AmethystDeceiver

@GixTheMage - it is possible to get a job without meeting the "x number of years" requirement. i've done it before. i was hired with 0 years industry experience, just based off of what i showed in my portfolio (most of which was mods i uploaded here in the nexus, btw). so if i were you, i would not think so negatively and just build up a portfolio of your best examples. no one in their right mind will automatically throw away your application if the quality of your work meets their expectations.

i really love the new home page. although i would prefer if hot files were directly under the banner pics. not a big deal though. its nice that theres now 6 instead of 5. and i mentioned this before but it would be SUPER awesome if we could post Polls in the article section so that users can vote on upcoming features of the mod

that 'articles' feature is something i have been really wanting for some time now. thank you would it be possible to get a Poll feature as well (so thst we can ask our user base a question before adding the thing that is being proposed)? and an ability to pin comments would be absolutely awesome

Finally finished my latest mod: Amethyst Hollows Dreamworld after having lost and rebuilt it from scratch thanks for taking the time checking it out http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/18575-1-1339380889.jpg

@ringgold - yeah sorry about that. i do have female mannequin option planned as a fairly high priority update in the near future.

if you can rig a new croc-beast onto the existing werewolf skeleton, you could use all the existing werewofl animations as well, which would make things easier. then you would make a brand new race for your crocbeast. lycanthropy is a built in feature, you can actually create a new beast-form power without affecting the vanilla werewolf (so that farkas doesnt turn into a crocodile during the companions questline). i was going to do something similar to this for pseudo-vampire type beast form, but i need to figure out how to make it fly first (as are a million other people LOL)

although not specifically a "house mod" my mod does have a functional non-CTD player home in it (it also has a functional navmesh so you should be able to bring followers without them getting lost) http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=5696 any mods that use an esm with no vanilla edits currently are avoiding the CTD bug from patch 1.5. there are caveats however, your save game MUST be clean from all corruption that may have been caused by the 1.5 bugs. thuis goes for any new house mod currently using the esm workaround

if you are assigning new body nodes to body parts and are unsure which nodes to use, or have any concern about your mod being compatible with other peoples mods (i.e. equipping someone's backpack only to find it somehow unequips your ankle bracelet for no reason other than it occupying the same slot), i've put together a basic node guide here (collected from discussions starting back in feb 8 ) : http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/556409-body-part-ids-for-unused-biped-nodes-consensus/ obviously my intent is not to impose anything onto anyone, and it's merely a suggestion, but just for sake of keeping things organized for modders so that it doesnt become a random free-for-all with body nodes and parts all over the place.

regarding outer/undergarments if your outer garment is going to completely cover the undergarment, you simply check the extra body node in the ARMA record, and set your priority ranking according to layer. when the outer garment is then equipped, the undergarment is invisible (but still equipped). the reason for outer/under separation was to have flexibility for layered outfits. one obvious example would be for something like a skimpified armor outfit, or even plain clothes (t-shirt + vest, both are layered, both need to be visible and can be equipped separately) i agree that there are too many lower slots, so i will swap out the knee for a second face slot. abdomen may also be unnecessary, so i may change this to another misc/fx slot (giving a total of 3). regarding right/left independent - i will add a note suggesting that over/under can be opted to be right/left instead. otherwise, i strongly suggest against modifying the existing nodes, because that would break compatibility for the thousands of existing vanilla armors, as well as mods that conform to the vanilla nodes. EDIT - it appears that all of the unused nodes are culled in first person view. can anyone else confirm this?

do you think i should take out one of the leg layers and replace it with a general jewelry category? this gives a jewelry slot + an extra misc slot if needed, and for earrings, i would assume using the already existing ears node should work fine, that way when you equip a hood (im pretty sure most of them have an ears dismember property on them) it will hide the ear meshes (mainly for elves) as well as the earrings

any controller that uses xinput will work natively in skyrim. if your controller is dinput only, you can use soemthing like suggested above, pinnacle, or other 3rd party software that lets you map xinput from any dinput source. im guessing this would be a lot less hassle than modding skyrim to recognize any non-xinput controller (if its even possible)

so there are a total of 15 unused body nodes that can each have a new armor piece equipped to them without forcing something else to unequip. i'm hoping there could be some kind of commonn consensus that modders can use as a guide when making new armors, so that we dont have all different kinds of armor being equipped to any random node. this would cause compatibility issues for users who download multiple mods and find that there are items that clip/overlap/force-unequip items that seem like they shouldn't. i'm putting this list up just as a suggestion and hopefully we can all contribute to it and come to some sort of agreement. i'm not trying to be a *** telling other people how to do their mods, it's just better for everyone if modders follow the same numbering protocol (at least IMO). already existing named nodes: 30 - head 31 - hair 32 - body (full) 33 - hands 34 - forearms 35 - amulet 36 - ring 37 - feet 38 - calves 39 - shield 40 - tail 41 - long hair 42 - circlet 43 - ears 50 - decapitated head 51 - decapitate 61 - FX01 proposed extra nodes: 44 - face/mouth 45 - neck (like a cape, scarf, or shawl, neck-tie etc) 46 - chest outergarment 47 - back (like a backpack) 48 - abdomen 49 - pelvis outergarment 52 - pelvis undergarment 53 - leg outergarment 54 - leg undergarment 55 - knee 56 - chest undergarment 57 - shoulder 58 - arm undergarment 59 - arm outergarment 60 - misc comments/suggestions?

you have to set this up in a 3d editor program like 3ds max (recommended). you also need to properly set up your bsdismember modifier for each trishape. export everything as a nif and edit the fields in nifskope (primarily fixing the shader/texture nodes and renaming the bsdismember nodes to the proper number)

so there are a total of 15 unused body nodes that can each have a new armor piece equipped to them without forcing something else to unequip. i'm hoping there could be some kind of commonn consensus that modders can use as a guide when making new armors, so that we dont have all different kinds of armor being equipped to any random node. this would cause compatibility issues for users who download multiple mods and find that there are items that clip/overlap/force-unequip items that seem like they shouldn't. i'm putting this list up just as a suggestion and hopefully we can all contribute to it and come to some sort of agreement. i'm not trying to be a *** telling other people how to do their mods, it's just better for everyone if modders follow the same numbering protocol (at least IMO). already existing named nodes: 30 - head 31 - hair 32 - body (full) 33 - hands 34 - forearms 35 - amulet 36 - ring 37 - feet 38 - calves 39 - shield 40 - tail 41 - long hair 42 - circlet 43 - ears 50 - decapitated head 51 - decapitate 61 - FX01 proposed extra nodes: 44 - face/mouth 45 - neck (like a cape, scarf, or shawl, neck-tie etc) 46 - chest primary or outergarment 47 - back (like a backpack/wings etc) 48 - misc/FX (use for anything that doesnt fit in the list) 49 - pelvis primary or outergarment 52 - pelvis secondary or undergarment 53 - leg primary or outergarment or right leg 54 - leg secondary or undergarment or leftt leg 55 - face alternate or jewelry 56 - chest secondary or undergarment 57 - shoulder 58 - arm secondary or undergarment or left arm 59 - arm primary or outergarment or right arm 60 - misc/FX (use for anything that doesnt fit in the list) comments/suggestions?

it's possible to do it using TESsnip. you want to make a new weapon entry under the WEAP group. you can copy paste an existing weapon (like for example blades sword) to copy its data (i don't fully know how to edit all the stats from scratch, but even that is possible if you know what youre doing). when you paste the blade sword WEAP entry into your edited one, you change the first 2 digits of the EDID from 00 to 01. then under MODL you change the path to your weapon nif. you might also want to create a new forge recipe under COBJ group so that you can forge your weapon in game.

the hair is from coolsims hair mod. i'll be putting this armor up as well, as soon as i finish the male version. yeah, i hear you on the pants, it seems like theres too much empty space down there, i was thinking maybe breaking up all that negative space by adding some kind of leather paneling.

i stripped down the nightingale armor to make it more of a ninja assassin suit http://i41.tinypic.com/2qcnvop.jpg

I cant figure this one out. I have a armor mod that works perfectly for my main character, but when i change the body presets in the racemenu it causes CTD only on specific ones (one of the redguard female and 2nd imperial). i thought the female body is the same for all races, so why would it cause CTD only on certain presets? Edit: nevermind, i just realized it's being caused by 100% weight. there must be something wrong with my _1 model

you might be able to do it by copying all the original nightingale meshes into your meshes folder, and renaming them to whatever the thieves guild armor files are named (and make sure you are placing them in the same thieves guild subfolders). but one warning, since the mesh for the cowl on the nightingale is supposed to erase the player's original head mesh, replacing it over the thieves guild hood may not properly erase the player's head mesh and you may see some of it clipping through the mask (i don't know for sure, but i think this will happen). because the same is true when done vice versa. its in the game's coding, not in the mesh files themselves AFAIK

yeah. the hair shader is for the hair mesh and i copy/pasted the shader for the hood from the original one

im trying to make a clothing item (hood) that has part of a hair mesh coming down from the top. the reason why i need 2 trishapes is because i need to assign the hair shader to the hair only, and any other shader to the hood itself. right now i currently have it working as a single trishape (meshes combined) but the problem is that the hair shader applies to everything so the hood changes color to whatever your hair color is. i am using 3ds max 2012 to edit the meshes. yes i did delete a significant amount of geometry from the original hair mesh (the hood mesh is left intact with no geometry edits). i deleted the dismemberskin modifier in max and applied a new one, as well as the original skin modifier on the hair and re-skinned it manually to the head bone with a new skin modifier. http://i42.tinypic.com/149p9h4.jpg

I know the engine is capable of supporting nifs that have multiple trishape objects in it, but when i tried to export mine, the game would crash when i equip the item. i searched for tutorials online and none of them cover multiple trishapes. it shows up fine in the nifskope, and i went through and made to sure to match the data from existing nifs in case i made a mistake somewhere, but i'm still stumped on this. any ideas?

the way it's set up currently is not very user-friendly. right now the hair and hood are combined into one mesh and it uses the game's hair shader, so when you pick a hair color it also changes the hood to the same color as the hair. does anyone know of a way to export a nif file into skyrim that supports multiple nitrishapes? i tried it with this one and it crashes every time i try to equip the hood. it only works if there is only 1 nitrishape. i know the engine supports multiple trshapes per nif file, but i dont know how to export it

This is my first try at modding in skyrim. I used coolsims hair mod and combined one of the meshes into nocturnal's hood, so that the character isnt bald when wearing it http://i40.tinypic.com/11ikglf.jpg