Custom Content Challenge - September 2021 : Humble Building Bricks

Tarot_Redhand · September 1, 2021, 1:09pm

The theme for this month’s challenge: Humble Building Bricks:

Every module builder will someday have to build a wall in the middle of a room, block a tunnel with a rock pile, make a custom pier, make a frame to add a door to this irregular shape mountainside, invent a special ruin, build fortifications, assemble a credible giant water puddle… And sometimes you need to hide tileset unwanted parts with handy placeables too. Simple construction placeables parts: Rocks, wood beams, planks, bricks, wall fragments, stone floors, roof tiles, fountain modules, table parts, light effects, column chunks, column tops and bottoms, wheels, modular well/hole kit, etc.

This theme was suggested by @CaveGnome.

Guidelines:

It must be fully working in game.
Use of vanilla NWN or publicly available texture is fine. Just remember that NWN textures must have dimensions in powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.).
Teamwork is welcome.
Beginners most welcome. Don’t be afraid, just try, you’ll be surprised!
“Custom Content” includes many sorts of things: models, scripts, prefabs (areas, items, creatures, conversations, quests, etc.), sounds, portraits, or anything else new for the game.
All submissions must be finished, working, and emailed to nwvaultccchallenge@gmail.com (or a non-Vault link provided) by October 1st, 2021. Sooner than that is perfectly fine too.

Some things you could include in the download/email that would make packaging everything up easier and faster:

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 goodie. Placeables and monsters should include a portrait.
Inventory icons (if needed) of your new goodie.
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).
Remember, the Challenge is all about fun, sharing, creativity, and surprise!
This thread is for all sorts of discussion about this month’s theme: ideas for things to make, questions/concerns, announcement of what you intend to make, screenshots of work in progress and/or finished projects.

If you want to discuss the Monthly Custom Content Challenge idea as a whole or wish to submit ideas/themes for future monthly Challenges, please post in its thread here - Custom Content Challenge - Theme Suggestions .

When submitting a new theme, please provide a title and short summary of the theme.

If you have a technical question about some custom content creation, please create a separate thread so that the answers can be found later by anyone, not just people interested in this Challenge.

We’ll try to help!

Have no fear and join the fun!

And finally, you can:

Custom Content Challenge - Theme Suggestions.
Vote 4 for October’s theme.
Email content to: nwvaultccchallenge@gmail.com

Grymlorde · September 1, 2021, 5:20pm

As a builder, it’d be nice to have some illusory walls, i.e. blocks line of sight but allows walking through. Even better would be a set of identical placeables, some preventing walking while others allowing them.

Tarot_Redhand · September 1, 2021, 5:55pm

If you are on EE, that is easy enough to do -

Put the placeable wall somewhere inaccessible to the player
Use SetObjectVisualTransform() to position the walls visuals where you want to block stuff.

Remember SetObjectVisualTransform() only affects the visual part of whatever you use it on. The placeable walkmesh part remains wherever you put the placeable in the first place.

TR

Grymlorde · September 2, 2021, 6:16pm

Yes, that does indeed work through scripting. Thank you. I should add that it also works by manually doing the visual transform on the object’s location.

Now all we need are some placeable walls that match interior tilesets, e.g. Castle Interior, Fort Interior, Classic Dungeon, Versatile Dungeon, etc.

Tarot_Redhand · September 2, 2021, 6:23pm

OK. To get the ball rolling and to actually contribute to a challenge (the first in a long time), I present to you, a lightweight alternative solution -

A “fake” wall and a “real” wall. They’re both planes, only visible from one side. One you can walk/run/jump/whatever through and the other you can’t. In other words the “real” one has a functioning pwk. Both use the same texture and both are 3mx3m. Ideal for blocking off small areas. They will come in 2 flavours 1.69/Diamond (single texture) and EE (with full PBR inc. mtr file).

The PBR texture is a re-built one from the Large Public Domain Fancy Mapped Texture Pack. I rebuilt it from the diffuse so I could have a roughness map that matched the rest of the maps.

TR

Stonehammer · September 3, 2021, 3:55am

Things I’m thinking of dumping…

A bunch of placeables extracted/recreated from tiles:
a 1x1 tile size forest placeable, lighthouse, wooden tile walls for places that wont let you build
a big oven, shop table, kitchen table, chair

The rest are originals:

I usually make them in half tile, full tile and double tile sizes (fences, walls)
If applicable I make them in both left side and right side (like the tavern bars and big cages)
all tables are the same height
all doorways can fit regular doors
All big walled things have hollow pwks (fountain pool, mini arena, doorless cages) you can put things inside but you cant walk out you have to script it.
the giant bed and banner things (@Proleric’s Enigma Banner) are made specifically to fit in the castle dais tileset, the long carpet was made to continue the dais banner carpet
fountain pool and fountain table have animated water. Creatures can bathe in the fountain pool
except for the carpets and bed, everything has pwk that blocks movement

Tarot_Redhand · September 3, 2021, 8:07am

Quick question. If I take some untextured models and texture when both sides (model & texture) have been published on here as separate downloads are they still new enough to NwN to submit to this challenge? Opinions please.

TR

Stonehammer · September 3, 2021, 10:39am

I would consider that new enough. to submit

Tarot_Redhand · September 3, 2021, 11:43am

In that case we have now got 22 rock clusters from 11 models and 2 PBR textures.

Both models and textures are by yughues on deviantArt, I just married them together and adjusted them to work in NwN EE.

Ooops, looks like there’s a pair not visible in that picture.

TR

Pstemarie · September 3, 2021, 12:24pm

I’ve got some fissures and secret doors I’ll be submitting - fort interior, barrows, and maybe a few others. The secret doors are textured so as to blend into the wall texture they’re seated against.

I’ll post some screenshots in the not so distant future.

They’re from my wip module.

Tarot_Redhand · September 6, 2021, 10:25pm

As walls were mentioned I took a look at @ChaosQueen_Kara_8’s Chaos Wall Pack. I have plans along those lines (in addition to the 2 lightweight ones) but before I get started I have created PBR maps to replace the original textures. So they’ll be bonus content for this month’s challenge. Might throw in some colour variations as well (not yet done though).

Hmmmm, might just be making up for all the challenges that I couldn’t think of anything to do for. Anyway, with a bit of luck there is more to come from me for this month.

TR

Tarot_Redhand · September 8, 2021, 8:40pm

Real walls (as opposed to that pair of planes) done - all 28 of them -

Here is a list of what I’ve got working -

Alien Barrier
Basketry New
Basketry Old
Black Leather
Blue Crystal
Bone Structure
Bottle Cap Wall
Bubble Wrapped
Camouflage Autumn
Camouflage Jungle
Camouflage Winter
Ceramic Wall
Chain Link
Emerald Wall
Fencey Wall
Furry Wall
Gears Wall
Glass Mini Tiles
Gold Coins Wall
Jewelled Wall
Mossy Stone Wall
Orange Plastic Barrier
Perforated Blue Plastic
Perforated Metal Wall
Rough Wooden Wall
Tiled Concrete Wall
TMA 1.5
Wall of Ice

All are EE only as all use 2 or more PBR maps and a .mtr each. Apart from tearing my hair out at times, that was fun.

A few notes on that list. Numbers 8 - 11, 13, 22 - 24 are to a greater or lesser degree see-through (“camouflage” are all “decorated” camouflage nets). The one I’ve cheekily called TMA (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly - 2001: A Space Odyssey) 1.5 is called that because it has the blackest black that can be achieved with EE’s PBR - No reflection at all.

TR

Tarot_Redhand · September 20, 2021, 3:10pm

Just three more things and this is the last of what I am doing for this month.

So what have we got here?

First we have a dilapidated privy - mind your head going through that door! Converted from an ancient free model. Then -

A movie accurate size version of the monolith found on the moon in 2001: A Space Odyssey. All my own work!!! (Hey, it may be simple but it is the 1st thing I’ve built myself in Blender). It took a bit of searching to get the correct dimensions. But I figured as I’d already done a wall with that texture… Anyway, lastly -

An ancient ruined tower. Another conversion of another ancient free model. Initially it was too complex and took ages to load in the toolset, but I have recently found Decimate in Blender. Believe it or not that has only 10% of the original number of points.

Two of those should cover the requested ruin part of the challenge and the third is more a case of why not?

Anyway, anybody else got any updates to share?

TR

Pstemarie · September 20, 2021, 3:33pm

Fissures…

I’ve got a Barrows Secret Door and a Fort Secret Door too that I’ll be submitting. Looks like that’ll be about it as I’ve been too busy making other stuff for my module.

Note, that the picture show my reskin textures. The ones submitted will use the standard textures.

Tarot_Redhand · September 22, 2021, 10:23am

In the picture of the privy in my last post there was actually a problem with the model which I have now corrected. For some reason, the original model wasn’t level with the ground. It was sunken 53 centimetres below it! It now rests on the ground properly, exposing the door in its entirety. For those who like doing in game transformations, it has actually got a floor. Ideal for being blown over via a tornado if you so wish.

TR

Tarot_Redhand · October 1, 2021, 9:37am

Just waiting for the submissions now.

TR

Stonehammer · October 3, 2021, 3:57am

Apologies for the lateness. I’m double checking for missing textures. There are a lot of individual things.
Submitting after I’m done.

Edit: Submission done

Sorry, I’m about to spam some pictures…

Stonehammer · October 3, 2021, 5:41am

Stonehammer · October 3, 2021, 5:52am

Features:

There are 150 new placeables with “SH” in the name. Wander around the sample mod and check them out.
Most of them are original
There are a few recreated/extracted from tiles. The skull chair is from a free 3d site which I have forgotten (apologies)
All should be perfectly centered except for chairs which are positioned for most effective seating
Yes the Fire giant head is a chair. It will also give a model to the tall misc 014 lootable

Tarot_Redhand · October 6, 2021, 10:55am

Now uploaded here. I have put the PBR maps for ChaosQueen_Jessica_6’s Chaos Wall Pack of Placeable Walls on my Further PBR Tileset Experiments project page as they weren’t really for the ccc.

TR