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The /v/ mod/modpack

Earlier than May 31st, 2011, this project consisted of many mods from various modders and a pack was released to test various compatibilities, as well as performance issues using certain scripting functions. However, for the reason of none or a negligible amount feedback there was no information to go on for what worked and what didn't, and due to the scope and size of this project the necessary amount of testing wasn't done, thus no further pack was released. As a reaction to this, as of May 31st, 2011, this project is serving a more modular and active role as a service rather than pack to modders, aspiring modders, or players alike.

As has been the case for some time now, the original aspirations of this project are still being tended to and worked on. The Elder Scrolls series deserves a certain amount of quality not present in what Bethesda sees fit to release, but all is not well in the modding community. The competent are few and inept are many - so let this be the voice of the minority saying, "Benefit from my experience and knowledge." where the eager to learn will be able to ask questions, receive answers, and make suggestions to those who will listen.

I hope you, the reader, will look forward to the work of people participating in this project. If saw fit by followers of this, a pack with all current mods will be released with the same modularity that was promised in the past. Until then, good work should not go unused and players should not wait until an impossible dream is reached. Sharing ideas, lending a helping hand; this is what bros are for.

/v/ is the hero that Oblivion needs. So drop in the chat, hero, and do what heroes do.

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An animation for every weapon. What do you think?

29 April, 2011 - Flammen | 5 Comments

Get in chat, comment on this announcement, or send me a message. I genuine am not sure if this is a good idea.

There are a few mods that use new OBSE script functions to assign new animations to different weapons. However, they have the problem of being either too complicated, or not complicated enough(By means of not doing enough to warrant even using it). IE: One mod only allows players to use different animations for a few different weapons, whereas another one requires you to go through a lot of in-game menus in order to use different animations.

So, I thought I'd just simplify it and make a script that tries to use a set of animations going by the filename as the ID of the weapon(Or filename of the weapon's nif if I can find a function that detects that), which defaults to the animation for that weapon class.

I figure it would make changing animations for weapons a lot simpler, as it would just require moving a few files around. Oblivion already does this for other things, like bump maps(Which is the filename of the texture with an _n at the end of it), low-poly lod objects of certain models, and probably a few other things. This would be a non-cpu intensive script that would really be less than 12 lines (set filename to variable x, use the OBSE function to load the animation by using variable x + powerattackleft).

The only problem is, this might cause a lot of duplicate animations being used. Animations typically aren't very large files. Thus, I think that's alright to make it a more robust system of replacing animations. However, when you factor in mods that add a lot of weapons, those 12 14kb files end up being 300+MB. If anyone has any ideas on how to solve that problem whilst keeping things simple, I'd like to hear it.

Finally, I am in fact STILL working on this. I should probably update you guys on the progress more often, which I may or may not actually get around to. Here's what I've done recently:
More animations(goddamn so many animations)
Editted spawns, removed shitty retextured enemies, included more new models, planning to add more monster-specific animations. This also means that FCOM isn't going to be supported, but also decreases the size of this pack a great deal by getting rid of loads of retextures. I'm considering making a script that generates new weapons in the same way in which Borderland did with guns, which would keep filesize low, but still add a lot of weapons to the game.
Slavery, fuck yes. I still need to add a LOT to polish it though(Add paths and packages to allow slaves to do things for you) but I find all of that quite fun, so when I'm not spending all my time making animations, I'll finish that up.
Motherfucking ships motherfucker. Side_s sailing ships is one of the few mods that is well put together, has few bugs, and adds a much-needed feature to the game. Granted, I'm not working on that mod, and I don't actually need to because it's genuinely a good mod. I am, however, adding a boat load of support for it by increasing the ocean, adding small islands with caves and such on them, pirate ships("Holy shit, are you serious?" Yes I'm serious, the creator of the mod added support for NPCs steering ships.)

I'll talk more about stuff I've done later, probably. I'll try to include some screenshots and/or videos of the animations I've made, monsters I've added, things like that.