What would you like to see...

Worg and Winter Wolf textures for use on the current wolf model

I'm also working on a frost salamander... but i've no idea how to tackle removing the flames (or changing them to air particles rather than fire...)

so, salamander is on hold for now

 

roughing out a mind flayer, proportions are still off...

 

even more beholder stuff pretty much done to death now lol

doomsphere (to be used at 50-75% alpha maybe?)
death tyrant alternate
gauth alternate (green, a la bg2)

 

Hey puppy.... anyone ever tell you that you were a damn good artist??:rock:

 

hehe thanks ax

@allyx, any idea what might've caused the orangey stripeyness to occur?

I've yet to really try any actual 'modding' creatures in as such; just been modelling to my heart's content, so i dont know what might have caused it.

Was it the fact that there was no alpha channel made for the skin? and did you do anything funky with the alpha channel, or did simply adding it solve the problem?

One of these days im going to have to slog through shiningted's stuff and figure all this stuff out

And if anyone else can think of a re-texture of an existing creature that is really begging to be done; sing out

 

tried my hand at some golems... not sure if im happy with them yet though

 

hmmm... am i to take it to mean then that the alpha channel is being used as a reflectivity map rather than an opacity map?

Probably not a question that can be answered with our current appreciation of SKM/SKA files, but it would be interesting to see whether the alpha channel in the tga files can have multiple uses...

the current black widow model has an alpha channel, shown below, might be interesting to see what effect re-using that alpha would have on the new skin. obviously it would need to be re-tailored to the new texture, but its more of a curiosity thing.

Not really suggesting you try this allyx just more thinking out loud, wondering if anyone has any theories

 

brain golem, cos they make me laugh

 

It also might be worth recolouring the umberhulk reflect tga being used by the model perhaps

interested to see what you find out

 

reworked clay/stone golems... could always just use earth elemental texture maybe

 

Well as has been said; currently anything that has more than one bone (ie. animates) can't go in. We need a plugin to allow us to import animations from a relevant 3d program - until that time, all the new models and such are 'hoping for the best'

If we do get such a plugin, its a matter of creating all the relevant animations for the creature and making sure they gel with the game properly - attack animations fire when the creature attacks for example. I've yet to look deeply into the files as i said, maybe cuchu/allyx etc know a bit more about this

After that the creatures stats/abilities need to be created, and then the modders have a new creature to use...

As Ted said, some creatures could be effectively modded into existing mods as soon as they were ready; Ax was talking about city of the spider queen which has a lot of creatures that dont have models at the moment.

Other than that, its more what people want to see

If you're keen to keep churning out models without animations, and you're stuck for ideas, anything on the summon monster list is probably a safe bet, and will no doubt get some use without a specific mod having to be written to include it

 

You may know this already, but what's been done here for a while now is this: re-skinning old things to make new ones. Size can be adjusted to compensate, and viola: new monster. An example of this is kobolds. They are minature brown skinned lizardmen. Another is dragons. They are highly modified ice lizards. There is (or was) a plan to shrink down umber hulks for fire beetles, too. With character races, this is different. I believe there's a limit, so one race has to be done away with to make a new one. Possibly, there's some exception to this I've forgotten - but that's what I recall on the matter. So, I'd spend my effort on new skins for existing things rather than making stuff that, in all liklihood, will not ever get used.