11-05-2007, 10:54 PM
I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in Visual Development, but since the topic is closely tied to the city and the board sparsely posted to I figured this would be the better place of the two.
So the topic of discussion is the armor donned by the Silgrad Guardians. They have a rather complex backstory you can read more about in this article, but if you don't feel like doing that then a simple explanation is that they're the guardforce in the city and wear special armor.
In our old mod their armor was a retexture of the Royal Guard armor from Tribunal. It looked pretty cool, but since we don't have or need a Royal Guard armor to retexture we need a new one modelled. (Besides, making a new armor for them look like the Royal Guard armor would be illogical.)
Their armor, called Blackbone, is a a blend of bonemold and adamantium and has a menacing look to it. Donny made this conept art of it a couple years ago:
Personally I always liked Donny's concept art. The only thing I wasn't so sure about was the ponytail on the helmet, but apart from that I think it conveys the blend of bonemold and adamantium well and also captures that menacing look. That's not to say I think it has to look exactly like that, there's plenty of room for a modeller to make his own interpretation of the armor concept, but if that's not an option then I think we wouldn't go wrong of the real armor looked like Donny's concept.
So, that's a bit of history and opinions from me. What do you guys think?
So the topic of discussion is the armor donned by the Silgrad Guardians. They have a rather complex backstory you can read more about in this article, but if you don't feel like doing that then a simple explanation is that they're the guardforce in the city and wear special armor.
In our old mod their armor was a retexture of the Royal Guard armor from Tribunal. It looked pretty cool, but since we don't have or need a Royal Guard armor to retexture we need a new one modelled. (Besides, making a new armor for them look like the Royal Guard armor would be illogical.)
Their armor, called Blackbone, is a a blend of bonemold and adamantium and has a menacing look to it. Donny made this conept art of it a couple years ago:
![[Image: thumb_Donny_Blackbone_Armor_B_full.jpg]](http://gallery.silgrad.com/albums/userpics/Donny_Blackbone_Armor_B_full.jpg)
Personally I always liked Donny's concept art. The only thing I wasn't so sure about was the ponytail on the helmet, but apart from that I think it conveys the blend of bonemold and adamantium well and also captures that menacing look. That's not to say I think it has to look exactly like that, there's plenty of room for a modeller to make his own interpretation of the armor concept, but if that's not an option then I think we wouldn't go wrong of the real armor looked like Donny's concept.
So, that's a bit of history and opinions from me. What do you guys think?
