[WIPzRELz] Improved Meshes (weapons)

Post » Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:44 pm

As some of you may already know, I have recently released a weapons meshes and textures replacer for the iron weapons: http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/43077/?

This retexture was based on http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/34844/? which are basically new, more detailed models for the vanilla iron weapons, but they still use vanilla textures (which I have replaced for my mod, obviously). Now I would like to provide additional replacers for other weapon types which also deserve improved graphics. But unfortunately, for most of them there are no improved meshes like Psy's iron ones until today, even though many of the original meshes are really crude and lack detail. So now I decided that before I will attempt to do a new installment of "Real Reflective Weapons", I will first try to create new and improved meshes for the vanilla weapons which use the original textures, just as Psymoniser did. The first slice of this was already delivered with the iron weapons retexture as a bonus weapon: The steel mace, although I already included new textures for it in the mod.

Now that I have begun remodeling the other steel weapons, I decided I to upload them one by one to my dropbox folder so everyone who is interested can already download them, before I will release them all together in a complete pack once I have finished all of them. So this will hopefully frequently be updated as I add more and more new meshes.

New meshes so far:
  • Steel Mace (modified to use vanilla textures): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UTPmR0Ltke4/Uy7XK4vsbEI/AAAAAAAABQM/M-xUmXRrzb8/s0/steel_mace.jpg
  • Steel Battle Axe: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tYxITnWtInM/Uy1ruHKma0I/AAAAAAAABP8/fC0jWbc1jY0/s0/steel_battleaxe.jpg
  • Steel War Axe: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cIWXM_JOncs/Uy7XPl1DbHI/AAAAAAAABQU/6xtgMsopm0A/s0/steel_waraxe.jpg
Darknut's weapon textures are used in the screenshots. It is highly recommended to use them with these meshes, although they will work with vanilla textures, too.

They can all be downloaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l1660o8fg664bii/w1oDErFG3-

When I create a new mesh I will also upload it in this dropbox folder. As these are to be considered WIP it is very likely that they will be modified again in the future, but I will make sure that all of them can be used in the game without any problems. Also, because they are not yet finished I don't want them to be used in other mods, yet, or uploaded anywhere else.

I am, of course, open for comments and suggestions. With my new meshes, I try to improve the look as much as possible while still keeping the polycount rather low. Also, the overall design of the weapons is kept as close to the original as possible, I only create more detailed and smooth versions of them which hopefully blend seamlessly with the vanilla game or a modded version. These are not just subdivided versions of the original weapons, but completely new meshes based on the original design.
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Lalla Vu
 
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Post » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:14 pm

Fantastic! I've been waiting for someone to improve the other weapon meshes too :D

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