Professor X's Cerebro reimagined with Essential Housing Tools

R_K

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVxhGYvbKk&feature=youtu.be
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Morgul667

Nice!

ixie

you are a genius!

LadyNalcarya

This addon is one of the best things that ever happened to ESO. Thank you for sharing!

R_K

@Morgul667 @ixie @LadyNalcarya Thank you so much... and it's awesome to hear that people are enjoying it!

Wreuntzylla

Wow, great representation. What is that, 3-4 million gold worth of Abyssal pearls?!

Strifur

Very cool, though I feel like your character should be wearing the Sideburn Skullcap from the Psijic Crown Crate to complete the effect!

R_K

@Wreuntzylla Good question -- it was about 140 pearls, and I believe they are 75,000 gold each, so that'd be 10ish million. But you could easily reduce the number of pearls because I just rendered a Dome of them, rolled on its side so I was facing into it while sitting. You could have occluded the field of view with them using a more efficient shape. I did this while on PTS, developing the next update for Essential Housing Tools though, so that wasn't my gold spent.

R_K

@Strifur Lol, someone else mentioned the same exact thing! I completely forgot about the skullcap; but yes, that would have been ideal for this shot!

Wreuntzylla

@R_K how big of a single pearl can you make out of that many pearls?

Delphinia

Awesome! Very creative! I look forward to seeing more

Jaimeh

Wow, the animations are awesome! I really like how you’ve constructed the platform, it was brilliant to use the glass cases, and the criss-crossing pattern on the floor looks great! Your video is an example of why I love housing in ESO; one wants to make Professor X’s Cerebro chamber, and then thinks which materials would work, and goes ‘glass cases!’, or the opposite--seeing a pearl, and thinking it might work for an animation… trying to find ways to use the available items to create the things we have in mind is one of the best aspects in housing for me, and why I don’t mind so much that we don’t have everything in terms of items, because it pushes us to get creative, necessity being the mother of invention, and all that Awesome work, and totally unexpected, can't wait to see what things you'll create next!

R_K

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

@R_K how big of a single pearl can you make out of that many pearls?

A great question...

A sphere constructed of Abyssal Pearls would have a total Surface Area equal to: 4 * π * Radius * Radius
The Abyssal Pearl's bounding box measures approximately 0.75m for Length, Width and Height.

Personally, I decided to use negative Item Spacing to eliminate the "dead air" between pearls, so I my net dimensions per Pearl were 0.55m cubed.

This would produce a usable surface area of 0.55m x 0.55m per Pearl. Assuming an Item Limit of 700 items, that would yield a maximum, solid surface area of ~211 square meters.

Solve for Radius (r):
211 m2 = 4 * 3.14159 * r2
165.72 m2 = r2
sqrt( 165.72 m2 ) = r

So the Radius in meters squared = 12.87 m2
sqrt( Radius in meters squared ) = ~3.59

...so, the TL;DR answer is: you should be able to construct a roughly 3.6m radius, solid Sphere using just shy of 700 Abyssal Pearls.

R_K

@Delphinia Thank you so much!

Jaimeh

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

@R_K how big of a single pearl can you make out of that many pearls?

R_K wrote: »

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

@R_K how big of a single pearl can you make out of that many pearls?

A great question...

A sphere constructed of Abyssal Pearls would have a total Surface Area equal to: 4 * π * Radius * Radius
The Abyssal Pearl's bounding box measures approximately 0.75m for Length, Width and Height.

Personally, I decided to use negative Item Spacing to eliminate the "dead air" between pearls, so I my net dimensions per Pearl were 0.55m cubed.

This would produce a usable surface area of 0.55m x 0.55m per Pearl. Assuming an Item Limit of 700 items, that would yield a maximum, solid surface area of ~211 square meters.

Solve for Radius (r):
211 m2 = 4 * 3.14159 * r2
165.72 m2 = r2
sqrt( 165.72 m2 ) = r

So the Radius in meters squared = 12.87 m2
sqrt( Radius in meters squared ) = ~3.59

...so, the TL;DR answer is: you should be able to construct a roughly 3.6m radius, solid Sphere using just shy of 700 Abyssal Pearls.

Could you do a 'hollow' sphere by using concentric circles of pearls of increasing radius and stacking them? Might get a decent sized spehere with using less pearls, though I suppose the smoothness of the surface would vary depending on how many pearls used per circle.

R_K

Jaimeh wrote: »

Could you do a 'hollow' sphere by using concentric circles of pearls of increasing radius and stacking them? Might get a decent sized spehere with using less pearls, though I suppose the smoothness of the surface would vary depending on how many pearls used per circle.

@Jaimeh
Also a good question. So the estimate of a 3.6m radius sphere of Abyssal Pearls was based on a hollow sphere -- the kind rendered by Essential Housing Tools' "Sphere" build template. The add-on actually does not have an option to generate a solid (filled) sphere as, typically, this would be impractical and probably undesired (unless you were using items that had a translucent material / texture, I suppose).