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wacom... always wacom, are imo the best....from the cheapest line to 1000 euros beast ...i have an intuos4M. bamboo series should be the entry level.. there are different size, clear bigger is better..i bought one for a friend m or l size... i do not remember for about 75 euros some weeks ago...solid, does its work, does not mess the kitchen...does not talk... much :smile: clear if you look for satellite precision and silky tantra massage sensibility prepare a bag of money...a big one, but as said an entry level will do what you need.

mate... buy a graphic tablet... even a cheap one/2nd hand or so , no need of big tecnologies, just to use a pen and not the mouse. keep in mind that photoshop wrks with layers... it's really important to keep anything in its own layer or group, so you can fix what you do not like simply removing and replacing a layer or a group... no need to redo the whole thing for a detail. also layers will help you to mix colors and effects... colors are never monolithic... there is always a range and light+shadows. to help model maker try always to make a frontal picture... no prospective, no distorsion, no "poetic license" :smile: it's great to see someone working on concept art....something often underrated...instead totally important, a good concept simplify your life in any step of game creation good luck Matthia

nothing is simplier than a common specularity line for equipment .. there are game tiers... steel ,iron, elven and so on each one should have a precise specularity base... clearly detailing and fine tune would change something in final result but is important to keep a common base. + materials commonly found in any armor set ...like leather or cloth ...this is quite simple as well, we decide the "range" of leather and any leather will have a specular into that range...as you can imagine color at this point tends to be less important and the color variations in the theme "leather" will always keep consistency having a similar specularity sometime nifsettings mess with specularity... this is the part of fine tune of nifs /or specular values it could be a little complicated.... in my opinion ALL armor set should try to have the same specularity values on nifs...at least brightness... and we can leave textures do the rest but as said many times this would open the pandora's box of compatibility with body replacers

about lighting... i guess we should involve lighting mods in the process and we should aim for consistency...in other words we should decide a common line for specularity of objects and color palette so to have the best result with the chosen lighting mod/mods

yes ...around 4800 textures actually well visible ingame,still we should not fear the number ,many... and i mean many textures are directly related one other... long story made short: enviromental , base dirt---> add leaves= riften dirt. base dirt--->add stones and moss= other area... and so on dirt +large stones=roads snow01+stones = snowroad walls: base mortar+ squared medium stones= whiterun base mortar+many little ordinate stones=other city. armour: create materials and apply same materials on weapons of the same set . in other words bethesda does not create ANY texture ad hoc but moves through steps... this helps to keep consistency,smoothness in transition and in the same time saves LOTS of time

deserved so ...welcome i did not say yet ...skaal set is really nice, well done

yep indeed very curious to see what can pop out from the idea. ...usually creation of game assets starts with concept. just throwing a proposal... since many skyrim concept arts are around from game release, but actually they never arrived into game ,or what arrived in game was very different ... (and worst) as a basic general line... what about trying to bring (where possible) some concept art atmosphere back into game? using concept as reference and not the actual game asset?

i'll stop right now tony ... sorry for the mess... but i did not deserve insults by a good to nothing child wellcome on board Hein... i was hoping for you to cooperate

Hating on me, after I'm already out of the project, you really are a troubled one """I knew you weren't right in the head What did the doctors say hu? What kind of autism you got? Or is it even worse? You need 30 animals to live with you, because humans won't""""" Moto... this is not fair... are personal things that this "person" got no right to write down here particularry when he was not even in my mind when i wrote my previous post...i was talking in general and above all none of these things are anyway related to discussion. you would accept such insults for free? zerwas... i have a fantastic wife 10 year younger than me , a super job (tecnically i could even not work) but prefer to bring home 40k euros/year and keep me busy ,1 bmw and a big land roverr in my garage last time i volountary saw a doctor was 2001...a boxing championship...won and while you make youporn rich i save dogs from illegal fighting, train dogs for rescue and guard...and lend my horses for pet terapy that's way i have 30 animals... idiot i'm happy... a lot :smile: can you say the same?... probably not... otherwise you would not be so frustrated puppy

zerwas... 1st who are you? 2nd why i should hate you? 3rd... you're out of the project?.... ciao! about the rest of your so called post.... you do not deserve an answer :D have a nice day oh right you're the one... my (crappy) work is better than yours...i'm better than any of you...can even teach you how to write a message... fine luckly you're out then... in quality check my turtle is better

....let's keep the quality control restricted and as last of our thought. i have a "family" of 6 pittbulls,9 bull terriers,4 dogos argentinos , 1 perro canarios,4 bandogs (mastiff / pittbull) + 3 horses 2 cats and a turtle ... any of them could claim to be in for quality control...but...they cannot do well the crucial task.... oh well maybe better than some people... but not well enough.

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be sure that textures paths in nifskope are correct and in the short forms i.e. not C/User/steam/fallout/textures ... just textures/(folder name) if paths are properly set your nifkope model should be WHITE in nifskope but should work fine ingame... if textures are visible in nifskope there's an error. dxt formats are not particularry important in this case... just dxt5 interpolated alpha is used for normal maps (alpha is the specular) and wherever you have transparencies . dxt1 is used for textures without transparencies. size does not matter at all... you can replace a 512x512 text with a 4096x4096 tex without problems.... just keep the ratio

you need nifskope to open an existing game necklace. this nifskope release seems efficient and stable: 1.1.0-rc4 1st export obj from game necklace and import in 3dsmax (blender whathelse) in the same scene with your object. scale (eventually move/rotate) your necklace so it has same size of game imported object. delete game imported thing and export OBJ of your necklace (if 3dsmax kills uvcoords can always export a fbx and use blender to export obj ...i often do so ) re-open game necklace in nifskope. click on it in nifskope window , you'll see that a NITRISHAPE has been selected in block list panel. expand the nitrishape you will find a BSLightingShaderProperty with a number...write the number on a piece of paper. also will find a nitrishapedata select corresponding nitrishapedata, right click,block-->remove branch select nitrishape again, go on top of nifskope window--file--->import---->import obj select your obj. right click on the new shape in nifskope window--->mesh---->face normals. re-expand nitrishape...you will see a nimaterialproperty (are the old properties set in 3dsmax... you do not need them... )right click on the entry block remove branch (or ctrl+del) to remove branch. click again on nitrishape and move to block details panel. scroll down... you'll see the "properties" entry... and "none " on the same line insert the number you wrote before on the piece of paper replacing the first "none". back on the block list tab, select nitrishape data move on block details tab change these values: Num UV Sets=4097 Has Vertex Colors=yes basically done... now you just need to set textures paths in BSShaderTextureSet can also use nifskope to add or remove envmap/ envmask, alphas, glowmaps and change the specularity values of the object (always a good idea to enhance specularity for skyrim imho) last thing: before saving nif file remember to "spell" and "update all tangent spaces" on top of nifskope menu. nifskope may eventuall give an error message whie saving nif.... just.... nevermind. many many thanks to ghosu

sure, an image would help a lot... i'm just guessing, so correct me if i'm wrong , you combined existing meshes from game stock or is a new model model you made in blender/3dsmax? in first case model have already uvmaps... you just need to use nifskope to adapt and fix em. just open the nif file ... right click on the model, textures,edit uv. in this case we do not have an hipoly... we have just the game low poly and we need to "invent" normal maps. in any texture project normal maps are always necessary and are the bases of diffuse ans specular map (eventually envmask) if is a new model the story is way more interesting since we have now a base shape, you could raise the polycount and "sculpt" details. there's a great tutorial by millenia here http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL925958D31D8D30C7 it explains everything very well...with the new model you can actually bake normal map from hi poly and get great results since quality of textures comes from precision of normal map

are the shields uvmapped? did you bake normal maps from hi-poly?

tring to make a chainmail? do not use patterns, can find good chainmail brushes on deviantart or similar sites ... fill the area you want to edit with black on a new layer, paint with white chainmail brush (can easily adjust the size in this way)... when you have the whole surface filled make a copy of the layer and apply normal map filter on it... a range of values between 5 and 15 ...depends how much relief you want.. make a copy of this layer and store for a later use . on the bits of normal map left (the layer that you duplicate) apply xnormal (if you do not have...install it)... normal to cavity mode.... you'll get the base design. remember that black area where you painted with white brush? well put that layer above your cavity... and set to multiply... it will work as ambient occlusion...sort of... have to play with opacity to get good results. back on the cavity layer... give some colors...something metallic... cyan-blue. with dodge tool make some hilights on chainmail rings... nothing strong, can also make some shadows with burn tool... again something very weak. remember to keep the specular of chainmail very bright. you're more or less ready to add dirt , blood, rust...whatever you need at this point... just work with low density so to get a realistical look.

a couple of reload...a couple of service not available ...now is fine

yep...i had same problem ... but with all tabs... comments,images, downloads. i'm using chrome on win7

hi Rob...i've been not able to help you much on NV...some weird cases of life kept me out from modding for many months , when i was able to work again skyrim was out, i started a project on it... is still going. if you need some of my assets for northpoint...just grab and use them, is not that much but i hope it can help

r9 270x 4g is definitely a good choice money/quality if you do not want to change psu . there is a pretty good MSI solution for r9270x4g too i'd think about an ssd too eventually

gimp dds plugin should automatically generate mipmaps, check the options of save window eventually if something is unchecked... tecnically when you open files you do not even need gimp to show mipmaps, if still do not work try to pass dds file in ddsopt (can find on nexus) it should add missing mips

pretty difficult u will see something similar around...since lens effect in reality is due to true lighting while in a game we have a "fake lighting" (is 2d even pretending to be 3d) with render... that said fallout new vegas got binoculars...i guess to look in those nif files could be a starting point...in example a rounded glass with the binocular effect set in the nif...it "could " render bigger the nearest object...an alpha channel would solve the "too precise"kinda television effect. another option are the envmaps...if u make an envmap from the enviroment around the lens and apply to the lens results are not bad at all. i'll track this discussion... i'm curious about answers too...would be pretty interesting to know about eventual possibilities

i've been hoping for ages in a mod to bring some things from hellraiser and cabal into a bethesda games...oblivon first and now skyrim,presence of cannibals into fallout made me hope too...but...nothing serious did happen. who knows... nightbreed race....with a proper transformation imo is still a great great idea. thought about doing somethig myself... but without proper models i never did something decent. fans of movie "cabal" are still asking for an author's "cut" ,for a reason or another the presence of a "monster" like Cronenberg (naked lunch existenz crash and many ) did not save original thing from a "commercial" shift. barker never had much luck in cinema... that's for sure...hellraiser and cabal stands as "cult" but noone will remember them for being particularry well done masterpiece...

actually the name cabal is from the book.... not the movie which is imo not fantastic at all....book is great btw...like almost anything from barker... for fallout4 the name of collection should be book of blood....just to stick on barker :)