Tir Na n’Og Tileset Preview at DLA Homesite

chevalier · Sun, 18th Jun '06, 10:55pm

The Dragonlance Adventures group has published on its homesite a nice preview of the Tir Na n’Og tileset on which the Wyvern Crown of Cormyr module will be based. Here's a snip:

The nod to history was simply a result of TNO’s original creator. Martin is a professional architect and has a passion for medieval history, medieval architecture, digital photography and fantasy / D&D. Put all of those skills in the hopper and you get a professional building and terrain artist who is able to accurately concept and model medieval buildings that look realistic in terms of their underlying design and engineering – and which are textured with stone native to Northern Ireland.

The original Tir Na n’Og was simply designed as a small add-on to the rural tileset. It was about 80 tiles or thereabouts. The problem was that - at the time he modeled it – Martin was still learning tile modeling and low poly techniques. He was migrating from modeling in Viz (used by professional architects) using millions of polygons in his scenes to a strict low poly approach in 3dsmax with less than 800-1000 polygons or so.

Read the rest at DLA.

Cúchulainn · Wed, 21st Jun '06, 3:58pm

sounds interesting, thought I am not sure what type of stone would be native to N.Ireland, but not the Republic.

chevalier · Wed, 21st Jun '06, 6:04pm

Different tribes, different architecture, perhaps. Though it's not like Ireland is so huge and diversified.

Cúchulainn · Thu, 22nd Jun '06, 9:31am

It looks great. It will give me a good excuse to play NWN again.

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Sun, 18th Jun '06, 10:55pm	#1
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Wed, 21st Jun '06, 3:58pm	#2
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Wed, 21st Jun '06, 6:04pm	#3
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Thu, 22nd Jun '06, 9:31am	#4
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