Having Vilja actually sing when performing

[feisty]

Hi Emma [and the rest of the awesome Vilja team], I have really enjoyed having Vilja as a companion and have always wondered why she doesn't actually "sing" when she performs in front of an audience. I guess I have always chalked it up to Emma being nervous in a karaoke setting (and I don't blame her, even my cat runs and hides when "I" do open mic in the shower so I would be the last person to expect others to put themselves out there).

I never really gave it much thought until I came across several mods that changes the default female bard songs to those being performed by cover artists like Malukah [the one I use is skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9366 but there are several others out there].

I guess my real question is would this be something you would consider for Vilja or do you think it would break the immersion too much?

Thanks for all your hard work!

[kaleuo]

I wholeheartedly agree. The moments when she does sing as you are walking is amazing. Whomever is doing the voice acting for her has a beautiful voice. I would love the chance to hear her do more songs. I can understand if it is a shyness issue but from what I've heard the voice is amazing.

[azpop]

Vilja will occasionally ask why I do not play or sing with her - since I am a member of the bard college.

It would be very interesting if we could perform a duet using this mod:
skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/31680 or
skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9375

Playing/singing with Vilja would be awesome. ;D

[kaleuo]

I dunno about the duet, seems like that would be a pain to do since the original voice actors for Skyrim aren't available to the modders. Also it would make the mod dependent on other mods to work where now it isn't. Any 3rd party mod dependencies are done through patches.

However I just like Vilja's voice when she does sing so it would be nice to have the option to be able to listen to her perform. She has an incredible voice that should be used more often since she is a bard. Maybe make it a comfort level progression, at the beginning she isn't confidant enough to do it but as the relationship progresses she gets more vocal.

[Deleted]

Oh I agree I love when Vilja sings. I remember my astonishment the first time she did it. Although I don't play Skyrim yet I still enjoy her in Cyrodiil.

I created a little interactive comic for this thread. I have been meaning to do something like this for a while and this thread seems like the perfect place for it.

It is an 11 frame GIF, 10 seconds per frame

[Emma]

I actually have some good news in regards to this

Kindofinappropriate has recorded lute-music that I will add singing to. But it's rather complicated to do, so I have been holding back on it while finishing the Solstheim add-on. And then I went to London, and there I caught a flu... right now I couldn't sing or even voice-act because I sound more like Heneri than like Vilja.

But there will be one full song for Vilja only.
Then I *guess* it would be possible for her to have stage performances with other bards, I would just have to sync the singing, and the question is how it would work with the lipsync. I'm planning to look into that. I think it wouldn't be quite as hard as you imagine (but still some work to do).

LOL, I'm still so surprised each time someone says that I have a lovely singing voice. I mean, I know my teacher in school used to say so and more or less forced me to do some singing performances in the churches. But since then, I've mostly been singing in the shower.

I'll have a look at that bard mod - else I guess it would be possible to incorporate the option for Vilja and the player to sing together within the Vilja-mod (the player would have to pick a relevant kind of voice, of course. I'll ponder on it, I also find the idea interesting. But the bard-mod uses SKSE and Vilja will NEVER be dependant on any external programs or DLCs.

Thank you for the comic, Pink Piper .
I'm thinking of adding in some of Vilja's song in the Oblivion version of her, too, because she sings a LOT more in Skyrim than in Cyrodiil.

[ulison]

The new version 1_5 is wonderful , saw Vilja sing a duet with me housekeeper lady today and the comment after it was so nice , also when the talk about the clothing ,Emma & her team something great .Thanks for this sweet Lady Vilja , Cant play no more without her . Give me some time and we go have back the level from the first game .

[ulison]

Deleted become a bard , its to difficult to let play Vilja and me character the same time and same song , but testing new bard songs-9366-2-4 mod out now , the female bards in inn sing now with the angel voice from MALUKAH , it works perfect , it look then like on this 2 pictures when Lisette sing 2 from the songs with MALUKAH her voice , the game have now 2 angel voices Vilja and female Bards in the inn .

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