3DNPC v3.06.6

July 7, 2014 Kris Takahashi Releases 10 Comments

This is the sixth of ten updates before the release of 3.07. With this release, we have more Darcy poems, an almost fully re-recorded Jade(Lindsey Lorraine) and the quest The Aldmeri Prisoner is now in Alpha. It should work fine for the most part, but I can’t account for everything just testing on my own. Hence the Alpha tag. To start, you must have completed Brother and Keeper and Honor’s Calling. Daenlyn Oakhollow is the quest giver.

The quest stars Matthew Dixon, Jessica Osborne, Patrick M. Whitstone, Christian Gaughf, MalevolentMC, William Handford, Glen Michael Cooper, and last but never least, Alice Bell, who still manages to deliver despite having lost her soul to me in an earlier exchange (Don’t worry Alice, she’s enjoying the weather here. Today I taught her the sky is actually blue, not mold-colored. That’s colored, not coloured. That’s right, she speaks Murrican now, sorry).

However, the biggest thanks goes to nonoodles, without whom the quest would not exist. She built locations, she meshed nav’s, she textured uniforms. She’s built traps, decorated rooms, and jarred bees. I’ve been doing this mod solo for so long, having her create these locations and manage the Nexus site is something I can never give enough thanks for. Along with all the blogerati who help with the wiki, keep the forums alive and provide fan art, lately it’s felt like a collaborative effort, which is important since after 2.5 years of modding I am tired and feeble and probably would’ve disappeared into a hole without you. Thanks.

3DNPC v3.06.6 (112 MB)

New Quests
• The Aldmeri Prisoner (Alpha)
• A Thousand Words

New NPCs
• Guard (Glen Michael Cooper)
• Steward (William Handford)
• Nair (William Handford)
• Client (Patric M. Whitstone)
• Baroness (Alice Bell)
• Amras (Patric M. Whitstone)
• Halcar (Matthew Dixon)
• Ester (Alice Bell)
• Primei (Jessica Osborne)
• Feldi (Ronja Monto)

Re-Recorded NPCs
• Jade (Lindsey Lorraine) – 98%, a few lines double voiced or silent
• Callen (Viridiane) – Remaining 20%
• Gromash (Patrick Mahoney)

All Fixes and Tweaks from v3.06
• Removed erroneous AI package that caused vanilla necromancer to walk to the Winking Skeever from Falkreath
• Fixed instance where Marla was disabled if player returned to Jilkmar first
• Fixed instance where arriving on a day other than Morndas started Fenced In but left Swims-In-Wind disabled
• Altered prerequisites so Rose Without Thorns can be started without progressing in the main quest
• Minor typo and sound file fixes

News, Notes, and Cadavers

July 7, 2014July 7, 2014 Kris Takahashi News 3 Comments

We’re still on track for a release tomorrow, although I think the quest will be slapped with an alpha tag. I more or less spent the weekend running it through the grinder, but there’s always some sort of behavior that can’t be accounted for.

There’s also a few missing lines here and there, some lines that I feel need to be re-taken, and some touch ups that need to be done. But if anyone wants to test the quest they’ll be able to. In the meantime, enjoy this brief video tutorial on accurate corpse placement. I feel like I should have added music. Next time I’ll add music.

Follower Rankings

July 4, 2014July 4, 2014 Kris Takahashi Other 13 Comments

Ahoy mateys and matettes, just want to make a note regarding the new Follower Rankings in the sidebar. First thing I want to clear up – this isn’t a list I made. I would rather pull out my own eyes with a pair of rusty tongs before choosing between the little buggers. Nope, not gonna do it.

The list is actually a composite of all the user rankings submitted by people on this site. Now you may be wondering, I am a person on this site. How do I whittle these characters down to a blatantly reductive numeral? How do I participate in the democratic process?

Well, it’s easy. To submit your rankings, login to your dashboard from the top left corner of the site (Interesting NPCs, Dashboard) and click on the Rankings section:

You’ll notice there are multiple rankings set up, and more to come. We can rank bard songs, villains, children – putting anything and everything in a digestible list form.

But for now, let’s click on Follower Rankings.

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What we get is a list of all the followers in the mod. You simply drag and drop to reorder the list. If you haven’t met one or would like to abstain from voting for an NPC, click delete.

When you’re done, scroll down to the bottom and click SAVE CHANGES.

Right now, the results are posted here, but this page is obviously in construction while I figure out how much further the chart stretches. What happens when it gets to the edge? Will the site collapse under the weight of its own gravity? There’s really only one way to find out.

Rank ’em.