welkynd test

I dunno, it looks pretty good. A few tweaks should get it looking good.

Vou...maybe take the vanilla texture into Gimp or PS and use the color sliders to look more like brass?

For the bottom? I could just use the dwemer brass texture IF it's just a solid bit. not all broken up to match a certain mesh

I made one of those

I'm pretty sure the metal work wouldn't be brass and definitely wouldn't be dwemer. I'd take a look at the Oblivion textures and try and make something closer to it as not a great deal would change in 200 years.

With Meo's permission, you could also use the welkynd textures he made for Oblivion. I have versions that were color-matched to Oblivion stock here.

I would not expect Welkynd stones to have changed at all since Oblivion, because there haven't been any Ayleids around to make new ones, so any that exist would have existed then too. That isn't to say you have to make them look the same, though, just sayin'.

If Bethesda's file naming conventions are to be trusted, then the metal used in AR stuff was definitely iron.

That's that I was figuring and there IS a texture very close to the rusty metal in Oblivion. It's on the imperial floor candelabras. So I believe it is possible to use some vanilla textures of skyrim. I'll send Meo a line and see. I didn't think I could use modder resources from oblivion and port to skyrim. But apparently we can. So I'll see what can be done... while I won't try the tilesets yet(until I master the colission porting.) We just might have a lot of ayleid artifacts entering skyrim.