Pictures and Profile Pages

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2012-12-01_00001bAs the wiki slowly begins to take form, one of the things I want to give the masses out there the opportunity to do is provide screenshots for the various characters. What’s there now is basically whatever photo myself, Blauwvis, or Sifka can take while creating tables and blurbs, but ideally we want pictures that are pretty to look at or are symbolic of the quest.

The original photo I used for The Radiant Dark was shitty beyond belief, so I decided to put on my photographer’s hat and try and get some action shots. This one is probably the best of the bunch, with the whole juxtaposition of light and dark.

If you’d like to submit a photo for a character page, I will be more than happy to use it provided it is awesome. Ideally I prefer vanilla settings, as I’m boring like that, but I’m not married to any specific lighting/texture setup.

In other news, I think I will start the weekly updates next week, depending on how much content I get from the voice actors. This will allow bug fixes to get out promptly as well. The Blood of Kings Questline has a particularly nasty one right after the climax which I want to take care of, but the questline will probably remain in Alpha/Beta until I’m sure there are no others.

Again, we need testers, as right now it is just me and Blauwvis trying to squish bugs on our own, so anyone who is interested shoot me an email at kristakahashi@gmail.com. Until we can get this thing fully polished, I’ll have to leave the WIP/Beta label on the box.

3DNPC v2.42

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Here are the release notes for version 2.42 beta. Again, special thanks to the awesome Blauwvis for testing, as well as all the others on the forums who volunteered to try out the Alpha/Beta quests and report bugs for the previous version. She also did tremendous work on the wiki, and now Sifka has been working like a madman on the same. And of course, the voice actors have always been an indispensable part of the team. We’re still a long way from getting this thing fully operational, but being able to spread out the work helps immensely.

With this update, you’ll notice the sound folder is in the form of loose files. Next version, I might go one step further and only put the scripts in the BSA, as I didn’t realize the meshes/textures were so large. However, ideally we want to reduce clutter so uninstalling is simple.

VOICES
• Raynes(MalevolentMC) – Quest Dialogue
• Morndas(Anna Castiglioni) – Approximately 200 of 700 lines
• Gren(Giramor), Frygg(Jay Appleyard), Hrongar(David Bodtcher), Hjolm(Randy Westbrook), Signus(Aaron Kelley) for Blood of Kings Questline
• Valgus(Christian Gaughf) – Approximately 30 lines
• Vardath(Jay Appleyard), Amsien(Jay Appleyard), The Captain(Randy Westbrook) – Stolen Property
• Lurgok(Jay Appleyard) – Bite the Hand that Feeds You
• Grotta(Anna Castiglioni), Ulrund(Anna Castiglioni), and Gormleif(Julian Shanahan) – The Crabber’s Wife

QUESTS
• Brother and Keeper fully voiced
• Stolen Property now in Alpha
• Bite the Hand That Feeds You now in Alpha
• The Crabber’s Wife [A quest with no journal/objective markers]
• Untitled Quest – In construction, but location created called “The Bird’s Eye” which can be found near Steepfall Burrow

BUG FIXES
• Removed ITMs for better compatibility
• Missing sound files for Isobel
• Fixed Anum-La‘s improperly conditioned dismissal dialogue
• Blood of Kings Questline – A few lines for Valgus and Isobel that should be available in part 5 only are conditioned improperly and show for the remainder of the quest and post-quest.
• Epilogue for Honor’s Calling had some missing sound files for Fjona that paused the scene
• Fixed Nelacar visiting the Radiant Dark when siding with the Guild
• Added disable script to Knights of the Eight corpses after Rose Without Thorns
• Morndas dialogue not conditioned properly upon escaping prison
• Gren’s dialogue not conditioned properly for female characters during The Harbinger of Us All
• Removed cause of random aggro from soldiers at Gren’s Camp

Trailers and Teasers

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Another day, another video. Morndas is voiced by the incomparable Anna Castiglioni, who pumped out 200 lines in a matter of days. Considering Morndas has about 700 or so lines total, I’m fairly optimistic about how quickly she will be voiced. More importantly, knowing I have a reliable voice makes me more likely to write for her in the future.

Admittedly, I hesitate to write lines for NPCs knowing there’s a chance the VA will never do them, or perhaps take so much time that it almost seems that way. Conversely, when someone like Anna takes a role, there really are no limitations, so expect more from Morndas in the future.

Also, I just realized how ridiculous it looks to have used my real last name for this character. Next time I make a video I will use my canon playthrough, Chazz Ironstud.