horse carriages

[jwilk117]

Greetings! I am absolutely useless at making textures scripts and meshes, however I think it would be awesome to be able to buy carriages for horses. You could have an old roman charriot with kneecappers on it to take out enemies with, or diplomats could ride in style in large luxury ones pulled by 2 or more horses. A mod like this doesn't exist that I know of, but it would be absolutely amazing to have. Imagine the uses for this in quests! You could rob upperclass citizen's, perfect for thieves guild or dark brotherhood members, and they would be left in their flash ride with nothing. It'd be awesome for someone to be able to take the carriage aswell.

 

Putting a request out there, could some modding genius make this possible for the lands of cyrodil????

[Deleted269910User]

The project would be huge, so I'm going to post a few reasons why this hasn't been done(I've seen this requested once or twice before.) and most likely won't be;

 

-Would require custom animations, several of them, but still they would take far over 200h+ of work without a doubt.

 

-Rigging the horse(s) to the carriage, creating the custom mesh and texture for the carriage.(FAR more complex than I made it sound.)

 

-Having more than one person mount a 'horse' or carriage in this case, due to how the rigging needs to be done etc. for the whole thing not to look ridiculous, without making the people on it static. Not to even speak of what problems could arise when there are more than one horse pulling the carriage.

 

-Finding the people willing to work on this and even then, piecing all of the above together. The game has it's limits and on this project we'd likely hit one of them.

 

I personally find the idea interesting aswell, but most of the people who could possibly even try to do this are busy with their own projects. A static model of this could possibly be done, but a working one, I unfortunately doubt it.

 

~Elraine

[jwilk117]

yeah, i thought about the meshes that would be needed, and making them all work together would take ages, if it was even possible. Turning would look ridiculus if it could be done, other wise, several different meshes would have to animate in unison. This i see could pose many problems. It is definitely one of the more intriging prospects though, having a totally medieval game with horses AND carriages.

[bben46]

Part of this exists. a one horse cart. I think it will need a lot of work to do what you want. and much more work for a 2 horse rig.

 

http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=13223

[Zephyr2011]

This would be an excellent mod, especially for modder usage, I'm starting on a trader caravan mod, and presently the NPC's only have horses which frankly isn't that merchanty to me. This would take forever but it would impact a HUGE number of mods and, if done properly, make probobly the best mod to ever happen, given it's huge impact. Just look at the role playing impacts it would have, you could actually BE a marauder or bandit, you could be a hired guard, muderers could have boatloads of fun slaughtering snobby rich folk in monkey suits and the aspiring entrepeneur could build a monopoly with this. If we could only just assemble a team large enough and competent enough we could reshape the modding world with this. Look at most mods, few have an impact beyond the player, but this mod could impact nigh on every NPC in the game think of the possibillities. Now the rigging of the horses would indeed be difficult, so maybe we combine the horses and the carriage so that it's all a single unit, rather than you can hitch up your horse to a carriage, this, I think would atleast lessen the bugs a little. If we had oh say 10 people with 3 on meshes 3 on textures and 4 on animations (as those would seem to be the largest aspect) we could possibly have this done by next August (if we hustle). I'm not that great at meshes and such but I'm learning and I'd love to work on this I would just need a few people to help so that it wouldn't take forever. The game and editor DO have their limits, but people have found ways around them before, why not now? And really, I don't see where we would bump into a major road block, a lot speed bumps yes, but no road blocks. Just think of the possibilities with this type of mod, and what could happen to the modding community if it's a success? Post if you think you could help with this, it would be EPIC, even if it would take forever :biggrin:. Excellent Idea :thumbsup: