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The only thing I find kind of weird are the scratches on the inside of the shield, especially the big ones around the handle that look like an axe or a sword hit that part. I mean isn´t that the side of the shield that is protected and the outer side the one that catches all the hits? I really like your style of a bit more worn out and used armor, that was just the first thing that crossed my mind when seeing this picture.
Anyway, amazing texture. I´m really looking forward to the new version!
some more damage and dirt will be added in the outer part for sure, this is not 100% complete, something in the central buckler is a must
I´m sure you´ll do fine, just as always
But I guess that goes a bit off topic
Check out the chain optional effect
miraak sword you say.... i should really start to play official dlc one day or another :/
if something similar is in game... could be actually used as a start
you know?...i'll ask to a friend if he can help me with the model and see if we can manage something decent about flails, thanks for the precious tip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9BwmmFoOw
whips could be more difficult...polygons and skeleton stuff i guess.
well....let's see what happens!
The longer the chain, the harder it would be (it's the chain your actually animating). A flail along the line of a weponised farming tool with just 2 rings holding both parts of the flail would be a lot easier to actually produce.
Anyway good luck with it
@Monstercookie
I know, it's not like Skyrim is short of a few tombs to rob either
Just throwing that idea out there.
Can I ask how your getting away without using an evn mask in Skyrim? Can a trick with the specular do the job for you? Does that mean you don't use a cube map either?
I've seen a few guys use a sort of b/w diffuse and use that as an env mask in the slot in nifskope but I've never come across a workflow that successfully removes them and still gets quality results.
Interested is all
well this is simple... vanilla model for this object does not use envmap+envmask, armor and weapons instead use them... now to make things match there are 2 option:
1 keep the same color and specularity of the other pieces but add cube (env) map- mask into nif file with settings
2 you do not use env and tweak specularity to be brighter and color map saturation -hue to match game color of other pieces.
i used the second option to not compromise compatibility... the difficult part is to compensate saturation well.
actually almost black and white diffuse + envmap work just fine if correctly set, my ebony armor is something like that, is good to "neutralize " with dark grey or black the specular map where the envmask is brighter in this case...to avoid redundant reflections.... at least i did that way and worked well.
envmap overrides always diffuse color, you actually need a quite bright envMASK and a custom envMAP (vanilla stock env are not very suitable...low res and not well tiled) a pretty saturated and with some contrast env will do the job in case of black and white diffuse.
this is a very usefull link for env basic creation and use ingame ...is for fallout but skyrim is almost the same:
http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/165322-environment-mapping-in-fallout-3/
very important is the proper tiling of cube sections... something that is not particularry well done in skyrim (current gpu manage decently also wrong tiling) proper tiling of cube gives imo much better results btw, so take a look.
Thanks for the reply mate, can only imagine how busy you are so it's well appreciated.
I've not had much luck creating my own Env maps, by the sound of it because I was using vanilla ones as a base so thanks a million for that link, already absorbed into memory!
Keep up the awesome work mate, the only complaint I have is you need to stop raising the bar with every mod you release and making the rest of us look bad
I don't know if you are ironic or not but this is how it works in both bussiness world and in modding world. You advertise to achieve the best product in the market and Cabal does that very well.
Just continue raising the bar cabal. You don't have to stay restricted because of others thinking it is unfair. Me and other modders will learn from you and other sources aswell in time being.
Hopefully you'll figure it out but if not feel free to scold me by PM, here's not the place.
Trevligt att träffas
peace
but why scratch at the metal where the handle side? When someone hold the shield, they've to hold the handle, and as the shield being hold up, no way sword strikes would be able to scratch that metal surface like that, those scratch look even more deep than the scratch on the metal where would get strike at most of the time.