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it's taking more than expected for sure ,i really do not have much time in these days.
well...seems like i'm done with cuirass finally, must say it's decent... time to finish the other parts,should be uploaded during this week

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  1. CaBaL120
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    thank you all my friends, i'm sorry as usual for the lack of replies, but as always this summer i'm not at home because of real life work and can use internet just for few minutes in a day .
    to the book contributors screenarchers and modders: i hope you will not mad at me for my absence from may-june..i'm not ignoring your precious work just i got very few hours to actually prepare book updates,please have patience a bit more.
    1. 83Willow
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      Sweetie, just let me know when the armor is ready for some ingame tests, okay!^^ <3
    2. CaBaL120
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      thanks dear willow, i should be ready in a day or two for a beta...i'll be sure to let you know.
    3. Witcher5688
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      I'd Love to get a Beta Again and Take some screens
    4. Madcat221
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      Question to Willow and others who make CaBaL's screenshot galleries... do you use UNP or CBBE? UNP has a... IMO not well done Blades armor reconform. The waist and hips were properly widened (which they weren't on the vanilla version), but the chest plate is... stretched under the chest plates, retains the really ugly shape of the vanilla chest plates themselves, and also does the typical "reconformed to completely free un-bra'd breasts" job that makes me not really keen on any body models and their replacers out there currently. CBBE only touches armors that have bare skin portions (IIRC), though, so the Blades armor should use whatever wins the BSA archives (or is in the loose files folder)

      The USKP includes a lot of fixes to both the M and F Blades torso pieces (moreso the F) that I implemented when I was unsatisfied by the Vanilla Blades F mesh. I also fixed the Blades F gauntlets as well, so they didn't have these unnaturally skinny little fingers. There's a few more fixes in the pipe for USKP, but they're little nitpicks mostly (partition gaps, minor UVW nit with the skirt spike thingys)

      EDIT: Wow, looked at it some more, and there's some clipping and distortion going on with the pauldrons as well.

      If you want to make a truly flattering screenshot of the female Blades armor with this retex, I don't think the provided UNP reconform for the Blades F armor is up for it IMO.
  2. BlueCheese3
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    The Vanilla blades armor in desperate need of some improvement and it looks like we're gonna get it now. I'm really looking forward to this, the vanilla armor textures in the game looks even more hideous after seeing armors with aMidianBorn textures, the difference is like day and night I think the Forsworn armor probably has the worst looking vanilla texture at the moment, especially when compared to something like aMidianBorn Ebonymail/Ebony armor (my favorite AMB re-texture) but that's a whole other story
    1. CaBaL120
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      forsworn... well is depressing to even look at default files in photoshop...i have something done on it...but clearly needs much work...i'll do anyway.
    2. boerthi
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      another really bad texture is the heavy imperial set. just so ugly colour mismatching with AMBsteel
  3. Ithildin
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    Wow ... gorgeous work!
  4. amnis
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    A dream came true!
  5. UnitedStrafes
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    Wow, when you think it can't get any better.....
  6. xsbullx
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    Amazing as always Cabal. Really looking forward to this.
  7. MrFunseth
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    Exellent work CaBaL ! kudos to you ! :3
  8. kenriu
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    No te preocupes por si estamos esperando, que por las cosas buenas en esta vida hay que esperar lol. Éxito en todo lo q estas haciendo y gracias por tomarte el tiempo para compartir tu talento con toda la comunidad del Nexus.
  9. Witcher5688
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    Mhhhh can't wait to see the amb dawnguard Guild Armor retexture ^_^
    1. spectr3
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      ditto
    2. Yaruosu
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      +1000000
      Cause Dawguard armor is freaking badass, but daaaaaaaaaaaat textures make me cry.
    3. altairmw
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      Yessssss!
  10. zer0morph
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    Cabal,

    I'm just curious. If Bethesda hired you to just create armors and weapons and you worked around 40 hours per week, how many sets of armor or weapons could you do in... let's say a month?

    I mean your armors and weapons are so superior to the ones Bethesda's current armor/weapon creator did, It boggles my mind that they haven't flown you out to interview you for Fallout 4 (or whatever is coming next).
    1. CaBaL120
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      currently in more or less 15 hours i do an armor set(cuirass, boots gloves), something more if cuirass got male-female variant clearly.
      must been said that i spend much of my time trying to improve and fix normal maps, if i had original uncompressed normal in 9-10 hours an armor set should be ready...so about 3-4 maybe five in a week with some extra time...weapons are way easier...5 hours on a piece more or less.
      to have original uncompressed normal baked from high poly means also a huge improvement on final results... about 200% of quality...i currently have to work with compressed and resized to the limit normal maps which is, believe me, a damn huge handicap .
    2. zer0morph
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      That's amazing how much more you could do if Bethesda hired you. Would you ever consider working for them full time?

      As far as real life is concerned and your community of fans needing to be patient, dude take as much time as you need. You are massively improving OUR game for FREE on your own time giving us 100% professionalism and a major improvement compared to vanilla. We are at your mercy so you never need to apologize for anything.

      And THANK YOU for putting so much work into this for us, for FREE! A++++++ work!
  11. Kilen9999
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    Keep up the Fantastic work, will keep an eye out for this.