Ruhadre Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Hello all, I have recently decided to take on a rather ambitious project. My plan is to make a script-less bird mod, similar to the Birds of Skyrim mod. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17723 Birds of Skyrim covers birds that like to hang around on the ground very well. However, it doesn't add birds that actually fly. Alternatives for this include BirdsAndFlocks, and SkyBirds. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25280/ http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23771/ Problem with both of those is that their scripts end screwing up your game. Not to mention, are very resource heavy when they aren't messing things up. My solution to this is to create a mod that adds flying birds to skyrim, but that will play well next to the 400 other mods I've crammed together thanks to TES5Edit, heh. I wanted to ask the community if anyone wanted to create any owl and/or vulture meshes/textures. Or knew where I could locate some. My plan is to add them to skyrim in a similar way that vanilla skyrim adds hawks. No new animations, just need a mesh/texture replacer. I figure I can use CK's scaling to make a bird like a vulture, slightly larger than a hawk. I think it could all work out quite easily and nicely. Converting shouldn't be too crazy, if you used the hawk mesh as a base...I don't see it being out of the question to make it look like an owl or vulture. On my end, I would just have to add the birds to the game. I feel it would be an added level of immersion that skyrim hasn't had yet. Owls flying over the forest canopy at night....vultures circling over areas with alot of (vanilla-added) dead bodies for the dragonborn to discover... I would welcome any input anyone has on this matter. I'm a good retexturer with GIMP. All I'd need is one set of textures for each bird species mesh, and I can make more varieties. I would also add alchemical ingredients to correspond to the new birds, just like vanilla hawks do. I think this would be an awesome mod, and I am more than willing to pour alot of time into this if someone could help me with getting basic assets together. Thank you for hearing me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokerine Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Tamira has an owl available here. Not sure about the vultures, but I figure a hawk could be retextured for that. I wouldhelp but I'm terribad with textures, haha. Good luck! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamira Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) Tamira also has a vulture available here: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59602/? :laugh: Edited August 28, 2015 by Tamira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokerine Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Oh gosh, how did I miss that? Here I thought I was aware of all the modder's resources! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruhadre Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 Awesome, I didn't expect to get this lucky this quickly. I didn't even know about the Seaside Seagulls mod :) After going over all that, I'm thinking I could get started on my mod using the Ravens and Vultures from Mr. Siika and Tamira. Exactly what I was looking for! :) There's also no need for me to mess with Seagulls because that's already done. I looked at the Owl static mesh. I could re-do the texture to make the owl eyes appear alittle better, however, I don't think it has any animations unless I'm mistaken. I don't think skyrim has any vanilla animations that would suit it either. Now, if I could find an owl mesh that's similar to the Ravens, Vultures, and Hawks...that would be awesome. Unless someone knows something about animating, and can give the static owl an idle that makes him look around ;) I would actually prefer an animated static owl to a flying one, as I could place them sorta hiding in trees for people to come across. Shouldn't be too hard to give it a unique sound upon catching, like in Ducks and Swans. Here's another question, is it possible to make creatures time-dependent? Alot of birds aren't very active at night, while birds like owls are only really active at night. Or would that kind of feature require a script like Lanterns of Skyrim that make it's lanterns time-dependent? Thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction to get started :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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