Dave's Telvanni Tileset

[Dave_91]

Two weeks ago I was messing around in Maya and PS and decided to try making a few of the Telvanni exterior pieces. I was planning not to release or share the meshes/textures as I didn't make them for anything other than practice. Soon afterwards I discovered that ST were planning a Telvanni settlement, and I'd already created a lot of the key pieces and their textures. Having sent the meshes and textures to Razorwing for him to check out, I decided to make a WIP thread.

I also intend to make the interiors at some point, but right now I'm concentrating on the exterior pieces.

Here are some (old) screenshots in-game:




And here are some nifskope compilations of a few of the meshes:




I hope everyone likes how it looks so far. If anyone has any ideas for new pieces, or any thoughts about the WIP meshes so far we can discuss them here.

*The SI (mushroom and bark) textures will be replaced with new ones. The spotty textures are based upon the SI bark texture, so I'll need to re-create those ones too.

*I have permission from Phitt to use and release the three textures and their normal maps I took from his Sheogorad mod.

*I'm aware that JonSatriani already made a great Telvanni tileset. I felt however, that some of the essential pieces were missing, and I have found that editing other people's work is more awkward than simply making your own versions. As I mentioned, I made these for practice plus ST were looking for their own version of the tileset, in some sense.

[Razorwing]

It looks fantastic, Dave! :goodjob:
I especially like the top left screenshot. It screams at me to walk up the path and explore the house

And I definitely agree about not editing other people's work. I did that for a tileset once, because I figured hey - should be easier to edit an existing tileset than make a new one, right? Well not quite.

The guy who made it used feet as scale... but it had perfect scale in relation to itself, so it tiled on, say, a 242.433256 grid. I thought I could fix it by resizing each piece identically, so that it would tile on an exact power-of-2 grid. But as I discovered later on, every other vertice had been displayed by fractions of a percent during my resize, and there were hairline gaps at the seams. By the time I realized the problem I had already finished it. The only solution was to standardize the position of fifty or so vertices in a text doc and change them individually. Ultimately I wager it took me two-three times longer than if I had made it from scratch, so... I'll never do anything like that again. You live you learn, I guess

[simonp92]

this looks very nice!
it looks like the morrowind set..

BTW; i think that the uw-mapping needs some correction on the "house" the left in this show: http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq303...=large.jpg it is kind a streched..

[Dave_91]

Definitely. In this screenshot it's very noticable. I already fixed the UVs for the turrets but I haven't exported them yet. The manor (third along in the screenshot you referred to), has a few texture seams which I also hope to fix.

[Zurke]

They look great Dave_91. It should be an awsome set when finished.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

An awesome task to tackle but it's coming together very nicely indeed. Absolute best of luck with this ambitious project, Dave_91!

[InsanitySorrow]

Could have posted this over at the Sheo or Vv forums Dave , still its lovely and I think it will work lovely with the Telvanni set already available.

:goodjob:

[Lady Nerevar]

wow, that looks great. is it completely analogous to the morrowind set (as in same size, etc.)?

[Dave_91]

Practically, yes. I used TES3 imports to base them on so they should be almost identical.

[simonp92]

i do the same thing dave..
it looks soo much better when it moddeled on the old model..

PS; do you make the textures from scratch??