Like many Items in the game, the king's shield was one of those items that "I think is cool, except..." in this case it was the black leather background to the metal emblem found on the front of the shield. At first I just brightened the black part and messed with the reflection map to make it shiny like metal.

It worked, but I found myself bothered by the blank metal on the shield, and figured I should add a pattern to it. Seeing as I suck at making original art, i decided to take the pattern found on the breastplate for Syan's armor. It took a lot of tweaking to get it to look just right, using the bumpmaps for Syan's armor and without ruining the bumpmaps for the shield's emblem, but after lots of messing around, I finally ended up with something I was happy with.

Disclaimer: the normal map and reflection map for the altered shield look weird when viewed outside the game, but I think the in-game screenshots speak for themselves.

Update: In an attempt to add more color to the texture, as well as make the drangleic emblem stand out more like it did originally, I added a version where the emblem is gold. Whether you like it as is, or want the new version is up to you.


Obligatory Installation Instructions:

Make sure you have GeDoSaTo installed, just google it, im too lazy to provide a link.

Enable texture override by opening GeDoSaTo.ini and changing enabletextureoverride false to true.

Within the GeDoSaTo folder, go to textures/DarkSoulsII/override (make the directory if it doesn't exist) and extract the .rar file there.

make sure to enable GeDoSaTo before launching the game.