The Armored Shade

Meet Mould, just another vessel among many. Except they don't have a shell... so they made one of their own. A Hollow Knight Blog. Open to asks. Mould Ref

[the-armored-shade]

The Armored Shade

This blog is where I keep all my skin updates, as well as answer any questions related to my Hollow Knight OC Mould.

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Interested in commissioning a Custom Knight Skin? Click here Want to learn how to create your own skin? Click here

All of my completed skins can be found and downloaded here. Skins might periodically receive updates or fixes, so please do not re-upload them anywhere else. Skin tags: #custom skin progress - all of my skin updates #hollow knight skins - my completed skins #skinshowcase - completed skin showcase videos #othersskins - skin projects drawn by others #armoredshade - Mould skin updates #minimoth - Little Radiance skin updates #sunson - Chibiterasu skin updates General Blog Tags: #mould - asks and posts related to Mould #asks - any answered ask sent to this blog #mouldasks - asks specifically for Mould #otherasks - asks related to skins, art, or anything else #myart - my non-skin related art #othersart - art that was drawn by others featuring Mould or my skins

[xladyseerx]

I’ve been practicing drawing Mori with limited detail and as specific sprites, and oh my god she’s adorable.

This really fun. I love my moth.

Bonus Shade, or rather, Wraith concept.

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

Speaking of mods, do you all have your favorite hollow knight skins? :3

(if you made one or more you're absolutely allowed to brag but also feel free to tell me if you like one someone else made!)

It's been awhile for me and I haven't checked more skins so I can't really tell if I have a fav of my own (I should play hollow knight again and especially check if new patch works with mods now again because I ended updating the game ope)

[flame-shadow]

It's hard to pick between Snaveler and Xero. Snaveler is objectively better, but Xero holds a special place in my heart <3

For non-knight skins, I really love my Watcherlings :)

[all of my skins can be found and downloaded via links in my pinned post]

(also, at least via Lumafly, you still can't use mods on the most recent patch. but downpatching isn't hard, so whatever)

[the-armored-shade]

I'm always biased towards Mould, my first skin and the one based on my OC. It's also my most complete skin as its currently the only one I've made that swaps cinematics. For now.

My most popular skin is easily Little Radiance though, and I'm pretty excited about my work in progress, Chibiterasu.

[milksparrow]

Wings

[the-armored-shade]

Hello, first of all your Little Radiance skin is awesome! I hop this is okay to ask, but I'm making a skin for the first time and I'd really like for it to be as in depth as yours, so if it's possible, might I have some advice on how to go about that, especially with things like the Web Bench cutscene and boss swaps, is there anything specific I would need to go out of my way to do to add those things into my skin since they aren't on the basic atlases? Thanks a ton if you can help ^^

I have a skin making guide available here

Good luck!

[moonlightwyvern30]

Beast Crest has been finished! I decided to throw in a few references to GMS in some of the animations (something something "a beast's nature bare to all...") I'm planning on making the Crest HUD reference GMS as well.

Also I love the idea that the Rage Idle is just Lace being an angy child lol

[the-armored-shade]

Hello, Armoured Shade, i have been searching for the original creator of Little Radiance skin for a while. Im here because of the little issue. In a case, that english is not my main language, i decided to make a custom translate for self use. But then i noticed, that a big part of text didn't applied in the game - both Hornet dialogues, charms and nail descriptions, more dialogues and ect. Probably, the problem is that im playing with different language, but if not, than i don't know what.

The way Custom Knight works requires the text to match exactly what is in its replace file, which in the case for my skins, is English. Unfortunately you won't be able to get the unique text unless you play in English.

[the-armored-shade]

Hello hi, just wanted to pop in n ask a few things I’ve been using your Little Radiance skin for a bit now and hOLY CRAP ITS PEAKKK, i was making stupid lore about it for fun about how it was the radiance going back in time to warn itself about the oncoming threat (timeline shit made it weaker) or smthn n stuff, but along the way actually became attached to the people of hallownest and realized its the problem yada yada

that was BEFORE I SAW THE ACTUAL RADIANCE FIGHT??? Bro i rolled up with my friend and saw the pale king and was like HUHHH WHAT so i had to go back and actually reread the dialogue with the characters and holy shit this mod is amazing

I Saw flying nosk and js wanted to come in and ask, is there like lore for LR? I’d love to hear what the actual lore is for him because I read all that you wrote into the game but id love to know if you had anything more, favorite skin by far btw this is amazing

sorry for the lil rant, thanks a lot for the amazing skin <3

Essentially the lore for Little Radiance is that Radiance used her infection to put a fragment of herself into one of the infected bugs that is roaming Hollownest. Once she had a strong enough hold on the mind of a random infected bug, her fragment burst out of it and entered Hallownest to begin working on breaking down the locks that chain her. The infection recognizes her as its source, and the infected bugs are drawn to her not out of desire to destroy, but out of a desperate need to rejoin her light (This is hinted at with they altered infected Myla dialogue). The infected bugs do not understand that destroying the vessel Radiance has made for the realm outside of dreams is not helpful. As for the pale beings, the Pale King knew his binding was failing and entered the realm of dreams to act as the final barrier. To stop her at all costs from breaking free and unleashing her true power. Both Hornet and the White Lady know that the Pale King is the only force strong enough to defeat the fragment of Radiance, so they do not bar her way from him, with the hope that he will be able to lock the fragment up too.

By defeating the pale king and the Hollow Knight, Radiance breaks her chains and is free to unleash her plague upon all who remain in Hollownest. If she only defeats the Hollow Knight, the Pale King is able to trap her in the black egg until the fragment sputters out and her chains remain.

Then there are the godhome endings, which maybe one day when/if I finally animate them, people can theorize what they mean.

Oh and the reason flying nosk is Grimm is because Radiance and Grimm are siblings. She is Dream and he is Nightmare. They are not allies, they each are very much doing their own thing, but there is still some part of her that acknowledges him as something that was once important to her.

[the-armored-shade]

do you plan on updating little radiance skin? i feel like its missing alot of animations like the stag station

Eventually yes, after I finish and release Chibiterasu. Though saying its missing 'a lot of animations' when all its missing are the cinematics (which there are probably fewer than 10 skins that even have custom cinematics), is wild.

[the-armored-shade]

Respectfully, this is peak, i've used this skin with the Child of Light mod and the Resplendant menu theme mod and the experience has been amazing, i feel like if i was a quarter of ZOTE THE MIGHTY!

thanks for the kind words♥

I'm so glad to see so many people lately have been finding and enjoying the skin.

[the-armored-shade]

hi! i wanted to ask how do i install the tiktik skin since when i tried puting it in global, like your readme said, nothing happened, thanks

Just putting them into the global swap folder (after removing any spaces and parenthesis after the hash like the readme says) should work.

Make sure it looks like this, (Or if you're applying it to only a specific skin, make sure it's in that skin's global folder).

If you still can't get it to work, join the hk discord and make a post in the modding support channel. People can help you troubleshoot there.

[the-armored-shade]

Hello. it intrigues me why would you change winged nosk to Grimm instead one of her followers from the moth tribe who remained faithful like Seer or Markoth?

Radiance is Dream and Grimm is Nightmare. They're siblings, and it fit to have Hornet, sibling of ghost, be replaced by Grimm, sibling of Radiance. Also I see Radiance not really caring about the individual moths. She cared about their worship of her, but not any one moth specifically. If Nosk was going to pick someone from her past it could use against her, someone that would actually draw her in, it would be Grimm, who tore his section of the realm away from the main dream realm.

[the-armored-shade]

mmmm silksong skins one day? Silksong skins one day.

[the-armored-shade]

how do i install the little radiance skin

[the-armored-shade]

What do you have? A knife! NO!

[the-armored-shade]

It's been awhile since the last pupdate, look here progress I swear.

[the-armored-shade]

hiya! if you don't mind, i have a question regarding the creation of custom knight skins. i adore your work, particularly your attention to detail and thoroughness, and i was curious as to how you made the custom hunter's journal entries in your little radiance skin. the file names you used for the journal entries are different from the ones in-game, so how did you know what names to use? (i'm trying to recreate this phenomenon with different journal entries and struggling lol)

You'll need to dump the text files of the journal entries yourself to figure out what file names you'll need. Just turn on Custom Knight's built in dump feature and open the journal until you reach the entry you want to replace. Close the journal, turn off the dump, and check your files. You should see a folder called 'dump' and it will have the files you need inside.

For more detail on how dumping and swapping works, you can check out my skin making guide here: Link