Armour and Weapon Assignations to Factions

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Thanks for the feedback, ladies. I'm in agreement with you both although I would like to mix up some of the TesNexus resources with our own for the Factions. As Koniption pointed out, some of the 'all-natural' stuff would be hard to resist and I think that the likes of the Shadowscales and the Royal Court (and maybe the Arnesian Velothi too) would need something a little more than what we already have for them.

During my browsing, I came across the Ordinator armours by Cryo: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/images...956554.jpg . Initially, I'd have liked to have used them for the Royal Court but I've a feeling that the lore monkeys would throw their bananas at me for transgressing into Morrowind territory so I wondered if they'd be appeased if I changed the scarf texture to one more befitting of a Marsh folk and their culture? Otherwise, might they be worn by the Arnesian Velothi?

In the meantime, I'd like to use Prince Nuada's weapons for the Royal Court and, whilst I love Nico's scimitars and feel that they have a place here, I'm thinking that maybe the Shadow weapons would work well for the Shadowscales....

Edit - I shall leave this thread running for a while but I'd like to get these details finalised so I can work on introducing the models into the game. I made progress getting some of the old models sorted today but I may use vanilla models as a basis for configuring the stats until we know better about how this plays out.

[DoZeNt]

hmm.. How about making a "Panther pelt armour set"?

Or we can use some other creature..
Possibly, it can be a retexture of the ordinary leather or fur cuirass...

Btw, this is a shield I just made.. Dunno how to name it

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Looks nice but I can't quite tell what texture that is exactly. Is it scaled or is it merely mossy iron? If it's mossy iron, it will work nicely with the marsh cutlass. And yes, I'll be checking out which 'hides' and 'pelts' I can use as well for the armour

[DoZeNt]

yeah, I guess its mossy iron...

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Good! Let me know when you're done and send over the files. I'm still in the process of dealing with weapons and armour.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

These are initial weapons testing screenshots using the old weapons that have now had their stats tweaked and the models put into the correct slots in the CS (prepared for use in other words). I'm particularly fond of the Shikah (the last one) which has an animal-skin handle (but a slightly dodgy sheath that doesn't really fit right).

There may be a small problem with the other stuff that's already been sorted by the previous team. Some models are missing whilst others such as the bonebow and junglebow have errors of some sort that I'll have to sort out. This is necessary because these models are supposed to be in use by some objects....so there must be some dodgy references somewhere that lead to nothing....

I am working on adding the RealSwords and other weapons now and will submit an Excel doc when I'm done.

[Lady Nerevar]

the indoril armor would need a retex and probably some mesh modification (depending on how its made this could easily be done in nifskope) to make it look more unique. having ordinator armor used for anything but ordinators is major loar raeps. the spear and the sword are nice, im not too sure about the rest (being that they are just recolors, goes on my last "cluttered archive" post). the real swords will definitely be a nice addition.

[edit] checked on the ordinator armor, it looks to be easily customizable. i recommend switching out some of the parts, such as the lower paldrons and skirts (both separate strips in nifskope) with something from vanilla and texturing it, that should achieve a sufficiently unique look.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

Many of those weapons were basic standards. They weren't not supposed to be anything flashy. However, some of these new RealSwords are a little cooler. I'm very fond of the 'Barbed Leaf' (#3) despite it's unimpressive size, the Dragoon and the Kriss Basket (the piratey ones). The textures are a little dull on some of them though. I will certainly be mixing in some vanilla ones and adding some flashier quest prizes for the PC. The likes of the Shadowscales and some Guilds also warrant particularly impressive weaponry.

All of the weapons shown have been introduced into the CS properly now and I'm keeping an Excel doc of the stats.

Regarding the Indoril armour, yes, I'll be retexturing some of it, perhaps a lot of it. I may take my time over it though. I want it to look quite impressive.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

For reference purposes, I added a link to the concept designs on armour from the previous team here: CLAIM: Armour and Weapon Assignations to Factions . This is the post just above. Anyone with weapon modelling or texturing skills can have a crack at these. Some of them we already have the textures for so it should prove fairly easy in some cases.

[Ibsen's Ghost]

I've been checking up on the armour that I just added along with the weaponry from v2.09. It all looks rather nice until....oh dear....that Ram Helm is really screwy.

I was sort of laughing until I got to the Crododile Helm and it displayed a similar fault....looks like the croc ate my head before I could make a decent helm out of him. A product of both Morsyth and Koniption, this is a fabulous helm but it's been a bugger trying to get it into the game....there's many more screenies on the way....btw, if you allow your mouse to hover over the pic for a short while, it will tell you which piece of armour you're about to click on.