My Jefferson folder

[ramza]

I saw some of this things for the first time in my life, but after seeing it i can tell you that i'm really looking forward for any kind of Black Hound's resurection It would also be nice to see one day the engine with docs released for three on the internet, Is it possible J.E.?

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The engine is pretty difficult to work with from an art perspective. I can say that although the Jefferson/Van Buren engine could produce some very nicely-lit areas (for its time), the NWN2 toolset/engine is far easier to work with for level building. The workflow is much swifter and it is a lot easier to rapidly iterate through level geometry changes. In TBH, building White Ford took us months and the exterior maps had to be divided into three chunks. Last night as an experiment I roughly laid out the same village on a single map in about an hour. I was able to maintain similar spatial relationships and building sizes with the exact same number of houses, "special" buildings, and better rolling terrain.

 

Outside of its toolset flexibility and the very solid foundation of its RPG game logic, there's little of great merit to the "old" engine. Certainly its graphical capabilities are very outdated and the art pipeline is absolutely terrible.

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So? do you think it's feasible to produce TBH as a NWN2 module? What I understood from the info collected was that the story was intended to be developed as a trilogy... does that mean that TBH was just the first part of it?

Edited November 10, 2006 by ramza

[Sammael]

holy cow!  he lives...

 

taks

Well, yes. Sort of. Life getting in the way of everything and all that...

[taks]

same here. if i didn't have a job, i wouldn't have any time to post in here!

 

taks

[Dagon]

I saw some of this things for the first time in my life, but after seeing it i can tell you that i'm really looking forward for any kind of Black Hound's resurection It would also be nice to see one day the engine with docs released for three on the internet, Is it possible J.E.?

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The engine is pretty difficult to work with from an art perspective. I can say that although the Jefferson/Van Buren engine could produce some very nicely-lit areas (for its time), the NWN2 toolset/engine is far easier to work with for level building. The workflow is much swifter and it is a lot easier to rapidly iterate through level geometry changes. In TBH, building White Ford took us months and the exterior maps had to be divided into three chunks. Last night as an experiment I roughly laid out the same village on a single map in about an hour. I was able to maintain similar spatial relationships and building sizes with the exact same number of houses, "special" buildings, and better rolling terrain.

 

Outside of its toolset flexibility and the very solid foundation of its RPG game logic, there's little of great merit to the "old" engine. Certainly its graphical capabilities are very outdated and the art pipeline is absolutely terrible.

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Thanks for Rply Josh!

I understand, and i'm looking really forward to play the NWN2 ersion of The Black Hound, It will be really great If you could recreate it this way.

[Maria Caliban]

Jefferson?

Van Buren?

BIS?

The Black Hound?

 

I feel as though I've fallen into Bletchley Park during World War II.