I've been trying really hard to find a way to...

February 10, 2005 by Adam in NWN2

I've been trying really hard to find a way to reuse some of the great content that's out there for NWN. There's a number of highly rated hak packs that I haven't used in my modules and were created "late in the game" so that most casual players haven't seen it. The hope is that I can turn them into tiles for NWN2 or stick them together in an editor with Dragon Age, saving me a ton of time creating the raw geometry from scratch.

This image is from a test I did yesterday, creating normal maps for some of the existing textures. I had a hard time getting the "bumpiness" quite right. My first attempt was too subtle to the point where I thought something was wrong. I'm settling on this version, which seems a nice balance. I'm retexturing the diffuse maps too (what most people think of as textures), so that it's not quite so dwarven-specific.