[WIP] World of Warcraft - Weapons Import

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I am still taking a break from from this. I seem to have forgotten several key steps in unpacking and repacking .bsa files.
A few things that have kept me from wanting to start this back up:

Complaints over the texture quality. Guess what, I happen to have no actual background in 2d digital media, so I am using the low resolution textures created by Blizzard for their models. You don't like them, either make your own, or don't bleeding use this mod.

Repeated requests for armor imports. WoW torso, leg and belt armors are just textures mapped to THEIR models. The only meshes that could be used to make body armor would be the body meshes themselves. I spent two weeks banging my head on my desk trying to turn WoW character meshes into armor, and when that was turning out to look like shit, I tried the WoW approach and made the armor textures into color textures for nude skyrim bodies, which did not work. Furthermore I would have had to resculpt a nude male mesh to make it work, AND would still have to deal with people crying for their favorite body mod.
Working on importing a singular armor sucked up 2 weeks with nothing to show for it.
In short, stop asking me for WoW armor imports. I have no desire to tackle that problem again as I am full time college student, and I am NOT majoring in what ever the fuck you call computer graphics.

What I will be doing, is fixing some of the outstanding issues with the weapons I have already ported, cleaning out the two erroneous items, the bloodknight circlet and the breadsword.

I am only doing this because people still want this mod, and for some reason I feel ya'll should know WHY it hasn't moved.

In Chinese
http://bbs.3dmgame.com/thread-3382073-1-1.html


Zin'Rohk, Destroyer of Worlds

 

Grand Marshal's Claymore

Shadowmourne

The Hammer of the Naaru

The Greatsword of the Ebon Blade

Apolyon, the Soul Render

The Hellreaver

The Tankard O'Terror

Probably mostly good enough.

The Bulwark of Azzinoth

The Royal Crest of Lordaeron

The Crest of Retribution

The Bloodknight Defender

 

World of Skyrimcraft.zip

[Guest Lehshara]

Looks good in 3rd person, but in first it sucks, you should fix it.

 

And btw. you have nice clouds there in Skyrim 0.0

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I'd love to fix the ugly textures, but unless someone has some tutorial handy for making higher res textures I'm at a loss.

 

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I think I fixed some of my problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[zang187]

In WoW that was always my favorite 2h mace. Great mod, hopefully you'll share it with us

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In WoW that was always my favorite 2h mace. Great mod' date=' hopefully you'll share it with us

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Thanks.

 

It's slow work. Weird things tend to happen when I port the weapons and shields in.

 

Especially shields.

 

 

 

 

 

Like the corner and spikes on the Bulwark of Azzinoth. It is also ridiculously huge and clips like crazy right now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I got one my favorite weapons in WoW ported in rather smoothly. I did a lot of heroic tanking with it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I don't know how to control how the weapon sheaths yet.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tortanic]

I'm going to be watching this mod in hopes of an upload. These look awesome so far.

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This is the Greatsword of the Ebon Blade.

 

 

It is making me angry.

I can fix what I am now calling "pixel cancer" if I don't use a normal map, but then it looks like this.

 

 

 

Another example of the pixel cancer.

Crest of Retribution

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Miki990]

This is very cool, keep it up. =)

[zang187]

Pixel cancer or not, they look amazing. Hope it all works out, this is great stuff.

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Well someone beat me to the punch on the steam workshop.

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I think I have a problem.

[Speakerphone2]

I love seeing all these! Brings back some memories :') Good luck on the project

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Blood Knight Shield?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Changed the orientation of the Bulwark to be closer to WoW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[night_flame1406]

the greatsword looks lovely, hope to see this mod complete soon, nice job btw

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Rimefang's Claw

 

 

 

 

The addition of a normal map made from the low res Blizz texutres seems to be causing the pixel cancer.

 

 

It might also be the environment mask.

[scarredtitan]

Love the work i was just asking wen someone was gonna impliment WoW gear in skyrim. i ply both a lot lol.keep up the good work cant wait to see if u add armors

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Love the work i was just asking wen someone was gonna impliment WoW gear in skyrim. i ply both a lot lol.keep up the good work cant wait to see if u add armors

 

Armor is in the pipeline, but significantly more difficult than weapons.

Everything but head pieces and shoulders are just textures painted on the character model, and shoulders are divided into lefts and rights. I know how I want to start with armor, but it will take a lot of time to just add one armor.

[scarredtitan]

Well take ur. time ur doing great work. im loving it lol think its awesome and ur really good at it. mucho kudos

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Hellreaver from Hellfire Ramparts. Still needs a normal map and environmental mask. Oh and maybe that sexy flowing lava animation. Maybe one day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[moozoo25]

Hellreaver from Hellfire Ramparts. Still needs a normal map and environmental mask. Oh and maybe that sexy flowing lava animation. Maybe one day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that has me stoked

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Anyone have an ideas how to get the sexy lava animations for the Hellreaver?

And a slow pulsing glow effect?

 

This is what I mean.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=24044#modelviewer

[inforsir]

mind tryin this guy http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=28883

 

and if anyone could make it play its sounds while in game would make it god like.

 

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I think I got Hellreaver about 90% good. Still getting some weird bloom from intense reflected light, but I got a slow pulsing glow in the lava.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mind tryin this guy http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=28883

 

and if anyone could make it play its sounds while in game would make it god like.

 

 

I'll toss it in my list.