Sangel2525

Even spelling the name of the mod correctly would help so I could be nice and do a search for it. I'm not trying to rag on you, and I'm not a grammar-cop or anything. But can you please, please use proper English when posting? Especially in a post asking for help. I say this not out of scorn, because I don't know you. I say this because it would be much easier to help you out if you did so.

Well mesh wise it's pretty easy to make a character fat in the CS. Grant you, you will need to make a copy of the race you want to be fat if they are a vanilla race. Then just adjust their weight. The copy of the race is to make it so you don't have fat NPC's of that race walking around all over. As per body textures, Roberts Male Body 3 had some hairy textures, as you can tell from the screenshots. Not super hairy but there is some fuzz on what looks to be Imperial, Nord, possibly Breton chests. So my advice is download and install Roberts Male Body 3. Then open up the CS, go to race... Make a copy of one of the hairy races. Make sure you make the copy playable. Then adjust the weight for the males of said race so they're nice and fat. Hope this helps. :)

I understand where you're coming from. Especially when it comes to looking for CM Companions. Just too many pretty female elf companions. o_O Nevertheless I can't really complain about it because it adds variety for people. Other people may not be looking for the same things I am. When I find something I like and take it, someone else may find something extremely similar to what I liked and prefer that over what I opted for. It's always nice to have variety. In the context you're talking about here, there could be slight differences in how the spell operates that would compel someone to opt for one over the other. Same with utilities, actually Dez brought up spell remover. Yes the original was horrible. It would work if you moved it in the load order, then launch. However upon restarting it would stop working, and you'd have to kind of smack it in the head in OBMM by moving it. It was bizarre. I'm going to have to check out this newer one if it actually works without forcing me to move it up and down every time I want to use it. o_O My point is it's always nice to have variety. At the same time do realize this is not a call for complacency with monotony. Oh no... Originality is extremely important. The thing is with all the smaller mods it's all been done before, and likely done with a gusto with the mod forerunners of innovation. Guess what? It's hard to outdo some of the insanely innovative stuff that's already been done, but people still continue. Take a look at the recently released Unnecessary Violence mod. Now that's extremely innovative if not in some regards mind blowing. However those really innovative mods that just blow your mind usually take a long time to produce. Ergo you won't see as many as the more mundane mods due to the amount of time it takes to create mods like that. Also there's the sad fact many who attempt to try to make mods like that often give up. But there are a lot of really neat and unique mods here at The Nexus both large and small, you just need to look carefully and you'll stumble upon pure gold. I've been playing Oblivion since launch, and I've seen the mods evolve. What I never imagined to be remotely possible in this game is possible thanks to those innovative hardworking modders. So I'm not saying originality is bad, because it's originality that keeps me coming back to this game. What I am saying is, yeah there is a degree of monotony, but on a more positive note it does create a nice sense of variety allowing you to choose what you like best, or if you're greedy take it all. :P

Ummm I didn't read the whole topic just the first post, but yes I give Kudos quite often. Usually I give them to people I see actively being helpful and friendly to other members. It makes The Nexus as a whole a much more welcoming environment. I also give them to mod authors, especially mod authors who are extremely creative, dedicated, friendly and overall helpful.

1.) Make sure you have the most recent patch for Oblivion. If you do not download it here, http://www.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads_01.html If you run Shivering Isles install the most recent Shivering Isles patch instead. 2.) Make sure you have enabled the HorseCombatMaster.esm that comes with Deadly Reflex 5. 3.) Run Oblivion with the newest version of the Oblivion Script Extender or OBSE. You can download it here, http://obse.silverlock.org/ 4.) As a precaution it's usually best to have the Deadly Reflex 5 - Combat Moves.esp as the last mod in your load order. You can put it at the bottom of the list with the Oblivion Mod Manager, or OBMM, which you can download here, http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2097 That should cover everything. I've heard your symptoms before, and it's usually a result of not following one of the 4 steps I've listed. So make sure you have all that in order and the mod should run fine. :)

The Knight Sword combo from Romuska Fantasy Store, and the Knight Sword combo from, Hidden sky Garden of Toel ul Romuska beta2_0. Both are the same mesh basically, but the Fantasy Store version is white, and the Hidden Sky Garden is black. Awesome dual weapons. Some pics with my character with the black version, Sheathed, http://www.animemtv.prohosting.com/SS00/01.jpg Unsheathed, http://www.animemtv.prohosting.com/SS00/03.jpg

Killing Nels in Whodunit. I feel so bad for that Nord. :(

hmmm I think I misread your post Shadowrace, as you weren't going to release your mod when you finished, and keep it for yourself. If you do release it awesome! Good luck with it, I'll be sure to download it. :) Myrmaad: Wow we seem to have a lot in common in terms of taste regarding Oblivion. o_O So I assume you run Eshme, that is a really nice body mod. As is BAB. I like both for the fact their both kind of athletic builds, as opposed to ginourmous goznagas. haha! Not that I have anything against other body mods, it's just a matter of personal preference. :) Even though I don't run Exnem I've found this mod to be really neat! The amount of work to make it must have been enormous, and if you mix and match correctly you can pull off some outfits. Plus the wigs are really nice. I can't see most of my characters wearing 'hooch outfits' as was coined by friend when I used to play World of Warcraft with my ex-b/f way back. But there's a lot at Appachii that if you mix and match right does indeed work nicely, even if you aren't using the Exnem body. I don't have much time as a friend is due to visit in a bit just wanted to add. :)

That sounds reasonable by me, though it does sound rather nifty. I mean it takes a lot to mod. I know as I do very, very minor tweaks sometimes and the hours just fly by while I'm doing them. Truly building something like what you describe, would more than likely cause me to die of an aneurysm. I can do tiny things with CS, which usually takes me a long time. But I am a total laymen when it comes to actually crafting an actual mod, let alone texturing, and meshing, and scripting, and ughhh! How people pull this off is beyond me, but I'm happy they are there! :) It blows my mind how people can just do it sometimes, even with the tiniest of mods. Not to mention so many modders put a lot of work into their projects only to get yelled at by people. That always, always annoys me! It's like you're providing me with a free-addon to my game? Whether I like or dislike it THANK YOU! So by all means keep it for yourself. I made a bunch of Katana's mixing Snow Dragon Temple, and Samurai Sword OBSE, which is basically a script that enables you to hold a one handed blade with two hands. Took me forever but, I made a bunch of one to two handed katanas with that script for sale at Fighting Chance. I even posted screenshots in the Samurai OBSE mod screenshot dealy, and someone PMed and asked me if I could release "my mod." Uhhh since it isn't exactly "my mod," rather me using existing mods and playing around with the CS. I told them I don't have permission from either author, and that it's for personal use. Bleehhh anyhoo, Oh I can relate believe me... Maybe it's because I'm a writer? Despite my grammatical errors on message boards and such, yes I'm an aspiring writer and in the process of trying to get published right now. Maybe it's because I used to LARP when I was teenager? Vampire The Masquerade. ;) Maybe it's just because I'm insanely eccentric, but believe me I can relate... Especially with TES games. My brother started my addiction when I was 14 with Daggerfall! With TES games it becomes very, very easy to form an attachment to your character, even if they are nothing like you. I had this occur with Daggerfall, I had this occur with Morrowind, and I've had this seriously occur so far twice in Oblivion. I'll stick to Oblivion, since this is a forum for it. :) The first character I really had that crazy kind of attachment to, where I could write a book about her was Allecia Lestala my Vamperic/Necromancer/Meglomaniac/Psycho character. The thing about playing evil is you have to get in your characters head, which can be difficult. But from Allecia's perspective she felt perfectly justified in all her actions. She felt Tamerial by in large was flawed, and impure. Being such an impure realm she felt it was her place to essentially grow in her power to the point where she could jail the souls of Tamerial. In a way she was an aspiring Daedric Prince looking to call Tamerial her domain. She was clever, and knew to start small, and conceal her misdoings well. But the little megalomaniac in me wishes there was someway to actually conquer the cities of Cyrodill, eventually conquering all of Cyrodiil its self! I mean with a really neat Necromacy mod, she had like a horde of undead servants, pretty much a small army who could easily take most of the cities, say for the Imperial City... She would need to harvest more body parts and souls for that task. But I mean, yeah that would be my dream for this character, to wage war on The Empire, and conquer it. It certainly took me a long enough time to build my army and level this character. By the time Allecia was done with Cyrodiil, the forces of Oblivion would think twice about invading Tamerial let me tell you. ;) But while she turned into a vampire in the Dark Brotherhood questline, I wound up in my head saying okay she's been Listener for several centuries and now she's looking to take over the Mages Guild for political influence, and to stamp out rival Necromacers. She was a fun character to play, her mind became really twisted by Dark Brotherhood fanatasism, and that of course evolved into her own warped philosophy over the imaginary centuries. But she believed what she was doing was good. I'll spare you the details. So like a year and half or so later I made a character raised on the Akaviri Kojima, Akane Tsunada. She was trained how to fight there by her sensei, but she wound up becoming more of a Ronin than a Samurai at first. Since she never completed her training, and wanted to go off to do her own thing and right wrongs. But she was a little misguided until she wound caught up in the main quest, and yes like you're character she had a thing for Martin. She wandered a bit after she became Champion, helping people wherever she went, finally attaining the status of Samurai. This included helping out these castles that had quests attached to them. When complete and so-and-so offered her the castle she would decline and just wander, almost trying to run away from the scars the whole Oblivion crisis left on her. Then she's asked by Ocato to become Countess of Kvatch, which is apparently rebuilding. Well she lead the troops well enough in the Defense of Bruma, which I used a mod to make much, much longer, and feel more epic. Not to mention she felt as though she needed some kind of purpose, and meaning. Maybe she could help the people of Kvatch rebuild? She was welcome as their Countess with open arms being their Hero and all, and yeah... Again I'll spare the details, but I became seriously attached to this character, and then a computer virus killed her. I really should have backed those saves up more. :( I just had to respond to this because, yes I know! I used to have a lot of screenshots too, chronicling my Good characters adventures. But they were lost. Ah well my next Hero will probably be even better, but I'm going to wait until either the mood strikes me to play again, or a new computer before trying to save the world again. Hopefully both will kind of happen at once. Also are you by chance running BAB? Because I recognize that clothing as BAB, either that or Eshme? I used to run Eshme before BAB. :)

Wow Shadowrace, if you're making what your described into a mod... I think I'll play a Ranger again. :) I probably wouldn't want to ride a giant fox though. Having one as a pet on the other hand would be great. Sounds nice! :D

I had a similar problem once, but thankfully I was able to catch it with a save. I'm not super horse obsessed but back before I lost my Champion/Countess favorite character. At the time I had managed to get the Horse from The Lost Paladins of the Divines mod, which fit my character well at the time. After re-building the stables in Kvatch I decided why not buy some horses to put in there? So I purchased one from Cheydinhal, and my Paladin's Stallion inexplicably vanished. o_O It seems if you have more than one horse, sometimes one of your horses will just vanish! But I went back in my saves and recovered said Stallion. I never really noticed this phenomenon as I usually stick with one horse. Even when I bought a new horse retiring an old one, it never really occurred to me where the old horse went. I always assumed they were in the stables where I purchased the new horse. I didn't really notice this until said modded horse vanished. I wonder where they go? o_O err let me get back on topic here... I loved the idea of doing this for a long time, but since I could never get anything positioned just so decorating used to drive me mad. That is, until I found The Decorators Assistant mod. Now I also love doing the very same thing. :)

Valus View may very well be the place I'm thinking of. I'm not entirely sure as I'm not registered to the site connected to the link. As for Benirus Lair, that's something I'll have to try whenever I feel like playing evil again. As I said in a recent post, playing evil in Oblivion seems a bit pointless at the moment. :( Then again I don't intend to really play Oblivion again until I get a better computer. Right now I'm just kind of toying with mods that catch my eye. Edit: Oh by the way Myrmaad, here's a mod that might help you with your horse problem. I haven't tested it much, having just found it before I lost my favorite character due to a computer virus. But it should in theory help with wandering horse syndrome. It's called Dude Where's My Horse?

Yeah I have to agree, for my more high status characters I like having NPC servants around. I mean okay my Champion obviously had plenty since she controlled an entire city, all the guards, her personal guard, her steward, and so forth. Also each of the castles, she claimed ownership to, or at least two ehhh my memory is fuzzy as I spent most of my time in Kvatch, had scripted NPC's going about their daily routine. Even my Necromacer who happened to be The Listener of The Blackhand, though that should go without saying. :P Being Listener is pretty high in terms of infamous social status and all. So I felt she should have a place to call home, other than the Cheydinhal Sancturary, which is kind of ummm dull. Of course I also wanted underlings, which Pimea supplied. While there weren't many options to really interact with the NPC's at Pimea say for using Toasters Companion mod, their presence did make her feel like this dark authority figure. As for more loner characters, well I've played Ranger types out in the forest every now and then, I like their houses to be nice and small. Out of the way close to the wilderness. Also I agree with Helzi, having a dog companion does add to the feel of such a character. I never really found a counterpart for that sort of abode for my ice-cold assassin type characters though. I'm thinking a runned down looking farm house. Inside pretty organized, but still with a darker feel. I have found a few neat places like, Ronin's stuff, and Akaviri Kojima, which is just a visually breath taking island, with loads of Japanese architecture for my Samurai types. There was another home mod I used to run though the name eludes me. It was located just a bit north of the Imperial city off the road. Though it didn't really fit my character too well. But it was really nice, with a great view of the Imperial City. It was a very large manor. I could see a noble aristocratic type of character owning a place like that, good or evil. Though a place like that should have had a servant NPC or two. I mean it certainly made Rosethorn Hall in Skingrad look like a dump. rambling.. Edit: Actually to add something more constructive. What would be neat for a really maniacal evil character that prefers to hide their true nature from the public's eye, would be something akin to Benirus Manor. Where you get this large home that on the surface seems quite fancy and aristocratic, by all means normal. Yet have a secret underground lair with all kinds of occult, and dark stuff. Having a servant, more than likely fearful of you tend the place would be nice. So long as they kept out of your 'private' area, where you hide all the evil stuff. ;)

It depends entirely on the type of character I'm playing, also it depends on how far progressed they are in the main quest and such. For example if my character is Champion of Cyrodiil I want to be a Countess of an entire city, thank you Kvatch Aftermath. :D Not to mention she also had several castles all over Cyrodiil that came with quests. Ravenpride, Hoarfrost, always forget the name of the last one. If my character is a loner but good oriented, a quaint little house outside any major cities. For my more blade oriented Samurai type of characters I prefer a place with Japanese architecture for an Akaviri feel. Akaviri Kojime (sp) is really nice for that. Or even the home in the Rise of a Samurai mod, by Ronin. Snow Dragon Temple also works for some too. If I play an evil character, usually a darker feel. Depending on their form of evil this could vary. Like my Vamperic Necromacer calls Sinbloods Vampire Haven, and Pimea respectively her homes. A cold blooded assassin type of character would likely be the reverse of the good loner. Something small and out of the way but with a darker feel. Yet retain some professionalism reflecting their line of work, like having a variety of instruments of death, and poisons neatly assorted all over the place. All in all I suppose what I want is usually dependent on whatever kind of character I'm playing. Which, reminds me I don't think I've rated Sinblood's Vampire home, or Pimea yet... Better get to that.