Re: Elven Love Download] [addons]
Martin Thrasher
simple enough i love warcraft 3 for its UI its beautiful while being simple and elegant.. we all know world of warcraft went abit bad with its UI.. thank god for mods .. wouldn't it be good to have that old classic UI back??
well here it is derived for use with Xart
to install simply replace the 4 images in the download with the ones in ur /interface/addons/xart/textures folder.. as always remember to backup those originals :P
in my opinion this is best suited for 1024x768.. but still remains stunning on higher res monitors (u just might have to move stuf around abit) lol
hope u all enjoy this skin as much as i enjoyed putting it all together..
comments are very welcome
Seems like wasted potential to me, it would be nice if the elven dimension was an actual dimension you could visit, and either trade for materials in person or find them yourself. I understand why the creator of Botania didn't do it, it's kind of a big task, but has anyone else done it?
It's beautiful, don't get me wrong. I second Argeomer's suggestion. Maybe make it look like "the hanging gardens of Babylon or something. Malorn trees, silver trees, Vines on the walls, Anything resembling elven love of nature
- Head meshes by Rhedd and Motoki, altered by me
- Thanks Akavir666 for the amazing Victorian hair mesh, love it.
- Other hair meshes by Anto and Babe, converted with permission from Apachii's Wigs.
- Big thanks to my friends at the Bethsoft forums and Wolflore, and to Boblet my little guinea pig.
The three new custom recurve bows are equivalent to the Eldergleam bow with ebony base damage, lighter carry weight and enhanced draw speed. I love them. I switch hit between many of the bows in Bowgasm. My current Khajiit is using the Rivendell bow. I've used all of them during testing and have gone back to most of them. Hell, even the basic longbow has beautifully carved engravings that must be seen to be appreciated. The LOD is amazing, the performance is superior and as you may have seen in some of the images here, no corners on the bent bow, gone are all of the hand and arrow misalignments... These are the bows that should've been in Skyrim from day one.
Very nice! My family did some archery when I was small too. It is one of my fondest memories. Each of us had our own bows. I started out with a child-sized bow that was my treasure for many uears. It felt like a first step into adulthood, using that bow along with my parents. We lived out in the country (8 miles from the nearest small town) so there was little risk of hitting neighbors or anything like that. It was always a treat to go to a the nearest sporting goods store each spring to select new arrows. I will never forget the pride I felt, picking out my own arrows. I even loved the look of the colorful circles on the targets.
My first bow was my mother's 35 pound draw Bear Archery bow. I graduated to dad's 55 pound draw Bear in my teens. I've tried many different bows through the years, even a couple of those compound bows with the pullies. Never really took to them but my seventy something year old cousin still uses one for deer, elk and even bear in the western Pennsylvania Allegheny mountains These days I'm back to a 35 pound draw weight, this time with a couple of modern takes on the ancient composite bow. It's still bound together like the old school counterpart. But, uses fiberglass, hardwood and a fair amount of epoxy The earliest examples from the steppes of northeast Asia were made completely from animal parts, horn, antler, bone and sinew. Atilla didn't have access to enough wood for bows. So, they used what they had to lethal effect! As the design moved west through the centuries more wood was added. There are versions of Hunnish, Turkish and Hungarian composite bows in Bowgasm. The Orsimer bow is one of Nico and my favorites, especially the custom Bloodkin Bow. It uses a Scythian design from Hungary. You can tell that design by the drastic curves in the "ears" of the bow. On a composite the very tips where the string attaches are called the "ears." That same part on a recurve or longbow is called the horns. But, this is just a sample of the the knowledge I brought to the table when creating Bowgasm. Nico did all the hard work... remaking all the vertices, moving all the hand placements, arrow nock points and more than I can even share here. Nico remade Skyrim archery from the ground up and put it all into two mods, Bowgasm and I Want Better Arrows. If you want REAL bows and arrows in your game... accept NO substitutes Okay... enough with the sales pitch... apologies..... I just love this gear so much I can't help but gush.
Bows....Yes, lovely creations indeed. Almost too lovely to have been crafted by the likes of Fihada in his Solitude shop...or are they Cyrodiil imports like my fine slim cigars? Not easy with the war on.
It's from your Skyrim. I can't think of any reason not to post her. Your Lydia is rather lovely I see why you like her I still prefer my Bijin Lydia as she was what got me interested in using mods in the beginning along with the Asteria player home. Adventure on brother, Phat
There are many more in the total set. I probably should've shown off the Falmer bow and quiver as well. I actually love that bow now There are essentially four types of bows in Bowgasm, Composite, Recurve, Longbow and a few hybrids. Every one would function rather well if made IRL to the in game specs. These are the most realistic bows ever made for Skyrim, hands down. Just look at how well they bend in a natural arc and all of the hand and arrow placements perfectly align where they should've been on 11-11-11! Nico had to completely rework how archery works in Skyrim just to make the bows bend properly without corners. Tauriel's Bow was the first in Late June of 2020. Bowgasm did not publish in full until late November the same year. That's five full months of love poured into these instruments of beauty and death. Apologies for gushing. I just really could not be happier
Since my beloved Adella is a challenger using vanilla stats gear, I highly recommend the vanilla replacement version of Bowgasm and I Want Better Arrows. Those mods are texture replacements only. They fix the archery animations as well by redoing every hand position, arrow alignment, bow bend and all of the vertices to move naturally. Early on Nico commented how awful the bow draw system was in Skyrim... So, he fixed it! He used much of what he had learned making bows for Oblivion as the bow draw was different and more natural than Skyrim's. So, Nico went through every step of the draw and remade everything to actually look and move like real gear. You really have to see them in action to know what I'm talking about. Look at the vanilla bow draw animation with the longbow and compare it to Nico's. You'll instantly see what I mean. The vanilla longbow shows obviously visible corners when drawn, the draw hand is several inches behind where the string is draw, the arrow stops at the string bend and none of it reaches the draw hand... also, the arrowhead pulls behind the bow hand rather than stopping before the bow. It is AWFUL! So, Nico fixed all of that, the arrow length, smooth bow draw, proper hand and arrow alignment... ALL of that!
There are a few longbows throughout Bowgasm but the standard longbow is the only vanilla variant, there's also the Dragon longbow which has the same skin as the vanilla longbow with the fine engraving and sexy horns, just adding the custom upgrades. The other two longbows are a bit more hybrid as they are both based on the longbow with more of a fantasy spice flair. They are Lothlorien and Rivendell bows. There is one other hybrid longbow based on Rivendell which gets a gloss black finish and a lovely interlacing pearl white inlay to become both the ebony replacement and custom Drow Bow. So, there are several longbows from which to choose. The one that is the best fit for the traditional English longbow is certainly the Dragon longbow and the vanilla longbow counterpart.
The elven replacer is Tauriel's bow, made to the same specs as the film version. The WETA Workshop bows err a bit on the fantasy side yet still follow the basic principles of a well made bow. Tauriel's bow is a carved recurve that would be awfully stiff to draw but would function if made as modeled on screen and in game. That is the bow that started all of this. I made a simple and polite request to have Tauriel's bow become my elvish bow replacement. I was using the same vanilla bow replacer that Sah still does at the time, Real Bows. There were a few nice bows in that replacer set, the ebony and daedric in particular look rather nice... until you draw them in third person... ugh! But, the elvish bow in that set is a huge Asian style asymmetric monster that clips with EVERYTHING! So, I was desperate to replace it, even if it meant going back to the vanilla elven bow! The vanilla elven bow is pretty in appearance at least, even though it defies physics IRL. But, Nico wrote back advising he would be happy to show me how to make a replacer and would gladly allow me permission to publish my resulting creation! Well, if I still had the same quick study mind for tech that I did thirty years ago, that would've been perfect! However, after several head injuries that occurred during the accidents that left me fully disabled, I'm just not as quick to learn new tech as I once was. Nico and I discussed some thoughts on the matter after which he agreed to make Tauriel's bow into an elvish replacement. I think some creative muse bit him in the process because as I began to share my IRL archery experience with my friend, all the lights came on and he began to create. I told him what was wrong with the vanilla bows as well as the Real Bows mod and he soaked up every ounce of data I shared. He then poured it all back into his creations, lovingly, patiently and laboriously meticulating every minute detail until they were all perfect. From Tauriel as elven replacement, Nico moved to the arrows next because of all the inherent problems with them affecting every bow they touched. He had already made some improvements in Tauriel's arrows to repair much of the vanilla derp. But, we literally spent many hundreds, maybe thousands of hours between us over the next five months resulting in a fully remade archery system for this wonderful game we all love and play so faithfully All those messed up arrow and hand positions have now been repaired and the bows arc naturally when drawn. It's a thing of true beauty
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