My favourite Skyrim race mod remains the Predator mod, so I would be down for some Predators If Predators make sense in Skyrim, they make even more sense in NWN.
Plus, y'know, Predators love the ultimate hunt. And what's more of an ultimate hunt than a Spleen killing demoness?
Fifi reminded me of the Holographic Display things. They've gone in the Big Box.
Next post should be to say it's gone on the Vault, 'cause I can't really be bothered with this rubbish any more.
But not very long... I need to get back to my Dinosaurs.
It's almost a...Dinocrisis! 
Almost... I was gripped with morosism... morosity... moroseness... whatever the hell it is... this morning and was completely wigged off with anything metallic and futuristic. I get like that if I'm away from ancient, overgrown stones or beasts with large teeth for too long. And I really do need to keep working on these Dinosaurs now that some of them are actually starting to look like Dinosaurs. I mean, I first did the Spinosaurus and the Ceratosaurus about six years ago so they really NEED to be reworked and polished... anyway...
Fifi always knows what sharp sticks to poke me with when I go rabid, so she said I should build the Liberator from the television series Blake's 7. I told her it was an impossibly weird shape and there was no chance. She hit me with a brick. I capitulated and hit gmax with a brick and am now quite startled by the fact that in a very short space of time, I've managed to nail together a pretty accurate Liberator... (simplification for NWN polycount restraints, naturally).
Still needs a bit of work, but I'm quite pleased with it. Luce is quite some distance in the foreground (ground?). The Liberator is BIG. It's not "full-size" - I seem to recall an estimated hull length of 780 metres - but I made it as large as it could be whilst still being at least vaguely practical in NWN.
Size is always a bit of constraint in NWN. I made a really nice Gojira model a couple of years back, enthusiastically added more teeth and spikes, scaled him up nicely to an accurate size... and then found that in-game you could really only see up to about his knees and that he couldn't move much since he was so big he kept hitting walkmeshes on Tileset parts and Placeables with every step... Of course, Gojira should just stamp them into the ground, but that doesn't happen in NWN, making for a very finite size cap for Creatures... BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO STOP ME MAKING DINOSAURS!!!
Edit:- But I'll post all this futuristic stuff on the Vault tomorrow before I revert entirely to the Mesozoic.
<warning - evil grin forming>
You going to do the bridge for it as well? 
You know, convert that model I found on the web and sent you a little while ago?
TR
That would be a Bridge Too Far...
Largely 'cause that model was sufficiently high-poly to kill NWN stone dead just by looking at it... But Fifi is slowly poking her own version in gmax with a pointed stick and it's coming on quite well - when she actually bothers to work on it. Won't be done for this Hak, but if and when she does finish it, it can go in an update. Or it might end up in with the TARDIS and KotOR Interior Tilesets, when those ooze their way to the Vault.
Nasty, dirty bit of a whopping Industrial City... well, just a stack of rubbery PHoD Placeables, actually, all of which have been crammed in the Big Box with the aid of a Big Brick by Fifi, who has Big B... I have been informed that I can finish that sentence OR I can live.
I went for Option Number 2.
Some sort of futuristic holiday resort with lumpy hotels... or something...
I don't know why Fifi gets so sensitive - I mean, all my Demoness characters are based on her, more or less - they've got the same curves, overt musculature and the same homicidal disposition... Well, Faun isn't homicidal (that's Faun in the ridiculous housemaid outfit) and she isn't a Demoness. A Fey creature of the woods who doesn't really like violence, though she'll push someone's face in if she really has to. Mostly she's just interested in wine... So not entirely unlike Fifi too in so much as...
Apparently that sentence has been vetoed also.
An Obviously Sinister Experimental Laboratory unquestionably involved in ill-advised research that will give rise to hordes of rubbery Spleen Monsters that will rampage about killing everything in their path, etc, etc, etc...
Not that you couldn't use it as a power station or an unfathomably weird library or a singularly debased piece of cheese or anything else. That's the whole point of Placeables like these. Make them work for you. That's what they're for.
Some sort of grotty gasworks in the middle of nowhere... with spacecraft.
Those familiar with KotOR will recognize the ship as a Republic cruiser of the same class as the Endar Spire and the Harbinger... actually it is the Harbinger, nailed badly together from pieces sawn haphazardly out of KotOR II and pelted randomly with bricks until it miraculously reconstituted itself at a workable size. As with the Liberator (above), I scaled it down a bit to make it more practical.
All this and more shall be yours before this day is ended... well, unless I get attacked by one of my own sodding monsters again...
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SEE how PHoD got just a tad carried away with the Weird Blobotronic Generator With Bits On...
Probably only stopped because if I glued any more bits on, I'd completely obscure all the bits already glued on...
And since I've mentioned Faun and the fact that she's mostly interested in wine, NEVER LET INEBRIATED, FUN-LOVING FEY CREATURES DRIVE YOUR SPACESHIP!
But anyway, you're probably nauseated to the point of going "Neeee-WOM!" with endless screenshots of rusty, metallic garbage nailed to assorted Tilesets. You want to get your hands on a Big Box full of rubbish and rummage about in it. Or at least, the three people who might actually still be doing anything with futuristic settings do anyway.
Have no fear - The Big Box is NOW AVAILABLE, which, if nothing else means I'll shut up about factories and stop vending endless screenshots of stupidly large metal stuff.
And there it is, an actual link...
http://neverwinterva...od-future-stuff
Now... where did I leave that Deinonychus?
Thank you so much for at least two thousand times! Your works will be always amazing.
Just another thanks. 
Millions of years ago, on the old IGN Vault, I was interviewed about the rubbish Undead Animals I kept incessantly throwing at everyone and when asked about things I'd like to do in NWN in the future, one of the things I mentioned - the only one I can now recall - was DINOSAURS! Proper Dinosaurs. LOTS of Dinosaurs, just stacked!
Many years have passed and I have been working on Dinosaurs for NWN on and off throughout this time, usually with no particular success. I've had a dodgy Spinosaurus hanging around for six or seven years to little purpose and I keep mentioning them... Now that I'm - finally - really starting to make actual, proper, archosaurian progress, the time has come for a quick little preview...
The Spinosaurus, the most formidable of all the Dinosaurs in Demoness Tales... No complete fossil of Spinosaurus has ever been found so all restorations are conjectural to one degree or another, but this appearance, essentially an even bigger Baryonyx with a sail on its back, is the most accurate and reliable around. (The farcical 2014 restoration was based upon partial fragments of multiple specimens of different sizes, plus a great deal of assumption and highly unreliable comparatives. Not surprisingly, it looks ludicrous. Many palaeontologists assign it no credibility whatsoever and neither do I). And anyway, the Spinosaurus in Demoness Tales has always looked like this. And now my NWN version also actually looks like a proper Spinosaurus instead of a sort of weird, disc-appended lizard. Believe me, this thing looks pretty damn terrifying when it charges at you in-game with a deafening roar.
There is also a Triceratops... but the Spinosaurus killed it stone dead into tiny pieces on sight and it mushed before I got the screenshot done... "It's passed on. This Triceratops is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet it's maker. This is a late Triceratops. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the river bank, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible... This is an EX-TRICERATOPS!" Then again, maybe it's just pining for the fjords.
Of course, if I'd just checked it in the Toolset and assigned it some better stats it might have lasted more than five seconds. Maybe.
Naturally, Demoness Tales being what it is, Lucirath has the Spinosaurus as a sort of adopted "pet". They both seem to enjoy complete mayhem and killing more or less everything in sight. It's good to share a hobby.
Ceratosaurus vs Stegosaurus... Learning from the "Triceratops Fiasco", I pushed the Stegosaur's stats up enough that it could last long enough to put up a fight that I could get close enough to in-game to get a hopefully exciting screenshot. Wading through the sixty-odd shots taken in a flurry of keyboard hammering as the Ceratosaur came hurtling out of the forest and attacked, I discovered that none of them were actually anything like as exciting as it had looked whilst standing in the middle of it with all the roaring, snarling and crashing going on - not to mention the "Dinosaurs knocking the stuffing out of each other" music.
The Ceratosaurus is the other of my two old, long-term models who has been around for years (along with a singularly rubbish Kentrosaur, which is three, but the Kentrosaur was... embarrassing until recently). The Ceratosaur has also been drastically overhauled and now actually looks like a Ceratosaur, which is a huge improvement. Most of my Dinosaurs are based on meshes I converted from the Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis game, which I've been modding for years. The meshes have then been hit with enormous Mesozoic bricks to create all sorts of new species that weren't in JPOG. These pictures just show a few of them...
There is still a lot of work to be done on my NWN Dinosaur Project, but I could no longer resist showing just a few of the results so far. Sorry. Rabid enthusiasm. Especially for theropods.
Dilophosaurus, with its distinctive double crest, one of the earliest of the giant predators (though not as giant as some of its descendants), a many-horned Styracosaurus (who's doing rather better than the Triceratops) and a "small" sauropod, Cetiosaurus, in the background...
Thus far, I have the following Dinosaurs more or less complete (just needing a few texture improvements, minor geometry alterations and one or two irritating little animation glitches...
Carnivores:-
SPINOSAURUS, BARYONYX, CERATOSAURUS, ACROCANTHOSAURUS, MAPUSAURUS, DILOPHOSAURUS, DEINONYCHUS, RAJASAURUS.
Herbivores:-
STEGOSAURUS, KENTROSAURUS, WUERHOSAURUS, STYRACOSAURUS, TRICERATOPS, BRACHIOSAURUS, DIPLODOCUS, CETIOSAURUS, SCELIDOSAURUS, HYPSILOPHODON, STRUTHIOMIMUS.
Further to these, I also have the following species lying around in bits or with no textures at all, rubbish/zero animations and/or sundry other things requiring major application of bricks.
Carnivores:-
MEGALOSAURUS, COELOPHYSIS, GORGOSAURUS, CARCHARODONTOSAURUS, VELOCIRAPTOR, TYRANNOSAURUS, CARNOTAURUS, OVIRAPTOR, SYNTARSUS
Herbivores:-
TUOJIANGOSAURUS, TOROSAURUS, CHASMOSAURUS, PROTOCERATOPS, MONOCLONIUS, SALTASAURUS, SEISMOSAURUS, MAMENCHISAURUS, PLATEOSAURUS, SAICHANIA, POLACANTHUS, IGUANODON, OURANOSAURUS, PARASAUROLOPHUS, LAMBEOSAURUS, CORYTHOSAURUS, SEGNOSAURUS, PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS, STYGIMOLOCH.
Yet still further to that are some other species I'm considering adding once all these are done. I've also got a none too clever Pteranodon that needs work, so I might add some Pterosaurs and maybe even a few Mesozoic sea reptiles such as Tylosaurus and Elasmosaurus... and I really want to do a Nothosaur too...
Anyway. Don't expect Dinosaurs on the Vault tomorrow, there's still lots to be done - even if Fifi can restrain me from trying to add every known genus of Dinosaur ever discovered - and I want to get them RIGHT. But I DO have Dinosaurs. And I'm getting MORE Dinosaurs done bit by bit and eventually there WILL be a PHoD Dinosaur Hak of ludicrous size!
From just a quick glance and not knowing what all of the species look like... I noticed there doesn't appear to be an apatosaurus anywhere in there. Have you got plans for any of the really big long necked dinosaurs.
TR
Apatosaurus? PLEASE! It's still a Brontosaurus to me. "Thunder Lizard". Classic... Apatosaurus means "Deceitful Reptile". Exactly how the hell does a ninety foot, eighty ton behemoth deceive? I mean, what's it going to do, lumber up and say "I'm a rare type of Caribbean Shrimp!" in an unconvincing way?
Anyway... To assure you about the list so far, as well as the "small" Cetiosaurus pictured, I already have a Brachiosaurus and a Diplodocus more or less done, except the Diplodocus' neck keeps kinking awkwardly when attacked. They are amongst the biggest of all the sauropods, both bigger than Brontosaurus - Apatosaurus if you must.
In the "still being hit with vast bricks" stage are the unusual "armoured" sauropod Saltasaurus, the RIDICULOUSLY long-necked Mamenchisaurus and the titanic Seismosaurus, some 150 feet long.
So don't worry, there are long necks in proliferation.
Jeez, I'm out of it for a few days and this place is over run with freaking dinosaurs!
I mean that in a good way, of course. I burst out laughing for real from your line, "I mean, what's it going to do, lumber up and say "I'm a rare type of Caribbean Shrimp!" in an unconvincing way?"
I may get stomped on by a wandering not-at-all-deceitful Brontosaurus for asking this, but... What do you think of the new-ish data that shows our beloved gray, brown, and green dinosaurs may have been a bit more colorful than usually depicted? Now I'm not asking for a rainbow hued velocipede...er...wait, that's not right. Damn spell check it's velociraptor, not some sort of shoe! Anyway, where was I? Pretty colors! Where are the tropical bird pretty colors??? I'd so love to see a--
Wait...got run--they're flocking this way.
Now I can finally build my 10000 BC module! The loot must be very simple... 
Rock
Rock
Stick
Rock
Big Rock
Small Stick
[I am aware dinosaurs and humans didn't exist simultaneously]
Love this. I keep voting for Dinosaurs in the CCC and it looks like you've got a whole contest's worth and more of models in the works. Very cool stuff.
-Dave
3Ravens:- Despair not! By the time I'm finished there should be a wide range of colours and markings. The Seismosaurus, for example, is just grey. About the most boring textures thus far. But then, what's the point of a 150 foot animal having intricate camouflage? Exactly who is going to fail to see it? Or indeed hear it clumping about like an ambulatory Everest.
On the other hand, the Struthiomimus is quite, er, vibrant, to say the least. It relied upon running away extremely fast to survive and, if as is assumed, it moved in large groups, bright colours would help the group keep track of each other whilst legging it away from a predator that wished either to eat them or was just outraged at their hideously lurid markings. I'm giving some of the ceratopids some very gaudy markings around the frills, and the hadrosaurs are mostly fairly decorative.
The predators are generally more murky colours so they can lurk in the bushes - so long as they can find sufficiently large bushes - and ambush prey, though I did give the Spinosaurus that distinctive blue colouration (see above) and the Rajasaurus has probably the most intricate pattern of markings so far.
Hopefully, when it's all finished, there will be a good range of colour and a good range of animals of different sizes (the Hypsilophodon was the smallest but Fifi, who is supposed to be keeping me under control, has suddenly insisted that we add a Compsognathus). There will be at least one representative from every major group of Dinosaurus. Biggest headache at present is the animations for the iguanodonts and hadrosaurs who wander about on all fours but rear up and bolt on their hind legs when attacked. Or just sort of wobble about like a pile of rubbish at the moment.
Apatosaurus? PLEASE! It's still a Brontosaurus to me. "Thunder Lizard". Classic... Apatosaurus means "Deceitful Reptile". Exactly how the hell does a ninety foot, eighty ton behemoth deceive? I mean, what's it going to do, lumber up and say "I'm a rare type of Caribbean Shrimp!" in an unconvincing way?
Well, PHoD, do I have amazing news for you
As per Tschopp Et Al, a god damn 299 page phylogenetic analysis of the Diplodocidae, Brontosaurus is valid again.
So there's now two species of Apatosaurus, A. ajax and A. louisae, while B. excelsus, B. yahnahpin (the old Eobrontosaurus), and B. parvus (the old Elosaurus) are now all Brontosaurus. Also has a lot of interesting stuff all around, but, well, 299 pages of pure science. You are totally okay to just skip to the Conclusions and check out the cladograms
Clearly Apatosaurus' deception was in making people think Brontosaurus was another it. I mean, they're super close relatives, but they're different enough they're unique. Also if making Bronto, please note there's a new hypothosis going around that its ridiculously robust neck bones (Compared to other Sauropods) was for the purpose of smashing their necks into other Brontosaurus and knocking them silly, like modern giraffes
As for Pterosaurs, please always remember they were quadrupeds. And that, if made, Quetzalcoatlus should be as tall as a giraffe and subsist on the babies of smaller, lesser creatures
3Ravens:- Despair not! By the time I'm finished there should be a wide range of colours and markings. The Seismosaurus, for example, is just grey. About the most boring textures thus far. But then, what's the point of a 150 foot animal having intricate camouflage? Exactly who is going to fail to see it? Or indeed hear it clumping about like an ambulatory Everest.
PHoD, colors are, more often than not, a way to attract a mate. As in, ooooohhh I just love your vibrant red head and delicately shaded yellow breast...'cmere gorgeous. Hey, that even fits in with this months CC theme! Sexy dinosaur roarmance! They have feelings you know!
Did I just use "sexy" and "dinosaur" in the same sentence? Yes, yes I did, and I'm proud of it!
From the set of Kung Fury!
Anyway, great work!
... subsist on the babies of smaller, lesser creatures
This is PHoD we're talking about. OF COURSE they subsist on the babies of lesser creatures.
Is that for real?
Edit: It is. See what you did? Now I want to watch the movie just for the dinosaur riding scene. The movie looks so bad it might even be worse than contemporary James Bond movies.
Hasselhoff's plastic surgeon needs to be eaten by a Dinosaur...
...or possibly IS a Dinosaur of questionable surgical ability.
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