Announcment About Me And My Mods

[ray12342]

Hey tesnexus its been awhile!!! anyways im here to announce that

 

I NOW HAVE SHIVERING ISLES!

 

After my 1 and a half year wait i fineally got off my lazy bum and went and bought it

i finished it about 10 mins ago (after about a 8 hour gameing session)

 

now your probally gonna start thinking like this

 

You:"Well what does all this have to do with mods?"

 

Well it means alot of my titles are going to be re-made and re-worked to be for shivering isles

 

It also means you cant call me the Cyrodilian

 

And it also means im getting back into the moding buissness

 

im fineally gonna wipe the dust off of my TES Editor

 

And after long last....

i get to say....

 

IM BACK BABY!

 

So get ready for most of my old titles turn into gold editions and shivering isles editions (with lots of extra new and shiny hunting,farming,gardening,killing FUN!!!)

 

And a other mod regarding a very druidical and nature linked Creature!!! (SPOILER)

And another that will be changeing the feel of magic! (SPOILER)

 

And before i finish my post i want to thank 99.3 Fox FM (Radio Station) for the tunes and entertainment to give me that extra 10 minutes to push forward and make these mods! (im that lazy)

 

and Cutter in SI that let me kill her 30 something times continuously that gave me a good laugh...

 

And uhm Gnarls for becomeing my favorite creature thingys!!!

 

And all the creatures in SI and Cyrodil for leting me study them both dead and alive and in motion in the game (from a private mod i made myself to study monsters)

then again they didnt have a choice!!! lol!

 

and...

:thanks: For Reading this :thanks:

 

FIN!

[LHammonds]

Howdy. I don't know you (I think) but welcome back.

 

I don't mod for SI or the DLCs because of the legal issues...it's a shame though.

 

Good luck and have fun.

 

LHammonds

[LoginToDownload]

There are legal issues with making addons for the expansions? I thought it was okay if you didn't include any of the DLC's content itself...

[Vagrant0]

There are legal issues with making addons for the expansions? I thought it was okay if you didn't include any of the DLC's content itself...

I've been told that there are some questions that shouldn't be asked. But in a nutshell, the grey area is when you make changes to any of the SI resources for use in your mod, like clothing, and armor retextures mostly. Technically there is no way to release those changes without giving people the models for them. Although the .esp may require SI, the models don't. At current, it's allowed since most of those mods which do this mention requiring SI, and those changes are usually significant enough to make it impossible for someone to recreate that content as it would be in SI. Although one could certainly make the argument that SI is much more than a few resources, and that people are more paying for the extra quests, storyline, and environment, and that anyone downloading mods with altered SI resources wouldn't be getting anything even close to what SI offers the issue still remains. It's not like the resources in the other DLC mods which are a fairly large portion of what that mod is.

 

But as is the case with this and things like Morroblivion, common sense and reasoning takes a back seat to the raw legallity of it. And if anyone really asks, all that is likely to happen is modders getting screwed over.

 

Technically, the same argument could be made about any mod which makes changes to even vanilla resources. Someone doesn't necessarily have to have bought Oblivion in order to download a mod, then use the mesh somewhere else. They can't re-upload what they're doing with it, but they can still use it. So the question is really more about intent when making the mod instead of what someone will do with the mod. It would be hard to imagine someone using modded content as an alternative for official content. It's only with the smaller DLC mods that anything close to this would even be practical.

[LHammonds]

Well, like I said, because of the legal issues (even the gray ones) I am not interested in modding DLCs or SI.

 

GStaff himself once told me something like this when I asked about certain legalities for modding DLC/SI:

 

"Don't upload your mod if it contains any resources from the DLCs or SI"

 

This is not a verbatim quote but it is the gist of it. It basically tells me that we can do texture replacers or add-on ESP files that change things but only if you use a de-isolation method rather than modifying and uploading the actual plugin.

 

LHammonds