A Realm Of Posibilities

[ivyislost]

Ivy's Lost Children

 

I know there are many races out there, and all, but there are few that meet the idea i want. I like water races, always have loved them from the first time i played them. Yet I wanted something along the lines of humanoid, less lizard, more sea like.

 

here is the picture, mostly like this except, no fin on the top of her head, >.> looks odd, instead though that maybe the tentacles like cornrows just start at the top smaller, and get bigger towards the back. I loved the image the moment I saw it and thought Oh, wouldn't that be cool, and as a race, they could have some home world that needs rescuing, well now that is where I am getting ahead of myself no?

 

The idea inspiration, for race

 

Hair Example (this is what I mean for it to look like)

 

I want to do an underwater world since there is such a lack of them in oblivion, and there are just to many options for such. Like a lost world, realm whatever, at the moment the idea is there but the story is slow to build. I refuse to rush forwards like last time and end up with nada, so I figured I would start with the race, then move up to the cave, leading to the world, and have a under water home, or a city under water, but without the whole breathing water issue, trying to figure out how to do a dome like affect while leaving the water on the outside, a clear shot so to speak, and all. (huge ideas) If you play that race I want to have it that the game starts in your on realm and due to a mishap of some sorts (divine intervention) the amulet ends up on a blades dead body, washed up on shore near your home.

 

At the moment I am reading guides cause I have the ideas but not the knowledge to do them >.O

 

also wanting a clothing mod if anyone has seen this or something close to it please point me in that direction ^^

Also hair like the girl in the image, I am working on my own elf race, ( yeah i know there are a lot ) but she is to be the nature companion, who's also from this world, where the elves some stumbled upon during the wars and stayed there, settling along side the race above.

So far I have a based race, I don't have the skin texture i wanted to use cause I wanted to do some more nature like tattoos, for the race, their "Spirit guardians" and such. At the moment I am reading guides on how to fix a issue i ran into with the race, (ren's eyes were the culprit) made all the eyes disappear, but now i have skin issues >.< (ah the joys of learning, how the heck did that get on her thigh O.O; ah why's her nipple on her under arm ) so yeah this is just a few of the things I have run into XD

wanted ranger/druid like cloths

[dunmermaiden]

I could help you by building a home/ city, your texture problem is that you have the wrong texture for the body type you're using in your game. I like the look of the race, would need a modeler to help make her look more like the picture. To answer your question about domes, there is a dome resource that could be used, also, the doors in the water could open to a dry interior or a interior with a little water, just raise and enable the water level in the cell. I have a few ideas popping around in my head, but I have to ask, are you wanting sparkly fun mermaid or dark mysterious gothic mermaid?

 

I'm not good at body texturing but I can build and I can sometimes create a good retexture on armor/ clothing.

 

If you have something specific in mind for the city a picture etc that really does help.

[ivyislost]

Hi and sounds awesome, atm I am having oblivion freezing issues so I am having to reinstall I will get a picture or describe it more in detail in a few minutes i am working on uninstalling the whole damn game and redoing it. I have 0 idea where the issue is so its the simplest fix and I was wanting to make the race more mysterious and dark, since they have been separated from all but the one other race of elves and then the mixture of the two.

 

Ah, good I will go look for the resource then. Oh and on water level I was going to have like the homes and such dry, but all the world around the city underwater. I want to have in the end three cities. Once for the elves above water, with a nature like harmony. Tree homes etc, for the druid ranger type. The water city for the race of mer-people. Then the last city would be for darker based characters, evil and such, thinking of having it in the end be where the quest takes you to either do a few possibilities.

 

A) save their world from evil (good option)

b) become their worst nightmare (evil choice to rule their world instead)

c) still working on a neutral like option, maybe just stay with the other two and have to do a chaotic neutral like response.

 

Anyway, I have been working on the texture issue, and Its the face is black after I finished customizing the skin. (this could be due to the confusion i had with the alpha channel and matte stuff with the head >.>;;; ) anyway though I will go find the image that inspired all this mess other then the character ^^

[ivyislost]

Ah, found a better image for the hair and added it under the race. As for the ideas and inspiration for the city here is a image.

I love the idea of being "under the water" and still having water running through the city as streams and all. Multiple water falls with statues of the gods and goddess that they in their own right worship. The houses and buildings based on the race.

 

Mer city

Possilbe idea for buildings just the top part

 

The elves I was thinking more along the lines of like this image, it could still be underwater even merge the two ideas of the mer city and theirs together, and have them all reside in a main place like this huge city like house, though i think it would be best to split them up and use either caves for the mermaid people or find something unique for them on their own. Their city houses just haven't come to me yet sadly. The elves were easy to come up with since i wanted a tree home like race and such.

 

Elven city

 

I was thinking of adding like the fairy's (from the companion mod I have seen) as like guardians of the tree, and have the two races live in harmony, with each other. Making the elf race having a special summon spell that summoned maybe a guardian fairy (who could be like a advanced companion)

 

For the bad guy ruler/person whom is taking over. I am torn, since I want the city to be something dark, but then again I wanted to have something a little advanced, to tie into the dwemer like race and setting, like the flying ships etc I would love to be lore friendly, ( though I am not aiming to be 100% friendly with it new race and all and world separate from the world anyway.) That combines magic and technology. So like a floating city, or something underground.

 

Two possible ideas for the other city

 

Underground city

 

 

Floating city

 

I also love the idea of having like statues that hold up the city in the air so to speak.

[ivyislost]

The race I have the most work done on so far as in player character is the mixed race, I have the general custom character made with the elf ears and the tail like argonians but not quiet the same. They sort of look like a humanized scamp >.< hummmm... anyway here is the idea on what i was thinking the would look like. I was thinking of a small like either dragon like guardian or companion for them like the fairies.... in image with the elf

 

elf and their pet?

 

I was thinking the whole history and reasons they all have a companion/guardian/pet thing

Ah, and then also thinking it would be a good Npc like character to ask questions on quest and get answers like a guide so to speak. if thats even possible XD

[dunmermaiden]

These ideas are great, I can make a start on them, Also...I don't script, and I don't do quests, but, I can texture and build, so at least I can start making the citys. You will need to do the scripting the race and the quest and any models yourself or try finding some more people to help with that.

 

What I am choosing to do is to make the citys one by one individually and release them separately and publicly for you to carry on with this mod, They will be released as modders resources because I like sharing everything I make with everyone. It is easy enough to merg .esp's together and I'm doing it this way so I don't get bogged down as I have another request I want to help with as well as several projects I'm doing as well. It may take me a few months per city as I work steady but slowly and I want to be outstanding and have much detail.

[ivyislost]

thats fine, Actually that helps me tons as I had started the entrance once and my doors never worked right. scripting wise i always end up on the wrong side, so I downloaded a video tutorial XD

I already downloaded a advanced cm mod creation tutorial as well. So I spent most of my day finding stuff like that to help me learn. I am hoping that this mod I will learn a lot, I want to do it in steps anyway. I wanted to start personally myself with the mixed race, I had already been working on the character option, though at the moment i have a conflicting mod and suddenly my tabaxi's are tailless >.<

[ivyislost]

Well i downloaded a tutorial on the doors since i kept having issues with them XD so maybe i can get that now, I have been working on a tester city gonna attempt a portal world to see and all

[species5478]

This seems like an interesting idea. I can't wait to hear more! Hopefully, you'll be able to make this into a great mod.

[ivyislost]

Thanks ^^ me too I really want to get it up and going even if it is just releasing it in mini parts till I finish something, I hope to release a race or something first >.O who knows XD