Naga-Cradle Jungle - Environmental Assets

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Wonderful news, Senten :goodjob: !

FYI, I tried playing around in the CS with various assets last night just by using different resource packs such as the 'Blackwood Rocks' resource by IATE, Koniption's resources (still without textures as yet - I'll look into this when I get home tonight), the 'Dark Jungle' mod (which gave me some great ideas) and the SI rocks.

I just wondered if we had someone who could re-texture things like rocks so that we had a 'jungle set' featuring a very select choice of textures that would fit with the ground textures that we eventually chose. I'd like it to be green but very colourful with lots of weird flora for this region. Does texturing of this sort take time or is it fairly simple to do?

Anyway, I'll be looking at the assets in the CS side-by-side and making a selection before I go for a preset. I may even just do the landscaping by hand. This would work especially well if I'm using lots of enlarged rocks, as can be seen in the 'Dark Jungle' mod.

I'll definitely be using Koniption's Hala trees and bromeliads anyway.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

I'd definitely like to use this texture as shown in the attached screenshot of the wall in the background. I can't remember if this is the standard model for the Blackwood region though. Anyway, deeper into the jungle, I think it may be best to go for the mania texture. My intention is to get a selection of about 2-3 main textures together and then keep to them so that the colouring remains consistent. Can someone with texturing skills answer my earlier question when they read this: "is it fairly quick and easy to take rock models and retexture them according to the specified textures for the region if the rocks that I'd like to use themselves don't appear in those textures?"

I'd like to use some Dementia rocks with these two textures, for instance. I now have NifSkope so I may be able to do this myself if it proves easy enough.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Confirmed the use of some assets (see original post). My question above regarding textures still remains so please read the posts above. Can't wait to get cracking on the jungle region now...it's a pity I'll have to wait for the BW region.

[Senten]

Here is my Seagrape tree:

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[Ibsen's Ghost]

The trunk is really cool but I'm wondering whether the leaves can be made a bit more shaded or just darker as they are just a little cartoon-like at the moment. I think a bit of shading might solve this....is that possible? It would be nice to have another version that really hugs the ground and where the leaves lie almost parallel to the ground across a wide area, a bit like the second concept photo.

[Senten]

Originally posted by Ibsen's Ghost
The trunk is really cool but I'm wondering whether the leaves can be made a bit more shaded as they are just a little cartoon-like at the moment. I think a bit of shading might solve this....is that possible?

I'll try out something.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

(bump)...I edited the post above....

[Senten]

Okay,here is the new.

I remade the leaf and bark texture TWICE.



I know it also looks cartoon.I can't fix that.

[nick_op]

Originally posted by Senten
I know it also looks cartoon.I can't fix that.

Looks like the alpha transparency is slightly larger than the diffuse texture, thus giving the black line around the leaves. If you reduce the size of the 'visible' area of the alpha channel you should be able to get rid of that, which would probably make them look a lot more real.

[Senten]

nick_op if i send you the leaf texture,can you fix it to me?