Icewind Dale: ToEE - Total Conversion

Yeah, obviously the various types of giants can have temporary stand in models ready to go, Frost Salamanders and Yuan-ti will probably be regular salamanders and/or flame brothers for the time being.

New models need not be ready to ship immediately, but more of a work in progress, and can be added as and when they are good and ready.

 

For Driders, I was thinking of starting with the Lamia model and pulling the body into a spider shape, and each leg into 2 legs and making the connecting membrane invisible so it would appear to have 8 legs, even though it still has only 4.

 

I must admit I have no knowledge of creating 3d animations, is it possible to merge certain sections of existing models/animations to achieve the desired result? IE copying the Lamia torso and arms and attaching it to a spiders body? I imagine it's quite a bit harder than I just described, but is it possible at all?

 

Driders aren't required for Icewind Dale 1, but are for other IE games.

Most of the new monsters required should just need a new skin on an old model, EG:
Frost Giant, Fire Giant, Frost Salamander, Snow Troll, Ice Troll, Cyclops, Mummy.

Some new models have already been made EG: Iron Golem.

Some need a new model EG: Yaun-ti, Histachii, Bladed Skeletons.

 

I can do skins for you if you like. Easy enough. (Did it with our stone giants and a few others.)

AFAIK you can't mix and match model elements with our current capabilities.

 

I might have to look into the NWN2 Modding forums, maybe their 3d models and animations can be extracted and converted to work in ToEE. It would certainly save some headaches if it works.

 

@Gaear, Those skins would be very helpful, check the bestiary link I posted previously for the variations required.

I'm hoping the bladed skeleton varieties would be easy to make from existing skeletons, just stretching their arms into scythe blades seems easy enough, Yuan-ti are pretty much salamanders with snake heads and a green skin.

 

If you mean stretching the skins, it doesn't really work that way. You have to think of them as 3D drawings basically, so when you edit elements they 'wrap' around the model (and very unintuitively at that). I don't know it's even possible to really change any sizes, mainly just colors and some details on the surface.

 

I meant stretching the model's arms for the bladed skeletons, like XVicious did with with the lizard model to make a turtle.

 

Sectoring coming along, some maps finished
Also, redid maplist.mes with a matching naming convention to ground.mes (so AR1004_House_1, that sort of thing). No 'day' or 'night', of course.

 

I'm gonna have to look at KotB soon, figure out how to change the cursor, scrolling background and text on the main menu.

Incidentally, would anyone here happen to have any panoramic pictures of the view from atop a snow-capped mountain? Preferably 360° rotation? If not I'll search the internet to see if a suitable image can be found.