Lore-friendly Silver Swords

Lore-friendly Silver Swords - Version 2. 0 (2022-01-12)

New Principal Mod Developer!

More than five years after the last version of LfSS, TheFreddman passionately invested a lot of time and energy to update the mod to version 2. 0, improving details and adding swords that were overlooked in version 1. 0.

Mod Description:

The books of Andrzej Sapkowski describe silver swords as very special and unique weapons. This mod aims to account for this by enhancing the optical appearance of silver swords, clearly distinguishing them from steel swords.

Contents:

This mod alters the optics of silver swords to resemble the optical features of real silver like a chrome shine and partially golden reflections.

More specifically, it

• []Increases base specularity

  []Enhances light reflections

  []Slightly changes specularity color with variations between the different swords

  Silver swords included:

  • []Main Game (vanilla)

    []Wolf School Gear DLC

    []Hearts of Stone Expansion

    []Blood and Wine Expansion

    []Next-Gen update

    2. X comes in two variants. Both still feature the improved silver material on all silver swords, but there is one notable difference:

    • []In 2. Xa, the improved silver material is applied exclusively to the blades.
      • []In 2. Xb, Witcher Silver Swords (and Aerondight) have silver blades and crossguards. Aside from aesthetics, the idea was basically this.

      Be sure to check out the images showcasing these differences!

      While I was at it, I slightly reworked the handles of all Witcher silver swords to look slightly more sturdy, the idea being to imagine Geralt having a better grip.

      Installation:

      Unpack the downloaded archive and copy the package into the mod directory of your game: <...>/The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt/mods

      If this folder does not exist, simply create it.

      Compatibility:

      • []Compatible with any number of expansions/DLC. The mod only applies to the files actually installed.

        []Compatible with all other mods which do not change the model of any silver sword.

      • Compatible with any mod adding new silver sword models to the game. However, it will not apply to these swords.

        Version History:

        v2. 1: See Changelogs.

        v2. 0: See Chang