Custom meshes for a mod

[oscarwellton]

Hi!

I’ve grown up with this game and I absolutely love it. As I suppose most here do. I started fiddling with modding for it about two years ago. Just to see what I could do with it.

Then I forgot about it and for about three weeks ago my passion for modding rose from the ashes so to say. I’ve picked it up the skills necessary and think I could manage my way around GECK pretty good. I have a decent understanding of how things work.

I love stories and think that is the driving force of any good creative piece of art. So that is what I decided to create. A quest mod focused on storytelling in its rawest form. No super-trooper armored enclave soldiers with big guns or bounty hunting like mod. Just a plain old good engaging story. Much like I believe Naughty Dog aim to do with their games.

Since the mod I’m currently working on is my first big mod and one that I take very seriously and have close to my heart I don’t want to spoil to much of it. But I can say that it involves a kidnapping of a woman’s two children and a cult-like vibe.

Since I do take this very seriously I sincerely do not want to step on anyone’s toes or use any illegal assets of any sort. I’m just a guy who wants to show my appreciation for the game and tell a story. I have tried to navigate through resource mods and see which I can use and which I have to ask for permission for. But it is difficult and I feel a bit restrained. I come from a graphic design background and love to draw but I can’t manage to do this mod AND learn blender or any other 3D making software. Even though I would very much like to learn to do it myself later on.

So my question to you guys is as the title says: Did this peak your interest and is there anyone who would like to help out to create this dream of mine become a reality? 

Things I haven’t found and would like help with:

Old burning candles. Preferably animated and lit. But also in an off state.

pedestals

Altars

Misc clutter for an underground village

custom Creatures (if I’m not able to use monster mod without having to make it a requirement)

Probably a lot of other stuff I can’t think of at the moment.

Other things I need help with:

voice acting

Someone to brainstorm ideas with.

If anyone likes creating custom houses, caves, world spaces etc I’m interested in listening to your ideas.

For that matter, if anyone want to contribute to anything, anything at all. Be it, writing scripts, fleshing out side quest or what ever. Please DM me or write here. This is as I’ve been saying, something I’m really passionate about and want to finish in the best possible way. I can see my vision for it and I can see how I would go about doing it - almost haha. Which makes it so exciting.

Also, I have never posted anything here, I have no idea how it works with people helping each other out in the modding community. Please educate me if you feel that it is necessarily.

Thank you.

//Oscar

 

Edited November 29, 2023 by oscarwellton

[madmongo]

Personally I recommend biting the bullet and learning Blender sooner rather than later. Being able to create your own assets will dramatically increase what you can do with your own mods. Blender Noob to Pro is a good online resource.

If you want things to actually work, get the complete Blender 2.49b package from the Obivion Nexus. It has everything you need with all of the correct versions of tools to make everything work together. It's an older version of Blender but mostly everything works in it. Newer versions of the nif tools have a lot of issues.

I can probably help with some of your assets, but I am most definitely not a professional modeler or artist. I can make candles easily enough, but I don't think I have the artistic skills required to animate a realistic looking flame. Altars and pedestals are easy enough. Clutter depends on the object but I can probably do some of those.

Send me a DM with more details about what you are looking for.

[oscarwellton]

Thank you so much. Just sent you a DM.