Skyrim - Slayer Armour

Lord McMutton

Step one to being a successful indie developer: Don't buy Skyrim. Don't even LOOK at Skyrim. Therefore, I have failed.

So I'm working on some custom armour. Plans also include a sword and sort-of shield.

Armour and sword:


And a heavily-armoured arm instead of a conventional shield:


Here's what I've got thus far:

Lord McMutton

A bit more, plus the sword:

Slaught

That armored gauntlet is a wicked cool idea!
I'm eager to see if you can make it work ingame.

Rest of the design is also cool although the bandages are a little too "anime" for my tastes.

FullSynch

Yeah there's an awful lot of that in here. I don't know if you care to stay within the confines of the universe or if you're just using it as an engine, but I would consider maybe working in some more nordic themed decoration and style.

MainManiac

Are you using a body from skyrim as your base?

Lord McMutton

Thanks, guys. I was planning on adding the nifty swirly engravings from the Nordic Plate armour to kinda tie it in.

Aye, Frell. It wouldn't do very well in game otherwise.

Finished the base textures on the torso:


And here's the specular. I've never really done one before; How'd I do?

zakhar2

Skyrims textures seem to be be much more photo based than what you have here. I know it still early, but I feel like you're leaning a little too heavily on the hand painted stuff.

Lord McMutton

I see what you mean, Zakhar. Perhaps a grime pass would do it good?


And speaking of dirt, a quick and dirty normal map:

Rurouni Strife

Your designs made me think a lot about Cloud's design in Kingdom Hearts 1.

Pancakes

I don't like any of Skyrim's default armores, except for the Thieves' guild Nightingale? armor. Or whatever it's called...basically I'm saying if you're armor doesn't match Skyrim's too much it might not be all bad

AlexCatMasterSupreme

I'd work on those colors and materials personally, they feel, odd, and they need SOME damage, looks too perfect.

MainManiac

Where did you find the skyrim human meshes?

almighty_gir

invert the green channel in your normalmap dude.

the design is very cool btw. really like it... but i think your lack of high poly to bake down to normals is going to hurt this piece.

Lord McMutton

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, I don't have a sculpt for the normals, but I'm going to do them by hand, which is close to almost kind of like the same thing.

Frell, if you use the FO3 Archive tool and unpack the Mesh.bsa, you'll find all of the base models in Data\meshes\actors\character\character assets

Attempted a grunge pass:

artstream

Marshal Banana wrote: »

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, I don't have a sculpt for the normals, but I'm going to do them by hand, which is close to almost kind of like the same thing.

To fit in with Skyrim, I really think that you'll want to make a high poly for generating your normals. There may be some assets in Skyrim that were done without a high poly, but for a character's armor, you'll want a high poly source.

MainManiac

Ok im viewing the skyrim character meshes in nifscope, what one is it exactly?

Is it the entire male_1 set?

Lord McMutton

The NIF's MaleHands_1, Malefeet_1, and Malebody_1 all correspond to the heaviest character weight. The ones with _0 at the end are for the lowest, and skyrim morphs between them to fit the character's weight.


Dat shield arm:



(The UV's for the skin aren't exporting for whatever reason, so I guess I'm made of frosted glass. Also, there aren't any normal maps or specular maps applied at the moment)

Lord McMutton