A while ago, I designed a prefab called the "Tower of Stratos" in order to make
a tower set up high amongst the clouds. The only real problem with it was that
it required a very large amount of fog placeables to create it's convincing
cloudscape. So, I got to thinking... there must a far easier (and far less demanding) way to design convincing
cloudscapes for Neverwinter Nights! Then I realized... there WAS a cloud and sky tileset made for Nwn, but it was buried in the mountain of content
that was included in the Arcane Space Tileset, and because of that, it was largely forgotten by many. I recalled that one person posted and asked if it was possible to make just that one sky tileset available to all for general use, and it gave me an idea: why not do just that? So, with complete credit to
the original creators (see the readme file I included with this Hak Pak) I have separated just the beautiful Sky Tileset from the massive Arcane Space compilation and made it available here for builders to download and enjoy at last, without all of that extra space content to bog it down. Now... module builders can set their adventures in the Sky, the Elemental Plane of Air, or even the Seven Heavens if they desire. The only limit... is your imagination.
(No fog placeables whatsoever are used by this tileset. All clouds are tiles and groups... so there is NO slowdown.)
Included is: the Sky Tileset Hak Pak(which includes the tileset itself and it's associated custom loadsceens), A Demo Module (which requires Nwn 1.67),
and (of course) my readme file listing the full credits and other useful info.
I'm not going to vote because the effort here was to separate the tileset from the other stuff. That effort is worth a 10. But to vote 10 for this entry would seem to be saying that the tileset is worth a 10 and I am not sure that it is.
The use of trees for clouds is clever.
The road puts me in the mind of another tileset, named Rainbow Rural, by MGSkaggs. Ironically, his road was yellow brick.
There are walkable clouds in Bloodmonkey's Rocky Mountain tileset that look very nice. They have a lighting problem that I was only partially able to remedy with my ASCII editor. If someone fixed up those tiles and used them as the "floor" for this tileset it would be much improved.
So if I were rating the tileset I would probably give it a 7, and since that's not fair to chaos theocrat, I'm not rating it.
Posted by Hugie at 2006-08-08 06:26:49 Voted 10.00 on 08/08/06
chaos, your submissions never fail to be useful and interesting. :) Just wanted to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed checking out your excellent prefabs, and I may just use this hak in my upcoming mod, Perchance to Dream. Thanks! _________________________ [My (Important) Submissions][My Website: Link]
This tileset may not be for everybody, but it is still a useful way of setting adventures in any environment that is above the cloudline. Until a better sky and cloudscape tileset is made (and it seems unlikely, that anyone could come up with one that wouldn't be demanding for people with older videocards though it would be fantastic if someone could create such a masterpiece. I would give that a 10.00 for certain!) this is, so far, still (in my honest opinion) the best (and apparantly the only) solution out there, for any such lofty settings. AND, it beats throwing almost hundreds of fog placeables into pits... which I know slows down the game a lot on some people's computers. Also, truthfully... the terrain of those winter and frozen wasteland tilesets doesn't make a very convincing cloud terrain. I've tried using them for that and it wasn't at all believable. So... whether you like these textures (or hate them), this at least looks and plays like any proper walkable cloud terrain should, totally regardless of it's very minor issues. Thanks for the votes so far, and happy adventuring!
Posted by coreyh2 at 2006-08-07 22:31:53 Voted 6.75 on 08/07/06
I think the textures are ugly. It isn't your fault since you didn't make it. I wouldn't use it myself.
Posted by Mungo_D at 2006-08-07 18:40:16 Voted 10.00 on 08/07/06
Very nice. Certainly does create a 'amongst-the-clouds' atmosphere...
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