[The Greatness]

Nice, looking awesome. Otherelo woods is going to be fun.

What happened to these? I liked the short, fat style. Also, it seems a bit odd to have a whole forest with such similar looking trees. Are those cool green slimy trees in the atmospheric art going to be made?

[Cathartis]

This is just a single set of trees. Other styles of trees will be made for the region.

[Gnober]

A handy argonian for measurement... I also made variations with a bit wider petals

[Andres Indoril]

Epic mushrooms. Probably taste excellent with a little guar and grinded scrib jerky and some fire salts! :3


I mean, I think they look great and all such and can't wait to see those mushrooms in work.

[Aeven]

These look great! Maybe make some mid-size version of the big mushroom?

Me wondering: could we add a slight glow-map to these? The MCP enables this, and we kind of tell users to use it anyway.

[Cathartis]

I'm fairly certain the topic of glow maps was discussed, and it was decided not to use glow-maps for these trees.

[Haplo]

Yeah Aeven this isn't Avatar, come on. Also, there are already mid-sized mushrooms for this set.

[Gnober]

I have uploaded the models now, and I'm going to put it to 100% within a few days, unless someone protests wildly... I can make more variations eventually if it is requested by an exterior artist...

[Cathartis]

I think you might have uploaded the wrong files. The .7z file I downloaded contained four ash swamp emperor parasols :/

[Gnober]

Oh... Sorry... I have just uploaded a new one...

[The Greatness]

Looking awesome. I love the huge one.

[Adanorcil]

Just taken a look at the models, Gnober. I have to say the quality has improved a lot. I think there is still a little room for improvement, but you're getting there.


General criticism:
- You've generally covered up the petal-bark transition rather well. It could still be more smooth, but it's acceptable in my opinion.

- You should do something about the shading. Currently the petals have a rather odd metallic sheen. It looks to me as if the specular color on the material hasn't been set to black, which can cause that.

- You've been very conservative with your polies, which is good.

- I think the petal texture is rather good, though maybe it could use a slightly more discernible edge. Then again, I'm not sure how that would work around the seams.

- Right now you're using the Emperor Parasol texture for the bark. For variation's sake, I'm thinking we could maybe make a new bark texture for these. It would be a small effort for a rather big visual effect.


Big mushroom:

- These look pretty good. Good call on the roots.

Medium mushrooms:

- The modeling is decent here, but I feel you somewhat lost track of the proportions of the original concept here. Even on the variation with the biggest petals, they're only just the size of the concept art. In all the other ones, the stem is proportionally longer and the petals proportionally smaller. Some variation is called for, of course, but I think you should rather look to shape than to proportion for that.


Small mushrooms:
Compared to the other ones, I felt a little disappointed by these, but nothing that can't be fixed.

- The petals have a rather noticeable pointy tip, which could be remedied rather easily.

-More importantly, though, your meshes have convex petals, curving outward and then up, while the concept has concave ones. The convex look is rather important, because it has a clear visual link with shelf fungi. Right now, they look more like flowers.

- I realize now this isn't obvious at all from the concept, so I figure I had better say it here now than never. The idea behind that straight and tall mushroom was that all its variations would retain that straight-up look. I suppose I just kind of wanted to go against the normal organic/curved look of fungi by making one that was oddly straight. I don't know how other people feel about this, though.

[Gnober]

[Myzel]

Any progress to show perhaps?

[Gnober]

I hoped that Adanorcil would have replied... But I have updated the files based on Adanorcil's critique... Not much have changed, but here are some pictures...

[Myzel]

It's always a good idea to prod Adan with a pm if you have questions. I'm sure he doesn't mind helping you out if you're not sure how to continue, but it's easy to miss a forum post.

[Gnober]

I scaled the tall mushrooms slightly down and added TR prefix to meshes and textures. Set the progress to 100%

[Haplo]

Approved

[Aeven]

Are these in Data yet? I can't seem to find them. Only the ovary trees, but for some reason those aren't prefixed with TR_flora.

[Haplo]

I'm quite certain the two trees to which you refer predate this claim.

The items you are looking for are currently prefixed TR_oth_, but it shouldn't matter because there are no claims being worked on which are in the Othreleth Woods region.

[Nemon]

Um, I might be working on a little idea on the side, so it is somewhat relevant.

[Haplo]

Not to Aeven. As HoE it's somewhat expected that you will have your hands in lots of stuff, future and current. But Aeven is only working on current stuff.

[Nemon]

He's making a couple of retextures I will try out in the CS, since my efforts at retexturing usually ends up with stuff turning bright yellow in game.

Anyway, I reported a few errors on these objects, texture wise - in the error thread. Low priority as of now.