David House's concept art

David House · Post by **David House** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:34 pm

Hello my name is David house (obviously, and this is not a rip off of house the show, I had it before him.) I am a small time artest, and in about a year going to collage to become an artest, I love Morrowind and I love Hammerfell and Elswer even more. If any modders request concept, ill have it soon.

David House · Post by **David House** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:31 pm

Figured yall might want some of my doodles for example.

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/Concepttwinsimplebed.png[/url]

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/nordandkajiit.png[/url]

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/Nordichouse.png[/url]

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/Woodelfhome.png[/url]

Sorry about the size and lack of detail, just doodles on my tablet.

Edit: sorry about that.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Fri May 01, 2009 6:17 am

Please simply link your images, or perhaps put them on imageshack which, from what I understand, allows for thumbnailing images

David House · Post by **David House** » Sat May 02, 2009 7:50 pm

could the admenestrator please rename this to David's concept art?

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/Closetconcept.png[/url]

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/SPREADSHEETCONCEPT.png[/url]

[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/Bedconcept2.png[/url]

Post by **Haplo** » Sat May 02, 2009 8:59 pm

Done.

David House · Post by **David House** » Sun May 03, 2009 3:26 am

Thank you very much.

update:

(hammerfell)
[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/nomadconcept.png[/url]

(Morrowind)
[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/helmsconcept.png[/url]

(Morrowind)
[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/decrativearmorconcept.png[/url]

(Argonia)
[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/boiledslaughterfishleatherarmorconc.png[/url]

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Mon May 04, 2009 2:45 pm

Your drawings look good. Really promising.
Some concepts can use a bit more detailing though. Especially the armors look very sketchy and lack detail. I always say that it is at least as important (if not more) for concept art to express the style/design/atmosphere as it is to provide a shape to model with. Design is often in details.

I'd like to see you make some more Hammerfell concepts, see how you treat our 'hammerfell mood'.

I'd go through some other art threads to get a feel of it. It takes time, but the research is worth it I think.

David House · Post by **David House** » Mon May 04, 2009 9:57 pm

I cant run oblivion, I found that out today when someone on the elder scrolls official forums told me the 40 doller graphics card i Bought to play it on was to old to play it, so im probably not going to make much more in the way of oblivion.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:18 am

you can do concept art without ever setting foot in game. hammerfell has very little to do with cyrodiil, so most of your research and inspiration can be found either right here on the forums of on the internet

David House · Post by **David House** » Tue May 05, 2009 2:23 am

meh I geuss, ill post somthin tomarrow.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Tue May 05, 2009 2:46 am

Dont let you hardware issues discourage you dude, you do good work!

Speaking of hardware issues, i pride myself on having a working knowledge of the 'nuts and bolts' of PC componentry. With this in mind i expect that the guy on the official forums was talking out of his rear, $40 for a second hand graphics card SHOULD result in something that is capable of powering oblivion. All the requirements state is that the card needs 128mb of on-board RAM and be compatable with Direct3D and have DirecX 9c compatable drivers. I have personaly SOLD a graphics card that was able to run Obliv at near-max settings for $20 and that was 18 months ago, so $40 should be more than enough to get a suficently powerful card. (All monetary values are in Australian $s)

David House · Post by **David House** » Tue May 05, 2009 2:56 pm

1 I bought it new,
2 I tryed playing oblivion on it, on lowest setting, it runs fine no lag but no textures eather, all black and white.
3 It crashes whenever I get to the sewers, the guys in elder scrolls said all those are signs that it is underpowered.

my spec.
512ddr2 ram
3 gig cpu
140 gig hardrive
and my graphics card.
running vista, dang thing cost 600 dollers.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Tue May 05, 2009 4:03 pm

VISTA!! Well theres your problem! Vista is a Ram hog, and needs about a gig of ram just to run itself properly. Aside from that your description of your computer is remarkably like my own:

> AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (3gb equivilent, tho only runs at 1.8 )
> 1.3gb DDR 400 (as in pre DDR2 - which u have - get more)
> Gigabyte Nvidia 7600 GT PCIexpress Vidio Card (256 DDR3 onboard) - tho its PCIexpress and SLi capable it is still two years old and thus worthless.
> Asus A8V-E mobo
> Soundblaster Audigy DE (first edition)
> DVD & DVD Burner
> 40gb & 120gb Seagate 'Barracuda' hard drives

And the only piece of hardware i have thats less than two years old is my 22" widescreen LCD moniter (and probably worth more than the rest of my system put together).

I recomend that you update your vidio drivers. If it still doesn't work you might have to take your whole system to a profesional, because in Australia at least $600 should be more than enough to get a system capable of running oblivion, and at more than minimum settings at that...

Come to think of it... while i had my previous graphics card i actualy had a similar problem (the no texture thing). All it needed the was updated drivers, so the same trick SHOULD work for you...

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Tue May 05, 2009 7:47 pm

Or the graphics card could indeed not be powerful enough. What kind of card do you use?

By the way, I really like those helmets you drew. Cool and fitting designs.

David House · Post by **David House** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:33 pm

thanks about the helmets, I have a ati radion stealth graphics card model 9250

PS: anyone know where to get the drivers for this graphics card for vista? I cant find em.

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:51 pm

I tried to locate your card and found this:

http://www.diamondmm.com/S9250PCI256.php

I think this is your card, and this is the website of it's manufacturer. There are no drivers for Vista here, which might very well mean this card is too old to even have a driver compatible with vista. I'm not sure on this though, so I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Tue May 05, 2009 9:34 pm

A quick search with google ("ATI Drivers") turned up this as its number one result: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Of course, this may well be useless to you if you have an Intel CPU.

Going from the specs of the card listed in the link provided by Myzel a driver update SHOULD be sufficient. My old card was a contempory of this one (ATI card of similar age). Even if I'm a little off, going by the listed specs it is still "new" enough to be capable of running oblivion once the neccissary software has been updated.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Wed May 06, 2009 12:40 am

your definining of contemporary is both superfluous and agrivating. Do not define words in your posts. If people don't know what something means they should look it up. Your use of the word itself seems superfluous, but I am not one to talk when it comes to unusual vocabulary choices.

David House · Post by **David House** » Wed May 06, 2009 2:09 am

Ya I got intel im not gonna worry about it, morrowinds fine.

Edit: hey yall I made this mesh, can anyone tell me how to add textures?

PS: I made it in blender, WAHOO!

dirnae · Post by **dirnae** » Sat May 09, 2009 2:14 pm

read up on how to add UV maps to meshes in the Blender tutorials on their site, once you've added the UV map, just export the template and put textures on to it

David House · Post by **David House** » Sat May 09, 2009 2:17 pm

Thanks!

NexUmMonastica · Post by **NexUmMonastica** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:10 am

every triangle requires memory for the game engine to render: and your closet had enough for a ps3 game. so you need to keep them at an absolute minimum. There is never any room for extra polys.

I took your closet and replicated it to be closer to morrowind standards to give you some help. I applied a uvw map to the left door as an example and it coincides with the texture that I included. Take a look at the model, and see If you can build something similar from the ground up.

I used the commands:
extrude
chamfer
bevel
weld
unwrap uvw map
and smooth

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:04 pm

David House wrote:(Morrowind)
[url]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Iren_hawk/decrativearmorconcept.png[/url]

I really like this, screams Great house Dres to me.
Don't mind if I collaborate and elaborate do you?

David House · Post by **David House** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:33 pm

Sure go ahead.

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:02 pm

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/743/necromancer.png
Necromancy!

[url=http://img232.imageshack.us/i/dresdavidhouse.png/][img]http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5958/dresdavidhouse.th.png[/img][/url]
[url=http://img232.imageshack.us/i/dresdavidhouse2.png/][img]http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/711/dresdavidhouse2.th.png[/img][/url]

David House · Post by **David House** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:45 pm

Holy cripe, thats awesome, I have got to 3d model that, you did allot better then me, -cracks open blender-

PS: about the concept on the velk, its been setting on my desk for the entire day, sometime yesterday I gave up trying to get the scanner working.

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:18 pm

David House wrote:PS: about the concept on the velk, its been setting on my desk for the entire day, sometime yesterday I gave up trying to get the scanner working.

That's what you have a tablet for

About the cuirass you're planning on meshing; Remember that this is going to have to fit in with the rest of the models in Morrowind so you're not going to need to model all the individual "plates" or segments of the cuirass - get the basic shape down (take a stock Morrowind cuirass and tweak it - then It's pre UV mapped too!

) and let the texture do most of the work. I'll happily texture this cuirass if you go ahead and make it, that is unless you want to yourself.

David House · Post by **David House** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:41 pm

Ill make it, but ive made it from scratch.
[url]http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9092/dresarmor.png[/url]
But its got massive #'s of tris, so I might just have to start over, also im done some ground work for uv mapping.

PS: my tablet broke

Edit: Ok here goes, this is pretty good, complete remake, I unwrapped UV's (you may want to re-unwrap) and included .obj format, & .3ds in it, take a look, and tell me what you think, ps: the texture has no texture applied, just wire frame unwrap, its in 3 layers, background is white, wire frame, and texture, also its in tga format. This is a very low poly armor, since I was not sure what Morrowind could handle. Also, I did not add the loin cloth or sash, I would like some feedback before moving forward. And the reason I didn't take a original game model and change it is because 1- I like originality, 2-I cant for the life of me get the bsa browser working.

Ps: do you use blender? if so I can just send you the .blend format, because the obj and 3ds sort of change it a bit.

Pss:Heres a shot of a texture I threw on it. [url]http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/946/spreadsheet.png[/url] also in this shot I did a few model changes.

...Nalin?

David House · Post by **David House** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:09 pm

As no one has replied in a week or so, ill resume work.
[url]http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/946/spreadsheet.png[/url]
This is some minor adds I have made, the arm holes, (Which need to be larger) and the loin cloth, plus the hip guards, the loin cloth needs more polys, but I dont want to get to high. It would be nice if somone would tell me what I need to work on.

PS: textures haven't been applied or even made yet, it would seem Nalin will not be doing those so I'll make them when its fully done.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:12 am

you are aware that we already have dres armor in TR_Data right?

Katze · Post by **Katze** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:41 am

The concept this is being made based on is called "Decorative Armour", it was Nalin that labelled it as Dres.

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:30 am

Is Nalin's Dres armor in TR Data? All I could find was the armor worn by the Dres in Port Telvannis, and I think Nalin's armor design is a lot more unique and sexy.

David House · Post by **David House** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:22 pm

Well, I dont have access to the latest tr data, because I haven't worked any on the map itself, so could somone who has it please look into that for me? thanks.

Hows this?