I know the hype is done, but I've still been editing the game. One of my bigger gripes with the game was the lack of medieval cloaks and capes. I got together with a modeller this week who has managed to model a cape. I've been working with him, basically I'm doing all textures and normal maps, and he's pretty much using my eye in terms of proportions. We should be releasing tonight.

While the capes are not havok'd yet, they do sway sideways when you walk and looks overall decent. Of course its pretty stiff, it conforms to the character's squeleton a bit, but in my opinion (and the opinion of many in the community who tried the beta cloaks) really think they are nice.

Keep in mind that without Bethesda releasing a .nif exporter that supports havok physX data, we are very very limited. Matter of fact, to add this model so that it would comform to the actual model, the modeller had to actually use the model of a shirt already in the game, export it, move the polygons, UV map it anew and apply my textures. Tedious, annoying.

Here are some shots :





And the beta capes video here

Note that the cape model in the beta video was broken and is now extremly outdated. The final models look much better.

I love the first shot. When will we be able to download this bit of awesome?

Is that a spear in the video?

It should be out tonight, I'll post a link. Yea thats a spear, the modeller who took the video has a lot of tests he's modelled. If you saw the original video, he wore a steel armor that had orcish pauldrons, with a skeleton head instead of a human head, etc.

When you say the cape is not havok'd yet, does that mean it will be in the future? If so: awesomes

Yea it will be, we even know how, just need a nif exporter that supports it

Back to practicing with the tablet now.

Released : http://www.tessource.net/files/cache/4539.html

To anyone interested, I'm Belenos in that community.

Jep, if I were a Poju boy, I'd give you a lapdance.
Instead, I'll give you thanks and mad ryspek yo.

-{EDIT} well, the site forces you to register to download 2mb+ files, but I gotta say, that is the nicest registration form ever. If something ain't kosher in your inputs (like you type your password wrong the second time or someone already has the name) it pops up and tells you. Amazin'.

Before anyhting; does it restrict you from wearing other specific apparel items, and are the things enchantable?

(Yes, I'm on of those freaks who hate not being able to wear a shirt AND a cuirass :p )

Not at all.

It uses the tail slot, so the only thing that will happen is if you are playing a khajitt or an argonian will disappear from under the cloak. That was the only acceptable slot we could use, since the amulet slot would restrict people from wearing well the enchanted amulets, and there are a lot of armors and clothing in the game set to hide the amulets and some such, so the capes would disappear also.

The cloaks with the hoods use the hair slot, thus replacing the hair like any vanilla hood or helm would.

New mirrors :

filesave.com


Oh and if you want the vendor to replenish his cape stocks everyone once in a while, download this update .esp. (This is useful if you want to change the enchantments on your cloak)

updated .esp

Note in the readme it says no clipping at all, but that is wrong, Someone1074 exagerated when he wrote it.