Shaydow

Again, your kinda missing the point of Nexus STAFF being total assholes.

  I would say my ENB is the closest thing to being ready to release. It actually IS ready to be released, then updated as needed. I just have no idea where to put it. I can make it an LL exclusive like almost all my other mods, but I have no idea where to put it, or how many people would see it. I could stick it on Nexus, but even heavily modified, the ENB DOES draw off some assets from other mod makers. Not to say I just left them " as is ", if I do that, I always tell people they have to Download that OTHER mod first to make what I did work, kinda like my making Celestials have wings and fly REQUIRE p1Flying, no most are just changed aspects of those files, we learn from the shoulders of giants and all that. Thing about nexus STAFF is though, they don't give two shits, and if the mod author you even LINKED to doesn't say " you can use this but link to me " in permissions, YOU'RE FUCKED. So I'm always worried about it. ESPECIALLY since a LOT of these mod authors are just not around anymore, and so I can ASK for permission, but never get it since I will never get an answer. BTW it is simply my DOF setting included for Screen Shots I worry about, the DOF I include for normal 3RD PERSON PLAY was made by me.....   Ya, what a cluster fuck of ass pain.

  I use Better Vampires. Load my mod AFTER it in the load order. Some notes :   You won't get a feeding animation AS A VAMPIRE LORD. You will just sit there. Sorry, I don't know where he has them hooked, and haven't bothered to look into it.   As for your not gaining any levels.... are you sure that it's THIS mod AND Better Vampires causing your problem? I do not have this problem, and no one else has brought it up.   Hell I even sculpted this mod for personal use with my Celestials Mod, making a Celestial Succubus instead of a Vampire Lord when you change. I am able to be a Celestial ( NOT a Celestial Vampire ) and unable to feed when normal, but will still gain hunger levels and starve etc, and must transform into a Vampire Lord ( Succubus ) to be able to feed on victims . . .  and I gain levels and everything works just fine with Better Vampires.

  I will tell you what I have told others who have asked this in Private Message :   No.   I've given you a number of PreSets to start with, as well as 3 followers designed around Celestials that you can use as presets with a quick CK edit.   MY characters however ( noticeably Shaydow and Faye ) are MINE, having been lovingly crafted to my tastes for over the past year. They are used for my Screen Shots and are for me.    The best advice I can offer you for what YOU are trying to achieve is : It's all in the eyes. Everything from the nose you pick to the cheek structure, hair, etc, should all be designed around the eyes. They are the main feature of a face, and as such, should be the thing that draws the viewers attention. In your picture I would suggest dropping the eye placement, more even with the bridge of the nose. After that I suggest rounding the cheek bones some. I know it is a common staple for MEN to think high cheek bones equals beauty, but this is not always the case, especially when it deals with the eyes.

I didn't say the race or this mod. I said the BODY. I.E : The Celestial Body.

I want to preface this entry with this : I LOVE LL. I HATE NEXUS. Are we clear? I hope so, I don't want to repeat myself. Anyway, I have some rants that have been on my mind lately.... Why is there a GENERAL, NON ADULT and ADULT section of LL? FFS we all know why we are here. Let's not lie to OURSELVES about it. I bring this up because in the GENERAL discussion section of Skyrim on LL, I see more porn then I ever would actually LOOKING for it online. The show your Skyrim counterpart thread on LL, has SOOOO MANY sex shots, I wouldn't dare let my girls around when looking at it, and ya that is in GENERAL. Should I complain to the moderators? I don't think so, I hate being THAT guy, and also, we all know what the site is about. So why is there even a NON ADULT section? This is what I have to wonder about. What about that time in this blog I showed off pics of me changing many NPCs looks, some of them men to ladies, and got a response along the lines of " your fucked because all you want is big tits " ( not true btw, I don't like giant tits in real life, they scare me. A handful, thank you. Everyone was just sharing the same skeleton and max weights, something I have started to fix ). So I look this guys post history up and see he is in to bestiality. WTF?! Who the fuck thinks they can judge ME on THAT when they want to fuck animals? Now, am I wrong for thinking this person had NO RIGHT to say SHIT to me? I don't think so, but this is the interwebz, and man, it's fucked up place. Do I LIKE bestiality? NO. Do I JUDGE others if that is what they are into? NO. I say that again, NO. That is why I am here. Hell the only thing I DON'T like about LL is the amount of " Kiddie " type porn / pics I see, and as a father of two girls, 11 and 6, maybe you can see why this upsets me, but I never say shit. Why? BECAUSE THAT IS YOUR SHIT AND I HAVE NO RIGHT. But again, while I understand the reason for LL, and it is one of the reasons I am here ( the other being fuck NEXUS, fuck anyone AT NEXUS, and FUCK NEXUS ( yes twice for emphasis ) , If I go into tech support because I know a METRIC SHIT TON ABOUT MODDING AND I LIKE TO HELP PEOPLE, I don't want to see someone asking why their anal beads are clipping. That should be in the adult section. If I go into the show your Skyrim character thread in General, I don't want to see some little girl who looks 11 fucking a dog. I DIDN'T GO THERE THINKING I WOULD SEE THAT. My rant is over. If you think I am wrong, please by all means, leave me a comment. If logic dictates, I will be happy to shoot you down.

If your talking about Harkon, your best bet is to change him to female in the Ck and make him look how you want. If your talking about the PC ( you ) then again, this mod if ONLY for those that play female PC's.

  BLARG! Maybe it is my festish, who knows, but I SWEAR these great looking characters ( and I do like the way that they look, honest! Make them an NPC follower and I will Dl them : ) , they just need the eyes dropped a LITTLE bit. Have you guys messed with the Eye Height Slider at all? About mid to above mid nose bride is normal. 

  WOW! There we go! See? She looks great, no lie either. The only thing I would do is drop the eyes a little bit, otherwise, a fantastic character.   *edit* yes I am trying to make amends for me being a tard and going on a rant before. BUT, I am nothing if I am not honest. Her eyes should be about center with the bridge of her nose, not as high as they are ( AGAIN, this is IMO! ) and she would look really great.

 She came out really well! Only thing I would change is cheek bones, they seem a little to pointed to me. Drop them maybe .25 or .5 and pull them in JUST A SMIDGE, basically round them instead of making them so angular, and IMO, she would look fantastic.   NOTE : I'm trying to offer feedback of a constructive sort based on how I make characters. If you do not agree, please pay this comment no mind.   *EDIT 2 * It's only because of your 2nd shot, and its not the cheek bones persay, but how the cheek bones make her cheeks look hollow ( sunken ). Hence my recommendation on " rounding " them a bit .

  Lose the helm, I want to see her face.   She has a nice look, but the side shot is not showing me much. Again, lose the helm and do some frontal shots. Let me see her face.

  This looks NO different then what I can make in RaceMenu, None.   *edit* as a matter of fact, her eyes are to high. You should drop them a little ( not bashing your design just saying ). Can you drop them farther in ECE?

As Jormungandr said, I hope no one thought I meant disrespect to ANYONE or their pics. I didn't. I am a LITTLE ( and hoping to get deeper ) into the glass. If you guys want to know what I actually meant by this, I just made a blog entry. I don't want to flame ANYONE's tastes, I just have to wonder about some things. I started to rant here and I shouldn't have. Again, LJ isn't here to tell me to STFU. My bad.

Does a person have to have their character shove something up their ass in this thread to get feedback?   I spent a lot of time on my shots. Seriously, I have to wonder.   BTW, I didn't know this was the ADULT section of LL ( that does make me giggle though I admit, the irony of that statement ).   *EDIT* ya no disrespect or anything, celebrating as best I can now that I have some cash with a few beers, and LJ isn't around to tell me to shut the fuck up. But ya, I have to wonder sometimes ......

Hey guys, as I am apt to do, I took some screenies of my newest adventures while building / playtesting V8 and Reborn. I made a little story out of it, since with CelestialReborn, the game is now much harder and no more starting on Legendary! It got to the point I was ready to use some followers lol, since now I just don't get EVERYTHING I have created right at the start ( the whole point of Reborn ). Anyway I decided to drop a link here for those of you who don't follow my posts but may be interested in what I was / am working on. In this " Show your Skyrim Character " thread, I show a multiude of the different variants I have added to the game, through my new character Faye, as well as equipped on followers. These are only a SMALL amount of the stuff I have been working on, you understand. I'm still doing all the v7 stuff, after that it is the Legacy stuff, and boy that's a BIG job. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the screens / story as much as I did taking / making them!   http://www.loverslab.com/topic/15224-show-your-skyrim-counterpart/?p=876953   *EDIT* also, a question : Do you guys think I should release my Celestial Body as a standaone ON NEXUS?? I Bold / italic / underline this for a reason. I have it mostly done now, min weight has a few things to work out. I don't really like nexus though, but I know a lot of people show intrest in the body, and to be honest, I would love to see the conversions people do. What do you guys think? LL exlusive like Celestils, or a release on Nexus?

To celebrate my internet being back on and work on CelestialReborn starting again, I started a NEW playthrough. With the release of the Familiar Faces mod I decided to create a NEW character. Now as some of you who follow my threads / and or have seen pictures of Shaydow my character here in this thread, you may know what Shaydow looks like. I like to RP my mod and make it lore friendly, so for this new character I decided to make Shaydow's younger Sister, Faye, who left the Celestial Realm to find her sister. Faye has facial features that are very similar to Shaydow, but her eyes, cheeks, skin, hair, etc ( a lot of things ) have been changed. This way they look related, but are two different characters. ( For those who would like to know, I designed Faye around the proverbial Young Cutesy Anime Girl. She is well endowed and has Fair skin and perky attitude. )   [ SIDE NOTE : all Followers in the following shots are using a custom Armor and or look created by myself, hence why I decided to add them to the shots. ]       Faye came to WhiteRun to find her sister . . .      " Oh no " said Vilja, " I'm not sure I like the looks of this. "   " It's a full party! Now let's go find my sister! " yelled Faye as she bolted out the door. The adventure had begun......     ( *edit* yes I know, Sooji's armor still needs the environmental mapping done. ) 

  Sorry about that. I just got the names confused myself. Didn't mean anything by it.

  Set Lip, forehead, and err one other one to use the same color as the skin color. Save and Export. You will be fine.   CK handles Tintmasks on NPC's very poorly. So yes this means your exported CK created NPCs can't really wear much makeup. But doing what I just said WILL remove the multicolor exported problem.

So good news everyone! Found work, settled everything, bills paid. Money is tight but manageable, I.E : TEH INTERWEBZ STAYS ON!   Because of this, will resume work on V8 of Celestials and CelestialReborn. Do not expect a release until the end of the summer at the EARLIEST, but I WILL be working on it again now that I know everything is ok.

  http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32155/?

  In the released version 2.1 here or a future version?

 

Someone mentioned in my hdt thread that my XML was missing a couple rigid bodies. I designed the XMl for myself but I don't use collision, I added in collision data from what I had before I shared it. I will have ZERO time to look into doing anything about it any time soon, but you should try asking user Budroi where he got his collision data from to make it much easier and hence faster for me to do or just asking him to share his.

  My custom HDT file contains collision, I wouldn't know why it is not working for you. How are you testing it?   Your eye color is being changed because your taking on a FORM, you are not just equipping a piece of armor, and I thought it was a nice touch. It is part of the Script when you change into a form. I'm sorry you don't like it. Also :   Yes I custom mashup my released custom mashups / armors / etc. I have no idea what I was wearing at any given time. HOWEVER, know that I AM working on an addon to Celestials called CelestialReborn. CelestialReborn removes FORMS completely, but adds in all the powers and armors as CRAFTABLE items. Some of the more powerful spells will require you to hunt around for the precise ingredients, you won't be able to buy everything you need from the shopkeepers. As a side effect of adding in the Forms Armors as craftables, I've taken the step of breaking them apart piece by piece and adding them all in. Needless to say, each and every slot available for armor in Skyrim is used.   Please understand that this will not be ready any time soon. I would say AT LEAST another 2 months or more, before I'm ready for a Beta release of CelestialReborn.