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Nice to see your taking up mw 2006 (I don't play without it). Altho I think some meshes settings could be better, some are just to shiny.

On Topic:
Nice to see your still around Nich. Best of luck with this! =)

Probably a silly question but here goes: Does this affect FPS?

No he's just editing the uvmap which will not affect your performance. At least I think it shouldn't.

Just to chip in and say I was wandering around Vvardenfell the other day and your corrections are a major help to maintaining immersion: I didn't realise how much I'd been pulled out of the game before by these rock seams, particularly up round Sheogorad. Excellent work Nich, thank you :thumbsup:

[OT]Oh. My. God. I hoped when I saw you back on the boards that this might be on the cards. :celebration:
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few quick replies

i only added a few vertices here and there to help the UVs from stretching too much . i was going to increase all the vertice counts in the beginning but i figured that less powerfull computers might lagg and less people would find it usefull .

didn't do the bump mapping since i think those should be the textures job . things could look strange with very different bump maps and textures .

as for FPS it might make it just a little bit better . with all the UVs connected the nif file sizes actually get smaller .

morrowind 2006 looks interesting , i think i will try it out .

lastly , glad people are enjoying it .

-NICH

erm . PS

i have a few of the trees done . might be putting together a WIP for those .

Cool trees. That will be a sperate release won't it.

yep , trees will be seperate

did a little work tonight . bethesda went a little over the top on the MA region lava pot

http://www.imagebam.com/image/95d80f38194297

the new improved is on the left . bethesda original on the righ

-Nich

:nod:
Jeepers, your improvement is like the difference between brand new baby's skin and a horrendously scarred knee.

One must wonder if Bethesda had access to any decent UVW tools 8 years ago. Seems like they didn't bother on a lot of the original meshes (heh, I made a pun).

Glad to see you're back at this, Nich - thanks again for all your efforts!

Some of oblivion rocks are the same way. Uv wrapping a rock that has shape edges is not easy.

In max it's very easy to do with a pelt map, though this was not available 8 years ago.

Looking at the original UV maps, it looks like they were created by max's auto generated cylinder maps. They could have made a seamless UV map, but without the current tools we have today, that would have taken a long time.

i am just using blender . most are just simple unwraps then applying the limit stretch function . some are more complex and require seam marking , simple unwraps , aligning the uv vertices to the edge of the texture then applying the limit stretch function . i use some more complicated methods on things like the stalactites . a few do have seams that can't be avoided so i use vertex shading to hide the seams as best as possible .

i think they did have the tools needed 8 years ago . all of the bitter coast rocks are already seamless (but could use limit stretch done on them) and 95% or so have vertex shading done that could have been used to hide seams as well .

last night i did 44 meshes
x/terrain_lava_pot
x/terrain_lavapot_01 - was already seamless
x/terrain_lavapot_02
x/terrain_lavapot_03
x/terrain_MA_20 , 30 , 60
x/terrain_MA_rock13 , 22 , 32 , 62
x/terrain_MA_rock_13 , 51 , 53
x/terrain_volcano
i/in_bonecave_stal00 , 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , 50
i/in_lavacave_stal00 , 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , 50
i/in_moldcave_stal00 , 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , 50
i/in_mudcave_stal00 , 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , 50
i/in_pycave_stal00 , 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , 50

going to search thu files and the cs to see what else needs done to finish the mainland up

-Nich

Well I'd like to say something better than a lame "I love your work"....but .... um I actaully do love your work.

I think my next character is going to be a geologist and go study rock formations all over Vvardenfell

Can you please fix terrain_ashland_rock_06 ?

It has two different textures a top half and a bottom half which is very cool. But it mirror wraps the texture seams on its sides to reverse itself which defeats the whole reason for making a texture seamless.

I am looking forward to your next version Nich, this really is an essential mod.

laffs . now that is funny



i think you are the first to notice that this mirroring trick is needed on very tall skinny rocks . stalactites and such are done this way .

terrain_ashland_rock 01-10 are all originally done this way by bethesda with extra seams tossed in there aswell . i took another look at 6 and it is mirroring very poorly . 2 and 5 might need some work aswell . let me brainstorm a little and see if i can come up with a better way to create the UVs . if i can't come up with anything i will try adding some vertex shading to hide the mirroring .

terrain_ashland_rock 11-16 only use the top texture and don't suffer this problem .

-Nich

[EDIT]
looking thru the meshes/x directory i found 18 little rock , boulder and lava vents to edit
also found 20 cave entrences to do
that will complete meshes/x . only meshes/f to finish up . will not be doing the meshes/o (ebony,glass,diamons containers) will be pushing everyone to use the update to diverse ores i put together .
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Thanks I love the double texture on tall rocks. A base and a top texture ( although I haven't made two different textures yet I will as soon as this is released.) so please leave that as is.

ok , i think i got just about everything done . so here is what i think is the last temporary download . i will give everyone a few days to look the rocks over and if nothing odd is found i will put it up on PES .

http://www.filefactory.com/file/ag5g1ca/n/correctUVrocks_09_rar ... click the Free Download button in the middle of the page
link to be added to the OP in the next few minutes .


to install just overwrite the .nif files from previous releases .

looking back i guess i never released the 08 version .

added to correctUVrocks_09
all of correctUVrocks_01 - 08
ex_ AC,AI,AL,BC,GL,MA,WG,RM _cave_entrance . even corrected some of the entrance beams in the nif
in_ bonecave,lavacave,moldcave,mudcave,pycave _stal00 ,10,20,30,40,50
redid ex_Tmenhir_01 and L_01 . with 10,000 ingame placements i think they should be perfect .
tx_MA_rock_13,51,53
tx_MA_rock13,22,62
odds and ends boulders , rocks
lavapots
terrain_volcano
redid terrain_ashland_rock_02 , 05, 06 for skydye . there are a few seams on them but i hide them the best i could with vertex shading .

sorry . no pictures this time .

-Nich

Nich, you have truly outdone yourself with this project.

I never imagined you'd fix almost any mesh that has rocks in them. Fabulous work!

AWESOME =)

Excellent! :woot:

Erm, I don't suppose you could try uploading to another site? FileFactory isn't very friendly. I waited for my download, then it said I couldn't download it because I was downloading too many files (what?). :sadvaultboy:

i can do that if i don't have to create an account . too many logins to remember now . what site do you want it on ?

-Nich

I enjoy http://www.mediafire.com/, personally. I think you can upload files without an account, but I'm not sure if there is a size and/or duration (i.e. will be taken down after some number of days) limit on that kind of upload.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ed580fe77038b445af924764f9977b1de04e75f6e8ebb871

-Nich

Thanks! :twirl:

This is great, Nich.

It is time to put together before and after pictures for a release page .

This is time consuming and i am not that good at it ... so i am asking for your help and in return i will include you in the credits on the release page and in the release README .

Here is what i would like to get

screen resolution set to 800x600 . low resolution since i am planning on putting both before and after screenshots into a single graphic file .

example http://www.imagebam.com/image/cdc41638517638 : http://www.imagebam.com/image/b7be0a38517639

-OR-

example http://www.imagebam.com/image/f7d8c238517640

this is what i think is the best process to create the before and after pictures

use your/community best texture replacers .
in game , go to options and turn off the crosshair .
without correctUVrocks installed go out and find rocks with bad UVs .
save a game like WG_01 (this would be west gash 01)
you might have to keep resting for 24 hours to get a good clear sunny day
take a screenshot

install correctUVrocks
load your save game like WG_01
don't move
you might have to keep resting for 24 hours to get a good clear sunny day
take a screenshot

now this is optional . load both screenshots into you photo editing software . paste the before screenshot above the after screenshot

post your screenshots in this thread

8 best screen shots will be used to show off the release and credit given to the authors of these pictures .

thx

-Nich