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Psychotic
Jarl of Skyrim

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Nordic Shields

I was bored so I decided to make a shield and I came up with this - a Sun Shield.

The only thing that I don't like is that the mesh is not a perfect circle, it's a bit elongated... but no big deal. I'll make a few more btw. Yes

So how does it look? Just so it's clear, the mesh is a stock OB mesh... nope, still haven't learned to model.

This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by Psychotic: 04.01.2007 14:13.

04.01.2007 13:58

Mormacil
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04.01.2007 14:06

unholyalliance
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Looks Great Psy! Good job!

Just wondering. Could we get a pic of what it looks like on a character?

Cheers

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04.01.2007 14:50

Liquid Cheese
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Looks unique. Save it for a unique shield, like a quest shield or something.

04.01.2007 18:45

Mormacil
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Like the quests you had with Solstheim were the sun was trapped

This could be a very nice quest, perhaps either fire or frostshield, or light on self, Blind on target(who faces the player, maybe just hostiles Wink

)

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04.01.2007 18:51

Psychotic
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quote:

Originally posted by Mormacil
Like the quests you had with Solstheim were the sun was trapped

This could be a very nice quest, perhaps either fire or frostshield, or light on self, Blind on target(who faces the player, maybe just hostiles Wink

)

Yeah, it will be used for a quest or something. Yes

Blinding enemies was just what I had in mind, but someone will need to make a script so that the player doesn't have to cast an actual blind spell... even better if the spell would work only on enemies that are in front of the player.

I have a simple request to make.

Can someone re-UV map the Skingrad townguard shield? I want to be able to place one continuous image over the entire face of the shield without any mirroring of that image. The part of the texture I colored green (see the image of the Skingrad townguard shield texture below) is mirrored along the vertical and horizontal axis of the shield, and the blue part is attached to the middle of the shield without any mirroring.

Basically what I need is for the whole front surface of the shield to be like the blue part, no mirroring, no nothing, just one continuous image. This mirroring thing is a real pain when I try to apply one none symmetrical image to the whole front surface of the shield.
I don't know a lot about UV mapping, but I don't think this is difficult to do.

So if someone can help me out I would really appreciate it... and I will be able to make more unique shields.

Psychotic has attached this image (downsized version):

shieldUV.jpg (43.44 KB)

This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by Psychotic: 04.01.2007 19:41.

04.01.2007 19:38

mirrored
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Wow that's awesome! How did you do the texture? Good job!

04.01.2007 19:42

Psychotic
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quote:

Originally posted by mirrored
Wow that's awesome! How did you do the texture? Good job!

I drew it on paper and fixed it up in Photoshop!

Hehe... not really.

It's just an image I found on the net, I simply attached it to the default texture for the shield texture in PS and made the entire thing golden... easy as pie.

It's really proof that you can make cool things without a lot of effort. Tongue

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04.01.2007 19:48

Siesta Guru
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quote:

Originally posted by Psychotic

quote:

Originally posted by Mormacil
Like the quests you had with Solstheim were the sun was trapped

This could be a very nice quest, perhaps either fire or frostshield, or light on self, Blind on target(who faces the player, maybe just hostiles Wink

)

Yeah, it will be used for a quest or something. Yes

Well the casting of the blind spell to guys in front of you aint that hard (could be pretty cpu intensive though)... the problem is the blinding, how the hell do you want to simulate that??

Nice shield btw

Edit: Now that I think of it, me confusion spell (the one with the goblins running of cliffs :p) could actually look like blinding with some imagination.

Edit2: Actually it doesnt, blinded people would grab there eyes, not run around like chickens without heads.

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04.01.2007 19:56

Mormacil
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In MW blinding made it nerly impossible to hit your enemy and darkened your screen.

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04.01.2007 20:04

Ghogiel
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Learn to UV it yourself! It's a bloody shield. Its flat. It's already UVed. It doesn't get any easier!

JK

It's a relatively simple task for certain. I'm falling asleep right now. But it's not even 8pm yet....so I'll take care of that. though it'll only fill up 10mins..

Edit:
http://download.yousendit.com/E6C934B91504809E

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c85/lego-botz/shield_sk_uv.gif

I didn't touch anything besides making the front face complete. the wood back of the shield has been rotated 90os (the red bit) an moved to save space.
the green bit is actually what is the rim around the shied but at the back.Its left exactly how it is on the original shield. I could do something with that... but then I would probably have to press more than 1 button Tongue

. Hope its not a bother. The blue is the handle.

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04.01.2007 20:34

Psychotic
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quote:

Originally posted by Ghogiel
learn to UV it yourself! Its a bloody shield. Its flat. Its already UVed. It doesn't get any easier!

JK

Its relatively simple task for certain. I'm falling asleep right now. but its not even 8pm yet....so I'll take care of that. though it'll only fill up 10mins.....

brb

Cool! Great! Dope!

You are right actually, as soon as I find my copy of 3dMax (I really should be more careful when borrowing CDs Tongue

) I'm gonna take a look at a few tuts. Yes

04.01.2007 20:56

Ghogiel
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^ bump

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04.01.2007 21:00

Psychotic
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quote:

Originally posted by Ghogiel
^ bump

It's perfect, thanks! Good job!

04.01.2007 21:04

Psychotic
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Thanks to Ghogiel here is a new shield... the Silver Rose (yeah I like shiny things

). Also a screenshot of the Sun Shield on a character.

Psychotic has attached these images (downsized versions):

04.01.2007 22:29

The Old Ye Bard
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Very nice

04.01.2007 22:34

Gustave
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They look great Good job!

That silver rose one is really nice.

04.01.2007 22:43

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quote:

Originally posted by Mormacil
In MW blinding made it nerly impossible to hit your enemy and darkened your screen.

In oblivion they always hit, you can lower their damage but it wouldn't look like there blinded Frown

I rememebr there was some way of darkening the screen with shaders but no clue hoe wit works.

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04.01.2007 22:43

unholyalliance
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I love the silver rose shield. Great Job

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04.01.2007 23:04

Alasdair
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The sun shield is great! Good job!

04.01.2007 23:08

Psychotic
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Silver Raven shield (NifScope screenshot, too lazy to open the CS Tongue

)... for the knights the Silver Raven obviously.

Psychotic has attached this image (downsized version):

NifSkope 2007-01-05 02-34-27-81.jpg (35.13 KB)

05.01.2007 02:37

Ghogiel
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How many shields do we have now? lol

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05.01.2007 07:28

Psychotic
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I made a new thread for the potential Blind spell by moving the related posts from this thread.

For further discussion of the Blind spell see this thread.

@Ghogiel: You mean how many shields in the whole mod? A lot... Who was it that said "You can never have enough shields!"? Perhaps it was me.

I made another silver shield! Well whoop-ti-do!

Of course you can't have a Sun Shield and not have a Moon Shield... so I made one! Pleased

A shot of the Moon Shield on the left and a shot of all the shields on the right:

Psychotic has attached these images (downsized versions):

And I made an Elk shield (I need a better name for this one Tongue

). Btw, this one is from wood, the front face is painted.

Psychotic has attached this image (downsized version):

TESConstructionSet 2007-01-05 16-55-14-65.jpg (76.08 KB)

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05.01.2007 13:37

Siesta Guru
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Man you suck at texturing, that doesnt even look like an elk Eek 1

Nah it looks great, just like the moon shield

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05.01.2007 17:14

Ghogiel
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Lol. They look good and all... but like... I think players will probably start some running joke about Skyrim, shields, and never seeing the same one twice. Yes

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05.01.2007 18:30

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Can you guys also texture armor and swords? that would be great

(although most shields are great already, but you made more shields then there are in vanilla)

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05.01.2007 18:49

Ghogiel
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Psychotic has done both a nice armor and a nice weapon set retex. So not to speak for him, but yeah he can.

I could...but well...texturing is EVIL, all texturers are EVIL too.

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05.01.2007 19:06

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Yeh I know, but thats 1 cuirass (ok a few more and some weapons) vs 500 shields?

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05.01.2007 19:09

Ghogiel
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He can. can being the operative word. lol

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05.01.2007 19:19

Psychotic
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I re-textured a complete armor for the Bear Legion, see it here. I also re-textured one complete weapon set, the Nordic silver weapon set. I also put together the snow bear cuirass in NifScope, but I only recently found out how to make it work in the CS (and in-game)... I'll post that soon.

Anyway I like re-texturing shields, it's quick and simple work. Tongue

05.01.2007 19:43

Ghogiel
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quote:

Originally posted by Psychotic
. I also put together the snow bear cuirass in NifScope, but I only recently found out how to make it work in the CS (and in-game)... I'll post that soon.

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05.01.2007 20:12

Psychotic
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Actually you can forget the snow bear cuirass. Tongue

Sure I made it work in the CS, but it looked terrible. Basically the meshes I was trying to glue together in NifScope don't fit well together... nothing I can do about it as far as NifScope goes.

05.01.2007 20:44

Ghogiel
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TOYB asked about the rest of the bear armor........I am hesitant to atempt.

I have throughly studied the tes3 mesh, the details on the texture. I have been tempted. but leaving it as of the near future atleast. its actually quite a nice cuirass and pauldron set. and the gauntlets could be very nice.

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05.01.2007 21:13

The Old Ye Bard
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quote:

Originally posted by Ghogiel
TOYB asked about the rest of the bear armor........I am hesitant to atempt.

I have throughly studied the tes3 mesh, the details on the texture. I have been tempted. but leaving it as of the near future atleast. its actually quite a nice cuirass and pauldron set. and the gauntlets could be very nice.

[Whispers] Yes it would look very nice wouldn't it, come on, you know you want to, do it, just do it, submit to the whispering and make the cuirass Yes

[/Whispers]

05.01.2007 21:16

Psychotic
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quote:

Originally posted by The Old Ye Bard

quote:

[Whispers] Yes it would look very nice wouldn't it, come on, you know you want to, do it, just do it, submit to the whispering and make the cuirass Yes

[/Whispers]

*Threatens to clubber Ghogiel if he doesn't make the armor like a true Nord would do.*

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05.01.2007 21:18

Liquid Cheese
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In medieval times, armour would be very similar in comparison to the thousands of different shield emblems there would be. Think about it, there aren't really that many variations in armour materials and there a probably a few different styles you could have for each material, whereas there is an infinite number of emblems you could have on a shield and a lot would be unique, then there are loads of different shapes and materials too.

I don't think time is wasted on making shields at all, asthetic variations amongst armour is a step towards realism.

06.01.2007 00:27

Smokindan
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Excellent work as always, Psych! Good job!

And I agree with LC; although it would be nice to see some different Skyrim armour

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06.01.2007 11:37