W.I.P - The Stall - Player driven shop mod

[Pellape]

The status now is that I can start with this project tomorrow. I only need to make one single more video for the hobbit Home and release it tomorrow, and I can let it rest for a while.

 

I think I start with retexturing the wall containers really and put them up at the player houses, making the main containers inside a separate empty dummy cell. Adding scripts to the wall containers that activates the player. They could even be activators really as there is no need for them to be containers really.

 

I also plan to make something similar for Skyrim, well auto selling containers that is. I am so tired of fiddling inside the inventory. Scripting for Skyrim is more complicated than it is fort Oblivion, so lets see if I will succeed at all... The feedback i got from my questions is that I should make tests before asking questions but to be able to make any tests, I need to learn the basics as how the hall is the Papyrus Scripts structured at all? I guess I get there a sunny day...

Edited July 6, 2022 by Pellape

[Pellape]

Well I took a break from Oblivion modding after the release of the Legacy of the Champion and I felt a bit ill lately in my stommach. Stuff seems to get stuck in the system. Luckily for us, there is solutions for such events. :D

 

Well I think I can focus now to get this to work in the base. Adding all containers to start with, so the player trading can get started in the Background so when the base is working, we do the Immersive stuff. One step in a time that is. So far I did not get any bug reports from my Release, which is good. But is it? Does everything really working? Well it should. Oblivion is so much easier to mod than Skyrim as I did try some Skyrim modding now for a week. Look here if you are interested. https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/11664183-some-scripting-tips-making-a-auto-sell-stuff-mod

 

I also had my first Skyrim Mod released and it is very much related to this mod we will make for Oblivion, but only the basics. It only has a chest and a spell, that's it. It was a bloody sweat work to just get that to work but I did had a lot of help from the Skyrim Community. :D Actually, it is the Skyrim LE community that helped me. The SE community did not respond much. Well it does not matter, The difference is not that big, only 32-bit big. :D

 

Edited July 16, 2022 by Pellape

[Pellape]

So have you ever visited the Market in Istanbul or heard about it. The Merchants will offer you tea in every damn shop and they do not do it to be kind really.

 

So I decided to offer our customers coffee, as I do not have access to any tea stuff really. i do have my Dwemer Coffee machine that I did add to the Stall :D So if you wonder about the coffee cups and that ugly machine, you now know why I added them... :wink: You cannot interupt with them, to make it simple. I could script in cups, maybe even make the customers to use that specific Item even... it is a cool idea. Maybe i will try it later, but other stuff has higher priority, well right now at least.

 

 

It is still a lot to do in this mesh, the white stuff... I guess I add Oblivion original stuff there. We see. Some textures looks odd. Nothing I cannot handle really... :wink: But it is now Bedtime and the princess really needs some beauty sleep, if that will help any, I doubt it. Zzzzzzzzz....

Edited July 18, 2022 by Pellape

[Oblivionaddicted]

The white parts would look better with a wooden texture. I like this stall and your idea.

[Pellape]

It has a wooden texture. It will be added after I edited it. At the moment it has female shoes and I will exchange the shoes to something we commonly sell or something proper. What I wanted to show, is the items added to the crates as it is a single mesh and wanted to show off my coffee stuff. If you look at te dwemer cupps and brewer, they do not have the right textures as well. I will move all textures to a new folder, Textures\Pek\Shop and point at them tomorrow I guess. The main purpose of that report was mainly to say, I am alive, I do work with it, not in the speed I wanted and that I am not dead yet... :D

 

I will start school 22nd Aug, read Swedish, Biology, Chemy and Society Science, to get enough points to be able to apply t the University, firstly 3D, Design or Game Design or if I cannot get in there, as it has so damn many clowns applying to them, well 413 clowns fought among 32 seats, I will try to get into Astronomy, History or Physics. I do hope I will get into the 3D Design at the school called YRGO, which is a Practical University and the course is a 2 year journey. But I need to read those High School points first as I do miss 600 points and 400 points is a full time Semester. I do not have a choice as no one wants to hire me as a Network Technician and I still have 7 years to go until I can retire. :D Just a head up what is in my schedule next month.

 

So when school starts, I need to slow down TES as my goal is to get high grades, as high as I can get. I am used to get at least the second highest grades in most Courses I read, so full grades are almost impossible but I managed to get some, well 4 really 1998. :D Technology, PC computers and some other courses. So we shall wee what I can pull off. :wink: I almost got Highest in Swedish 2, but I failed poetry and who cares about Poetry, well I do not for sure. My history knowledge made it simple at least to get high grades in Literature History, which was part of that course as well. You see, building the biggest Library in Tamriel has its background I guess :D Everything has. Bckside with History, is reading old stuff, learning the old German Alphabet, as it was used up 250 years ago at least, until they started to use the Lain Alphabet more... Well I hate the old German Alphabet as it makes no sense... Not to me it does not. I have tried to learn it 30 years ago and failed... So damn frustrating.

 

Just look at this, and tell me what you really see... :wink: Well this one almost look like Latin, as I couldn't find the old Gothic handwriting, but hey, it is the old german one... This is almost what we did learn in school 1973. Some letters here are unknown to me if I do not cheat but some are familiar and looks almost like the latin ones. :wink: Nope, this is it, to many of these letters are hard to learn really. :D You can learn this when you are 9-10 years old, not 58...

 

Edited July 24, 2022 by Pellape

[Pellape]

So this is going so slow, copying each single object and pasting them one by one, so damn boring and so tedious, but this is really what I want to have in game. Bloody Nifskope, so boring tool but so damn good, as I know the result will work, in case I did not make a mistake. It is when we paste the Branches, that it is easy to make a single mistake, as if we only click paste, the mesh will NOT work in game. As you see, I managed to make some new fronts to the containers, with some weapons and clutter from both the base game but 2 of those textures show some stuff from MOO, the Dwemer weapons and some Ayleid clutter.

 

I named the Shop to The Champions Merchandises as that is what it is really.

 

[Oblivionaddicted]

It looks nice.

[Pellape]

Thanks. I will continue working with it tonight. I have been away 5 days, playing Skyrim in my flat.

[Pellape]

Finally, this mess of objects of plenty is finally finished. I do hope I did not mess it up as it does work in CS but that does not mean it works in game. :wink: If not, I can try to sanitize it. I was very careful, so I did Copy and Pasted branches, nothing else. Click wrong choice and the whole mesh might break. Well, lets enjoy the screenies. :D

 

 

 

 

Edited August 1, 2022 by Pellape

[Pellape]

The manual could been more fancy, but it show Cheydinhal plaza, which is one suitable spot for the Champion to set up his stall.

 

 

I started to place Cabinets in the Houses for Sale. I hope the text at them will explain what they so. The lower part of this screenie also shows the Button you pull when you want to autosort your inventory and there will also be a spell of course that do the exact same thing. Even if the text at the cabinets explain what they do, I will write the details in the manual and add it at each cabinet.

 

 

I do hope you will be able to see these screenies, as they are at the newly created mod page, that is not available public yet. I can see them at least :D If you cannot, I upload them to somewhere public.

 

I think Bettan, your merchant assistant, or her Imperial name Beatricia will sell the spells to the player. Bettan is an alias for Elisabeth, but Beatricia sounds more latin or Imperial. :)