Architecture Wishlist

[LPS_]

What is a Sarpa Nest?

[Senten]

The Sarpa is a type of the Argonian race.

The Sarpa have wings and they can fly.

I need some idea for the nest.And i need a draw.

And after this i can model.

[LPS_]

How intelligent are they?

[Senten]

Originally posted by LPS_
How intelligent are they?

Haha,you have some fantastic question.
hahaha :lmao:


Anyway,intelligent as original Argonians.

[Deeza]

I think they're about the same intelligence as regular argonians, as Senten says. However, unlike regular argonians they don't ever leave the marsh, and attack outsiders on sight. Plus, they can fly so their nests will probably be in the trees. Perhaps these pictures will help:

http://www.sulekha.com/mstore/dkvblog/al...C02880.JPG
http://www.junglephotos.com/africa/afani...ernest.jpg
http://www.game-reserve.com/images/wildl...est_da.jpg

[Senten]

Got it.Okay,thanks Deeza,the pictures are really cool.

At the weekend,or tomorrow i will start working on this stuff.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Senten, try using your own Hist tree model that you were creating and, instead of joining up the branches at the top, have branches all reach out from one central point so that you create an 'open nest' with the Hist's typical flora radiating outwards. This should be just big enough for a fully grown Sarpa and some Sarpa eggs. But I think a Sarpa nest would pretty much take over the whole tree.

For the more advanced Sarpa, it would be especially cool to have some buildings (with stone textures) that are shaped like trees but over-sized and serving as tree houses as a homage to their 'Hist roots'. I think I mentioned earlier that I'd like to see some tall, thin structures for the Sarpa settlements so things like these might also be carved in some way.

As towers, some trees with an overgrown green bud inside the trunk that emerges to create a 'perch' or platform should make for an effective and eye-catching model. Both of these shouldn't be too hard to do but they may be difficult to texture correctly.

Whilst we're on the subject, I would love to see what people might come up with for Sarpa eggs...

[LPS_]

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Hmm, interesting! Now you have plenty of options, buddy. Nice work LPS :goodjob:

[Koniption]

Originally posted by Ibsen's Ghost
......Whilst we're on the subject, I would love to see what people might come up with for Sarpa eggs...

I had an idea. Reptilian eggs are usually leathery and much softer than bird eggs. So the eggs would be shaped like a snake egg, maybe (someone else can take on how to texture it..).

Some of the more mature eggs, since the fetus is more grown and the eggshell leathery, should have some slight animation effect where looks like a "fist" or "foot" is pushing along the wall of the egg from the inside, and some even sliding along the eggshell wall. You know, like human fetuses do in the womb, and sometimes you see the bulge and the movement of the foot on the belly exterior - that sort of effect.

Also, sometimes light shines through chicken eggs, and you can see a shadow of what's inside. Maybe a very small and lowpoly Sarpa fetus can be modeled and put inside some eggs, and either make the egg very slightly transparent, and in front of some sort of lightsource, or have a slight glow emit from within the egg itself.

I guess I can whip up something for these ideas, if you wish to go with them. If someone makes a Sarpa fetus concept art so I get a general idea of what they look like, I can try to model such a thing, too, and see if I can get the shadow effect to pull through. Also, how soon would you need this stuff ? I hope you don't need it too soon..

Koniption