[WIP] Tome Jackets

[jiffyadvent]

This project aims & seeks to give Spell Tomes in general unique appearances (covers, meshes, textures) in Skyrim, all the Official DLCs, and hopefully be able to be a continuous project to support those from other mods as well.

 

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This project of mine I decided to shift into 3rd gear and pursue mainly because of the definitive decision to hold back on my other 1-1/2 project similar to Book Covers Skyrim by doccdr, of the lack base concepts and great deal of procrastinating over a year and only coming up with 50+ book design/covers. I'm glad that Book Covers Skyrim was released as I finally had a reason to get started on more solid projects and had great Book Cover mod I could use. It will also allow me to see what's already been done and strengthen the foundation of my own Book Cover-type mod project.

 

Anyways the current of the project is that there are already 15 fully made templates and base concepts for the tomes and 4 of these I've already released/published as a general standalone Spell Tome replacer mod here on the SK Nexus: Jeclredured - Spell Tomes II

 

These 4 designs concepts are what I'm previewing and to give a general idea of the baseline concepts to be further implemented. Also I cannot preview or post of other concepts and the remaining 11 designs mainly because I would have to attribute/credit all the assets just for the previews and it would be only best to preview the ones released.

 

Also the main reason I released a somewhat baseline concept standalone tome replacer was to poll and garner feedback from hopefully the downloads I would get from the different variants, whether the majority who would download the mod preferred this type of thickness of tome, similarites to vanilla tomes, etc..

 

 

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To put it into perspective all the concept design/art here are all super-rough drafts and should not be limited to this type of scope also note again I will not be able to post or preview the other designs.

 

 

 

I know there's really little concept to preview here but as I said again, these concepts for the 4 design types are just placeholders for ideas, actually nothing of the designs I've focused on these 4, at the current state I've done about 50-100 for one design-type I've been working on on.

 

Anyone can give suggestions/advice/feedback and contribute to the project.

All the suggestions on the design like below which would all be generalized and be put into the perspective of the project.

 

 

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Ie. of types of feedback:

Person 1: "I don't think any type of Daedric-font face would fit for the tome"
Person 2: "I think they do! I'm no loremonger but if I were to put it into perspective, let's say I were to say that the most primal form of magic is the Thu'um and I relate that the Aedra, Thu'um = Aedric. Then let's go to "magic" which is somewhat the evolved and sometimes weaker form of the Thu'um (Primal magic) so then I guess that would go for spells that use magicka = High level magick and relate that to Daedra = high level magic = Daedric form of magic. Could be I guess in some distorted way.

 

Person 3: "Hmm, how about a stripped down ultra lore-friendly type of tomes? One's that would look like they're written down with quill and with less fancy embellishment stuff."

 

Person 4: "I want tomes with pentagrams and stuff!"

 

Person 5: "Spell names should be non-existent in tomes, just let them have illustrations."

 

Again any sort of feedback is welcome.

 

[Grabstein]

I would like to start off by saying that you've done some amazing work! I am utilizing your first tome mod. The work that you've done, since, is quite impressive, as well. My opinion for future release is to change the Conjuration book back to purple, from blue, and make the orange of Illusion a little less brown. The Daedric writing on the Conjuration makes more sense than any other. I like that. Also, the symbol on the spine, in addition to the color of the book, are *very* good tell-tales of what could possibly be contained so writing on the cover is not needed, symbols *should* be good enough, for the cover. What if you used HD icons from Oblivion or Morrowind? Thanks, again, for creating such wonderful mods...

Edited May 14, 2013 by Grabstein