Gender Bendification

This is a proof of concept on multiple levels.

First, I mentioned in the forums that I want to give players the option to gender bend an NPC.  I think offering these options would provide a little bit of replay value, particularly for some of the older, more static characters.

For this experiment I figured Gnives would be the best candidate. This is because he’s more or less a finished character. There’s little to no chance he will be revised or expanded, so there’s no danger of having to get the consent of multiple actors every time I want to add a greeting.

Second, it’s an opportunity to show how simple it is to add your own voice to a character, should you choose to do so. At some point I want to make a more detailed tutorial on how to do this, but the basic idea is that patches can be made for personal use.

In any case, Zillac‘s version of FemGnives will be an optional download that will be released with v3.06, probably in a USER PATCHES section in the forums. It will simply require replacing the original audio and then using a console command. I tried making a separate patch instead of using the console, but it didn’t work – probably requires making the mod an ESM.

3DNPC v3.05.9

haakon

This is the ninth of ten updates until 3.06. Minor tweaks and bug fixes are in this version, as well as a change recommended by Mouse for Haakon Iron-Fist (Imperials winning the Civil War will now result in his execution).

Basically, if you visit the Bloodworks while Ulfric is dead, the same script that turns Haakon aggro if he escapes will now kill him and place an urn in the Hall of the Dead. Now that I think about, I should probably add a similar script in the Hall at some point so you don’t have to visit the Bloodworks.

Also added about twenty or so idle and post-battle commentaries for Zora. Viridiane is also working on getting Callen re-done so her audio quality should be much improved by 3.06.

One last thing I’ve added to this version is the foundation for a gender bent Gnives. More on this tomorrow.

3DNPC v3.05.9 (134MB Zip Download) – REQUIRES v3.05 INSTALLED

New NPCs
• Mithril (Ronja Monto)
Fuki (Zillac)

Re-Recorded NPCs
• Jerulith (Jessica Osborne)
Carmella (Elegant Artist)
Jeerah-Nur (Aranas)
Ureni (Adoxographist)

New Songs
• Spring (Ronja Monto)

New Meshes/Textures
• Badgremlin –Moving Wings

All Fixes and Tweaks from v3.05
• Fixed incidents where Lajjan would aid bandits.
• Haakon Iron-Fist dies and moved to Hall of the Dead if Imperials win Civil War
• Increased difficulty by adding reanimated corpses and healing mechanic to Forgotten Lore
• Provided option to turn in Talos worshipers for Immortal Coil
Fenced In – Morndas asks to meet fence but script referenced wrong quest.
• Immortal Coil – Added wandering, potentially hostile Thalmor patrol in Markarth for first phase of the quest and objective to ensure PC talks to Froa upon retrieving the soul gems. Also added objective to return to Widow’s Watch.
• Froa’s 100+ Post-Quest audio files were not included in 3.05
• Hagravi missing marriage lines added
• Dropped HP of Darkened Steel NPC and added failsafe script to ensure proper outcome
• Ylgyne dismissal was incorrectly conditioned to Meresine being in your group as opposed toYlgyne
• Removed instances of double voices for LarkspurDuraz, and Yushari
• S’vashni’s minimum level raised to 20