Realistic Native Weapons Size (On EX) Current version is 1.61 (FINAL)

[The Yogi]

REALISTIC NATIVE WEAPON SIZES

See a SLIDESHOW with many pics of the new sized-weapons at Imageshack!

THIS MODs PRIMARY HOME IS THE MBX FORUM . If you're able, please go there for comments and discussion.

Downolad link at the M&B Unofficial File Repository.

Very simply, this mod reduces the size of all oversized native weapons (not polearms though) to about 80-85% of original. It also turns the broadsword into a Cinqueda style Shortsword. Comes ready to play for Native and with Python source code pruned for easy implementation into other mods. RCM and vanilla versions.

CURRENT VERSION:
[size=8pt]v1.61 - Bugfix: the RCM item1 file of v1.6 was broken, fixed now. Broadened the blade and scabbard of the war sword by 15%, replaced the boar spear, peasant knife and Khyber knife with models by Ron Losey, implemented the reading from module installation - RNWS no longer replaces or interferes with original native files or with mods not set to use RNWS.

[size=8pt]IN THE WORKS:

• [size=8pt]Finally fixing the Strange Swords from the hidden chests
• [size=8pt]...and finally, for an RNWS Deluxe, resizing of the Raptor Pack Albion swords to correct measurements (from the Albion homepage) and adding of scabbards (the scabbards are property of TLD and will only be in the RNWS-ed TLD)

[size=8pt]The following mods use or plan to incorporate the Realistic Native Weapons Size:

• Empire Mod (implemented)
• Pirates of Calradia (implemented)
• The Last Days of the Third Age (in the works)
• Dark Tidings - Calradia in Flames (in the works)

[size=8pt]Feel free to use it in your own mod, although please give me credit for it and drop a line about it in this thread so that I know of it.

 

[Buxton]

Ha! I thought you meant arms - as in anatomy. But good nonetheless, I'll have a read in awhile.

 

[DarkAnd]

I thought he means armyes and not weapons

 

[miclee1]

Hmmm... sounds good. I'd download if I weren't banned from MBX.

 

[The Yogi]

Hmmm... sounds good. I'd download if I weren't banned from MBX.

Hmmm, I think the board rules there forbid me from having a download link here, but it's on the repository. Just make a search there and you'll find it with no prob, methinks.

(although wait five minutes, because I'm about to update with a small bugfix)

 

[Thetwodud]

You're allowed to link to the full details page of your download, but you're not allowed to directly link to the file itself.

 

[miclee1]

Ahhh.... Downloaded. It's fun. My army of swordsmen now look overpwning with their real swords of doom!

 

[Sunhawken]

Ahhh.... Downloaded. It's fun. My army of swordsmen now look overpwning with their real swords of doom!

You know i put this in empire mod don't you.

 

[Szabtom]

Ahhh.... Downloaded. It's fun. My army of swordsmen now look overpwning with their real swords of doom!

You know i put this in empire mod don't you.

I did'nt know this, update your mod description on the first page please!

 

[The Yogi]

You know i put this in empire mod don't you.

Noop, didn't know it. Great minds think alike, it seems! 

 

[The Yogi]

v1.1 is out!

Includes optional RCM item_kinds1.txt file and more bugfixes.

 

[The Yogi]

And rolling on...

v1.2 is out, which includes also the newer swords introduced in .v89x . These have been scaled to fit the older weapons and stats altered accordingly. RCM and Vanilla versions and Python Source files included.

https://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?cid=6&id=557

 

[The Yogi]

v1.3 is up!

This includes a rebalance of axes, mainly the reduction of the still colossal double axe into a 1-hander and the upgrading of the Fighting Axe into a 2H-hander. Also fixed the grip point for Arming sword and sword and corrected the resulting slightly increased length (is now 80 like comparable new swords).

Download link: https://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?cid=6&id=557

And please, if you like this, be so nice as to give the mod a good rating on the repository, some bozo who thinks the original sizes were perfectly realistic has given me a half star rating and I fear it will detract from the rep of this mod.

(Judge for yourselves, this is the original size, is it realistic and historical?)

 

[Zathan]

It's difficult to judge when you don't say what kind of sword it is 
But I'm going to assume it's a Bastard sword, in which case I'd say the length looks okay, at about 1.5m or so?

Btw, is this the M&B-original or your downsized version?

Zathan

 

[Tuckles]

Downsized

Original.

Down-sized looks waaaaaay better. 

Question: Does the reduced size increase speed? Or did you just leave it[speed] the same?

 

[Zathan]

Ah, okay, in that case I'd say I prefer the original ones. The Knight wielding the sword two-handed doesn't look good or realistic IMO. The single-handed one looks okay-ish though.
Just my point of view though, no offence intended.

Zathan

 

[The Yogi]

Ah, okay, in that case I'd say I prefer the original ones. The Knight wielding the sword two-handed doesn't look good or realistic IMO. The single-handed one looks okay-ish though.
Just my point of view though, no offence intended.

Zathan

OK, just so there is no mistake: The pic I posted last, with a BIG ASS bastard sword only is original size.

The double pic with a 1H sword and a bastard sword is reduced size.

Are you seriously telling me the bigger size looks more realistic to you?

Please compare to these real (well, replica) longswords:

If anything, the reduced sword is still wildly oversized!

 

[Tuckles]

So Yogi, did you change the speeds?

 

[The Yogi]

So Yogi, did you change the speeds?

Noop. I did as little stat change as possible. Let's assume the original stats were correct for a real sword of the type, only the scale was wrong.

Some stats were changed so that the old and new swords are to scale stat wise too.

 

[Zathan]

A longsword (or arming sword) isn't a bastard (or hand-and-a-half) sword though. Anyway, I still think it looks better as it were,
however I'll admit it's probably slightly long for a bastard sword, but perfectly sized for a 2 handed sword.
The angle in the pic probably makes the original bastard sword look longer than it actually is, since I've never even though it was oversized before.

Btw, what real-life size were you aiming for with your downsized bastard sword?

Zathan