It looks like a pretty awesome armor for female archers.
Man I wish I was good at modding 3D, I can barely navigate myself through photoshop. So are you saying perhaps we will see different mesh variations to this armor? How much customization is possible though? its not that I would delete something entirely but perhaps shorten the armor/red vest combo to just bellow the breasts. Something akin to a sports bra but obviously very different (hehe)
You can duplicate pieces, reshape pieces, delete pieces to your hearts content or mix and match with other armors.
For example take a look at my last armor ( scarlet dawn ) and then look at zzjay's wardrobe. As you could probably notice, he/she used some of my assets to create new stuff. The same can be done with this armor.
The only limiting factor are the textures ( I have fake lighting baked in them, because skyrim's engine works best with that, so some pieces will have shadows on them even if the piece that was casting the shadow is removed/deleted ). Also most of the meshes don't have a back ( aren't double sided) to reduce polycount and optimize textures. That can also be a limiting factor depending on what you want to do.
I know we are going a bit off topic but what tool would I need to use to edit these meshes? also what I plan to do is something similar to the picture below. ignore pretty much everything except the chest piece. http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/143/e/b/katarina_by_janicesung-d66aitg.jpg
So what I plan to do... if I can (lol) is link the leather/armor covering the breasts to the diamond in the middle (just so the breasts don't seem to be too exposed). As you can see your armor has 4 rows of leather strips/bars, I want to reduce that to only one or two rows and have that circular piece that is currently linking the third row to be moved up to the first/second row of the armor. as for the red vest, probably delete the bottom half making sure any 'uglyness' is hidden behind the leather armor I edited or removing it completely if need be.
Thats the plan anyway, I have no clue what level of skill I need to possess to make this happen though. If it gets too complicated I will settle for just removing all the rows (and the red vest) just leaving the 'bra/bikini'. though I would still need to link the two parts on the breasts to the diamond in the middle, that's something I think I need to do regardless.
We are getting pretty off topic indeed, it would be best to continue this with PMs if you have further questions.
To edit the armor, you'd need 3ds max / maya/blender or other 3d applications that have similar functions. Doesn't really matter which for this task, as long as it has a nif exporter. It's pretty easy to do, but you still need to have at least a basic understanding of how to app and modeling tools work and the process of exporting for game use after editing. If you've never used a 3d program, it could be a bit daunting, bit it should be doable.
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10/10 on the rest though!
Man I wish I was good at modding 3D, I can barely navigate myself through photoshop.
So are you saying perhaps we will see different mesh variations to this armor?
How much customization is possible though? its not that I would delete something entirely but perhaps shorten the armor/red vest combo to just bellow the breasts.
Something akin to a sports bra but obviously very different (hehe)
For example take a look at my last armor ( scarlet dawn ) and then look at zzjay's wardrobe. As you could probably notice, he/she used some of my assets to create new stuff. The same can be done with this armor.
The only limiting factor are the textures ( I have fake lighting baked in them, because skyrim's engine works best with that, so some pieces will have shadows on them even if the piece that was casting the shadow is removed/deleted ). Also most of the meshes don't have a back ( aren't double sided) to reduce polycount and optimize textures. That can also be a limiting factor depending on what you want to do.
also what I plan to do is something similar to the picture below. ignore pretty much everything except the chest piece.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/143/e/b/katarina_by_janicesung-d66aitg.jpg
So what I plan to do... if I can (lol) is link the leather/armor covering the breasts to the diamond in the middle (just so the breasts don't seem to be too exposed).
As you can see your armor has 4 rows of leather strips/bars, I want to reduce that to only one or two rows and have that circular piece that is currently linking the third row to be moved up to the first/second row of the armor.
as for the red vest, probably delete the bottom half making sure any 'uglyness' is hidden behind the leather armor I edited or removing it completely if need be.
Thats the plan anyway, I have no clue what level of skill I need to possess to make this happen though.
If it gets too complicated I will settle for just removing all the rows (and the red vest) just leaving the 'bra/bikini'. though I would still need to link the two parts on the breasts to the diamond in the middle, that's something I think I need to do regardless.
To edit the armor, you'd need 3ds max / maya/blender or other 3d applications that have similar functions. Doesn't really matter which for this task, as long as it has a nif exporter. It's pretty easy to do, but you still need to have at least a basic understanding of how to app and modeling tools work and the process of exporting for game use after editing. If you've never used a 3d program, it could be a bit daunting, bit it should be doable.