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A re-texture & mesh replacer offering 3 alternate replacers for the Vanilla Daedric armor using modified assets created by mmccarthy4. A project I created for my personal use and decided to upload. Replaces male & female armor, helmets, and shield. Texture & meshes, NO .ESP required.

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A project I created for my personal use and decided to upload. This is a simple re-texture & mesh replacer for the Vanilla Daedric armor
using modified assets from mmccarthy4. Replaces male & female armor, helmets, and shield. The lore is vague, but seems to agree that the armor involves merging ebony with a Daedric Vestige - I decided that this allows for some variation, and as such offer several themes. Matches well with my own Simply Brutal Daedric Weapons replacer shown in the screenshots.

Tremendous thanks to mmccarthy4 for creating the original meshes/textures & giving me permission to use them! I only re-textured them, adjusted them in NIFScope, and recompiled them as drop-in replacers. Full credit is due to them for their hard work in modeling & crafting these amazing armor sets.

There are 3 versions to choose from:
  • Noble Daedric: the royal immortal. Something a bit more ornate with a matching hooded helm.
  • Gothic Plate: the corrupted knight. Aggressive, dark, and brutal.
  • Steelthorn Plate: the ruthless warrior. Glorious, shining, and unstoppable.

Optional Files:
  • Alternate helmet versions (see Screenshots)
  • NEW: Optional version with .ESP plug-in. Created by JamieArcane, it: "adds all the variants as items into the game, includes the entire Noble and Steelthorn Sets, alongside the Curiass and gloves from the Gothic Set, and the Alt Helmet design. Since the Gothic and Steelthorn Helmets, boots and shield were similar they were excluded. Everything has crafting recipes, tempering recipes and have been added to the leveled lists.
    So anywhere a regular Daedric armor would show up, one of the variants can be found." Please note I did not create this myself, and thus I will not be supporting it. All credit & any questions & credit should go to them!

Entirely lore-friendly to the purpose of daedric armor, because the purpose of daedric armor is to look BADASS.

NO .ESP for the main file!
This is a stand-alone set which will be part of my larger .esp-less weapons & armor replacer coming soon. (I will not be making standalone versions at this time, since I am focused on getting the whole project out).

Notes:
  • Primarily 2k textures with some 4k, heavily modified from the originals.
  • Cubemaps assigned to the armor are unique and can be exchanged with one of your own choosing or from another mod - feel free to experiment!
  • The Gothic version has distinct male & female armor, but no weight difference. I had some trouble getting the meshes to work properly. (Long version: The original models were armor_1.nif & armor_0.nif. When I tried to use these for the *_1.nif & *_0.nif of the female & male armor respectively, I got massive errors, and so I used the _1.nif mesh for the male armor & the _0.nif mesh for the female armor which produced no errors. I'm inexperience so feel free to PM me with tips.)
  • There are some clipping issues, mostly with the boots. I do not have the skills to fix this, but PM me if you have any solutions. (I chose not to use the original boot models since I wanted something heavier - but they can easily be replaced and matching textures for mmccarthy4's  boot meshes are included.)
  • Poor orientation viewing as menu items - I do not know how to fix this.

As always, let me know of any issues and I'll see what I can do! Thanks for reading.

Coming Soon
:
-some adjustments as needed to make things more consistent & resolve any problems.
-possible cubemap updates.
-organizing the texture folder structure to make the files less scattered.
-possibly tweaking the Gothic plate to allow for weight differences.
-possibly adding darker versions that look more like ebony.


Special thanks:
To mmcccrthy4 -  their work was the inspiration for this project, so please check out their amazing mods. Additional thanks to ShadowofRayden whose ProjectNordwarUA was the inspiration for this project & my more comprehensive replacer coming soon.

Porting, modification, or re-use of this work is ONLY allowed with permission of the original authors of the assets used. BUT if you have a patch, fix, or tweak you've created, feel free to let me know and I will happily upload it here with full credit to you.


Credits:
Revenants of the Forbidden Order by mmccarthy4
Project Veil of Death: Dreaded Relics by mmccarthy4
Blackened Steel Weapon and Armour by mmccarthy4
Boots & shields both modified from meshes & textures by NordwarUA
Cubemaps by Kartoffels and TheBlenderAnimator (Special thanks to TheBlenderAnimator for permission!)
Cathedral Player and NPC Overhaul - HMB II & Nordic Faces - Immersive Characters Overhaul used for screenshots along with Wander.