Author: Syl

So this is what I’ve been spending all my time at

Skyrim SSE is very interesting to mod, and it’s got some quirks. I wanted to see if I could get my characters into it and have them look more-or-less similar. This took a lot more effort than anticipated:

So, the first problem was that Racemenu isn’t ported over yet and i didn’t feel like wrestling around with whatever alpha version of it is floating around out there.  So, I grabbed Cyrelian’s head .nif, converted it, and took a look in nifskope. And– exploded hair!  I had to make a new head nif without fancy hair.

So this is what I ended up with:

 

Shrieks of dismay.

I then started working on the things that I could change– skin and hair et cetera– here’s an in-progress shot:

Still kind of terrifying.

Much time and tribulation later, and–

Well, yeah, that’s why people got the remaster… just absolutely beautiful land– Sorry. I keep getting interruptions.

Fine.

All right then.

I’m done giving out warnings to the peanut gallery over here:

Oh, very nice, Marcus. That’s a good look. And you look so happy to see us!

Ahtar says if you start out as an ugly bastard that there’s not much room to go downhill…

eww.

So, after some cursing and re-installing and a lot of fiddling around, I managed to get ONE of the guys looking okay in SSE:

But all in all it was kind of a frustrating experience. And the eyes aren’t right. We’ll see how things go as the mods over there continue to improve.

And of course Ahtar says there are some faces only a mother could love–

 

 

 

 

 

Has anyone seen Marcus?

I think Proventus took a level in badass.

Must be the hat.

And I don’t think Farengar’s going to listen to you about the latest styles from Wayrest anymore.

You see? The trouble he gets into without… I AM going to have to put Sedave on staff, for Marcus- wrangling.

Haha, Marcus must think we are made of money. Nope! It isn’t that long a sentence, you can just wait it out–

Marcus says I can just shut up now.

Also Marcus wants another hat.

of course he does

Basic Robes and a horridly tweaked Caffeine ENB . That is NOT what it is supposed to look like, whoops.  But I couldn’t throw away these pics.

 

 

 

 

Marcus wants to try the monastic life

No, really– I’m pretty certain that’s what I overheard him tell Sedave:

When Sedave stopped laughing, he reminded Marcus of what happened when–

Look. You have to promise:  WE CAN NEVER TELL THE ELF.

No, really, I mean that. Unless you WANT to spend the rest of your life living in the middle of the Ashlands or someplace inland of Lake Ixtihmal (I am pretty sure the Thalmor haven’t made it to the middle of Black Marsh), we cannot let even a relatively good humored Thalmor officer get wind of this. EVER.

Do you speak Saxheel?

I didn’t think so.

Marcus says it wasn’t his fault. There were these ruins; there was this temple– he had already got dressed for the … uhm thing.  Party. And, anyway, he was doing one last walkthrough and pushed on a rock and it opened this door and welllll…

Marcus says he and Auriel have an understanding.

Marcus? What sort of party was it–

Ah. Mages guild.

Really, that’s all we need to know.

Yeah, I think the elf is gonna find out about it. We’ll have to see how Marcus looks in goggles and facemask–  Sedave says no, no–

There’s always the daedric realms:

 

So that’s our choice?

Fantastic.

I can’t wait to meet the interrogation officer.

Sigh.

 

Hosting Service woes

URL has been changed to accommodate some issues with the SSL security certificate which proved too annoying to deal with. The problem is that WordPress provides free SSL certificates to every website on this hosting service— until very recently, they covered subdomains as well as domains.

And now they don’t.

So, when the domain’s SSL certificate came up for renewal, I couldn’t renew the subdomain’s certificate. Not without making changes which would cost a whole lot of money. Which would be a silly thing to do for a simple blog site.

Anyway, if something doesn’t work quite right, just leave a comment. I’m still testing and moving things around.

EDIT– Working on reconfiguring things and redirecting links. If you see anything broken, please let me know.

Sedave the stylist–

Well, we’re going to skip back in time a little, since I brought out the Kissie the Orc series a bit too early. I couldn’t wait to get her out there, though– it was pretty entertaining to have Sedave restyle her, and I think we have now set a trend amongst orcs. Now to develop a nail lacquer that can stand up to blacksmithing…

So before all this, we had Sedave work on Marcus a bit for us.

Marcus says that he is much prettier than Kissie and he at least knows how to stand so he MUST be easier to work with–

And even Sedave is rolling his eyes.

 

Anyway, with no further ado, this is how that first session went–

Marcus thinks it’s very amusing that we can’t actually understand Sedave, but he’s happy to translate for us:

Sedave would like to point out, that the changes that we see here’s simply a matter of outfit, lack of beard, and attitude.

Now he’d like to have Marcus try the wigs.

I think I will not ask why Sedave travels with wigs. I am pretty sure that Marcus couldn’t have been carrying all that about in his satchel.

Could he?

Marcus has picked his favorite, I think.

Sedave concurs.

The others are nice for costume-work, but this one works the best.

Sedave agrees.

Sedave says sometimes the wig on its own is sufficient:

Hey Sedave? Don’t you think you should be keeping a closer eye on Marcus? He’s over there digging around in my chest of stuff…

Marcus says he’ll settle down but only if he gets to try out the black. He knows we’ve got the black dress in there somewhere.

Marcus?

Take off that damn hood.

 

Marcus!

Oh, all right.

Marcus will take off that hood, too.

Sedave tells Marcus that he’d better behave and get some good pictures, because he’s looking great.

Oh?

Until next time…

But before we go, Marcus would like to remind us that we started with this:

Marcus says that Sedave is worth every septim.

Sedave smiles.