This is the result of a barely realized sketch I made a long, long time ago, and a more recent thread on the NWN2 forums CC board - and about two weekends of work.
Uploaded are a HAK and Override version, which contain identical resources:
- Creature with animations
- Blueprint for importing said critter (change as you see fit, its pretty bare-bones - I don't even remember what sound-set I gave it)
- Creature portrait, for those who like portraits more than the 3d avatar
- Two placeables of slightly different poses for dead larvae, or sleeping, or for whatever you might need them for.
- blueprints for importing placeables
- appearance.2da
- placeables.2da
Note:
The larva lives on line 998 of appearance.2da
The placeables live on line 201 and 202 of placeables.2da
I arbitrarily dropped them in those locations. I expect builders to incorporate these into their own 2das as they see fit.
As you all know, these will conflict with your existing override and HAK 2das.
If you do not want to use the erfs, or there is a problem with them, you can find the Larva appearance as "Bdark_LarvaPlanar" in the creature appearance list. You can find the larva placeables as "bdark_larv01" and "bdark_larv02" in the placeables appearance list.
If you make a new blueprint for the larva creature, be sure to set its move speed to very slow (well it can work at other speeds, the animation is for very slow, though).
Future work
Creature
I plan on implementing the "cast" and "conjure" animations for the creature. They were scrapped before upload because they were not firing under any circumstance. I suspect a naming convention issue. Also a talk animation, which I forgot about, until just now...
Placeables
Expect one more quicky deader thinger. Also animated squirming ones, which were scrapped before upload, because animating a rigid mesh is, well, rigid. I was unhappy with them, and will find a better way to produce them.
Thanks for the encouragement from the gentlemen and ladies of the custom content forum, and anyone who decides to use these ugly little creeps.
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