The many projects

I have been sick for the last two months, nothing too serious, but it has left me tired and lacking energy. As a result I have not been so active with the modding as I would have liked. But whenever I found some extra energy I've taken new photos of all the nice summer plants and flowers I could find :)
Now I have more then enough texturing work to last me through the autumn and winter...
I thought that I would share what's in the pipeline. But don't hold your breath, it will take some time to finish all of this :)

Projects

Climbing plants

The idea is to make more climbing plants to have something else than ivy climbing up houses and walls. So far I have made some variants of Morning Glory, but I'm planing on doing Clematis and Honeysuckle as well.

Spring plants II

I have some additional spring flowers I would like to have, some are present in the first release, but most are new. For example I will be making new bluebells and at least four new variants of Lily of the valley. There will be around ten new flowers including Forget me not, Hellebores, Violets and Fritillary.

Summer plants

This is by far the largest project right now. I have calculated that I have photos of 64 different species of summer flowers, and for many of them I have several different photos (with some color variants) to add some variation to the world. As of right now there are 170 textures I will have to clean up, and the summer is not over yet :)
I have only started to work on this, and I'm done with 3, a large Bellflower, Lady's bedstraw and one Heather.

Grass

I have talked about this earlier, that I'm making more grasses for the game. Now I think I have all the textures I need, about 50 different ones. I had no idea there where so many different species of grass growing around here. The idea is to have both different blades and grass "flowers", short and tall grass, as well as green and yellow variants. I will also include oat, wheat and barley among the grasses.

Water plants

When I first had a look at the different plants in Skyrim I was struck by the lack of water plants. It really makes the water feel like a wasteland. So far I have photos of 15 different seaweeds/kelp, 3 fresh water plants. I will also be making some above water plants like water lilies, bulrush and reed.

Walls and houses

I have already shown some of the re-texturings of houses I have made. So far I have re-textured Whiterun town and farm houses. I'll also look at Solitude and Riften houses and see if my new textures will look good on them.

And the more I build the more things gets a new texture variant :) Like stone walls and wooden fences.

Update 2012-09-05

Rocks and Cliffs

When I build with rocks and cliffs they are only one color available and it looks rather odd togetter with my rock ground textures. I applied the same texture to the a rock and around 20 of the ground textures looks good. I'll also have to match up the grass/dirt part of cliffs and banks to my ground textures. 

And then there are some projects I haven't really started yet, like new cobblestone ground textures and new bushes and trees. I have a feeling there will not be many things with the original textures when I'm done...
I'll keep you all posted on the development of these projects and more :)
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New green grasses

Today I when for a walk and took photos of grasses. The idea is to re-texture the Skyrim grass with some new variants. I'm going do some different color variants of each type.
The first one is done and there is more to come :)

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New ground textures with grass

Grasses are coming along nicely. There is 18 different ones so far, both green and brown. There will possible be some more with other plants as well, we'll see what more I can find to photograph that would look good.

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Skyrim - Image Library of Textures with 3D grass

Finally the Creation kit for Skyrim has arrived :)

One thing I do miss from Oblivion is all the diversity in the resources.  I really like the Skyrim theme, the tundras and snow, but I would also like to make lush forests and seas of green high grasses and flowers. As a comparison to a earlier post with the 3D grasses  of Oblivion, these are the vanilla Skyrim ground textures that has 3G grasses:

LCoastBeachGrass01

LFallForestGrass01

LFallForestGrass01NoFerns

LFallForestGrass01NoFerns

LFieldGrass01

LFieldGrass02

LForzenMarshGrass01

LForzenMarshLichen01

LGrassSnow01

LPineForest02

LPineForest03

LReachGrass01

LTundra01

LVolcanicTundraDirt01

I hope someone makes more grasses, trees, flowers and ground textures. I'm not at good at making textures and models, but I guess I will have to learn :)

Edit
The amount of grass, that is the density can be set in the CK for each grass.

Comparison of a density setting of 10 to 70:


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Image Library of Oblivion ground textures with 3D plants

I started with ground texturing of my mod and there are a lot of different kinds of textures to chose from. Some have 3D plants on them and some don´t. Most of those without are called XXXNoGrass, but not all of them follow this naming convention. I found 62 different ground textures with 3D plants on (Installed: Oblivion + Knights of the Nine + Shivering Isles).

For me a visual aid can be very helpful,so I made a image library.
For a larger image, click on it. The name of the texture is written under the image, and they are in more or less alphabetical order :)

CH Terrain Grass 01

CH Terrain Moss 01

Heart Grass Moss

JM grass Dirt Snow 02

JM Grass Dirt

Terrain Bravil Base 03

Terrain BW Lichen Mud

Terrain BW Moss Grass

Terrain BW Moss

Terrain BW Mud Moss Short Grass

Terrain BW Mud Moss

Terrain BW Sand Cattails

Terrain BW Tree Roots Moss

Terrain CP Moss Grass

Terrain CP Moss Dirt

Terrain CP Moss

Terrain CP Mud Moss

Terrain CP Sand Moss Rocks

Terrain CP Sand Moss

Terrain CP Tree Roots Moss

Terrain DC Grass Dirt 02

Terrain GC Forest Moss Grass Dirt 02

Terrain GC Evergreen Needles 01

Terrain GC Forest Moss Grass Dirt

Terrain GC Grass 01

Terrain GC Grass Dirt 01

Terrain GC Grass 02

Terrain GC Rocks Dirt Moss 01

Terrain GC Rocks Dirt Moss 02

Terrain HD Clover 01 SU

Terrain HD Dead Grass 01 FA

Terrain HD Evergreen Needles 01 FA

Terrain HD Forest Dirt 01

Terrain HD Forest Grass Dirt Rocks 01 FA

Terrain HD Forest Grass Dirt Rocks 01 SU

Terrain HD Forest Grass Leaves 01 FA

Terrain HD Forest Grass Twigs Dirt 01 SU

Terrain HD Forest Moss Grass Dirt 01 SU

Terrain HD Forrest Grass Leaves 01 SU

Terrain HD Grass 01 SU

Terrain HD Grass Clover 01 SU

Terrain HD Grass Heather 02

Terrain HD Grass Moss 01 FA

Terrain HD Oblivion Grass

Terrain HD Rocks Dirt Moss 01 FA

Terrain HD Rocks Dirt Moss 01 SU

Terrain HD Grass Moss 01 SU

Terrain NV Forest Grass Dirt Rocks 01 SU

Terrain NV Forest Grass Leaves 01 SU

Terrain NV Forest Grass Twigs Dirt 01 SU

Terrain NV Grass 1 SU

Terrain NV Grass Clover 01 SU

Terrain NV Grass Moss 01 SU

Terrain WW Foreset MOss Grass Dirt 01 SU

Terrain NV Mud Moss

Terrain WW Forest Grass Dirt Rocks 01 SU

Terrain WW Forest Grass Twigs Dirt 01 SU

Terrain WW Grass 01 SU

Terrain WW Grass Clover 01 SU

Terrain WW Rocks Dirt Moss 01 SU

Terrain WW Grass Moss 01 SU

If you find that the textures are wrong somewhere, let me know. With 62 of them errors are bound to happen...

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