Hello this is the open thread for making Hlaalu exteriors. First of all the modeling will modularized to help optimize development. I will post regular exterior images and screenshots of designs to this thread. Hopefully that will keep everything nice and neat.
Maybe I should just switch to concept art.
We really need somebody to piece all the modular pieces together, so we would be super appreciative if you stick with this task and get the buildings coming to life. I'll assign you a 100 karma points if you do ;-)
Man, these are going to look so good! Hlaalu buildings are among some of the most important things we need done and you guys are doing an absolutely sublime job, keep up the amazing work!
Windows finished.
The extruding part can be added over a wall, but the underneath wall must be modelled to accomodate it uf u want to use the surround broken wall alpha.
I do not leave a job half finished... I will keep on working to achieve the best styled buildings and art assets. The modeling bar is very high. Now have a lot of motivation to keep on trudging through.
Here is an idea for the tower wall
looking good, we were thinking of making balmora bigger, with taller walls, these would be good as corner towers :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0pbT9lVFag
Rav, u are awesome...
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ok so that piece can double as a standalone outer wall tower, or a 3rd floor extention for housing.
I apologize for not adding it on to the stuff that you already made.
Mazam1212 its up to you how you want to make the buildings, I think its just the door frames that need to be used from Ravanna FBX. The textures are the key components.
Obviously it would have saved time, and to be fair its not exactly cut up into modular pieces in a clear and concise way, so creating you own from scratch might be easier for you anyway.
Ultimately its you who has to make all the variation of building structures, so you might as well as much fun with it as possible, and creating you own models will be part of that.
also about how many tris can i play with on these buildings?
for the pure model (before we duplicate sides/walls and make overlay alphas) the utter limit I would say is 10k triangles.
Here are the original TRI counts. So just be mindful that cities are prone to performance bottlenecks. NPCs number have a big reason for this. Normally I'd recommend 50%-200% more than originals, but I'm sure if you stuck with no more than 400% we can keep things in check.
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b01.nif 1163
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b02.nif 780
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b03.nif 747
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b04.nif 463
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b05.nif 449
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b06.nif 1251
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b07.nif 738
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b08.nif 742
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b09.nif 898
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b10.nif 578
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b11.nif 821
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b12.nif 873
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b13.nif 755
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b14.nif 482
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b15.nif 755
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b16.nif 545
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b17.nif 698
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b18.nif 584
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b20.nif 583
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b21.nif 671
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b22.nif 670
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b23.nif 638
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b24.nif 1558
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b25.nif 865
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b26.nif 760
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b27.nif 522
morrowind\architecture\hlaalu\hla_b28.nif 320
okay thank you.
Here is your new tower model. Please forgive me but I am terrible at materials and have yet to add them. 3ds max material system still throws me for a loop. Here is the a link to the model.
https://sketchfab.com/models/93ada849a98c4d5aa990d18e565b4944
I am moving on now from the tower and off to cooler buildings.
Perfect. You don't need to put the physical doors in, just have the frames, as these are added through the editor rather thatn on the model.
Lots of karma going your way and just keep at it, lots of buildings to replace, phew.
Upload the model and we can get it game ready. Might as well to this on the go.
I like it a lot
I like it a lot