SheepDog's Skywind Creature Work Gallery -- (Creature Model Screenshots)

Nice. I can tell that those models are going to be pretty damn good.

Andoran has a really nice dreugh that I hope we can negotiate to use.  So I wouldn't start on that one just yet.

no, we are not getting that dreugh from andoran, we have to wait for their project to be finished and released, and that can take between 6 months and a year

So just continue

Hmm, okay I didn't know that.  Don't you think we might still be working on creatures in a year when Andoran is released though?  We have an awful lot of them.

cant wait to see a screenshot

omg dat dreugh! :)

If you're going to hook the Clannfear to the Werewolf skeleton, make sure to delete the werewolf transformation animations from him. The SkyrimMonsterMod Guar uses that skeleton too and whenever you enter a new cell, the Guar goes through the transformation animation and howls. It would defiantly weird people out if the Clannfear made a wolf howl lol.

i like it  is a nice dreugh

maby make the upper claws a bit bigger  and the lower 1 more pincer like see picture[External image]

also a .... what the English word google say's web i don't believe him the piece of skin between legs and fingers so u can swim better

It's called webbing, so yeah, google didn't lie. :)

I really like that kagouti but i can't help but feel it just doesn't look QUITE right without those black markings it had in morrowind. This is just personal preference though, and you should go with what you think is best. Just thought I'de put in my thoughts.

agree is beter

Yep most definitely superior to the other one SheepDogWoof!

Look at this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrS7_o_W3T0

Destroyal

Look at this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrS7_o_W3T0

i think most on this site knowe that already els the should read this hole topic and check out this topic  http://morroblivion.com/forums/skyrim/skyrim-general-chat/3347

 

New proportions definitely looks better.

Looking awesome, this could be just me but shouldn't his claws be a tad bigger, all the better to clamp around your neck and all that lol

Fantastic but, this monster need claws, ^^ , and fault some details in tentacles, without it is perfect for me.

SheepDogWoof

I really like your works, especially Clannfear. I can see that you are trying to stick to the morrowind lore as much as possible while making creatures and this is good. I don't demand or impose you anything but in original Morrowind face of Dreugh looked more human-fish like. I've tried to mix morrowind Dreugh with TES Online Dreugh and Abe Sapien from Hellboy and here what I've got. I understand that you won't remake hole creature but maybe face. Please don't be offended.

Don't use the TES online dreugh, it's supposed to be a later form in the dreugh's evolution. It's not actually supposed to exist in the second era. Bethesda did not make TES online

Yeah, as we see in Daggerfall, the Dreugh started out as a race of fleshy octopus men, then started to develop crab like features in Morrowind like claws and an exoskeleton. And in Oblivion, the Dreugh's tentacles became legs and they moved to land.

So here's the evolution of the Dreugh from a Cephalopod to an Arthropod (Crustacean)

Is there any lore to justify that there was some evolution from sea to land, or should we assume there was more of a common ancestor.  I mean, aquatic to land evolution could not have occurred in the 6 years between Morrowind and Oblivion.

I'm pretty sure on the UESP or Imperial Library it said it's an evolution. I remember reading it on one of the canon websites. Even ESO says it's an evolution, they just have the timeline way off.

Also, don't take things in TES so literally. Evolution may take thousands of years in our world, but our world is very different from Tamriel/Nirn anyway. Never seen magic or vampires on Earth before.

Wow, how do you model like that? I thought 3d models were made up of polygons? Or did you use voxel? Because wow those look amazing. It would be so cool to have the entire world like that :P

I'm pretty sure on the UESP or Imperial Library it said it's an evolution.

If you claim something, why don't you check it first? It is not evolution. People, please be accurate in your statements, we do not want any lore mistakes in the finished project.

Sotha Sil said:

"For one year of their life, they undergo karvinasim when they walk upon the land. Following that, they return to the water and meff, or devour the skin and organs they needed for land-dwelling."

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:2920,_Sun%27s_Dawn_%28v2%29

Holy AZURA! WOW I LOVE IT!

GendunDrup

So here's the evolution of the Dreugh from a Cephalopod to an Arthropod (Crustacean)

Hey sheepdog you think you could make a model for each stage, it doesn't make sense that all the dreugh In morrowind would just happen to be all in the same year of their life span, we should have all the stages no? Edit: plus they are my favorite creature and I just want to see more of them!

Muahahaha awesome!, as for all the texture variations that means we have to make a bunch of different textures for each creature, sounds like a lot of work, it's a good idea though, maybe once we actually have all the creatures and some one wants to take the time to do it we can implement something like that, but probably not a priority :(

O: I hadn't thought of that but I could do it, talking of creature variation, we should think about using the Automatic variants mod to have several different texture variations of every creature.

We don't actually need Automatic Variants, because we control the game, so we can have as many variants as we want. AV is for diversifying the vanilla game of Skyrim.

Is it possible to make creatures randomly choose their texture within the spawn point data itself? As far as I know, you'd need scripts that affect creature spawning to accomplish this.

My gut feel is that you probably can't assign dynamically at actual run time the texture variant, but of course we can just have a number of different creatures instead, same stats, same creature, just different skins.

SheepDogWoof

That is how I assumed it would work^

Makes sense to me. Just need to copy the creature, replace the texture, repeat until all textures are used.

It's even simpler than that. Skyrim lets you create NPCs and creatures that use other NPCs and creatures. For instance, we could create a base Kagouti creature, then have Kagouti variants that inherit everything from the original Kagouti except for their skin.

This way, if we need to make some balance changes, we only need to edit the base creature and our changes will be propagated through all other Kagouti.

Is the betty netch and scrib in progress? :)

You should work on the model for Dagoth Ur. I have a skyrim model for his mask that someone sent me.

We don't have a nix hound yet. I'm half tempted to learn Zbrush and try it myself though. Check the list I set up here for what we have and haven't got, and which mobs are just placeholders. http://pastebin.com/feFRkmrU