Custom Sigils DIY

Custom Sigils DIY

Custom Sigils is a quick and easy way for you to make your own heraldry and use it in Skyrim on a house/faction shield. – Basically it’s a simple modding toolkit.

Description:
Custom Sigils is a DIY (Do it yourself) mod and a quick and easy way for you to make your own heraldry and use it in Skyrim on house/faction shields and cloaks.
Basically it’s a simple modding toolkit consisting of: pre-made craftable items and tempering recipe, photoshop templates, tutorials, and examples.
Completely compatible with Cloaks of Skyrim & Winter is Coming (+cloak patch)

Note: to ensure followers will carry the item you give them, install Ultimate Follower Overhaul, and use the ‘you could dress better’ command.
Note: colours in game appear brighter and more vibrant than the photoshop/texture artwork. (Use the “skyrim swatches” layer as a colour guide)

===== News & updates
– Now opensource ON ONE CONDITION; that you pay it forward by answering a few questions in my comments
– Cloaks are ready! Download the extra core files needed and start getting creative.
– Currently there are no pre-made/optional sigils for cloaks, i might work on it if people show interest (people seem happy with their own at the mo.
– I expect whinging about the multiple eps files but I am already considering just combining it all into one.

===== Future updates:
– I WONT be doing shields for Glass, Ebony, Iron, etc. Because I don’t imagine it’ll look that good and it’s a lot of effort.

===== Crafting:
– Cloaks are found at the tanning rack under “leather”
– Linen cloak needs 1x Linen wrap. Hide cloak needs 1x leather.
– The House Shield only needs 1 leather strip, 1 iron ingot, 2 firewood
– The base armor rating is 22 (same as banded shield) BUT it has the same value (40) and weighs as much as the guard shield (3).
– It is a ‘light’ class shield (as per a requests) this does not match the vanilla guard shields but makes more sense. [Try: Guard Shields Light]

===== Optional downloads (Shields only at this stage):
65 pre-made HD sigils, and accompanying photoshop templates so they can be edited as you see fit.
– 6 faction sigils from Skyrim
– 9 “Game of Thrones” house sigils (accurate to the TV series)
– 50 lore-friendly Skyrim achivement sigils.
– Clan Stiv pack: “Long Live Stiv!”

===== Installation:
– Start by downloading the main “Custom Sigils – Core” file for shields and/or cloaks.
– Install the core components (copy the files to your skyrim/data folder)
– This alone will give you the ability to craft the items which will have a default painted sigil of a black band right-to-left on white.

===== Customization:
– Replace the default texture with one of your choosing, either from the optional downloads or a personally created one using the templates
– shield found in: datatexturesarmorcustomsigilcustomsigil.dds
– cloak found in: datatexturesclothescustomsigilcustomsigilCloak-hide.dds AND customsigilCloak-linen.dds