LE Armor craft

[marauderim]

Oh boy, don't even get me started on enchantments... or do you mean the smithing improvements? Both are tough to modify in any significant way.

 

To be honest, most of the current weapons and armors do okay in the base game without a bunch of upped difficulty mods, as long as you use the difficulty setting at the right point for you. This is especially true if you keep your smithing skill at a decent pace for your level. Find an armor set that looks cool, pick up crafting materials as you wander around, and use what you can. Not everyone has to have Daedric-level equipment all the time. :)

 

i just used enchantments as an example hehe the idea was instead of changing craft, make it possible to enhance a steel armor with ebony, so we could craft the armor in the normal way and then enhance it to the metal we desire(limited by our smith perks), but after i wrote it yesterday i tought in one problem, it cant be made by using a single ingot lol that would be a kill to the lore, imagine how cheap it would be an iron armor enhanced to ebony by using a single ingot per piece lolol, so this idea is crap...unless for enhance with a diferent metal it requires the same amount of ingots it would requires to craft, but this is where things start to get hard right? so forget i mentioned it :)

 

but you missunderstand the reasons i would love to have this, i dont want this to have the best armor possible, i want this so i can have the armor looks i want and still have the armor leveled to me, like i said already, in this game i joined the companions, and for lore, i would love to use the wolf armor and not being forced to use other armor just because i want/need better protection, as i level my smith perks ill improve my armor and so i could use it till i wanted to use another, but if i change i like it would be because i wanted and not because i am forced, you are right if i play in easier modes i dont need to change armor that bad, but thats another issue, i dont play less than master mode, i hate to one kill anithing, well almost anything there are enemies that is normal do kill in one hit ofc, but the main thing is i like to swet for my victories ;)

 

:hurr: :hurr:

 

Curses. Wrote long message and then it disappeared into bit-space because of missclick.

 

Anyhow, I think I might actually try to make what I suggested/you requested (though my idea is not exactly what you wanted :D )

 

I think some armors which would look good and somehow realistic with different textures/materials would be:

Blades Armor

Dwarven Armor

Ebony Armor

Iron Armor!! (Absolute must. I might actually do this first, release it and see what people like of the idea of different armors with different materials) I just love the details of it, and that breastplate which basic armor has.

Orcish Armor

Steel Armor or Steel Plate, maybe both.

(Wolf Armor?) might try this.

 

Material choices would be:

Steel, Iron, Dwarven, Ebony, Glass and maybe daedric. (Though I can't attach those glowy bits. I just lack the skill to do that)

Gotta try what would be possible to do via different cubemaps, textures and such.

 

im looking forward to it mate :)

i cant help much, but one thing i can do, i can use it and give feedback :)

[marauderim]

@Dudeman325, i tested your mod, its exactly what i want hehe

 

i see what you say about the amount of recipes needed....its a huge work to add all the craft recipes to each armor type, each armor/weapon type will need to have all the other variants in the game O.O

 

but anyway, thats it, i am using plated steel armor set atm in my game, i can make a set with the same looks made by dwarven :)

 

hmmm forgot to test one thing, how the new item works when trying to enhance it, being a steel sword(dwarven) it should ask for dwarven ingots to enhance, ill test it now :)

 

done, yes it requires a dwarven ingot to enhance, become (epic) hehe

[Dudeman325]

i just used enchantments as an example hehe the idea was instead of changing craft, make it possible to enhance a steel armor with ebony, so we could craft the armor in the normal way and then enhance it to the metal we desire(limited by our smith perks), but after i wrote it yesterday i tought in one problem, it cant be made by using a single ingot lol that would be a kill to the lore, imagine how cheap it would be an iron armor enhanced to ebony by using a single ingot per piece lolol, so this idea is crap...unless for enhance with a diferent metal it requires the same amount of ingots it would requires to craft, but this is where things start to get hard right? so forget i mentioned it :)

 

You got it pretty much dead on here. You can't really make multiple tempering recipes for different weapons/armors without making whole new items. The current system just supports an item being "tempered" or not, with a bonus given based on some math around your smithing skill.

 

but you missunderstand the reasons i would love to have this, i dont want this to have the best armor possible, i want this so i can have the armor looks i want and still have the armor leveled to me, like i said already, in this game i joined the companions, and for lore, i would love to use the wolf armor and not being forced to use other armor just because i want/need better protection, as i level my smith perks ill improve my armor and so i could use it till i wanted to use another, but if i change i like it would be because i wanted and not because i am forced, you are right if i play in easier modes i dont need to change armor that bad, but thats another issue, i dont play less than master mode, i hate to one kill anithing, well almost anything there are enemies that is normal do kill in one hit ofc, but the main thing is i like to swet for my victories ;)

 

I dunno, I get that people like to have a look with stats that are "good enough," I just feel like, with the basic tempering system, even if someone just wanted to use the vanilla iron / leather / steel throughout the whole game, they can, and have decent gear, without worrying so much as long as your skills are OK.