I decided to offer some color variation for Allan Elite which is one of the most popular armors I have ported recently. This expansion pack includes six new colors: white/gray, yellow, green, blue, violet and black. I'd like to thank Darigaz17 for blue texture and glow maps. This addon is standalone and doen not require the original red version to work. You can buy the new sets from Tun-Zeeus at The Dividing Line in Leyawiin.
Requirements: OBSE v0021
Shazzan is a cat companion that can be found in the Arch-Mage's Lobby at the Arcane University. He is complete of facial morphs and comes with a full set of sounds (purr and bell's ringing included). Talk to him to open his command menu. There you can ask him to follow you, wait, eat his food or play, and you can even pick him up and place him elsewhere. In addition there's the option to ride him like a mount. The first time you talk to him you will get his summon spell.
Sometimes you will read the sentence "Shazzan has found something" in his menu, click the "Show me" button and you will get a random item. If you want to feed your pet, just drop some cat-edible food on the
floor and ask him if he's hungry, he will walk up to it and eat it. When you play with him you can grab and throw his yarn ball with the Z key and he will chase it.
The ride command will allow you to ride your pet like a mount. When you do, the player character will become tiny - which is cute and funny at the same time - I like to think it's a magic applied by the cat himself to his guardian in order to adapt their scale to his own size. The ride command might not be displayed at first since the script takes up to a few minutes to perform a check on the OBSE version you have (at least v0015 is required) and to load some files. Once everything is loaded the option will appear.
Shazzan doesn't have notable fighting skills, in fact he won't directly attack the enemy. However he will be very helpful in combat thanks to his ability to buff the player with powerful support spells.
If you sneak Shazzan will sneak too and become invisible - unless the invisibility option is turned off in his configuration settings. He carries a light spell that can be turned off as well. To access his configuration menu cast the cat summon spell while you're sneaking.
Even though here I refer to Shazzan as a male I have intentionally avoided gender-specif pronouns in the mod in case you prefer it to be a female cat. The name Shazzan comes from a show produced by Hanna-Barbera in the late 60s. It's a rather neutral name but if you want you can change it in the Construction Set or with TES4Edit.
Credits
This mod is standalone and includes the following assets:
- Cat model from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Scripts from Tona's Cats ver0.3 translated to English
- Sounds from HISSSSA's HS Cat Resource 0.3
- Animations from mrcat's CatRide
- Special thanks to Chakaru11 for beta testing and feedback.
This is a female only armor I ported from Bless as a Christmas present for Sinner201. Now that some time has passed I'm finally releasing it to the public with his consent. You can buy it from Tun-Zeeus at The Dividing Line in Leyawiin.
Images in the page are a courtesy of Sinner201. Here's another full body picture.
After releasing my main character Eli as a playable race I made a poll in order to determine if it was worth turning him into a companion. The result of the survey is shown in the following table:
As you can see 56% of votes went to the the first option and I'll have to make a GGC companion which won't see the light until I have completed all my other WIPs.
In the meantime I have made a new face preset for Eli which is supposed to make him look younger. The difference is subtle: rounder face, better nose and slightly bigger eyes that I managed to place lower on the face forcing the slider in the construction set.
By the way, if you want to give it a try remember to reset his face each time you access the race menu, even just for changing his hair, because the game engine will move his eyes up trying to bring them back within the limits. Installation is very easy, just extract the patch to your Oblivion/Data folder and load it after the main plugin. And please let me have your feedback, I'd like to know if you prefer this new preset or the old one.
It's a common opinion that Oblivion is quite poor in terms of voice acting, and since finding decent actors willing to lend their voice for free would be harder than pulling a rabbit out of a hat I decided to spend the last four days ripping sound files from Tera. Other than character soundsets, the collection I've put together includes all other audio clips from the game such as sound effects, background music, ambient sounds, etc. The English pack also includes voice overs in German and French while Japanese and Korean come as separate downloads as well as the other packages:
All files are Oblivion ready, according to the following standard settings:
NPC Voices
File Format: LAME-encoded MP3
Frequency: 44100 Hz
Sample Size: 32-bit float
Bit Rate: 64 kbps cbr (constant bit rate)
Channels: Mono
BG Music
File Format: LAME-encoded MP3
Frequency: 44100 Hz
Sample Size: 32-bit float
Bit Rate: 192 kbps cbr (constant bit rate)
Channels: Joint Stereo
Sound Effects
File Format: PCM-encoded WAV
Frequency: 44100 or 22050 Hz
Sample Size: 16-bit float
Bit Rate: 256, 352, 705 or 1411 kbps cbr (constant bit rate)
Channels: Mono
In some cases original .ogg files are included too.
I want to point out that this is not a functional mod, here I'm simply sharing a resource. If you don't have any modding skill and want to give voice to your characters and companions I would recommend My Voice Extender by Maskar used in combination with this. You can of course use these soundsets in Skyrim and other games, just be aware that you'll have to convert them to the proper formats. And please do not reupload.
Here's my first mod entirely made in 2016: Leon Scott Kennedy's pirate costume - because, if you don't know, I'm a huge a fan of the Resident Evil series (that I like to call Biohazard). The coat comes in two colors, blue and red, and the hat is optional.
I tried to animate the crow on the shoulder, it's subtle but it slowly moves the head sidewards. The sword is a prop and can't be wielded but it looks nice. Items can be purchased from Palonirya at the Divine Elegance in the Imperial City Market District.
This mod was a request from Taepal and he had its exclusive usage for one month. It's the outfit worn by Geralt in the prologue of The Witcher III. Shirt and pants are one piece while boots, 2 pairs of gloves, mask and necklace come as separate pieces. There's an additional copy of the necklace inclusive of a neck seam concealer. You can buy the set at the Dividing Line in Leyawiin.
