Saaya

Oh cool I'll try that. Thanks.

Hello there, I didn't find a mod about this and it doesn't seem to bother people, but I just HATE how NPCs automatically start a conversation when I look at them. Would there be a way to make it that we have to activate an NPC with "E" to talk to them ? Some NPCs are already like this, and others aren't. Because if Drinking Buddy asks me one more time if I want a beer or to hear a joke I'm gonna murder everyone in Goodneighbor, I swear...

I die at least once everytime I see a glowing one, they are sooooo overpowered and I always get stuck in a wall or corner when trying to run away, they run so fast they are on me before i realize I can't move and start hitting me and staggering me with every hit, and the health regen from a stimpack is not fast enough to keep me alive. So... reload, and have to find a technique to outsmart them. Feels good when they're dead.

I used to win but then I took an arrow to the knee...

It's simple : Luxiloid modified Mur_Zik's and Umpa's sexy walk without asking them the permission. Umpa don't care about that, but Mur_Zik did not want that somebody modify his walk without permission. So, an admin deleted the file.

The mod is released. Here is the stat sheet : http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/258/3/6/ardente___a_sword_for_oblivion_by_julienjulien-d2ysce4.jpg

After hours and hours ( days ? ) trying to extract a good normal map from the sculpted highpoly, a friend of mine showed me how to configure xNormal. Then I extracted an Ambiant Occlusion map and I used it for the base texture ( and I will use it for the spec map too, here the spec map is missing ). Too many details, next time I will do an easiest thing ^^ . So, I have to finish the specular and then put it in the game with a little quest to find it. Here it's only a preview. http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/257/1/3/oblivion_sword_preview_by_julienjulien-d2ypw9r.jpg Comments are welcome.

Oh the last one took me less than 5Hrs. In fact everything is symmetrical, and it's quick to do, I just let my hand do what it wants, and voila. ^^

Da new version of da sword : http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/255/e/2/sword_v3_wip01_by_julienjulien-d2ykbwa.jpg Will begin the texture.

I'm really stoopid... I wanted to do a 2048x512 or 1024x256 texture with back/front overlaped UV's and I forgot to stretch the Uv's to take the 0-1 uv space entierely... Now I have to sculpt this again with the new UV's because I can't import them in the current highpoly... :wallbash: PS : I tried to do a quick normal map, 1024x256, and a basic texture, then I exported from max in OBJ, imported in blender to have the collision ( the niftools doesn't works on my 3ds max 2010, the niftools 2010 beta doesn't appear, or I can't find it ). I tested ingame, it works perfectly, the non-square texture is automatically stretched on a square and match the UV's. :biggrin: A 2048x512 texture+normal map will be good I think.

I did the sculpting again, here is the result : http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/254/d/3/sword01_wip03_by_julienjulien-d2yhid8.jpg Took me at least 5 hours ^^.

Yeah a mesh with more than 10 000 000 polys always looks nice... but the problem is to extract a good normal map from this... I generated a 4096 normal map, reduced at 2048 and sharpened in photoshop, but I don't know why the uv's don't match with the mesh... I will try again tomorrow, changing the topology a little bit, doing the uv's again and re-sculpting with less tiny details.

Is there the place for thank you ? THANK YOU ! I just begin modding and this is really helpful.

Great Idea. ^^

Here is a preview of the details sculpted on the blade... http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/253/5/9/sword01_wip02_by_julienjulien-d2yf3y9.jpg The harder part was to find a brush able to do something else than "mud sculpting". ^^

Ok I will try with a normal map. Currently i'm sculpting the sword details in ZBrush... for the 8 or 9th time... was a real pain at the beginning and I did a stupid mistake : impossible to extract a good normal map with overlaped UV's ( looks logical now I know it, but I thought I was able to change the UV's after sculpting... and I failed. ) And I forgot to activate the Y axis symmetry, so I only sculpted one side of the sword... -_- I did a new version of the mesh with less than 700 tris, and I just found a good brush to sculpt solid-looking objects : the layer-constant.

I just tested with the diffuse map, no normal map... just to see if the size and the shape of the sword are correct ^^.

Haha ^^. Well, I did a test ingame with a basic gray texture before starting the normal map sculpting, but the texture appears dark purple, but not the "missing texture" purple. I think I did everything as explained in the tutorial... Another question : may I use non-square textures ? I can do a 1024x256 texture overlaping the front and back UV's, but I don't know if I can use this size...

Hi Hi, I just started to modelize a sword inspired by Luis Royo. Nothing special, for now I just want to see if I can do something good. Here is the base mesh : http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/250/b/b/sword01_wip01_by_julienjulien-d2y9u41.jpg I will sculpt the details in Zbrush to do the normal map and an Ambiant Occlusion map for the base texture, and then paint the texture in toshop. At the end my goal is to do a little quest mod, telling the story of Luis the Blacksmith who disappeared and left some notes to find his creations in Tamriel... Hope it will work ^^. I know there already are a lot of weapons mods, but I just want to do some 3D meshes, and I don't like when I modelize things which are not used, so I will put them in Oblivion.

First post updated with 3 new pics ^^. Chapter 1 over. Next Chapter : Rats and Goblins... EDIT : I replaced the first pics by resized and corrected version hosted on DeviantArt.

Oh sure it will continue, but I only can post 5 pics per day, image share restriction. The first chapter is done ( 8 pics ) and I will start the second one. And I have some ideas for the chapters 3 and 4...

I can say that Oblivion is my favourite game. Seriously. I bought it the first time on PC, but my videocard was not powerfull enough, and I changed just for that game. Some month later, a virus destroyed my PC, and I did not have enough money to buy another one. But I bought an Xbox 360, with Oblivion. I played so much that the DVD was broken, and I had to bought another game... Then, I finally bought a new PC, because I needed it for school ( try to go at a Computer Graphics school without a PC... XD ), and as my Xbox360 did a Red Ring of Death ( 2 times, I'm not lucky ), I bought Oblivion on pC again ( because the first one was useless I sold it ). I played for hundreds and hundreds hours to that game. I never finished it... there are so many excellent mods, this game is really endless ^^. I just started a new game, with new mods ( OOO, Bartholm, Cute Elves race, CM Partners... ), and I wanted to tell the story of my character... in a funny way. I know that a lot of people already did that hundreds times, I don't think to do better, and I'm sure that a lot of the joke I use were already used by others. But I found the game funier like that. I really like elves, with red long hair. And the only haircut which don't clip a lot with long hair is the Ren's ponytail. My characters always look the same, but I don't care, I like her. So, here are The Tales of Red Ponytail... http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/250/4/8/ttorp_ch1p1_by_julienjulien-d2y9sbs.jpg http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/250/8/7/ttorp_ch1p2_by_julienjulien-d2y9see.jpg http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/250/e/4/ttorp_ch1p3_by_julienjulien-d2y9sfx.jpg http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/250/8/1/ttorp_ch1p4_by_julienjulien-d2y9shp.jpg http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/250/8/6/ttorp_ch1p5_by_julienjulien-d2y9sll.jpg I know I converted a lot of BBB stuff with huge boobs, non-lore-friendly stuff and adult content, but honestly I don't use these mods. So, I will not show my cute elf in -- always-the-same -- sexy positions. I like Roleplay, but a lot of dialogues, quests and situations in Oblivion can be diverted, so I will play with that... ^^ http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/250/d/6/ttorp_ch1p6_by_julienjulien-d2y9sms.jpg http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2010/250/6/3/ttorp_ch1p7_by_julienjulien-d2y9soe.jpg http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/253/c/6/ttorp_ch1p8_by_julienjulien-d2y9sph.jpg

Yep, already converted. ^^

Yeah the disable command is the ultimate solution. Did you already tried to deactivate Better Cities ? I don't remember the Better Cities esps, but may I ask why you have Better Cities Full and a separate Imperial Better Cities ? Better Cities Full doesn't already includes the IC ?

I don't really know, but I always thought that was to avoid "cheat". When you use an enchanted bow, I think that the arrow is replaced by an enchanted one, and enchanted arrows disappear too. But why ? Maybe because they are powerful and cost money, so you can't get them back to avoid to be a too powerful archer. A mage don't have infinite magicka, a warrior will broke his weapon, and an archer will lose his arrow... But it's just a suggestion. Maybe it's just a script effect which can be corrected. Interesting question.