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Post by Sniffles on May 2, 2024 8:10:53 GMT
I'm redoing the Dawnguard quest line. A revisit of the improved Serana. Might make it a photo essay if there is some interest in it.
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Post by Sniffles on Apr 4, 2024 2:33:47 GMT
Serana photobombs again, renaming the mod Wyrmstush
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 31, 2024 1:09:06 GMT
I'm missing out on less dialogues now that I've installed Subtitles by kpvw (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/113214), which displays multiple dialogues on the screen at the same time. And there's also Dialogue History by powerofthree (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/114238?). Supports SE 1.5.97, AE 1.6.640, and AE 1.6.1170 and higher
That there are mods to catch all the dialogue demonstrates how much can get missed. Multiple followers exponentially complicates matters.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 30, 2024 6:49:40 GMT
Hmmm. I've already got the Serana SDA mod. Maybe I should listen more carefully... Just a suggestion. I've always been running multiple companions always. I went alone with Rigmor then with Serana. I was so delighted by the SDA Serana dialogue I reloaded an earlier save with just her. I discovered with multiple followers you ALWAYS miss some dialogue. It's inevitable they will step on each others dialogues and sometimes actions. Usually a dialogue simply never triggers when the game detects a similar event is ongoing.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 29, 2024 23:45:37 GMT
Many years ago I wake up in Anvil and didn't found Vilja nearby, so checked her position via markers and found her, along with Wolfgang, on the opposite side of the map, standing still on a road. I had that happen once. Escorting her father to Riften for the wedding, Vilja supposedly already in Riften with her family getting ready. On the road climbing up from the hot springs area south of Windhelm, standing on a rock off to the side, was Vilja in her underwear, standing still and non responsive. Reload game. Something got nicely toasted into charcoal. (Sad sad. I even had a screenshot of that, lost forever when Photobucket decided to shaft their customers.) Giving daddy to be the Skyrim tour, "And if we encounter your daughter in her underwear with a blank stare and nothing to say....." Oh fudge, now when did I last save?
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 29, 2024 23:23:11 GMT
Something tells me that once the Dawnguard stuff is completed, it might be a good idea to turn Serana loose. My group's big enough anyway. If you use Serana SDA, you would want to hold on to her. I have Serana, Rigmor, Auri, and the Interesting NPCs all tied-in to Nether's Framework. Agree! Serana SDA turns her from follower into a very valuable companion up there with Vilja in her comments. And please, pardon my comparison, makes her a more valuable companion than Vilja in a certain way. Vilja is somewhat the prude, while Serana SDA is gritty and more down to earth. Some of her comments take you by surprise so much you get slammed with 'WOW!! Where the heck did that come from?'. And the extra cake frosting is Serana being sarcastic, now and then smacking you upside the head with backhanded compliments: Courier, courier, courier, or courier? OR... a very rare comment from way way out in left field, sometimes extremely NSFW, leaving you with, ACK!! Did she really say that?? A couple of those comments that it would be easy to picture Vilja if she heard them giving a shriek and quickly leaving the room slamming the door behind her.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 28, 2024 14:09:29 GMT
Sniffles: Glad you liked 'em. I see what you mean about the feet, though. I try to make all my shots a standard height, and feet often fall victim to cropping shots down to size. My thinking was it was better to crop than to resize the shot and lose detail. Lately I've been shooting from a little more distance; whether it will help much I don't know. Something to think about, anyway. Regarding Serana and vampirism: I have the PC carry lots of Cure Disease potions. Looking at professional model pictures they have mid chest, waist, and just above the knees cut off points. Below the knees it's full feet and the ground beneath. Always full head and framing above and to the sides equidistant.
Serana vamp glitch. It's weird. I suddenly get the notice blood boils in the sun. But cure disease had no effect, the full on vamp condition is listed BUT using the console it returns not having the condition and using the code to remove it doesn't work. Only fix is reload a save game. This has happened only minutes after I checked the PC and she had no disease.
As a test, we came out of Blackreach on an elevator and went down to a fort, 3 minutes walk. Attacked the fort, and the blood boils notice came up. Reloaded coming off elevator save and it happened four more times. Avoided the fort and went off in another direction and no disease. Getting in the fight triggered it.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 28, 2024 1:19:59 GMT
OldRPMDaddy Excellent shots. Especially the archer. It captures the drama perfectly. According to the books I'm reading, the miss is not including the subjects feet. This is debated but what you have is three out of four ideal framing, top and sides, which contrasts with the bottom. I see what the book means but would really need to see a side by side comparison of feet included to determine which is more pleasing to the eye.
PS I'm glad I'm not the only one with motley composites of clothing and armor.
PPS I discovered Serana can infect the PC with vampirism accidentally. Just being near her when she fires that off can do it. Something in the settings of the PC.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 26, 2024 1:21:19 GMT
Recommended listening while viewing
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 21, 2024 1:03:49 GMT
Good and bad pictures. Why?
Busy, uninspiring
Scenic with image
Busy boring background
Selfie with green stuff
Lighting vs contrast issues
Lighting
Lighting
Selfie with busy irritating background. Bad lighting
What am I looking at? For?
Upon seeing the hole in the foreground that's all you see. Eyes drawn to it.
Nothing to see here
A common mistake. Leaving the viewer floating in the air.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 21, 2024 0:45:16 GMT
Cleaning out some folders. Photobombs
NOOO!! My butterfly!!
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 18, 2024 0:47:57 GMT
I'm doing a replay of the entirety of Serana with the SDA add on. This add on is incredibly expansive and well done, even having context sensitive comments in the Solstheim DLC. In depth, competitive with the Vilja mod. Be all that as it may, I'll be doing some screenshots but the effort I've been putting into them, up to 20 minutes or more framing, lighting and so forth per, has little returns. I may consider some specific requests. PS Fully compatible with vanilla Skyrim
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 14, 2024 22:58:00 GMT
The Dragonborn toys with a little creative insanity.
Hey guy, let's digress for just a moment. We're missing a few mammoths in the room it seems. Alduin, big bad world eater. Raises dead dragon buddies. Will pay Sovengard a visit and eat the souls of the dead. So we're talking about what; several million folks and by all accounts 20,000, maybe 50,000 Nord berserkers, many mighty heros, who are going to kick it back and put up with poo poo head and allow themselves to become snacks? Care to clue me here? The same dragon who got his butt kicked a few minutes ago by a hormone fueled vampiress, a Bosmer pacifist, a confused misbegotten misunderstood dov blooded Nord gal and their faithful undead cow?
Okay, cool, I got it. They need a supershout. Whoopee doo. You teach shouts. The old fogeys down the hill a ways teach shouts. And I'm not seeing anything in the shouts rule book that says I can't teach shouts, especially under the tutelage of you, the master of shouts.
So instead of some impending confront and epic battle, we just teach a select group of several thousand folks that shout then got a pesky dragon in the cabbage patch? Call your neighbors, give a few shouts and then pile on the overgrown lizard. You know, the neighborhood watch and shouts program.
Meanwhile, over in Sovengard, suppose I teach those folks the shout too? How's that sound for a plan B? Just trying to be practical here. Am I missing something?
Pardon me for calling a conference, but a few more mammoths, and another dragon in the room, for a little more insight. Now it's well known the Elder Scribbles are indestructible. And we have a time warp right behind me in which some dude used an Elder Scroll to give Alduin a serious temporal enema. No brainer that the Elder Scribble they used is around somewhere. And being ultra practical, if anybody could find that scroll it's us, the brain trust gathered here. So we have a plan C. A last resort, or a hefty weapon that can be used to intimidate dragons. You know, play nice and practice a good neighbor policy or we're going to send the lot of you ahead in time. What's so bad about that you say? Check out the state of the world we have at present. Welcome to your future, a smoldering trash pile devoid of life, men and mer having killed each other off an eon or two ago. You dragons can spend an eternity in a blighted disaster area chomping on each other. Or you can wise up like Durn and Paarth here. Comments? Suggestions?
As an aside, a tasty thought. Just deserts plus. Alduin summons you drags back from the dead, one by one we send you ahead in time along with Alduin, and you dragons can express your sentiments to him for all eternity, as in thanks for the sour persimmons cuz.
And by the way... Durn, do you think an Elder Scroll would work in the soul Cairn? Just a possibility we could give those Ideal Masters a serious ration of temporal poop. Would you still be stuck in that place? Or even, without them there running the show, maybe some renovation? I'm thinking at least a nice flower garden................
A: "Well that was an interesting little gathering, to put it mildly. What's your thoughts Serana?" S: "Only thing in my mind is how badly I'm breaking the rule of never sleeping with anyone crazier than yourself. And how much I'd just love to have a bowl of noodles right now, with a little soy sauce." A: "Seems like it's a dead heat in the crazy department."
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 14, 2024 1:59:08 GMT
Had an experience playing Rigmor a couple years ago: We had to meet up with the Big Stormcloak Doofus, but he couldn't be found. Then I noticed his quest marker moving rapidly from one side to the other. Apparently, he'd run afoul of a giant who wanted to test out his new sand wedge. After waiting a while, BSD reappeared, having received a bird's eye view of the province. Rigmor, stop and reload earlier saves. You must follow the quest hints and directions precisely and the actors do not compensate for their environments. Finding the Big Stormcloak Doofus a prime example. He wasn't there twice. I finally loaded a save from when i left Riften, my other followers parked at home, then slow walked to the camp and he appeared. Clearing out an entire cell of enemies before a quest encounter is strongly advised.
BTW, the great final battle with Rigmor. Stand PC on promontory with extra lethal bow, shoot everyone (friendlies are all set essential), move to second promontory and repeat. Battle done <1 minute. Like.... that's it? The battle to save all of Skyrim?
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 13, 2024 20:02:29 GMT
Ultimate ragdoll is a giant scoring a solid hit with it's club. Saw one hit a kitty yesterday around Gjukar's monument. Near went into orbit and vanished upon entering the Whiterun cell.
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