NEW EPIC TOTAL CONVERSION MOD!!!!!!

[Vbgraphix]

Yea....actually I did a complete revision of the ideas for the False-gods and the Astral Plane....everything fits now....it is perfect....im a genius hehehehe

 

So i guess his pointless comments did bring up a point, about how the false gods really didnt seem to fit in Aralon....now they have a background, a purpose, and I am working on a map of the Astral Realm

 

Sry for being arrogant lol, but everyone is allowed to be every once in awhile. You guys are really gonna like my new ideas....well atleast the team members will :P

[Vbgraphix]

Dont you love the anonymous people that vote for the lowest one cuz it is funny and dont post y..... they are so clever, i wish i was that smart, then i would have no friends and have people think i am a jackass (as in donkey) :)

 

Oh, we have tons of new content coming in, including screenshots and new concept art....CHECK OUT THE SITE!

 

Also we have a spoiler free version of the in-depth storyline coming out...and lots of new ideas have been added and reviewed.

 

We have gained a substansial number of members in the past week and hope to continue to gain members so we can get this mod progressing even faster

[Spudnik]

me likes this mod!! (i rewrote it...)

[ohGr]

just to inform everyone, i will not be working on the mansion anymore, several reasons can back it up, my brother screwed up the computer again, and deleted my user without asking me to back up, i lost all my morrowind work, so ill just smash a few of his crap <_<

and im working on a mod that will merge with apex, yep, my graphical enhancement mod, vb said i can have a page to myself on that, but im going to wait untill i can get some before and after shots, heres what the mod will change

 

Armor

-new textures

-new models

-some will be scripted to get dirty over a period of time

-you will have to clean them in order to keep the best armor rating

 

Weapons

-new textures

-new models

-all weapons get dirty, except unique weapons, once dirty, they will do less damage

-clean them as you would with armor

- silver/steel/mithril/imperial/glass...etc, weapons will have a reflective map, they will either reflect the environment in a very low resolution way (you can choose from low/medium/high/realistic and none) to a very realistic way, take note this will severly degrade performance, so if you have a geforce 4ti4200 or radeon 9600 or better, go nuts, if you have under and dont mind a little lag, go nuts.

-if the reflective maps arent possible (ive done some looking, it is, but complicated) then ill just make a normal reflection on the weapon, doesnt reflect the environment, works like the magic thing, but doesnt make it look stupid, in fact, will make it look good.

 

Trees

-new models

-individual leaves for you lucky ones with a beast of a computer

-leaves blow according to wind power and angle

 

Grass

-yep, grass, the main feature, this will take a long time to do, but modelling the grass is incredibally easy, but if all fails, ill take the grass from ut2003, change it a bit, and add it in morrowind, of course, the grass will only reach the top of your feet, i dont intend to start a corn field here, will shine to light, blows to wind angles, invidual flowers in there, with actual petals, and from the grass i made yesterday, each blade of grass is only 8 faces, i placed 50,000 on a island, my computer is a pentium 3 500mhz, radeon 9000, and i got a nice, constant 40fps in that island with trees and NPC's, so anyone will be able to run the standard grass, you people with pixel shaders will be able to get the shiny grass, with the wind psysics.

 

New land textures

-im making a choice for you people, low to realistic, low, medium, high, realistic, take note, that realistic will be literally photo digitised, thanks to my brothers digital camera (how many things are damn digital!)

 

all flora is new

-it saves me another 10 minutes of typing.

 

now, heres what the options will feature with this mod on.

 

Pixel Shader Effects

-Water yes/no

-Grass yes/no

-Trees yes/no

-Weapons yes/no

-Armor yes/no

 

Land Detail

-Low

-Medium

-High

-Realistic

 

Misc.

-Individual Leaves yes/no

-Extra Sounds yes/no

-High detail models yes/no

-High detail faces yes/no

 

Weapon Reflections (if yes to weapon pixel shaders)

-Very low

-lower

-low

-medium

-high

-very high

-realistic

 

theres probably more i missed, but ill cover all that when i start my page for it on the Apex website.

[Vbgraphix]

Just to let you all know....the stuff ohgr is working on will be swwweeeeet

[Spudnik]

a big ol bumpa fer this project!

[Vbgraphix]

thx :)

[ohGr]

hmm...i sometimes question the intelligence of certain users of these forums <_<

 

anyway, an update on the graphical enhancements'

 

Grass

animation (im working on it, im trying to make a loop happenning here, and so far its almost done)

Textures (its not easy without photoshop installed!)

Mesh (still trying to nail down the polygons)

 

Bushes/Trees

havent even started

 

Weapons/Armor

still thinking on a few, im re-making the daedric dagger...giving it more of a demonic appearance, im also going to add some new animations for the player, some sacred swords will have a beam of fire/ice/lightning/power blah blah, and upon choosing this, the sword will point forward and fire the enery at the target, take note, it works similar to a rail gun from quake 3, only sounds better and has a more mythical appearance (especially fire)

reflective maps are still a stumper, their possible, but its a donkeys smashed face trying to figure it out i might just throw on a shiny appearance and call it a reflection, itll still need something good to run, just not as much as i intended.

 

New NPC Models

screwing around...made a 23,000 poly hand...figured i might want to nail it down, so i did...to 4,205 which is still too much...but it WAS a test.

 

some little laughs i intend to throw in (this wont be in apex)

 

talking heads on sticks (having a conversation...about crap)

 

the guy from doom makes a special appearance, phases in "sorry, wrong timeline" and a creature (probably a guar) replies "happens all the time" and phases out.

 

someone who thinks he/she's german

 

 

uhh...yeah

[Vbgraphix]

Sounds great, we will definately need more unique swords. Glad you're having fun with the mod too :)

 

cant wait for the screenshots....good luck getting photoshop

 

this might have to turn into a couple different mini-mods...one for weapons, one for plants, and maybe some others

[ohGr]

well, if i wanted, i could render a shot of the grass and say "it would look exactly like that" which is lying really, so im going to wait till ive got a nice island with some of the stuff i've made, as for unique swords, with the daedric ones, im planning a sacred dagger that has ancient carvings...grants the user strength +10, its going to have individual carvings...in 3d...not just a texture...

 

due to pathetic attempts by some hackers to get a trojan on my computer, through kazza, ive been sidetracked a little, although...Norton2003 caught them in the act, and deleted all the crap they put on my beastie (laptop), so im fine once again...now...3ds 5 is asking for authorisation again...and the bloody code my cousin gave me isnt working, so its back to 3ds 4 to me!

 

so far i have ut2003/morrowind/C&C generals/doom1 and 2/ quake 1 and 2/ commander keen 1-4 and 6/ hexen 1 and 2/ heretic/ moorhuhn x xxl (i bought it) and thats all i remember.

 

a few more things i intend to do......making a sacred tree to place somewhere in my own personal mod or Apex, the tree with be very highly detailed, with mostly individual leaves...fully animated of course...