[url]http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/41289/dsc00222.jpg[/url]
They are cool and exotic looking, and are from the deserts of Africa. Interestingly, they have an extremely toxic latex (white sap) that will burn your skin if you get it on you, which in the dried form might make an alchemy ingredient (with Damage Health as a prominent effect), though you might not be able to harvest it yourself, if trees aren't harvestable. Would a cactusy thing like this use speedtree?
And as for Harke's oxalis (yes I know that was forever ago), why bother to draw concept art when you can just ink to the plant you wer talking about?
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OxalisTriangularis.jpg[/url]
Anyways, Oxalis don't really fit well, as they have high water requirements and tend to be found on moist forest floors among redwoods.
For trees, might I recommend some large Euphorbia, like, say, these Euphorbia candelabrum?
[url]http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/69/Euphorbia_candelabrum488340183.jpg[/url]
[url]http://fichas.infojardin.com/foto-crasas/euphorbia-candelabrum.jpg[/url]
[url]http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/41289/dsc00222.jpg[/url]
They are cool and exotic looking, and are from the deserts of Africa. Interestingly, they have an extremely toxic latex (white sap) that will burn your skin if you get it on you, which in the dried form might make an alchemy ingredient (with Damage Health as a prominent effect), though you might not be able to harvest it yourself, if trees aren't harvestable. Would a cactusy thing like this use speedtree?
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm pretty sure cacti (or whatever that plant actually is) cannot be done well using speedtree, it would have to be a static/container, and so easily could be made into a harvestable plant.
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ive seen cacti done well with speedtree (they have some in the Trees of Pangea demo), however, its in the .spt format which would not be usable for static plants. theoretically you can make it in speedtree, export as an obj, and convert into a nif, but by that time its too much work and you might as well model from the ground up (which will give you much more control over structure are well)Cathartis wrote:Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm pretty sure cacti (or whatever that plant actually is) cannot be done well using speedtree, it would have to be a static/container, and so easily could be made into a harvestable plant.
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