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[rjshae]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a try tonight or tomorrow.

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

The first Rubbish PHoD Wizard Tower Thing...

Note the salient facts - 1. It sticks up into the air. This is considered mandatory for towers, I believe... 2. Um... Actually, that's about it really. I don't know if Wizard Towers are supposed to have weather vanes but, I just felt compelled to nail one on...

Here it is in the distance; the tower that is, not the weather vane... well, both actually.

And here it is a bit closer to, he said, providing the kind of pathetically vapid and irritatingly unnecessary narration found in children's books with waterproof, chewable pages...

See how Kara walks down the path. See how she finds a wizard in residence... well, not in the residence, 'cause the putrid berk's standing outside it...

Having located the alleged, supposed, so-called wizard, with his stupidly lurid robes, we might well ask the farcically-hatted nit exactly why there's a fence on his roof...

It's because there's a big area of decking on top of the front wing of the vaguely cruciform lower part of the tower. And in his great munificence, the Shabby Hyena Weirdo has left this area entirely free of everything... well, except the fence, of course. So you can put onto it whatever telescopes, orreries, sundials, arcane wombats, etc, etc that you wish. OR you can ignore it completely.

[3RavensMore]

That tower looks fantastic.  Something that would take me days and days of frustration to get right, you probably knocked together in an hour with a couple of bricks.

 

Oh...and I couldn't help but notice that Kara's...er...horns seem to be getting larger.  Not that there is anything wrong with that of course. 

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Nah, they've always been like that; it's just the way she's standing... Spikes in every direction for the defence that says "you can look but you can't touch" more eloquently than words... Failing that, a hoof through the face usually gets the message across...

 

Anyway, Rubbish PHoD Wizard Tower nonsense article item thing, number two...

Disgustingly, with reekingly slovenly lack of originality, number two is just a winterized version of number one.

Because not all wizards can afford to live in the tropics...

In point of fact, Fifi instructed me (with a brick) to make a winter version 'cause she wanted it for some nameless purpose involving glaciers. Most of we, the redoubtable old CC makers who've been doing this rubbish for more years than we like to admit, near fossilized as we are, seem to keep forgetting to throw snow over such lumpy whassnames as we build.

This hopelessly minimalist gesture on my behalf toward an acceptance that not EVERYTHING happens in temperate zones, is to be filed away and used in my defence at any future time that anyone claims nobody ever makes winterized content.

Anyway, the model's identical, it's just had snow and ice tipped all over it from the big box marked "Snow and Ice". (I keep all my textures in boxes. Saves confusion).

 

Anyway, that's my concession to bland, generic, ordinary wizard towers done... From here on in, all further wizard towers will be subject to Official Shabby Hyena Weirdness...

[3RavensMore]

I guess I just never noticed she had spikes on her back before.  I don't recall seeing her in profile.  For a second--that is a really, really short second--I thought they looked like--mumbles--feathers.  Just don't tell her that. 

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Definitely I won't tell her. She'd be... unamused.

[Drewskie]

the ice tower screenshot with the space skybox is awesome.

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

(I will be throwing a selection of my Abnormal Skyboxes in a Big Bag for the Vault fairly soon...)

 

For now, the Third Rubbish PHoD Wizard Tower lumpy whassname thing...

The Official Overstatedly Eeeeeevil Wizard's Tower, for Blatant Evilists.

Because not all wizards are nice people.

Those first ordinary, bland, generic wizard towers were sort of... wizard tower sized.

The Ludicrously Sinister Evilist Tower is, however, EPIC. Only be inventing stupidly nonsensical, so-called words such as "meganormous" or "ultragargantuoidal" and so forth can the putridly impractical scale of this tower be appreciated.

You will likely NEVER see the top of this tower in-game since its farcical dimensions make it more or less impossible, even in a 32x32 Area, to get far enough away from it to actually witness the rubbish - not really worth seeing anyway - Blobs at its peak... High ground might help... (Unless you cheat and use that mod to allow cameras to look up...)

The idea was that it should loom malevolently and dominate the landscape in a nasty way... but Fifi says it's 'cause I can't count and got the scale wrong in gmax... All I have to say to that assertion, my dear, is that if so - how come the door is the right size, hm?

This tower semi-accidentally came out being closely allied to my current Ancient Stone Citadel Project - see PHoD Things thread. (Could be used in conjunction).

[Tarot Redhand]

That looks ideal for use in cut-scenes in conjunction with the camera hak to give a real sense of foreboding.

 

TR

[MerricksDad]

Teleporter control box

 

https://www.dropbox....Nov2015.7z?dl=0

 

 

 

Edit: Sorry I packed the wrong texture. I updated the hak file just now if you want to see it emitting the runes, which are slightly thinner drawn.

[Shemsu-Heru]

 

What purpose have a wizard's tower without a wizard?

A wizard (probably Gandalf) made from a free model from opengameart.org:

 

http://opengameart.o...ontent/wizard-4

[Pstemarie]

Oh yeah, that's Gandalf all right...

[Fester Pot]

 

 

What purpose have a wizard's tower without a wizard?

A wizard (probably Gandalf) made from a free model from opengameart.org:

 

http://opengameart.o...ontent/wizard-4

 

 

Shemsu-Heru is never late, nor are they early.

They arrive precisely when they mean to.

FP!

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

Yet another Rubbish Wizard Tower...

Of the seven I've done thus far, I think this is my favourite though I'm not entirely sure why...

This was basically done to replace the utterly useless model I've been using for the library of the Systaria, a group of slightly mad scholarly researchers (though not wizards) in Demoness Tales. So it's actually an academic tower rather than an arcane one, but that doesn't stop the rest of you using it for whatever you want.

Cursory examination of the so-called tower suggests that, despite the stupidly overstated buttresses, it's actually as much a pyramid sort of thing as a tower sort of thing really. But that's what it's looked like in my artwork all these years, so it can't be helped...

Some of you may suspect that the large, round windows are somewhat familiar. This will likely be due to the fact that I used the texture for the Mages' Guild window from TES4 - Oblivion because it seemed apt (and because it fitted nicely).

Irrelevant as this observation is, for some unknown reason every time I try to append the suffix "jpg" to the image links, I catch myself writing "jpig". Since no porcines with a penchant for stepping into the road against the flow of the traffic are present here, this is a mystery to me.

Probably the keyboard has become cursed.

[Tarot Redhand]

The wizardly looking person in the last picture looks good too.

 

TR

[3RavensMore]

...or evil.  But in a good way. 

[kamal_]

a pyramid sort of thing as a tower sort of thing really.

So it's a granary!

/ joke for those that follow American politics

[PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

And the next one, yawn, bla, drivel, etc...

A nice, tall, pointy thing which unequivocally conforms to all mandatory nuances of "tower".

I textured it to look at home in a desert, since I needed a desert tower, but I've checked and it looks fine surrounded by trees and stuff too.

The weirdo emitters on the sort of "brazier" things nailed to the doorway are separate Placeables from my ever-expanding Loony VFX Pile. I have left the braziers unemittered so you can stick whatever sort of luminous nonsense you wish there, up to and including just completely normal flames if you want this as a non-wizard tower.

[MerricksDad]

Evil teleport circle to go with the teleport control box. For simplicity, this is just an override for the all-sets' chessboard. Unlike my usual tiles, I've set the ambient/diffuse to nwmax suggestions. I'm not fond of the color in most places since I usually create with a really dark realm quality for the lighting, but I'm sure it will be more useful to people this way, and fit in with surrounding OC tiles.

 

 

Four distinct placeable hands are in the works which will fill the larger oval areas. They'll be spectral stone and holding some spectral metal chains. I'll do 2 hands, 2 varieties of each. The first variety will have a chain which is broken. The second will have a chain which points toward the center, as if holding a monster standing there. You can script the change from one to another and add some VFX to hide the swap.

[MerricksDad]

Sometimes I amaze myself

[MerricksDad]

Hands are different than planned, and don't yet have chain emitters on them, but they'll pretty much look like this, maybe a pinch smaller. Right now they are offset by 100cm from their bases and don't have pwk data. They're meant to go in the holes on the teleporter circle, but I'll make them so they have pwk for any old use. They're slightly too big to go in the holes and not mess with the light column, so I'll probably take them down 10% in scale.

 

 

I may change this portal later to take up 4 tiles. I started work on a Crumbling Crypts set just to get away from the need to write scripts for a while. It won't be done any time soon, but I expect to put at least two versions of this tile group in the set. It will be more useful as a larger object. This one I have trouble walking into with larger characters, and with the hands placed in the holes, there is even less visual room. If I make it 2x as wide, I can get really big creatures held down by the spectral hands and their chains.

[Tarot Redhand]

<groan warning>

 

Hmmm, handy  . One question - Why has the top-left one got the uk flag as part of its texture?

 

TR

[rjshae]

Reminds me a little of a notion I had for an illusory visual effect representing a wizard lock spell: glowing chain shapes hanging across the door with a large glowing padlock shape in the middle. One of these days I'll get to it...

 

Do you think there's a way to do an animated magic mouth visual effect? Those always seem to show up around a wizard's haunts.

[OldTimeRadio]

Do you think there's a way to do an animated magic mouth visual effect? Those always seem to show up around a wizard's haunts.

FWIW, Dobervich already did an animated magic mouth.  It's been in CEP for a while, IIRC.

[Birdman076]

 

I kinda did some icons. Been sitting on 1000s for years now and don't have a whole lot of time working 2+ jobs these days but it pains me to sit on this stuff and not use it. So, i've converted to tga but they need to be named properly, I can pass them onto to anyone and everyone if someone has the time to rename them?