PushTheWinButton Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Hi, Would it be possible for someone with knowledge of modelling to please quickly whip me up a nif model for bodkin steel and iron arrows. Other materials and/or icons would be a bonus, but not needed. My modelling skills are none-existent sadly :'( The vanilla arrows are all broadheads with knife-like tips, whereas bodkin arrows with just a sharpened tip were actually more common in the middle ages. I basically just need the arrowhead replaced with a pointy bit of iron or steel. Using the quivers from TIBs Compact Quivers would be cool to, since they're much better looking than vanilla. Purpose: I want to make a quick dumb mod to flesh out and balance archery a bit. Bodkin arrows will be more common, cheaper, fly faster, and potentially have armour-piercing, whilst broadheads will be more expensive and do more damage. Marksman characters will have to spend some of that coin they're saving on armour repair on the more flashy broadheads if they want to keep up the damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mixxa77 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) Hello, I did some experimenting in NifSkope and produced these two. I haven't tested them in-game but I hope they work and that you can use them. Please let me know if they work, because if they do, then I would like to additionally publish them as a modders resource. Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15FddTLN0dyE4LEMmE4WoktpgodkNwc-1/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/15FddTLN0dyE4LEMmE4WoktpgodkNwc-1/view?usp=sharingThe meshes are complete with quiver and extra arrows, I only removed them for the two screenshots. Edited June 24, 2020 by mixxa77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushTheWinButton Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 That's brilliant mate! I've just given them a quick try and they work perfectly. The texture might be a tad blurred, but I assume that just a side effect of molding the original arrowhead. It's definitely not an issue in gameplay though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushTheWinButton Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 So I didn't actually know it was possible to do this kind of thing in NifSkope. You inspired me to have a shot (punssss) at it myself and this is what I came up with. I tried my best to preserve the pointiness and get a spear-type result whilst keeping the textures intact. I also made it a playable resource by replacing the default arrows with the bodkin meshes and distributing them in a 2:1 ratio with broadheads. The "arrowbodkincompact" meshes are for consistency with TIB's Compact Quivers. Feel free to use as you wish or add this to the mod page if you want. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m3iloifjuyne13/Bodkin%20Resource%20PWB.zip?dl=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mixxa77 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Nice, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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