Community Creature Project

The Community Creature Project
The Community Creature Project is an organization dedicated to improving the NWN play experience by providing content new to NWN. For many of us who remember old school AD&D, much of the content we are striving to include is not new at all. First and foremost, we want to make the classic creatures from the original Monster Manual, Monster Manual 2 and the Field Folio easily available to the NWN community in a single easy to use HAK. It is our hope that in the end this HAK will become as universal as CEP. Our plan to do that is simply the creation of one HAK so wonderful, dynamic and easy to use, that no builder would want to build without it. Currently we have reached the point of our primary release. It includes many new creatures. Most of the creatures in the first release parallel the contents of the original Monster Manual which were not included in NWN or CEP. .

How is the CCP be better than the several creature compilation HAKs already out there?

Well, first, I don't particularly want to say "better". Many of the compilation HAKs out there are really great. They guys who did them did awesome work. I believe the CCP will have an advantage in the following ways. First, timing is everything. CCP will be made after CEP2.0. Over the years, many compilation HAKs were made, and later conflicted with CEP and other Bioware updates. We plan to do everything in our power to avoid this. Second, we are planning to "fill in the holes" by making an active attempt to actually produce needed monsters, not simply gather them up. Lastly, we seek to achieve the sort of universality that CEP has. We want CCP to be so standardized that builders who choose to incorporate it will not alienate potential players who can't find the HAK.

What the CCP is and is not…

Currently, the CCP is a HAK pack for NWN that includes many creature and peaceable models as well as the 2da entries necessary to use them in the Aurora Tool Set and NWN play. The CCP is 100% compatible with CEP, and is in fact dependant upon CEP because several CCP creatures use textures from the CEP HAKs, as well as inherit CEP creature animations. Though CCP does add in excess of 200 new creature models / appearances to NWN modules which incorporate it; It does NOT currently come with Aurora Toolset blue prints for all those creatures. Those who wish to utilize CCP content in their modules may need to create their own blueprints for new creatures and then use the appearance field in the blueprint to set the CCP models / appearances. Blueprints have been added to the custom pallet for all placeables, but only for 80 of the creatures. Only 80 creature blueprints were made because many of the CCP models are somewhat redundant such as the same creature in different sizes and gender.

Lessons on how to create Models

The C.C.P. Forums also offers extensive tips on modeling and creating models. Made for a beginner these lessons can help you learn how to model yourself!

Link to The Community Creature Project Link to The Community Creature Project Forums