[WIPz] A Brotherhood Renewed

[Cliffworms]

I think I may just use Night Mother statues instead. They look just as cool and fit just as well and I don't need to have someone make a custom model for it

Going through getting your Anvil stuff merged in. That's some wicked work you did there. Would indeed have been a major shame to see it go unused. So bigtime thanks for that.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad it will finally be able to "see the light".

Are you saying "wicked" as in good or "wicked" as in "The purified version of the sanctuary is disturbing!" ?

For each brother/sister death, I created a little scenario with the clutter I've placed around.

For instance, one of the brothers in the training room was shooting the hay target with his bow, got knocked out by the rogue silencer who then put him on the target, then finishing him by shooting the arrows at him, on the target.

[Arthmoor]

It's all pretty hard to see in the CS because of the fog. I haven't looked at it in game yet. But I meant wicked as in cool. I'm sure it's also wicked as in what an evil guy that silencer was

Noticed a missing mesh: tdbrotherhood\misc\blooddrip01.nif

Won't even be a stretch to make people have to kill off some wraiths or something to clear out the building. I just wish the CS wasn't such a pain when it comes to putting stuff down over the fog effects.

[Cliffworms]

It's all pretty hard to see in the CS because of the fog. I haven't looked at it in game yet. But I meant wicked as in cool. I'm sure it's also wicked as in what an evil guy that silencer was

Noticed a missing mesh: tdbrotherhood\misc\blooddrip01.nif

Won't even be a stretch to make people have to kill off some wraiths or something to clear out the building. I just wish the CS wasn't such a pain when it comes to putting stuff down over the fog effects.

Ah yes, the damn fog effects that take most of the space. I hate them with a passion as well.

If I recall correctly, the fog was not placed at a strategic position, so simply dragging them all away from the level, then doing what changes/additions you want, then putting the fog back at its location would make things easier.

As for the missing mesh, it's a retexture of the waterdrip.nif file that had been coloured to match blood drips. I believe it would be easy to recreate it, as it is only a colour change. I do not have the mesh file anymore.

[Mannimagnus]

I can make a shrine, but it depends, do you want to use S.I.?.

[Arthmoor]

I don't have any issue with using SI. If there's something suitable in there that will work, then I say go for it. Not all the sanctuaries need a Sithis shrine. Either that or a Night Mother shrine works, and vanilla has a Night Mother shrine already.

And just fyi - I fixed the blood drop thing. Too dark to tell the difference, but it's done either way

[Mannimagnus]

Its going to be a great shrine, the fountain in S.I. will be the base,

if we could get blood out of that rather than water it would be much more.....evil.

[Arthmoor]

Wouldn't getting blood instead of water simply be a matter of recoloring the water texture coming out of it?

[Mannimagnus]

Wouldn't getting blood instead of water simply be a matter of recoloring the water texture coming out of it?

Yes, but I have no clue how to do that lol, it would be a very good touch to it, also if we could give the fountain itself a more.....ebony colour.

[Arthmoor]

Hmm. Well. That fountain mesh is composed of many bits. Easy enough to trim the excess water flow from it.

Popped one of the water textures into Paint.NET. It doesn't seem responsive to color change when I play with the hue controls. And the fountain textures are beyond my ability to change and still have it look right.

And really, I'm not sure a blood fountain would really be all that fitting. It seems like a bit much even for the DB. They're more subtle than that. A fountain shrine would probably be fine as it is.

[Mannimagnus]

Hmm. Well. That fountain mesh is composed of many bits. Easy enough to trim the excess water flow from it.

Popped one of the water textures into Paint.NET. It doesn't seem responsive to color change when I play with the hue controls. And the fountain textures are beyond my ability to change and still have it look right.

And really, I'm not sure a blood fountain would really be all that fitting. It seems like a bit much even for the DB. They're more subtle than that. A fountain shrine would probably be fine as it is.

Yes, it would be a bit.....disturbing that they would have an endless flow of blood coming from a fountain, water it is.

[Arthmoor]

So. Ran into something I'd like to have placed, but realized doesn't exist. There are no ragged/tattered/dirty/burned/etc versions of the Dark Brotherhood tapestries, specifically the ones with the black hand on them. darkbrotherhoodtapestry01.nif. If I could beg someone to make a couple of different dirty and/or ragged textures for this that would be great. Don't really NEED burned ones, but they might come in handy at some point.

[StarX]

So. Ran into something I'd like to have placed, but realized doesn't exist. There are no ragged/tattered/dirty/burned/etc versions of the Dark Brotherhood tapestries, specifically the ones with the black hand on them. darkbrotherhoodtapestry01.nif. If I could beg someone to make a couple of different dirty and/or ragged textures for this that would be great. Don't really NEED burned ones, but they might come in handy at some point.

I'll have a look at making these for you tomorrow, Arthmoor. Shouldn't be very difficult. Besides: getting things dirty is always a nice thing to do!

[Arthmoor]

That would be much appreciated, thanks.

[Arthmoor]

Probably going to end up annoying people at some point, but how difficult would it be to get a version of arwelkyditem01.dds and it's associated glowmap file with red instead of blue like this one: arwelkydstoneevil01.dds

[StarX]

I've created 3 new variants for the darkbrotherhoodtapestry01.dds: One with more bloodstains (and more dirty overall), one that's covered with stinking mold and a burned version. Normalmaps are included.

Get them at Filefront and let me know what you think.

I can have a look at your other request later this week if it's still needed.

Cheers,

StarX

[Arthmoor]

These look good, but I was also hoping to see some rips/tears/whatever sort of like the damaged ones in Kvatch.

[StarX]

These look good, but I was also hoping to see some rips/tears/whatever sort of like the damaged ones in Kvatch.

Just had a look at the Kvatch rugs and I see what you mean. Expect them to be ready sometime this week.

[the-manta]

This is a great idea, I was planning on doing something like it myself...eventually. As it is, I suck at making quests etc. but I can do interior design and some retexturing. If you like I could make a sanctuary below Nerastarel's house in Skingrad (the one full of undead-that's never explained). I could add NPCs, but I have no voice acting facilities and I cant get dialogue to work anyway. There is also no chance of me being able to link up any quests for it.

[Mannimagnus]

This is a great idea, I was planning on doing something like it myself...eventually. As it is, I suck at making quests etc. but I can do interior design and some retexturing. If you like I could make a sanctuary below Nerastarel's house in Skingrad (the one full of undead-that's never explained). I could add NPCs, but I have no voice acting facilities and I cant get dialogue to work anyway. There is also no chance of me being able to link up any quests for it.

Sorry, im already doing just that with Nerasteral's house.

[the-manta]

Dang! Best of luck then, and I will certainly be downloading this when its done!

[StarX]

The rugs will probably not be ready this week, but next week I'm certain I can deliver. Just keeping you posted!

[Arthmoor]

No worries, you're doing the wall tapestries though, right? If there's DB rugs I hadn't noticed

[Arthmoor]

Also wanted to check on if the red welkynd stuff is being looked at? I've conveniently stuck a shot of one in my gallery if you need to see what I'm getting at. It looks silly with a blue bottom

[the-manta]

I'll gladly give that a go if no-one's doing it. It'll just be nice to have done something for a big mod

[the-manta]

Huzza! There's a few red specks in the metal, but IMHO that's no bad thing, although you cant really see it from any sort of distance.

It was a pretty quick job, so I won't be offended if you don't use them.