After playing around with leather textures for a while I assembled a replacer for the Dark Brotherhood

I've called it Dark Sisterhood as it was originally a set of armour I was doing for a female character as a quest mission - the icons and ground art are therefore for a female character even though the armour has a masculine version. My quest mod is going to be some time before release and as I haven't released anything for a while here is the armour

Download from PES http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=8469

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7319/dsmale.png

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9615/dsfemale.png

Meshes are by Nioliv, Durgoth and Regan - Calislahn did the glass case and glasses texture - I tweaked some of the meshes alpha channels as I had a lot of rendering issues to begin with and UV maps are tweaked for ground art so I could reuse textures

For the male pauldrons I used Nioliv's coat mesh which I tried to resest from groin to right forearm - if you just wear the pauldrons the right forearm disappears - my nifskope work is pretty limited. However it's a small issue and will be fixed in my later version for the quest mod.

The armour can be used as a resource - full info about usage in the readme

All the stats are the same for the armour as before - just textured meshes, groundart and icons changed

The glasses - you either like them or not

One of the orcs from Better Heads has had glasses for years and I haven't noticed anyone complaining about those - Plangkye had glasses in her Hilgya clothing mod and it didn't seem to bother anyone so I figured who cares I'm using them because they look good to me.

I don't like the swimming cap helm of the original and tend to have NPC's and characters using high res faces/hairs that I like to see - the glasses seemed to fit the style, hoods and masks have already been done so shades it is - at least until someone creates a fabulous new helm with a pony tail version

Any modder will know how to swap the glasses out if they don't want to have them

If there are any other defects apart from style please post here

Oh and for those who love mip maps I use GIMP and it does muddy mipmaps so you may not want this mod as no mipmaps were harmed in the making of this mod :violin:

Illy

You do great work!

This is great! Those textures look awesome!

Most impressive. *Vader breathing*

hey Illy, i don't know if this my be a problem with my game or what. but i use the full better bodies and when i equip the greaves, my guys stuff is hanging out the front of the mesh, the only change i made when using your mod, is that i took it off the brotherhood. and made it unique. however, i used the same body parts and equip paths in the cs. do you run the peanut or underwear version with this, or did i mess up somehow?

O.K. i just fixed my problem by adding a groin bodypart using the M greave armor nif. and then setting as part of the male armor. sorry for the bother. :facepalm:

I'm not downloading this, sorry. I would if it weren't a replacer however, since the female armor is really great, but I as I'm already using a DB-Replacer I just can't use this. I hope you understand..

Um... nice catch - because I was originally making female armour I used the left upper leg body slot for the female greaves -when I decided to make it a replacer that meant I needed to match it with the same body part for the male - I totally forgot that doing so would make those players who ... um enjoy playing with the full package version of Better Bodies suddenly find their privates made public - this would of course lend new meaning to the attack of the Dark Brotherhood scaring the willies out of someone

I've uploaded an optional esp for players who use the full-blooded version of Better Bodies - unfortunately it means i couldn't use my original female texture for the greaves so I've opted to just use the male version as generic for both.

Thanks for pointing this overexposure isssue out - I use my own underwear versions so did not notice this during testing. The underwear version is still valid for those who use underwear Better Bodies or the peanut version and represents the style I originally envisioned for the armour.