MarkInMKUK
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First thing to do is move the game to C:\Games\Oblivion - that'll save MANY problems down the line. There's a guide to how to do this on the Nexus.
Next, download and install BOSS (Better Oblivion Sorting Software). That will, when run, organise your mods so that they stand the best chance of working together properly, including sorting out the problem with .esm and .esp files being in the wrong order. Remember to update the masterlist file for BOSS before running.
Next, read up on how to install mods - the working stuff you've been lucky with but at least one is screwy or you wouldn't have the OMOD conversion data folder where it is. The sticky topics are tyhere for a good reason - read them!
You may also find OBMM (Oblivion Mod Manager) to be very useful, although with only a few mods it isn't actually necessary. It is used to handle the OMOD mod files, and can save a fair bit of aggro. Wrye Bash is the best manager, but is far more complex to get working and become familiar with.
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Well, two things stick out.
(1) You are almost certainly going to need to install Wrye Bash, and learn how to use it to help the mods play nice.
(2) There aren't currently any pregnancy/childbirth/babies/kids mods as the potential for abuse is considered too high. There's a pregnant body and pregnant dress mod for HGEC but that's more or less it. There are also a few sex mods, such as Claudia's Little Secret, which can be downloaded here, but the ones from Japanese/Russian sites often contain content taken from other mods without permission and are not supported here.
Basically, if a mod isn't available on the Nexus, we can't give you support. Certain mods will get you banned from the site for asking about them (and ignoring a warning once).
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Take a look at the cutscene work that Grumpf_be did in Claudia's Little Secret - that's all done "on the fly2 during the game and does a lot with camera angles and so on.
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Razorpony - There's a set of worn leather armour, and a set of rusty iron armor, plus the sackcloth stuff in the cell.
Quirkyblonde - the guys who are tinkering with the centaur are da mage and Semtex, with occasional input from the rest of us. Hopefully one of them will spot your post in the next day or two. They know more about horse-related animation than most, and may appreciate a variation on your horse tack removal/replacement mod.
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You would also need to cateforise armor types with their ability to resist piercing. For example, a roman-style linen and leather armour will stop an arrow cold at nearly point-blank range, it's the roman equivalent of a flak jacket. Quilted armor works much the same. To make it all balance you'd need to do a fair bit of research and work out what is best against what, building both attack and defence into the mod.
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Excellent idea. You'll need scripting and animation to get it to work, plus turning horse armor into an inventory item in some way (or maybe some sophisticated version of the grab key). Might be worth talking with the guy doing the Centaur mod - he's been posting in the thread on Proper Khajiit and Argonian bodyshapes and animations - he might haver some useful insights into the horse body models.
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Check that your main antivirus is not set to "scan all files on access" or similar - Oblivion continually accesses all sorts of files and this can cause major stuttering.
I had to exclude the files accessed by the Oblivion and OBSE process to get stuff nice and smooth
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Seems to be around on plenty of Japanese sites - probably means it's full of stuff we can't link to from here
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You will, of course, also need OBSE v20 and the Pluggy plugin installed
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Oooh - I like that!
For the test release - can you do the junk in the tutorial? Running a new created character from scratch would be perfect for me if possible.
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Well, I'd start by finding and installing the two required mods. They will come as part of the Beautiful People 2ch-Ed mod and the CM Partners mod respectively. Once you have installed those, then install the one you have been sent.
If you then get all kinds of oddities like missing faces, ears, hair, or dodgy body textures, then you have other problems and the mod originator may well be the person to help you directly, as you almost certainly have a mod clash/overlap someplace and without knowing HIS mod, we can't help much.
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"took Oblivion out of the program file" ... how? You can't just drag-n-drop it, as the registry still thinks it's in the original installation place.
You HAVE to use bben46's uninstall/reinstall procedure or you're just piling new error upon old error.
In short, how about doing what we are TELLING you to do instead of your own random ideas which are just complicating things.
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What Wrye Bash needs is an OMOD-interpreting front end. Using that to create the BAIN install would give the best of both worlds - the ease of an OMOD and the correct operation of BAIN when it comes to overinstalls and uninstalls.
Personally I find BAIN installations to be almost inpenetrably difficult unless they are totally trivial, so I'm sticking with OMODs for now. It's like stepping from Windows to Linux - the difference in understanding needed to do even the most simple thing is a vertical learning curve, and the "already can" people write the instructions for other "already can" people rather than the "haven't yet learned" ones - again very much like Linux.
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"Metal Gear Solid"... being?
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Slof's female stuff is exclusively done for Robert's Female body, IIRC - any conversions to HGEC are against her wishes
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I may be obtuse... but WHY would you want a big cardboard box over your character every time you went into sneak mode? Would kinda get in the way of vision
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Maybe you should answer the questions people keep asking you - like WHERE you have the game installed, and which OS (it's been asked twice now)
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There is, of course, one proviso - some mods catually conflict in the way they work, so no amount of merging will allow them to both work. Example - if two mods both change the destination cell of a door, only one can poaaibly ever work at once. Also, if you have two different scripts running from the same trigger, they may "fight" or one may always get priority, depending how they are written. Animation overhauls may also cause problems - you can't have two different animations with the same name, so one will have to be given priority. Finally, some mods are not as "clean" as they might be, and may actually not merge well due to internal errors.
You have 2010 mods. You have no way of knowing that all 2010 can be merged successfully. I'm willing to bet that some, at least, will come in the problem categories above. Just because you CAN merge mods, doesn't mean that the merged mods are going to work the way you expect.
Take a look at the mods, group them in terms of what they do. Cosmetic mods will probably merge ok. Landscape mods may need patches to work together, which you may have to create, or may flat-out interfere with each other. Scripted stuff such as quests may cause impossible clashes - if a npc has two different mods affecting him, the dialogue from one may not ever get triggered. All you can do is suck it and see. Good luck.
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Speaking of armour, I just finished watching a demo of how effective Roman plate armour was. They took a roman overlapping plate chest piece (one of those ones that's built like a millipede body) and fired a bolt at it from a (Roman) portable ballistra with a projectile velocity of about 100 miles per hour. The overlapping plates actually absorbed the blow and the bolt fell away without penetration, apart from when it was angled to enter between joints. That's more or less the equivalent of stopping a .45 dum-dum bullet - higher mass but lower velovity, giving much the same kinetic energy on impact, in a projectile designed to cause the same type of damage to the victiom.
I'm beginning to appreciate more and more just how good ancient technology was. In China, quilted silk was used to stop penetration of arrows, with the layers acting like Kevlar fibres to snag the tips and stop them penetrating. There were also sites around the world known for producing vastly superior steel - for example the wootz steel used in Damascene weaponry - possibly sites where a meteor had impacted and spread a mix of alloying metals such as manganese and chromium into the iron ore.
However, back to something closer to the original thread comments.
If you wanted to make suitable multi-part outfits, to allow layered clothing effects, you'd probably have to create some ompressively complex "combined" clothing items, covering all possible combinations of the items you wanted to layer. A bit of clever scripting could then look at what you had chosen to equip, and select the correct clothing combination mesh and textures to display that combination. For example, if you had three tunics, each with a different elemental resitance (red=fire, green = poison, white = ice), you would need six different item models to display all of the different combinations of those tunics (fire, poison, ice, fire & poison, Poison & ice, ice & fire, All three). If you could assign a different material to each layer "on the fly" that would reduce to three models (single layer, two layer, three layer). However, the practicalities of doing that is beyond me - I just use mods, I don't create them.
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A massive task endeed.
Let's break it down a little: Every line to be delivered would need to be recorded in ten racial voices (Altmer, Dunmer, Bosmer, Imperial, Redguard, Breton, Nord, Orc, Khajiit & Argonian. There wouls also be male and female variation, so that makes EVERY dialogue line require 20 recordings. Then add the possible variations of old / mature / young and you reach 60 recordings for EVERY line of dialogue. Thus the task you are requesting is between 20 and 60 times larger than the whole of the player dialogue in Mass Effect.
I also am not sure the player character HAS a voice, which can be triggered. Then yopu have to animate the speech, and ideally reflect emotions, in your own character's face.
I suspect it's unlikely to happen. I may be wrong, but the chances are against it.
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There are several arrow mods - I use the tweak in Wrye Bash to help mine along :)
Get Wet, when I tried it, dropped a sort of layer of silver over the whole body - hardly looking like wet cloth or leather. Maybe it works better on people in tin cans, but us light armour types look more realistic without.
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I know you said you would leave the specifics up to the modder, but... you're going to need to define them somewhat better to interest most people in trying to make you a specific custom race.
Being a "genie" race, I'd guess you are thinking of a magic-heavy race, probably to the point where they are pretty feeble physically? So what sort of starting stats do you think the male and female Genies should have? Why are they "Genies" - do they each come as in bottle with a three wishes command attached? Are you after an Arabic-looking race, to suit the general Western idea of the origin of Genies? What are their weaknesses? Which area of Tamriel to they come from - Elsweyr? An island across the ocean? Another plane? Do they have feet, or the traditional "wisp of smoke" lower body? If the latter, how do they use boots in armour sets (needed for some quests)?
If you can manage to come up with a decent backstory for the race, and a well-thought-out set of stats, you might find a modder who would be interested AND end up with the race close to how you envisaged them. If you don't manage that, you could end up with anything - or maybe even nothing.
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A little basic etiquette:-
Firstly, contact whoever made the armour for MERP - and ask their permission to use it for an Oblivion mod - AND to distribute the result. If you are REALLY lucky they may do the mod for you as well.
THEN work on making a mod to replace the legion armour
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You mean all that fantasy-book-cover female armour doesn't work as armour? I'm... shocked! :rolleyes:
All together now... <sings> "It...was...an... itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny shiny chain and mesh bikini..."
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There's thus useful function on the nexus called "Search"
If you type in something you want to find - "uncapper" for instance - it gives you mods which fit the description.
I suggest you have a look through the results it returns, and see which of the mods labelled "Uncapper" might do what you want.
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