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Artifacts - LOTD patch

Hey everyone, happy Friday!

I am mostly done with all vanilla, DLC and CC artifacts (just a few last tweaks here and there). I am starting to work on consistency patches. I want to cover LOTD since I have been doing it for most of my mods, but "artifacts" is a very vague term, so I am not sure what to cover. I have interest in making a proper / larger LOTD armors and weapons retexture one day, but that will be in the far future.

For those of you who you LOTD, I would like to kno...

More artifacts

Hey everyone! Thank you to everyone who voted and/or comments on my latest post. I am really happy to see the majority of you are all happy / satisfied with your membership! Following your feedback, I will soon start posting a monthly "suggestion gathering post" (thanks to JPDreamer for the idea!). However, please feel free to comment your suggestions / ideas on any posts. These specific suggestions gathering post will be more to gather ideas unrelated to whatever I am currently working on. A...

What do you think I should change or add to my Patreon to improve it?

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well!

I want to start off by thanking every Patron, whether you are still subscribed or not. Your support means a lot to me and I am extremely thankful!   

Lately, I have been trying to think about how to improve my Patreon. I figured I should start by asking all of you!  

If you are already subscribed to my Patreon, is there anything you would like me to add? Some new perks or different kind of posts, for example. &...

Potential future project

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well!

I've been getting pretty burnt out on artifacts lately. While it's a project I definetily want to release soon, I will be honest with the fact that I do not enjoy working on it. Most of it is done but I still have many CC items to do.

For this reason, I decided to give myself a little 2 day break to test out a more fun mod idea I've had for a bit. I would ask that no one shares these images or talk about this outside of this post, ple...

More artifacts

Hey everyone! Here's a few more artifacts I worked on this week. Still loads to go. This retexture feels like it's never ending..!

Artifacts WIPs

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well.

I came back from vacation over the weekend. My wife and I had a really good time! Thank you to everyone who wished us a happy vacation!

I am still jet lagged and unfortunately sick (thankfully I only started feeling sick when I got back home, so it did not affect the trip!). But I got back to artifacts retexturing yesterday! I'm currently focusing on all the daedric artifact weapons.

Pictured above are dawnbreaker, ebony blade ...

Vacation!

Hey everyone! If this post is up, it means that I am away on vacation! I will be back on October 23rd.
Work on the artifacts retexture has started but there is still loads to go. I will be right back on it when I am back.

Thank you as always for all the support!

Artifacts Retexture - more wips!

Hey everyone!

As I am finishing to pack my bags for my trip, I took a bit of time to work on some artifacts!

Pictured above are spellbreaker, masque of clavicus vile, ring of namira, ring of hircine and khajiit's ring.

I don't usually cover jewelry but I did these ones as a test and I'm fairly happy with how they came out! I might cover a few more.


That's about it before I leave! I scheduled a post that will stay up until I am back (on the 23rd), so you guys kn...

Armory of the dragon cult - dragon priest armor

Hey everyone!

ElectricSparx, Darenii and I release a new mod yesterday! It adds new sets of robes lootable from dragon priests. The first release required King Priest and Artificer to work, but we just pushed an update that includes a standalone version. You will only need SPID and KID for it to work correctly.

I hope you all like it!

Artifacts Retexture WIPs - Savior's Hide

Hey everyone!

A few days ago, I started working on the artifacts retexture. This one will be another very big retexture. It will include most unique items from vanilla skyrim and Creation Club that I have not covered yet. I will also redo/update the ebony blade and volendrung and include them here. As I was not planning on doing an artifacts retexture when I originally did them. When I update the ebony and orcish retexture, they will be removed from their respective mods.

Here's...

Armory of the Dragon Cult - Collab with Electric Sparx & Darenii

Hey everyone! First of all, thank you all for all the support and kind comments for the dragon priest release! It was a huge project but definetily one I was passionate about and that I am proud of. I'm glad to see many people enjoying it!

On the topic of Dragon Priests: I spent the last few days working with ElectricSparx (author of King Priest and Antiquary) and Darenii (author of mods such as Arcane, desecration, natura, etc.) on a very fun project called "Armory of the Dragon Cult"...

Dragon Priests Retexture SE - Out now!

Dragon Priest Retexture is coming out tomorrow!

Hey everyone! Just a heads up that I will release the dragon priest retexture tomorrow

Miraak WIP

Hi everyone, happy Monday!

Here is a wip for my retexture of Miraak. I'm pretty happy with Miraak's mask and outfit. Not too sure what to do with the staff. It's a bit hard to work with as it has a strong green cubemap / reflections applied to the mesh directly. I cannot tweak its intensity with a texture, unfortunately.
I'll also retexture the sword but that one is almost fully black with an extremely strong cubemap added on top (same one as the water in apocrypha). So It'll be a s...

Final Dragon Priests!

Hey everyone! Here are the final dragon priests, Vahlok, Otar and the 3 acolytes

I also redid Ahzidal's robes as I really preferred the green cloth on Ahzidal himself. The red looked bland. So I went back and changed the robes to fit

I also realized Wyrmstooth's Suylek is not a dragon priest, he's a draugr wearing a mask. Unfortunately, I realized after being done with my matching retexture.... lol So if anyone wants a rusty dragon priest retexture, I have one! haha

I als...

More Dragon Priests!

Hey everyone, happy Friday!

I ended up redoing all the priests I showcased yesterday and did a few more. Only Otar, the 3 acolytes and Vahlok are missing now. I also did option blue version of morokei, and gilded ebony or silvered ebony for nahkriin.

I decided to go back and use Amidian's normal map as a base, instead of vanilla. It looks less noisy.

I also decided to make the Priest's cloth darker and dirtier than their KA robes. My thinking was that the KA robes are fou...

Dragon Priests Retexture - Optional SPID addon for unique priests

Hey everyone!

Thanks to my fellow modders and friends Dareni, Delta rider, SeaSparrow and ThirdEyeSqueegee, I learned how to create a SPID Addon to make every dragon priest use a custom texture! This will be completely optional, but I would highly recommend it. It's a mod I wanted to do for so long but never knew how.

I have done Hevnoraak, Vokun and Rahgot so far. I may also give Wyrmstooth's Suyek a custom look too! And all these textures will also work on the Dragon priests ...

Dragon Priest Retexture WIPs - Konahrik, Stalhrim and Heartsone

Hey everyone!

Here are Konahrik, KA's Konahrik Sets, Stalhrim sets and Heartstone sets. With these, All of Konahrik's Accoutrements robes and custom masks are done!

The stalhrim mask is also used in LOTD, without the robes. For both the LOTD and KA versions, there will be an optional Refrozen Stalhrim Patch (a mod I highly recommend)

The heartstone set glows and flickers, just like the regular KA version.


Next up, I will work on the few dragon priest weapons (s...

Dragon Priests Retexture - Acolytes

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a nice weekend.

Here are the 3 acolytes (Zahkriisos, Ahzidal and Dukaan), with their KA sets. The final mask is Haldriin, from LOTD. I tried to have every mask represent their element well (Shock, fire and ice, respectively).

If you are not using KA, all acolyte masks will use the black hood from Zahkriisos.

Dragon Priests Update - Volsung, Otar and misc

Hey everyone, I hope you are all having a nice weekend!

Here are a few more masks and KA sets: Otar (Malachite/glass), Volsung (Corundum/copper) and KA's craftable Glass mask and robes

Dragon Priests Retexture - Krosis, 2 Morokei options and various KA sets

Hey everyone! Here is an update for the Dragon priest retexture.

I decided to make Krosis match with the dwemer armor, since it's supposed to be gold-bronze.

For Morokei, I decided to give 2 options. This mask is supposed to be made from Moonstone, and moonstone in skyrim can be used to make Elven armors and weapons, where it will be light gold or as gems in jewelry where it will be dark blue. For that reason, I decided to offer one version that matches with the elven set and on...

Nahkriin - 3 options

Hey everyone!

Since Nahkriin is an ebony mask, I decided to fit my ebony retexture and offer 3 versions to match whichever option you took for the ebony armor (normal, gilded or silvered). Of course, you don't need to take the same option in both mods, but it's what I would recommend doing for extra consistency!

Rahgot update, KA's Clay mask and warmonger armory patch

Hey everyone! Thank you for the feedback yesterday.

Here is my latest version of the full rahgot sets, the clay mask (from KA) and a few screenshots showcasing my patch for warmonger's armory's belt fastened masks (the patch just makes sure the proper textures are applied to them). I will also create a patch to make sure my textures are applied properly to the KA LOTD displays.

You may notice the specular reflections on Rahgot's armor are pretty strong compared to the mask. Unfo...

Dragon Priests - Vokun mask and robes, Wooden mask and Raghot WIP

Hey everyone!

Here are some more previews for my dragon priest retexture.
Pictured above is Vokun, which is supposed to be made of steel so I made it match with the steel plate armor. I also included screenshots of my version of the Vokun robes from KA.

Then there is the wooden mask and a WIP version of Raghot. I want Raghot to fit with the orcish armor, but I honestly dislike my orcish retexture and plan on redoing it. In the screenshots above, could you please let me know ...

Dragon Priests Retexture SE WIPs

Hey everyone! Here is a 1st look at my dragon priest retexture. This one should be very big, so it will most likely take a little longer than my last few retextures.

Pictured above is Hevnoraak, with the matching robes and armor from KA. It is a good example of my design philosophy for this retexture. I want to masks to look fairly simple. I do not like how most retextures give them fancy, complex designs. I feel like these masks should look mysterious and intimidating. I also really w...

Forsworn Armors and Weapons Retexture SE - Out now!

Hey everyone! The forsworn retexture is out! I hope you all like it.

Next up will be dragon priests!

Forsworn Weapons WIP

Hey everyone!

The forsworn retexture is almost done! All I have left to do are the bow and arrows.

Pictured above are the staff, war axe and sword. Then the weapons that will be in my LOTD consistency patch: Staff of melka and Bloodthorn (there's an axe called briar or something also, but it does not use any custom textures). I also included a few screenshots showing what my textures look like with Heavy Armory and animated armory weapons!

I hope you all like it! The mod ...

Forsworn Armors and Weapons Retexture SE - WIPs

Hey everyone, happy Monday!

Here's an update on the forsworn retexture. I just finished both versions of the female set (regular, and my optional old gods replacer) and also updated the antlers on the male old gods helmet to more closely match the actual white stag seen in Hircine's quest.

I only have the weapons left to do and thankfully there are not that many of them. This retexture's been rough to work on but it's almost done. Just a last little push from me and it should be...

Forsworn Armors and Weapons Retexture SE - Sneak Peek

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well.

Recently, I said I had decided to not do the forsworn armor. My main reasoning was that it was not an easy set to do and I thought most people would just prefer using Rustic's version anyways .

Having thought more about it, I realized that while yes the main reason for my retextures are to bring high quality textures to Skyrim, it is not the only goal of my work. I want to bring consistency to Skyrim and its popular mods and I also wa...

Artificer - An Artifacts Overhaul Sneak Peek (Collab with SimonMagus)

Hey everyone!

I am excited to announce that I had the chance to work with my friend and fellow mod author SimonMagus616 for his upcoming mod: Artificer - An Artifacts Overhaul.

Artificer will revamp most unique items and artifacts, add new ones and give some of the more visually boring artifacts a fresh coat of paint! This is where I came in. Simon asked if I could help by retexturing some of the artifacts and I said yes.

I created custom textures for some existing artif...