bluesmurph

OK I got my mod working! http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/27748 So Its no longer a batch file and no command windows appear when you launch it! All you do is: Rename the current 'SkyrimLauncher.exe' to 'Launcher.exe' Drag the Script file and the new 'SkyrimLauncher.exe' into the skyrim directory folder Drag in one of the 3 songs I included (1 is the oblivion launcher theme that was posted in this thread and the other 2 are Skyrim songs I lliked) This mod is fully working with steam so you can just click 'Play' on steam and it will launch the exe which redirects to the real launcher and the song at the same time. This mod will not be compatible with any other mod that needs the 'SkyrimLauncher.exe' to be renamed. You can add your own songs anytime by just naming a .wav file 'launcher_mus.wav' and adding it to the skyrim directory instead of adding one of the pre-given Their are still 2 problems though... My Anti-Virus was freaking out when I first launched the .exe so you made need to add the file as an exception The script file has a path in it that may not be the same on everyone elses computer so you may have to edit the path to point to your skyrim directory (tutorial on Mod page)

No I got it to work :P thats what took from like 10 this morning to now to figure out XD I'm a total noob at this but a lot of google searches helped me. So what I did: Batch file starts up the launcher Next it waits untill the launcher is started to launch a separate script file I wrote which launches the wav file (taken from the video you posted) in the background so windows media player doesnt start up -.- Then it starts a check system to see if TESV.exe is running and if SkyrimLauncher.exe is running If TESV.exe is running (you hit 'Play') it stops the audio file but if SkyrimLauncher.exe stops running (you hit 'Exit') the audio file stops playing It's just that easy right? XD I bet theirs a simpler way to do this but it works... It has 3 files that you just drop in your main skyrim directory: The wav file The Batch file And the scripts file that runs the wav in the background I'll try to figure out how to get rid of the cmd window but if you guys want the files just let me know, ill post them

Haha yah I spent this morning writing a batch file. I got it to work and everything but I don't like how it makes the cmd window appear :/ I'll try to fix that... I also tried compiling the batch into a .exe and renaming it SkyrimLauncher and renaming the real Skyrim Launcher something like "Launcher" so when I click play on steam it would launch the audio too... only problem is that my anti-virus believes that its a virus so I would have to disable my antivirus in order to play which wont fly.... aaannnnyyway I have the unprofessional .bat mod if anyone wants it :P

sorry mr. troll, just clarifying. (Dont deny it, i've seen you trolling around these mod request forums hahaha :biggrin:)

Wait.. do you want that music as the main menu music (which I can do) or do you want it to be music that is played before you hit play at the launcher screen(which I have no idea how to do)? This one?: http://schend.net/images/games/launchers/elder_scrolls_skyrim_launcher.png

Because adding HUGE walls of light all over the map won't make it crash either? Anyway I like and hate this idea. It would be cool to be able to see when you enter a new hold but i don't know if i wold want giant walls of light everywhere... maybe just have it so every time you enter a new hold it says on the top of your screen "Now entering Eastmarch" or whatever... idk, my opinion

I swear I've seen a video of a weeping angels mod a LONG time ago. It want an angel, just some large relic stone thing, but it followed you around the same way the weeping angels do. I cant find the video but I'll look for it... BTW I would never leave my breeze home if their were weeping angels... hell id sit in a corner... and not blink XD Edit: Next time you post something look on the other pages of the forum... on page 2 I found this http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/516971-weeping-angels/ Same exact question...

I like this idea and it inspired me to do some fiddling around with creation kit but my idea failed.... all i ended up doing was making it possible to zoom in really far with a certain bow... the zoom in function for bows is locked to bows so you'd have to get someone that could write some script or something (basically not a NOOB modder like me :/). But i like the concept and MANY others have posted this on numerous forums but no one seems to make it :/

have you ever seen Immersive Armors? http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19733 Its quite popular so you probably have seen it. if not check it out, it has a lot of cool armors. Some more cool armors are: Anything by Hothtrooper (the immersive armors guy) http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/users/3656551 Seratic armor is pretty cool http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19961 ActusReus's armors http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/users/2291532 basically google and check most popular stuff on nexus and steam workshop... it isn't that hard to find cool armors And if none of these fit your fancy and you just want someone else to make you armors then.... good luck with that. their are not that many people that can make really cool looking armors so you'd have to be lucky and it DEFINITELY takes more then 2 hours of waiting to find someone that will make armor for you -.- anyway good luck *edit* Heres some more armors that i think you may or may not like frankdema's armors, he has a few cool ones http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/users/3805873

its skyrim... the modders would rather spend more time making werewolf mods or sexy lady mods than adding famous guys into the game... if anything, they would add famous women into the game and make them wear little clothing and make their boobs/butt 3x bigger XD *this is just a joke. please dont kill me* (but you know its true XD)

I love hunting and i've always wanted to make a better hunting mod and i tried but found out my ideas were to complex for my own skill in modding. Everything you stated is fairly easy to do except: You can not make your own skill tree yet... you can change and rename an old one and add as many perks as you like but the background image stays the same and i think the way you obtain experience points stays mostly the same. Hit boxes.... i don't even know if you can edit those but that would be really cool Creating models and textures for all the new items you want animals to drop (lots of people can do this but personally i have no experience making models and texturing) Making animations for all of the werewolf attacks. making animations is pretty hard (once again... some other people can do it but i cant and its harder to find people that can make animations then people that can model items...) Hicirnes guidance... I actually have had a mod like that in planning for a while and i just recently thought of an idea on how to maybe get that to work... if i get it to work ill let you know :P Most Werewolf spells.... Personally I wouldn't include to much of the werewolf stuff because their are PLENTY of werewolf mods and i don't really see hunters using werewolf to hunt... but that's just my own opinion. I liked the idea of the "in season" things to hunt so maybe you could actually have a hunters bar or guild place that has a bunch of shrines that allows you to pick which creature is in "season". When the creature is "in season" then you get bonus crits on that type. The shrines would be like the other shrines in the game but you may only have 1 hunting blessing at a time and it wont replace your other blessings from normal shrines. This is just an idea to free up some space on that skill tree because it would be pretty cluttered. Unfortunately like i said before, you cant make your own skills so your skill tree would have to share its place with another (archery makes sense) or just completely delete a skill tree you don't plan on using and rebuild it with your new perks (blocking? i NEVER use blocking). You can rename skill trees too so "Archery" can become "Hunting" and so on. Only problem is that if you replace a skill tree with your new one, lets say blocking, then you cant get rid of the giant shield in the background. I hope this helped a little and maybe someone with good modding skills will take up this challange.

:o Looks interesting. I like this one but to bad it only works in snow :/ It probably would only look good in the snow too... Yah, I wanted to make this mod a long time ago and thought of that but didn't want to do that so i gave up on ideas. recently i came up with this idea when playing Monster Hunter and I had Paintballs that I could stick to my target monsters and they would show up on the mini-map. The idea is almost the same being that you aply a poison that once you have hit the creature it allows you to use a spell to create a highlighted path to the creature if it runs away.

I think a game that pulls off siege mechanics well is Mount and Blade: Warband, that would be an excellent game to base the mechanics off of. For the siege you could go to the city and activate the siege. Once activated you have the options to attack instantly, build catapults/ladders that take X number of days to build, or wait X number of days. All of these choices have different effects: Attack Instantly - Your army begins the siege instantly but the defending army is at its full potential and will have full strength. Build Catapults - It takes X number of days to build them but once completed the defending army will be a little weaker. The amount of days waited to build the catapults PLUS the catapults themselves effect the strength of the enemy army. Wait - Waiting lets you wait a certain number of days. The longer you wait the weaker the enemy becomes until after a set number of days they surrender... BUT the longer you wait the more likely an enemy army will come in for support and attack you. If this happens then a large battle takes place outside the city and you must kill everyone and kill or capture their general in order to continue with the siege. If you loose troops during the battle then it will effect the number of troops you have to fight in the city. Maybe also add some other things to do while sieging that take a couple of days to effect the strength of your army and the enemies army... (call in for support for extra troops, raid enemy farms or merchants to cause havoc on them and improve your stregth, ect) But if you get bored of sitting you can attack the city whenever you want and have the battle separated by waves: 1. First battle is outside the city as you fight to get through the gates. Many archers in parapets and soldiers on foot outside the gate 2. Second battle is after you defeat the people outside and get inside the gate. Lots of foot soldiers and archers on rooftops. 3. Third battle would be inside the Jarl's Palace with butt loads of special "Jarl Guards" and maybe some court wizards and such. Like you said, once the guards are defeated the Jarl Surrenders. These are just some ideas and if you really like them then go play Mount and Blade: Warband... I stole all the ideas from them. This is pretty much how the sieging works and its really fun and i could see it being fun in skyrim too. Of course you don't have to follow this but i like the system and by adding a bunch of more options on improving armies and such this mod could turn out very well. Now the only problem is someone needs to make it XD. its always easier said then done correct? Well post what you guys think and try M&B out for yourselves if you haven't. Its extremely fun PLUS theirs a free demo version that lets you play up to level 7... but you probably cant siege at level 7 unless you get cheats to buy more troops. Download the demo HERE

So i was thinking about making a mod that would let you track animals you are hunting. Before i go fumbling through the Creation kit I decided i would ask more experienced modders it is even possible or if they could take up the project (i'm lazy and not a great modder). So the idea is that you should be able to track an animal you are hunting with a trail like Clairvoyance. So my thought is to make a poison called "tracking potion" or whatever and when you apply the poison to your weapon then the next animal/npc you attack will be "marked". In order to see the trail you just create a copy of the Clairvoyance spell but point it towards that last "marked" creature so every time you use the spell it shows a trail leading to them. Idk if this is possible. The iffy parts for me are: 1. Giving the poison the ability to put a "mark" on the target 2. Making the Clairvoyance spell copy have the power to point towards that "mark" If you cant have the spell dynamically follow the target then maybe have it set to the last spot the creature was at each time you cast the spell? I don't know but maybe someone out their knows how to do this. If anyone knows how to do this could you explain it please?

Oh my god thank you!!!! It was the Better Whiterun: under construction mod! I saw it a while ago and when i finally decided to get back on skyrim i was like "s*** what the hell was that mods name??" anyway i kinda find it funny how every mod that enhances skyrim its called "Better ________". they always use "better" -.- hahaha

I remember seeing a mod a while ago that expanded whiterun and added shops and such but i cant find it and i dont remember what its called. can anyone help?

haha i guess this turned into a post more about preference between the new fallout's and the turn based ones? I tried playing fallout 1 and 2 before fallout 3 came out (wanted to know the story before buying the new game) but i didnt like the turn based combat. it was interesting but very annoying. the game went a little to slow for me. But yah KOTOR is definitely and exception. I wish I could play the game but Ive had to restart so many times do to glitches and stuff that I dont want to restart my game again (I saved right as a boss fight started and I cant complete it cause my health is low and I have no medpacks -.-). anyway I dont think bethesda needs to go back to the root of the fallout series. they bought the series so they should make it into something new and fun. also to go back on my point about not liking new vegas, I guess it was more of a reason that the story kinda sucked and they left an entire desert on the left hand side open and empty. I never bought any dlc so idk if they put anything out their. they kinda left a lot of the land empty. I think the next fallout should definitely be more serious and gritty. Emphasize on the post apocalyptic feel but still keep the humor occasionally cause that is one of the good parts about fallout :P

I know skyrim just came out and i still could log a couple hundred more hours into it but recently i have been thinking about fallout 4. What do you guys think fallout 4 should be like? Setting? Mood/tone? Any new gameplay mechanics? Personally I cant wait till they make it with the creation engine but the only problem is that nuclear wastelands are dead so their wont be many fancy visuals to show off their. I hope to god they leave the mojave desert, new vegas in my opinion was crap. I played in the mojave desert once and that was enough for me. I think a return to DC would be pretty cool or maybe someplace like london. I just really hope that the next game is more like fallout 3 than fallout new vegas. New vegas was filled with to many gay strippers and sex robots for me. the horny guys that made new vegas (obsidian?) seriously need to gtfo. Post what you guys think should be in fallout 4! and if you agree that new vegas wasn't as good as fallout 3 then thumbs up :P

How do you want to go about naming these? we are going to have like 9 or more different weapons and we cant name them all just "Steel Dagger". Should we invent fancy names for each like "Agile Steel dagger" or "Steel dagger of agility"? or should we do something like "Light steel dagger" or "Steel dagger - Light". in the test i made i just named them like "steel dagger - long light" or "steel dagger - short spiked". is that ok or should we name them differently? Until we decide on names ill name them the way i was for easy navigation in the creation kit and in the in-game menus (it organizes them well)

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I was wondering if it was possible to make a new type of crafting table that is like the enchanting table. I want to be able to have three item categories that you select from (like how their is enchant, weapon, and soul gem) that make a recipe. is this possible?

Hey man. I just made a quick test to see how it would go and it feels pretty cool. I worked withe the war-hammer and made 3 handles (Long, Short, Normal) and 3 hammer heads (Heavy, Light, Spiked). The game already has models for broken weapons so i just took the broken steel war-hammer handle and head and used those models for everything. Handles: Long - longer range, slightly less speed, a little more weight Short - shorter range, slightly more speed, a little more weight Normal - (this one is kind of the neutral) If you didn't want any affects this just adds no positive or negative effects Hammer Heads: Heavy - more weight, less speed, more damage, a little more stagger, and a little more critical damage Light - less weight, more speed, less damage, a little less stagger, and a little more critical hit chance Spiked - (this one is kind of the neutral, it adds very small benefits but no negatives) adds 1 more to damage, adds 1 more to critical damage, a little more stagger, and a little more critical hit chance This is what I came up with and I made a weapon for every combination possible. and for the crafting I tried to stick close to the actual recipes for the weapon when making the handles and hammer heads but i made it seem more realistic (more steel for heavy, less for light). It all worked out pretty well. I never tried hitting any monsters with them yet but i liked it for a test run. I could make this mod for you if you wanted to do the different effects of the handles/blades part (I'm not very good at that part and it is your mod :P). Just reply to this topic or message me and we can talk about it. I really like the idea and want to hear more about your idea and i want to make it come true! :P

This is a great idea. I've been making my own crafting mod for myself cause i was tired of other peoples mods not having what I want. After reading this i really want to start over and make this :P I could see many cool things in this mod such as a weapons assembly bench where you take the different parts of the weapons and put them together to create the full weapon. The assembly bench wouldn't be needed but would add a little realism feel to it. One problem I see is that since their are so many different items the crafting menus would be filled with tons of items. Its not a big problem but people with OCD like me would die for something a little more organized XD. Plus that assembly bench would probably clear up the crafting menus a bit. I would love to try to make this mod but the only problem is that I am not a mod creating expert... I know my way around the creation kit fairly well but if anything comes down to scripting with papyrus I am instantly shot down. I think the mod would most likely consist of creating a ton of new recipes and items. You could also delete all the old recipes for weapons/armor if you want to completely redo the entire crafting system. You would also have to make 3d models for the different parts of the weapons. You could probably just take other weapon models and delete the parts you don't want but i have no idea about that cause i have no experience with creating new items like that. Also I have a question, you say that you would craft different types of handles and such. Would the handles be universal for making swords and you are able to just attach a steel of ebony blade on top to make a steel or ebony sword or would you have to make the handles and other smaller add-ons to be made out of the same exact metal you are using to make the sword? i don't know if that made sense but what ever. Anyway I think you should keep on coming up with ideas for this mod and come up with that percentage value table. I am curious to see more *Edit* Ok after writing this and thinking about the mod i decided that i would make a quick test mod that would be just maybe one weapon that you can craft from different parts. I'll let you know how it goes when I finish :P

I started making a mod that would include a perk where you could "tag" someone with an arrow above their head like the Hunters Mark perk in WoW. Then I realized i would need to script a bunch of stuff and I had no idea how to do it :( so i just abandoned the project. Though I'm glad to see that other people have thought of the same concept.

I totally agree with what Stemin has to say with these kind of threads. Having an Idea for a mod is great but if you have no content started then it's still just an idea. I have thought of plenty of cool mods that I thought would be easy to make but i never posted a huge thread about them and what they would include because I had no idea how they would turn out (turns out I had no idea how to do the things I wanted to do). Recently I have been experimenting with the creation kit and making 2 mods for fun. A couple of times I thought about creating a thread to show off what the mod would be like but they are still not finished and I have no idea what the end product will be like so I never created a thread. Just some advice: I know it seems easy but looks can be very deciving. I just started modding but I think I have enough expericnce to know that nothing is truly simple. Sure some things are easy but as you get more complicated things can get much harder. I have no experience with terraforming but I have a feeling it can be a little more complicated than you think. Now I understand that You made this thread to try to assemble a team but you did not need to put as much detail and stuff on what the mod "will" be like. I didn't mean to lecture anyone but i just thought I'd throw my two cents in. I do hope you assemble a team and get your mod rolling! Happy Modding :P