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Snake Urn (and snake totem)
- Author(s)
- Mr Ogre man
- Size
- 1439 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 389
- Created
- Jan 28, 2021
- Updated
- Jul 17, 2021
- Resources
- 5
- State
Approved
This bundle is marked as recommended. It works and satisfies the submission rules.
So, in line with the theme of sand trolls, I've made an urn ward with a snake. The model is multipurpose, it has standard (open) and alternate (closed) animations, as well as morph animations and both birth and birth alternate animations.
Basically, I imagined it as it having either a burrow kind of ability, where the snake is invisible until someone comes near, and emerges; or as a stone gargoyle ability, where the snake retreats to the urn to recover.
And it can always be used as a doodad.
Since I was going with it, I made a different snake totem, more in line of a Farraki totem.
Models are incredibly lightweight, even after having replaced orm, diffuse and normal. This could prove useful to others, so I'll post an image of my approach. Since .dds works with image sizes, I used the smallest power of 2 (in this case, 512x256) and put the main textures there. Then, I did the same thing with orms and normals, setting the images in a corner and lowering the opacity of the layer to make sure they are in the same position. Once they are, I reset the opacity and save the ORM/normal.
If I wanted to modify just a single image, It'd have weighed 5mb (it was a 2048x2048). Instead, the 3 of them only weigh 512kb. STONKS.
This is particularly relevant when recolouring a small geoset.
Update: Optimised the icons
Basically, I imagined it as it having either a burrow kind of ability, where the snake is invisible until someone comes near, and emerges; or as a stone gargoyle ability, where the snake retreats to the urn to recover.
And it can always be used as a doodad.
Since I was going with it, I made a different snake totem, more in line of a Farraki totem.
Models are incredibly lightweight, even after having replaced orm, diffuse and normal. This could prove useful to others, so I'll post an image of my approach. Since .dds works with image sizes, I used the smallest power of 2 (in this case, 512x256) and put the main textures there. Then, I did the same thing with orms and normals, setting the images in a corner and lowering the opacity of the layer to make sure they are in the same position. Once they are, I reset the opacity and save the ORM/normal.
If I wanted to modify just a single image, It'd have weighed 5mb (it was a 2048x2048). Instead, the 3 of them only weigh 512kb. STONKS.
This is particularly relevant when recolouring a small geoset.
Update: Optimised the icons
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- Oct 25, 2006
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Very creative!
HD Model Reviewer
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- Sep 8, 2008
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Weeew lad, didn't expect that ever.
Going to agree with Goffterdom here and say it's indeed VERY creative... and actually useful for something I plan.
Going to agree with Goffterdom here and say it's indeed VERY creative... and actually useful for something I plan.
HD Model Moderator
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- Sep 30, 2020
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The only issue is that the whole urn moves in the head's direction. Doesn't the naga turret have a workaround for that?
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- May 19, 2020
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- 319
I liked it!
What a great idea, it will be very useful for different maps.
Interestingly, you just scaled it down the form alternated.
What a great idea, it will be very useful for different maps.
Interestingly, you just scaled it down the form alternated.
HD Model Moderator
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- Sep 30, 2020
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Yeah, in this case it's the same result as editing visibility but without room for error, asthe morph comes from a scaled down version as well. Sometimes it's necessary to edit the visibility, but thankfully this was not the case
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- Jun 12, 2018
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Cool model ! 5/5
HD Model Reviewer
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- Sep 8, 2008
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Approved. Honestly a genius use of the snake's animation with the urn. Quite useful for sand related maps as well as for what it is intended to be.
Lightweight texture is a good thing too!
Lightweight texture is a good thing too!
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