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[kamal_]

In addition to a taste for brains, illithid have a taste for fashion. Who knew? Did they get it by eating the brains of a caravan of tailors travelling to Waterdeep? A curious halfling once asked an illithid wear it got the taste for fashion. That halfling is now known as mindless slave #329.

 

Vault 2.0

http://neverwinterva...dflayer-reskins

Nexus

http://www.nexusmods...ter2/mods/944/?

 

All are tintable

 

retint base, plus variants with missing chains, collar. Stock model in background.

 

Body Tamer is second from left.

 

back view

 

These ones use bits of Herald of Zehir weapon and One of Many skin and are meant to be boss/elites. Second from the right would make for a great undead/vampiric illithid.

 

back view

[Loki_999]

Awesome! Ill be having some of that!

[Dann-J]

There are some opportunities for alhoon-related mayhem there.

[rjshae]

Nice! And colorful too, like an Italian football ref.

 

I happened to find this model of an Illithid Lord today. He's a pretty beefy specimen.

[kamal_]

@dannj, yes, I felt we were short on variants for the illithid, especially since they are a pretty commonly used enemy, there's supposed to be a good variety of types in lore, and the single model we had was darkly colored in its base version so it didnt tint well.

@rjshae, that model suffers from the same problem that I had when I tried attaching a mindflayer head to a human body, you can make it work in that the model doesnt spaz out from a skeleton/model mismatch, but the tentacles do not move. Ons thing I might try though is to use the mindflayer skeleton on that creature instead of the reaver skeleton it uses. That might work since the reaver body is a gown like the mindflayer body.

The gown is built into the model, so there's no legs underneath. Erasing the bottom portion of the gown just results in a floating model. It looked bad when I tried it.

Maybe I can use some of the wraith texturing to make a mindflayer variant that is a floater lacking lower legs. A disembodied mindflayer head variant would be amusing and potentially useful as I know the lorebooks list tons of mindflayer related crossbreed/experiments.

I want to add a head version that replaces the skull portion with a brain texture. I think that would be both cool and relevant, with their whole elder brain thing. Maybe the brain-skull head could be used on an illithid that serves as an enforcer or servant of the elder brain.

Lastly, I want to improve the tintmap for the skin areas, as the stock texture has tentacles that are dual tone with the gray going to pink at the ends. My texturing currently doesnt allow for dual tone tentacles.

Tldr version: was ready to be released, but I have things I still want to add.

[kamal_]

1.01: adds the "illithiwraith", "floating head", and another gown texture body model (model 18), the "brain" head (head 18), and dual shade tinting for tentacles to match the dual tone of the stock mindflayer. The "illithiwriath" and "floating head" probably don't match standard lore, but they look cool. I figured the "brain" head could be used for enforcers/servants for the Elder Brain or something, they removed their skulls to even better access their psionic powers or something, I don't know.

 

The floating head isn't textured where the head meets the body, don't look closely from below. "Brain" head has a separately tintable brain.

 

stock wraith, "Illithiwraith", Floating Head Illithid with new "brain" head (head 18), untinted body 18 with "brain" head, closeup of Illithid Body Tamer (uses Head 07), and new body model (model 18) showing it's texture when tinted, new dual-tone tintmap for the tentacles + brain head.

 

Back view of new models, close enough to see brain texture

[Dann-J]

If alhoons are illithid liches, then perhaps the disembodied heads could be demi-alhoons?

[kamal_]

If alhoons are illithid liches, then perhaps the disembodied heads could be demi-alhoons?

Could be.

 

At any rate I think I'm done with my mindflayer reskin project.

[rjshae]

Nice work!