Race Lore Help

[Koniption]

Originally posted by Lore_Naga
well yeah I will sign up after a few weeks and I have commitments too, All I'm saying with akavir is like Ok I got a texture that I've heard over akavir needs(Should I share?) Just saying if anythink like this comes up please share it would be very helpful and maybe if you have got free time and cant think up on anythink on this Mod but have some ideas for akavir or even have a model that would be very helpful,

We'll take those situations on a case-by-case basis.

Well after I get my scanner and contribute enough concept art for the 3 Mods(E,BM,A)That I think I should start off so people can see my ideas well after that I'm going to try and train myself to be a master of the CS,Any upcoming tips or warnings guys?

If landscaping, press "a" and then "b" on the keyboard = real helpful for seeing things and keeping track of each cell that you've already worked on when in the render screen. I wish I had known those tricks sooner. One "turns the lights on", and the other puts an overlaid grid over the landscape...each square of the grid is cell.

Also I will tell about my comps space and all that-(Oh its a XP)
1.60ghz,1.00gb of ram,(Nvidia)Geforce 8300 card,193gb space,And I really dont know if this is needed but its a dual CPU. Is that enough specs for my computer to work the programs for oblivion modding?

I read my Oblivion game box, and it recommends 2 gHz as the minimum...but you should be able to get away with it. Other specs look fine to me, according to the box. (I'm not the best tech person to ask, though)

when I was downloading a mod once I saw it was Downloading and would reserve 23.3gb :eek: So do you guys got 2million Gb? xD :lmao:

Lol, no, we don't have files that take up that much space.

Koniption

[Ibsen's Ghost]

My specs are about the same. I think my proc is a little higher (I think mine's 1.8Ghz) but AFAIK that graphics card looks like it should be a more up-to-date model than my own. I can operate on high settings for Oblivion but prefer to stick to medium most of the time because procs like ours don't like to get hammered! Anyway, that looks like it's more than enough. The only worries you might have would be stuff like region generation which seriously murders my machine. Imagine an old washing machine when you stuff it to the brim.... =)

I'll keep an eye out for Akavir stuff. You may wish to check out ORE though if you haven't already: http://www.oblivionsrealestate.com/ . People often overlook it but it's fabulous site. And speckledguar's site is an unsung hero of the modding scene IMO: http://speckledguar.googlepages.com/ .

I started modding here at Silgrad under the watchful eye of the mighty sandor and Razorwing who were an immense help. But the source for tutorials outside of ST is always the wiki: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/ind.../Main_Page .

P.S. I'm guessing you have this already: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6628 .

[Lore_Naga]

yeah thanks guys again :yes: (lol im annoying :lmao: ,When im thinking of questions that pirates of the caribbean song goes in my head <the one were jack sparrow lands with his little sunken dingy, and then a pop along kind of catchy tune goes on 'Normally used for when jack sparrow is trying to get out of something and complicates matters'>) OK so misc(anythink) and armor concepts(paatru €and yeah you<im not sure it was someone without a pic, second guessing > did post a link to atlantecean race mod and then someone said they would make it green,and naga well im so confused with you guys with the naga because i read on 1 date someone saying wolven with grey wizards head mod then the next day after, everyone is saying tsaesci from akavir mod but with a argonian like head, so im really confused so explain.......Æ) well good good + whats your opinion on sloads? http://accessories.euro.dell.com:80/sna/...1#Overview
http://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/?p=conceptar

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Yes, the Paatru is possibly the least solid concept we have for a race. This was the Atlantean link: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=17394 but I think it was decided they weren't 'frog-like' enough. We could really use something that perhaps manipulates the Grummite base.

Btw, neither of those links you posted leads to sloads. One is for a printer, the other to the Tamriel Rebuilt website. Here is info on sloads: http://oblivion.wikia.com/wiki/Sload and here's a pic: http://rarayn.deviantart.com/art/Tale-of...r-67392732 . We do have quite a few pieces of concept art for creatures but what you have to understand is that so very few modellers are adept at making creatures without loads of hard work and trial and error....which is time and specialist expertise we don't have. Whilst we have modellers of great talent, even the best seem to struggle to get their creations in-game. This is even true of the Sarpa, for which we have an amazing model but few of the skills in-house to set up all the animations....in fact, no one really knows how to make it fly to perfection and the speaking anims are extremely tricky.

In this sense, we often have to cut corners and restrict the more outlandish concepts to stuff like architecture....otherwise, we'd have silt striders, sloads, wamasus and all the others named in Argonian bestiaries walking around Argonia already...

[Lore_Naga]

Ok i already found a frog like creature perfect for this but i need to know where is a image hosting website anyone know any?

Im going to start on the misc stuff,I thought of a glass of mealworms(Could be some kind of insect larvae in blackmarsh instead of mealworms)

And the totem poles well i dont think that will take much effort,Just mod the Grummite totem poles to make some Frog totem poles,I think my work will be on the 3 projects will be-

Concept Art,Modelling(When its possible)For maybe a new frog creature from the concept ive seen and clothing(Also i would like paatru to be a creature base but modified to be a NPC,If i get my scanner and Computer Specs are good enough for making races and building regions and showing concept art i think i will try and maintain a little frog project here on blackmarsh(Well weapons for paatru would'nt have to be limited because Ah! i just of an idea,The grummites can wield staffs:So just mod them with new names and stats to the ones found in vanilla oblivion,So a Paatru player would find all the normal stuff in Vanilla oblivion but i dont know about Melee's because ive have only ever seen a grummite hold a sword once on my whole gameplay time on oblivion: ) If you do this settle on this idea maybe the grummite weapons would be a good look up(Grummite scripts etc.... also)

But well i think ill settle on this for the 3 projects-
Southern Jungle Region concepts for elsweyr-
Race ideas etc... elsweyr-
Creature Designing(Maybe even modelling,But it seems to easy and could be done in the elsweyr team) elsweyr-
Blackmarsh Concept Art maybe?-
Blackmarsh Help with Paatru and Naga maybe?-
Modelling in Blackmarsh(Misc,Buildings,Models)-
Akavir Northern Region(I think ill stick to this only in akavir because Over talking or Being Tense will put the akavir mod a bit on an un-easy scale)

Oh yeah and printer(Scanner) i was gonna ask is that good or not and will it work? and the Tamriel Rebuilt thing i thought would be good for you guys because it has some concepts and stuff of argonians

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Originally posted by Lore_Naga
Ok I already found a frog like creature perfect for this but I need to know where is a image hosting website anyone know any?

I use Photobucket. :check:

Originally posted by Lore_Naga
I'm going to start on the misc stuff,I thought of a glass of mealworms(Could be some kind of insect larvae in blackmarsh instead of mealworms)

And the totem poles well I dont think that will take much effort,Just mod the Grummite totem poles to make some Frog totem poles,I think my work will be on the 3 projects will be-

Bear in mind that modelling does take a lot of time and there are always hidden difficulties. Shadowgame has opted for doing things like totem poles but you can't just retexture the Grummite ones. Both mesh and textures for a lot of the SI stuff have been moulded together so that the textures fit around the mesh. Retexturing them then has to involve re-meshing them so you might as well just start from scratch....and that takes time.

If you can help us get some Paatru in-game then you're welcome to work on other things associated with them. What's you skills, btw? Do you model besides the concept art?

Originally posted by Lore_Naga

Oh yeah and printer(Scanner) I was gonna ask is that good or not and will it work? and the Tamriel Rebuilt thing I thought would be good for you guys because it has some concepts and stuff of argonians

I'm not sure what you'se asking here but I didn't see anything relevant to us at Tamriel Rebuilt....I'm sure Lady Nerevar would have alerted us to anything useful over there.

[Lady Nerevar]

i think he ment out concept art page, which includes some argonian architecture, flora, and actual argonian subspecies. It also serves to remind me on just how badly it needs to be updated

in terms of a scaner, i would go with a regular scanner instead of an all-in-one model. unless you dont have a printer. if you dont have a printer definitely go with Laster instead of ink, its a huge improvement. this is my scanner, and this is my printer. you can also find similar things for less.

[Lore_Naga]

£65.00s yeah i might just go for that thanks nerevar!
Well i have done a little bit of modelling on WoW,But im going to try and get everythink for here and try to make races on here k?

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Sounds good, LoreNaga. Don't forget to use this thread as a reference point: New Race Selection . I already have the Draconian Argonian textures in the archive. I also have the Saurian Argonians on the way and some resources ready to be used for the Lilmothiit and Marsh Elves on my desktop.

Other than these, our main priority is to get the Sarpa animated. After that, it's the Paatru and Naga. Anything else is likely to only make an appearance as a creature.

Thanks for the links, LN! I didn't know those existed. The leaf armour on the Argonian is perfect. It would be nice to have that available. I will post these up in the concept art thread. Let me know if you have any objections to us using them (if they're Tamriel Rebuilt only) and I'll take them down.

[Lore_Naga]

Theres to 2 LN's here,Who you talking to? me or nerevar?