I got a fair amount of things done while I wa...

August 19, 2003 by Adam in NWN1

I got a fair amount of things done while I was away, including a couple small tilesets. I worked up what I'm calling an "abyssal swamp". I spent a lot of time working on the water effect so that it doesn't look crystal clear, then created a bunch of variations including a couple mini "islands". It's not really intended to compete with the other swamp tilesets out there, but rather serve a small niche purpose.

I also came up with a Savannah tileset. For a long while, I couldn't figure out why the grass wasn't appearing. I finally discovered that I had turned it off in the game settings and it wasn't a problem with the .SET file or some other crazy thing.

I also whipped up a White Queen creature using CODI's skinmesh illithid. Skinmesh looks so nice I had to fiddle with it a bit. I also did a bit of coding, such as getting the garden to finally grow.

I periodically worry myself about the scope of this one. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I'm probably crazy for taking on something so huge, especially with my time as limited as it is these days. Hopefully I can finish up by Christmas, but I'm not holding my breath.