Mermaid Tavern Winter Edition released!

[Dave]

The Mermaid Tavern Winter Edition is my first model featuring snow textures. This is a modified version of the Mermaid Tavern model (available separately), with altered graphics and all-new snow layers. The two versions are perfectly compatible and complimentary. PSD Photoshop files packs are also available for both versions.

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[Dave]

So what's the difference between the Winter Edition and the original version of the Mermaid Tavern?

They have the same geometry, so their parts are completely interchangeable. The Winter Edition obviously includes snow layers -- so many snow layers that I had to sacrifice several base textures in order to make room for them. If I hadn't cut back, there would have been something like 100 layers on some pages, and that's just crazy. Normally, I consider 30 layers to be plenty, but both versions of the Mermaid Tavern have some pages with more than 35 layers on them. The options on these sets are really out of control.

So what that means is, the Mermaid Tavern original version has a lot more base textures than the Winter Edition -- three layers of painted wood, stone walls, another brick wall texture, and more. The Winter Edition has fewer base textures, and these are all tweaked from the original version. The wood and brick are darker, and the half-timbered walls have been painted gold.

Both versions offer a ton of unique options. It'll be worth it to get one or the other or both.