[Obsolete] SS2 Vurt's Mods

[66625ff111bb4Marvin]

You could split up your project into two .ss2mod files, one for the more experimental and "out of place" stuff and one for SHTUP-like plants like the water lilies (which are just a 3D interpretation of the flat 2D plant), so the user can quickly switch (or enable both) via the mod manager.


Oh, and great work btw.

[66625ff111cfcBlue]

I was really stoked to see your name as the creator of this topic, big follower of your Morrowind work. Great to see you giving this game some love, too. Thanks a ton.

[66625ff112088vurt]

http://piclair.com/data/3z41g.jpg
http://piclair.com/data/q8345.jpg

Might use for a few selected places, i'm thinking of doing a clutter addon, but it needs more stuff than plants. A small fountain for the garden maybe, could be cool with the pink sakura tree maybe. Let me know if you've got any ideas.. the gayness of doing pink trees and flowers is getting on my nerves! j/k

[66625ff1121ffZylonBane]

Y'know, the Thief community would love love love to have access to these tree models. Thief's default trees suck.

[66625ff11232dFironkkuify]

To be honest, I support the idea of adding trees to the street area.  It seems a little more realistic that way. 

It is pretty interesting how adding new plants and retexturing old ones gives the game more life.  I saw somewhat an example of this when playing Polaris (those poor, genetically-altered plants -w-; )

[66625ff1124acvurt]

Zylon: yes that's why i added the "flora resource" to the first post.. I made post in a thread on TTLG (about Resources for Thief).

orchid http://piclair.com/data/073nc.jpg

[66625ff112622vurt]

More clutter, some clothing racks in the mall. http://piclair.com/data/7b2lw.jpg

Is there a way to "reload" added objects into an ongoing game? Kind of sucks to have to restart to see the changes (yes i know i can see my changes in-game through the editor's "game mode"). Maybe there's a console command or something..

[66625ff11272bNu Zalem]

Now that is some good stuff there Vurt. This is inspiring me to learn Blender some 3D modeling even quicker.

[66625ff1128b3vurt]

Nu Zalem: Do that, the more modders the better 

New water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku1MMakiBcM

I've only made the "blin" water so far, i've not even seen the "blout"-water anywhere, where is that used?

[66625ff1129e1ZylonBane]

If memory serves, it's used for the "underneath" of water surfaces, when the player is underwater looking up.

[66625ff112ad5vurt]

ok cool, didnt even know there were places where you could be underneath it.

[66625ff112befZylonBane]

There's only a couple of places in the Body of the Many where it's possible; it's more of a Thief thing. The two textures are always identical anyway. Probably one of those features that sounded useful when they were programming the engine, but turned out to be not so much.

[66625ff112f94Marvin]

New water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku1MMakiBcM

I've only made the "blin" water so far, i've not even seen the "blout"-water anywhere, where is that used?

Looks great in principal but the texture does not seem to tile very well, the water looks a little bit too symmetrical and ordered.

[66625ff1130e7vurt]

yeah it's always a compromise, either you can make it like shtup, with very subtle coloring, no hilights that you can easily spot etc and you'll have a rather boring but also less noticeable tiling texture. I dont like the tiling but it's really only noticeable when you see a long stretch of water, looking down onto it.. 

[66625ff113482voodoo47]

New water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku1MMakiBcM

definitely work in progress (maybe it could be a little calmer), but I like it a lot-fits way better than t2 water (it was not meant for ss2, so no surprise here).

[66625ff1135adZylonBane]

Making a perfect water animation is almost impossible for SS2 and Thief, because they use exactly the same texture for all water. A nice turbulent animation looks great most places but pretty silly in shallow pools or in sinks.

[66625ff1136a3Nu Zalem]

Water looks splendid. Nice job. I wonder if you'll up the ante with many more textures of the game. If so then I'm all for it. I love to see creativity at work. Keep up the pace Vurt.

[66625ff1137edvurt]

it will improve

made some water caustics with this utility.

looks alright, the animation is quite smooth (19 frames), might use on top of the other texture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sal3EMIv0NU

[66625ff113a58TaxAkla]

  Want!!! Vurt, you´re a god. Thanx.

[66625ff113b72vurt]

five billion filters later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDnekJt4kqk

thank god/shodan its possible to automate photoshop 

[66625ff113cbcSalk]

Impressive job with the water!

Keep it up!

[66625ff113e2fmiracle.flame]

it might be really hard and long-lasting to find the sweet spot between performance hit and eye-candy... keep on rolling.. I can see you are going make ultimate water 

[66625ff113f44vurt]

V0.1 released (see first post for D/L). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZ5H9g5pfg

[66625ff11404bmiracle.flame]

that's what I've been babblin about makes me wanna taste it!