Graphics Wanted

[SmirfOfDoom]

Recently I have been surfing the web in search of Blades of Avernum graphic files and found a sad lack thereof. If anyone has found a good site and any good BOA graphics beyond the ones in the Spidweb Software link page please let me know. If you have any that are not on pages (my by you for example) please send them to an attached e-mail to Emigliah@hotmail.com All contributions are welcome and appreciated, in specific I am looking for an alternate boat graphic, Nephilim and Slitherazakai graphics and Empirical Human graphics. I am in the process of making three scenarios with a basis of each race and need more graphic files. Thanks, Jesse Keller.

[bleusoul]

I am making an alternate Nephilim set, but there are some little things I have to fix up. They look a helluva lot better than the ones JV paid good cash for.

 

I'll let you know when they're done (which will probably be tomorrow evening.)

 

You can look at them now, but the Archer, Warrior, and several others have some things to be tweaked... so if you download them, be sure to get the final versions.

[Mortimer]

Anything special you want made up out of those catagories?

 

Nice graphics bleu, the Nephil are a smidgeon to plump though, in my opinion. The plan nephil and archer also look a tad short (sorry, felt like being abit of a critic, don't mind me)

[SmirfOfDoom]

thnx mortimor, i like the idea you have, however i personally like the lean nephilim look better. I'm doing a savage nephilim based scenario and it just seems to work better, rather then ones that look like they've been fed. If you come out with any new things make sure and let me know though.

[bigblue]

is there a way to use alternate boat graphics besides changing the default graphics???

[Kelandon]

I'm really surprised no one has posted this link yet, but the place for all BoA graphics is The Louvre . It has some sliths and Empire humans for sure. Not sure about nephils. Pretty sure it does not have alternate boat graphics because, as bigblue correctly notes, there's basically no way to implement them.

[SmirfOfDoom]

Thank you keldalon however the Louvre is posted on the Spiderweb Software link page, 90 percent of the pages that I could find on the web I have visited, beyond the Louvre page, I have found crap...

[bleusoul]

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Originally written by Mortimer:
Anything special you want made up out of those catagories?

Nice graphics bleu, the Nephil are a smidgeon to plump though, in my opinion. The plan nephil and archer also look a tad short (sorry, felt like being abit of a critic, don't mind me)

Bah! Are you one of the gamers who holds the belief that nephilim are scrawny house cats?! Away with you! These look like they might inflict damage, unlike JV's default stick figures. I may make the archer taller though.

[Lilith]

The word "lithe" comes to mind before "scrawny", to be honest.

 

But yours are undeniably good graphics, even if in a different artistic style.

[Dahak]

Sweet graphics except fpor the fact that in combat mode (but not attacking) they are hunched. Being defensive is one thing, but looking constipated in another.

 

Do you mind if I use these in my scenario? I hadn't gotten around to making any character graphics yet since I've been doing terrain, and using yours would save me ALOT of efffort.

 

ありがとう。

[bleusoul]

Well, they aren't constipated. That was their original "standing" picture, but after similar criticism, I stood them up to make them look more civilized when not hostile. They're crouched--or as crouched as a two-legged feline humanoid can be.

 

Anyone may use this graphics, but please give me proper credit for them. Here are my graphics, which are as far as I know, complete.

[SmirfOfDoom]

I am now currently looking for custom wall graphics, I have a few but am looking in particular for ones that might go well with a barbaric slith scenario, if anyone has custom graphics that are NOT on the internet (to my knowledge) or ones that are on the internet but hard to find, please let me know

[bigblue]

why don't you try to make your own when you are so sophisticated? it's not that hard to do so.

[Fyora Toast With Roamer Butter]

Could you do a child nephilim, a shopkeeper nephilim, a watch cat (like a watch dog) and a lady nephilim. It would help makes the towns a little better.

[bleusoul]

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Originally written by CinnamonToast:
Could you do a child nephilim, a shopkeeper nephilim, a watch cat (like a watch dog) and a lady nephilim. It would help makes the towns a little better.

I'm assuming this can only be directed to me. Yes, I can and will do at least a shopkeeper nephilim, child, and lady nephilim. I assume a watch cat would be just a trained domestic cat, no?

I can't promise that it will happen today, since my brother just got Burnout 3 on Xbox and Ninja Gaiden. Not to mention that I work 8 hours a day...

But it should be done by the end of the week at most.

[The Fish-Throwing Sadist]

I can't really give you any recommendations outside of The Louvre, which has already been mentioned.

 

I have a few custom graphics of my own that are close to being finished but they're mainly items. However, I'm also working an oriental-style wall set so I'll send it to you once I'm finished if you'd like it. I'm also willing to have a go at a few nephil graphics - it should probably take me about a week to make a decent set of them. (Unfortunately, college - and therefore homework - comes first, otherwise it wouldn't take me quite as long.)

 

Bleusoul - Nice graphics, although it might be better to make them just slightly slimmer if you intend to use them for Nephilim characters. However, I think these ones would work very well for Nepharim, who have a heavier build than the Nephils. (Nephils tend to be described as lithe and dextrous rather than muscular and robust, which is probably why all the nephil graphics that come with the game look anorexic.)

[SmirfOfDoom]

Any graphics that you wish to contribute would be appreciated, I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to use everything for yet, but I think I can find an application. If you want to make a Nephil, that would be nice, one thing to include would be a lithe version of the original shaman.

[wz. As]

It would probably be a good idea to make your scenario first, using placeholder graphics, and then ask around for new ones only when you're done. There isn't really much incentive to make custom graphics if you don't even know that they will end up being used, since many scenarios usually end up taking up space on a hard drive somewhere because the designer lost interest.

[Archmagus Micael]

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Originally written by wz. arsics:
It would probably be a good idea to make your scenario first, using placeholder graphics, and then ask around for new ones only when you're done. There isn't really much incentive to make custom graphics if you don't even know that they will end up being used, since many scenarios usually end up taking up space on a hard drive somewhere because the designer lost interest.

I have to agree there.

No-one wants to waste valuable time making pictures, for the slight chance, slight, that they might be used in a scenario. Most people never finish them, so they're just saved on an old disk and put into the attic to gather dust.





- Archmagi Micael

[SmirfOfDoom]

I never asked anyone to MAKE any graphics, I have merely been asking if they HAVE any graphics. If someone feels the need to make graphics, and gives them to me, fine, but I am merely searching, which is why I put up the posts.

[Archmagus Micael]

I suppose

[SmirfOfDoom]

Dear BigBlue, I would make my own, but most of my free time is currently tooken up by scripting millions of stupid words and numbers. It's much easier to send a couple posts to see if anyone else has or has the incentive to give me some pics. Beyond that I am no expert at 3D design, and I'm hoping to find some proffesional looking ones (like BOA's originals at least). If these posts gain me something then they have achieved their goal. If I get nothing then maybe at one point I will, when I'm done with the scripting part.

[bigblue]

well, i do both at a time with having no experience in both!

and i'm written bigblue. if it was written in another way, i would write it in another way!

[SmirfOfDoom]

Dear bigblue, if your post wasnt all the way at the top I would have noticed your bad grammar, on the other hand I have college and work to deal with, so don't really have the time to do both.

[Archmagus Micael]

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Originally written by SmirfOfDoom:
Dear bigblue, if your post wasnt all the way at the top I would have noticed your bad grammar, on the other hand I have college and work to deal with, so don't really have the time to do both.

He has a point there, bigblue, and you sort of DID write your posts so it looked as if your name was just another grammar error...

Cheer up! People call me "Archmagi Michael" lots of the time, just ignore them, it's only a stupid little name.

- Archmagi Micael

[bigblue]

yeah, ok. then work on your scripts, 'twas only a question.

didn't want to charge you.

and if my grammar is bad: please tell me how to do it in a better way. i'm not a native english speaker and out of school since 1994!

[SmirfOfDoom]

Don't know how to do a quote so here is your original text:

yeah, ok. then work on your scripts, 'twas only a question.

didn't want to charge you.

and if my grammar is bad: please tell me how to do it in a better way. i'm not a native english speaker and out of school since 1994!

Correction:

Yeah, ok. Then work on your scripts. It was only a question. I didn't want to charge you. If my grammar is bad, please tell me how to correct it. I'm not a native English speaker, and I have been out of school since 1994!

Name Correction: Bigblue or Big Blue or Big Blue of Doom.

[Archmagus Micael]

Quote:

Originally written by SmirfOfDoom:
Don't know how to do a quote so here is your original text:
yeah, ok. then work on your scripts, 'twas only a question.
didn't want to charge you.
and if my grammar is bad: please tell me how to do it in a better way. i'm not a native english speaker and out of school since 1994!
Correction:
Yeah, ok. Then work on your scripts. It was only a question. I didn't want to charge you. If my grammar is bad, please tell me how to correct it. I'm not a native English speaker, and I have been out of school since 1994!
Name Correction: Bigblue or Big Blue or Big Blue of Doom.

To do a quote, use the quotatuon marks sybol next to edit and the others. THIS ONE =

And bigblue, sorry about criticising it, it's not THAT bad, all you need is to include commas = , in spaces where you want to take a literaturey breather, and put in capitals at the start of sentences or words. For example: Blades of Avernum, instead of blades of avernum. It just makes it a whole lot better to read and to understand.

And oh yes, nice nephil pics, though I diud have to agree to the fact that they all looked like average Americans - OBESE!

- Archmagi Micael

[bigblue]

*lol*

i still see no grammar problems!

i always type in small letters, because it is less work. so i do in my mother tongue: german. and as you may know, in german it is much harder to know which words have to be typed with small or capital letters!

and the rest is just a matter of expression.

and bigblue is a name! i know that names are usually written with a capital letter at the beginning, as they are in german, besides you choose to do it your own way!

ok, i have to add that i write it with a capital letter (Bigblue) in my logo and my whole corporate design.

but here everyone uses slang, why couldn't i?

but i appreciate being corrected, i just can learn!

and you have no problems understanding what i wanted to say, have you?

[bleusoul]

Next one who complains about my nephilim, let me see your alternate set.

[Donald Hebb]

You will find, bigblue, that most people on these fora don't use slang (and are often reserved with their use of idiomatic expressions to boot).

But that's neither here nor there. I too like the nephil graphics.

[Mortimer]

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Originally written by bleusoul:
Next one who complains about my nephilim, let me see your alternate set.

I wasn't complaining I was just saying that the top one is looking a tad .... Garfield-esque. But really they are pretty good, just one more suggestion on the Archer though, maybe a quiver of arrows over his back may look cool to?

[bleusoul]

Quote:

Originally written by Mortimer:

Quote:

Originally written by bleusoul:
Next one who complains about my nephilim, let me see your alternate set.

I wasn't complaining I was just saying that the top one is looking a tad .... Garfield-esque. But really they are pretty good, just one more suggestion on the Archer though, maybe a quiver of arrows over his back may look cool to?

i'll consider putting a quiver. right now i'm working on a nephil child and mutant.

[Nailati]

I'd recommend against taking grammar lessons from someone who invents words ("tooken"), misspells ("proffesional"), and has a persistent, maddening, and thoroughly ungrammatical habit of stringing together separate sentences with commas (pity the poor, neglected semicolon--or at least prop up that naked comma with a conjunction!).

 

Sorry to be anal, but it's the English major in me talking.

[Archmagus Micael]

Quote:

Originally written by Nailati:
I'd recommend against taking grammar lessons from someone who invents words ("tooken"), misspells ("proffesional"), and has a persistent, maddening, and thoroughly ungrammatical habit of stringing together separate sentences with commas (pity the poor, neglected semicolon--or at least prop up that naked comma with a conjunction!).

Sorry to be anal, but it's the English major in me talking.

I only miss-spell things on the computer, because I type so fast, a few words come out wrong. And I may not be the best grammatical speller here, but at least I offer to help! Why don't you!

And yes, the Nephils DO look obese. But that would be good for a tribe of Cannibals, always eating each-other!

- Archmagi Micael

[Drakefyre]

I don't offer to help because bigblue has fine grammar and doesn't need any help.

[Archmagus Micael]

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Originally written by Drakefyre:
I don't offer to help because bigblue has fine grammar and doesn't need any help.

His grammar's fine, except for the fact ne NEVER uses capitals. It just makes for an easier read, that's all

- Archmagi Micael

[ef]

Well, you are not burdened with a language that capitalizes half of its words; so perhaps you do not feel that same deep urge to simplify things once in a while.

[Archmagus Micael]

Sh'pose

[void*_dup1]

Here's a place with lots of original iso tilesets:

Reiner\'s Tilesets

 

Lots of great, free terrain tiles. The catch is they have to be resized AND reshaped: like most isometric tiles out there, their proportions are diferent to those used in BoA (vertical-to-horizontal dimensions, or vertical angle of view).

 

I have already adapted a few tree tiles to BoA format and sent them to The Louvre.

[bigblue]

Quote:

Originally written by Archmagi Micael:

Quote:

Originally written by Drakefyre:
I don't offer to help because bigblue has fine grammar and doesn't need any help.

His grammar's fine, except for the fact ne NEVER uses capitals. It just makes for an easier read, that's all

- Archmagi Micael

Thanks! I was afraid that someone couldn't understand my crude English. But as I said, I prefer beeing corrected if I write some sort of nonsense!
And ef is right, I like to simplify, but I will try to use capital letters!
Oh and the nephils are nice!

[The Fish-Throwing Sadist]

It wasn't a complaint. My comments were intended as constructive criticism so I apologise if they came across as being insulting. I just fancied having a go at making some of my own, I wasn't trying to put you down or anything like that. I actually rather liked your graphics and I'd be interested in seeing your completed set once you've finished them.

[bleusoul]

well, member # 4809, i'll try not to misinterpret your words. these graphics went through heavy criticism to reach this point (credit here goes to TM and *i)

[Archmagus Micael]

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Originally written by bleusoul:
well, member # 4809, i'll try not to misinterpret your words. these graphics went through heavy criticism to reach this point (credit here goes to TM and *i)

Credit for what?

Help?

or

Heavy Critisism?

[Tristrana]

OH GOD.