I am looking for an egg placeable - preferably large or resizeable to that effect. If anyone has seen one in a pack or something like an egg - please flick out a link.
Cheers.
Egg Placeable? Does one exist?
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Morbane
, janv. 05 2011 11:20
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 02:02
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I don't know of any egg placeables, but I do know you van resize the soul housing object to receive the desired effect.
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 02:21
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I seem to remember several Eggs for NWN2, I think they were dragon or drake eggs and had glowing components
This pack has a dragon egg
I know there is another one but I can't find the link on the vault.
This pack has a dragon egg
I know there is another one but I can't find the link on the vault.
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 03:26
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And that is on my "to do" list. I plan on releasing a pack of stuff like this titled N.E.S.T.
Nests
Eggs
Spoor (and)
Tracks
But don't hold your breath. I'm still learning all the cool tips and tricks of using Max and ZBrush. So I'm going for quite simple to start.
dunniteowl
Nests
Eggs
Spoor (and)
Tracks
But don't hold your breath. I'm still learning all the cool tips and tricks of using Max and ZBrush. So I'm going for quite simple to start.
dunniteowl
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 04:22
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Well, lets get rolling on that to do list DNO!
better hurry before I pass out!
*Starts holding breath*
better hurry before I pass out!
*Starts holding breath*
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 08:30
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 08:58
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Thanks everyone - with the options mentioned by Hellfire and Mokah - I am sure something will do the trick. I am downloading the Trinity Pack right now - the Dragon Egg sounds perfect.
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Posté 05 janvier 2011 - 09:17
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A low-budget solution is to use the glowstone from the OC.
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Posté 06 janvier 2011 - 05:24
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Okay, okay, I'll get to work. How hard can it be to make eggs, really? Chickens, lizards and turtles do that all the time and they don't even have any training. I gotta believe I'm smarter than all those other animals. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.
dno
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Posté 06 janvier 2011 - 06:13
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@dno, I'll be looking for that package as well, thank you. 
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Posté 07 janvier 2011 - 05:39
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Well I discovered that, initially, chickens, lizards and turtles are much better at making eggs than I. Man it was work. Then Hellfire schooled me a bit and showed me a trick or two. I don't want to release *just* a carton of eggs, but the whole schmear. Then again, if someone (once I get to that point of texturing and allowing tinting and all that cool stuff I complain so vociferously about when it isn't included in the models -- Looking at you, Obsidian) really has to have just that ONE egg or something like it, I'm sure I can be compelled to provide it for a person's project. Just know that at some point it will be included as part of N.E.S.T.
dno (Look, Mom, I'm smarter than a chicken now! I can lay eggs!)
dno (Look, Mom, I'm smarter than a chicken now! I can lay eggs!)
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Posté 07 janvier 2011 - 07:28
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Mmm, I'm picturing a leathery egg with something moving around inside and a top that springs open...
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Posté 07 janvier 2011 - 10:16
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Maybe, rjshae, but that just sounds so, I don't know, Alien or something. Eeeuuww.
Facehuggers, anyone?
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Facehuggers, anyone?
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Posté 09 janvier 2011 - 08:12
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In the end I went with the Trinity Dragon Egg - it is tintable and I just modified the MDB so that it didn't have scales.
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Posté 09 janvier 2011 - 01:04
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Owl eggs ? Nevers tasted that, isn't good ?
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Posté 12 janvier 2011 - 04:43
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I don't know if Owl Eggs taste good, I just know they have good taste.
Update: It seems that I have somehow managed to NOT have a series of textures available of any kind with my tools. Well, not exactly. I also have Genetica and Texture Maker and can use those to start from. So yesterday, I was frustratingly going through the learning curve of making my own textures from scratch (well, based off another texture, but essentially completely redoing the texture's bump and normal maps.)
Okay, I admit, it was kind of fun. So I made a texture for your average everyday chicken white egg (and the textures are fully tintable so you can make robin's eggs, and others, plus, if you like, you could make an Easter Egg Hunt module when they are done) and I also worked on a leathery pebble surfaced texture to allow for things like Dragon Eggs, lizard (wo)man eggs, kobold eggs and such like.
I have created 4 basic egg shapes that, barring a complete rethink on what is an egg, should allow the budding module maker to rescale and resize (remember using two axes can change the appearance in rather dramatic ways) the eggs (and scaling along only one axis can do some interesting things, too) can be made to appear to be nearly any shape.
The idea here is to make simple things that are easy to modify In the Toolset that make them quite useful for the creative thinker.
Egg shapes are currently:
1) Perfectly Round (which allows for a wide range of natural eggs in the real world, actually.)
2) Stereotypical Chicken Egg shaped.
3) Elongated Oval Egg shaped (which covers a large number of reptiles and dinosaurs, as well as bugs in many varieties)
4) Elongated Egg Shape with Sharper Taper (for things like Dragon eggs, Wyvern Eggs, etc.)
These will be fully tintable in all available palettes (along the RGB lines, I guess, I'm still learning that aspect of texture mapping.)
Plans:
I plan on having the tint maps work so that:
1)You can make a solid, single colored egg
2) Using two maps against one across all 3 tint maps:
A) Speckled Eggs
Striped or Striated Eggs (this means striping or lines across the eggs in some fashion)
C) Spotted Eggs (similar to speckling, these would be patterned spots of the same size across an area of the eggs)
3) Using one map against two across all the tint maps, I am also hoping to allow for gradient shading of the eggs.
As I am woefully ignorant of exactly what can be done with tint maps, I may not know I can't do these things. If it's impossible, I don't wanna know. Sometimes not knowing something is impossible allows for interesting success stories. In any case, the eggs proceed apace.
The next step will be to make different sorts of Nests for a wide variety of creature types. I don't imagine this will be too difficult. I did intend to pick simple things and keep them that way as much as possible. I wll post another update when I can successfully color an egg and get it to show up ingame. I have no idea how long that will take -- I am really just a beginner here.
best regards,
dunniteowl
Update: It seems that I have somehow managed to NOT have a series of textures available of any kind with my tools. Well, not exactly. I also have Genetica and Texture Maker and can use those to start from. So yesterday, I was frustratingly going through the learning curve of making my own textures from scratch (well, based off another texture, but essentially completely redoing the texture's bump and normal maps.)
Okay, I admit, it was kind of fun. So I made a texture for your average everyday chicken white egg (and the textures are fully tintable so you can make robin's eggs, and others, plus, if you like, you could make an Easter Egg Hunt module when they are done) and I also worked on a leathery pebble surfaced texture to allow for things like Dragon Eggs, lizard (wo)man eggs, kobold eggs and such like.
I have created 4 basic egg shapes that, barring a complete rethink on what is an egg, should allow the budding module maker to rescale and resize (remember using two axes can change the appearance in rather dramatic ways) the eggs (and scaling along only one axis can do some interesting things, too) can be made to appear to be nearly any shape.
The idea here is to make simple things that are easy to modify In the Toolset that make them quite useful for the creative thinker.
Egg shapes are currently:
1) Perfectly Round (which allows for a wide range of natural eggs in the real world, actually.)
2) Stereotypical Chicken Egg shaped.
3) Elongated Oval Egg shaped (which covers a large number of reptiles and dinosaurs, as well as bugs in many varieties)
4) Elongated Egg Shape with Sharper Taper (for things like Dragon eggs, Wyvern Eggs, etc.)
These will be fully tintable in all available palettes (along the RGB lines, I guess, I'm still learning that aspect of texture mapping.)
Plans:
I plan on having the tint maps work so that:
1)You can make a solid, single colored egg
2) Using two maps against one across all 3 tint maps:
A) Speckled Eggs
Striped or Striated Eggs (this means striping or lines across the eggs in some fashion)C) Spotted Eggs (similar to speckling, these would be patterned spots of the same size across an area of the eggs)
3) Using one map against two across all the tint maps, I am also hoping to allow for gradient shading of the eggs.
As I am woefully ignorant of exactly what can be done with tint maps, I may not know I can't do these things. If it's impossible, I don't wanna know. Sometimes not knowing something is impossible allows for interesting success stories. In any case, the eggs proceed apace.
The next step will be to make different sorts of Nests for a wide variety of creature types. I don't imagine this will be too difficult. I did intend to pick simple things and keep them that way as much as possible. I wll post another update when I can successfully color an egg and get it to show up ingame. I have no idea how long that will take -- I am really just a beginner here.
best regards,
dunniteowl
