[RELZ] Nine new armors - Syntyche's Cavern Shop

[SickleYield]

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/8881/syntycheshop2pc9.th.jpg

 

WHAT IS IT?

 

Syntyche’s Cavern is an armor shop located near the stables outside Bravil (the fast-travel icons tend to overlap). Here you will find the Imperial Syntyche selling nine new armors, and her friend Euodia gra-Paolos selling weapons and some necklace chains to match. I cleaned it as best I could through the details screen, so it shouldn’t have any unpleasant surprises. Don’t forget to glance around for papers to read, you’ll get a nice surprise. :)

 

ARMORS FROM NEW MESHES:

 

Last Resort meshes:

 

Last Resort: Black, red, and spiky, as I did not feel these qualities were adequately represented by existing game armors. Matched by the Last Resort sword and the Scythe of Submission. Inspired by fond memories of Carnithus in Morrowind, this is probably my personal favorite.

 

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/8227/scythesub1gq6.th.jpg

 

 

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/3610/syntycheshop1bj1.th.jpg

 

(Last Resort left, Syntyche right)

 

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/401/tmp6774mr2.th.jpg

 

Syntyche: Retex of the Last Resort meshes in an icy black/blue color scheme. Matched by the Syntyche sword and Syntyche’s Scythe. It's the blue one in the above picture, here's another look at it:

 

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/1224/syntychescythezg6.th.jpg

 

Nightshade meshes:

 

These armors reveal amulets and look great with the necklace chains.

 

Nightshade: A kilted armor with a floral theme in deep purple, featuring a floral shield. Matched by the Nightshade sword. Beast races should use the cape as I’m not exactly 133t with the helmet meshes yet.

 

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/6391/purpnmqj5.th.jpg

 

Black Nightshade: Anything worth doing is worth doing in black and red. This will be an ongoing theme with armors made by SickleYield. Matched by the Black Nightshade sword AND by the weapons that match Last Resort.

 

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1502/blacknightfqn4.th.jpg

 

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/985/blacknightactionfun8.th.jpg

 

 

 

Continued, because the forum engine only allows so many photos at once:

 

Crimson Nightshade: Red with black veins instead of black with red veins. This was actually my first Nightshade concept and the others were suggested by the wonderful, helpful people on the Canadian Ice forum. Matched by the Crimson Nightshade sword.

 

http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/4909/tmp9381qo9.th.jpg

 

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8837/tmp8049ir1.th.jpg

 

Sea Dragon meshes:

 

These also reveal amulets as well as rings. Opulent armors for the gaudy barbarian in all of us.

 

Sea Dragon: A deep green and gold armor with a scaly hide theme. Unlike many themed armors, this looks great on Argonians – because I made it from body meshes originally, it lines up beautifully with their skin textures. Matched by the Sickle of Yielding and the gold chain.

 

http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/9044/tmp1744vz6.th.jpg

 

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3308/tmp4920lv9.th.jpg

 

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6668/tmp3997fd1.th.jpg

 

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/446/tmp5769eo6.th.jpg

 

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/6848/seashieldsj0.th.jpg

 

 

 

Bleak Serpent: See previous remarks regarding black and red. This is a black/red/silver version of the Sea Dragon meshes, and I did NOT color tweak here – it’s an all-new scale pattern with some other differing details. Matched by the Black Nightshade and Last Resort weapons and the silver and Daedric Fire chains.

 

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/7907/tmp7265av7.th.jpg

 

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3614/tmp8417mx6.th.jpg

 

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4369/tmp3542fl5.th.jpg

 

KTX ATRONACH MESHES (female only right now, contrary to my usual practice):

 

Flame Atronach armor: this is just ktx’s flame atronach armor with an atronach texture added to the leg region. I didn’t like the skimpy “chicken legs” look from before, and I understand one or two others requested leggings underneath.

 

Blue Flame Atronach armor: A blue retex for those cooler color-schemed characters.

 

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3849/atrobluepw7.th.jpg

 

 

 

 

WHY IS IT SUCH A BIG DOWNLOAD?

 

Custom meshes and textures, baby! Compression really tends to screw up the look of these more reflective armors with bumpier normal maps.

 

 

DOWNLOAD LINKS:

 

http://sickleyieldmods.ufrealms.net/SyntychesCavern.7z

 

http://sickleyieldmods.psychodogstudios.co...tychesCavern.7z

 

SCREENSHOT MAKERS NEEDED!

 

If you’d like to make some better action screenies and post them in this thread, I’d deeply appreciate it. I seem to have forgotten to get Khajiit screenies, which is a shame given that I am definitely pro-beastie.

[Povuholo]

Floydian1 is an excellent screenshot...ter? Whatever it is called. :huh: Just look at his posts here for example. He's always looking for new nice armors to try, so maybe you can ask him. :happy:

 

Oh and I almost forgot! Congratulations on releasing your mod! ;)

[SickleYield]

Floydian1 is an excellent screenshot...ter? Whatever it is called. :huh: Just look at his posts here for example. He's always looking for new nice armors to try, so maybe you can ask him. :happy:

Oh and I almost forgot! Congratulations on releasing your mod! ;)

 

Floydian1 is a dude??

 

Huh.

 

Here's a link to a thread with some KILLER screenies he took.

 

http://canadianice.ufrealms.net/forum2/ind...69.msg73560#new

[Tiberiu911]

Very nice work! I like your meshes very much and I simply love your textures.

 

Keep up the good work! Im certenly downloading this :).

[SickleYield]

Very nice work! I like your meshes very much and I simply love your textures.

Keep up the good work! Im certenly downloading this :).

 

Thanks!

 

Be sure and catch the bugfixes here. This happened so quickly because people post around every ten seconds on the ES forum:

 

http://sickleyieldmods.psychodogstudios.co...sCavernfixes.7z

 

Just unzip it and say yes to overwrite the other stuff. This fixes a shield texture, a little bit of mesh clipping, and adds some gloves that ktx's atronach meshes didn't have.

 

Glove pics:

 

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/442/atrogauntim4.th.jpg

 

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/9748/bluegauntlbw4.th.jpg

 

 

When I released the mod on the ES forum, tda chided me for stealing his scythe meshes from his UNRELEASED mod. (!!) I sent him a PM and I hope he believes me that I made them myself. After all the time I spent tweaking the game meshes around to make them usable weapons, it's really annoying to have someone claim I snitched them.

 

Especially when others have had the same idea. I mean, I know GBHis said he has a playable scythe. Right?

[Povuholo]

Floydian1 is a dude??

 

I thought so. I'm not sure. His name just looks like it.

 

When I released the mod on the ES forum, tda chided me for stealing his scythe meshes from his UNRELEASED mod.

 

That's weird. I suppose all scythe's look a bit the same. If he compares them I'm sure he'll be able to see the difference. It's possible to create a texture that looks like another, but to make an exact copy of it (without ever having seen/heard of it before) is very close to impossible.

[SickleYield]

It's all good now. He made his from the game meshes, too, so that's why they looked exactly alike. Apparently he's a reasonable guy, thank goodness. Unlike, for example, the cretins on (name of other forum deleted, it just occurred to me I might not want to say that) who flame people over their tastes in female anatomy.