100% Nonsense Armour Shenanigans
Added 2024-12-20 12:36:21 +0000 UTCOr: I make some Dame Aylin cuisses, and it goes...surprisingly well.
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I love the epic music in the background while you are making the armor.
Lexy Gabb
2024-12-27 15:26:08 +0000 UTCMy question is how does she raise her arms without stabbing herself?
Lexy Gabb
2024-12-27 15:19:46 +0000 UTCLooking at Chinese scale/plate mixed armor, they tend more to skirt or leg wrap rather than trousers, but this is inspired by, not slavish imitation
AltheGreatandPowerful
2024-12-24 05:15:10 +0000 UTCThe first similar thing that comes to mind are Japanese armored sleeves but those tend to use chainmail rather than scale.
AltheGreatandPowerful
2024-12-24 05:12:27 +0000 UTCDiscernable...
AltheGreatandPowerful
2024-12-24 05:10:23 +0000 UTCIt looks to me like it's inspired by Asian armor (India/China/maybe Japan) with hard parts attached to flexible clothes. The scale is 👖 with the cuisses and scales either strap articulated (under the metal, where you don't see the flexible straps, and the rivets burnished so hard they blend into the look of the cuisses on the outside) or affixed to the trousers with the aforesaid non-discetnanle rivets...).
AltheGreatandPowerful
2024-12-24 05:09:59 +0000 UTCMagic makes everything work better.
Jim Sanderson
2024-12-22 07:50:24 +0000 UTCPlus all the debugging and fixing that comes with getting all the physics interactions to work right most of the time. Also she flies most of the time.
Master Ridley
2024-12-22 01:27:26 +0000 UTCComing from the other side, as a developer - you really *don't* want all those things moving separately and flapping and colliding and behaving as the real thing, unless you want to only be able to run your game on supercomputers. It's all about trade-offs. You make real-ish armor and then you make skin out of it that looks most of the time as real armor would, but for trading those finicky physics parts you can now play you game on a PC that is at least a couple of years older and couple thousands $$$ cheaper.
Michael
2024-12-21 11:57:05 +0000 UTCI kept thinking velcro as you were assembling the cuisse. But, magic would do. Merry Christmas
Barbera Radford
2024-12-21 00:02:52 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas Jill (and everyone else)! I don't have Baldur's Gate but there are some Dame Aylin renders on RenderHub where the tassets are separate. Doesn't solve the problem of the bum scales, though, or the details of the cuisses. I'm also not in a position to download a 3D modelling suite just to see how the models have been put together!
Dave Sheddi
2024-12-20 20:52:12 +0000 UTCI imagine that the armor is initially designed with full physical functionality in mind by someone who does understand how that works, but then it is rigged in 3d by game artists who make the *image* of the real, practical version of the armor far more like a skin (or like one of those tuxedo T-shirts, yeah?) among other reasons because their game engine lacks the character collision physics to support flappy bits properly (I mean they can scarcely ever get hair not to intersect a person's shoulders, right?)
Jesse Thompson
2024-12-20 20:46:19 +0000 UTCI feel like armour was also enough about prestige where odd looking but sonehow functional would have a niche.
What If Brigade
2024-12-20 20:24:52 +0000 UTCThe moment before you said it I thought. It’s just held together with magic. So it seems that is an obvious possible solution.
Alex Taylor
2024-12-20 15:37:16 +0000 UTCYou and Todd Cutler should do some collabs!
Hongry
2024-12-20 15:16:44 +0000 UTCI was going somewhere different with 'the bone song' 🎶The Greave is connected to the ... Poleyn 🎶and the Poleyn is connected to the ... Cuisse 🎶and the Cuisse is connected to the ... Haubergeon 🎶and the Haubergeon is connected to the ... Cuiras
Ekij
2024-12-20 14:45:32 +0000 UTCThe butt-armour ... suppose it's scales (excessively shaped scales, they should have been flatter) which attach to an undergarment along the inner edge. They overlap and slide over each other, like pangolin scales (or shingles if roofs were given to wriggling around).
Sarah K
2024-12-20 14:43:27 +0000 UTCOh, interesting. I shall probably remove that part then, because otherwise there will be Comments :D
Jill Bearup
2024-12-20 14:31:39 +0000 UTCAlright, how long before you completely go down this rabbit hole, and start cutting, shaping, and wearing your own armor set?
Shaun Abdelkerim
2024-12-20 14:26:06 +0000 UTCI think we need an equivalent of the 'bone song' for armor parts. Clearly, this Baldur's Gate armor is... 1. Rubber, so weapons bounce off. 2. Neck entry, which is apparently a thing. Along with complete episodes of Pepper Pig as midrolls, the increasingly bizarre YT algorithm threw this in my direction; https://youtu.be/mah0EcdB-qw?si=Vp-UyPa8anMdrIeK Have you come across the Foamsmith books? Much better than cardboard.
Paul Compton
2024-12-20 13:29:05 +0000 UTCShe did wear at least part of it. :-)
William Wallace
2024-12-20 13:27:21 +0000 UTCTo describe the floor as nice would be to…well…vastly overstate the case. Trust me.
Jill Bearup
2024-12-20 13:22:22 +0000 UTCHow I appreciate your dedication to practicality in armor construction! Again, congratulations on regaining your monetization through sheer persistence, since no one had any reasons for why it was stopped. Merry Christmas, Jill, to you, your family, and all your camp followers!
Ann Brookens
2024-12-20 13:22:16 +0000 UTCInteresting! So I guess you'd have the scale armor on first, and then torso piece (quieras?) with the tassets attached. Then slide that piece of thigh armor over your foot, calf, and up around your knee, and there'd be an attach strap from the top of the thigh piece that you made, to the bottom of the quieras, presumably with the strap or the connection under and protected by the tasset?
Craig P Steffen
2024-12-20 13:18:10 +0000 UTCFun fact, unlike continental cuisses, English cuisses did fully encapsulate the thigh. This was probably due to the English preference for dismounting and fighting on foot.
Ed DeBruyn
2024-12-20 13:07:56 +0000 UTCShe's the daughter of a goddess. It's probably magic. I think you can safely put it under "I'd wear it". ;-) I think it's weird that people recommended Dame Aylin's armour as practical. I mean, it looks great. But I definitely felt like it was clearly the armour of a celestial being who just kind of bends the laws of physics to her whims. Bit surprised to find out that it's more practical than I thought even. But I'm more curious about your opinion on the more mundane looking armours, that (I believe) also look great. Just not as spectacular as Dame Aylin's armour. Particularly the heavy armours come to mind: plate mail, chainmail and ring mail. https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Plate_Armour https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Chain_Mail https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Splint_Armour https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Ring_Mail_Armour
Jef Van Vinckenroye
2024-12-20 13:07:05 +0000 UTC5:00ish You're cutting, with a blade, on your nice wooden floor, without a sacrificial layer of something between the cardboard and the wood (that thin strip of possibly wrapping paper doesn't count.) I have *anxiety* about the floor! [Just discovered my mother left some potatoes; for many months, in the bottom of a nice wooden box I made her, and ... not so nice wooden box anymore. I'm a little wood-sensitive right now.]
Ekij
2024-12-20 13:06:16 +0000 UTCHappy last day of school term! 😎
Jonathan Humphreys
2024-12-20 13:05:08 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas, and thank you for the entertainment while I'm folding laundry at six in the morning. It made chores much easier.
Cassandra
2024-12-20 13:02:40 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas, and spare a thought for Mary, who walked a 100 miles while heavily pregnant.
Anders
2024-12-20 12:57:40 +0000 UTCWasn't Nemo available to help you with cutting the armor? I picture your Arts and Crafts teacher seeing these videos and being so proud
Anders
2024-12-20 12:51:16 +0000 UTCCardboard trousers: I'd wear it.
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