holy shit, what?

[silverthorne]

You want me to do what, to whose dog, for how many Oreo cookies?!



So, anyway. Anyone who's kinda read my meanderings a little knows that I happen to like Morrowind, which is a nice little, kinda open ended, wander-and-look at the pretty colors RPG video game. I came by it by way of the X-box, and now have it on my Laptop as well (other than the pinball machine, I've cleared all the other games off it so that there's Room To Work With).

Now, the PC version comes with a 'contruction set', which essentially allows you to go in, build things like dungeons and buildings, decorate them, and then set your newly made creation into the game itself via a plug-in file. (I'm working steadily on a new 'home' right now, because I'm never satisfied with the size and storage of the ones you can earn or claim without getting put in jail if you're caught in-game. I collect too much shit that I like to peer at from time to time. Shinies. Gotta love them.).

This also means that you can create your own clothes and races--Two things I love doing, just as something artistic to do--and likewise throw them into the game, either as NPC's or as a character you can play.

This is heaven for someone like me.

Only...there's this problem, see? The game animations for such things are dependant on something called .nif files. Because, you know, 3-D and all that. So you need a progam that can make .nif files and support 3-D meshes and so forth.

Well, okay then. Let it not be said that for the sake of character design (hobby or not), that I won't shell out a few bucks so that I can do it right.

...The program costs $800.

Ouch.

I've already sold my soul to the laptop gods. And I don't think I'm ever going to have a first born, so that's right out.

Sucks to be me.

Comments

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

MORROWIND I <3 IT.

Yes. There is a huge housing problem. Right now, I have my lair in a wizard's dome, with about 20 billion stolen lamps and candles lighting the place.

The amusing thing is, my character is an honorable assassin in the Morag Tong--the grandmaster, and they're not supposed to steal from anyone. But half the light sources you buy don't work. So I come through town and suddenly everyone who had pretty candlesticks, shiny candleabras, or lovely paper lamps thinks it's a lot darker in there. (I covet two people's Telvanni Bug Lamps. I've found one for sale, unlit, and seen two lying around being all bright. I'm going to go back and betheif someday.)

If you grab Bloodmoon, you can eventually get an item that allows you to blatantly murder anyone you care to, but you never get it linked to you. Grab Bloodmoon.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I find the houses you get rewarded with, espcially if you do the House Quests, extremely disappointing. Not to mention crowded with NPCs that are near to useless by the time you've 'earned' them. (The book-keeping Hlaalu chick and her pal are easy to accidentally set off if you hit the wrong button or try to sell her the wrong book in the merchant window).

They're small, lack proper storage, and are out in the middle of BF nowhere.

The ebony weapons that come with the places though are nice.

I have all three. ^^ The X-box game we got had all three, so when I got it for the laptop, I went ahead and splurged there too. I'm also eyeballing the Tameriel mods online and debating adding a few of them. Already stole some hair and clothing mods. The head/face mods though are not co-operating with me when I try to get the plug-ins to work. :/

As bad as it sounds, I like going up to Solsthiem and go wolf-hunting with the bow. The graphics are lovely, and it's kinda peaceful too. Heck, I've been known to leave the x-box game on for the background sounds (I turn off the music). It's nice having changing weather, and the graphics as is are stunning.

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

I love the snowy slopes when there's snow falling. It's like. . . it makes me homesick.

Yeah. A couple of my head/face things work quite well. The others are wonky.

I am hell come to earth when it comes to monster mods and Seyda Neen. My vampire has emptied the place out--undead Fargoth actually upset me!--and I went through it as a werewolf. That wasn't nearly as satisfying, because some doors are locked.

Apparently you can go through quite spectacular werewolf rampages in Vivec.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Heh. I remember the first time it started raining in-game. I was all O.o! The Weather Changed! ACK!

I'm so used to Final Fantasy, where, even though they led the way on a lot of the 3-D gaming stuff, still pretty much sticks to 'when you're here, it's this time of day with this kind of weather, and when you're over there, it's something else, but also doesn't change.' So the whole changing environment thing for me was something else. I wasted three game hours when I first started just watching the sky, weather, time, and everything else just move and change around the charcter.

Do you make your own mods or download? The ones that're working good for me is the one Fashions of Vvarfendel(sp?) and then the one girl's mods that did all the faery dryad mods and the one treehouse mod (her hair mod works beautifully, and her clothing mods and household accessory mods work nicely as well).

I also have the updated Better Bodies mod in play and Rhedd's Heads mods downloaded, but Rhedd's stuff is giving my game fits when I try to use it (as in I have to use ctrl-alt-delete to get out of a black screen), so I've had to take the plug-in off. And I have a bunch of Khazaahd's face mods, but I can't access those for some reason, and I'm not sure why.

'Course, I've only mucked with other using other people's mods for about two weeks now, so...

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

I download. I tried the predator mod but ACK BUGS BUGS GET THEM AWAY AIEEE!!

I haven't noted the faery dryad mods. I got poor, poor Fargoth with the "vampire embrace" mod, I have area of effect arrows, I have a couple pretty-armor mods. And I got a lair just for "big empty room with a bed."

The better bodies mod creates brainbreak. I cannot get over female berserkers in pretty lacey undies running up and trying to kill me. Yeah, you look feral and savage, girl.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

...You must have been looking at a different download site for the better bods than I did, then. The one I snagged has three choices--one with all nakkid (anatomically correct O.o;) people, guys with standard brown undies and girls nude, or everyone with standard undies and bras.

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

Guess so. These are suited to the skin tone and with a little lacey detail.

Anatomically correct? NO THANK YOU. That's all I need, anatomically correct berserkers haring after me when I'm just trying to sell my new axe. ;.;

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Huh. Do you remember the name of the mod-maker?
(And why does that sound like a real cheesy line from a bad Ghostbusters knockoff?)

LOL. Well, you cna chose to download the 'we all have undies' version, as opposed to the AC version, or the 'we wanna see girl boobies' version.

I chose the one with underwear on everyone, because I just couldn't bear the thought of my poor girls chafing under their armor without protection. ^^

(That, and I've seen enough of the real male anatomy over the course of my life that I don't want to see it greeting me in-game either.)

[skyshark.livejournal.com]

:/ No. I can look in the file later. It's got lace on the brassieres of the women and buttons on the underwear of the men. Like I said: berserkers are fairly amusing now.

Yes. I put clothes on my characters because they're wearing metal armor, and that's got to pinch. (I also wince after dumping them into the ice-cold water around the island.)

Also: I hate the Bloodmoon quest. My character's level 50something and dies and dies and dies on it.