[WIP] Cresty's West Gash landscaping

Submitted by Crestycomb on

          I've been assigned to landscaping and cleaning up West Gash. Since the Gash has been worked on by many different landscapers with different styles, it's quite inconsistent, and I will try to streamline it.

          Because Ravanna is remaking Kurasaki's rock formations, I will most likely not be filling up the blank areas for the time being, or it would look extremely repetitive. For now, I will be optimizing some areas that have already been done, since some of it has been done quite badly (most likely due to the lack of assets, even before Rav had started remaking them). 

          Pictures will be posted here, constructive criticism will be more than welcome. Keep in mind this is a Work In Progress, and everything is subject to change. 

Progress

I have decided to just update one map of my progress that will always be on the first post. I will try to update it at least once per week.

Red is incomplete and/ or completely untouched by me because the areas are claimed by other people (Iceflame), or I just haven't gotten around to do it yet

Yellow is cleaned up parts that are basically empty, but most of the terraforming is done.

Orange is places that have the main big rock formations done, just need to place medium sized assets like dirt cliffs and rocks

Blue is mostly done, just need more assets like flora and tiny rocks. Basically awaiting icing for the cake.

Green is absolutely done, ready for beta.

2015 06 11

 

 

 

 
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Last edited by Crestycomb on 11 Jun 2015 - 07:32.

West Gash is coming along very nicely!

There is one thing I want to catch early and that's the cliff tops. They need to be overhanging with the cliffs themselves as can be seen below. The trick is that the models themselves need to be extended inwards so that this can be accomplished without gaps.

Cresty you can be quite aggressive with the overhangs.

Gaps appear if trying to make them overhang, but can be fixed with making the models have the rock part extended inwards at the bottom to make a closed slab.

Currently open bottom to models, needs to be a closed slab

These are the models in question, for some reason added without authors name, so I cant request this directly. Please don't add files without authors name.

"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_middle_sm_03.nif"
"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_middle_sm_04.nif"
"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_side_l_01.nif"
"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_corner_l_01.nif"
"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_curve_l_01.nif"
"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_middle_sm_01.nif"
"\meshes\morrowind\landscape\westgash\clifftops\clifftop_m_middle_sm_02.nif"

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I have replaced most of the cliffs in river Samsi with limestone cliffs, so it looks very different now, although I will keep your ideas in mind when placing the clifftops for the canyons. You can check it out in the next build which Eloth should upload soon. 

Oh, and they were made by Erik, and they got sent directly to me. Neither of us noticed it I guess. I'll fix it soon.

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