Watcher07 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Hey folks! First off, a big thanks to Shem for giving me permission to work with one of his textures from his Mandalorian Ultimate Mod. I appreciate the go ahead for releasing this to the community and hope everyone enjoys it. Next, I've got the mod submitted to filefront and its awaiting approval, so until then I'm just going to include screenshots here and will update this thread when I have a download link for everyone. So, let me tell you about this mod. Basically the Mandalorians are a civilization that has always intrigued me, amongst countless others as well. They are militaristic, vicious, conquering, and meant to be just plain scary. In the Knights of the Old Republic game, we catch a glimpse of them at a time when they were really big news, around the time of the movies we don't really see much left of them beyond the Fetts. The game brings us in just after the war with the Republic and the Mandalorians are scattered and broken, yet we see them throughout the planets we visit and they don't always seem to be hiding as you may expect a losing side to. Instead they are standing out in the open, hiring themselves out as mercenaries, and still striking some fear into the Republic. This brings me around to the things that drove me to make this reskin. Having been in the military myself, I understand the importance of uniformity in more than a few ways. When everyone looks the same, it makes your numbers seem to swell. You wear patches and symbols on your clothing to not only declare your loyalty to your own people, but sometimes also to send a message to anyone close enough to you. You are separated by a small distinction between your lower ranks and higher ranks, allowing an easier time identifying your commanders, scouts, etc. So when I played the games, I couldn't understand why this militaristic society was wearing full suits of armor of varying colors. On a battlefield, if yellow is say for instance a captain, well that would make it all too easy to not only quickly identify the strength of the Mandalorian superiors, but take them out too, as an example. So what did I do with this mod? Glad you asked. I used Shem's high quality black Canderous Armor from his Mandalorian Ultimate Mod as a base for all Mandalorians. I colored one shoulderpad to differentiate each color of armor. On the back of each Mandalorian I put the famous Skull and on the left chest placed the Mandalorian Flag Symbol (would like to have put it on the colored shoulder but the mirroring issue was getting in the way). I basically just tried to differentiate them in a more subtle manner and give them a much more intimidating look. Frankly a guy standing in front of me in yellow armor, albeit tough, just doesn't quite strike the same chord of "I may be in trouble here" than a guy wearing black armor with a splash of yellow on the shoulder, but that just me. Anyway, I've included a few basic screens of how they look now, by all means let me know what you think. The actual idea for this came from a mod by KWN2K who released a similar thing for TSL (Mandalorian Skins are swappable from K2 to K1 btw, so you can use these for TSL as well). I don't know if he had as much thought about why they should be this way as I do, but it was an inspiration nonetheless. His readme gave general permission but requested credit if anyone used it, and though I didn't use anything from his except the concept, I feel he still deserves honorable mention for the great idea. Also included is a file N_Mandalorian04.tga for anyone who is using Shem's Mandalorian Ultimate Mod which is Canderous Ordo's Armor. The one I included will simply add in the skull on the back and flag symbol on the front left chest, everything else is unchanged. If you're not using that mod, then no need to put the file in your override. So with all that said, I wish to again thank Shem for the fantastic texture. Honestly I did nothing to enhance it, I just colored a small bit and pasted some pics on the texture, all credit for how great it looks is all still him folks. Will edit this when I get some download links for y'all. -Watcher07 Download Link 1 Download Link 2 The new Black Mandalorian Armor Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Blue Mandalorian Armor Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Red Mandalorian Armor Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Yellow Mandalorian Armor Show spoiler (hidden content - requires Javascript to show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Payne Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Wow, not bad. I like this, i'll give it a try when its out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevron 7 locke Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Its...Beautiful...I love the little color bands on the shoulder pads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watcher07 Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 Thanks for the comments guys, added a download link so now its available for all y'all. Will add more download links when kotorfiles and lucasfiles finish processing it. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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