Can you tell me the difference between this mod and:
The Bow of the Dark0ne SSE - This is a stand alone upload of a weapon mesh I created as a thank you to GStaff, and DarkOne. Permission to release this conversion has been obtained.
Over two years older than yours is why I ask.
Edit I see you created it and FireOogle converted it to SE.
seems you answered your own question. Yes, I am the original creator of this mesh and texture. Yes, I created it as a thank you to Dark0ne and GStaff. Yes it was originally made for SLE and permissions were set as 'Open' so yes, FireOogle had permission (well everyone has permission) to use it so long as it retains Dark0ne in the title and I am credited as it's original Creator. So yes....same bow although My release fixes a problem that would cause it to drop through the floor when dropped so I recommend you grab my more recent release.
I have been modding Elderscrolls games since 2007 with Oblivion so plenty out there I have made and shared. :)
This is my all-time favorite and only bow and as a modder I had to ask as I do not know this avatar you are using. I apologize for not recognizing your username I know who you are and see I have given you kudos. Thank you very much for your time and energy.
My old avatar (for a long time...since Oblivion) was a black dragon head. My current avatar is one I made for a business I started in 2014 which sadly closed down in 2017 but served it's purpose allowing me to work from home and care for my kids and wife as she died from cancer. I just never changed it back and figured Nicomods (the business name) was fitting for video games mods as well.
You (and everyone else) is very welcome for the things I have decided to share. People ask me if I get paid for what I do. The answer is yes but not in the way you would imagine. I do NOT accept donations, have a patreon, or monitize my YT channel. I get paid in smiles :) When you tell me you are having fun with something I made. I just got paid in currency more valuable than any other :)
Full respect for your choice to care for family and I am sorrowful for the loss of your wife... I can't imagine your loss but have gone through this as well and extremely lucky mine did survive even though her views on the world changed.
Modder to Modder, I do understand why modders mod and what keeps them going and what burns them out so I don't make empty comments on other mods. I have made a great deal of money modding for, as I see them, clients, but the joy has always been in the posted mods as that is where you find the feeling that drives us.
Nicoroshi, you have my respect as a modder, and now as a person. The game for me would not be the same without your mods... I say this thinking about walking past my Dark and Dirty weapons to return Dragon's Bane back to display, grab the Dark0ne and better arrows, pack my Raven or Dragon shield, Twin blades, Tauriels Dagger and will have to choose from Orcrist, Mariner or Thranduil sword and go find Myst... you know all swords are smooth drawing... Oh my word, I don't know if modders ego allows him/her to be a fan of another modder, but I am.
A toast to Nicos Gift, the warm thoughts that come to mind remembering it and again, Thank you for the many, many gifts.
One bow to bring them all!!! :)) seriously all your bows and other weapons are so gorgeous I cant pick just one!! love the LOTR references in everything :)
That would require adding scopes to this model. Not something I plan on doing since I personally don’t use a scope (or a crosshair) and snipe in first and third person using the tip of my arrow to aim (using archery tweaks) or the top of my character’s head in third person view.
If this is something you’d like to do I would grant permissions to do so. Just ask.
Great mod in fact, THE best bow on the nexus. My one thing I did not care for is the white coloring of the runic text texture so I thought I'd change it. and... it did not work I got it how I wanted it exported it as .dds w/ba2 dtx3 saved existing mipmaps and the text is still looks white though when you move it around you can see it in certain light/angles. So I went back to gimp and added the same gradient to the _g,dds and _m.dds files to and it still did not work,
If anyone has a solution that would be awesome, THANK YOU.
Open the nif, and change the emissive color. Right now the emmisive is FFFFF which is white. This is what the _g.dds will show. Changing the color of the _g.dds will only change how bright it is. Think of it as a mask. Black doesn't let any light through. White lets all the light through. Any color/ gradient in between will be brightness somewhere between there. The emissive color located in the model (.nif) is the color that light will be. Changing the color on the main texture to what you want will make it darker so change color on that one as well as modify color in emissive of .nif Hope that helps
Glow maps will glow whatever color the emissive is set to. messing with specular color can do stuff too if there is no glow map. some interesting things you can do with that. on my Orcish arrow fletching I wanted to make magpie feathers which are black but have a blue green hue in light. The texture is pure black but specular color is set to blue/green. in game the fletching is black but reflects blue green in sunlight. just something else to play with have fun nico
I just commented on your Drow Bow SE and started to point out that I have always loved The Bow of the DarkOne.... to find you are the same author... Thank you!
You are most welcome. While creating Tauriel’s bow I found the issue with bow drop disappear It had to do with export options from the modeling program as well as Sanitize on save in nifscope Once I finally figured that out I wanted to repair that issue with this bow Seemed only fitting to optimize the nif and textures and bring it to SSE
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The Bow of the Dark0ne SSE - This is a stand alone upload of a weapon mesh I created as a thank you to GStaff, and DarkOne. Permission to release this conversion has been obtained.
Over two years older than yours is why I ask.
Edit I see you created it and FireOogle converted it to SE.
Yes, I am the original creator of this mesh and texture. Yes, I created it as a thank you to Dark0ne and GStaff. Yes it was originally made for SLE and permissions were set as 'Open' so yes, FireOogle had permission (well everyone has permission) to use it so long as it retains Dark0ne in the title and I am credited as it's original Creator.
So yes....same bow although My release fixes a problem that would cause it to drop through the floor when dropped so I recommend you grab my more recent release.
I have been modding Elderscrolls games since 2007 with Oblivion so plenty out there I have made and shared. :)
I just never changed it back and figured Nicomods (the business name) was fitting for video games mods as well.
You (and everyone else) is very welcome for the things I have decided to share.
People ask me if I get paid for what I do. The answer is yes but not in the way you would imagine.
I do NOT accept donations, have a patreon, or monitize my YT channel.
I get paid in smiles :)
When you tell me you are having fun with something I made. I just got paid in currency more valuable than any other :)
Modder to Modder, I do understand why modders mod and what keeps them going and what burns them out so I don't make empty comments on other mods. I have made a great deal of money modding for, as I see them, clients, but the joy has always been in the posted mods as that is where you find the feeling that drives us.
Nicoroshi, you have my respect as a modder, and now as a person. The game for me would not be the same without your mods... I say this thinking about walking past my Dark and Dirty weapons to return Dragon's Bane back to display, grab the Dark0ne and better arrows, pack my Raven or Dragon shield, Twin blades, Tauriels Dagger and will have to choose from Orcrist, Mariner or Thranduil sword and go find Myst... you know all swords are smooth drawing... Oh my word, I don't know if modders ego allows him/her to be a fan of another modder, but I am.
A toast to Nicos Gift, the warm thoughts that come to mind remembering it and again, Thank you for the many, many gifts.
I am happy they are being enjoyed :)
this bow however says “This bow is for Dark0ne” in Tengwar since it was made as a thank you to this site’s owner
Not something I plan on doing since I personally don’t use a scope (or a crosshair) and snipe in first and third person using the tip of my arrow to aim (using archery tweaks) or the top of my character’s head in third person view.
If this is something you’d like to do I would grant permissions to do so. Just ask.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
Great mod in fact, THE best bow on the nexus. My one thing I did not care for is the white coloring of the runic text texture so I thought I'd change it. and... it did not work I got it how I wanted it exported it as .dds w/ba2 dtx3 saved existing mipmaps and the text is still looks white though when you move it around you can see it in certain light/angles. So I went back to gimp and added the same gradient to the _g,dds and _m.dds files to and it still did not work,
If anyone has a solution that would be awesome, THANK YOU.
Right now the emmisive is FFFFF which is white. This is what the _g.dds will show. Changing the color of the _g.dds will only change how bright it is.
Think of it as a mask. Black doesn't let any light through. White lets all the light through. Any color/ gradient in between will be brightness somewhere between there. The emissive color located in the model (.nif) is the color that light will be. Changing the color on the main texture to what you want will make it darker so change color on that one as well as modify color in emissive of .nif
Hope that helps
glow whatever color the emissive is set to.
messing with specular color can do stuff too if there is no glow map.
some interesting things you can do with that.
on my Orcish arrow fletching I wanted to make magpie feathers which are black but have a blue green hue in light.
The texture is pure black but specular color is set to blue/green.
in game the fletching is black but reflects blue green in sunlight.
just something else to play with
have fun
nico
Thanks for the report so i could repair it.
While creating Tauriel’s bow I found the issue with bow drop disappear
It had to do with export options from the modeling program as well as Sanitize on save in nifscope
Once I finally figured that out I wanted to repair that issue with this bow
Seemed only fitting to optimize the nif and textures and bring it to SSE