I see some folks that share some of my blood trying to co-opt Scotland's glory as their own! So this sword isn't your classic "Scottish" sword. Oh well. The guy tried and its not a bad model. This person created something and all you have is fart gas. Do better, go ahead and do it, then upload the sword here. There's "Constructive criticism" and there's "being a jerk". Plus it's not 1745 anymore so pull in your claws, kittycats....and if you ask me what's so special about 1745, don't crow about being Scots any more!
the textures and especially the model are really not bad for your first work. gratulation! but it seems to me there is something messed up in the texture path. is it possible, that you have ported your sword model into any another sword mesh? because the textures of the sword are linked with some textures named "witchersheath.dds", within the "BSShaderTextureSet" block (in NifSkope block number 27). not fits to the actual texture names and pathes. you should edit this.
i noticed there are two "BSShaderTextureSet" blocks with different texture patches. one is enough. the correct block number is actually block "18" what have to be changed (silversword.dds and silversword_n.dds). if you have no idea how to edit this, i can make it for u in few minutes! also some other things within the block structure must be done, for a proper nif mesh.
Nothing wrong with it, look's just like a twisted hilt claymore to me, but thicken the blade slightly. Here is a matching image for all the nay sayers here, http://www.medievalswords.ws/two_handed_sword.html Hmm think you are up for making a flamberge.
Lad, in Scotland swords are swords and toothpicks are toothpicks. The two don't mix. This thing looks like it's more toothpick than sword, and it also looks like your stereotypical attempt at a claymore. Note the word stereotypical...also, the mod author apologizes for his terrible English? What the hell does anybody who's NOT Scottish have any business posting so called Scottish content? I agree with perrob..what does that thing have to do with his country exactly?
I agree it looks a tad light - but for a first weapon good bit of modding. I've handled a full two-handed sword and they are much more brutish than this. Having lived close to the Scots border (I'm English - get ready for the furious responses...! ) and been to many Scottish museums, I've seen quite a few of these original blades on display. This IS a Highlands (Scottish) "claymore" of circa 1400-1500s (claymore is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic (Gallic) 'claidheamh mòr' for "great sword" ). The angled quillons, and the quatrefoil tips (after the Great Seal of John Balliol the Scots King) were just one of many shapes used. The quilllon and quatrefoil design is probably made so popular these days by the many commercial replicas and films like Braveheart (Wallace's sword was not actually like this). All of which I suspect is why people call this a "Scottish sword". The ricasso section (upper portion of the blade) would have been leather covered. The great sword comes in many shapes and sizes from around mediaeval Europe and it is not unique to Scotland and, of course, as Perrob says, there were many other sword types in use in Scotland. The real thing would be much uglier, greyer and brutish - like the ones I have seen - complete with battle-notched blades. Gruesome! Thanks for this mod - to keep the peace I would suggest you change the tri-foils on the guard to quatrefoils! (With apologies to Scottish folk)
I am technically a Scot but live in England and if you are border blood by ancestry you may have Reaver ancestry, The border clan's, They swapped sides as and when it suited them in the border war's but where among some of the most ferocious scot's ever but then they had to be as they were constantly being raided by one side or the other during the border war's.
Not a drop of Reiver / Reaver blood in me! Quite a few of the families of course are in the area. Dodds, Robsons, etc., and in one part of my family the Creswells - dodgy lot they are!:-)
As a Scottish person I'm left wondering... what on earth does this have to do with me or my country ?
edit: Not trying to be rude, just genuinely have no idea why you've called it Scottish.
Here's a link to a pic of one of the many swords on display at the Dean Castle; about 0.5km from my home: http://www.futuremuseum.co.uk/collections/people/lives-in-key-periods/the-medieval-period-(1100ad-1499ad)/wars-of-independence/weapons/medieval-sword.aspx
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Here is a matching image for all the nay sayers here, http://www.medievalswords.ws/two_handed_sword.html
Hmm think you are up for making a flamberge.
Your an idiot,so what only scots can like scottish sword's ??,your a narrow minded bigot,the modern world has no place for you.
(With apologies to Scottish folk)
Not a drop of Reiver / Reaver blood in me! Quite a few of the families of course are in the area. Dodds, Robsons, etc., and in one part of my family the Creswells - dodgy lot they are!:-)
edit: Not trying to be rude, just genuinely have no idea why you've called it Scottish.
Here's a link to a pic of one of the many swords on display at the Dean Castle; about 0.5km from my home:
http://www.futuremuseum.co.uk/collections/people/lives-in-key-periods/the-medieval-period-(1100ad-1499ad)/wars-of-independence/weapons/medieval-sword.aspx
zuo de hen hao ma!
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