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Psychotic
Jarl of Skyrim

Registration Date: 30.07.2006
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I'll note that the handle of the real world sword IS made from wood and has no wrappings around it usually (I have a picture of it in a book

10.11.2006 14:42

Ghogiel
Inactive ST modder

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Of course. only noodle armed choir boy needs a leather wrap to help him hold onto his mighty claymore.

Edit 2006.11.10 18:22:
anyone fancy taking a stab at putting that claymore in game for me? I think I did it right again. Also you need to set the texture path in nifscope. *please work please work*

edit: I fiddled with the texture so it looks nearly finished.... I left the handle wood.....I made a mess of the leather.....well I got it in game

and it works too! looks pretty sweet. I can see people wanting to use it.

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10.11.2006 14:55

walrus
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Cool, care to post any screenshots?

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15.11.2006 02:19

Psychotic
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Hmm... how'd I miss that update?!

Yes, what walrus said.

15.11.2006 02:23

Ghogiel
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Why don't you post some screen shots psychotic. fiddle with the gloss slider and spec levels before you put it in game.

that aside.....ship is coming along. I need to do a couple essentials and put it all together. It wasn't straight a forward model. deffinately challenging.

Also I made a barrel, a bucket, an anchor, a pile of ropes. a small hammer, an oar, and a bow saw. Bucket and barrel are in texturing. I plan on making a wooden chest.

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15.11.2006 09:26

The Old Ye Bard
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Could you make some smaller hand carving tools like these they would really come in handy for Eastmarch. Also if your up to it what would be really nice is some carved Wolf totems and Bear totems like in BM.

Great Job Good job!

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15.11.2006 19:22

Psychotic
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Just to note that the claymore is in the new master so anyone can take a look at it now. Yes

15.11.2006 19:44

Ghogiel
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Ah.
Did you tweek the spec & gloss settings? they aren't totally wrong but could use a look. the only thing I have ingame that look pretty close to how I want are the round shields that I tested. mind you they should all be cool co its essentually the same 2 meshes for all of them... do you want to take em now?

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15.11.2006 21:10

Psychotic
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quote:

Originally posted by Ghogiel
Ah.
Did you tweek the spec & gloss settings? they aren't totally wrong but could use a look. the only thing I have ingame that look pretty close to how I want are the round shields that I tested. mind you they should all be cool co its essentually the same 2 meshes for all of them... do you want to take em now?

Nah, the spec & gloss settings were fine. Yes

Yeah, send 'em shields my way.

15.11.2006 23:41

Ghogiel
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I revisited this. actually the base mesh/shape is really good for how noob I was when I did it. I put a lot of care into its acuracy

so now I fixed and UVed it, found my starting point on the textures, I might beable to get close to export soon.
I have 90% of the UV mapping and mesh editing out of the way. the only real job left is painting the final textures. the base wood image is a tiling 3000x2000. as you notice it'll need to be totally reworked to be 2048x1024. If my PC can't handle painting that size res textures, it maybe months, many months if ever to afford an upgrade to my pc. I do a a 2ghz 1gb ram sitting here with no Psu, it'll handle that res, so maybe I'll get that up and running if this one can't take the heat.

with some good textures finished then I can finalise the UVs, split it up according to textures, through a load of boxes about for collision, then export it.

My ships poly count is fine imo. more than doubles with all the shields though, at 900tri each, and like 30 odd of them you see what I mean. shouldn't be too bad.

don't have a final count, but its going to be 55-60k tri somewhere mark

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29.07.2007 13:16

Kodama
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Wow!

That ship looks awesome! Applause

Great work Ghogiel Good job!

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29.07.2007 19:42

Richard
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Registration Date: 23.08.2006
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Wowaweewow!

I thought you'd abandoned this long ago!

30.07.2007 05:58

Ghogiel
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I have no reservations saying if I abanded a project or model. Theres no shame just letting something go and being straight about not having the motivation or time to finish it. This is my longship though.

did the base plank texture and paralax. just some more texturers, fitting the UVs, and final tweaking now. thursday I'll try to get more work done on it.

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30.07.2007 14:43

Tlo1048
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Amazing!

Great work Ghogiel! Good job!

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Richard
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If the model is in nif format and has been UV mapped I'm quite willing to handle the textures. I gather this thing is almost finished and it'd be a shame if it was forgotten about so close to the finish line. Shall I contact Ghogiel?

07.01.2008 05:37

Alasdair
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If you could get it from Ghogiel and finish it up that would be grand. Good job!

08.01.2008 19:11

Siegfried
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Could you find out about getting hold of any of the other models he created for us as well?

09.01.2008 02:00

Richard
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It appears for some things SAcarrow is further along Ghogiels Models thread

But I'll see if Ghogiel could post up anything he doesn't recall handing to SAcarrow.

09.01.2008 10:34

Lunar Reaper
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Looking good like the boat

29.01.2008 23:57

Richard
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Ghogiel believes SAcarrow has the most up-to-date files for this, if anyone's after them.

30.01.2008 07:39

SACarrow
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The hold-up on the longboat was the shield textures; well, before the computer crash.

I PMed Ghogiel about those, but as I recollect, he had no recollection. I'll see what I can do.

30.01.2008 14:23

Siegfried
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Those shield textures should all exist in the current master, they're just on equippable shields. You might have to change some filepaths around, but there should certainly be useable shields in there.

30.01.2008 23:20

Richard
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Yeah textures are no prob at all, as long as the UVs are okay then I don't care if the thing's totally textureless lol.

31.01.2008 02:00

Alasdair
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I don't mind if the thing has no textures, no UV and no collision. That stuff is all relatively easy compared to actually making a longboat model.

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31.01.2008 23:45

Richard
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Time to chase up on this thing again? Or do we have the meshes already?

04.06.2008 12:10

Siegfried
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quote:

Originally posted by Richard
Time to chase up on this thing again? Or do we have the meshes already?

I don't think we have them, we should really get hold of them though.

What if we set up a sail script for the longship? It rides fairly shallow in the water, so it would easily be capable of navigating our rivers and streams.

04.06.2008 17:45

Senten
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WOW!Thats...Thats STUNNING!What a culture!Really viking stuff!Long Life for Skyrim!

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04.06.2008 20:21

Zurke
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Longboats are awsome. Good job!

. Really nice work.

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04.06.2008 22:43

SACarrow
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Longboat NIF

I stumbled over Ghogiel's shield texes somewhere on this forum; that (and a request from Richard)

finally got me to fully generate the NIF. The textures as I have them stored (1SK\longboat) are here on FF. Some notes:

I couldn't find his sail fabric texture so I subbed one from vanilla OB that is clearly wrong.
There are some inverted normals on the sail bundle. I tried to unify in NifSkope; no joy. Attempts to re-import into Max, individually flip and re-export just the sail screwed with the UV.
The textures are great, but some of them are huge! I have no idea how performance might be affected.
The model itself is 3M in size; good thing I'm Silgrad Core.

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