Hmm,

A little teaser is acceptable as long as I provide evidence of progress, right?

Here's my poor level 1 test dummy http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/GettingPwned.jpg against one of my wisps.

And here she is again (the poor thing) getting a magical http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VirvatuliAttackend.jpg from another one of my wisps.

Work is proceeding on the skeleton and animations of a *fifth* new wisp type. After this all I have to do is remake the vafurlogi and make a fairly simple wisp that dev_akm suggested to me. And then do all the CS work. Ugh. In any case, progress is being made and I am very confident that the results will be well worth the download when the stuff gets released publicly. Added to the original wisp in game this will bring the grand total of wisp-type creatures to eight, with (I guess) several hundreds of variations available between them all.

Vac

Looks great. Keep up the good work.

What iggey said. :thumbsup:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/slicendice.jpg! :hehe:

Vac

woooow :drool:

And here's a shot of my currently unnamed http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/BloodsvckerProto.jpg. This thing svcks the blood out of its victims, but actually it's not really a predator: it's supposed to be a carrion eater, preferring to feed off the recently deceased (or the sleeping). If it's attacked it will defend itself and it carries some diseases you might not want to know too much about... The other thing of interest is that this will be the only "corporeal" wisp I'm making. I.e. you can hurt this one with regular weapons. It's still pretty resistant, but, well, not completely resistant. Ahh, I'm supposed to be keeping all this stuff secret for my next natural history article, aren't I?

Vac

Really looking forward to v2 of this awesome mod.... the screenies look mouthwateringly impressive

Glad to hear you like what you see!

I've got a sneak peek at the new vafurlogi. This one's very much still WIP: it http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/ScreenShot278.jpg, but now it's http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VafurlogiwCore1.jpg... I haven't quite made my mind up on just quite how colourful the end wisp will be: the wisp in the picture was coloured thus so I could easily identify the layers while working on it, but I'm getting quite attached to the super-psychedelic effect. :shocking: There's some other tweaking to be done yet as well, so don't be too surprised if the vafurlogi that slaughters you in your game doesn't look quite like this.
I'm just starting work on it's attack systems, which I hope will be quite impressive, though I feel I've got my work cut out for me beating what I've already done!

Vac

Minor bump and spoiler for the new wisps.
The vatte-lys is essentially final pending feedback on textures from my tester(s): http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal1.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal2.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal3.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal4.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal5.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal6.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal7.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal8.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal9.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal10.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal11.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal12.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal13.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal14.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal15.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal16.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal17.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal18.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal19.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal20.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal21.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal22.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal23.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal24.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal25.jpg.

Vac

With the vatte-lys you bring in a new kind of variety, that of size. These guys look monstrous. Very nice indeed. In addition to the wisps themselves, I love the way they light up the environment. I've always thought the use of light was an art in its self.

Its awesome! Imagine sneaking into an Ayelid ruin then slowly the environment starts to light up and something like that pop ups * _ *

Thanks!

Yes, the size of the vatte-lys was part of the original vision that I was unable to realise back when I first started this mod. When I came back to it it was actually the very *first* thing I worked on doing before anything else: it was probably the single most important thing to me that I didn't manage to to in v1. There are a few artefacts here and there as a result of the size of the smoke cloud: you can sometimes see bits of smoke coming through a dungeon wall because there's a vatte-lys on the other side. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about that, but I think it's a more than acceptable trade off. You can see from the pictures below that although these things are intimidatingly huge, they have no problem going through corridors, and I can assure you that meeting them in such an enclosed space is no *less* intimidating than in an open space. There's no way out but through!


There's more to come! I hope it won't be too long before imagining becomes reality for more people than just myself and my testers!

A few extra pictures and I'll go get some more stuff done on a different part of this mod: I have a very complex attack system on another wisp that just *won't* behave how I want it to. http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal26.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal27.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal28.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal29.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal30.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal31.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal32.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/VatteLysFinal33.jpg.

Vac

P.S. Oh, wait, I might just go set up a few shots of vatte-lys in the wilderness, that would be cool too...

Edit: Here they are: just three as they're quite time-consuming to make and take: http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/WildVLys1.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/WildVLys2.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/WildVLys3.jpg.

Please excuse the double-post.

Another update: I've just finished getting my 399 new wisp retextures into the game. Here's a *very* short selection of pictures. Why 399? Because with the vanilla wisp takes it up to 20^2. Bear in mind these are *just* retextures of the original wisp, I've also followed the vanilla wisp's brightness a little more closely this time around, keeping the regular wisp retextures light and bright. There's enough variety in the works to make that reasonable I think.

Here's a very small selection of pictures: http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew1.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew2.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew3.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew4.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew5.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew6.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew7.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew8.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew9.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew10.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew11.jpg,http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew12.jpg.

Vac

I'm usually not a big fan of the color pink, but your pink wisp is very pretty!

Just a bump for Vacuity Wisp's, everyone is going to love them.

They do look positively awesome <-(an over used word, but this is definitely the correct context) Nice work chief :tops:

I think they're all quite pretty. I do have some favourites with the vatte-lys, but right now there are just too many will o'the wisp variants for me to wrap my head around them: 400 really is a lot even when you're randomly spawning a dozen a time in your test cell.

I sure hope so; I mean this thread is just heaving with excitement on an hourly basis after all!

Thanks, there's a fairly ridiculous amount of effort that's gone into making the wisps altogether, and many of the "wisps" no longer much look like wisps. One of the next models I expect to turn into a "mass product" looks http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/HiggsTest1.jpg.

Progress continues nevertheless,

Vac

That reminds me of a jellyfish!

dude...just wow :drool:

You're the second person to make that kind of comment and although it's not what I was thinking of when I was making them, I can kind of see the resemblance. The major inspiration was from http://www.flyingomelette.com/oddities/pics/sab2/quint.png, though it no longer bears any real resemblance to that, I think.

Heheh, I'd like to think that the first (couple of) time(s) you meet each of the new wisps you'll be too fascinated by them to react properly when they start beating up on you. Maybe an idle fancy, but I'm hopeful they'll be good enough to do that to some people.

Vac

I'm looking forward to face the new Will o'the Wisps variants using the latest MMM release. They look really great. It will take a while, though, as I've just started a new game. Judging by the screens it seems you have differently colored light for the different varieties. How did you solve that? I made a small mod adding light to Flame Atronachs and had to change the color of the light spell to get a firey shine - the downside is that all effects using the light spell also became firey. So I'd love to be able to give them a unique light effect.

Yes, your mod was the first thing I looked at when I started trying to work out how to add lights to my wisps... :hugs:
In terms of finding a solution to the problem, http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?s=&showtopic=981378&view=findpost&p=14299098, but then decided it wasn't worth the bother. I see no reason it wouldn't work, but I've never been much good at scripting in any other language, so I don't expect that to change in Oblivion. Besides, what I really wanted was a real darkening effect, and I wasn't very happy with the results negative torches gave me. I managed to find http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/NewVatteLysPissed2.jpg for that quite a while back. One of my wisps carries the regular light spell (unaltered), all the other light effects you see in the screens are tricks with particles systems, so if SaidenStorm's post isn't helpful, I've got no other advice for you.

By the way, the wisps in the current release of MMM are the v1 wisps, not the stuff I've been posting about for the last few pages. They're pretty enough, but nothing compared to the stuff I've got now.

Vac

Thanks for the info! Might look into SaidenStorm's tip on using scripted magic effects instead - but that's so beyond my abilities so I'd need help with that. We'll see.

Yep, I've understood that the Vatte-Lys & Co. are recent additions and not included in MMM. Impressive and beautiful stuff.

Yes, me too, alas. I've still never written a script in Oblivion, but I'm coming perilously close to needing to do so sometime soon. I am sure I could ask someone nicely to write that lighting script and they'd set it up for me, but... you know...

Anyway, http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/DarkWisp1.jpg http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/DarkWisp2.jpg has http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/DarkWisp4.jpg in http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/DarkWisp3.jpg.

Made today, and while I was there I http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew13.jpg http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew14.jpg http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/RetexNew15.jpg http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/WildVLys4.jpg http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/WilloftheWisps/WildVLys5.jpg (this time in near daylight!).

Vac

Edit: Updated the first post with a bunch of links to pictures of the "finished" creatures.

I mean this only in a good way. If I get a chance to actually see it in-game, I will surely marvel at it's beauty.