Elder Scrolls V in the works - direct sequel to Oblivion - Page 84

soopaman2 · 02-23-12, 01:28 PM

I just screamed FUS RO DA! at the top of my lungs, the cat ran out of the room and the wife left too.

I must be dragonborn.

Not since Tiber Septim has one like me appeared.

Dowly · 02-23-12, 03:39 PM

For extra immersion, I highly recommend the Sounds of Skyrim mods.
There's currently 2 mods released, Dungeons and Wilds, with two more coming (Civilization, Special Events).

SoS - Dungeons:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=8601

SoS - Wilds:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10886

And the previews, , and .

Task Force · 02-23-12, 03:55 PM

Use them both, they're pretty good.

mookiemookie · 02-23-12, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly

For extra immersion, I highly recommend the Sounds of Skyrim mods.
There's currently 2 mods released, Dungeons and Wilds, with two more coming (Civilization, Special Events).

SoS - Dungeons:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=8601

SoS - Wilds:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10886

And the previews, , and .

Ooh, now those look neat...

frau kaleun · 02-23-12, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Ooh, now those look neat...

...riiiiiiight. As if dungeons aren't creepy enough.

Seriously though gonna check out those links again when I get home.

mookiemookie · 02-23-12, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

...riiiiiiight. As if dungeons aren't creepy enough.

I like making them more creepy! I've been playing with the realistic lighting mod and I think you're right on some of the interiors of shops and whatnot, but I absolutely love the pitch black dungeons that require you to use a torch.

For instance, a falmer scared the poopy out of me last night. Never saw him until he jumped out at me. I literally jumped in my chair and shouted. Good times.

soopaman2 · 02-23-12, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

...riiiiiiight. As if dungeons aren't creepy enough.

Seriously though gonna check out those links again when I get home.

Frostbite spiders are sexy!

Just kidding. I am just glad I can 2 hit the big ones, I don't even bother looting them. I want nothing with them, even the webs creep me out.

I am a manly man in real life, I'll give a list of my man achievments! I just have a thing about insects and specifically spiders.

I make my cats kill spiders I see in my house, the big gross ones on my huge moniter kinda turn my stomach.

At least my 2 siamese cats will eat a spider. While my full dragon/daedric armor having , dragon slaying, fire breathing, 500 hp plus having warrior shoots them from afar, then looks at the ceiling as he runs by the corpse.

Dowly · 02-23-12, 04:48 PM

Stopped using the realistic lighting this and that mods, in the end of the day,
they are just overlays which makes some scenes look silly.

Hopefully someone digs a bit deeper and makes a "real" lighting mod.

Ducimus · 02-23-12, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dowly

Stopped using the realistic lighting this and that mods, in the end of the day,
they are just overlays which makes some scenes look silly.

Hopefully someone digs a bit deeper and makes a "real" lighting mod.

I learned that lesson in New Vegas. The majority of any lighting or coloration attempts is going to clash somewhere. It's like bestheda designed many of the textures and such to work specifically with whatever PPF or PPF like process they have running.

edit:
and sounds of skyrim is a pretty good mod. Ive been using it and loving it.

Dowly · 02-23-12, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I learned that lesson in New Vegas. The majority of any lighting or coloration attempts is going to clash somewhere. It's like bestheda designed many of the textures and such to work specifically with whatever PPF or PPF like process they have running.

Have you tried any of the mods that use the ENBseries stuff? Haven't myself,
but have been quite pleased with ENB mods in other games.

Ducimus · 02-23-12, 05:05 PM

ENB series? Nope, never heard of it. When you say ENB, the first thing that comes to mind is the MMO Earth and Beyond that was shut down some years ago.

Dowly · 02-23-12, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

ENB series? Nope, never heard of it. When you say ENB, the first thing that comes to mind is the MMO Earth and Beyond that was shut down some years ago.

The ENB series is a rather powerful post-processing thingamaling, can use custom
shaders and all that fancy pansy stuff.

Especially the one I tried briefly in DCS: Black Shark upped the GFX a lot. The
downside is of course that it can be pretty heavy to run.

frau kaleun · 02-23-12, 06:23 PM

Okay from what I'm reading... and the documentation, while extensive, is extremely confusing in my opinion... with this Realistic Lighting mod, I'm supposed to make whatever tweaks I want to the .ini, file, and "run" the .jar file, and that's supposed to create a "patch" .esp file that implements my tweaks into the plugin. But no such patch file is being created when I double-click on the .jar file and I don't know what I'm supposed to have in order to "run" it to make that happen.

It's bad enough trying to plod through all the technical stuff just trying to figure out whether some variable has to be increased or decreased to achieve the desired effects, without the added irritation of none of the tweaks actually working because something that should be happening isn't happening when I follow the instructions.

Task Force · 02-23-12, 06:26 PM

Gotta love complicated things.

frau kaleun · 02-23-12, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Task Force

Gotta love complicated things.

No, I *don't* gotta love them.

Can someone who knows these things please tell me the name of the program (.exe file) that is supposed to open this damn .jar file? Because I've now installed and uninstalled Java several times following the links provided both by Windows and by the docs referred to in the description of the mod, verify that it's working properly each time (according to the download site) and when I try to "run" this file I get an error about not finding something it needs or else the same DOS window flashes up but if there's supposed to be a "patch" file created, that's not happening.

02-23-12, 01:28 PM	#1246
soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	I just screamed FUS RO DA! at the top of my lungs, the cat ran out of the room and the wife left too. I must be dragonborn. Not since Tiber Septim has one like me appeared. __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.

02-23-12, 03:55 PM	#1248
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02-23-12, 06:26 PM	#1259
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Gotta love complicated things. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

02-23-12, 03:39 PM	#1247
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,005 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	For extra immersion, I highly recommend the Sounds of Skyrim mods. There's currently 2 mods released, Dungeons and Wilds, with two more coming (Civilization, Special Events). SoS - Dungeons: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=8601 SoS - Wilds: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10886 And the previews, , and .

02-23-12, 04:48 PM	#1253
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,005 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Stopped using the realistic lighting this and that mods, in the end of the day, they are just overlays which makes some scenes look silly. Hopefully someone digs a bit deeper and makes a "real" lighting mod.

02-23-12, 05:05 PM	#1256
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	ENB series? Nope, never heard of it. When you say ENB, the first thing that comes to mind is the MMO Earth and Beyond that was shut down some years ago.

02-23-12, 06:23 PM	#1258
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Okay from what I'm reading... and the documentation, while extensive, is extremely confusing in my opinion... with this Realistic Lighting mod, I'm supposed to make whatever tweaks I want to the .ini, file, and "run" the .jar file, and that's supposed to create a "patch" .esp file that implements my tweaks into the plugin. But no such patch file is being created when I double-click on the .jar file and I don't know what I'm supposed to have in order to "run" it to make that happen. It's bad enough trying to plod through all the technical stuff just trying to figure out whether some variable has to be increased or decreased to achieve the desired effects, without the added irritation of none of the tweaks actually working because something that should be happening isn't happening when I follow the instructions.