marinasea17 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Well, I'm fairly new to all this modding stuff, but there's a few things I've been looking for, but can't find... even though I'm pretty sure people would have made these things with how long Oblivion has been around. ._. One of the things I'm interested is weapon trails, like those you would see in soul calibur, aka a line following your swung weapon's path through the air. I'm pretty sure someone would have made a mod like this by now, but searching here is rather frustrating. Another thing I'm interested in knowing is... with all these female body replacement mods, do all the vanilla/default/normal armors still work properly? If not on the above, does anyone know any really good vanilla armor/clothes addons/mods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatarius Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 The weapon trails might be possible with Oblivion Graphics Extender. I don't know though. I don't use it. I get enough lag as it is. As for vanilla clothes and armors getting screwed up with body replacers: the answer is sometimes. Most of them have "stock clothing replacers" that update the vanilla clothing. For mod clothes, you'll have to find modding outfits compatible with the replacer you use. Most people recommend Robert's Male Body and HGEC Female. I personally can't stand HGEC. It's too teenage boy fantasy. I use Robert's Female, which is much more down to earth and realistic. However, it has a lot less modded clothing for it. If you want skimpy outfits, this will be a problem. However, if you want full armor that covers your skin, it doesn't matter in the slightest. The incompatibilities only show up when skin is displayed in the modded outfit. It has to do with how the textures are laid out on the body replacer meshes. HGEC and Roberts use different textures with different layouts. If you wear skimpy clothes for one replacer, with the other, you'll see the skin looking weird. The shape will change slightly too, but the real problem is the skin looking weird. Try it and you'll see what I mean. It's the infamous "nipple on thigh" bug. The only way to fix it is to edit either the body meshes themselves to have the same texture layout as the other replacers, or to remove the body meshes from the armor and put in the meshes for the replacer you use. For example, I have edited a number of HGEC-only clothes to work with Robert's female by simply putting the Robert's Female meshes into the model and deleting the HGEC body parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinasea17 Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 (edited) The weapon trails might be possible with Oblivion Graphics Extender. I don't know though. I don't use it. I get enough lag as it is. As for vanilla clothes and armors getting screwed up with body replacers: the answer is sometimes. Most of them have "stock clothing replacers" that update the vanilla clothing. For mod clothes, you'll have to find modding outfits compatible with the replacer you use. Most people recommend Robert's Male Body and HGEC Female. I personally can't stand HGEC. It's too teenage boy fantasy. I use Robert's Female, which is much more down to earth and realistic. However, it has a lot less modded clothing for it. If you want skimpy outfits, this will be a problem. However, if you want full armor that covers your skin, it doesn't matter in the slightest. The incompatibilities only show up when skin is displayed in the modded outfit. It has to do with how the textures are laid out on the body replacer meshes. HGEC and Roberts use different textures with different layouts. If you wear skimpy clothes for one replacer, with the other, you'll see the skin looking weird. The shape will change slightly too, but the real problem is the skin looking weird. Try it and you'll see what I mean. It's the infamous "nipple on thigh" bug. The only way to fix it is to edit either the body meshes themselves to have the same texture layout as the other replacers, or to remove the body meshes from the armor and put in the meshes for the replacer you use. For example, I have edited a number of HGEC-only clothes to work with Robert's female by simply putting the Robert's Female meshes into the model and deleting the HGEC body parts. I am not interested in skimpy outfits at all. I'm making an active effort not to screw things up my first go through (heh) and currently have no body mesh mods, aside from a minor texture mod. I'm not particularly looking for giant breasts or nudity either, just a more fitting figure. Also, not really looking for anything outside of vanilla model clothes... or maybe I am, who knows. Another small thing I've noticed is that my console refuses to work, and I can't seem to fix it. Setting to one does nothing, it was set there to begin with. Would the Unofficial Oblivion patch affect that? .... freaking Tyrael armor costing almost 100,000 gold. Another small question is... well, does tes.nexus keep any default Oblivion backup files around? I haven't screwed anything up yet, aside from the odd crash when I exit the game now and again. Its just something I was curious about. Edited January 1, 2011 by marinasea17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFact Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 UOP does not affect any mod-added items; If Tyrael armor is too expensive, you'll need to open the plugin with Construction Set, and see how much it is(I think your mercantile skill affects item cost). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 It would be against Bethesda's rules for us to allow any copyrighted parts of the games to be uploaded here. However, all of the vanilla stuff is in the bsa files which are not changed by mods. So if you do download a mod, then find you don't like the new textures or meshes - if you remove them (unchecking the esp does NOT remove textures or meshes) then the originals will automatically return. Here is my article on returning a game to all vanilla - NO mods loaded - without having to reinstall and without losing any saves or the mods.http://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=340 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerosa Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Can I just ask if there is a mod which updates the look of the people in oblivion? This is because i have added a lot of graphics enhancing mods and they look a bit out of place now. Most of the mods seem to be for the playe rather than NPC's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcole254 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Can I just ask if there is a mod which updates the look of the people in oblivion? This is because i have added a lot of graphics enhancing mods and they look a bit out of place now. Most of the mods seem to be for the playe rather than NPC's.TNR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinasea17 Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 UOP does not affect any mod-added items; If Tyrael armor is too expensive, you'll need to open the plugin with Construction Set, and see how much it is(I think your mercantile skill affects item cost). I meant my console not opening for whatever reason. Again, the value is set to one, so it should open with `/~, right? I mean, I can't think of anything that would screw it up. I need the console to buy this eventually; I've never gotten anywhere close to 90,000 k gold. May I ask which body mods have mesh replacers for the vanilla equipment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatarius Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 If you aren't worried about skimpy stuff then there's no problem. Download your body replacer of choice, get the stock clothing replacers, and you're done. If and when you want modded clothes in the future, we'll cross that bridge then. I recommend: Robert's Malehttp://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=25365 Sorry, I can't seem to find stock clothing replacers for Robert's Male. They might be included, but there's nothing mentioning it. I'm on a different computer so I can't check my own files at the moment. Robert's Female, complete with all vanilla clothes.http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15624 Also, I want to reiterate what Bben said. A lot of people make this mistake. Pretty much every time I'm on here I see a post about it. I did too when I first started out. The word "replacer" is misleading. Nothing is replaced All the stock items are in the .bsa files. If you put a "replacer" in your data folder, the game will use it instead because it's programmed to look in the data folder first, and only go to the .bsa if nothing is found for the item in question. Since the vanilla game only installs the .bsa files, you get this automatically. Put anything at all in your data folder and the correct file path, and the game will use that instead. Delete it and you'll revert back to the original since it's in the .bsa file. As for your console troubles, are you using a laptop? I forget exactly, since I don't use one, but there's some sort of infrared device on laptops that interferes with the console. Heaven knows why. You might try this mod: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=13133 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinasea17 Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Alright, I have a new small question, simply pertaining to... eyes! Alright, so I have the Beautiful People mod, and Robert's female - no other body mods. Now, Beautiful People adds a metric ton of eyes. Is it possible to add new eyes normally and have them show up? Would this conflict in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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