House armor

I am vaguely familiar with the subject matter, but I can't say I've done it before. If you are willing to write up some instructions though (or point me in the direction of a good instruction set), I can try to get that insignia on a cloak for your folks' guild.

Tomorrow if I have time after I repair my PC, I'll have a look at the files involved then.

Thank you Raven! Much appreciate your help

Victorphoenix wrote:

Drowcraft armor that is exposed to sunlight must make a DC
8 Fortitude save or dissolve utterly. A new save at the same DC
is required for each day of exposure. Covered armor and armor
exposed to indirect light (such as indoors) are still vulnerable to
this effect, but a drowcraft armor can be kept safe indefinitely
inside a lead-lined case. A drowcraft armor treated with darkoil
(see Special Items, above) is immune to the effects of sunlight.

Quick question about this.

Is faerzress a material to craft armor with then? And if so, can it be applied to the use of a weapon? With what benefit?

I know faerzress' natural ability is to prevent conjuration and teleportation, so I'm curious how it is applied to weapons and armor.

Also: Darkoil? What is this and how is it made?

No, it's an UD radiation. In practice as long as the armor stays in the UD, it's considered magical.

We don't have a system set up to support this atm..btw

Raven wrote:

Sorry, I'd rather not get involved again in the NWN2 scene since I know myself enough to know how it would end. Vekin knows.

I can give you precise directions though.

Ok, so. Today I had a look and I should have figured it out. What you will need:

Photoshop 5.0 or higher.
The Photoshop DDS plugin.
The MDB cloner.

Ten simple steps:

1. Browse to Program Files/Atari/NWN2/Data.
2. Open NWN2_Materials.zip, make a search for P*Cloak*.dds and extract all the files that are returned.
3. Open them in Photoshop; since cloaks are mostly a flat model, you should be able to tell the cloak shape just from looking at the texture. Pick one that you like, write down the texture name. Now paste a layer with the symbol you want, center it on the cloak . You may want to blur it a smudge so that it doesnt look too sharp.
4. Save the edited DDS texture in your working space, and change its final number. Anything between 100 and 200 will do, unless you're really unlucky and collide with an existing cloak from a hak - in that's case it's easy to spot IG and quick to fix: just rename the texture.
5. Browse to Program Files/Atari/NWN2/Data.
6. Open NWN2_Models.zip, make a search for P*Cloak*.MDB and extract all the files that end with the same number of your texture.
7. Open the files with the MDB cloner. Write the name of the texture you created in the texture field (there are 3 textures. Don't touch the ones ending with _n or _t). Change the MDB name number to the same number of your texture. Ie, if you created a texture called P_HHM_CL_Cloak123.dds, your MDB name will be _Cloak123.MDB. Do this for all the MDB files you extracted. If you end up with two or more MDB files with the same name, you made a mistake while renaming.
8. Save the new MDB files.
9. Put the new files (both dds and MDB) into your MyDocs/NWN2/Override folder.
10. Test them with the toolset appearance editor. If you did everything right, they should show up and not crash your toolset. Else, you made a mistake.

If you would pm me a clean picture of your symbol (no words) I will give it a shot.

I can do Photoshop works.

Go for it

Only one thing I know. Dabel'kith qu'ellar wants red cloaks ) may be spider on cloak? what else colours?

well red cloaks became a norm for us because I wore the color often.

I think this would look great on a big black coat for us.

you can test with this image



or a thumbnail if its easier

Uhh, could use some antialiasing.

*scampers in, knowing she has no business here at all, but can't help squeaking*


... WOW .....

I will give it a shot my next weekend off.

Raven wrote:

Uhh, could use some antialiasing.

do you mean cleaning up the bits of white with red?
or do you mean some other process?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Aliasing_a.png

Left is aliased, right is antialiased.

Anti aliasing means to soften edges, making them more constant without the rough edges here and there. Like in a game, with no anti aliasing most objects will come of as very edgy (like edges where there shouldn't be one, realistically speaking), even stones, with anti aliasing the objects will get better shapes

No, aliasing is just that zig-zagness (new word) of the line caused by pixels.

Alright this is my weekend off so as promised I will try and make this cloak I will try and blur it a bit should help it look more realistic

Well here is my first test of it, what do you think?

The only downside is the tone of red is linked to the cloaks overall color so a true black makes the symbol very hard to see.

DM_Bucephalus wrote:

The only downside is the tone of red is linked to the cloaks overall color

http://nwcitadel.forgottenrealmsweave.org/showpost.php?p=14787&postcount=7

Not sure how to say make this part of this layer tint different..as I followed your very good directions the cloak.dds and the symbol are one layer

All images are made of 3 colors: red, green, blue. In photoshop you can edit these color components one at a time, through Channels. Each of the 3 colors is visualized as a shade of grey, where black is 0, and white is 1. Shades of grey are numbers between 0 and 1 NWN2 looks at each of these channels and uses the values to tint the model according to this formula:

Final Color = Toolset Tint Color 1 * Tint Texture Red Channel value + Toolset Tint Color 2 * Tint Texture Green Channel value + Toolset Tint Color 3 * Tint Texture Blue Channel value.

So you see why the symbol is darker: it's being tinted by the cloak color, because the texture does not consider it and uses 1 color to multiply all the cloak points.

So you look up the tint texture for the cloak you edited. The name's the same, only with a "_t" at the end. For cloaks it should always exist. Open it up in photoshop and switch to single channels view.

For the cloak you need 2 colors, the base color and the symbol color. So you want to put the base color "tint mask" in the red channel, the symbol color in the green channel, and black in the blue channel (since there is no 3rd tint for the cloak).

In the base color channel (the R channel), you want white where the cloak is in the texture, and black on the symbol. In the symbol color channel (the G channel) you want white where the symbol is on the texture, and black on the cloak.

When you're done creating the tint texture, you save it with the same name of the diffuse texture (the "normal" texture"), only with a "_t" at the end of it. Then you use the cloner to specify that name in the tint texture slot.

I think its awesome! DM_Bucephalus!!!! thanks
The cloak will be one of our 2 guild items that way everyone can enjoy them and it will unify us like a true drow house
The birth of the "Noble Dabel'Kith Greater Piwafwi" !!!