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Hammerfell's due and Balfier'as mountains

The mountain upon which Direnni tower sits is immense, you can't even see its peak from the ground that makes its rest.

A little river snakes it's way around the base, the way up is trecheroush, that is true, but one wrong step when descending may just be your doom.

The macquis biome will also feature both in Hammerfell and High Rock. But both variants will be slightly differ...

Poplars in Autumn

That is 8 riverine trees now set down...with gorgeous autumn colours on top of that. 4 white and 4 black poplars.

That takes us over to half the alloted sprite budget! Wow I need to conserve plants. We need nettles, driftwood, willows, alders and one elder. Might add an extra reed or a mossy rock?

Anyway, you might notice these trees are quite tall unlike daggerfall's native stumpy ...

Rivers of Betony

So. Easing myself back into the river work, as suggested by Carademono, to just complete the islands as they make up for a whole finished areas. Betony was the first, it features gently rolling hills and was made with Betony restored in mind.

Anyway. Balfiera will be next, and that chain of islands is montane and will feature more rugged terrain than these idylic hills.

Hazels in bloom

The other seasons are done, but this one is a bit more unique due to the long male catkins. The female catkins i think, are a bit too small to see so i've omitted them, though i may add them if I find a neat way to blend them in.

that is 3 more plants!

Water Reeds for rivers

3 reeds for rivers, with the rest of the assets it makes for 7!

7 out of 32!

Perhaps nettles next, or funny features. Trees are a bit more hard to work on (but grass bunches are more diffocult to make look 'right')

On another note, I updated my DFU setup on the unity editor, reimplemented wod-terrain and...I'll start consolidating my maps of rivers and terrain features next we...

Enriching the world of rivers

Iris pseudacorus, yellow iris is a very water-loving plant, often growing directly from it! You'd see it around rivers, ponds, both wild and within villages.

Three different variants (for diversity) in four different season cycles are done.

A biome needs 32 sprites. These only account for 3 of those texture slots.

You've already seen the willow sprite. There will need to be re...

Upcoming for DET and WoD

Given that I'm currently working on this that are not quite for me to share on Patreon, I do want to at least let people know where we're at in the moment.

I'm slowly preparing to resume work on rivers in WoD, this also means sculpting the heightmap of the surrounding terrain. The work is tedious and daunting. So expect pictures of gorgeous rivers going forward.

For DET, this means ...

It is a tub! But what for?

Sometimes while working for textures for other people they end up donated to DET cause they just seem like they would fit in the world. This was the case of the mug that was recently added to DET, both wooden and glass, in quite a few variants and alterations.

The same will happen to this tub. Oh what it will be used for!

A house and a rework

A while ago I was working on a house for a 'test', which also involved making a lot of procedural materials. Thought it would go to waste if there's nothing to show them off on, so I heavily heavily reworked the house and I may keep reworking it, like changing the railings or adding onto them.

I'm kinda ehh on the trailing flower leaves, but I adore the bushes.

What do you guys thi...

DET 1.0.0 is finally out

And so the update cycle stops for now. DET 1.0.0 is out and hopefully there will be no more headache for me!

I get to outsource theh headache to other modders now as they migrate over to 1.0.0. I don't think this will be anytime soon, but if you are a modder, please update to 1.0.0 asap.

0.9.0 now exists for unupdated mods.

Anything else new on the horizon? We will see!

The future of DET (not scary, gonna break things tho)

SOoooo. (NOT APRIL FOOLS)

A lot of mods depend on DET being consistant, no changes means nothing breaks, right? Now imagine an oversight causes issues you might not be able to pin down exactly.

Well we've known about it for a little bit before, with Willhelm's and Numidium3D's mod that adds varied NPCs to daggerfall.

Something about daggerfall's textures ending at 511(512), an...

A cetacean and on future updates.

I know the influx of updates is 'massive', but it's a spur I cannot stop untill the new DET is out. Furniture, clothes lines, new animals, new riding sprites, new folliage, all new animations, NPCs and portraits...it's so much.

In April, expect a more 'normal' update schedule as spurs aren't sustainable but sure are fun from time to time.

Also a note for Hat club members! I c...

Meet Kynareth's temple workers of Kozanset

Temples are one of those places that really need a diversity injection, their sprite amounts are limited and oft-repeated as well as shared with the mages guild.

A while ago I segregated the temples into different colours that would instantly tell you what temple you're in by the colours of their garbs, so kynareth for example, gets the lush green with blue accents. So I decided I'd start...

The end result of screens.

If you remember an old post where I shared a screen texture, well, here's the model! And the variants.

Made a shapely wooden one which was the preview, a beige cloth one, a kynareth one based off an art of mine, a simple paneled one and a floral tapestry one. The texture is based off some art I made for a game on meiker. Waste not, want not and that jazz.

Out of hand update.

Oof lol.

Next update will be big.

A little in peek in something to come.

A lil public preview. of what i'm cooking next. (This won't be the final texture, just my worksheet)

Df decorators really liked the lil banner thingies, so I decided to make even longer ones, now also with clothes lines! These will be 1/3 longer than the previous longest ones.

Elder trees...or shrubs?

Some might reckognise the rightmost tree from my ooooold old old old tutorial for imitating daggerfall sprites, before i did straight to palettisation lol.

What I did was revamp it sliiightly, and by that I mean adding seasonal variants.

Also adding the same for two extra elder trees, including berries and blossoms as harvestable resources.

These trees are 'true to size...

Willows!

Hmmm, what is this pretty riverine tree in four different seasonal variants.

DET update incoming soon + some other tidbits

I was thinking on having my assets accumulate before I post another DET update, but I have been informed by cliffworms that I had seemingly forgotten to add my arena banners to the previous version! Oops. Well, this is urgent, so I'll be pushing an update to DET soon with those aments, all the new animals.

The colour scripts for variants applied to banners (thanks to carademono!) helped c...

Duck duck...goose!

Apparently geese don't have that many colour variants, mostly just weight classess, huh!

Anyway. For now there are three colour variants, white, splotchy and wild-type coloured. They're all recolours of eachother and the pecking geese are animated. Goslings come in gray and yellow.

On a cattle roll!

As I said, a highlander inspired cow! You can see a little overlap with a bull from my default brown cattle sprites. They're similair in size, but that much more cutter.

I decided for a roan colouration for them, which means some will be white, some will be red, others will be roan. We've got two bull sprites with the really long horns and three cows and three calves for each colour.

Technically a full set!

I could do a few more variants, ATM the belted alcaire cow has the most variants, but it also has a lot more colour variation (red, brown and black) These are just black and brown.

Might just need a black bull to go with 2 black cows and 2 brown cows and 1 brown calf and one black calf!

But i think I'll move on and do a highlander style mini cow that comes in solid, mottled and whit...

There is no escape from DET

New cattle...

I call it the 'Northmoon Framed'.

I call the native cattle of daggerfall (the game comes with) brown miniature cattle (let's be real, they're kinda tiny cows). But the other cattle breed made up, Alcaire belted, more so signify the pattern.

We should swap up the names for a bit, so if anyone has a cool name for a cow breed and a region they'd belong to. do share!...

A kestrel and some hats!

A doodle of a kestrel and a lil paper of doodles =D

Again, if you have ideas for paper doodles, dogs, shoes, knights, orcs? Let me know and i'll see about making them a topic of my art next time.

Cow makeover and screens

Just a small update. Working on doing the cow texture. I may need to do two variants for both faces but ah, no biggy.

On the other hand, maybe some new items for DET? Thinking about screen dividers, starting with a grimy wooden one, then perhaps some more elaborate ones?

Cow progress

Work on the cow began and I think it is progressing nicely.

I'm featuring the first iteration. I had to do massive reworks on the shoulders and hips to get the topology nice and tidy. Messing around with hte horns wasn't all so bad.

And the udders? Well, I'll eventually make bulls and cows. I do plan to work on DET compatability. (Animals at least. Since i mostly need to just deal w...

DET 0.6.4 is out

DET 0.6.4 is now out!

https://www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/307đ

Thank you for your support! I did say this version will come with android support. As this is the first time exporting an android version, I'll do a little testing beforehand to make sure everything works as it should...

Some more orc stuff!

Female mobiles on the horizon? Sure!

Cat done!

Oh god the gif is atrocious lol, but hey the cat is done and I can move onto the next animal. Dog? Should I do the dog next?

F3DA back in the works

Just a small public preview, but I'm gonna ease myself back into 3D modelling by revamping many of the F3DA models and reanimating them to be much smoother and lively.

First step for kitty was increasing the polycount on the face, paws and tail.

The paws also offer better articulation now, so they bend better at the joints. The tail also looks less low-poly when bent.

After th...