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Iwanttoeatyourshoe
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Registration Date: 01.01.2008
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Hey! New here, and in need of something to do.

Since Valenwood is in desperate need of new members, I decided to take up the call and offer my services to this project. I have some skill in the Construction Set and I am learning to texture and model... so I would gladly pick up some claims you have lying around and see what I can do to help prevent Valenwood "dying a silent death

"!

I am at your command. Yes

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Valar Morghulis

Valar Dohaeris

02.01.2008 14:49

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Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

Registration Date: 15.08.2006
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Well the Silvenar gladly accepts your services!

Just brows through the claims and grab one

Also making any of our latest art is a good way to go (in 3D)

02.01.2008 15:04

windsurfer
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Registration Date: 03.10.2006
Posts: 639

Do we have archtecture modeled for silvenar? There are island interiors (caves and houses). There are a couple or larger more complicated interiors i'm yet to put up if you are interested? Can ou do regions?

02.01.2008 15:11

Mormacil
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No nothing Silvenar, was more referring to the "king".

02.01.2008 15:22

Iwanttoeatyourshoe
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Interiors are great and the bigger and more complex the better.

As for regions I can do them, but I'm not proficient yet. Soon though... I'm learning fast.

I'm still learning Modelling + Texturing, so I would not like to pick up anything like that for a while. That and I don't want to end up a Jack of all Trades...

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Valar Dohaeris

02.01.2008 15:30

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

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Hehe, no do only what you want

Read a bit about VW to start. Toss around some ideas, then we start talking about jobs ok?

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Mormacil: 02.01.2008 15:34.

02.01.2008 15:34

raggidman
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Registration Date: 06.01.2006
Posts: 3,318
Location: where my heart is

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by raggidman: 19.04.2008 18:31.

02.01.2008 20:45

windsurfer
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There is tavern interior to do (Waterdrakes Tap). It made of two sparate interiors a small one and a large one. The large is the tavern while the small one is a room to rent forthe player. The only things is that I think it would be nice to made some customs models (barset) for this interiors? What do ppl think is there suffcient vanilla parts to make it? Will just a retex do or should I try to make a custom Valenwood barset? If yes what should it look like? Concepts (morm)?

There is also a double story building, which has yet to be decided what it contains. It was a cheifs house or a indoor market.

There are plenty on interiors forund herewhihc are in need of completion: board252.htm

03.01.2008 10:24

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

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Location: Netherlands

The bar is run by a Nord? That way we could use some stuff from Bruma. Nords don't care about the Green Pact.

03.01.2008 13:14

windsurfer
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OK that will make it easier its just I need somethingto model asi have no cs. It seemed like a good project?

03.01.2008 13:46

raggidman
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Registration Date: 06.01.2006
Posts: 3,318
Location: where my heart is

quote:

Dance-along - the Ja-Kha'Jay
dedicated to Ja-Kha'Jay

hat is the Ja-Kha'jay?
hmmm ...
What was was the pathways
The along
The which
This One
Shared
Brotherly Thoughts and Feelings

But now?

Long, in the long, long ago,
In the time between
And the time gone before
These Ones were of One Being.
But then These Ones
Sundered became
As One from the Other and
From the Whole that was dying

As Brother to Brother
Little to Larger
Suspended in the void
Set to sail the skies

From that loneness
Grew need
In the between
Grew the Ja-Kha'jay
For messages thrumming...
Vibration deep and
Dancing light
filled the void

Brought together
Times of now to never
Dreams anew
Heart's-blood furnace
Red Brother strives

Stark starlight
Burnished bright
Silver Brother flies

As the thoughts of This One
Dancing come
Dancing long
-along the lattice light

Always some essence
Sparks from the whole
Caught in the thrill
To dance the way away ...

Empowered
For this One's God-Life
Filled with the mirror-twin of This One's God-Thought
Revelling
In the freedom

As one follows the next
And each diverges
Find its path
Through the skeins of light and void
To pass back and forth
In matchless extasy
Then came so many
That many met
And meeting exchanged
Each giving some self
Some newness substance
To the next

Thus this new game
Came to be
Infectious fun
To fill the way
And all along the lattice
So
These sparks now play
To dance
And meet
Exchange
To pass
And bounce away

quote:

Lhorkaj - a Morrowindy rhyming-riddlesome

orkhaj
As once a Kat and Dragon
Enjoyed the form
Of those who walk
On two legs

And so became
In His heart
As Warden
To the warm people
Elves, Khajiit and Men

Until falling

To Nirn's eternal soil
Lost
His chosen Form

The Dragon Fell
VV arden fell
In Morrowind
And gave his bones
Arrayed as in challenge
Around
His heart

See the mountain bones
Of his down-fall
There they are
They form
Your map

This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by raggidman: 19.04.2008 18:35.

03.01.2008 14:23

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

Registration Date: 15.08.2006
Posts: 2,252
Location: Netherlands

Oh you're welcome to model anything you want

We can use any amount of props

How about a big stone furnas for outdoors? You usually cook meat and that's not handy inside a living plant.

03.01.2008 15:39

windsurfer
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Posts: 639

OK ill make a furnace that will be pretty easy. What do they use as fuel? Dead wood? They can be used on the island aswell. Do we have any concept for a shrine type thing, not sure what it would be used for but it wul be pretty cool to find one in the jungle

03.01.2008 15:57

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

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We got some concepts but they're shaped like trees so pretty hard to model right.

03.01.2008 16:08

raggidman
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Registration Date: 06.01.2006
Posts: 3,318
Location: where my heart is

possible fuels:
-imported fuels
-dung
-a flower / plant that can be 'milked' for a secretion that burns;
-surface coal;
-crystals that absorb sunlight and give back heat (rare or common?);
-what is that stuff that burns when mixed with water?
-gas - methane - other gas natural to Valenwood.

Does the pact forbid mining?

Do these three islands fall within the pact - maybe they are outside it because offshore, but many of the Bosmer choose to follow pact ways despite this? poss scenarios and literature there

03.01.2008 21:12

Koniption
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Registration Date: 27.07.2007
Posts: 149

Hey guys, it's me again.

As far as plants that can be "milked" for burning secretions, there are several. The pitch/sap from Douglas firs and pines is extrememly flammable and some trees have been known to explode when it gets too hot. Pitch/sap from those trees is also used to waterproof boat bottoms, btw.

Here's are some sites with the info, plus more on other burning plant secretions:

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph22.htm#resins

http://forums.firehouse.com/archive/index.php/t-15441.html

As far as that stuff that burns when mixed with water...maybe you're thinking of Greek Fire?? BUt to this day, no one knows how it was made. Site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire

Lastly, regular magnesium, burns both on land and in water (it produces it's own oxygen, so can burn under water), and won't stop burning til all of it is used up. A bar of magnesium, something to shave pieces off of it with, and a flint sparker = basic survival fire starter.

03.01.2008 21:57

raggidman
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Registration Date: 06.01.2006
Posts: 3,318
Location: where my heart is

nice one Koniption and welcome to Valenwood - or have you been here for some time hidin in the trees?

I had a further thought:
a 'burning' flower - real fire flowers

Bosmer could not cut a tree to get the sap, but they could collect it if a bark-bitin insect or bird (woodpeckers come to mind) had cut it - in which case ther would be an industry with groves of trees where the animals or birsds are 'encouraged' by some kind of lure to chew/peck precisely where the herder/sapper/mage wanted them to.

That could make for some lively forest detail

04.01.2008 13:52

Koniption
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Registration Date: 27.07.2007
Posts: 149

Raggidman:

I've been here for some time hiding in the trees. Shh

I work on The Ocean Mod with OblivionMon. I've posted here before, about the "Nastiest Fungus'" and "10 MOst Magnificent Trees in The World".

04.01.2008 21:13

raggidman
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Posts: 3,318
Location: where my heart is

have you seen Mormacil's sea beasty - looks a bit like a mermaid type fish that we find in warmer atlantic waters - very gentle and friendly lookin. I suspect that if you guys are thinkin about mergin your ocean with our coastline then Mormy would be tickeled pink to see a model of his beasty.

suggest it is mammalian and might act a bit like a dolphin or such.

also, have you checked out winsurfer's coral ... we reallly want to get that animated, can you imagine our seascapes with waving coral and kelp?

04.01.2008 21:41

Koniption
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Posts: 149

Naw, I haven't seen his sea beasty. I haven't extensively visited past threads, I just pop in every now and then to see new posts. I don't know if we're merging our mod with your coastline; OBMon told me our islands would be in separate worldspaces.

Are you trying to say he'd like a model of his beasty in our oceans, or that he'd like us to model his beasty???? lol

I saw windsurfer's coral, looks sweet. I'm worried that animating coral and kelp might cause a lot of PC's to lag. Isn't underwater rendering supposed to be more CPU intensive, anyway, just to render the water and it's effects??

We want to do our own coral too. I've now accomplished doing modeling, texturing, Nifskope animations, and am now working on learning creature animations. Darn, I hope I get it right without much hassle.

I would help you guys out if I had spare time. You would be my #2 choice of a mod project to join. But I've commited to Ocean Mod. I'll pop in every now and then and spout needed facts, ideas, knowledge when I feel the urge. I never knew modding would force one to learn so many new things about biology and so many other things. It's like college all over again, LOL!

05.01.2008 00:41

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

Registration Date: 15.08.2006
Posts: 2,252
Location: Netherlands

Sketch of the seabeasty

05.01.2008 12:12

drmccoy
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Registration Date: 31.12.2007
Posts: 207
Location: Germany

Awe it looks cute

Like a combination of a unicorn, a seacow and a dolphin. somehow.
Anyhow,that's supposed to be a beasty? Eek 1

I demand Anti-Hunting-Laws for this species

Anyhow, good work Rocking Banana

05.01.2008 12:35

windsurfer
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Looks good, that is too much for me to model though!!

Can you post some screens of the shrines morm and I will see if there is one whihc tempts me. I have made the furnace just need to sort of the uv (mostly done) and create a texture.

05.01.2008 14:00

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

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Location: Netherlands

You ordered crap? Tongue

I can redo this one much better Blush

And this one can be used as a shrine.

05.01.2008 14:44

Koniption
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Registration Date: 27.07.2007
Posts: 149

quote:

Originally posted by Mormacil
Sketch of the seabeasty

Uh, I don't see a sketch or a link to a sketch of the seabeast. I don't know why drmccoy sees it and I don't.

05.01.2008 18:02

drmccoy
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Location: Germany

I can still see it. Even in your quote ^^

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by drmccoy: 05.01.2008 22:40.

05.01.2008 22:40

Koniption
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Registration Date: 27.07.2007
Posts: 149

quote:

Originally posted by drmccoy
I can still see it. Even in your quote ^^

Huh, I just came back to the forums (been a few hours), and now I see it too, also in my quote. That's weird.

Anyways, that is a cute manatee, er, Seabeasty.....

05.01.2008 22:49

raggidman
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that's the name - manatee - though as drmccoy says it has a unicorn aspect - that horn ... as does a narwhale

a 'Narmatee' maybe? but funny that the manatee was supposed to be the basis for legends of mer maids???

as for what we want to become of this - a working animated fully textured and characterful model natch. If you guys want to use it in Ocean too that is fine by us

what I would like to see is a 'matching of your Ocean and our coastline at the least, so that work on the one can be directly transferred to the other - if done correctly it could be a great work-saver for both mods ... and natch as you travel further into the ocean then the local life forms become unique - and vice versa so we each preserve that kudos of something that can be experienced nowhere else while benefitting from the sense that there is something familiar beyond our borders that is true elsewhere and part of a larger whole.

about animating the seas - I suspect that it is factoring in ocean currents that may have caused slow-downs. but if each piece of coral is separate then it might be doable.

tides might cause a lot of lag, but stable currents less.
also it would depend on how you built up that movement
there are games based on submarines etc and they work
so what may be happening with our waters is that layers of transparencies are being used.

if we can get away from complicated transparencies and layering and concentrate on using the movement of 'tethered' objects like coral and kelp to give that feel of currents then I believe that movement is doable. and do not forget that coral are creatures/animal/fishy type things, not plants.

chat with some folks, and don't forget to keep mentioning that I came up with the idea first

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by raggidman: 05.01.2008 23:17.

05.01.2008 23:09

Koniption
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Registration Date: 27.07.2007
Posts: 149

I sent OblivionMon a PM and told him what you said, and the link to this thread. I don't know what he'll say, so no promises. He might pop by here and make a post with an answer.

06.01.2008 01:11

windsurfer
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If anything I wouldn't mind doing a few trades of models. I saw an amazing flower model that someone had made for your jungle.

06.01.2008 11:27

Iwanttoeatyourshoe
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I return briefly from a dark exile...

Sorry for my disappearance, I managed to catch a really nasty vomiting virus that is apparently sweeping the UK at the moment... so I have not been around. Frown

I read up on the Bosmer while I was not being sick, and I think I may be ready to talk jobs...

The Seabeasty is cool by the way.

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09.01.2008 17:24

drmccoy
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Yaaaay. Do you want to test my house and kinda grade it? Cool

09.01.2008 18:48

windsurfer
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Hey mate nice to have you back and i'm glad you are much better. Morm you should be testing these.

10.01.2008 07:53

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

Registration Date: 15.08.2006
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No I should be sleeping Tongue

Haven't slept a full night of sleep for over a week now, damn school.

10.01.2008 07:55

drmccoy
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Location: Germany

We all hate it buddy, we all do =[

10.01.2008 16:28

Mormacil
Herma-Mora the Woodland Man

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Posts: 2,252
Location: Netherlands

Should have some time this weekend.

10.01.2008 16:37

drmccoy
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Location: Germany

Weeeeeeeeeeeee
Get yourself some sleep so you can return to this wonderful project with all of your mighty powers!

10.01.2008 21:05

windsurfer
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Have we come the concensus whether the tavern is having nord bar interior or not? If it is ill post a claim for the tavern Wink

15.01.2008 14:29

raggidman
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I like that idea - nords, the sea and piracy all go together. So bang in some nords to entertain the Bosmer Ladies and infuriate those Bosmer Males who do not have what it takes to dance around the big boobies

Maybe there could be a 'witch' on the Island too Brew

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15.01.2008 14:45

drmccoy
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I vote for nord. Gives it a little bit of a change. Besides, Bosmer probably don't know how to brew a good drink. Nords do though Cool

Me also likes raggidman's idea with the witch. There could be a witch and a necromancer, living hidden in caves or basements or something. And they are having a huge argument. And you can help either of them. You'll end up killing one of them after all anyways. And if you kill both you can bring the mayor their heads (if you find evidence for them being witch/necromancer). Maybe he'll give you a little payment? Cool

15.01.2008 14:54

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