Millenia's All Things Skyrim [WIP/RLS]

Millenia

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1754

Because I'm unoriginal and a slave of my ways, I started doing a weapon retexture project for TES V: Skyrim, much like the one I worked on for Fallout: New Vegas.

Most of the weapons ingame are 512x256 or 512^2, so it's pretty necessary for any first person players.

I started doing them yesterday and I already released the first thing (Iron Battleaxe)



Now I'm working on the Iron Dagger:

SimonT

i loved your work from new vegas. the axe is cool but i have some points:

1. i think the occlusion between leather and wood is too strong
2. wood and leather really seem to have the same color - more material differences would be cool
3. the metal structure looks a bit blobby/round - remembers me on LARP weapons where the "metal" parts are made of latex...

Millenia

SimonT wrote: »

i loved your work from new vegas. the axe is cool but i have some points:

1. i think the occlusion between leather and wood is too strong
2. wood and leather really seem to have the same color - more material differences would be cool
3. the metal structure looks a bit blobby/round - remembers me on LARP weapons where the "metal" parts are made of latex...

Thanks for the pointers Simon, I'll keep it in mind! This is certainly a learning experience as the material is a lot different than I'm used to & I'm a noob to sculpting (prolly why it's so blobby and not very sharp)

Is the dagger sculpt looking better so far?

[HP]

So far so good, good stuff!

Lucas Annunziata

Very cool. Did bethesda release the GECK for Skyrim yet? If not, how'd ya get it in there?

Millenia

darbeenbo wrote: »

Very cool. Did bethesda release the GECK for Skyrim yet? If not, how'd ya get it in there?

Nope, it's just a texture edit (which are regular DDS files)
What I'm doing doesn't even require an SDK really

Slightly unfinished normal map w/ placeholder materials
Gotta redo the handle details, but I'm really pleased with the metal normal.

LRoy

I would go a bit easier on the metal. You're using one of the hard surface brushes in Zbrush to get that hammered look, but a dagger is fairly small and that would have to be an even smaller hammer. I would try to do it less uniformly over the surface and keep it to a few areas.

Looks good though

Millenia

LRoy wrote: »

I would go a bit easier on the metal. You're using one of the hard surface brushes in Zbrush to get that hammered look, but a dagger is fairly small and that would have to be an even smaller hammer. I would try to do it less uniformly over the surface and keep it to a few areas.

Looks good though

I'll keep that in mind for the next one, thanks! I actually use 3dcoat which isn't as nice for hard surface stuff at least, but it has that neat auto voxel retopo which is a lifesaver when sculpting messy meshes

Millenia

Is the metal sculpt looking subtler now? I tried to tone it down.

sltrOlsson

The hammer indets should be bigger. It's great with the small ones, but they disapear most of the time course of more powerful blows. What you have done is something that would be found on a copper sword.

My brother is a blacksmith but he's site dosn't really show that many closeups. Here one that shows some of it.

Btw, look at the intersecting parts. There not really one piece.

Keep it up!

Millenia

Thanks! The reason it's all in one piece is because I just imported the default model into 3dCoat and ran the automatic voxel retopo which kinda merges it together, since I can't be arsed to do every single weapon "properly".

I'll keep messing with the hammer indents, then. Keep the tips coming, guys!

Millenia

Working on Mehrunes' Razor..

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Dagon

The quality of your work is amazing just like all the other artists on here I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work. Do you model your weapons low poly as a base first then go into sculpting with all the detail?

Millenia

If they were my own I would, but with these I'm taking the vanilla low poly, mucking with that in Max, importing into 3d coat with its automatical voxel retopo, a quick smooth pass then sculpt the shit outta it :P

sneakymcfox

These look really good, I was wondering how you get hold of the models/DDS files, have looked but I can't find an unpacker anywhere

LRoy

Looking good man. I just got that dagger and I wish I had this one. If anything I'd say the hilt looks like you didn't spend as much time on it as the other parts.

PaulP

Cool work Millenia, the Mehrunes' Razor is looking real nice.

Millenia

I updated it into the main release.

Stromberg90

Looks great

Millenia

Dagon

That's awesome! Although it's WIP try to make the blade a bit more dirty like the fuller should be a little darker maybe? add some cuts and scrapes?

stoofoo

There are looking sharp, Millenia. High five. Though that first one I really think you overdid.

stoofoo

also: on that axe? Pleaseplzeaxzplepazle change the leather from being identical to the wood. haha

Millenia

I guess I'll redo the axe a bit at some point yeah

It was my first sculpt and shit so it kinda shows lol

Millenia

Finished

Dagon

Nice it looks awesome in the game. Are you making a weapons mod or something for Skyrim?

Cordell Felix

duuuude this is awesome, i love the blacksmith feel you have on each weapon with the small hammer indents. I agree with strOlsson, also his brother is a friggen blacksmith haha...but those mini hammer indents wouldnt be so pronounced, wash em away with some larger hammer indents. It looks sweet though!

You mind uploading a small video on how you do that awesome hammer blacksmith sculpting?

stoofoo

Are you really using 3dcoat? My mind draws blanks as to how. That program I dont even!

Millenia

Cordell Felix wrote: »

duuuude this is awesome, i love the blacksmith feel you have on each weapon with the small hammer indents. I agree with strOlsson, also his brother is a friggen blacksmith haha...but those mini hammer indents wouldnt be so pronounced, wash em away with some larger hammer indents. It looks sweet though!

You mind uploading a small video on how you do that awesome hammer blacksmith sculpting?

Sure, I'll record a small bit the next time I do an iron weapon

Dagon wrote: »

Nice it looks awesome in the game. Are you making a weapons mod or something for Skyrim?

Yeah I plan on retexturing all weapons in the game (link in the first post)

stoofoo wrote: »

Are you really using 3dcoat? My mind draws blanks as to how. That program I dont even!

Yeah lol it's pretty.. different to say the least o__o

Still works fine for simple stuff, I guess!

davidosterlind

Those look amazing! 512 is so small, really thought the textures would be more high-res to start with. Unfortunately I run the game on console, would love to use your textures. A question: Does anybody have some information regarding weapon polycount in skyrim, Would be interesting to know how many tris a typical sword has.

Millenia

They are not very high poly, the newest sword I did is only 630 tris

I'd say most weapons are in the 800-2000 tri range, depending on scale/level of detail

Torch

I don't wanna sound lazy but is there any chance you have some good resources for importing your mesh and textures into the game + viewing them with the character? Looks really cool

Millenia

Well, the tools are really beta atm but there's this:

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/485274-video-tutorial-how-to-get-custom-weapons-into-skyrim/

stoofoo

HIGH FIVE

Millenia

zakhar2

Would you mind making some comparison images between yours and the originals?

Millenia

Sure.

Still wip


Finished & released

Stromberg90

Looks really great, when I see them compared the default one's looks really washed out.
Will definitely be using you texture pack after a while

Pierate

Damn this is awesome! Will definately be using this once you get more weapons done

nightshade

hurry up and get to the ebony stuff, thats what i'm using :P
but seriously, this looks awesome!!

Millenia

Thanks for the positive feedback, guys! I've gotten quite a bit of it for this project, but nothing feels better than getting it from fellow artists

In other news, I finished this:

stoofoo

The model looks great, but the material is kind of weak.

Azkur

so freakin awesome are you putting this out for other people to use as a mod? amazing texturing skills btw

Spitfire

This makes me wish i played it on pc!!!

Millenia

Azkur wrote: »

so freakin awesome are you putting this out for other people to use as a mod? amazing texturing skills btw

There's a link in the first post

Spitfire wrote: »

This makes me wish i played it on pc!!!

Mmm, especially Bethesda games are always best enjoyed on PC for their modding ability :P

Millenia

A couple of quickies..

n88tr

when you get around to the bows i'll download some. i never use edged weapons

Alex3d

Your weapons do look better!
However, it all comes down to efficiency... Your weapons are 4-16 TIMES less efficient while they look only 1.2X better. Now if you could get better quality while using the same texture size, or even better - smaller texture size; now that would be an impressive feat! Post your unwraps, maybe we can help you with packing and get this thing fixed up :P

Dylan Brady

Alex3d wrote: »

Your weapons do look better!
However, it all comes down to efficiency... Your weapons are 4-16 TIMES less efficient while they look only 1.2X better. Now if you could get better quality while using the same texture size, or even better - smaller texture size; now that would be an impressive feat! Post your unwraps, maybe we can help you with packing and get this thing fixed up :P

im pretty sure hes not re-UVing the meshes.
just replacing the.DDS files only but i kind of agree. however, if your PC can handle the extra memory budget these textures use up than I see no problem with higher resolutions...
cept for pixel shimmering.... anyways lol

ZacD

For comparison sake I'd like to see the old and new versions at the same resolution. But for a pc game, there's no reason not to have 1024 textures on a fps weapon, consoles just have tight memory restrictions.

Millenia

Alex3d wrote: »

Your weapons do look better!
However, it all comes down to efficiency... Your weapons are 4-16 TIMES less efficient while they look only 1.2X better. Now if you could get better quality while using the same texture size, or even better - smaller texture size; now that would be an impressive feat! Post your unwraps, maybe we can help you with packing and get this thing fixed up :P

Some UVs are terrible with 50% wasted space, plus they are in your face all the time so it does make difference at least at my resolution (1920x1200)