Thanks You LL. Without you I wouldn't have been able to learn what I have.

[ritualclarity]

To the members of LL,

 

Thank You members of LL. Without this site I wouldn't have been able to learn what I have. I have learned more in this last week than I have learned in the last 6 months. I now am confident to repack mods. Create BSA files. Started the Fallout vault tutorial and for the first time I fixed a glitch in a mod I have by going into FNVEdit and changing the eyes of a NPC so that they wouldn't be purple anymore. Yes it is a kindergarten acts that many could do in their sleep, but for  me it is a great step forward. A step that for years I avoided out of lack of confidence. This site helped me gain more and more confidence and understanding on modding and problem resolutions each and every month.

 

However I am by no means a modder or know enough to be able to do much but I can now see that it is possible and in many cases might even be easier than I have ever imagined it would be. I have been playing F03/FNV since it came out and never imagined that I would do anything more than "Use".

 

This thank you isn't only for those highly skilled individuals that build complex mods but also other users which even if they don't know much they still freely gave the info, and for all those that needed help and asked for and accepted advice from others. I learned from you as well.

 

There is a wealth of knowledge and compassion here and all one needs is an open mind, willingness to try and you can indeed go far. Farther than perhaps you ever though possible.

 

Thank You

RitualClarity

[garcemac]

I will add a reply to this, if it is ok. I do not intend to hijack...

 

I had the same experience with Lover's Lab and Oblivion. I originally bought the GotY Edition years ago, tried to use some mods, and quit in frustration. Ended up buying another copy of GotY for my PS3 and enjoyed that for a number of years.

 

A couple of years ago I got jealous of all the mods available for the PC version and - when my PS3 toon (over 500 hours played!)  crapped out and was unable to complete an important quest due to an unpatched bug on that machine, I rolled up my sleeves and re-installed GotY on my PC.

 

Once again I tried to mod the game in a vain attempt to have my experience come close to emulating the screenshots and videos I wasted so much time drooling over.  Once again I failed. I followed the threads at HongFire, followed Ashali's instructions at HF, and then at the Wiki. I read every post at TesNexus (as it was back then), and read Planet Elder Scrolls front to back.

 

Even though my game would start, it was a miserable failure.

 

I broke down and came to Lover's Lab, thinking it was only a porn and perversion site. Not QUITE the direction I wanted, but I do admit I wanted a "sexy" game that would not crash every two minutes. My frustration was very high. I tried installing a few Lover's mods from here and they worked! But when I tried to install MBP, I went ballistic because I destroyed my game yet again. I READ EVERY readme. I tried to follow the instructions to the word. And STILL I failed...

 

Then someone named GregatHit stepped in. Even though I was fuming, frustrated, and screaming, Mr. G. calmly replied to my inane, ludicrous rantings (Yes, I DO like adjectives, tyvm...). GregatHit directed me to a number of Lover's Lab threads that I had missed that contained more information and help than I had received in MONTHS.

 

Long story longer: Today I can install a stable, working, heavily modded Oblivion with confidence, and in very little time. I just KNOW my game will work no matter what I do to it. My main piece of advice is READ EVERYTHING HERE (no matter what game you play), and examine every mod that you download from top to bottom before installing it. I'm a bit anal: I open all mods I download in both the CS and NifSkope. I run Tes4Edit on everything. I clean my meshes, I optimize my textures. It sounds like a lot of work, but it takes lot less time to optimize than it does to re-install the game from scratch. 

 

Even though I have been a bit of a dick and a crybaby at times, Lover's Lab members provide an invaluable wealth of information that can be applied to ANY installation of ANY of Bethesda's game - whether you want kinky; or sexy; or just have the fucking thing WORK.

 

Yet another TLDR moment from yours truly.

 

[Happysparkles]

I am happy this site has been very helpful for you.

DW I took almost as long figuring things out too.

Heck I am still learning, but it is how things get started.

I hope you keep learning and maybe even eventually make your own mods too.

If the boobs are big and jiggle I will probably run into it at some point .

 

Good Luck .

-Happysparkles

 

 

[elalquimista]

I know what you mean. If it wasnt for LL I would still be crying cause I cannot get people in Nexus to listen to me and build the mods I dream.

I cannot even begin to say how much Ive learnt from here

 

And I really look forward to see if destiny takes you to become a modder too. The more, the merrier.

Most of us have dreams but only a few can make them come true.

Modding is the only thing Ive seen close to maximum creating experience. You can really create your own worlds and almost anything is possible.

 

Its great to hear this and as for what I think...

 

 

[ritualclarity]

I will add a reply to this, if it is ok. I do not intend to hijack...

 

I had the same experience with Lover's Lab and Oblivion. I originally bought the GotY Edition years ago, tried to use some mods, and quit in frustration. Ended up buying another copy of GotY for my PS3 and enjoyed that for a number of years.

 

A couple of years ago I got jealous of all the mods available for the PC version and - when my PS3 toon (over 500 hours played!)  crapped out and was unable to complete an important quest due to an unpatched bug on that machine, I rolled up my sleeves and re-installed GotY on my PC.

 

Once again I tried to mod the game in a vain attempt to have my experience come close to emulating the screenshots and videos I wasted so much time drooling over.  Once again I failed. I followed the threads at HongFire, followed Ashali's instructions at HF, and then at the Wiki. I read every post at TesNexus (as it was back then), and read Planet Elder Scrolls front to back.

 

Even though my game would start, it was a miserable failure.

 

I broke down and came to Lover's Lab, thinking it was only a porn and perversion site. Not QUITE the direction I wanted, but I do admit I wanted a "sexy" game that would not crash every two minutes. My frustration was very high. I tried installing a few Lover's mods from here and they worked! But when I tried to install MBP, I went ballistic because I destroyed my game yet again. I READ EVERY readme. I tried to follow the instructions to the word. And STILL I failed...

 

Then someone named GregatHit stepped in. Even though I was fuming, frustrated, and screaming, Mr. G. calmly replied to my inane, ludicrous rantings (Yes, I DO like adjectives, tyvm...). GregatHit directed me to a number of Lover's Lab threads that I had missed that contained more information and help than I had received in MONTHS.

 

Long story longer: Today I can install a stable, working, heavily modded Oblivion with confidence, and in very little time. I just KNOW my game will work no matter what I do to it. My main piece of advice is READ EVERYTHING HERE (no matter what game you play), and examine every mod that you download from top to bottom before installing it. I'm a bit anal: I open all mods I download in both the CS and NifSkope. I run Tes4Edit on everything. I clean my meshes, I optimize my textures. It sounds like a lot of work, but it takes lot less time to optimize than it does to re-install the game from scratch. 

 

Even though I have been a bit of a dick and a crybaby at times, Lover's Lab members provide an invaluable wealth of information that can be applied to ANY installation of ANY of Bethesda's game - whether you want kinky; or sexy; or just have the fucking thing WORK.

 

Yet another TLDR moment from yours truly.

No problem dude. It is a Thank You LL thread. A thread for all that feels that they have been helped understand and learn what they needed / wanted to learn related to Gaming in general.

 

@everyone

I don't know if I will have the patience to mod or skill and where my interest/capabilities are. The genesis and inspiration of this post was a simple bug or issue with a mod. I had purple eyes. I had removed mods to figure out why. Before I just let things be and just accepted it.It didn't break the game.  This day that wasn't the case. I with barely an hour experience with FNVedit fired it up and opened the mod records and tried to make sense of the layout. Soon enough I found the NPC and checked those records and compared them to other records of NPCs that worked in that mod. Figure out how to change the record and did and tested it. It took almost an hour to fix something that really would of only be a 5 minute or less job. But I fixed it.

 

Funny thing is I didn't even think that I couldn't. I had the confidence that If I could find the record and understood the file structure I could fix it. That never happened before. I didn't even give myself time to doubt myself or worry if there were consequences I just did it.

 

 

[Poontank]

That's one of the countless possible starting points for active modding. In my case it was cautiously recolouring of textures to get more individual outfits. Not long after that I started making companions of my player characters. Back then GrimReaper was kindly helping me out in PMs to get a basic grasp on the process.

 

And before I knew, handling the Construction Set and NifSkope became more and more of a breeze, finding my way around in my 'Data' folder had become second nature. The more you learn, the more addictive it gets.

 

So I really must thank all the great people on LL as well. From a mere passive player to screenshooter and modder in one year and a half.

Absolutely unthinkable without this site and the tireless assistance of its many awesome members.