Posted: August 16th, 2008
DLded It's 1:32 in the morning here, so I'm off to bed.
I'll give you a report on my impressions tomorrow morning
I'll give you a report on my impressions tomorrow morning
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that's just not possible, I didn't change nothing other than their clothes! Maybe you have something else running that change mages attributes, but not this. It's cosmetic. The only difference is that they may wear gloves or bracers and leather boots for most. So most of the mage use light armors a bit. And battlemages use body armors Light too I think..abroth wrote: a word of advice. do not go with apprentice birthsign with this mod . get killed in one shot by any magic users
I survived the goblins camps in test at level 0, but with good weapons. Of course if you just run into the fray..good luck and you better be good for your luck to be. But if you take a couple down from afar, and then you go in with them already reduced in number, it doesn't hurt your framerate (or a lot less), and you still can have a good fight. I'm quite sure a level 40+ would survive a direct attack into a goblin camp, lesser power ask for other means. There's only one Conan.I've seen the large goblins, but even the small ones were pretty hard to fight. At least I thought so, but I will give it another try with a regular character at regular difficulty doing my best to defeat the ugly bastards.
ah but that really is what took my interest. The prey become the predator. I could have chosen the regular way, but the concept of this was way too interesting and would give a very different hunt feeling. Quite an unnerving set-up. (in fact I had to remove some beast as it was too much.) Did you go to the end of the oblivion plane where it's all bleak island with grey grass? I found this to be a most disturbing image sometimes, the weird deer all with evil red eyes, and the grey temperature with grey land and nothing else.I'm know next to nothing about lore, I already guessed that in Hircines realm things are a bit different. I noticed the red eyes, but I still couldn't understand why the predators were harmless. They have sharp teeth, lots of muscles and things like that after all. Do they eat grass now? If at all I would have thought that all animals are aggressive so it's more 'fun' hunting them. But if lore says that's the way it is then there is nothing wrong with it of course, although it's a bit odd (just like many things in ES lore are imo).
yes and no. Players shouldn't have a better look at them, the meshed are low res and would need better textures at higher resolution since they are big creatures. (I have to do them one day). The thing I want for the gargoyles is that they will not move unless the player is nearby. Another thing to do that I don't really got working. Scripting is not my thing.. I'll check to see the animations though. Could be cool, and since I have six types of Gargoyles, I could split 3 to use the LCE anims for attack melee, and 3 that use magic, and that keep high up in the air like now. for spellcaster the present anim work, and I'll provide them with enough magi to fight from the air...On the way I met some gargoyles (I think that's what they are called). Since they are quite large and use the imp animations they hover quite high above the ground. That looks a bit strange when they do melee attacks since they are punching and kicking in the air above the player. Maybe you could use the animations from the LCE gargoyles. They adjusted the animations so they fit better for larger creatures (less hovering above the ground). It's a modders resource, so you wouldn't even need to ask for permission. Would also give the player a better look at the mesh you created.
I need to see that! I think I was trying something else with the Seagull.. maybe I left that on a model that didn't work!Arriving at a shipwreck I discovered seagulls. They somehow aren't working for me. All they did was flapping a tiny bit with their right wing while moving. Everything else on them was static.
there's not much in the rats animations. I modified some anims in Blender, but it's very much a guess still importing animations in that, and more of a guess when you export. Well at least for any animations that have curves. Half the anims cycle I would have needed to create something very unique with the beast, I can't open them right in Blender. Maybe it's because of the skeletons that are not exactly all like a biped. I don't have Max. And I'm too lazy to learn it at this point, even if I know I should and I'm due to learn how to function in that interface one day. I already have XSI and Blender shortcuts in my head and I'm cursing because they are not the same. and others..each time I learn some new 3d software I wanna cry. But actually the plan is to continue working on that side of WAC later. and yeah I will hack myself a Max copy if I have to, and try to see how it goes.At a lake I was attacked by a crocodile (nice surprise effect in that situation by the way, just like you would expect). I think they are a bit too fast. I know that crocs can be very fast in real life for a short amount of time, but most of the time they move rather slow or at least at medium speed only. I also think the rat attack animation looks a bit off on the crocs. They jumped at me about two metres in the air over and over. Maybe you can use a different anim for these creatures. I haven't looked into it, but it could be enough to replace the default attack anim with a less jumpy power attack anim (if there is any, can't remember).
I need to review the Equs horses. I forgot them. they should run away at least for now. Later what I'd like is that they would let you come close and mount them based on one of your attribute. That's what I would like for many quadrupeds in fact. Zebra, Bongo, GemsBok, ..Finally I discovered a herd of equs horses. I could ride them just like any tame horse. Not sure whether this is intended, but looking at the prices for horses in Oblivion I think it's a bit too much to get quite fast and special looking ones for free. And they don't even run away everytime you dismount like the default horses do!
whoah! that's not how I made them.. weird.I did notice a couple things though, first off I kept coming across floating Gemstock every time I explored the realm.
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hehe..I thought I had grabbed the stuff of Xiastim. I probably forgot something, maybe the texture. it's not a creature that is in the Master I made it with the Oblivion gate esp. Xiastim is a guardian. He's there to help you in the realm if you need him or want to take it easy. He'll lead you to Hircine. (very basic AI that still don't do exactly what I want). I'll dig the problem with this one.Also, there was an invisible creature called Xiastim that kept killing everything around it.
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the best thing about the oblivion lowlife is that they will still spawn when you're at high level too, since they are only lowlife spawn. you'll get more fierce scamps at a certain level, the true Bull Scamps and Scamps. But there will always be hell hounds, cherubs, red fear and such. Next in Oblivion, I have to implement the Xivilai armies I have made.Playing around in the realm of Oblivion is more fun now than ever, the hell hounds are vicious looking, but one creature has taken the cake for me so far, the Xivilai Cherub, I couldn't help myself but to laugh out loud, when it attacked me and I was forced to kill it, I felt terrible looking at that cute little baby of a monster dead on the ground there.
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I was also thinking, all these creatures have unique loot right? Well I think there's a really fun quest waiting to be made with that, some collector, or alchemist or something, who wants parts from every single species out there, tasking you with collecting that unique loot from all of them. Kind of like a Waalx version of Pokemon, you gotta go out there and "Collect 'em all"
heheEchonite wrote:Is sweetwater supposed to be a neutral place? i got attacked when i attempted to walk in. So i took care of them... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eDHcOGuBbc
Waalx wrote:If you're powerful in strenght, you can go to a Red lion and you have a chance he will follow you like a pet until death. If it's one of the biggest cats like a Smilodon he can even become a mount.
If you're good in Intelligence, some monkey, may follow you.. he may even get some clothes on and a hat.
if you're a noble knight with no infamy, an Imperial White Troll..may like you. (go see the Imperial White trolls at the White Tower) (and the midget that follow Hieronemus Lex).
If your infamy is higher than 50, at wayshrines you can go befriend a White Lion
If your infamy is lower than 50, at wayshrines, find an Imperial Man eater.
I think a basic companion type script that checks for player stats would do it... but it might need OBSE.If you're powerful in strenght, you can go to a Red lion and you have a chance he will follow you like a pet until death. If it's one of the biggest cats like a Smilodon he can even become a mount.
If you're good in Intelligence, some monkey, may follow you.. he may even get some clothes on and a hat.
if you're a noble knight with no infamy, an Imperial White Troll..may like you. (go see the Imperial White trolls at the White Tower) (and the midget that follow Hieronemus Lex).
If your infamy is higher than 50, at wayshrines you can go befriend a White Lion
If your infamy is lower than 50, at wayshrines, find an Imperial Man eater.
if...only I could script.
Please go ahead! I must say though, I would prefer not to have to use OBSE. I agree it' should work with a rather simple script.dewshine wrote:Ok, I've downloaded, and I've read the thread and now I shall read the readme... And sometime soon I'll post again.
Nice to see how the testers are doing.
I wonder if this will work OK with Frans...
As for your ideas:
I think a basic companion type script that checks for player stats would do it... but it might need OBSE.If you're powerful in strenght, you can go to a Red lion and you have a chance he will follow you like a pet until death. If it's one of the biggest cats like a Smilodon he can even become a mount.
If you're good in Intelligence, some monkey, may follow you.. he may even get some clothes on and a hat.
if you're a noble knight with no infamy, an Imperial White Troll..may like you. (go see the Imperial White trolls at the White Tower) (and the midget that follow Hieronemus Lex).
If your infamy is higher than 50, at wayshrines you can go befriend a White Lion
If your infamy is lower than 50, at wayshrines, find an Imperial Man eater.
if...only I could script.
If you like I'll do some -- scrounging and/or scripting to see how hard it would be to do. Maybe.