Was it this?
Woldo didn't say a word about it when I showed him it initially, then someone said in OOC that Santa Troll had a cool staff. Turns out someone (Woldo, I assume) put it in without even saying anything!
I wondered what had happened with the Christmas Imp all along, but I was just thrilled that Santa Troll 2.0 made it in. People really seemed to like him.
She'd absolutely crush his wimpy Erudite frame! Oh, wait. Marthog is an Ogre. Curse you, Headmaster's Visage, for making me think so many people are Erudites when really they're just big phonies!
Remember this homely dame from Dreadfang Spire/Tower of Frozen Shadow?
Apparently, the model is known as "Abhorrent" (race ID #193). I studied the wireframe a little and wondered whether it might be put to use for some kind of non-ugly character. So, I dug into existing files (mainly the High Elf female Velious armor and classic Wood Elf female armors) and tried my hand at some new techniques in my image editing software. Here's the end result:
Who knew you could get from that up there ^ to this? I didn't have a real aim in mind with this lass, but she almost looks like she's ready to go to a wedding of some sort. Alternatively, if she were given a fancy bow, she might do for a "Shiritrian love nymph" -- Dalaya's equivalent to Cupid. She'd need a proper name, of course....
If the staff want to pursue this texture set for some purpose, let me know and I can make any desired color changes or whatever. There are also (as usual) some annoying problems with getting this particular model to accept a new texture set, which I can explain in detail if necessary. Whatever the case may be, attached is a zip of the raw texture pieces should anyone on the development team like to tinker with her down the line.
Kind of a late reply, but given how the head looks, it MIGHT have been a failed attempt at creating a ghost like we see in Shrouded Isle and/or Kaladim.I became curious what the Enchanter's Invisible Man pet would look like if I were to apply an actual texture to it, and the result is predictably bizarre. Firstly, the model itself is given only one blink-and-you-miss-it texture in global_chr.s3d, and it is titled ivmhe0001.bmp. The texture itself is nothing but an 8x8 square of the the previously mentioned magic pink, the color which the EverQuest engine renders as transparent. I palette swapped the pink for a horrible, blinding chartreuse and this is the result:
Interestingly, the wireframe of the body seems to be taken from the Human Male, but the head is distinctly that of a Wood Elf. There even seems to be a strange disconnect between the head and the rest of the model that makes itself apparent when the Invisible Man partakes in any kind of animation, as seen in the second and third shots. When it sits, attacks, or does anything else apart from standard walking/running, its head slides back off its body until the animation is completed! :whoa:
Nothing remotely useful, of course, but maybe some of my fellow Enchanters have also wondered what their pet would look like with some "skin" on it. :keke:
It's possible to do this using the female variant of the Felguard (106) model. This would mean that she would be seen the same regardless of whether people use new or old High Elf models. However, remember the difficulties you came up against over Christmas trying to do that exact thing with the new Santa Troll textures? I haven't tested whether this would happen with model 106, and I couldn't even if I wanted to; the only zone I'm able to pull her up in is one of the very few zones where she's loaded natively anyway!
This will come in handy. Thanks! Having to manually select files can be a real drag when you're working with folders inside of folders inside of folders and so on. I'll put it to use next time I pay a visit to the shapeshifter NPC in Athica B.
The first column (which lists .s3d files) populates just fine, but when I click any of those .s3d files, the second column (which is supposed to show .wld files and texture pieces) remains empty. Is it possible I'm missing a .dll or something?Zaela, I just thought to give this latest EQGExport a test run and came across a problem right off the bat.
