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[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Suddenly, horrifyingly (and surprising precisely nobody) PLUSH HYENA of DOOM has made...

YET ANOTHER UNDEAD ANIMAL!



Come on, nobody seriously believed I wouldn't do that blatant Undead Animal on the Inspirations thread for this month, did they?
Given the fact that for eight years or more I've been purveying outrageous quantities of freakish Undead Animals to the NWN Community - whether you wanted them or not - this thing was mandatory.

In point of fact, "Fifi" woke me up last night by firmly pushing me out of the bed, complaining that I was thrashing about, biting the pillow and muttering something about "Undead Animals" and she inferred that if I was so damned concerned about the (string of epithets deleted) Undead Animals then I should go and damn well deal with them.
Three hours of hitting gmax with a particularly huge and unsubtle brick later and the pleasingly grotesque horror of the Ultimate Undead Animal was trying to savage everything in sight.



The Stahnk is described as being near 20 feet in length. The all-new, gloriously repulsive, fully-illuminated, chromium-plated, genuine accessory, all-singing, all-dancing, award-winning, gift-boxed, widescreen, collector's edition, director's-cut PHoD Undead Animal version is, in fact, closer to 15 feet long.

It just seems to work at this size... and trust me, if you find yourself with one of these honkers charging down the passage toward you, you sure as hell won't want it to be any bigger than it already is.

But, if anyone really wants me to, I can always do a bigger one as well!
Close study of what is probably my best Undead Animal thus far, reveals that it is somewhat asymmetric, with a big glop of flesh on one side of the head that isn't on the other, differing stages of decay, protruding bones, etc in the limbs, all lovingly hand crafted with a big brick to insinuate the putrid, reeking grossness of the mutated, arcane, evilist Necrothere.
The spiky, extended ribcage seemed to be mentioned prominently in the descriptions so I made sure it was duly vile looking and unavoidably obvious. It runs most of the length of the decayed body and up into the neck in a filthily mutated, not very natural way.
So, after eight years plus since the very first PHoD CC went on the Vault and was a disgusting Undead Animal, things don't seem to be changing much... They're just bigger, better Undead Animals.

Modifié par PLUSH HYENA of DOOM, 17 janvier 2014 - 01:38 .

[Viking_Warrior]

That beast looks nasty. Great work!

[TheOneBlackRider]

Shemsu-Heru wrote...
This "ice-riders" are hybrids of sled/ship used by the Ice folk in the south pole of Krynn. 
It's based on the oficial DL art:

This is great a great addition! Icereach is waiting for them!

PHOD. Also amazing creations. Would you find the time to create a Thanoi (see inspiration posts)?
http://dragonlancene...7/7d/Thanoi.jpg

Edit: ... Oh, I just found, that Shemsu-Heru has a model:
http://social.biowar...ndex/12358881/2
... They look great, but maybe they could get a little brushup, so they look a bit more fierce?


Well, I went for a Dragonhighlord helm - the first time I fiddeled with a helmet model and I think, I won't manage more than this:

It's based on helm_020, since I lack the time to worm myself into creating a totally new plt. The additions use OldTimeRadio's txi-trick (great finding that was! Thanks OTR). I don't manage to get those golden decos of the original paintings done, so it's a kind of "trying to get close to the original"-version. Will try a bit more, but I guess, that's about it.
I will add another red horned version.

Side question: Do helemts cast shadows? A toon without a helemt has a head shadow. The shadow dissapears, when equipping a helmet. Even NWN-models don't cast a shadow.

Modifié par TheOneBlackRider, 17 janvier 2014 - 05:41 .

[Shemsu-Heru]

@TheOneBlackRider: My thanoi model is just a head for half-orcs.

@Henesua: OK, I just have finished a creature version of my DL Icerider.

Modifié par Shemsu-Heru, 17 janvier 2014 - 10:59 .

[Bluebomber4evr]

OMG the stahnk looks amazing! Nice job, PHoD!

[Shemsu-Heru]

Here is a head that I had made some time ago for my dragonlance module. Well actually It's no my work, is one of the KOTOR heads, in which I have made little texture modification; in order to make it looks close to Tanis the half-elven.



So I'm not sure if this is adecuade to the challenge?

[3RavensMore]

Shemsu, please, please submit that head. It's fantastic!

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Ye Diverse and Sundry Views of Ye Olde Krynn Skybox...









Don't know if this is exactly what you had in mind, Shem; please advise if it's completely wrong!

The first version was obliterated by a rubbish data-mushing error, so I did it again...

I think I've got the moons right, if nothing else.
Maybe the black one should be blacker?
I didn't get all the constellations in, because there just isn't enough room on a Skybox for all of them without cramming them on top of each other.
Those I did get in should be accurate since I cut up one of those Krynn astrological charts you posted and placed the constellations with their astrological drawings onto the Skybox as transparent overlays and then individually mapped in each star, one by one, in exactly the right places and then took the astrological transparencies off again - since great big drawings of Dragons and things floating in the night sky would seem a tad odd. Thus the stars are definitely in the right places...
As to whether the constellations are in the right places, that's another matter.
Having done a tiny bit of research and concluded that Chemosh is evil, I put it beside the black moon which is also supposed to be evil, that sort of thing. Not very scientific.
The constellations are distinguished from the other stars on the Skybox by having that cruciform light refraction thing on them. Hopefully this will make them identifiable to those as are bothered whilst keeping them at least halfway "realistic"... But if they're supposedly arcane deities in disguise as lightbulbs then how realistic they'd look is anybody's guess.

Anyway, I hope it's more or less what you wanted. If not, tell me what needs changing.

Modifié par PLUSH HYENA of DOOM, 20 janvier 2014 - 11:55 .

[Tarot Redhand]

My take on it is that the black moon is supposed to be so black that you can't actually see it except as a black circle that blocks the light of the stars behind it. But then again Shemsu-Heru may have a different take on it. That said, I think what you have done with that skybox is great.

TR

[Wall3T]

agreed. there isnt any definitive appearances of the moons from krynn so its quite literaly... the skies the limits!

[Shemsu-Heru]

Those are a great, Thanks for making those. Krynn constellations, looks the same like or constellations, just like groups of stars. The elaborate drawings in the reference pictures, only shows what people of krynn see in their constellations; In the same way like whe see pegasus, mythological heroes, a dragon, etc in ours.
Maybe my only suggestion would be to not include more stars than those from krynn; The background could be decorated with nebulae, instead...

Actually, I agree with TR about the black moon. However your interpretation of it is also nice.

BTW: I'm quite impressed, by that amazing female creature. I suppose that is something from your demoness module.....

Modifié par Shemsu-Heru, 21 janvier 2014 - 11:21 .

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Tried making the black moon just a black disc, but it didn't look good at all. Without some semblance of form it looked kind've like an error in the texture. And I didn't want to completely abandon it.

I suspect sticking nebulae in might make the Skybox look more suited to floating about in outer space rather than being a night sky seen from a planetary surface.
Might be an option to delete most of the stars and put in a veil of atmospheric clouds, picking up light from the moons (the red and white ones anyway). But those would block the constellations a bit. Probably have to start again from scratch and I haven't really got time before the month ends to do that.
I could take out most of that starfield to the East if you like and put something else there. I've got plenty of nebulae and stuff in lots of my other Skyboxes done for Demoness Tales. I still think it might look a bit too "sci-fi" though...

Unless of course, there's SUPPOSED to be a nebula visible on Krynn that nobody's told me about? If so, what colour is it?

(PS:- As to the female creature, she's a sort of Nature Goddess, a kind of Supreme Empress of the Dryads... vaguely inspired - especially the spikes on her back - by Giger's excellent designs for Sil in the deplorably rubbish film "Species". Since a life-size version of Sil stands right beside my computer, she tends not to be far from my thoughts... I've started doing custom models for most of my main characters recently rather than bother trying to make body parts for enlarged human phenotypes for creatures that aren't remotely human... Funny thing that, none of my PCs are Humans or Elves or anything "normal" like that.)

Modifié par PLUSH HYENA of DOOM, 22 janvier 2014 - 02:31 .

[Shemsu-Heru]

Nebulae was just a suggestion to replace most of the starts; But probably you are right and some clouds are a better choice. However forgive me for disturbing. You have already have made a great effort adapting the krynn's astral-bodies to NWN. I really apreciate that, and I don't wish to bothering you; Your actual Sky-box would be good enought, thanks for that.

PS - Adding the constellations that don't have been included yet, in the East site sounds good to me, In order to be more inmersive. Thanks again for all of your work.

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Still not enough space for all the constellations, but I'll see what I can get in on the East alongside Morgion...

Trouble is if they go too close, you can't tell where one ends and another begins.

[Shemsu-Heru]

Here are some tinker gnome heads. Male heads have been made from free models at http://tf3dm.com/. And the female head is CODI hive female citizen, "gnomished"...

[Bluebomber4evr]

Nice work, Shemsu!

[TheOneBlackRider]

Sorry for my silence - RL caught hold of me.
Again: looking forward to all this!

@PHOD -skybox
That is a beautiful skybox and I would not dump it because of the black moon - It's your interpretation!
I do have an idea for an alternative (2nd version) though: For the black moon, how about choosing a part in the skymap, which is mainly black with ony a very few stars here and there, And a few of them make the faint outline of the moon. This way, it would not look like a hole in the texture, I think. The human eye will make out the shape or imagine it. I'm no good with graphics, but I think, it might work.

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

PHoD has become ever more entangled in the ever more complicated CC for ALIEN vs DEMONESS...
Thus, for fear of forgetting what months are when, I've bundled up the Krynn stuff and sent it in. This includes, all three Disir...





...plus TWO versions of the Stahnk.
The Lesser Stahnk, as seen at the top of this page, and the Greater Stahnk, as seen here. Just the same model rescaled, the Greater Freakish Undead Animal is BIG. No, not just big... It's HUMONGOUS!
And it reeks too.
Also, there's the Skybox.
I redid the East side and managed to add two more constellations - Majere and Branchala. Also raised the red moon and the Paladine constellation a bit so that it appears better over raise/lower terrain.

Back to trying to figure out how to make Aliens crawl across ceilings...

Modifié par PLUSH HYENA of DOOM, 25 janvier 2014 - 08:50 .

[TheOneBlackRider]

Helmets delivered:



Next: Packing up my placeables.

I will not include those tiles I sent screens of, since they don't meet the idea of the CCC (as it was discussed earlier - see some posts back).

Modifié par TheOneBlackRider, 26 janvier 2014 - 06:27 .

[TheOneBlackRider]

Shemsu-Heru wrote...
Here is a head that I had made some time ago for my dragonlance module...

@Shemsu-Heru: Somehow out of place,  :whistle:but I can't PM you, Shemsu, and I always wanted to ask this, but time slipped through my fingers... So, what is that module / will that module be, if I may ask?

[Shemsu-Heru]

@TheOneBlackRider:

It's just a personal module, It's not posted anywhere. Actually it doesn't have any adventure content. It's only a collection of DL NPCs and creatures with their official 3.5 E stats. i have similar modules for diferent D&D settings, They were thought to serve as base for adventure modules, but, for the moment, I haven't done any adventure with them...

BTW: Nice helmet, howeaver if you let me a suggestion, give them a little more detail, would be grat, like small "horms" in the lower plates, more detail in the testure in the style of DL art.

[TheOneBlackRider]

@Shemsu-Heru:
My abilities with Gmax are still pretty basic. This is the first time that I fiddled with helmets...

To quote myself: "I didn't manage to get all those golden decorations of the original paintings done, so they are a kind of "trying to get close to the original"-versions."

Believe me: I tried a few ways (objects, textures) but it all didn't look very well. Plus the fact, that I'm not PLT-able so it limited me on additional objects to apply additional textures without loosing the possibility to tint.
And getting additional objects on a curved or tilting surface is not that easy to do (at least for me). It took me quiet a while to get those golden decoration stripes positioned...

BTW, I orientated myself on the Larry Elmore-drawings.

But feel free to grab them and improve, tweak, redo, ... them.

[rjshae]

You guys are doing a great job with all these CC additions. Nicely done!

[The Amethyst Dragon]

The Amethyst Dragon wrote...

Declared/Intended Projects:

Dragonlances (item models) by Shemsu-Heru
Kender Heads (halfling parts) by Shemsu-Heru
Ice Rider (placeable model) by Shemsu-Heru
Tinker Gnome Heads (gnome parts) by Shemsu-Heru

Emailed/Downloaded Projects:

Castle Solanius (prefab areas) by oOKyeOo
Disir (creature models) by PLUSH HYENA of DOOM
Stahnk (creature model) by PLUSH HYENA of DOOM
Krynn Night Sky (skybox) by PLUSH HYENA of DOOM
Dragon Highlord Helm (helmet model) by TheOneBlackRider

Four days left until the end of the month?  I should think about making something.

[TheOneBlackRider]

I just delivered my (recently created) placeables. There are more than showed in the "teaser" from the first page. According screens are in the delivery.

This packaged does NOT contain those tiles I've been sending screens of (Dargaard Keep, etc.), because it's not with the spirit of the CCC (see opinions on that in earlier postings).

Modifié par TheOneBlackRider, 29 janvier 2014 - 06:25 .