[LE] A small (?) request for anyone who knows how to use Blender or 3DS-Max

[Unedjis]

Hi!

 

I'm currently building a Thirsk-themed house-and-quest mod, and Phase 1 (making the base house fully functional and ready to be used) is nearing completion. However, the lighting is still giving me lots of trouble, as I have a very open layout and can't use occlusion planes or JIT lighting, and I don't want to resort to the one-light-to-light-it-all solution because I love the shadow casting fireplace, and the light/shadow contrast effect (see page 4 of the linked gallery) would be destroyed if I used one big light for everything.

 

To combat the lighting problems, I have replaced most of the larger meshes with smaller equivalents, and for the most parts this works just fine. However, as I am using the Jorrvaskr tileset, there are some tiles that I simply cannot replace with anything else, and they're large enough to inevitably be hit by too many light sources, so I get flickering issues.

 

If anybody would be willing to help me out on this one (and maybe release it as a modders' resource or something like that), I would be forever grateful. I cannot do this myself because I simply do not have the time to learn how to use Blender or 3DS-Max. I don't know for sure how much work cutting these meshes into 256x256x256 blocks is, but I assume for someone with experience in 3D modelling, this wouldn't be a workday-long task. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

 

Anyway, here's the list of meshes I'd need cut up into smaller pieces:

 

WRIntCHCorInL (horizontally cut)

WRIntCHCorInR (same)

WRIntCHRoofSlope01-03 (vertically cut in the middle --> left/right)

WRIntCHRoofTopSlope01-04 (same, possibly crossbeams separate)

WRIntCHRoofTopStr01 (same)

WRIntCHRoofTopStrChim01 (same)

WHFireplace03 (chimney separate, possibly in 2 parts)

 

Had I known just how much trouble the lighting would give me, I would have resorted to a different base layout and tileset, but as it is, I have put over 150 hours into this, and I would hate to have to scrap at all that work (it's my first big mod, so I have to learn everything as I go along) because the perfectionist in me hates the lighting too much.

 

Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help,

Unedjis

 

Edit: If anyone knows of a better place for me to ask, please point me there, as I doubt I'll get much resonance here.

Edited November 13, 2017 by Unedjis