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Thank you Striker. I am going to be honest and say that I cheat a lot. I use the tide ~ key and type in codes to raise my level. Thats the joy of owning the game and buying it. To do as you please. I hear tht when you download them or buy online the Tide key doesnt work. I also buy alchemy equiptment too. I might surpass the novice stage. I will let you know. I am going to join the mages guild and read as many books as I can before I use the cheat console. I am in my 50's inmost atributes. Those links are super awesome and I appreciate them so much. I have copied a lot from them into word and I i am anxious to try them.

Wow Striker, Thank you for the insight and all those awesome links! I always thought you had to use a table and make a mock lab with all your tools on it and then click each apparatus and choose commands to purify a potion etc. It sounds like as long as you have these tools in your inventory it all happens automatically on its own. Depending on what level you are, will determine the success of your potion right? I cant wait to check those links. Thank you for the indepth explanation.

Hello everyone, I am back playing Oblivion for the 3 rd time. In all my years of morrowind, oblivion etc, I heard skyrm was a total let down, I have never gotten the hang of alchemy. I know you need a basic tool set.. then there are other things such as the calcinator and such. I looked all over here then went to "Help Files". I didnt find any info. I did see this video on Where to get the items. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzhcK9NFUVk I am more concerned with how to use the tools. This article: http://oblivion.melian.cc/?cmd=cmdOblivionAlchemyFAQ Was actually pretty good. It still didnt explain HOW to use the calcinator or the advanced tools. I know you use a basic pestle and mortar to crush the herbs and make a potion. I know that a calcinator purifies a potion and some of the other tools intensify it. If there are any other articles that break things down step by step I would appreciate it. Maybe its common sense once you buy the tools click on them and it tells you what to do? Anyone can cheat use a code and get the alchemy skills up really high so you can use the more advanced tools.. what I want to do is actually learn and get the pleasure of experiencing something in oblivion besides grinding, quest completion etc.. this time I want to feel as if I have really lived there. Thank you so much for your time. My time to search and search is limited due to helping my love recover from knee surgery. Thank you for your help friends.

Ha Ha Drake your so darling^^ I love your life story ^^ Blalb all you want :P Yeah I was never into that whole PVP thing. Most games you have to go into a special mode or zone to do that or in an arena. I will make sure to ask how thats arranged in the ESO before I pay to join it. Thank you for the explanation of the Esp vs esm and bsa file types. I am going to cut and paste this into my cheat sheet that I have started so I dont forget everything I learned here. I see most of it is ESM. I have hardly seen any esp's if I am correct. You would think, since you can edit old and new data inside of a mod, people would start saving it as an esp. Man what a headache to have to go back n forth to save crap into a major master mod. No wonder they made such a big deal over that mod called Glory Road back in the morrowind days. That was a HUGE story line filled with the most awesome looking creatures too. I will keep this short as to not talk your ear off :P RYGHT! too late :P I agree we, builders, creators, artists do seem to get on much better than spoiled gamers who just want to plunder everything without appreciating the hard work and countless hours that went into it. (not all gamers are bratty tho) Congrats again on both those mods you created! I still perplexed how you were able to load up that new race to play and then make a companion mod to match it. I guess what im really asking is why havent I see this mod in the nexus files for download? You are too awesome! Thank you for the truth about Skyrm. I had a gut feeling it was over hyped. and its been what, almost 6 years since it came out? I guess they have been focusing on the this new online thing. Im still going to see if I can take a peek at the crown store. If there are not any good body replacers then forget it. I hate the vanilla hair and skins GUH. They need to get with the program and allow users to upload their own creations to use ingame, including animations. Even in Sl, there is a data limit and the whole area get bogged or lagged down and the FPS can be a nightmare like a bad freeway accident when someone walks in with 20 scripts going. Ok, you win, no more nagging to run off to ESO. I thank you again so so much for your time and knowledge and the lovely chit chat we had on here. You are more than welcome to PM me. I added you to my list of friends on here. I count it a privledge and an honnor Mr. Drake^^ XOX

Wow Dragon, What a nice letter!! Your so sweet and through^^ I cant imagine you not being the social type! I have found over the years that the non social type is actually a star of the show, social butterfly, dying to get out! I dont really have time for the whole social aspect of SL or the elder scrolls myself these days, and there are always those messed up ass hats everywhere you go. I am hoping in TEO that this whole PVP thing is a special mode you both have to go in and agree to. If someone were to be able to just walk up and stick a knife into anyone, there wouldnt be any players left! That aside, Once in a while you do meet really great quality people. If you want to check out some of the textures or sexy skins for SL www.secondlifemarketplace.com I am known as Aluviel Nakamura there. I still dont get why the creators of this game dont do more to make the skins at least as good as final fantasy. I used to play Perfect world too. I had a killer drow. Illl attach a photo of her. Thank you for the clarification on the whole BSA thing. What exactly is a BSA? How is it different from an .ESM? I will have to go online to the offical web site and check out the construction sets for oblivion etc. My box didnt come with the additional disk like my morrowind did. I even bough the whole fancy GOTY version too with expansions. Maybe if we hold on to them they might be worth something some day :tongue: Doubt it. So Mr. Drake.... I saw those uploaded photos....Do you play both those avies? Or do you play as just the male? from what I read, it sounds as if you made those avies? Very impressive indeed! It is skyrm that has all the marryable companions yes? What was it about Skyrm you didnt like? Thank you so much again for your wisdom and being kind enough to spend your time, the most valuable assets we all have on me. I am truly rich.. and as for skipping off into the sunset to play my game, I much rather get on elderscrolls online to chit chat and explore together with you :tongue: even if it was just once in a while^^ you are a really cool and awesome person^^. I actually feel a little sad this thread is coming to a close :tongue: Please keep in touch Handsome!!

Hello Striker, What would happen if I had BOSS and Nexus Mod Manager and Tes all at the same time? I could remove Tess since its not very user friendly.. I like NMO. I did use BOSS long long ago... What happens if you have two programs ? does the game just go with the last program you used? Does it "Undo" everything the other program did?

OHHH you are Magic!!!! The tools and checking that option worked!! everything is right again!! I cant thank you enough! I look forward to your response to my last post^^ Here is a photo of how everything looks now^^ Whew! No more mods!

Thank you Drake the Dragon, Your posts are so insightful and so much info is starting to come back to me, as I used to be a hard core avid player with 50 mods or so going. This time around I am not going crazy with tons of mods. I am trying to keep a clean game HEH! so much for that huh? I knew even one mod meant days of fighting and I went there anyways....Curious about your ooinion of the new elder scroll online where you get to play with real people? I have always fantasied about that! I hear there are no mods to make you look better and very little limited content from the crown store either. SO whats the point if you cant be sexy and flirt? I respect your opinion and quite intrigued to know your thoughts? I have read every word about 4 times of this post to make sure I didnt miss anything. You are so wise and I thank you so much for caring! So about Roberts Male replacer.... I cannot believe they expect people to hand pick crap out of the folder and "Just know" to drag and drop it into your data folder which doesnt work half the time! If you are not willing to go down the rabbit hole from hell into Oblivion /Data/Data/meshes/data/ meshes and on and on forget it. Funny when I first redownloaded this game.. there wasnt even a textures or meshes folder indide the data one..Just another Data inside with meshes and textures folder if I remember right... All these mods say in the read me.."Oh just drag it into the data folder and walk away Its SOOO Easy!" Or just use OBMM or NMM or TES and click and play! La la lala " UM No......even with Meticulous hand placing in the exact right folder.. its mostlikely not going to work until by some miracle a OBMM or something finally gets it right.. Its a gamble..You might win and just when you are about to give up and get so flaming mad and not in the mood to play anymore and realise this is why you walked away the first time..BAM it suddenly works! HA! I remember the big squeel about all the messups because of that stupid beautiful people mod. Back then, that was all there was! The skins in these games are so horrifically bad compared to other games. I have a virtual reality called SecondLife where I was able to create skins and have a shop. The skins or textures and animations are mind blowing. I cant understand for the life of me why Bethdesia cant get with the program! These animations are out there FREE! Its not that hard to make two characters line up to fight, dance, kiss etc. I even invited a modder to SecondLife to see such skins and animations to blow his mind. I made sure not to check "Beautiful people" I used Ren's just to fix my avie. I did find this Mod...... Maybe it will fix the face issue if the anti allising thing in the NMM under tools trick doesnt work. (thank you so much for explaining that) Ok so for enough of my ranting.... The Anti alaising files.. Wow.. Thats something I never knew about! A re-route? thats crazy! That by itself, is just asking for issues!! With that said, I did download the official patch before I started dling any Mods. I knew my game was an older one and probably full of unsupported C= Programming scripts. This time around I dont want shivering isles or anything fancy. I just want to finish the romance Mod story line and then possible move on to skyrm. I am hoping against hope the mods in this one are easier to handle period! I know my game is at least 6 years old. 1.20416 It was in the box by disk all original. I dont like any kind of online downloading like steam. If your master Download should get corrupted, you have to go back online to a website to get it. Im sure there are tons of pirated copies of the game too , thats just impulsive and irresponsible for good long term investing. Thank you for explaining the thing about .esm and file types. I always wondered about that. I should use my time and play with the construction set. I am curious if the CS from my Old old morrowind game could even make files for the new skrym? Im still all hooked on the obivion since it was such a big deal with moving grass and all that jazz. I had to get a whole new computer just to play it! I have upgraded a couple of times with new towers and new Graphics cards since then. Thank you so so much again. I have checked the Anti allising thing in the tools option in the NMM. If that doesnt work, since there are some bodies missing as well.. I wonder if this mod might at least fix the faces? I just dont want to mess up my companion, so I am hesitant.. He is some kind of dwemer hybrid elf thingy so this mod might not have any effect on him at all. Maybe if you are in the elder scrolls online I might Dl it and we could meet up. Could you imagine getting to meet Alien solf and some of the other players / modders in person? Awesome! http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/9534/? this is what I look like now.. Not as pretty.. I dont know what the heck happened.. at least she is is fixed. This is rens mystic elves which I swore I had that before! Maybe I just didnt use it.

you would love Dai from Oblivion.

AN updated marryable Male romance companion mod thats a sexy elf like my favorite Dairanath Avari

Thank you for the reply. I am old yet new again, so all this fancy talk in techy terms is way over my head. I got the roberts male body replacer here at nexus. Male Oblivion Body Replacer Version 4 Final. It s newest update was 2011. By Robert http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14942/? Here is the archive invaladation text in notepad. meshes/characters/_male/upperbody.nifmeshes/characters/_male/lowerbody.nifmeshes/characters/_male/hand.nifmeshes/characters/_male/foot.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/01/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/02/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/03/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/04/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/05/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/05/m/pants.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/06/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/06/m/pants.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/07/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/07/m/pants.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/08/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/08/m/pants.nifmeshes/clothes/lowerclass/09/m/shirt.nifmeshes/clothes/middleclass/04/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/middleclass/05/m/shoes.nifmeshes/clothes/middleclass/mcpantskungfublk/m/pants.nifmeshes/clothes/upperclass/02/m/shoes.niftextures/characters/argonian/male/footmale.ddstextures/characters/argonian/male/footmale_n.ddstextures/characters/darkelf/male/footmale.ddstextures/characters/darkelf/male/footmale_n.ddstextures/characters/dremora/male/footmale.ddstextures/characters/dremora/male/footmale_n.ddstextures/characters/imperial/male/footmale.ddstextures/characters/imperial/male/footmale_n.ddstextures/characters/orc/male/footmale.ddstextures/characters/orc/male/footmale_n.ddstextures/characters/darkelf/headdarkelf.ddstextures/characters/darkelf/headdarkelf_n.ddstextures/characters/imperial/headhuman.ddstextures/characters/imperial/headhuman_n.ddstextures/characters/orc/headorc.dds my load order according to the Nexus mod manager is: Oblivion.esmkt custom race fix.espRens beauty pack Full.espRens Beauty Hair only.esp (which I installed this and the Hair After the black face issue)Male body replacer V4.espDairanath Avari Male companion .esp The only reason why I even risked downloading Male body replacer was because it was required for Dai the romantic companion. Dled him here: http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/35893/? When I try to open the Nexus Mod Manager I get an error code for Hgec bodies, which I took that out of the mod manager. The folder is probably still inthe data files folder. Idont see how you can un-merge it once its been downloaded. I doubt that has anything to do with the black faces mainly on the male nords and imperials esp the guards in town.Any opnions to fix this glitch without having to start all over again would be so so much appreciated.

Thank you all, I dont know if this is even a load order problem or not. According to the NMM My load order is correct. Yet I am still seeing missing bodies and black faces of the towns folk. The orcs seem ok. Here in this photo is an example.

Sure, Its been so long I forgot to give additional info. In my Data Menu when you first start up the game, I have Dair AVari a male companion mod, Hes at the bottom of the load order. Well He was.... he is at the top now!! Then comes the male body replacer mod by robert, then my master oblivion.esm file. When I go to launce the game and click data files, the load order is opposite with the companion mod at the top . : ( I am running this game off my disk so its not a steam download. I dont know how to fix the load order in the Nexus mod helper. There doesnt seem to be a button or menu for it. and TES Mod manager doesnt look like a mod manager at all. I should probably get rid of it. When I switch over to the "plugins" tab on the nexus mod manager, everything is in the right load order. with the master oblivion.esm at the top. I am going to try to dl Ren's beautiful bodies. That might fix it. I read on google that the dark faces at the neck line happen when something called Natural faces is used in a mod. They said to get rid of it inthe CS set. I have no clue how to dig into the construction set.

Hello Everyone! I am back playing Oblivion with a gorgeous companion Mod who is a dark elf type. It took me two days to get him to show up right. Now my character is so ugly. I need better hair and a new skin and body. She even looks big and bulky like a guy. It ruins the game.. I tried the eyecandy mod and HGCe bodies. Now I have big chunks missing from peoples bodies and all of our faces are practically black. When I did this before I had plenty of time to dl the Apachee store and fight with it. Man Ohh the crashes. I got a really gorgeous avatar out of it. I still never got the whole store to show up right. Yes the god awful triangles. I was able to get in and out, ... buy my items before my game crashed. Just Barley...... I really dont want to have to fight with downloading the apachee store again. Or have to reinstall the whole game again and risk losing my companion mod. Is there a mod that can fix the dark faces and bring the bodies back? I using the nexus mod manager and that helps some. I also have the Tes and it just confuses me. I want to look like this again only grey to match my new companion.