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Dragon Lanterns Remastered

I mentioned a little while ago I have a lot of remakes planned which I'll be working on occasionally - and the first pack I updated was the lantern trio ( they're one of my favorites ) these remake versions won't be frequent but an update every other month is still better then every other year right? I'm still working on my UV unwrapping so that I can switch to mesh only releases soon.

These remake versions (or Version R) releases have entirely new geometry and textures with the aim of reducing land impact and include mesh versions with materials. For the most part I'll try to stay true to the original design, ( like I did with Lantern I ) but in a lot of cases I'll be totally redoing anything I find too old looking, or too repetitive.

With Lantern II for instance I remodeled it into an eastern dragon to add variety to the pack, so that we don't have 3 western dragons and for the most part I kept the original style of the light section.

Lantern III was remodeled entirely, as we already have a globe light on the first lantern and the dragon part didn't look very different from the other two in the original.


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