Apologies for this being belated, I had a bout of bad health.
The topic this month is:
Mechanus
Everything about the plane, placebles, new Modron models, an interior or exterior tileset. Prefabricated areas with Placeables wheels, loadscreens and whatever comes to mind.
Some things you could include in the download/email that would make packaging everything up easier and faster:
Any 2da lines needed.
Screenshot from in game for use on the Vault page. Formats: .bmp, .jpg, .png, or .tga
Portraits (if needed) of your new goody. Placeables and monsters should include a portrait.
Inventory icons (if needed) of your new goody.
Any credits you would like listed.
If this is your first entry, please tell me what name you would like your work listed under and provide a link to your other NWN content if you want that displayed as well (the link bit is totally optional).
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The gateling.
It is somewhat mechanic, so why not add it to Mechanus?
It was meant to be a stationary emitter for traps, firing a missile storm. It can be rotated into any direction and the barrels can be rotated while firing (via script). So there is no crank or magazine, which i will add now.
The downside: I learned that the engine always fires spell from placeables from the point on the ground, where the placeable is standing. The hand node or any other node is not used. C…
But it should fire the spell from the mound of a barrel of course, but there seems to be no easy way to change this.
It’s still a nice static model, maybe somebody finds a use for it.
A very crude solution I adopted in Dark Energy was to rotate the gun to the desired position, then, on firing, create a temporary invisible object at the gun muzzle as the source of the vfx.
Harvest of Souls has a ballista, Deva Winblood used the chain placeable to briefly draw a line from the ballista to the target creature when the NPC fires it. Could repeat that to simulate tracers?
That is it now, the final model. It fires from the muzzle of the lower barrels, as it should be. I reworked the textures a bit. It needs a bit of scripting, so it comes with a demo module.
Nice work, Mmat! I will check that out. Also great that you got the location of the FX adjusted!
As to NWN2: I don’t know about converted tilesets (though I didn’t search either AND it’d be lots of work), but there is an importer for NWN2+Blender. I’m not at home for some days and I don’t like research on a mobile phone, but you should find a link. Else I’d help, when I’m back. P. S. You’d need the game for the importer, too.
