[wip] eek's Smithing Mod

[eek]

After much searching, I hadn't found a full-on smithing mod, so I decided to take it on myself, despite knowing nothing about scripting at the time.

So here I am, with the script working, and the mod is almost playable. What it does is let you craft your own weapons and armour using both new and existing raw materials.

Ore is smelted into ingots using a forge, and these ingots are made into armour and weapons by using anvils. Leather and Fur are made from animal pelts and the tanning rack.

I have placed one public forge in every major city, usually in the main armourer's store of that city. There are additional forges for more specialised armour types (Legion, Blades etc). All public forges can be used to make the standard weapon/armour types. The types you are allowed to make depends on your armourer skill, and some types require special books in your inventory to create. When using the forge, the player must be wearing protective gloves and a blacksmith's apron.

What has been done:
- fully working smelting, smithing and tanning scripts (added to the appropriate activators)
- new raw materials created (using placeholder meshes)
- added forges to most major cities, and smithing hammers to all of them
- blacksmith's gloves created
- smelting/smithing costs a small gold fee
- raw materials and books added to vendors
- fully working mining process, with ore veins added to 18 existing mines

What needs done:
- new meshes, icons and textures for raw materials

If anyone can make the new meshes, icons and textures then please get in touch, since I don't have the tools and skills required for that. There's a +100 karma in it for you. When it's ready for testing I'll put up a link. Screenshots of my current progress.

Also, if someone could make 2 NPCs and 2 interiors for the tanneries, that would be a great help.

[Osama Bin Laden]

It sounds good, Ill look into it when I start playing Oblivion again.

[eek]

Thanks!

Update: success/failure rate added (based on Armorer skill), and smithing is now commenced by activating hammers, instead of anvils.

[Zann]

Will test it out tommorrow, downloading now.

[King Leonidas]

Basing it off of the Morrowind Armorer 101 mod I see.

Interesting, I'll DL it tomorrow and see if I can add a forge with all of the hammers to my house. ;D

-DL

[melchior1]

this sounds similar to a mod I downloaded a while ago but slightly more complete
I'll dl if I ever feel like playing oblivion again

[eek]

Just a quick update:

- Reverted smith vendors back so that they no longer sell books and clothing (until the Journeyman Mercantile perk). I originally included this in order to allow them to sell the apron and the smithing books, but the ability to sell additional items too soon was unrealistic, made the Mercantile perk less useful, and these items can already be obtained from other merchants.
- Added the skill-based success rate system to the tanning rack and smelting forge.
- Removed the smithing tent in Bravil and placed the forge outside the Fighters Guild.
- Tweaked the book text to fit the changes.

I've got someone working on a new pickaxe (which is looking great), so I'm hoping to get the mining put in once that's done. Also, I'm waiting to hear about some models for a few of the new raw materials too. Once that's all in I'll be adding different qualities of equipment to the process, so there's a chance that you'll make higher or lower quality gear than standard (the chance of this happening will be influenced by your Armorer skill).

As always, let me know if there are any problems with it.

daedralord said:

Basing it off of the Morrowind Armorer 101 mod I see.

Interesting, I'll DL it tomorrow and see if I can add a forge with all of the hammers to my house. ;D

-DL

Yep, I enjoyed that one very much, so I figured it deserved being transferred over to Oblivion.

[eek]

Another update folks. I've got the mining script working, and I've added mineable veins to 18 of the mines found in-game (these replace the existing gold and silver veins, although some of the old ones still exist). I've also added sound effects to all of the processes except tanning, which I will attend to later. Mining "pickaxes" (currently using the Iron Warhammer mesh) can be found at the same armorers who stock the other smithing materials.

There are, however, a couple of minor "problems". The most obvious one is that the timing of the mining sound effects are a bit off, but I'll get that seen to for the final release. The second is that I've noticed the smithing hammers can be grabbed, thrown, kicked etc. I've yet to decide whether or not to deal with this, since it could come in useful.

As ever, feedback and questions are most welcome.

[starscream]

Threadomancy!!!

Got a pickaxe model and such...

linky