esp file that replaced Vanilla Skeletons with Armored Skeletons. Modified the armors the skeletons wear to make them look old and rusty.Īdded a spell shield bonus to armored skeletons to account for the fact that they wear armor.Īdded one new type of Skeleton to the leveled lists: the Mystic Skeleton.įixed a visual bug affecting most of the cuirasses. IF YOU ARE UPGRADING, please read the corresponding section of the readme to see the proper steps to follow. Don't expect to see lots of them though, they are supposed to be rare.Ĭopy the 'Meshes' folder, the 'Textures' folder and the file 'Armored Skeletons (LL).esp' into your 'Data' folder. Furthermore, these guys are pure eyecandy: they wear retextured weapons and armor and have got burning eye sockets! You will start to see them when skeleton champions begin to appear. They don't have much more health that a skeleton champion but they carry MUCH better equippment (weapons with custom enchantments) and possess special strenghts and resistances (their health slowly regenerates and magic is less effective against them). Mystic skeletons come in two varieties: melee and archer. Last but not least, this mod adds a new type of skeleton called 'Mystic Skeleton'.

Summoned skeletons are the only exception to the point above with this mod, when you or a NPC summon a skeleton, it will always be an Armored Skeleton.Ħ. Roughly speaking, 1 of every 2 skeletons will be armored.ĥ. Instead, they are added to leveled lists so that you can find both armored and unarmored skeletons in your journeys.

Armored Skeletons will NOT replace vanilla skeletons. The strongest shield spell will absorve as much as 42% of the damage.Ĥ. The mildest shield spell will absorve 14% of the damage dealt by your (non-magic) attacks. The shield spell is permanent, constantly active and offers as much protection as the armor the skeleton wears should. To account for this fact, Armored Skeletons have a shield spell bonus applied to them. Skeletons using armor should be tougher than armor-less skeletons. This has been achieved by using retextures that already had a nice rusty look and, specially, by applying a Sobel filter on the normal maps of such textures.ģ. The armor sets the skeletons wear have been retextured to look old and rusty. The quality of such armor is determined by the rank of the skeleton, and it ranges from fur to elven and from iron to ebony.Ģ. Melee-oriented skeletons favor heavy armor. The new skeletons (called 'Armored Skeletons') are all equipped with a cuirass, a pair of boots and a helmet. With this mod they will wear different sets of armor depending on their rank (guardian, hero.) and combat specialization (melee or archery).ġ. In vanilla Oblivion all skeletons look the same. This taught me the Sobel trick, which was THE trick to make the armors look really worn out and rusty. The tutorial 'Better Retextures: Detailed Guide for NifSkope and the GIMP'. Again, thank you so much for letting other modders use your work! The retextured armors my skeletons wear are his work. Trollf for two excellent mods: 'Armamentarium' and 'Artifacts'. Thanks for specifying in the readme that we could use your amazing work! My only modification was to edit to textures so that the flames didn't clip through the helmets. From him I obtained the mesh that allowed me to have skeletons with burning eye sockets. LHammonds for his tutorial 'Blender import and export armor for Oblivion' This didn't make them less useful though. The irony is that these comments were not directed to me but to another user. Jahmir0 for his very insightful comments on how to make skeletons wear a cuirass as well as the likely problems one could encounter when pursuing this goal. Thanks to him, I only had to adapt the mesh of the fur helmet. Ginnungagap for his 'Skeleton Helmet Resource'.

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