[REL] Kagz Egg Ingredients

[Kagz]

Title: Kagz Egg Ingredients
Version: V1
Author: Kagz



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....................... KAGZ Egg Ingredients  ...................



Only Morrowind is requ. for this mod.


I was never happy with the Kwama Egg meshes in the game.
They are angular and the wrong shape really.
They are shaped like a birds egg, fatter at one end,
so the egg pivots around the narrow end, when it rolls around in the nest
and is less likely therefore, to roll out of the nest and fall to the ground.
Other creatures and reptile/insect like creatures that lay eggs, dont lay that shape,
they have a more elongated spherical shape to them, as they dont need
the pivot thing, by not nesting in trees, or someplace high.



So i made new Kwama Egg meshes in the new shape.
After doing that and replacing just the meshes only,
for all the Kwama Eggs including the statics,
i didnt touch anything with the eggs, except change the mesh.
Then i thought about the other creatures,
which were reptile like and could possibly lay eggs.
So i made more eggs and made them as ingredients,
then added them to level lists for those creatures.
Only added the levelled egg ingredient,
to the now egg carrying creatures, nothing else was changed.
Could possibly have done a few more,
but dont want to give all the creatures eggs.



So this mod gives you new meshes for Kwama Eggs.
It also introduces new ingredient Eggs
and gives them to the following creatures by level list.
Only healthy creatures get the eggs:


Netch Betty and Netch Betty Ranched.
Shalk.
Slaughterfish and Slaughterfish Small.
Mudcrab.
Cliff Racer.
Kagouti.





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IMPORTANT: You should merge levels lists,with the appropriate program.








Thats about it except to say, good hunting


The mod is 831 kb unz. and was cleaned with tesame.



You can contact me at ravenfife@lycos.com, or at Wolflore Forums,
or my Kagz Artz Forums.

[Leonardo]

Both mod and pictures are uploaded to GHF Download.  Congrats to your release Kagz.  

[Crankgorilla]

I experimented with this concept some time ago in Beasts of Vvardenfell (probably not the first to do so). I'm going to inspect this mod this evening and if all is well I'll be removing my cliff racer adjustments in favor of this mod because I really like the look of the eggs. I'll follow up tomorrow after a playtest. Also, I wonder if the mesh from these eggs could be used with KEY Crystal Eggs textures because that would nicer than the current kwama egg mesh.

[Kagz]

No sorry, the mesh doesnt work with KEY textures.
The mesh would have to be remapped and UV adjusted in Max,
to make the textures work.
If you try one of the KEY textures on the mesh,
you will see what i mean.


EDIT:
Ok after further trial and investigation,
i can say that the KEY textures wont ever work, with my egg mesh.
Doesnt matter how the mesh is mapped or texed with them.
The problem is, that the game mesh is angular, made out of lots of triangles,
which makes the game mesh good for KEY textures, as they are faceted kind of,
and the facets line up pretty well with the myriad of planes on the mesh.

On the other hand, my mesh is smooth, with no planes at different angles,
so it doesnt look faceted/jeweled at all.

In other words to try to simplify it, the game mesh looks like an angular rock/stone.
The texture is a photo of a real jewel, again angular rock/stone.
My mesh is a smooth egg shape.
Only way my mesh is like a rock/stone, would be,
it has been in the sea for years and got smoothed, now its washed up on the beach.

[Crankgorilla]

I've got this running in my current game and it really is a treat. The eggs look so good in game you can use them as a decorative item. Marvelous. I've already made adjustments to my Beasts of Vvardenfell mod that allows this mod to be the one that supplies the eggs to the creatures. So my next version will relinquish hold on racer eggs to this fine mod. Thanks also for looking into the KEY scenario.

[Kagz]

Thankyou, glad you like the eggs.