Playable illithid (mind flayer) race: mod progress

[Morgwynn]

Have you seen the Illithid from Silver-Blades Suitcase? . . you should take a look it might give you some idea's. http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/various/ilithid_captain.jpg he also has allot of Spelljammer ships including Illithid Nautiloid that could explain how they got to Nirn in the first place.

 

http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/nautiloid/nautiloid_vue6_6a.jpg

[oblivionhot]

You know the Illithid in update 4 actually looked pretty badass lol with the shroud of darkness. Keep going, doing good! Also, do you think that you would ever place these guys in like blackreach for some creature diversity?

The original mod will contain just the race. A companion will probably soon follow. Then I might start on making an illithid hive and quests and such, wich will be difficult to do without making some sort of underdark first. I'll consider this, but it would be foolishness to do such a thing on my own, especially considering I have no experience with scripting and quest-writing. I did start on making an area to a new underground place though, as you can see in update 3.

 

I know in Everquest they are referred to as "Shiliskin" or "Malgrin", not sure if that helps with the naming process. I'm excited to see what these end up looking like in game.

I see. You know, I hadn't even considered to give them a completely new name before xD. It seems there are a lot of tentacle-face creatures out there... Shiliskin, Malgrin, Void walkers from armies of exigo, Davy Jones...

 

while writing this post I searched for 'squid face creatures' in google, and found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_squid-faced_humanoids

 

Have you seen the Illithid from Silver-Blades Suitcase? . . you should take a look it might give you some idea's. http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/various/ilithid_captain.jpg he also has allot of Spelljammer ships including Illithid Nautiloid that could explain how they got to Nirn in the first place.

 

http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/nautiloid/nautiloid_vue6_6a.jpg

Ah... so this silver-blades suitcase is some kind of modification of a D&D game? I can't find out a lot really because loading any new page takes minutes. Also, I never played any D&D game (guilty!). I got into forgotten realms through the books.

 

I am inclined to make up a new lore though. The Elder Scrolls universe is a lot different from that of the forgotten realms, with Nirn in the middle and Oblivion and Aetherius layered around it. Though they could have come from beyond there, seeing as their origin is also unknown in the D&D universe.

[Morgwynn]

Silver-Blades is a 3D renderer he has a gallery over at Renderosity and he is a big AD&D fan and has rendered many races from the Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer and even Dragonlance worlds. I was thinking he might provide some inspiration for your mod. http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/artofadreamer/htm/3dmodels.htm here is some of the .obj models he has made. He might get a kick out seeing his 3D models used in a Skyrim mod, it's worth asking maybe.?

[oblivionhot]

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update 6

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Heuy!

 

I am home for a day now, and I've begun remaking the head mesh completely using the newfound sculpt tool in blender. This did result in a bit of the mesh being ruined, but a large part is actually better than before. this is not a finished mesh, just to show you guys what I'm doing.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4qbYmFlF4E/U9NWLnOZqvI/AAAAAAAAAwo/lxVYjyctON0/s1600/illithid3.png

keep watching for further updates!

[oblivionhot]

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I know, I know, I haven't been working on the illithid... I just discovered the game of Neverwinter and have bene playing it with some friends. Plus, I've been asked to help model a head mesh for a golem for a discworld mod for Skyrim. Anyway, I got the mesh working (though somehow it does have a few holes in its face)!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RROv1_UrWmg/U9ppQOTxWEI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/mnOJlYCpOgY/s1600/illiscaaary.png

The blue bits are bits where my very simplistic texture doesn't completely overlap with the UV and it shows the background color (which is blue, as black would clip with the lines of the initial UV map and it was far away from green). The scales come from the vanilla argonian normal map and will be removed.

Edited July 31, 2014 by oblivionhot

[Deathlocked]

I should probably try to save you some effort and tell you that the Underdark mod for TESIV Oblivion has a Pseudo Illithid race called "Mind Slayers" in it.

 

Might be an idea just to port those heads over, add functionality to the tentacles, rework some fork of Vampire feeding scripts for a pseudo Brain-extraction to work alongside certain spells etc...

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/23153/?

 

There are two other Underdark mods on the TESIV nexus also, so you might want to look at those, too.

[Deathlocked]

Oh right, and The illithid have more ore less the same kind of skinny Emacitated bodytype as Drauger (at least the non-thoon bodybuilder ones) so you could probably get a Drauger body and use it for the body type, textures and all, barring hands and feet which differ.

[DarthTanis97]

Does this new Playable race gets new spells and effects for it or what?

[Aoikani]

hey um, just noticed this project when I was looking for an old mod called Illi-Companion. Just wanted to pass on a helpful hint. Don't use "Illithid or Mindflayer" in your mod. When I created the Underdark OMOD, I consulted IP laws on those names and found that WotC owns that IP. Infringing on those names can get you in trouble. Good luck on your mod.

[Drookpoop]

Did this ever end up going anywhere?