Divine Crusader Pose?

[Lanceor]

Is anyone aware of a pose mod that has the pose used by the Divine Crusader in the KOTN poster? It's the one where he's holding the sword upright in front of him, left hand by his side. I've checked several pose mods but haven't been able to find it.

If the pose doesn't exist, can I make a request for a kind person to make this pose for me? 'll be needing it for the promotional image for KOTN:R.

Edit: added image.

Edited April 17, 2011 by Lanceor

[Tamira]

Hi Lanceor; I think the pose that is in your mind, exists already in the CS. It is the pose of the Ghost-Blades at the end of the Mainquest - Sancre Tor .

Have a look at the pic:

http://www8.pic-upload.de/17.04.11/67sc25acztw5.jpg

[Lanceor]

Hmmm... it looks like a different pose. The upperbody is very similar but the sword should be closer to the body and the head should be tilted slightly downwards. The character should be standing instead of kneeling. Thanks for checking it out though.

[Lady_Nerevar]

Do you need the image to be in-game? If its just for promotional purposes, I could throw it into max and render it out.

[Lanceor]

Yes, I was planning an in-game screenshot.

[Lanceor]

Tamira suggested that I use the "holding torch" pose and mirror the image. It was quite similar, but it looked a little too relaxed.

Searching around, I found that one frame of the drinkmugidle and drinkbottleidle animations match almost perfectly provided I can get the mug/bottle removed. Knowing nothing about animations and .kf files, I'm not sure where to begin to get this frame out.

So, I pose these questions:

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• How do I freeze it in one particular frame?
  
• How do I remove the mug/bottle?
  

[Tamira]

Removing the Mug: Copy the GenericMug to the directory "IdleObjects" then in NifSkope replace the Mug-NiTriStrips with the NiTriStrips of your sword. (mug-Animation is better than bottle-animation)

My suggestion:

Give your crusader a drink-package, for instance the "AAAAATestDrinkBeer" (no other packages for the foto-shooting).

Then simply make a screenshot when he holds the sword in front of him.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/0SZnAdeTtWGYTqROrLHw4Q?feat=directlink

[selene310187]

I played around a bit with Blender and tried to make that pose (not exported yet). That's the result:

How do you like it?

[Lanceor]

Wow! That looks amazing!

A slight tweaking of the body angle and it will be perfect but I'm already very, very happy with it as-is. I don't think we've met here on TESA before, but thanks so much for coming to the rescue Selene!

[selene310187]

I exported the animation and cleaned it up so it can be integrated as special idle in any plugin. The animation in game:

I sent you a PM with the download link to the .kf file .

[Lanceor]

Thanks a million Selene!

I've used your pose to create a wallpaper that mimics the original KOTN wallpaper... similar enough for players to immediately recognise the connection but different enough that they will stop and take a second look.

My computer now has a new wallpaper.