[REL] Water plants and Ztrees rocks

It is almost like it is Christmas again, be course here is a double release for you :)
First of are the water plants and them we also have Ztrees rocks.

The water plants

I have mentioned before that I have been working on some new water plants, and now the long wait is over :)
There are three types of plants; lake and river plants for fresh water, kelp and algae for salt sea water and plants that grow on the shore. All these are simple low poly re-textures grass models. I have again used SparrowPrince Lush Grass models for some thicker variants.

You can download them here on Nexus.

There is an added surprise for you that I have not show here before.
Ztree have been working on several new plants and trees, and I have helped by making some additional textures. It has been a really nice collaboration with results of life like plants. One of them are new water lilies, and they are also released with the rest of the water plants :)

All in all there are 26 variants to choose from, including five different models with and without flowers, and different colors of flowers too. They look stunning in game, and we will use every opportunity to use them in Hoddminir.

As an optional file you can download a image library with jpg of the plants in game. These are really helpful to keep track of all the plant variants you can choose from when modding (I will add similar image libraries to the previous plants releases too).

Ztrees Rocks

There are 13 different rocks, all using 13 of my ground texture rock textures. I have to say I love these rocks. The have working collision and they are whole models so they can be turned any way you like, not like Skyrims original rocks that have holes in the bottom.

You can download them here on Nexus.

I hope you will enjoy these as much as we have :)
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Springflowers pack II

You can find the Spring Flower pack II here at Nexus:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28113

There are some new variants of flowers present in the first release, several Lily of the valley, a red Cowsnip, a white primrose and more bluebells.Then there are two Hellebora, white and blue forgetmenots, solomons seal, and lots of fritillary.

For me, the fritillary are a bit special as I grew up with the legend of why they grow here in Uppsala. There is a field called the kingsmeadows out side of the town, close to the river. They are not indigenous to Sweden, but here and only here red and white fritillary grow.
The legend says that there was a battle long ago between Swedes and Danes on this field. For every danish soldier that died there is a red flower, and for every white one a Swede died. The white ones are very rare, which the legend tells us is because the Swedes won the battle. Now, there are also pink variants, and what they are supposed to represent I don't know. Maybe soldiers from Skåne (Scania) :)
If you ever visit Uppsala in June you should definitely go and see these beautiful flowers.

All these flowers will make nice additions to the deciduous forests of Hoddminir :)

Edit:
Made 3 colors of Hyasints, and 8 colors of Tulips.
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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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Time for spring?

Skyrim is mostly winter or autumn. Now spring is slowly coming to Sweden and walking around in the snowstorms of Skyrim is a bit depressing. It's time for some spring :)


I'm playing around with re-texturing some of the grasses, bushes and trees to get a more spring or summer feeling. I don't know anything about building models, so at the moment re-textureing will have to do. I should be working on region generation, but this was just more fun :)

The list is long of all the new flowers, bushes and trees I would like to have. I will focus on common Scandinavian spring flowers first, like Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), hepatica, sloe (Prunus spinosa), cowslip (Primula veris) and coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara).
So far I have only done Lily of the valley and the aspen. The result is far from perfect and I will have to take the camera out in the woods in a month or so when spring have finally arrived here to get better suited pictures to work with.

Update:

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)	Cowslips (Primula veris)	Pasque flower (Anemone pulsatilla)
Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus)	Light blue Iris variant	Dark blue Iris variant
Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)	Bluebell dark blue variant	Bluebell pink variant
Bluebell white variant	Pasque flower blue variant	Pasque flower red variant
Blue Scilla (Scilla siberica)	Dark blue Scilla (Scilla siberica)	White Scilla (Scilla siberica)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)	Marsh-marigold (Caltha palustris)	Daffodil Yellow (1) (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
Daffodil Yellow (2) (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)	Daffodil White/Yellow (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)	Daffodil White/Orange (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
Daffodil Yellow/White (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)	Daffodil Yellow/Orange (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)	Daffodil White (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)
Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis)	Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)	Winter Aconite White (Eranthis pinnatifida)
Pasque flower white variant	Purple Iris (Iris germanica)	Bird's-eye Primrose (Primula farinosa)
Dandelion (Taraxacum ruderalia)	Alpine snowbell (Soldanella alpina)	Liverleaf purple (Hepatica nobilis)
Liverleaf blue (Hepatica nobilis)	Liverleaf pink (Hepatica nobilis)	Liverleaf white (Hepatica nobilis)
Liverleaf purple agamous mutant (Hepatica nobilis)	Liverleaf blue agamous mutant (Hepatica nobilis)	Liverleaf pink agamous mutant (Hepatica nobilis)
Liverleaf white agamous mutant (Hepatica nobilis)	Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa)	Bog-bean (Menyanthes trifoliata)

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