Category: Screenshots

Marcus / Screenshots

Furb’s Male Replacers- Basic Robes

June 11, 2018

Sedave’s got to go back to Riften in a couple days for reasons that were frankly incomprehensible… but he said he’d stick around to help out with styling this new outfit we got from RefurbMadness.

… Marcus wants to start with The Hat.

Of course he does.

Yeah.

So remind me why we spend all that time on the hair? And pay for that expensive hair product? Hm?

Marcus says he does not care. It’s in the budget, he says smugly. Oh and he’s keeping it. It’s a great hat.

I told Marcus I was pretty sure he could live under it.

Like a Forsworn hag in a hut.

Or.. See? Marcus can now disguise himself as a mountain. AND he can store his lunch in there. A change of boots. A keg of mead! Wouldn’t Alfgar like that. Or–

What?!

Marcus says we are being assholes.

This is why we don’t get to have nice things.

Look, the whole point to taking these pictures with YOU, pretty boy, is so that people wanna look at you. You’re the eye candy. We’ve got enough pictures of that damn hat, so let’s move on, okay?

Marcus says that nobody gets pretty things unless they are nice.

How soon we forget… Now Sedave is weighing in.

FINE.

We’ll get on with things–

And now we get to the whining about how hot the lights are, and how bright this ENB is, and how long is it till supper, and doesn’t the union booklet say he gets a break now and–

Just get in the damn water already–

-Or I swear to Kyne my next photo shoot is going to involve Falmer clothing and Windhelm.

Or Riften. Yeah, we haven’t been to Riften yet. Sounds like a fine place. And Sedave would like it very much if we went to the Rift, for him that’s just a day trip–

Yeah, fine. You’re right, I shouldn’t make idle threats. Nobody wants to see pictures of Riften.

What?  Um…No.

Mermaids are ladies.

Mermen?

Isn’t that what those tedious gentlemen from Balfiera were calling themselves? Yeah, they were going on and on about the Direnni bloodline. Didn’t see any fishtails on them.

Sedave, I don’t wanna get into a philosophical debate–we’re done here. Towels are over there, Marcus. Stop rooting though all the bags. Sheesh.

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[New maps for Marcus– diffuse built from Fair Men/Real Men; tattoo assets reworked from Eastern Style Body Art and some open source stuff I’ve lost track of; Vitruvia, Frecklemania and Frecklemania 2. Normal map is probably going to get rebuilt. Spec map is Fair Men with some changes and with the face map edited– and I can see that it still needs more work, hrm. Eyes are also a work in progress, Gearhog and Zhoulia and Eyes of Beauty.]

ENB is an extremely tortured version of Caffeine.

 

Cyrelian

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

June 7, 2018

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–

 

 

 

 

 

Marcus / Screenshots

Has anyone seen Marcus?

June 5, 2018

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 / Screenshots

Marcus wants to try the monastic life

June 2, 2018

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.

 

Marcus / Misc Characters / Screenshots

Sedave the stylist–

May 15, 2018

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.

 

 

Misc Characters / Screenshots

Kissie the orc

May 11, 2018

Well, actually it’s Ghissog gra-Ugor but, I ask you– Who wants to be saddled with that?

Kissie is a friend of Marcus’.

When we started asking questions, trying to see if Sedave had a c.v. or even, well, a portfolio, whatever Sedave told us was completely incomprehensible.

So Marcus told us about Kissie.

Kissie’s from some horrid place out in the Rift, where the Orcs are whiney milkdrink— what?

Marcus says, it does not matter what Alfgar says, that word is not okay. Do not use that word. Marcus is refusing to explain. So it must be pretty bad. What about snowba— ooh. Is THAT what that means? Yikes.

Anyhow.

Kissie.. excuse me, that is just a pet name, Marcus says– Ghissi started out life as the daughter of an Orc ranger.

Oh.

See there, Marcus. Kissie says that name’s just fine.

She had an ordinary life, working around the forge, being a dutiful and helpful orc maid–  alright.

That might be kind of a stretch.

She wanted more out of life– so after a lot of argument and turmoil, she left.

Went to the Legion for a little while, but it wasn’t for her. Not exactly the life of glamour. Notwithstanding the armor, of course.

So Kissie left. It turns out that the Imperial Legion has no interest of chasing its runaways through the wilds of Skyrim.

Kissie knew how to fend for herself in the wild, and she built her own cozy little home in a tree in Falkreath.

I decided not to investigate the thorny question of how she got to know Marcus, but she did, and when we were talking about this whole business of personal transformations et cetera, Marcus suggested that maybe she’d be willing to volunteer.

So we packed up Sedave and a lot of equipment and went to go find her. In case you are wondering, Sedave does not travel light. Bring at least one extra mule.

Sedave told Kissie she had a lot of potential:

She seemed dubious.

She wasn’t convinced, until–

Sedave smiles. He said it wouldn’t take too much magic.

Sedave was right. The camera’s gonna love her.

He says he’s got some more ideas. We’ll be back.

Preset- KISSIMAX by Marmotte.

ENB- Snapdragon Prime/Snapdragon profile

Skin- Real Women of Skyrim and Unslaad Keizaal (face and body normal map by Marmotte in the Kissimax file).

 

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