Contribution Discussion

[Baldur]

Great job both

Nikodemus, perhaps if the letters were to be placed closer to the seal on the upperside of the paperroll. One, or a couple, of words on each side of the seal. Might be an even better idea if placed on the red ribbon...

Indeed, Ligh, you need to tune those triangles down :]

[Nikodemus]

Baldur, so the red ribborn will cover few letters? i like it
I suppose there should be informations like:
- what it is
- where bring it
- something more?

what kind of font you think i should use? (this is a question more to devs, coz they may know the style of PS a bit better)
the becker-m.ttf from ps maybe?
Ruritania?

It will be written with a feather obviously, but the style should fit PS too. How people of Yliakum write like?

I can remember playing morrowind, that there everything had style of these high and sharp at the bottom runes, this was good for the unique experience for this precise world.

[LigH]

My opinion: Look at the signposts. Are they readable? How do they look like?

The "native" writing system may be unreadable to the human players. It simply doesn't need to be.

[Nikodemus]

true, from other side, the books are in english

and still, I would be happy to know which kind of font should i use, which symbols. The singpost looks like Cherppow was drawing a line with paint brush tool ;P I can imagine there are loads of different languages, at least one for each race, but I gues i'm asking for the common one.

Or I should leave the whole thing as it is?

[LigH]

You could still get inspired by "Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts Page"...
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Unfortunately, I have no idea how to reduce the triangle count after creating the model. So it still has 640. What a shame...

I heard about the "retopo" tool, but I don't know how it works.

[Asraniel]

that ring is small, so you will never see it with much detail. so create a lowpoly version of it, it does not have to be perfectly round like now, for something as small as a ring a hexaton (? five sides.. ) could be enough, or one with 6 sides. you can use the highpoly version to make invetory icon.

[LigH]

That will in general mean to make a completely new model ... and to align the UV maps again. So time consuming...

[Karyuu]

You will spend a few minutes creating a new ring, and hours agonizing over how to reduce the polycount from the larger version ;) Don't create a high-poly model and then think to lower it. Start creating with the poly limit in mind, and then you'll avoid running into these sort of problems.

[LigH]

So I did.

[LigH]

I'd like to try to make more items. But I am partially confused, and partially lacking information (hey, I have unlimited access to internet only on weekends, and I would also need to know how to get the related quest to read the details about the item).

Saria Dunwallow’s Word -- Did you mean "sword"? And which details must I know? (remember the "Y")

Yliakum Common for Gobbles -- What is it, like a contract? Too many related but different translations...

Purple Goujah Fur -- What is special about it? Are Goujahs bigger than Tefusangs? Or much slimmer? Or have long hair?

[toxic3]

Saria Dunwallow’s Word -- Did you mean "sword"?

For my understanding this is another letter or seal. 3 NPC give this item to you in this quest, they say "Take this seal as a token of my word.", "Here's my word; it's my bond." and "Take my seal."
I hope this is not a spoiler.

Yliakum Common for Gobbles -- What is it, like a contract? Too many related but different translations...

That's something like a dictionary or schoolbook to learn the common Yliakum language.

Purple Goujah Fur -- What is special about it? Are Goujahs bigger than Tefusangs? Or much slimmer? Or have long hair?

I don't know. But from another thread:

It's mentioned in the character creation, but no where else. What is a goujah?

Goujah is a sort of pack animal, used as beasts of burden, to pull carts and winch wheels, among other things. Goujahs can be sheared for fur but are never killed for meat, for utilitarian reasons. Soon enough you will know more.

[LigH]

That's something like a dictionary or schoolbook to learn the common Yliakum language.

Many thanks - now I understand the relation of "common".

And I have to add a question: Is it verbosely a "book", made of paper? That would be not very useful in the wet sewers. It should be washable. So if allowed, I'd like to think about different materials.

[toxic3]

And I have to add a question: Is it verbosely a "book", made of paper? That would be not very useful in the wet sewers. It should be washable. So if allowed, I'd like to think about different materials.

Hehe, i don't know if this make the book waterproof, but there is some "Magic" on this book, so why not.

[Nikodemus]

I think noone is going to make a book resilient to water, because someone could take it to sewers It's book as any other, paper or leather with ink. And there may be some protecting magic, who knows.

[Baldur]

How about a book completely made out of leather, its' scribings engraved through firemarking. In my opinion, Gobbles are intelligent enough to have discovered fire and, who knows, the metal pieces could have been forged or stolen from Yliakian settlements.