LOK Mystic Skeletons Copyright 2003 Dennis S. Dollins www.landsofkray.com Description: Five skeletons with various colored flaming hands and heads and hearts. In a bit of synchronicity I happened to run across the reference to a new monster called Burning Skeletons in the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil sourcebook. Not a few hours later I ran across them again in a very obscure google search for something completely unrelated. Figuring it was a sign from the gods that I should have them in a module I whipped a prototype burning skeleton out in short order. (Very short about 15 minutes). I liked the look so much I decided to make some simple variants which are reminiscent of some monster I've fought in some other RPG where the skeletons had glowing hands. Hence there are now flaming, green, yellow, purple flaming skeletons along with a red glowing eye version.
While I was at it I thought it would be cool if you could take the flaming skeletons head and make a lantern out of it so theres a new torch model as well in the hak. Use and abuse them as you will as long as credit remains in their usage and they're not sold in any way or fashion for any kind of recompense.
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Posted by Gastel_Etzwane at 2005-03-22 06:56:05 Voted 10.00 on 03/22/05
great job ;)
Posted by Bartmoss ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2004-02-08 07:20:00
Sweet!
Bug: The yellow skeleton doesn't correctly hold weapons in his hand. All other variants do.
Request: A burning variant with more flames (engulfed basically in flames) and one with only the hands flaming (for Baneguard skeletons).
Posted by Anonymous ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2004-01-29 21:36:00
Good God, but these are soooo cool!!!! Great idea!
Posted by madwack. ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2004-01-01 07:22:00
since upgrading to HORDES there is a really weird black chunck attached to the eyes of the red glow skeletion
anyone else seeing this
??
madwack
Posted by ManframeTEM ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-08 16:47:00
This is excellent work Danmar. I was just able to check to see the new content. Hands down this rocks. Good work.
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Posted by Dracos ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-08 14:12:00
Its the skeleton mage from Diablo II!
Posted by Anonymous ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-06 21:35:00
Crud man, wow...
Posted by Anonymous ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 21:16:00
GREAT work! These are going to be used in my upcoming module.
Posted by Danmar ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 17:18:00
It could be done and i considered it but the framerate hit with that many particles flying around on one creature would make it hard to use very many.
And the description of the burning skeletons does say its concentrated in their head and hands. :) I just took it to the extreme in that regard.
Posted by Jeremy Sharpe ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 11:38:00
Great work, but when I envision burning skeletons, I see the whole skeleton burning, not just the hands and head.
Would that be possible for you to do?
Posted by Dradjeel ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 09:44:00
Splendid, just splendid
Posted by Nightfall ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 07:12:00
Danmar,
Cant wait to meet those skellies.... Damned good job, I think i will use them.
Greetings, Nightfall
Posted by Danmar ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 06:14:00
There are actually 5 portraits for each creature in NWN. They're _h,_l,_m,_s,_t for Huge, large, medium, small, tiny.
The various sizes are used in various locations but the _h one is pretty much unused. as the _h takes up more space than all the others combine its a good idea to delete it and same a huge amount of space in your haks. Deleting the _h portraits from a portrait hak will reduce the size by 75% give or take. The _h for players is _only_ used in the character creation screen so for many people its a no-brainer to delete all the _h versions from their haks and save a ton of space.
But I left them in so that the people who do want it or those who don't care about hak size can have them.
Posted by Adrian Bates ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 04:43:00
Pardon my ignorance, but I removed the _h files as the readme suggested was possible and yet I still get the portraits as selectable when I create the new creature.
What is the _h file for?
Posted by Medusa ( ..xxx.xxx ) at 2003-09-05 01:12:00
Any chance of a .Zip version of this as these look fantastic?
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