lonewolfkai

Thanks very much - that's the one! I love this house and my boy wanted to live in it again! :smile: :thumbsup: OH WOW!! AlienSlof!!! How are you doing?!?! Haven't seen you post in years. Good to see you still around! ps. Sorry for the OT.

The only mod I know where you can become a count is Kvatch Rebuilt. However, there is no war between counts. Try looking through David Brasher's modlist for a war mod though. He had one that mimicked a war between two castles that you can participate in, and it's repeatable.

I can't seem to do that. Textures only show up if I have it with the \data\ before the \meshes and \textures directories. That shouldn't be a problem though should it? Everyone has the same structure with the \data folder before their meshes and textures as far as I know... http://i.imgur.com/nAr6G2Z.png Nifskope will auto set the texture path for you as long as the source folder is registered in nifskope. To do this click on "Render/Settings/Add Folder" and then "Folder" to navigate to your mod folder...making sure to select the folder which actually contains the meshes and textures for your mod. So for example if your mod folder has a "Data" folder inside which in turn holds meshes and textures, you would want to navigate to the data folder. Now every time you assign a texture to one of your meshes nifskope will auto crop the texture path to start with just "textures". This is one thing that really matters...if your texture path starts with anything other than textures...people who download your mod will have problems. Oh wow! Neat tip! As long as I've been modding, I never knew that. Thank you for sharing that info.

I wonder where that one's coming from though. If you hide a mod page, it's hidden for everybody, and while you can restrict a certain group of people from accessing your mod page, you cannot restrict access to your mod page to only a certain group of people. That's against the rules and one should rather use a file share host for private sharing like this. It's along the same line as encrypting one's mod file upload with a password. These files will be removed in no time, and in case of repeated infriction despite previous warnings disciplinary actions will be taken against the uploader's account as well. So I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. :ermm: The people I'm refering to no longer have their mods here, but at one point in time they did and would either open it up very briefly to allow public download or give individuals editing access. There was a point on the nexus files that you could grant permission to others to edit files.

Ah, but you're forgetting that the mod may have been originally intended for public use ... until it started getting abused. And the authors I'm talking about are exactly here on the Nexus and this was the case with them. They got tired of people stealing their work and have since put their files on hidden status, only letting select individuals download them. An author can put their files on hidden status that way here at the Nexus. Didn't Saiden Storm ask for his Akatosh Mount mod to be removed after he left the site? You can still find it with a quick Google search though. Yes he did, and those found on other sites are probably done without his permission. That being said, I believe he had also given permission to some individuals to use his assets. It's also quite possible someone may have gotten permission to upload it themselves as well.

Actually, I think it's against the rules anyways to use the site as a backup location. However, that's also not what I'm talking about either.

Ah, but you're forgetting that the mod may have been originally intended for public use ... until it started getting abused. And the authors I'm talking about are exactly here on the Nexus and this was the case with them. They got tired of people stealing their work and have since put their files on hidden status, only letting select individuals download them. An author can put their files on hidden status that way here at the Nexus.

Well what Kemipx, and Sergio to a lesser degree, is point out is what if people take mod resources without the author's permission anyways and upload it on another website anyways. Who's going to enforce such rules then on sites outside of Beth/Nexus controls? The rules on this website and other similar are very clear as you point out, but what happens when someone goes beyond those boundries? We know what happens here, but what about those other sites? A specific example is being asked for by Kemipx. Actually, there could be a use to hiding mods. To share them with select individuals only, which really is a shame if you ask me. There is one author that does this that comes to mind. I can agree though that if an author truly cares about their work they'll be sure to take care of it.

Good to see there's a great sense of justice around the world. :rolleyes: Anyways, mod and mod resource stealing unfortunately does occur all the time. And that's why there's several authors, some of whom I know, take down or hide their mods in order to prevent such theft. And this author is also thinking of doing it as well. :thumbsup:

You do realize this site isn't American, in particular the owner and most of the staff, right?

There's this mod that makes magical arrows trail: http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/43666 You might be able to simulate a blur effect from the ideas in that mod.

I still actively support my mods too, so I would be very upset if someone decided to "take" them. I'm not alone. :)

Oh wow, I never knew an author can deactivate those! I'll be sure to do that for my mods.

Don't use NMM for Oblivion. Use WyreBash or OBMM.

As simple as it is, that's it. Just don't install it in any of the Program Files and you're good to go. I'd recommend making a folder just for your games, like C:\Games. WHen the installation wizard asks you where to install it, change it to what you want.

after what i went thru id recommend prepping your pc for an os reinstall if you decide to get into modding my modding problems broke my pc setup so bad i couldnt get the game to do anything but crash regardless of using backups of data directories, complete reinstalls of all software, setting multiple restore points that didnt fix the problem, and hour after hour after hour of reading im surprised im the only one ive seen so far that had such a severe problem but it really did happen that way for me. freakin nightmare scenario fo shore I don't think Modding Oblivion had to do with having to reinstall OS.

Not sure how to advise you other than to say that I did for my first play through. In fact, it's the mods that got me interested, and hooked, to the game in the first place! :laugh:

LOL! I had the same exact issue, except it wasn't necessarily that the sound itself that was annoying, but the decibel level!! I play the rest of the sounds low that it's audible only in the room but as soon as I did a power move it be would like a bomb went off in the house. EEEHA!!! I actually just turned off my character's power moves off. Would this might be something you'd be interested in doing? EDIT: I just went ahead and found the mod I used to do it. It's here: http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/5429

Try posting this in the Request section rather than here: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/forum/266-oblivion-mod-requests/. Maybe someone will pick it up.

Oh I get it. Just shut up and answer the question then, right? Ok. Your answer = don't use NMM for Oblivion. It has too many bugs with how the Oblivion engine works in regards to Mods. If you want to continue using it, by all means do so, but I don't think you're going to find someone who uses both NMM and WyreBash. And just for information, you need WyreBash to create the Bash Patch which makes a lot of mods play nice together. So more than likely when a mod says it needs WyreBash, it's probably because of this.

If you are playing Oblivion through steam, there's a few extra steps you have to do in order for it to work with mods. Unfortunately, I don't know the details.

Don't use NMM for Oblivion. It's meant for Skyrim. Use Wyre Bash or OBMM instead. I personally use both.

I think one of the magic overhaul mods do that. Either Less Annoying Magicka Experience (LAME) or Supreme Magicka. I can't remember which one though.

I was actually going to re-upload the 1.9 version of Akatosh Mount. I asked on both the official Bethsoft forums and here about why it had been taken down but got no information on it, and some how I missed that 2012 thread about it. The copy I have of Akatosh Mount came from TESNexus when it was up and mentions nothing about the use of it and it's contents. Glad I haven't found the time to re-upload it! EDIT: I can't even find his profile on here anymore. I guess he deleted it too?

Was this the mod perhaps? http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/9664 Also, check out Universal Violence 3, that's one that adds some good combat stuff similar to what you're thinking. As for weapon suggestions, well there's a LOT of weapons out there. I'd just browse through the weapons category and see if there's something you like.