Albion Viceroy

I came, I saw, I opened 3DS Max and did stuff.

I'm quite happy with the scabbard in particular, as normally I don't put quite so much effort into them.

There's no download as of yet.



EDIT: Been messing around with the textures and the normal maps; thinking I've got something pretty decent for now. Will try to push for a release sooner or later.

The cubemap (fake reflections) that you see in this second render I will include in the release, as well as a few optional cubemaps with different blur amounts. The sharper one is good for renders, though not quite as nice in-game in my opinion. There's also an alternate cubemap I will include, which is one of the first cubemaps I started to use (way back at Wraith) but tweaked a tad - should look fairly natural without being too bland. Hopefully... 

EDIT 2: It has now been released. You can grab it here! 

Legerity - Morgynn Ashcroft's Sword

I'm making a sword for an upcoming companion/quest mod by Darkrogue21.

"Morgynn is Marcelon Ashcroft's younger sister, the baby of the family of 4. As well as taking her etiquette lessons and studying music, she also dabbled in swordplay and fencing, being taught by the family house-guard in secret as her parents thought it, 'wasn't becoming of a noble lady'."

"Morgynn isn't as innocent as she plays out to be, holding a steeled confidence when she fights, but still has a childish naivete about her, even after being turned into a vampire. Whilst her brother is cynical and jaded of the world, she is open minded and enjoys living life, experiencing everything it has to offer. She's also a typical girly girl and likes flowers and jewellery."

With that in mind, I set out and made this thingo.

It's not done quite yet, and I'm still experimenting with the textures somewhat, but it's getting there...



EDIT: And it's done.

You can download it here

Celerity ENB

A preset I've been working on for a while. It's rather simplistic in nature, which is why I gave it the name "Celerity ENB" - it should be very performance friendly. Although, the name is quite a mouthful so I may change it if I can think of any other names.

Performance-wise, I usually only drop about 5-10 frames with ENB on. In heavily forested areas, it compounds a little bit so the drop is more noticeable, but otherwise the impact is negligible.

If you want to see some comparison .gifs, they are on the Nexus page (the link is at the bottom of this post).

Download it here.

Skyrim's Shadow Problem

Many of you have probably realised that the shadows in Skyrim are pretty bad. This is why:

The quality of the shadows is (for some reason) tied to the FOV in the game - anything above a FOV of 65 renders the shadows at half resolution! It appears to be an engine or game-related bug, and I don't have the knowledge required to fix it. But hopefully someone out there does...