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I am asking you 3D modellers, I know it's a bit soon, but how acn I draw a sload taht ould be modellable, that will fit with NPC's, can I make them reasonably fat, with reasonbly flabby cheeks (dropping 10 cm from fac) do they need fett? How can they be slug like? etc etc. Just give me a save outline of a design I coudl do, applicable to NPC's.
All this is assuming they are being basd on NPC's.
All this is assuming they are being basd on NPC's.
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Hmmm, some people have already drawn Sloads, but Sloads that might work as NPCs... I don't know how you'll do the legs, or the arms, or how you'd split the chest, groin and tail. I don't think I even want to know. The head might have to be physiqued, you don't want flab clipping through more flabby chest, right? By the drawings they have bulldogish cheeks, purple eyelids, yellowish eyes, a lot of purple features, like by the mouth, and flab, and flab, and they have to look as though they don't have a skeleton but are only gross squishy stuff... In short, you've got long work ahead of you. But somewhere there are two pics of concept art sloads, look under Objects of Tamriel, I think. Look at them and good luck!
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They will ahve to be scaled larger..... Perhpas scaled Fat, I am suer you can do that. But it is still gonna be difficult. And Feathers!!!???
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Sload_Morrowind.gif[/img]
Where?
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Sload_Morrowind.gif[/img]
Where?
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Sload are probably named after the two creatures that were combined together to make them, SLug and tOAD. There's also a Daggerfall Book, Fool's Ebony, that refers to sludge-toads, another possible origin of the Sloads. Which are asexued. Like the Paks from Ringworld, they pass through an infant stage, an adolescent stage, and an adult stage. They reproduce only during their adolescence.
You see, Sload's are born as bloblike lumps of tissue with a functioning digestive and respitory system. The rest of their systems are still in development as they grow in this form over between sixty and one hundred years. It is during this time that they produce "sload soap" as their fecal byproduct.
They slowly develop five tentacular limbs. They are held in place by the shaping of their thin and clear membrane which makes the shape of most of their body. They have control over four of these, the fifth being the one directly opposite their cranal area. Their genitals on their underside are not particularily large, nor are they at all like human, meric, or khajiiti ones. They include two seperate testes and two seperate ovaries. At the end of their adolescent stage they use these genitals, but only once, almost always resulting in both parties becoming pregnant with two children, of which about 6 of 10 survive their blob stage.
The genitals are, however, not exactly testes and ovaries. The ovaries are each an egg and the testes are each a small amount of sperm. At the end of their mating, they lose them forever to their offspring. They then release a hormone which begins the development of their four tentacles into more human limbs and the development of their lungs. They will then become the ancient and beloved Sloads we know and love.
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They slowly develop five tentacular limbs. They are held in place by the shaping of their thin and clear membrane which makes the shape of most of their body. They have control over four of these, the fifth being the one directly opposite their cranal area. Their genitals on their underside are not particularily large, nor are they at all like human, meric, or khajiiti ones. They include two seperate testes and two seperate ovaries. At the end of their adolescent stage they use these genitals, but only once, almost always resulting in both parties becoming pregnant with two children, of which about 6 of 10 survive their blob stage.
The genitals are, however, not exactly testes and ovaries. The ovaries are each an egg and the testes are each a small amount of sperm. At the end of their mating, they lose them forever to their offspring. They then release a hormone which begins the development of their four tentacles into more human limbs and the development of their lungs. They will then become the ancient and beloved Sloads we know and love.
Sload,
who loves this story of his
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Most of what I said was made up, everything we know about their life cycle comes from the old PGE (though there might be information in the new one).
In any event, it is extremely unlikely we'll have more than a small handful of Sload in the game and even more unlikely that we'll have any that aren't elders. We just need a Sload model with some different head models as a creature, no NPC.
In any event, it is extremely unlikely we'll have more than a small handful of Sload in the game and even more unlikely that we'll have any that aren't elders. We just need a Sload model with some different head models as a creature, no NPC.
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Now for some idle conjecture on the development of the Sload anatomy.
How do Sloads grow from grubs to tentacled beings into vertebrates?
I see sloads as saltwater amfibians.(have such creatures actually ever existed on Earth, I mean saltwater amphibians, I think not). They start out as larve (tadpoles) which is fine, but how do tentacles grow into limbs? My guess would be they had tentacle-ish fins, like lungfish have that would slowly develop in to limbs.
This would mean that the adolescent had four tentacles.* It's also possible that adolescents had more than two pairs of limbs, the redundant would still have to be on the adult Sload in one form or another, perhaps sunken in 'belly-buttons' underneath layers of fat. Perhaps Sloads would also produce disgusting slime in the way hagfish do.
Harke, a Pak adolescent,
*procreative tentacles not included.
P.S.: Brilliant story, Sload.
How do Sloads grow from grubs to tentacled beings into vertebrates?
I see sloads as saltwater amfibians.(have such creatures actually ever existed on Earth, I mean saltwater amphibians, I think not). They start out as larve (tadpoles) which is fine, but how do tentacles grow into limbs? My guess would be they had tentacle-ish fins, like lungfish have that would slowly develop in to limbs.
This would mean that the adolescent had four tentacles.* It's also possible that adolescents had more than two pairs of limbs, the redundant would still have to be on the adult Sload in one form or another, perhaps sunken in 'belly-buttons' underneath layers of fat. Perhaps Sloads would also produce disgusting slime in the way hagfish do.
Harke, a Pak adolescent,
*procreative tentacles not included.
P.S.: Brilliant story, Sload.
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I can answer a couple of questions at once with this handy dandy PGE quote:Harke the Apostle wrote:Now for some idle conjecture on the development of the Sload anatomy.
How do Sloads grow from grubs to tentacled beings into vertebrates?
I see sloads as saltwater amfibians.(have such creatures actually ever existed on Earth, I mean saltwater amphibians, I think not). They start out as larve (tadpoles) which is fine, but how do tentacles grow into limbs? My guess would be they had tentacle-ish fins, like lungfish have that would slowly develop in to limbs.
This would mean that the adolescent had four tentacles.* It's also possible that adolescents had more than two pairs of limbs, the redundant would still have to be on the adult Sload in one form or another, perhaps sunken in 'belly-buttons' underneath layers of fat. Perhaps Sloads would also produce disgusting slime in the way hagfish do.
Basically I think this means that while they do complexify as adolescents, the real step up is when they alter their integument to change those tentacles into 'limbs'...I reckon they are still invertibrates (ie soft gooey centres) but they have a sort of muscular exoskeleton which both holds them up and affects their shape. Relaxing this allows them to 'climb things like disgusting slugs' while contracting in a complex manner allows 'them to pick up things'.Sload slowly adapt their outer integument to conform with surfaces and objects, permitting them to pick things up or climb things like disgusting slugs.
Yes they are probably a bit slimy

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Last time I trust a Sload.......Sload wrote:Most of what I said was made up, everything we know about their life cycle comes from the old PGE (though there might be information in the new one).

I just wanted to try to draw one, I know what they look like but I wanted moer to know what you guys guess what kind of animals you'd mod it from. Cus then I can tell that (now it's not NPC's they'll be based on) what shapes I can make them into, and what I can stretch tehse concepts to.
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I believe that Vernon already has a fully built Sload mesh, and is just adding extra detail for a normal map. I don't know if we'll need a concept, assuming he can get it all put together, but it never hurts to have them.
For creatures or armor, this would be the ideal concept art style. Courtesy of Morden, it also shows off how easy it is to model off of.
[img]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/eyeball88/concept2model5.jpg[/img]
For creatures or armor, this would be the ideal concept art style. Courtesy of Morden, it also shows off how easy it is to model off of.
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Thanks Eyeball, as you promised,I have only just posted but nevermind, I should really have edited. Well so really that means 2D views in a T shaped position. Then you can build the mesh agains the concept, and perhpas one from diagonal, but that doesn't matter you just need 4 plotting points, height (up and down) and length (left and right) from the two angles. Wow, taht came out fairly simply.
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I can answer a couple of questions at once with this handy dandy PGE quote:
Yes they are probably a bit slimy
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This makes me think 'Octopus' very hard. Octopi can also change the texture or their skin, from smooth to absolutely fractal. Maybe the hands of sloads, would be some kind of (retractable) claws like cephalopods have as well.
Basically I think this means that while they do complexify as adolescents, the real step up is when they alter their integument to change those tentacles into 'limbs'...I reckon they are still invertibrates (ie soft gooey centres) but they have a sort of muscular exoskeleton which both holds them up and affects their shape. Relaxing this allows them to 'climb things like disgusting slugs' while contracting in a complex manner allows 'them to pick up things'.Sload slowly adapt their outer integument to conform with surfaces and objects, permitting them to pick things up or climb things like disgusting slugs.
Yes they are probably a bit slimy

This makes me think 'Octopus' very hard. Octopi can also change the texture or their skin, from smooth to absolutely fractal. Maybe the hands of sloads, would be some kind of (retractable) claws like cephalopods have as well.
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