Nchardahrk Reborn

Got to release it before the end of Feb! Anyway. Here's a video.

And the download link of course: Nchardahrk Reborn

Rubber Resurrection

During the first few days of MMM in October of last year, the wife asked me to paint the kitchen and build some ridiculous drawers she had bought for the pantry... I managed all this with a pulled face as I really wanted to be modding but anything for an easy life.

While doing all of the above I somehow managed to break my neck! I can't pinpoint the actual moment but I managed it just the same. The days following this my back felt terrible when I was modding and after several days I could only manage to sit up for an hour at a time before the pain got too much.

I eventually went to the doctor to beg for some sexy pain killers only to see his face drop after examining my neck. Lots of pokes, prods, scans and x-rays followed and I was eventually bedridden for the next 3 months.

It's getting better but still bloody hurts and forces me to lie down on a frequent basis but at least I get to do some modding!

It drove me completely nuts having to lie down in a bed watching Youtube and Netflix for what seemed like forever. Alas, I was able to write so write I did. In fact, I wrote an entire book which will be published soon on Amazon books (awaiting photos)

What was it you ask? A book on modelling? modding? AI? Nope. It's a book on my other passion in life. Snails. I've always loved snails, the way they move, eat and their little cute faces when they look at you.

I have 100's of them. All the same species in several tanks around my work study/ computer room. As I've been interested in them (and many other animals) since I was a young boy I appear to know quite a bit about them. I decided to put it all down in writing and before I knew it I had a complete book. I suppose you don't have to be completely useless when you're stuck in bed and can hardly move a muscle after all.

After all that, I am pleased to announce... (drum roll please. It's only taken me a year!)

As I'm still a bit broken in places I won't be doing anything too fantastic but I will certainly be improving the ruin in regards to the vanilla offering.

Not making any promises this time but I should imagine I will release it before the end of February.

Nice to be back. Thank you all that messaged me on Discord, emailed me, left messages on Nexus and Reddit.

Stream glorious stream...

So. I did a bit of streaming. Figured it was a good way of adding to the "Modelling for Morrowind" bit without the hard work of taking screen shots and doing a lot of typing.

Here they are;

MMM

Morrowind Modding Madness is upon us again and it all kicks off on the 1st October.

If you don't know what it is or you're new to Morrowind then here is your chance to find out...

Teams of modders (max of 4 per team) compete in a month long modding battle to find the supreme champion of 2018. Ok that's a little extreme. The competition is a friendly environment  complete with lots of great modders and noobies alike.

The idea of course is to produce the best mods possible in the time given and on the subject supplied.

No one tells it better than DarkElfGuy so watch this;



Hop over to the Morrowind community Discord and join in. #madness

You still have time to register/ find your team before it all kicks off and there are plenty of known modders in the list of free agents.

Drop in and just ask about the MMM and you will be sure to get an answer!

Morrowind forever!!

Furnishing the rabble

Well I haven't really posted much here in the past week and that's because I've been knee deep in modelling furniture and messing about with Nifs.

Trying to make furniture room by room and so far not doing too bad.

Here are a few of the items made already (there are more i.e. a piss pot!)

I did also play with nifs a fair bit (wasting my time instead of modelling really) and came up with sort of a mirror....



Well that's just a few things done in the past week for the project. Much more to come this week....I hope :D

A really hard time...

After seeing the wife off to work where she will look at peoples backsides and then tell me all about them later over dinner I can finally sit down here on a Monday morning with the intention of moving forward on Caldera. A weekend of toil and turmoil with many incarnations of interiors makes me feel like giving up at times but I've never given up on anything in my life. 

Great ideas from the community over on Discord keep ever coming and attempt to side track me into leaving what I am doing and playing with the new suggestions but, I had a plan and, I shall stick to it.

My plan has been slightly thwarted by the indignant light bug and forced me to split some interiors into separate meshes (which turned out more work that I perceived) and the very dull task of finding and creating textures that not only look good, but fit in with the Morrowind style.

The video I made in my last post included some very lazy texturing indeed. I just used the exterior textures and repeated the same pattern for the interior. Not something that worried me of course because the whole point of making the models was to get them viable and into the world. Do they work? Yes indeed. Were the textures bloody ugly? Yes indeed.

It does appear that from the vast response I receive in my emails, reddit PM's, Moddb PM's and my Discord PM's that "Witcher" is the style that people want.

Having not played Witcher or indeed, even seen it, makes things very difficult for me to assess.

I have, through a friend, managed to get my hands on some of the concept art for Witchers interiors and, sadly, they appear to be nothing more than wattle and daub as expected.

The above is a concept model of a room of one of the larger houses in Caldera. I've been told that the wood panelling looks old and shagged out so it would be good for the poorer look? I like the rustic feel to it but I can't help wondering why the plaster (this is the vanilla texture) here would be stained so badly as Caldera is supposedly a new town.

This is another room I quite liked and may still use with a few saturation tweaks.

This model will be used for sure. (after a few faces have been removed that you will never see of course).

So far, the few interiors I am happy with I have managed to use all the NPC's belongings from vanilla and just transfer them directly to their new homes. The entrance markers etc have stayed the same but of course the interiors are very different so if any mod places an item in them it will be more than likely have to be patched or float they will!

Let us see what the day brings....

One down.....

One down, many to go. The first house is completed with new interior tile set (the video uses vanilla furniture - for now)

Interior tile set for one of the houses of Caldera

After several versions I finally settled for this one. The set also includes interior windows for placement to match up with the exterior. The interior is 1:1 with the exterior. Something Bethesda didn't appear to believe in....

Static has taken on the job of texturing the furniture and I'm sure it wont be long before the vanilla items in these interiors will be replaced with new models.

Fingers crossed! All going well up to now.