A long bow with heavy ornamentation. Inspired by a piece of artwork from The 1994 Tolkien Calendar entitled 'Legolas Draws the Bow of Galadriel' by M.W. Kaluta.
The people have spoken and I have listened. Bow is now in rest position. Added bowstring and 'bowshot' animation!!! 2.1 change: tried to sync bowshot animation for bow with bowshot animation in a_ba_med_weap
2.2 change: added proper looking, I hope, inventory icons
pauliwogus: check to see if your ingame graphics settings are set to use 32 or 64 bit textures
DM_frayne: will do....once I get a home internet connection. Recently moved and don't have one yet.
Posted by DM Frayne ( 82.69.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-04-24 03:52:00
Please change the item icons to reflect the new bow shape, they look really out of place now in an otherwise perfect hak.
Posted by pauliwogus ( 70.20.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-04-12 06:43:00
Alrighty. I love the screen shots and the models are excellent, but for some reason the textures ran away. The .dds files are there, but they don't do much of anything apparently. I am confused, as my graphics card is perfectly capable of reading .dds files. Could you possibly tell me what might be going wrong?
Posted by USAgreco66kg at 2005-04-12 00:26:27 Voted 10.00 on 04/12/05
wow! perfect!
One slight question.. pictured here, the strings all have colors that match the rest of the bow. when I put it in game, the strings all end up the same brown color?
Posted by Frayne at 2005-03-24 14:15:51 Voted 10.00 on 03/24/05
Anyone thinking of making a bow now has a new benchmark. ;)
Posted by Stigga ( 83.237.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-22 09:13:00
Just one word - PERFECT!
Posted by DM Frayne ( 82.69.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-21 12:26:00
Well that's the best bow in NWNs now, by a mile.
As for those who don't like the bowstring clipping issue, I guess you could just add another part with no string, so one has the choice not to use them. Only other thing left to do, it seems, is to remake the icons.
Posted by Anonymous ( 69.112.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-20 20:30:00
Oops! I see you added animation! :) *slaps own hand for hasty post below* I have to check these bows out!
Posted by Anonymous ( 69.112.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-20 20:26:00
Looks beautiful!Very nice work judging from the pic. Personally I prefer no bowstring for NWN. The ones I've seen do clip the forearm, and I think they end up bringing added attention to the lack of a draw animation, but that's just my opinion.
"Squeaky wheel gets the grease" as 'they' say. Your feedback has been noted and the changes have been made. Enjoy.
Posted by DM Frayne ( 82.69.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-18 17:09:00
The reason why the bow in the picture is so bent is because it is at full draw. At the moment therefore your model looks like it�s at full draw all the time and that if it were bent any more the string would come off. ;)
Bioware bows do have a bending animation (although some are a bit buggy in that the tip-pieces of the shortbows get detached from the rest of the model), but then I�ve just noticed that the other community bows (Shadowhawk�s stringed bows and Deph's bow) also have no bending animation.
I think the most important thing is that you just make it look a logical shape at rest, Lathspell, as that is what will be seen 99% of the time. Mostly the lack of a bending animation will not be noticed in the heat of battle. A string or bending animation would just be a bonus (although as far as I�m aware no community maker has got them bending yet).
Either way the detail on your models is great.
Posted by Stigga ( 83.237.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-17 06:06:00
Looks great, but:
1) Lack of a bowstring
2) The ends of a bow should be curved in the other side - like in all real-world bows (IMHO)
Posted by h0t_g33k at 2005-03-15 13:13:48 Voted 10.00 on 03/15/05
This one looks great! Suitabloe for a king of a medium-sized kingdom, I'd say.
Posted by h0t_g33k at 2005-03-15 13:13:00 Voted 10.00 on 03/15/05
This one looks great! Suitabloe for a king of a medium-sized kingdom, I'd say.
Posted by DM Frayne ( 82.69.xxx.xxx ) at 2005-03-15 05:06:00
Looking good. Any plan to add a bowstring?
Posted by Excellentium at 2005-03-15 03:10:38 Voted 10.00 on 03/15/05
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