MrFlesh

I've got a couple simple mods I'd like to see....... 1. Default equipment is in NPCs inventory.....I dont like that NPCs have default equipment that they put on. I'd rather see them equip out of their inventory.... 2. I'd like to see severed heads become items you can pick up.......for collecting 3. Dead thralls fixed so they don't reset with originating cell and don't disappear.

You guys are WAAAAAAYYY over thinking copyright. 1. The plantiff (mod maker) needs to prove damage. When there is no money involved (as required by the EULA) this is virtually impossible to do for companies and celebrities, let alone some nobody modder. 2. Judges frown on superfluous lawsuits, meaning civil case involving no money or damages but a simple court ordered upholding of the law. They shoot companies and celebrities down all the time over this crap, let alone some nobody modder. 3. A derivative work is considered new if it is 20% different. You could pull a texture from one mod, a model from another mod, scripting from a third, and not write a single line of new code and never violate copyright. Banksy and Space Invader have successfully defended himself numerous times over just such "offenses" 4. You are also free to use copyrighted material that has been abandoned as you wish. E.G. abandonware So feel free to borrow without permission all you want. The only thing that will trip you up is possibly mod hosting sites as they have an interest in being overly protective of peoples work in order to keep them engaged in the community As for porting from Oblivion to Skyrim....there have been so many texture/model redos that I'm pretty confident you could rebuild 95% of Oblivion into Skyrim and never once touch the origional Oblivion assets. My question is this. Is the Tamriel landmass outside of skyrim to scale?

Using no clipping an intrepid player discovers vardenfell and cyrodil. Both have been scaled to match skyrim. http://ppsh-41.tumblr.com/post/13145143504/entire-tamriel-landmass-built-into-skyrim

Hmmmm........was looking to do this file swaps and mods. - I was hoping to get around the need to change the NPC faces by using another mod such as hotheads and/or natural faces. - Will installing this automatically change the skin tone to the selected race when I use the OBSE function? - Not to sound like a total noob but how do I go about doing this? Is it a console command? I'm willing to learn but I'm starting at zero knowledge base with OBSE. Does the OBSE function just use the textures or does it use stats and abilities as well?

If you want the body types that are covered by the most mods and clothing go with Roberts Male and HGEC. The nice thing about HGEC (not sure about roberts) is that when you install the OMOD it gives you the choice of nude or underwear. You can then find 4096x4096 res textures that will make the races look even better. If you want all the stock armor and clothing to fit those meshes downloads EVEs stock clothing and armor replacer

Hi, I've done a search and nothing is coming up. The one thing that bothered me about Oblivion is that the elves look like humans with point ears. What I am looking to do is change the high elves, wood elves, and dark elves with the ice elves, chocolate elves, and night elves respectively. I just want to replace the look, not the starting stats or abilities. The reason I want to do this instead of just adding the races to the game are three fold. 1 When you use a custom race you are usually the only one of your kind unless you've added companion mods, being able to swap them out will populate the world with your kind. 2. Custom races are usually over powered. The moon elf race with it's paralyze for 10 seconds allowed me to walk through 90% of the game (with FCOM) 3. I want to take advantage of the race rebalancing project and it doesn't include those races. I imagine it would just be a matter of swapping out some textures and a few ear meshes but I can't seem to locate them. Any help would be appreciated.

Is your file path correct on the archive your trying to make an omod out of?

I've got zero interest in bickering. If you read my last reply on the topic you will see that the borderlands effect was off in OBGE so something was bugging it on OR it was another feature. As for AA and HDR if you look, I directly quoted the read me and it states that ATI cards can force AA through catalyst in the sys tray. So yes I did establish that in both cases the read me file and forum thread were of no use. I solved both problems on my own. I deleted the shaders that were installed by OBGE and for some reason this enabled my catalyst AA with HDR running in Oblivion.

You read the entire string and that is how you see it? Because my first post was a completely benign question and he replied by stating the obvious: repeating it as an chide Which I followed up with two more benign questions (because if you follow the string the documentation doesn't answer the questions) and he follows with another non-answer and veiled insult that I'm simple and/or lazy I post another benign reply (further down the post it is established the answers are not in the documentation and/or i don't know enough to recognize them) asking another question because obviously there is a gap in my knowledge, and he replies ______________ Intermission : So far I've asked three questions and haven't been ignorant in the least and he has told me to read the documentation 3 or 4 times, which we've established doesn't contain the answer, he gives me a link to a thread that actually goes to a forum that you can't use the search feature unless you sign up, and he has implied I'm simple, stupid, and lazy multiple times. But it get's better...... Finally I call him out on his behavior and try to continue the conversation in trying to solve my problem. Now he is p....d because he decided I've made him have to give a real answer. He finally gives a functioning link which says nothing that the documentation doesn't already say which we've established doesn't answer my question, has continued to tell me to read the documentation which we've established doesn't answer the question, and now lays at my feet why this forum is not as cool as his super L33T forum. So did I lose my patients in the last paragraph after 4 posts of being called lazy, stupid, simple, infant, lesser? Yeah. That's because I got the distinct impression from his comments and his "I know the answer but I'm not gonna tell you" attitude that he didn't reply to help but to "teach a noob" a lesson. But, what a "jerk" I AM asking questions that causes him to call me stupid, lazy and simple from the word go.

I'm not causing trouble in any sense. I have no intention of using anyones mods against their wishes, but I'm certainly not going to back up a stance that they are entitled to anything outside the good graces of others. What I'm doing is offering an articulated counter point which not one person in this comment string has been able to refute. If I seem mildly irate it is because people are piling on me while side stepping the valid points I bring up. People seem upset with me because I am telling them something they don't want to hear, no matter how true it is. I'm not surprised you won't give me an example......why start bringing something to the table now. As for the Dark One, I think he is making a grave mistake policing any type of usage. I think he should leave it up to the modders to police each other and let the community handle the thief. One of the reasons he can get out of liability on the real IP infringement on this site is because he doesn't monitor what is uploaded and downloaded. Once he starts monitoring one thing he then becomes liable for all things. This is how ISPs get out of getting in trouble for people downloading movie torrents. He should be totally hands off. It only takes one email to the right people that there is a site out there that lets you simulate sex between jessica alba and a predator. It would be disingenuous of him to police the "piracy" of mods without checking the mods themselves to see if they were created with pirated software or used licensed animations, textures, sounds, music, etc. I'm currently working on my first oblivion mod and I'm doing so with it completely free for everyone to use as they wish. If I didn't want it to be ripped off I wouldn't release it to the public. I'm certainly not going to post it on a site that will host and advertise it for free and then *censored* to them how they didn't protect what I voluntarily put in a public space. @surenas: What you call maneuvering I call explaining myself in a different way in the hopes of it sinking in with someone. @zaldir: There is no difference between commercial and noncommercial use. I couldn't distribute my version of the mustang for free either. As for a noncommercial use, if it has no registered copywrite or patent it has virtually no protections. I think you are thinking of fair use, but that mostly applies to education and only a single instance of a copy.

"This is a perfect example of why this forum gets thrashed all the time." Yeah I'm not worried about people thinking I'm L33T. I want to kill a goblin with a sword. You pointed me to that thread and at 10 pm I told you it wasn't on the front page now it is yes. But thats because at 3 in the morning someone posted something in it. It's now 5am and it is almost off the front page again. This is no way to handle your documentation. Sticky it or better yet create a site. You can spend months writing a program but can't take 15 minutes to setup a wordpress blog? Talk about lazy. As for your quote about AA, I saw that and it doesn't answer my question. Which is why I asked here..... "The method used to expose the information used to read the depth buffer is incompatible with Anti-Aliasing. This is reported to be the case on both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, although owners of ATI graphics cards can force AA through ATI Tray Tools without problems." The read me for OBGE says AA wont work because of OBGE but in the faq it states that ATI cards should have no problem running AA through the sys tray tool. My original question (if you even read it) was that I have HDR on in Oblivion and AA in my sys tray but the AA doesn't seem be working....why? ", been around for months information." Yeah and with me just walking in last week with no knowledge of OBGE I should just magically know that it exists and shame on me for not being up with the trends (I missed the skinny jeans one too) See how I think you have this opinion I should just know s..t, because all the cool kids just know? "What strikes me as utterly amazing is you use Wrye Bash documentation as an example of great, which I agree it is but most people find it daunting, but you find much simpler, descriptive, readily available information to be some task nothing short of solving the wonders of the galaxy." You want to know why that is? Because I don't have a problem with daunting. I have a problem when I have to go to three websites, two forums, deal with some smartass, login three times, wait 4 hours for the read me to appear,so I can read a single line of gobbletygook 20 times longer than my screen is wide, just to find out it doesn't answer my question & turn off some black f..king lines that should have been on in the first place. Just so I can swing a f..king sword at a goblin. ""I downloaded this to make my game look supercool like those screenshots you have up but it ain't workin!!. Wait you meant I have to turn ON every option, that's stupid."" No. Nobody that buys software or anything else pulls it out of the box with the power on. How many times have you unboxed a running blender? Okay got the key in my inventory.....you think this is intuitive and the designers are not lazy huh? Is that why they couldn't have been bothered to give the features an understandable name, a slider under each feature or putting a simple OFF option under each shader. This is the pinnacle of everyone wanting to do the cool work and nobody wanting to do the useful work. What am I suppose to do make a printout of the values and what each of these AAffAd3BC things do? And the explanations in each .fx file is a joke. Take your lazy speech over to wrinklyninja. EDIT: I fixed it by deleting it. The borderlands crap wasn't even on. When something you make is not usable by your target audience it is an epic fail.

That is not true. You cannot ripoff imagery and representation....you even have to be careful with references. That is whay Aqua was sued by Mattel for the song Barbie Girl. Why do you think there isn't total product placement in video games? Why do you think GT5 doesn't include cars they were not given permission to use? I can not build a car that looks exactly like a ford mustang and distribute it to the world as a ford mustang. But why should modders get the protection and not the holders of actual protected IP? After all we are no longer talking about what is legal, that conversation is finish, we are now talking about the sole concept of not ripping people off. If you are going to start questioning validity of someones mod then shouldn't you also be data mining that mod and make sure it wasn't built with stolen software or licensed textures?

Frakkin' didn't become an expression till battlestar gallactica came out. Nobody said that s..t till 2004. "It seems you think everything which have been used in a movie or game is copyrighted material," I don't think that at all. We've already established there is no legal recourse if someone rips off your mod. So someone decided to move the goal posts by stating law doesn't matter as it will be TES doing the protecting. Which means the argument comes down to "You shouldn't rip off other peoples work" "XCommand says in the description that you can do whatever you want with the mod, as long as you give proper credit. " Ahh but it wasn't XCommand's permission to give, he isn't even permitted to use it. Alyx Vance imagery is owned by Valve. Now that we are on the topic of Xcommand he is another popular modder who rips content namely Faith from Mirrors Edge & Blood Rayne from well bloodrayne "There ARE mods that are rips, no-one denies that. But for the most part the modders who are protesting are the ones who have had original content messed with and hijacked." Give me some examples...I want to see what I can dig up. Which brings up another valid point. Let's say TES protects peoples mods. You can't selectively ban someone for ripping off something done by slof but give a greenlight to xcommand, through inaction, to rip off valve. Don't you think a lot of REAL IP holders would find it interesting that TES nexus, a for profit site, is dictating who can and cannot ripoff what IP? Do you now see where I'm coming from?

"it was a frakkin' final one: " Battlestar Galactica It was only one post down

Does that matter or is that splitting hairs? It's ripped content, hosted under your name, worked on by you and publicly available. I'm just pointing out that the creators of some of the most popular mods rip off other content and post it for public use. I'm sure if I started digging into data signatures I'd find a lot of licensed textures and traces of cracked software. I highly doubt that most modders are forking over 5k for legit copies of CS4 and 3DS to make bikinis for Oblivion. I'm not criticizing. I'm using this point to illustrate that given the above it is disingenuous to then turn around and have a complaint about it happening to a modder.