Ava/oddzxc

It is coronavirus quarantine time and that means that I’ll be working on stuff. This stuff right here, actually. It’s a mashup I’ve thrown together super quickly and I’m really happy with the mesh and design of it. The armor isn’t done yet and the link in the sidebar has not been changed whatsoever. I just want to show what i’m working on.

The breast”plate” will be brigandine. Red velvet, with golden rivets. I might make a green version too. The armor itself will be fluted in the Maximilian style, or made in the style of gothic armour. Decoration! As for the underarmour, i want to make it colourful and give it some nice striped patterns. Yellow and black? Red and yellow? Who knows. I want to make a flashy armour in a medieval style!

I’m going to be relying on a lot of existing parts, namely some stuff from the plate ensemble and two pieces from the blackened steel plate. They will all get a retexture, but still, asset reuse. Sue me. In general, I want to make the design a bit more realistic. Normally i leave huge gaps in the armour for the sake of visual design but I’m done with that. This time, I’ll actually make some fucking tassets and add in some functional armguards. I’m also considering to reuse the cuisse from the blackened steel armour, as that one’s pretty good and got a nice protective sideplate. As it is now, though, it sits too low. Gotta fix that if I want to use it.

Anyway I’ll try to keep this page a bit more up to date as I am out of a job anyway for now and I like sharing progress online.

I’d started development on another outfit based on the Saskia armor from TW2 a few weeks ago. I relied on a lot of older things I made because, well, they were easy to use and I already had the project files for the textures lying around. It has also allowed me to try to work with mordhau assets for the first time, and it was an absolute joy.

The set is supposed to be the first step into my own art style. With other textures, I always tried to approximate a perceived stylistic standard for armor sets. Same cubemap, same way of doing materials with environment maps, everything. Now I tried something new, grittier, but still detailed and believable in my opinion. I am very satisfied with the way the textures for the arms and legs turned out, the metal parts that is. The cloth stuff I did not edit as they are the same as the original TAL textures.

This set is the reason why the Plate Ensemble and the Shieldmaiden’s Getup haven’t been released yet. I started something new as an experiment and before I knew it I had fallen in love with the design. I don’t want to release a pack with WIP stuff inside it as I like to operate on a fairly high standard when releasing my own work. I want things to be polished, good looking, and implemented sensibly. Just leaving an unfinished armor set inside a pack with high quality outfits is not something I want to do.

Luckily, the set’s almost done. All the pieces, bar for the pauldrons, are from armors designed for males. The lower chestpiece I can lift from the plate ensemble, the Gambeson is from my retexture from the Raubritter armor, and the mordhau parts are from the mordhau pack which is male-only. No overlapping pieces either, so no weighing bullfuckery to worry about either. Some pieces for the crafting materials are finished too, so that’s even less of an issue. I’m this close to releasing it and I want to make it top priority.

As for future, plans, I have some. But I will only talk about them when I have something to show, which right now is not the case. When this pack is done and released, I will make a new post as will I update one of the empty links in the sidebar. Those links will all be direct and updated links to my work.

In the hush, naught but the rustling of coats or of footsteps atop packed snow. A path well worn, but by who or what, we knew not. Above, one could hear it falling. Clouds pouring their hearts out onto the peaks. Heavy but soft it fell. Ahead loomed ruins, much needed shelter. It had been some days in this weather. This had been but a brief trip north, into the mountains. Quick work for the two of us, I was glad to have tagged along. With the job swiftly done, it seemed that we would be back home earlier than expected. But the storm. It wept overhead for days. I worried, but two weeks care had been arranged for the kids if need be. It could not storm for two weeks straight. It was just the cold that stung me. The chill felt on faces not covered, though we were thankful for what little warmth lay behind these lined coats and clasped mittens. I wondered and imagined, in clearer skies, that perhaps one could see the house from here. A pinprick on the landscape from so high above. To see the kids playing in the yard like ants on a mound.

In the hush, there came a cry and the rattle of bones. The drum of more footsteps and the powder they kicked up. From round the columns, a hoard of the undead. Hilde screeched, testing her edge on snowflakes as she was hauled from his back and into position between us and them. Mittens glowed, thunder cracked, old bones were broken, ashed and crushed. In but a moment, it was over. The overcast stonework did little to protect from the snow. It threw itself from side to side just as heartily as it fell from above. We searched long for a door or alcove before at last finding just such. One last glow, to cast open a door long since rusted shut. We left the storm, to find the warmth we had so sought.

For the one-pause challenge thing on Twitter…that I thought I was tagged in.

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