These are additional Card placeables that can be used just like the official ones. This first pack has 6 total cards, all depicting buildings. They are for placing off in the distance to give the illusion of things stretching off into the distance while reducing the memory footprint when compared to doing the same thing with normal placeables.
This is packaged in an Override format (contains the raw files). Add these to your module, hak or campaign as you wish.
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Usage Instructions:
Unpack the downloaded file. Inside the extracted folder are two other folders. Place the contents of the Override folder into your override, module or campaign folders. NOTE: There is a placeables.2da inside here (SoZ used as base)! After doing so, you can Import the contents of the Blueprints folder, these are premade .ERFs of the card placeables.
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Credits:
- Buildings are from the NWN2 game
- Made using Runner Duck's MDB Cloner - Special thanks to Anduraga, son of Kosaraga as it was his blog tutorial that originally taught me to do this.
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Permissions:
Use as you see fit, please give credit. Comments and Votes are appreciated.
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For those interested in learning to do their own cards, I posted a How To tutorial in this Bioware forum thread (scroll down towards bottom): Click Here
Posted by Nihlar at 2009-06-29 23:42:08 Voted 8.75 on 06/29/09
Hey that's cool stuff. I give it 8.75. Put it in a hak and you'll get 9.00
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Posted by nicethugbert at 2009-06-28 07:24:02 Voted 10.00 on 06/28/09
I realize we have skyrings, but I am aiming more for getting some detailed mountains in the mid-ground between terrain and the skyrings. Just thought I would elaborate on that point.
May I suggest you also do this with some random snapshots of mountain peaks. I always thought it would be useful to have mountain cards to give the illusion of distant peaks. Since you seem to have a knack for making cards, I humbly request some grassy/rocky/snowy mountain card placeables. Thanks.
Posted by Anduraga at 2009-06-27 23:16:25 Voted 10.00 on 06/27/09
Very nice and useful addition to any modder's arsenal. 2D and low poly 3D cards are effecient ways of increasing performance during gameplay whenever FPS is an issue in high performance areas. Cities, forests, jungles to name a few.
Placeable cards can also save you time on area design. Instead of crafting a mountain through NWN2's difficult to use tools, you can use a mountain placeable card.
Shame NWN2 doesnt support colorful images to be used as background cards against their sky shader.
Nevertheless, excellent work Knightmare.
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