Fang Lair

Rhymer · Post by **Rhymer** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:50 pm

This is the most famous place in all Hammerfell - the legend itself, ancient dwarven keep, misterious catacombs, where the irst part of the Staff of Chaos was hidden. What do we know about it?

I'll try to make some sketches in a day or two and now I offer you a picture from TES:Arena. Magneficant sight, isn't it?

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:20 pm

Ah, I remember discussing this place way back in the early days of HF, before OB was released: When we didnt know much about HF lore and anything was possible

From the start we said, "This place has to change". The cool, but completely generic castle/dungeon is supposed to be Dwemer made. So, it's worth thinking about, but it needs to look different.

Arthmodeus · Post by **Arthmodeus** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:23 am

I did a crapload of Dwemer concepts, including Fang Lair. Check out my art thread.

http://tamriel-rebuilt.org/old_forum/viewtopic.php?t=10486

There it is. You should be able to dig up some inspiration from there.

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:21 pm

Let's remember that the Dwemer of Hammerfell are stylistically slightly more "glittery, shiney, precious metal" in comparison to the morrowind Dwemer - Like taking Morrowind Dwemeri building textures and saturating them (That's what beth did but the other way around - took redguard dwemer textures and desaturated them for morrowind).

Look to Redguard for inspiration and if you can't play it then look at the screenshots...the internet is sadly quite devoid of screens from redguard - so don't waste your time looking for them, 'cause i put loads of them (practically everything dwemeri in Redguard) together from the game and uploaded them here:

http://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/old_forum/viewtopic.php?t=18143

See, although slow and very rarely here, I'm good to you lot.

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:33 pm

Nalin, could you please resize your avatar? Although very cool, it deforms the forum slightly.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:14 pm

Nalin wrote:Let's remember that the Dwemer of Hammerfell are stylistically slightly more "glittery, shiney, precious metal" in comparison to the morrowind Dwemer - Like taking Morrowind Dwemeri building textures and saturating them (That's what beth did but the other way around - took redguard dwemer textures and desaturated them for morrowind).

Two reasons:
1. Technical reason: Redguard had a more limited color palette.
2. In-game reason: Morrowind has a province is dirtied by the ashes and dust from the Red Mountain.