hmmm im not to shore ill start a topic some should know but i swear iv done it before, im thinking wyre mesh might do but iv never used that program so i dont know

@vurt
I threw together a proof of concept regarding converting the emperor parasols to lights - you can find the archive here: http://www.liquidanvil.com/mw/tetchy_emperorparasolglow_v0.1.7z

It's a global replacement for all parasols referenced in the stock game. The readme includes the search and replace method I used with TESCS.

Since this is a PoC and setup to demonstrate what the different flicker effects look like on the parasols, feel free to modify the light settings. Substituting your models for the stock parasols is as simple as changing the Art File for each of the new lights thru the CS, or by renaming your models the same as the stock nifs if you just want to quickly test the lights with your models.

Thanks a lot, that's great I'll try it out!

the lights seems to work great, just got to tweak it a bit (got a purple light for my green cap mushroom )

http://piclair.com/data/ipmxa.jpg
http://piclair.com/data/a7orw.jpg

oooo you did blue ones yay!!! cant wait for this to be checked in my plugin files nice work

Great color choices. :thumbsup: Can't wait.

They look great, vurt, well done. :thumbsup:

Can't wait! Sometimes I forget Nirn is not earth but this could help me remind

I'm not 100% on the glowing flowers. It kind of makes the Ascadian Isles look like downtown Las Vegas The mushrooms look fantastic, though

i was going for the alice in wonderland / Avatar look The flowers are just done real quick, we'll see if i keep em or not, the glow is a bit over done maybe.

Keep them please. My nights are too dark! With this it can be even darker!!! :hubbahubba:

I like the glow. Bring it down a little perhaps, but please do keep them glowy.

Yeah I agree!

I think it can be the bloom shader. Maybe they don't look that glowy without shaders. ?

It's not the bloom shader i did overdo the glowing

some new pics

ashlands:

http://piclair.com/data/4cp4o.jpg
http://piclair.com/data/g3inj.jpg
http://piclair.com/data/tujku.jpg
http://piclair.com/data/2chq8.jpg

mushrooms, final (kind of):

http://piclair.com/data/olgsx.jpg

I like the red, but the green is a bit much for me.

As good as Vurt's work is, it brings back bad memories from Avatar.

Haha yeah it's VERY green, i might tweak that a bit did the ashlands texturing kind of quick before i went to sleep.


I think i'll make this (the glowing stuff) a separate mod.. since i really enjoy texturing these glowy models it'll even haven 3 stages to choose from:

subtle (more fitting with morrowind lore in general)
magic (should go well with my other mods)
psychedelic (for people that are into Skydye's and other colorful mods)

i also want to add more mushrooms (my fly argics), new (big) flowers and more trees. My own version of Vality's Ascadian Isles mod you could say.

To make it as compatible as possible, which mods should i install (i will load them in the editor also so i dont put stuff there).


Guitarjoe: i wasnt a big fan of the movie itself, but i really liked the colors and the setting.

Looking great Vurt, i like red ones.

I hope you add glowing spores to those mushrooms. Some animation to add life. Ashland trees, I like them but the pattern must be less blurry. Rather than glowing cores maybe vessels?

Glowing spores, yeah that's a good idea.. i could steal the animations from Particle Shroom Trees mod (uses vanilla morrowind particle effects).. i'll probably go crazy getting it work though, i really, really hate doing copy/paste work in NifSkope with animations, there's like a trillions blocks and they all have to work togehter, just understanding them is hell.. i'll give it a try but don't get your hopes up

i'll try a few other variations with the ashtrees.

edit: i took a look Particle Shroom Tree. And i was right, there's like a trillion animation blocks, i don't want to deal with that. my animated trees has like 3-4 instances or whatever, and just getting that to work is hell sometimes, it would be like that x 100 Someone here is maybe good at doing copy/paste of particle effects in Nifskope?

I have zero nifskope experience(it is so complicated), but you're copying the particles into your trees. Is it necessary? Maybe you can strip it from there, and just clone the particle effects in CS. Adding some color variation and rotation, it must be ready. But you said "they all have to work together."

I think that would be difficult, i need perfect placement of the spores or it will look really bad.

I'll take a closer look of the particles and how it is set up, but i'll do that a day when i've had more sleep and much more coffee i might ask on the NifSkope forums, the Nifskope people are very helpful usually.


Edit: i could compare the particle shroom trees to my much simpler burning ash tree (also particle effect), i understand that animation somewhat.

Take care of yourself vurt, we don't want to lose you. :wavey:

I can use CS to that extend, simple placing stuff. If it comes to that, I want to help.

Haha, no worries vtastek, apart from a lack of sleep i'm a pretty healthy guy

I got the spores particle effect working, it was easier than i thought

Edit:

Spores keeps falling on my head... in the shape of - http://piclair.com/data/bmw2y.jpg



(this is what lack of sleeps does to you...)