Corals

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:04 am

It's kinda slow-going, but I've been experimenting with my new-found texturing capabilities.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/JTI_77/Corals_01.jpg

These are just retextured muck pods made to look like some variety of coral. This texture is still in need of some work, but it illustrates the basic idea. If anyone has an interest, I'd like to see about creating a small pack of undersea statics if I can manage to work out some different varieties of corals and such.

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:13 am

awesome, that would add desperately needed variety. They would also look good in the argon jungle's two major rivers.

The_Writing_Wraith · Post by **The_Writing_Wraith** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:37 am

Oooh, moon corals!

My second favorite after open brain coral!

I'd suggest that you keep the tawny color and replace the black with a phosphoresant blue-green or green-yell, that's typically the color for corals of that shape.

Hermit · Post by **Hermit** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:30 am

As they look now, they'd fit in splendidly with the muddy, ashy theme of the inner sea. We need them! Of course, a more colourful variant for less muddy and ashy regions than Morrowind is very welcome too ...

Look into your PMs folder. I PMed you some of vorr's attempts at underwater statics ... if you want, play with them a bit.

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:49 pm

Here's an update just to let you know that I'm still fiddling around with this idea. Here in the pic is the origional coral/sponge that I did as well as my latest experiment with creating a larger variety of it (This variant will be scrapped, I don't like the way it appears in-game).

I also did a few re-colors on n'dibs giant kollop, these are still a WIP but are for the most part done.

Gooblecakes · Post by **Gooblecakes** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:18 pm

i like 'em!

Hermit · Post by **Hermit** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:15 am

Neat!

I emailed you my stuff ... I hope you got it this time.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:27 pm

Nice work Spider!

Our underwater zones are sadly neglected.

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:02 pm

Thanks guys! Yeah, I kinda figured it would seem a little strangeif it was the same kelp strands, and the same kollops, and the same everything else off the coasts of the entire continent.

Hermit, I got your statics and have been playing around with them. The meshes are great and I've got some interesting stuff beginning to happen with the textures.

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:29 pm

Here's where I'm at so far. Not all of these doo-dads have finished textures put on them yet, but are at least close enough to be shown. Let me know what you think...

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:41 pm

sweetness

Assassinace · Post by **Assassinace** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:44 am

The sea floor may yet be something that isn't completally boring.

Nairb · Post by **Nairb** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:47 am

ashlander · Post by **ashlander** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:17 am

nice job spider!

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:35 am

Thanks, though it's Vorrheis who deserves most of the credit, it was he who created the models.

I've now finished textures for each of the statics, and sometime in the near future here I'll do some more colorful variants for added variety.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:24 am

I've got something to add if I can find it... I once started a "Tidal Pools" plugin, adding seastars/etc to the tidal pools (you can find most of them around the Telvanni islands, they are little dips in the rock with water in them.) I'll post what I got done, and add some more after I finish animating the Werebear.

Sorry that I've been gone for a while, as the summer progresses the time for moving out and getting a full time job is drawing near, and it's been draining my time and energy. I'll be much more efficient once things settle down again.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:00 am

Here's a picture of a few of the seastars and a sand dollar in a tidal pool.

Garriath · Post by **Garriath** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:30 am

Those look really great, eyeball, but I think their colors are a bit too... bright? I think if they were toned down a bit, less noticeable, they'd be a lot better.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:34 am

I'll tone them down now, and post a screenshot in a bit.

I was also going to make a few tiny fish and crabs, like minnows and rock crabs, but I'm still learning how to animate, so I'll stick with my Werebear until I figure that all out.

Hermit · Post by **Hermit** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:36 am

Wow. Spider and Eyeball, great work! Spider ... make more of these, and make a muddier set, too. Maybe grey and muddy ... like fitting with your corals and shells. Eyeball ... tone them down a bitm and then, we have some mroe great underwater meshes to play with.

And Vorrheis ... make some more nderwater meshes ... please?

Asylum · Post by **Asylum** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:59 pm

very nice work both of you
really the seas will be so much nicer with your meshes
*thumbs up*

wishmaster · Post by **wishmaster** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:11 pm

Go on!

Nice work!
Old morrowind underwater was a little boring when I was an argonian pearlhunter, and dived all the time.

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:58 am

Thanks alot guys!!! Hey and your tidal statics look awsome Eyeball! I'll be off on some real life stuff for the next week, but when I get back next week I'll start producing more goodies.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:44 am

They've all been toned down... part of the problem I'm having is that they look a lot darker/dimmer in Max/TESCS than they do in the game, so they look really washed out when I render them in Max, but when I plop them into the game they still look kind of bright and gaudy.

Oh well, here's what I've got. 3 shells, 2 sand dollars, and a whole bunch of Seastars and Sunstars.

(I'm having an error whenever I try to upload, so I'll try again later.)

Hermit · Post by **Hermit** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:10 am

Sorry, upload is currently impossible; please remote link or PM it to an Admin, and they will put it up.

Otherwise, yay!!

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:54 pm

Well that explains it. I'll just start a TES Screenshot Library account.

[img]http://www.cuneo.us/tesmw/images/Eyeball88/tidalstars.jpg[/img][/img]

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:17 am

Alright, I did alot of playing around with retexturing these meshes and here's what I've come up with.

[img:550:343]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/JTI_77/Corals07.jpg[/img:550:343]

[img:550:343]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/JTI_77/Corals06.jpg[/img:550:343]

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:18 am

And here's two more pics. Lemme know what you think.

[img:550:391]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/JTI_77/Corals05.jpg[/img:550:391]

[img:550:387]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v149/JTI_77/Corals04.jpg[/img:550:387]

Starcrunch · Post by **Starcrunch** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:26 am

Badass. Just one question, are people adding anything to the sea floor? Every place I've looked (mostly map 1) is completely empty.

-Starcunch

Hermit · Post by **Hermit** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:37 am

those corals look awesome ... wow

vorr, please make more like these .... pleeeease ...

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:38 am

For the Sea Anenomes I thought it would be better to have the waving tentacles be part of a plane with opacity, and then doing numerous layers of them. I tried to build a few but didn't have much luck getting the opacity to export properly, but I think it might make the anenomes look more alive.

I really like it all though, the seas are soon going to have more diverse wildlife than the land!

wishmaster · Post by **wishmaster** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:12 pm

Can you release the files?
I might need some for my own mod.
Please?

Praise King Neptun!

Stumpytheguar · Post by **Stumpytheguar** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:45 pm

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:40 pm

yeah, I could use these for map 2 detailing also.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:52 pm

Spider has disappeared for a while, so I'm assuming something bad has happened. When he comes back, we'll compile all of the corals together and send them to OoT.

Kasan Moor · Post by **Kasan Moor** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:09 pm

Hope it will be soon, because I'm detailling map 2 at the moment, and I'm hoping to inculde the corals there (maybe in the waters around kemel-ze)

Hermit · Post by **Hermit** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:51 pm

Oooooh ... wasn't Spider from Florida?

Shit.

Hope nothing happened to him or his home ...

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:05 pm

Ouch.. i hadn't thought about that.

Kasan Moor · Post by **Kasan Moor** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:56 pm

I think we all hope that nothing happened to spider. I hope we'll hear from him soon.

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:37 am

Still here... heh, I wish I was in Florida. I'd take hurricane Ivan over already having 30 degree nights any day...

Yeah, anyhow I had/have some computer probs, so I'll scrape together what I have left of the files and email them to Yinnie shortly.