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About this mod

Brings the Mastercrafted Feline armour from the Witcher 3 to Skyrim, with new textures, a female version and a small hunt for the diagrams.

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Introduction

This mod adds the Mastercrafted Feline Armour for males and females to the game.

"But wait," you exclaim, "wasn't there already a version on the steam workshop?"
To that I say yes, but that version has a lot less things than this one.
About

This version has environment maps. You know the reflection off of the ebony armor in amidianborn's pack? Yeah, that's the work of environment maps. 
I also added specular maps. The difference between metal and leather is now very noticeable.
To top it off, the normal maps have been updated too. Mostly the leather parts have, as they now have incredible amounts of detail; you can see the fine leather texturing when viewed in a good environment. The diffuse maps for the main body have been refined too, as I found them too blurry to be used alongside these high-res normal maps.
Lastly there's now a female version. This is something the original mod did not have in the first place and is the reason why I started working on this project.
And of course there's full weight support.
When using NLA2 ENB which has weather-specific settings the environment and specular maps get accentuated when raining, which gives a very nice wet look to the armour. I highly suggest testing it out, or with any other ENB that has this feature! These textures have been made for this kind of scenario, so your armor looks wet when raining and dry when it's not.

HUGE thanks to Hodilton for showcasing my mod! He really puts it in a good light, as always.


How to Acquire

Like most of my mods I make for myself, I do not like plopping it into the crafting menu and calling it a day. That's UNIMMERSIVE. Especially for characters who don't smith like spellswords or what have you. This mod is a slight exception, as the acquisition method in the original games was by crafting. Thus, you have to obtain the crafting diagrams!
You can play the game normally until you find them, or more likely, the way to obtain them, but you could also look in this very nice spoiler box below to see where your treasure hunt should start.
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Go to the Old Hroldan Inn. You will find a note to Eydis on the left side of the counter. Read it, and travel to the location mentioned. I advise not to fast travel, but if you choose to do so it won't really spoil everything, just make it less enjoyable.


Stats

I don't know, it's good? The main body has an armour rating of 38 so that must be good, right? It's a cool set and you'll probably won't wear anything else, otherwise you wouldn't have downloaded the mod. Go play the game and enjoy it.

Credits

Thanks to Hanzo at Steam for making the initial version, this wouldn't have possible without their help.
To CD Projekt RED, for creating the original assets.
And to google, to aid me in SO MANY WAYS by supplying me with endless amounts of textures and references.

If you are interested in a gameplay mod that has no connection to this one, except that it's made by the same author, check out Skyrim Unleveled. It does exactly as it says on the tin and some more. 
I've also taken part of the Grandmaster Ursine Armor; I've made the female version, made the illustrations for the crafting schematics, added the credo pauldrons and painted them, and made the colored versions of both types of gauntlets.