AirtightSpring3

I have tried to install the Skyrim Memory Patch the the SKSE Alpha Way as shown in this video by Gopher, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37xAMUQc1oY. I have created my SKSE.ini file but for some reason I still crash at 256mb in the first block, instead of 512mb in the first block which it should be doing now. Any help would be much appreciated as I have spent many hours over the last few days trying to get this patch to work so I can run Skyrim without worrying about ctds as much. Thank you for any assistance you can give. - AirtightSpring3

Good news: I got SKSE, ENB and all my nature graphics mods up and running without a problem, I'll now begin work on this mod again, next week is quarter finals so news may be a little scarce, but I will keep on working.

I'll let you know when I get to looking for voice actors, any help is much appreciated. I am at a minor setback at the moment, a fault on my part messed up my Skyrim game files and I had to reinstall, I was lucky enough to have made a back up last night of my work on the mod. The only thing I have lost is the working arena, the dialogue is still there but the scripts are not. I have the scripts saved on a word doc so it will take me a small amount of time to re enter them. I am going to spend the next few days making sure I can get the mods I like working stable, and I need to look into getting ENB to work on my game. I'll give more updates soon when I am ready to continue where I left off. I just need a little time to get my Skyrim set up again.

Update: I have been working the landscape some more, haven't done to much over the last few days due to a large amount of homework. I have got a large amount of pine forest put into the Northern half of Aeldon and am working every day on making the mountains look more like actual mountains out of Skyrim by making them more slopped than what they were before (before they were flat and went straight up) and have been decorating them with rocks and pine trees. Soon I'll be starting on the southern half of Aeldon which is mostly plains with one very large central mountain. Once I get the entire landscape done I'll post pictures since I have to do a fair amount of work to reload the LOD, so I am going to wait until I'm done so that I only have to go through that process once.

Well today I did some work on the mountains surrounding Sigminion, before as you can see in the pictures they were somewhat flat on the top and very steep going straight up. I am attempting to give them a more gradual incline, have a pass between Sigminion and the rest of Aeldon, and to add multiple peaks to the mountain range. I have all of this but the pass now completed and after this I will add smaller rocks and other clutter to the mountains to make them look more alive. I do not have pictures of this yet because for it to look good I need to regenerate LOD because I have changed so much of the landscape. Once I have the part of the island I am working on done I will regenerate LOD and upload pictures. Look for screenshots of this, the new lake and the forest area in the coming days. After that I will be making the second town on Aeldon and then I will expand the island to include the larger plains area with the singular mountain, which at this point is unnamed.

Some of you may have been following my old mod, Riften Depths. Well I have decided to evolve it into a entirely new mod called, The Sortanic Isles. The mod is largely WIP and I am not the fastest worker, but I will be releasing the mod in four chunks, to lessen the wait. The first release will be everything RIften Depths was going to be and a little bit more. (Just not underground...) Expect to see stories involving Snow Elves, Dwemer, Espionage and more by the time the mod is finished. I would like to thank those who have supported me over my somewhat slow modding career, I am quite busy with school and am also an active game player as well as modder, but I continue to press on due to community support. Without further ado, I would like to introduce my project! The Sortanic Isles - Background: Story Information: Factions Information: Project Info: - Three large islands with multiple towns. - Four factions the player can join by the time the mod is finished. - A four act main storyline. - One (or more) custom voiced followers. - New powers for the player. - An Arena for fighting in and betting on fights in. - A player home given at the start and a castle available later. - A few things I don’t want to spoil given through the questline… - Custom soundtracks for the islands. Progress (V 1.0) - Aeldon Landscape: 50% - Town of Sigminion Exterior: 100% (May change walls) - Town of Sigminion Interior: 60% - Main Questline Act 1: 20% - Working Arena: 50% (Working but need to add more fights to it.) - Faction 1: 0% (Not chosen yet) - Various Side Quests: 0% - Custom Voiced Follower 1: 0% Mod Requirements: - Skyrim - Dawnguard - Dragonborn (Version 1.0 (Aeldon) will probably not require Dragonborn) Photos of Aeldon So Far: Thank you for viewing my topic and I hope you will eagerly await this mod as I eagerly await the many other DLC sized mods in productions. Keep looking at this page for more info until the mods release, at which time I will put a link up to Airtight Studios Facebook Page for future mod updates.

I am getting towards a point in the mod where I really need to figure out which direction I am going. I am leaning towards keeping it an open air island, but if you would like to see this mod stay as an underground world please post reasons here so I can know why that would be better than an open air island. As it stands at the moment I am going to create a new thread in the next few days detailing the background, story, and exact plans of the open air island as well as a name for it. So if you would like to to stay Riften Depths, you still have time to convince me :) - AirtightSpring3

So here are some photos of what I've been working on recently. The Main Town: Hope you like the photos, please give me info about the mod in the poll at the top of the thread, the community support is really what inspires me to work on the mod. Thanks for viewing! - AirtightSpring3

Just another update on my progress: I added a large lake into the worldspace between the two imperial forts/towers you can see near the mountain range. I also made the area to the East of the furthest East tower into a plains area, and I have added roads throughout a majority of what I have done so far. As always keep the input coming.

Those of you that are voting I would really appreciate it if you were to comment with reasons too. I always like to know what the community is thinking and I how no idea why you voted what you did if you do not comment as well.

Well it has been a long time since I have updated this thread, sorry I have not been modding for some time. I took the holidays off at the end of 2013 as I always do and then didn't begin work again until Feb. due to Semester Finals for my school. I did some work in Feb. and some this month. I converted the mod into an open air world space as you can see in the pictures I'll post on the front page. I'll make a new thread as work progresses but I want to get the exterior of the island done first, so it will be a while. I'm actively playing a few games with some friends at the moment so modding is going pretty slowly, but rest assured I am still working. If a large amount of people from the community would like to me convert the open aired worldspace back to the original project of Riften Depths I can do so; I would change the sky to the Soul Cairn Sky and surround the rest with mountains, but I personally think it will turn out better as an open air island with more islands added later. Keep your eyes out in April for a new thread pertaining to the new mod, don't worry I'll be using the same town/interiors/NPCs from Riften Depths so I will not be starting anything over! - AirtightSpring3

Oh okay, makes sense now. Thanks for the help. I'll post here if anything goes wrong while I am trying out the process.

Just wondering, before I start, why would I go from the point (-16,-16) to the point (15, -16). Shouldn't I go to the point (16, -16)?

Thanks for the quick help. I have heard bad things about the landscape LOD within the CK, so I was wondering how I use the border region in the region editor to make my world square with x and y coordinates multiples of 32.

I have just finished generating LOD for my worldspace using Alexander J. Velicky's tutorial on Youtube. I followed it exactly, at least I think that I did. I have encountered one problem; when I generate tree/static LOD in the creation kit, it causes the land to become black and the terrain LOD stops working. The terrain LOD begins working again when I put a new MyWorldSpace.LOD into the LODSettings folder, but then I loose the tree and static LOD. Does anyone have a good way to have all three, terrain, static and tree LOD working at the same time. Thanks for any help. - AirtightSpring3

That means it's not working. There's a line you should see in the skse_steam_loader.log file, "Enabled Memory Allocation Patch by Sheson". If that's not there, it's not working. I cannot find my skse_steam_loader.log file, I have an skse_steam_loader file but when try to open it a page with odd characters comes up. Also is there any way to tell what I would need to do to get it working? Are you looking for the log file in your My Documents\My Games\Skyrim\SKSE\ folder? That's where it should be. Yes, and anything that has .log is not able to be opened by me.

Here are a few must have mods in my opinion. Quests: - Moonpath to Elsweyr - Falskaar - Wyrmstooth - Helgen Reborn Followers: - Vilja - Inigo - Hoth Armor: - Aesir Armor (Heavy armor) - Armor of Intrigue (Light armor with a heavy version, male only) Overhauls: - I really like ACE but I have heard Requiem and SkyRe are good as well, pick whichever suits you if you want one. Homes: - Build Your Own Home (if you want a smaller but custom built home) - Sjel Blad Castle (If you want an amazing, giant castle with some customization options) Realism: - Realistic Needs and Diseases - Wet and Cold - Frostfall (which I see you already have on your list) Horses: - Convenient Horses - Convenient Horse Herding

That means it's not working. There's a line you should see in the skse_steam_loader.log file, "Enabled Memory Allocation Patch by Sheson". If that's not there, it's not working. I cannot find my skse_steam_loader.log file, I have an skse_steam_loader file but when try to open it a page with odd characters comes up. Also is there any way to tell what I would need to do to get it working?

I was wondering, how do I check to see if this is working. I downloaded the Phinix ENB version when it was still up (it is now down apparently due to legal issues). I thought it was working but then when I took Safety load out I kept getting infinite loading screens and I still freeze/ctd at certain times like whenever I get near the Solitude Gate.

Whenever I try to install an Oblivion mod using NMM it just says "Nexus MOd Manager is not set up to work with Oblivion If Oblivion is installed, rescan for installed games from the Change Game toolbar item." I have done this multiple times and it still will not work. Any ideas?

Thanks Matth85 for signing on as a texture designer.

Thanks for your input, you have some good ideas for a quest regarding it. As to your question whether or not the city would still be in a cave. Technically yes; the city is underground but would have mountains surrounding it and the soul cairn sky above the mountains. I mainly decided to do this because I could not find a ceiling arrangement or sky that satisfied me for the world so I thought putting it in a "realm" made by Nikoli could be interesting. I'll see how it looks with LOD when that gets done. As for your questions regarding Nikoli, I would like to keep much about him a mystery that the player should find out during the quest line.

Hey, so I have done quite a bit of work on the exterior world space for the town. Just need LOD for pictures. I think I am going to use Soul Cairn Sky and make a quest explaining how Nikoli Anduli (the founder of Riften Depths) made a portal to a realm of his own design beneath Riften. Tell me your opinions on this please.

I decided that I need a one to two more interior designers. There are many interiors that need to be done. Adding two more open spots, I also REALLY need someone who can do LOD. Please contact me if interested.

I am looking for people who can do one of the following for my mod Riften Depths, adding a new town to the game with it's own questline. I need Interior Designers, Custom Mesh Creators, and someone who can do LOD. If you would like to join my modding team please send me a link or screenshots of some of your previous work. - AirtightSpring3 Link To My Mod Team Sign Up: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1199467-modders-wanted-putting-together-a-team-for-my-wip-mod-riften-depths/