Springheel's Stuff

[Springheel]

The plate skins were, I think, the second batch of textures I ever made for TDM, and they were starting to show their age. I've gone through and given all the plate models an update--I increased the polys on the edges to smooth them out a bit, and redid the uvmap and textures to make best use of space. And following my new philosophy of trying to save mappers time, I also added a few new models--a china soup bowl, empty and full, a pre-made plate with leftover food on it, and a premade stack of dishes. All can use any of the plate skins. I also added some new textures with dirt decals built in (no new textures needed) for dirty plates.

[Goldwell]

Damn did they eat a Bloody Mary Short Ribs or something?

Edited July 6, 2014 by Goldwell

[RJFerret]

Rock on dude, your continuing improvement efforts are outstanding.

[Bikerdude]

Damn did they eat a Bloody Mary Short Ribs or something?

LOL, bit very nice work Springs. Maybe change the bloode colour etc though.

[Springheel]

That's the smear01 texture. My goal it reuse existing textures whenever possible to avoid texture bloat. There are plenty of things that could leave residue of that colour...rare meat, gravy, tomato sauce, jam, etc.

[Springheel]

Moving on to books...I've noticed for a while that our bookshelf texture (one of the first batch of models made for TDM) is awfully low-res and doesn't look very good up close. I've made a new higher res book texture (512x256) that looks pretty good close up (image 1). I can't modify the original model, because too many maps have potentially used variations of the original texture to highlight specific books (for secret switches). I've instead made a new bookshelf model that uses the wardrobe texture for wood (image 2). I've included an empty version as well as three versions with different batches of books.

[SteveL]

Wow, I think the "old" and "new" labels are a bit superfluous Nice work again!

[Springheel]

In addition, I've made a new 'book row' model using the next texture, that just fits two to a shelf (image 3) so mappers can fill up shelves on their own if they wish.

 

As well, inspired by nuThief, I took our open book model and made an angled version that can be leaned against thing, as well as creating a couple scattered book models (visible on the floor in image2 above).

[RJFerret]

OMG, this is one of my few annoyances with missions, bookshelves have distinctive repeating patterns to the human eye/brain, so some easy modularity and being able to create variety will be WONDERFUL!

 

Did I mention, WONDERFUL!?!!

[Bikerdude]

ROTFL - What RJ said

 

Now I want to see lots of dusty old libraries, maybe a keeper-esq one with multiple layers and floors with lots of things to read while Im there!

[Springheel]

Now I want to see lots of dusty old libraries,

 

Well, you can use these as a jumping-off point...all the models above now come with a desaturated skin (right).

[AluminumHaste]

You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day

 

Dammit!

Those are amazing!

[Obsttorte]

Awesome work as always. *thumbs up*

[Goldwell]

These things really do kickass, i'm guessing most of these will be aimed for the 2.03 update? or will you release them independently?

[Bikerdude]

@Springs, I take all these new models you have been making are part of 2.03. if so may I humbly suggest that you make them available to the community at large via either the wiki page (they are small enough) or either Pm me the file paths and I will pack them up and upload them to the mirrors and provide the links etc.

 

You might have to edit the OP to include an index so people dont have to traul through the thread to get to the goodies. And to save time you could/should put a divider between stuff thats already in the mod and new stuff you have created.

[Springheel]

These things really do kickass, i'm guessing most of these will be aimed for the 2.03 update? or will you release them independently?

 

To be honest, releasing them independently is a pain. I have to remember every relevant file and track down and copy all the material, def, and skin entries, and there can be quite a few. Some of them replace existing files and some are unique. Some would require certain mod files to be deleted. And then if a few days later, I find something wrong that needs tweaking, I'd have to update the zip file again.

 

I don't mind if someone else wants to do it (anyone with access to SVN could) but I'm not strongly motivated to do it myself.

[Springheel]

Latest in the "inspired by Thief" series: brazier on a post. Comes with one LOD stage and a projected shadowlight.

[Bikerdude]

I don't mind if someone else wants to do it (anyone with access to SVN could) but I'm not strongly motivated to do it myself.

Fair enough and TBH I'm not that keen to do it either but, it someone wants a prticular model I will extract all the required files and zip it up for them on a per request basis.

 

Awesome model btw

[Bikerdude]

@Springheel, as you seem to be on a role so can I make a request..? Could you do a cleaned-up version/s of the arched .ASE door model that I made for The gatehouse and Penny Dreadfull 2..?

 

Looking at the new models I see you have created a version of the cagelight I made for TGH, but I found a minor texture issue, the top underside has the hot coals texture as well as the bottom.

 

- models/darkmod/lights/extinguishable/cagelamp02.lwo

- atdm:cagelamp02

 

And an old model that bugged me for years because it has an issue where the textures is fubard if you change "the interactive shader" or "ambient rendering" (one of them)

 

- models/darkmod/kitchen/cookpot.lwo

[Springheel]

the top underside has the hot coals texture as well as the bottom.

 

Yeah, I thought that might make sense since the flames are constantly hitting it. It's an easy change if it doesn't work.

 

Can't promise anything with the door...I can't open .ase models and I have a couple door projects of my own atm.

 

Best make a tracker for the cookpot.

[Bikerdude]

• Yeah, I thought that might make sense since the flames are constantly hitting it. It's an easy change if it doesn't work.
  
• Can't promise anything with the door...I can't open .ase models and I have a couple door projects of my own atm.
  
• Best make a tracker for the cookpot.
  

• it would never get hot enough, you would get lots of soot more than anything else.
  
• Hmm, I wonder if blender can export to .LWO then.
  
• Will do.
  

[Springheel]

Next in the "inspired by Thief" series: A new hairbrush and wash basin model. Hairbrush comes in 3 different skins, as well as a gold loot version (image 2). Also comes as a movable entity. Wash basin comes with and without cloth, and uses the same skins as the plates above. The only new textures are the brush bristles.

 

Maybe someone can make a prefab of the basin that is full of water.

[Springheel]

it would never get hot enough, you would get lots of soot more than anything else.

 

You're probably right. I'll change it.

[Bikerdude]

Maybe someone can make a prefab of the basin that is full of water.

Any chance you can make a bar of soap..?

[Springheel]

Bars of soap are actually fairly recent, and I have no idea what soap would have looked like before then. Most medieval/tudor soaps were liquid and powder, I believe.