ACCEPTED Nightingale Prime HD (by AncientVampire)

[TechAngel85]

Discussion thread:

Nightingale Prime by AncientVampire

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I had seen this a while back then found out is was no long available. AncientVampire received permission to re-upload this HD retexture from it's original author. It's 100% vanilla retexture from what I can tell. Just higher resolution to match some of the other armor sets. The only issue I could foresee is that it might be too detailed...similar to the rock textures a while back. Check it out! I like it!

[CaBaL]

crisis 4 ?

:) wrong textures for skyrim...in fallout would look great

 

no offense but material looks a lot technological...

it's a good textures... clearly... but does not have any feeling of leather...looks polymer

[TechAngel85]

crisis 4 ?

:) wrong textures for skyrim...in fallout would look great

 

no offense but material looks a lot technological...

it's a good textures... clearly... but does not have any feeling of leather...looks polymer

This was my concern as well when I said, "it might be too detailed".

[CaBaL]

the "leather" version is a bit better... still too lucid... to avoid misunderstanding.... texture is fine...just imo does not blend with the rest of the armors

[rpsgc]

That mod was already in STEP (leather version obviously). It was removed in 2.2 along with every other armour mod.

[DoubleYou]

I am not liking this mod. I finally played through with STEP installed to where I get this armor. It just is utterly beyond the vanilla style, and doesn't fit. Yes, it is HD, but this is armor that you received in an ancient hall (at least it looks ancient). And seriously, flowers on the helmet? What, is Karliah wearing a bonnet? Core proposal voting:

 

 HQ retexture of vanilla. I thought we agreed a while back when this was added that the leather version was nearly a direct retexture? Only changes are to the mask and hood from the mod description. Techangel85 (talk) 00:38, June 11, 2013 (MDT)

 Main mod is not vanilla style. Deviates way too much. Not sure if the leather option is better or not. ~z929669  Talk 00:20, June 17, 2013 (MDT)

 (leather) Kelmych (talk) 19:35, June 22, 2013 (MDT)

 Solist (talk) 21:10, June 25, 2013 (MDT)

 Even the leather version looks more like a high-tech rubber to me. Kryptopyr (talk) 22:07, June 25, 2013 (MDT)

 Neovalen

  Some screenshots I took using the leather version...   This mod:

Vanilla:

 

Also notice the lack of detail, especially the eagle decal. And the armor looks all smoothed and waxed like a car. Indeed, that would make a good design on a car. But this is Nightingale armor!

[redirishlord]

I dislike it a lot less than DoubleYou, but would vote against it regardless. An HD improvement on the vanilla, any deviation should be towards the thieves guild armor not off in a new direction.

The honeycomb kevlar looking option would be great for FNV, maybe with some kind of nod to Batman, I'm wandering off topic.

[EssArrBee]

I think this mod was really old. It was better than the vanilla texture, but we just kinda kept it in after the HRDLC came out. 

[TechAngel85]

I think it's better than the other options I've seen. It might not be perfect...but if you take a close look at the design the author stayed fairly close to the vanilla design besides the hoods. I asked CaBaL for this armor a long time ago and he said he was going to do it but never did.

[DoubleYou]

I really don't see this as being close to the vanilla design at all. Where did it NOT change it? Certainly Cabal would be better if it existed, but this is not CORE material. Way too much deviation from vanilla. I'm not even sure it fits in with Extended.

[Kelmych]

At one point I thought there were some mods for Nightingale Prime that STEP hadn't used.

[DoubleYou]

The screens from https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/3765/? don't look that bad...

[EssArrBee]

I don't remember this mod looking like the screens DY took. I thought it looked like matte leather.

[TechAngel85]

You're confusing design with other changes. I'm talking about the actual texture layout on the mesh. The lines are still there, leather strips in the same place, symbols are the same, "hardware" pieces are still there, the lines in the leather still match up, the face cover is the same, the neck piece is the same... the design is pretty much the same. It's the choice in material, color, etc and the implementation of those things that you're having the issue with. At this point, I'm just arguing the systematics of your statement, but I needed to point out the actual design is pretty much the same besides the hoods. The texture choice for the material is different.

 

With that said, the one you linked is probably closer to vanilla...though I play through this part of the game every time I get to it and have never had any issue with this mod either. We should annoy CaBaL until he does it! He's been absent from the Book for a while now anyway.

[DoubleYou]

If it isn't a change of design, than what is the change I'm describing? I don't know how else to describe it.

 

And I'm thinking I'm liking that other mod I found through a brief Nexus search (DoF is Dynavision):