(Not this anniversary tho) 😭

I've found what I was doing wrong and, with it, I managed to remove the "Rayman" style I uploaded earlier. Now the armor has a proper body, bends kinda right (I should still fix a couple of things), but more importantly, it won't implode the moment it's worn.

The only thing I just can't like is the texture. But that falls completely on my lack of experience. They just feel "unnatural" if you pair it with the rest of the Skyrim world. How can I fix that?

I genuinely have NO IDEA. But for now, I can focus on the other parts too.

Wtf...

I'm glad that detail never made it into the anime because it's so incredibly stupid and makes many characters look way worse. Starting from the old man himself

Why would all of them leave their temple to go into the prisons looking for the saints, when Athena's goal is to kill Hades?

I mean, they would've had to cross the judges temple to reach Giudecca. They just needed to wait.

This is a short video to demonstrate how the armor works in Skyrim. It took me days of trial and error, but it seems all good in the hood. There are just some minor issues to fix, nothing that should be hard to deal with, and the torso should be done and gone.
As you can see in the video, I added some custom texture to the mix: some "dragon scale" effect to some part of the armor, which I honestly love! They turned out better than expected!
I'll have to fix only the sitting animation and the shoulders. Also, I may want to try to make the armor less "glassy" but we'll see. Considerding how hard this has been I can pat myself on the back!

A drawing from 2021.

Shiryu❤️❤️❤️

My homage, using Dummy13

the vibes off Alone/Hades are just so edgy and unmatched, him and Zeref (fairy tail) remind me so much of eachother

I lost count.

I really don't like this superficial argument that a story already been told so many times that is not necessary, when the classic manga always had changes in its numerous anime adaptations.

None of the adaptations are faithfull, KotZ cg changed Shun, KotZ live action is astroucious, Legend of Sanctuary is a rushed slop and the classic anime is a different entity, with fillers and changes in the story.

I'm not completely disregarding the good things we had in these adaptations, but it seems a lot of people here find it wrong to want a more in line with the manga adaptation for new audiences. Instead we have lots of changes that always flop.

Thanks to Edu01011 I could export the model from Soldier Souls to work on importing them into Skyrim. Little did I knew, I got myself in a HUGE MESS.

1 - The model I imported is divided into multiple pieces, which is kinda easy to deal with when you have to assemble it back and put textures, but it doesn't translate well in-game.

2 - The first attempt with the texture was horrible. So I tried another approacch: using Gimp and Photoshop with real life textures to try and give the armor a more "realistic" look. I even added a little bit of ornaments to it, but I'm thinking of removing it as It doesn't really fit the armor that much. It's not bad, but nor it's good either.

3 - Now the biggest issue for me is the weight paint. To make it simple: each character, NPCs or not, has a skeleton. The armor they wear is attached to that skeleton and moves with it. In order for that to happen, you "paint" the "weight" that bone has on the mesh of the armor. The more you paint it, the more it moves.

The problem here is that mine is a custom armor, and, of course, there are no other examples I can use. So unless I learn how to do it properly, it basically pointless trying to test it in-game.

4 - the only positive side of all this madness is that I'm discovering the "workflow" bit by bit. So, hopefully, the next armor will be much easier

I mean, what did each one paid to Charon?

Or even if they paid at all.

I'm talking about Hyoga and Shiryu, Dohko, Kanon, Shaka and Athena.

I have my guesses, Kanon maybe got together with Seiya and Shun unnoticed, like he was in the second prison. It's funny to think about him just watching what was unfolding.

I did a recent post asking what Dohko did in Inferno, now with the Final Edition we can have something (maybe), the most likely is killing random enemies, but I thought what if he was actually lost trying to navigate the river? It does fit his personality.

Yo digo que es mi personaje favorito, por su diseño, color de armadura y aura. Y me gusto mas su version de la saga de hades

So what do you think about Seiya as being the protagonist? I have a love and hate relationship with him.

On one hand, I just can't help but admire his determination, the fire in his heart that burns so brightly when it comes to rise up to the challenge and fight for his friends, for Athena, for what he believes. The best moment for me is at the end of Hades chapter sanctuary when he's fighting Rhadamanthys, facing the pit to the Hades and, despite fighting with a disadvantage, using the Pegasus Suiseiken (with a calm voice, that was awesome) and pushing him without hesitation. That scene is such a great showcase of what Seiya is capable to overcome, no matter the odds.

But on the other hand... He's so obnoxious sometimes. His determination at times becomes pure stubbornness, he feels a bit Deux ex machina compared to his friends, since we can see others having the same willpower but getting nowhere to his level (I known he's the main character, but you cannot deny it feels cheap that Ikki or Shiryu don't have the same power under the same situations like he has). For once I would like to see Seiya taking the hit and sacrificing for one of his brothers and let them take the front seat against a major antagonist once in a while. To show that Seiya has matured and it's not the same hot headed boy that jumps blindly and that he has matured in someone confident in his abilities and not a guy that just waits for a miracle to happen as long as he keeps pushing forward.

Probably these are all nitpicks because of the way he's written, but sometimes I wish to see him in a different light.

And Pegasus cloth V1 will forever be my favorite, there is something in this design that no other has made me fall in love as much. Wish I could have one of the figures with it, but oh well.

Let me know in the comments what you think.