Modelling The Tower

[DarkEclipse]

I like dwemer lizard's idea. :goodjob:

Nice job on the tower!

[dwemer lizard]

thx

[Hoss]

I am still working on the Tower of Silgrad itself and I need some good Oblivion quality textures for it. I am working on the Exterior only. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some thing to fit the Velothi archetectural style.

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by Hoss
I am still working on the Tower of Silgrad itself and I need some good Oblivion quality textures for it. I am working on the Exterior only. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some thing to fit the Velothi archetectural style.

Hi there Hoss!
A while back 91.css created a really cool wall texture which I used on some of the existing Velothi buildings. Perhaps you can use that? It can be downloaded in this archive:
-here- which was posted about -here-.

[Hoss]

Thanks Razor! Those are perfect. Now the tower looks much better to me. I hope to finish it soon. I am still trying to get the scale right.

Also how do you get bump maps to work or does the Civ4 exporter not export them?

I am still working on the tower I need to add windows and such. And some details.

[Axen]

Bump maps? Ew. They make things appear to pop out of the screen rather than the object itself. Use normal maps instead.

[Hoss]

Well That is what I meant normal Maps! How do I get them to work?

[Siegfried]

Excellent work Hoss. Out of curiosity what happened to that really big Silgrad Tower that was created way back, this http://www.silgrad.com/oblivion/images/t...ForNow.jpg

[Harikari]

Looks to me like what hes making now goes on top... cuz its a little on the small side...

that one you brought up though Sigfried is awesome though! If we don't use it for the tower, we can definetely find another use for it

[Razorwing]

Hoss: Cool! The texture really compliments your design, and it looks awesome now. Unfortunately the Civ4 NIF exporter doesn't support any other texture techniques than color and opacity. To get those textures (and collision) in, you'd need to export it to .obj and, using NifSkope, hack it into a mesh Bethesda made. I have no idea how that process works though; so far I've been content with using Civ4 and thinking that some time in the future, when there's a proper Max exporter, replace all the models I exported with the Civ4 exporter.

Siegfried, Harikari: I came to think of my tower as a learning experience, but lately I've been thinking about using it for the Ancient Gate in some way.