Speaking of mipmaps, has anyone tried "keep details 1.1 (ptrofile settings for nVidia\'s .DDS import/export): http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11817

im using those right now, but i havent made any real comparisons with/without..

Damn thieves. :stare:




I assume AF=Anisotropic filtering? Anyway, my comp cant handle high level AF. As for sharpening the mips....that makes more work, I like less work. :banghead:

Anyway, maybe with these imperial houses I will include a version with 3 mips and one with 5. You lot can decide which one ya'll wanna use. <_<

So err I hate to double post but I thought I would show something else I am working on. :S



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/AnOldFriend/Potions.png

Thats right.......err potions...

From left to right is; Exclusive, Quality, Bargain, Cheap, and Standard.

I hope I got the hierarchy correct. :S

Some things may and will change by the completion of these. I will be changing the color of the liquid for each one and also possible tweak the texturing a bit.

:wave:

Oh my, those are fantastic!
There have been some great potion replacers before, but you have taken them to a whole new level.
:drool:

I was thinking there's something about these that's quite different - and then realized it was the shadows - if only you could add those in game as well

Nice meshes - I especially liked the little phial - I suspect resizing and repositioning them in the CS to replace current potions would be a nightmare though

Hmm actually....... Shadows can be added a couple different ways, they wouldn't be so dynamic though. Maybe a simple shadow at the base could work though.

I don't do any work in the CS. The most I do in the CS is have a look at things to get an idea how things will look in game I think the only problem as far as positioning goes will be the spacing of the old potions when replaced with these. The shelves might look a bit less cluttered.

they are thinner, however will the height of the exquisite potion clip through upper shelves on bookshelves?

Well I am going to make these potions a bit smaller then the originals. The smallest one I am guessing will be about the size of a film canister. These are potions not bottles of liqueur.

Excellent work! :goodjob:

I look forward to seeing your next textures.

Wants. Now.

Seconded. Share, AOF.

I saw the thread title and figured that this was going to be about cel-shaded textures or something.

Cel-shaded??? What made you think that?



I will be releasing the potions as soon as I am happy with how they look in game. I am trying to figure out how to add reflections and bumps in NifSkope again which is coming along nicely thanks to Painkillers coin model. :foodndrink: The pic above is a render from max so they will probably look a bit different rendered in the engine, however they shouldn't be to much different.

The Imperial houses are done and will be out soon along with another quick texture I did for the sacks and a couple other objects that use the same texture. I remapped the sacks a bit to reduce the stretching and to align the seams better.

Well, all the detailed and highres textures, yours included, are really top notch, but it's a bit too much detail for me.
I'd like to see what would happen If Morrowind was given a completely different art style, without having to make new meshes. Textures that were brighter, and farther from photo-realistic. Something that captured the essence of the games vanilla textures, and made them less complex and more vibrant. I mean, it could be worth a shot, right?

Also, my graphics card is an aging beast and I'll welcome any way to show it a little mercy I can find.

Updated first post with DL link for the Imperial housing textures along with a bonus DL link to retextured and re-mapped sacks.

Just downloaded and will see if I can get it to work. The Vivec is awesome but I can't get the Hlaalu to show up in game. Don't know what's going on there. Anyway these look great. Thanks :goodjob:

geeez aof, these are incedibly beautiful. i use schwaa's replacer for ages now, but this took my breath...

I loved the Vivec and would use it if I didn't use Egyptian Velothi. Wasn't a huge fan of the Hlaalu. But the Imperial...incredible. As Sister said, took my breath away.

EDIT to add: Hlaalu was not because of lack of quality, just not my taste.

For some reason whenever I uploaded the sacks to Nexus the file would get corrupted so I uploaded to rapidshare.

Thanks everybody above.

A lot more to come.

Can I upload it on Nexus?


Also, thanks a lot, AOF!

Great textures as usual AoF

I love all your textures. Thank you for the great work!

If it works for you sure.



Here are some in game screens of the new potion models.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/AnOldFriend/Potions-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/AnOldFriend/Potions-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/AnOldFriend/Potions-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/AnOldFriend/Potions-4.jpg

Most of the models are probably obviously smaller then the original bottles which will make the shelves that the originals are on appear less cluttered but I don't think it is so bad personally.

The models use Reflection/environment map, normal/bump maps, and the liquid has glow maps, I quite like how they look with a bit of glow.

I would also like to credit Painkiller and thank him for his past tutelage and for the fact that I used and abused his coin model to get these models to work right. I sort of forgot after all this time how to add all these effects in nifskope, so the coin was a life saver.

And also yay for stencil property, couldn't figure out how to get it to work, but by some freak accident I got it working. Go me.

So anyway, I am thinking about doing the liqueur bottles also which, if I do, wont look like these I promise haha.

Genius. Can't wait for a release on those.
The GlowMap was a great idea.

Those look great, AoF - these will be my new potion replacer for sure