A thread for Wolli

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sat Jun 08, 2013 7:08 am

Grazeland expansion rocks without the West Gash green vertex colouring.

Fireflowers with NCO attached, because I ran into one and get stuck.

Bloodmoon rocks next, and any other small fixes I can find.

Adanorcil · Post by **Adanorcil** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:17 am

Do yourself a favor and attach some pictures. If people have to download, unzip and import a model file (those that even know how to open .nifs), you're probably gonna miss out on a lot of feedback.

Yeti · Post by **Yeti** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:52 am

What Ada said. I might know next to nothing about the technical side of modeling, but I do consider myself a adept judge of what looks good in a screenshot and what doesn't.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:14 am

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... lrocks.JPG
New brown coloured rock replacer.

I'm not taking a picture of a collision node.

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:10 am

Looking good! And yeah, collision boxes aren't very exciting material. Any chance you could tone down the green-ness to our bm rocks as well? I believe it's the 02 and 04 variants, vanilla covered 01 and 03 iirc... those are the "flat ones", 02 and 04 are more for hills and incline-y areas.

Aeven · Post by **Aeven** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:29 pm

Wolli, do you mind if I use the GL rocks for a retexture, also within TR?

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:36 am

Sure, pretty much everything I make (unless specified) is available for use to anyone, specially province modders.

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 6:11 am

Thanks. And the sandwich that's missing from your fridge? Now you know where that went.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:50 pm

I sneezed on that.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:17 pm

I removed the useless lag-causing keyframes so that the meshes no longer "animate" and I removed 65 duplicate pollies that were causing it to look so sharp (look at the edges of the current ones in the CS), even though it was set-smooth. I also added a better material setting.

Now my favourite house's mainland areas will be slightly better.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:51 am

Dunm... Dunmer.... Dunemer... Dwem...No..

So that Nord Gatefort that guards that path between Skyrim and Morrowind has been updated.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... epass5.JPG

The following textures are no longer required by this set, so you can delete them - assuming they're not used elsewhere.

tr_nord_ancientnordstonewall
tr_nord_dragwoodcarv
tr_nord_oldwood
tr_nord_woodcarva
tr_nord_woodcarvb

The files all have materials set up correctly, no useless animations (like most old TR meshes...

), no specular or stencil settings and they have collisions! Yay!

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:06 am

Time for those long await (or not) BM rocks!

Now the WG rocks covered in green vertex colouring and retextured to use conflicting BM textures look half decent with some black vertex colouring.

By the way, I spotted that there is a tr_terrain_bm_rocks_05 and 6, yet they appear to not be used in the CS, and they're basically duplicates rotated (from what I can tell) 90 degrees to the side.

Ashstaar · Post by **Ashstaar** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:04 pm

The gate set looks really nice. Much cleaner.

Aeven · Post by **Aeven** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:00 pm

Wow that new gate set looks so much better!

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:00 am

Something that has always bugged me in vanilla and TR Dwemer ruins is the lack of a broken bridge piece and the fact that people think bridge ends pass as "broken."

like so:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... ridge1.JPG

so I made some new meshes:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... ridge2.JPG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... ridge3.JPG

There's some funny lighting on them, but that's just the CS lighting up the angles of the mesh, shouldn't look like that ingame or from a low angle. (There's no vertex paint, I've searched, and I can't think of any other reason a slightly edit vanilla plane would behave so strangely.)

Aeven · Post by **Aeven** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 12:31 am

THANKS! I agree completely on this, I hated the end being considered 'broken' too.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:00 am

Awesome stuff, wolli. Question: in the Nord fortress picture, there's some bright yellow light on one of the window slits. Is this from the model? Or some mysterious additional static in the CS?

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 9:42 am

Haplo wrote:Awesome stuff, wolli. Question: in the Nord fortress picture, there's some bright yellow light on one of the window slits. Is this from the model? Or some mysterious additional static in the CS?

I believe those are separate meshes, lights I placed there. Didn't look like that in my file though. Pressed "a"?

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:16 pm

Yeah, someone placed lights in all the windows, the models are just retextures of the imperial ones (as were the originals, only someone broke them first...)

Anyway. Dwemer ruined statues: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... tatues.JPG

Maybe if someone goes around and places the ruined gate piece everywhere they can do the same with these.

Nord houses: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... dnords.JPG
all 9 of the used (as of the latest internal map 5 plugin) buildings have been replaced with more vanilla like models, I also fixed a bunch of issues on each one (caspering, useless duplicates and random subdivision, one mesh had nearly 100 unseeable faces inside a tube..)

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 3:35 am

Swiftoak asked for some barrows
Muspila gave us permission for some barrows
Wolli packaged us some barrows.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:24 am

For the sake of archiving, here is the barrow entrances.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:48 pm

Here are those red platforms again, I also fixed the UV on the second, smaller, mesh so that it doesn't just look "shrunk" (shrank? shrinked?)

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:03 pm

Thanks wolli! (Shrunken)

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:13 am

some WIP shots:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... iTR007.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... iTR008.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... iTR011.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 ... iTR026.jpg

I know some of you don't like the leaves, and the trunk's UV is a bit too stretch for that bar, some of them are also a bit too jagged whilst the 4th and 10th have some bald spots, they're both apparently the most used, so I don't have many good distant land screens.

Post by **Haplo** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:32 pm

The leaf-size in the texture in the 008 shot looks good, but the other three still look rather too large, I think.

Also, regarding the bark, the texture looks nice, but the bark is supposed to be a rich brown, is it not? Why the departure? What's currently in TR_Data is a newer texture that looks high quality, but I think is even too light and shouldn't be used as reference. Good texture color reference:

http://i.imgur.com/1gVtQob.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4EnIwE3.jpg

Rats · Post by **Rats** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:50 pm

Oi, Wolli. I heard a rumor you had a model for an Imperial warship lying about?

If so, those would greatly fit Old Ebonheart.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:47 am

Here they are, I optimized them in Blender a bit, and made them accessable from both sides and - believe it or not - I made the stairs better, although they still suck.

Someone (me, if I have time) will likely have to remove a good half of the unneeded faces for the sake of optimization, (doing soon won't cause any clipping issues.) In the current state they're not actually that bad, and won't cripple anyones FPS.

Now to P:C, to give them their copies.

wollibeebee · Post by **wollibeebee** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:42 pm

I swear I posted these.

Anyway, here are the trees. I've put them all in one archive but there are actually 2 folders inside. the first contains the oak trees (new material, less symetrical root-thing, better collision, etc etc etc etc) and the other two files are the Ndib trees. There are two version using different textures for the leaves.

I'll get some screens up in half an hour or so.

Also, dem mountains be coming soon mateys!