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Vigilance Greatsword from Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

I was rather fond of this sword in Awakening and, while unofficial, 2. I had originally imported the weapon directly from Dragon Age 2 for personal use, but found that the textures were pretty poor (probably unchanged from Awakening). So, I set out to retexture it. This proved to be a bad idea as the retexture only showed how terrible the mesh was. So, again, I set out to improve the weapon, but this time from the ground up with the intent to release.

The model has around 6k polys (original 1k) and the texture is 1024x2048 (original 256x512). I did try to keep the color palette and traced all the primary details using vectors in Photoshop. A majority of the details is actual geometry with the normal map covering the grip and blade symbols (probably not the best thing to do).

You'll need a couple dragon scales, a dragon bone, a diamond (from the original Awakening recipe), 5 steel ingots, and dragon armor smithing (you are using dragon parts...) to craft this (listed under Steel). An additional ingot and scale are needed to temper. Stat wise, it is slightly weaker than Daedric, weighs a pound more, and has twice the value.

If there are any problems, please let me know.
And with that, enjoy!

Credit to Bioware for the original weapon and an awesome game.

Release 1.1:
Changed Preview image

Release 1.2:
Modified the mesh so the 3 flat ridges just below the blade matched the curve of the guard-wing.

Release 1.3:
Fixed collision model.

Release 1.4:
Shortened filenames
Remade normal map to include more detail and remove shading seam.