I could personally go without the particle effect, this is one beautiful blade. I think that it would go great with my assassin character that I'm making.

*jaw drop*

No hyperbole: THAT IS STUNNING. Beautiful, gorgeous, bedazzling, awe-inspiring. I'm running out of adjectives, I'll need to start using a thesaurus.

Have you considered a replacer for Hopesfire? I always found it odd that a supposedly Dwemer sword had the appearance of the ebony scimitar (minus the intricate guard) wielded by the Indoril guards.

You know, I never did find that weird. Personally, I always figured that the Dwemer that crafted it made it in a style fit for a Chimer, as a Chimer would be wielding it. Sure, Dwemer made it, but it was not a Dwemer weapon.

Wow. That was fast.

I'd look for potential textures, but I'm not sure what would work out best on it. Realistic, or blurry/fantasy.

I didn't notice it until you pointed it out, but you're right. That's wierd, though, that the Ordinators get a fancier blade than a goddess. Even if that's not an issue for some people, I still think Plangkye should do a Hopesfire model, if only because it will look all the more mundane for being next to this beauty.

- http://www.imperial-library.info/tsomw/tb_16.shtml.

Which is why I find it to be so odd that the 'twin' blades look so different!

I do intend to make a Hopesfire as well, once this is done - especially if I can figure out this animated textures billboards thing, because I always thought it was weird that a shock-damage sword appeared to be on fire. I've got a vision of the flames replaced by orbs of blue plasma, throwing off sparks. However, I do rather like the design of Hopesfire, so I won't be changing it much - just giving it a bit of makeup, rather than a full-blown facelift.

There is one thing I find slightly unbelievable about the Trueflame saga: the fact that . You only chase after parts of , of which one is given to you. Something should probably be done to the to make it less recognisable; nothing that damages it, just something that disguises it. Perhaps put ?

Re: animated billboards, I'll see what I can cook up; I'm thinking size, alpha and material colour variations

Actually....



Particle systems have an "emitter" node, which can be animated with a NiPathController - the Spriggan Summon effect from Bloodmoon is an example, and some of the stock magic effects have them too.

I don't like to change many stock items, mainly just add inn. But I'll definitely download this and put it ingame another way.

Wow, those textures are beautiful! Excellent job!

I've played with particle systems a lot in conjunction with gravity warps and deflectors. One thing I could not get to work in Morrowind was to bind the emitted particle stream to a path which is typically a line in 3dsmax. I have animated emmitters in the past so they move across a path, rotate and what not but getting the particle streams themselves to follow a set path is a different matter. I'd intended to use this method a long time ago when making a Soul Reaver ethereal blade that wrapped around the arm.

It's difficult to explain how to do the pseudo particle thing as it's max specific. I use the official exporter with 3dsmax 4.2 which gives me access to the max porperties toolset. The best thing for me to do would be to throw out an example and have someone look at the NIF. What I can say is that my clean hunters rifle mod and lightsaber mod uses the effect to some degree but the textures are not animated.

I'll see what I can do today, time permitting.

Being less fancy doesn't make it less powerful. I'd say that Hopesfire looks... elegant, nothing TOO fancy. Of course, with a doze of Plangkye here and there it would look even better

My god that's beautiful

I've got GMax, is that close enough?

I don't think it is I'm afraid. I can only really speak as a max 4.2 user though I do have gmax.

I'll take a look later today.

I'm trying to get back into modelling but because I only have my trusty laptop with vista I'm struggling. On the upside it runs Oblivion really well, on the downside it doesn't support max so I have to run that on virtual pc. Anything I create has to get transferred out of the virtual machine and tested in vista which dislikes Morrowind.

I love the new look of Trueflame! Especcially, that it is closer to the original then Dragon_Lance's version (while there is nothing wrong with it, I liked the vanilla concept).


I'm curious what problems do you have - I'm running MW on a laptop with vista without ny problems (apart from the sun turning black that is)

Aside from the black sun and missing mesh/ texture files, one problem lies with the destination folder and its accessibility/ compatibility. Files when installed are not always displayed (have to access via compatability tab - even for textures) and when I try to export out from max within my virtual pc the export is blocked to the vista Morrowind directory because it is installed as recommended in the main program files directory. I'm not too familiar with Vista - the more I use it the more I loathe it. It's not so much one big problem as a series of smaller problem that make model creation time consuming. Being forced to work in a virtual machine with an emulated graphics card does not help. I cannot play Morrowind within the virtual machine but must have it installed there before I can use the official exporter to export out to my main drive where I then have to reassign textures for my models to display in game.

I guess my workflow has had to change and I'm still getting to grips with it.

I can't get over how beauitful that is. I certainly want to use this in my game when it's time for my next trip to Mournhold.

ZOMGZ. That's so shiny and perfect! I wouldn't be able to fight with it! I would have to display it as the centerpiece of my home.

this is great, i was always bothered that the trueflame looked horrendous, with the goofy jet of flames, the gaudy hilt, and the hiliariously bad extra wide and curvy blade. it looked like a ridiculous concept from a 9 year old.

your concept looks wicked, and is a worthy model of a legendary blade.

That's absolutely awesome!
Infinitely better than the original imo.

Ugh. I can't find a good fire animation for this ANYWHERE.

Maybe look at/use oblivion's as reference? Or other game... Crysis has good fire o_O Go figure

at the moment only the official exporter for max 4 and 5 can export particles properly, the niftools exporter can't export particles, so you wont be able to create particles in gmax

animated billboards sounds like a good idea, are you going to be adding a load of them to fake a particle effect then? sounds time consuming to me, but doable in any version of max

and you wont find any decent fire animations for this sword plangkye, as fire animations for morrowind use particle effects which you want to avoid if you want the fire to scale properly
the billboards themselves are going to be animated so they travel up the blade and scale larger and smaller i think

Wow man, what can I say. I'm lost for words here.

I bet most smiths in your world turn themselves inside out of greenish jealousy. And I do wish the swords
in my FF XII game had similarities with this piece. Lastly I haven't made a name for making remarks on
others work but I got to tell you, according to me, this is rawly superior talented. Really fond of the effects on how
the hilt part transcend with the blade. Just out of curiosity, could this be the most labored changed
equipment in Vvardenfell? Seen allots of threads so-far..

:drool: