Modelling The Tower

[Siegfried]

Hoss, out of curiosity how big will your tower be ingame? And are there any descriptions on how big the tower is in lore?

[Hoss]

Siegfried: Well right now I have it a little taller than the towers of the Oblivion Cathedrals.

Razor: I think I have figured out how to use normal maps in my textures. I use the Civ4 Shader:instead of Blinn shader: (I place my normal maps in the bump map slot) for my textures in Max and then I do the assigning in Nifskope(texture path and Collision data)[I am not sure but I believe it works for gloss maps too;put the map in the gloss slot]

The textures appear a little darker in max but with the ingame lighting they appear okay.

This is just preliminary I tested it on a weapon I made.
It appeared to work. I am going to test it somemore.

[Siegfried]

Ok, thats what I wanted to hear

[nerbod]

has anyone discovered This yet?

[Hoss]

I TESTED IT SOMEMORE AND IT DOES WORK! YAY!!!!!!!

[Razorwing]

Oops, I missed this thread. Sorry.

Hoss: Really? That's very interesting! Did you get NifSkope to open a NIF exported with the Civ4 exporter? I tried that a few times but I didn't get it to work; NifSkope wouldn't recognize the NIF. Perhaps they released a newer version than the one I used? Or perhaps it was because I baked in the textures, but I have a hazy memory of trying on both baked and un-baked NIFs.

Did you model a collision mesh and bring it in using NifSkope? Or how did you do that? =)

[Hoss]

I don't bake the textures(nifskope won't load a baked mesh). I used the same method as in the custom weapons tutorial in the Construction set wiki.

As far a collision goes I used the method in i the tut. I works fine for weapons but I have yet to figure it out for statics like buildings. I can walk through them in game. it is really strange.

Collision model? How do I do that? If I knew how I would try it to see.

[Razorwing]

Originally posted by Hoss
I don't bake the textures(nifskope won't load a baked mesh). I used the same method as in the custom weapons tutorial in the Construction set wiki.

As far a collision goes I used the method in I the tut. I works fine for weapons but I have yet to figure it out for statics like buildings. I can walk through them in game. it is really strange.

Collision model? How do I do that? If I knew how I would try it to see.

I just read a post by Vizard on ESF -link-
then import it back with nifskope but this method is still in the early stages of D so you cant make your own colison mesh that goes with your saff or sword but you can replace the mesh part of a sword

[KuKulzA]

is this being worked on or completed?
I know its no longer THE Silgrad Tower....
but a giant Velothi tower would be perfect in Thorn, Black Marsh... a city made by Velothi way way back
couldn't find a logical spot for it in Vvardenfell.. there just isn't that sort of building, Ghostgate and Vivec City are the big Velothi things on Vvardenfell..

[KuKulzA]

does anyone have the completed model, textures and everything?

*crosses fingers*