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[caligulawellington]

Hi. I'm struggling to find replacer hair packs that haven't been through the MacKrom treatment with missing ears. There are no hair packs for other head packs than MacKrom left on Nexus. Except a few hairs which are just bonus hairs, or mixed in to head packs. But I already got heads, and most non-nexus links I find are either dead or are missing any kind of preview.

Does anyone have any recommendation and screenshots? Looking to "upgraded versions" which the vanilla hair tries to resemble. Just like Westly does to the faces in some of his packs.

[loriel]

In case you haven't already seen it, I will mention en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind_Mod:The_Comparison_of_NPC_Head_Replacers which shows previews of many head/hair replacers.
There are also head and hair replacers by Emma and Kateri on Emma's site at lovkullen.net/Emma/index.htm
I can't comment on whether they are "MacKrom" treated.

Hope that helps
Loriel

[Sniffles]

Thanks loriel Wish I had read that about 5 years ago before I tried an assortment of mods. Now I don't know which is screwing up the works but... Vilja looks okay. The PC is obviously from some other planet though. (Oddly, she appears to be a hybrid of an alien and some biped from Sheogoraths deranged imaginings. She looks sort of okay in third person view from behind, sort of cute even. I just avoid the view from the front which has caused me to not play the game for several months at a time.)

[jgf]

Aug 3, 2023 4:19:03 GMT Sniffles said:

... Now I don't know which is screwing up the works but... Vilja looks okay....

Vilja? In Morrowind?

[Sniffles]

Sorry. Constance. Sticky fingered wench.

[jgf]

Lol, for a moment I wondered if someone, via massive scripting, had transported Vilja to Vvardenfel. Which might induce me to play again (sadly, despite numerous mods and characters, no matter how much I tried, a few minutes of Morrowind now just becomes "been there, done that"; and, in a near 4gig folder, Morrowind still resides in my computer ...where Vixen and Constance are in limbo, standing in the upper plaza of Balmora, awaiting my return so they can continue their adventures).

[Sniffles]

jgf I can relate. I restarted Morrowind about 2 1/2 years ago. Did potion stacking and got filthy rich, used the boots of speed at first, with the spell trick, then just randomly explored and did side quests. Putting the boots on Constance BTW can be hilarious, especially when she loses pathing.
I made the mistake of doing some Bloodmoon which it trite and boring and after not playing for a year have gotten renewed interest.
But I had a little quirk in my game. I capped the PC at level 4. At least a solid half of the dungeons are a deadly peril in spite of all her fancy gear and armor. So I've only explored 15 to 20. I've done the main quest, becoming the whatever it is, but avoided all house quests that I could.
So now I have a about 40 or so dungeons yet to explore which can take quite a few hours in each, more side quests, some of the main quest, and am getting up the interest to re-landscape a lot of the scenery using the console. Enough of the vast bleak areas and vistas, with a graphics card that can handle the LOD.

So it still has my interest, I'm going to dial down both Constance and the PC capabilities, and eventually remodel much of the outdoors grid. I should have another couple of years of interest in playing and since the PC is level 4 I can revert her to make most of the game play a serious challenge in deep dark forests and attractive vistas.

And a pffftb! BLEAh. I bought a new graphics card which worked much better that my old one. It died twice and has been reborn. Then I discovered my GTX 750 and the new GTX 1650 do the exact same display and the same frame rate with Morrowind. The major slow down of the old card was eliminated by upgrading to Windows 10. You hear that Bill Gates? Your company did something right for once. But don't let it go to your head. You're still going straight to purgatory for Windows 95, 2000, and ME.

[jgf]

I tried numerous ways to extend gameplay, which worked to a degree. Limiting characters to only join three factions, so not all characters do all quests. Make fast travel so expensive it's only viable in emergencies, and removing mark and recall spells. Use NOM and a tent mod (think i had the Portable Yurt) and a pack guar; Constance and I travel on foot and set a camp every night (if only she had to eat and drink also, can imagine her comments on my cooking). Try a "good" character, will not murder or steal unless required by main quest (so no joining the Assassins or Thieves guilds). Have character be an obsessive collector of something, can be any item in the game but they must have every one they find - purchase at any cost, steal, even leave better loot in a dungeon in order to take one home. Also completely reworked the loot spawns, no longer will you easily find any high level loot (did you ever use cheap armor or weapons? no, because better items were found at the same time...my very first character found a silver sword on the first day); there is still good stuff to be found, but not by low level characters.

A major irritant was why have 100 character levels when you can accomplish everything in the game by level 20? I did this with what I saw as the lowest character on the social scale, a female Argonian; by level 20 she was head of her great house, head of all the factions except Assassins (which I never join), and had bumped off Dagoth Ur. Nothing left to do, but 80 levels to go. Worked on this for ages and the best I could do was stretch it to level 30; goal was possible but would take at least twice as many quests throughout the game, factions and miscellaneous, to accomplish. I thought character should be at least level 50 to become head of anything, and level 75 to even consider going up against Dagoth Ur. But I have no aptitude with scripting and dialog so gave up.

Win7 is my last windows. Win10 and 11 are too invasive and have removed too much end user control. At this rate it wont be long before windows may, possibly, allow you to change the desktop wallpaper; of course when you do there will be incessant popups - "Desktop wallpaper has changed! Click here to restore default." When Win7 is no longer viable I will learn Linux, but i suspect I will expire before Win7 does.

[Sniffles]

jgf I like some of your rules. Will incorporate them. Not adding any or mods though. I've got a big enough disaster.

" Try a "good" character, will not murder or steal unless required by main quest (so no joining the Assassins or Thieves guilds)."

Always.

Which reminds me I want to have a few dozen more tries to take that guy out that is wearing a full suit of Daedric armor. I don't even recall what dungeon he is in so yet another challenge. No using the wiki to facilitate character development.

"there is still good stuff to be found, but not by low level characters." Not in random drops or chests. Only on high level monsters always found in certain dungeons.

And, as with all Elder Scribbles games, I only use bows and despise melee weapons. So just about any fight with a leveled monster is a serious run and gun battle.

Melee, the weapon of choice for the one eyebrow game player that gets serious competition from doorknobs on IQ tests.

Another rules I have to extend game play. Use only what I find. No buying, no console.

Still searching to complete Connies armor set. Any idea how hard it is for two level 4 wusses to take down an enemy that is wearing glass armor?

[jgf]

If you have decent sneak and lockpick skills and are careful, there is a full set of glass armor scattered in several chests in a bunkroom downstairs at the Ghostfence gate. There are guards wandering in the adjacent room, and one occasionally stands in the doorway to the room with the chests (there's no door), be patient, he will walk away. The hardest chest to access is right by the door, if you have telekinesis skills (forgot what the game calls it), you can pick the lock from the back of the room and get the contents.

For taking on powerful NPCs I used a strong Drain Health spell and a ring of invisibility. Equip the spell, put on the ring, sneak up behind the target and cast the spell; immediately open your inventory (this pauses the game), remove the ring and put it back on (restoring your invisibility), then close the inventory. Your target will run around seeking you, challenging you to come out, then there's a satisfying "Ahhhhh" as he falls down dead. Have Constance in "wait" mode or she will attack as soon as you cast the spell and probably get killed.

In fact, Constance is so "gung ho" for fighting that I often killed her inadvertently when she ran in front of a spell intended for our enemy; or she would run headlong into a group of enemies and get killed. I mentioned this to Emma and she made a small mod which causes Constance to teleport back to Gnisis when her health drops to a certain point. Don't know if she ever uploaded it anywhere else but it's in an old thread here regarding Constance.

I like marksman skill also, much prefer standing at a distance and sniping my enemies than going toe-to-toe with them. There is a nice mod that gives you fletching skills and tools so you can make your own arrows; nothing overpowered, and you must gather your own materials (some items can be purchased).

Two things I always forget when returning to Morrowind are never use quicksave and never, never, play more than an hour without saving (more than that and you're gambling with CTD). My game is quite stable for an hour or so, with around 350 mods (about 10% of those are merged mods).

[Sniffles]

jgf Thanks! Helpful somewhat. And fudge. No telekinesis or lockpick skills. And no leveling so I can't get them. I recall checking those chests in Ghostfence but can't open them. I spent a lot of the XP for repairing stuff. Kind of dumb since I can afford to pay to have things fixed but that's a trip to a town.
Found a Daedric bow in a dungeon. Ridiculous thing. about five shots and it's no better than my Bonemold bow with some damage enchantment and it weighs a ton. I enchanted it to add strength to carry more junk and wear better armor.

Silly! Constance is the equivalent of setting the game up around the hardest setting. And of course she must not be killed. I play with her 'whatever she does, live with it', an intrinsic part of the game and protecting and tolerating her foops as important... well more important than the major quests. Got to love her when she suddenly switches to melee, gets out in front of the PC so she can't shoot, and does her best to get killed. Just trying to escape a dungeon that had a nasty vampire in it took hours with her being so weird.

Fletching skills. Connie the pack mule. Usually have her carrying a couple hundred arrows.

I installed the Connie returns home fix. Used it a couple of times. She can get weirded out or lost though. Better to just reload a save. She once vanished from the game and Emma had to tell me how to recover her.

And saves. Nobody ever forgets to save! Just a simple mental trick. Repeat to yourself for one hour of game play, "Do. I. Want. To. Do. This. All. Over. Again?" About 200 to 300 times. Then the refresher. Accomplish something, even arriving in a town, any significant event, and say that phrase again.

But this comes with a bonus. Don't BS yourself. YES! I want to do that trip again. I SUCKED. It helps to play beside Squishy. Her and her one shot, one kill mentality. Mashing the load button over and over and over. And her murmured, "Got him." OSOK the entire grid in Fallout 4. Then she did it again with fewer reloads, and again. She uses the .50 caliber rifle modded to realistic damage. All the guns in the game modded according to muzzle energy of RL and dialed in to playability. The .38 does 18 damage up to the .50 at 345. Nothing quite like having a gunsmith firearms expert beau. Have to do OSOK with the .50. Ammo is really really rare.

And then the Morrowind self abuse challenge. Farming black soul gems with level 4 character. Select where you want to die. Summon Golden Saint. Chug potions. Cast spell. Kill it before it kills you.

One fun escapade. Summoned a Golden Saint in Balmoral. Failed to kill it. Boots of speed and potions don't fail us now. Guards come rushing in. Maybe half the town gets dead with it trying to climb up to the PC on a roof. And I ran out of arrows. Too bad there is no Summon Winged Twilight scroll. They're a much cuter way to die

[jgf]

Daedric Bow is the best in the game, if you found it easily check if it needs repair (which will be expensive).

I had an issue with Constance occasionally disappearing. Only when we went through an interior portal door (where you click on the door and appear in the next room, not a door you open), Constance would be beside me, i click on the door and am in the next room but no Constance, go back through the door, she's not there either. Contact her, she responds, tell her to come to me, she acknowledges but never appears ...or tells me she is in combat and can't come. Tell her to meet me somewhere, she agrees but never appears. Trial and error I found if I went outside and started walking she would soon appear behind me and everything seemed normal again.

[Sniffles]

Aug 6, 2023 14:04:39 GMT jgf said:

Daedric Bow is the best in the game, if you found it easily check if it needs repair (which will be expensive).

I had an issue with Constance occasionally disappearing. Only when we went through an interior portal door (where you click on the door and appear in the next room, not a door you open), Constance would be beside me, i click on the door and am in the next room but no Constance, go back through the door, she's not there either. Contact her, she responds, tell her to come to me, she acknowledges but never appears ...or tells me she is in combat and can't come. Tell her to meet me somewhere, she agrees but never appears. Trial and error I found if I went outside and started walking she would soon appear behind me and everything seemed normal again.

At first is seems a pathing issue. But then regard Constance as a prototype for Vilja. Whether directly and deliberately or inadvertently, Emma corrected the issue with, no doubt, more robust code - with a nod given to a more stable version of the game engine.

Transition cells are a blight on the Bethseda landscape. Three serious offenders, exiting Breezehome, the Windpeak Inn, (Oh gads. Vilja's father is embedded in the porch and we certainly didn't need that dragon at this moment) and an interesting oops, exit to the Eldergleam Sanctuary which dumps the PC and party smack in the middle of a random spawning point -> Engine:  "I'm busy. ERF! Just ignore the spriggan without an AI. Now, oh dear. Did you have code and scripts running? Sorry about that. Don't worry, the disaster of Vilja's quest getting into a permanent fustercluck won't happen for some time yet. Enjoy a few more hours of gameplay before you have to sh*tcan everything and reload the save back in the sanctuary. You did make a save, right?"

[jgf]

I always considered Constance a spiritual ancestor of Vilja; though one is an elf and one is a Nord there is a lineage.

[Sniffles]

Aug 7, 2023 3:29:48 GMT jgf said:

I always considered Constance a spiritual ancestor of Vilja; though one is an elf and one is a Nord there is a lineage.

Ooo! Classic. Kerzomtiff. Elf, originally alf, means spirit, usually a reference to being transcended, as in Alfheim - spirit home. So your statement is actually dead on, but racially reversed.