Skyrim Mod Idea

[shadowofomioc]

Greetings everyone. First post here so I thought I would try to make it a good one.

 

I have had an idea in my head for awhile now I think would be pretty cool. Would take a bit of work, and unfortunately I have no idea how to do this type of thing or what tools to use so I thought I would throw the idea out there to the modders and see if any of them wanted to pick it up.

 

The idea really stemmed from Ultima Online. I got flashbacks of UO when i heard how smithing would be implemented in Skyrim and how you could go out and grab a pickaxe and mine. One of the coolest smithing features of UO was the ability to create different color armor based on what ingot you used to create the armor. You could make shadow colored platemail, blue colored platemail, green colored platemail, etc. all depending on what type of ingot you used to create that piece of armor. Considering this is exactly what Skyrim does, I thought it could be a fun mod to try and work on. Skyrim uses the same system, just does not take it as far as UO did in the color regard.

 

I thought the easiest way to implement this idea was to give the Smithing field a 3rd option when creating an idea, the same as Alchemy. An optional 3rd ingredient option. So when you go to create some armor you can use your ingot and leather strips as normal but also throw in a 3rd ingredient ( say Steel ingot ). The 3rd ingredient being the addition of the color variant. Whatever color of ingot you use as your 3rd ingot, changes the tone of the armor / weapon that you are making. So if you make, for example, Steel Platemail armor, but using some refined moonstone you could give the steel platemail a dull white color. Same goes for leather and whatnot. Kind of tan / stain the leather armor black using orichulum. Stuff like that.

 

Thats the idea I have had but awhile, but like I said have no way of actually working on it myself. So, if anyone is interested, have at it! I think that would exponentially increase the fun of smithing, by being able to really do whatever you want with your smithing creations.