Lopov - I've toyed with looking for something like that. I've always hated blood on the screen because, to me, it just screams: "You are playing a video game that is occurring on the other side of your computer screen." I think the whole idea was a terrible one. I see that's an older mod, and hope you'll let us know if it works well or causes any problem.

I turned it back on in my game, and quickly found why I turned it off. The game crashes when I get hit!

I may have a bad copy, so I'll download a fresh one, and try again.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Mar 29 2015, 06:52 PM

I've used the No Blood on your HUD version since I started playing on my laptop. Fixing the silly screen spatter and the lack of player headtracking were my first priorities!

Someone mentioned the below mod over on the BethSoft forums and it sure looks interesting. It made me think of Renee.

Take Notes - Journal of the Dragonborn

When I d/l-ed the No blood splatter on your HUD version, my game also crashed, apparently because of a conflict between this mod and official HD Textures. But there are instructions on how to get the mod working - to remove only blood on your HUD, download the main file (No blood) and only extract two files, namely:

Textures/Blood/

screenbloodalpha01opt.dds
screenbloodcolor01opt.dds

Then it works, I tested it.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Mar 30 2015, 10:20 PM

Aha. I don’t use the official HD Textures (because my laptop is too fragile), so I’ve never encountered that. I’m glad you got it working, Lopov!

Just noticed this, and I put it on Tracking. When I reinstall Skyrim, I may give it a try:

Skyrim Wayshrines - Immersive Fast Travel?

I Installed just those two textures, and discarded the empty nifs, and it works fine.

A neat mod for all who prefer some romantic scenes from time to time - Kissing. Interesting that sex mods were out probably on the same day as CK was released but this mod which is far superior IMO, was released in December 2014. It's very simple and works - I tested it with Lucius & Lydia and Aard & Muiri.

Whoa I think I'm going to try this one. I like this phrase in the mod's description...



That made my LoL

What a sweet idea, thanks Lopov! There’s a “Give Me Some Sugar” menu option in AFT, but it looked like a vampire animation when I tried it with Mags and the orc she’s hauling around, I forget his name. It should be called “Put A Love Bite On My Neck.” The pictures in this mod look much better.

Strap-on not included, lol.

This mod looks Awesome!

Yikes, I completely forgot to come back and mention this. Thank you for jogging my memory, mALX.

I’m trying out Take Notes in Ninette’s game and so far I love it. I’ve always jotted things down on paper (or old receipts, or napkins, or sometimes on my hand) as I played so that I didn’t have to remember them later when I was writing their update, but this lets the journaling occur in-game while you’re right there with the character. It may seem like a small thing but it’s huge for imme… immer… the I word.

I haven’t tried to export her journal or do anything but write so far. The only drawback at first was it seemed as if the mod was going to hog a lot of hotkeys, but I’m using the tabs and mouse method and so I only needed to find one empty key. (Which was not easy. After years with two hotkeys on consoles I have hotkeyed just about everything that I could. )

Acadian, I thought of Renee, too. I love the unedited pure character thought in her updates, including words scratched out. Thank you for pointing out this mod!

Sign me up for Take Notes too.

Grits, thanks for the feedback that is seems like a good mod.

Heh, I figured Renee'd want this one!

Acadian, I’m always hesitant to recommend a mod after my snowflake/dandelion seed debacle!

Here are two that caught my eye: Chesko’s Campfire - Complete Camping System and Immersive Speechcraft.

Campfire is from what I can tell the camping part of Frostfall. The upcoming Frostfall 3.0 will use it as a master, as will the planned Last Seed which seems to be a needs mod. I tried it last night and it’s everything I loved about Frostfall’s camping without the hypothermia part that my laptop couldn’t gracefully handle.

Immersive Speechcraft offers conversation options with a lot of NPCs, like give them a gift, beg for gold, attempt to mug them, or taunt them into attacking you. The mod author has said they are working on a Brawl option. I haven’t tried it yet.

Gritsy: By the way, Claire did spend some time in Solitude after getting out of jail, so we got some screenshots of her spending time in the Bard's College.

Frostfall is awesome, but I had to dumb it way down to taste, especially the hypothermia part. Let's say it gets down to 10 to 15 degrees farenheit (and that's being generous, it could be in the 20s in Skyrim's worst climes, and still snowy). I walked my daughter to school several times in this weather, just a few weeks ago when it was still winter. Never was I >< that close to dying.

That was my one issue with the default setting of Frostfall ... if Claire spent an equivalent amount of time walking through cold weather, roughly a half-hour, she'd be freezing to death, and Farkas actually had to 'rescue' her one time. So thank goodness we can configure this mod to taste. I mean, I can see if Claire was standing around, not doing anything for hours in freezing, windy weather, but not if she's walking / running around / active. *shrugs*

Otherwise, that camping addition sounds pretty kewl. Imm... IMM immmmmersie Immersive Speechcraft sounds pretty nice, as well, although (in Claire's game) CSR gives us additional speech options. But CSR keeps gettng a little buggy too.

/modspeak

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 16 2015, 12:39 PM

Renee, the first time Alise and I played through Skyrim, it was unmodded (all vanilla). She kept complaining how cold it was and flat out refused to put her toes in the water anywhere! "What, are you kidding me? I'll get hypothermia and die!" So Frostfall was a great mod for us because it gave us tents and campfires and a way to get warm out in the wild. Camping Gear of the Northern Ranger became Alise's favorite, though, because of its darkfire. Came in useful up north, where trees are scarce (think Saarthal). The second time we played through, it was really challenging, and like you, I had to damp down the hypothermia effects.

Grits, Alise and I are going to try that new Camping mod. We'll see how we like it.

Yeah, FF is a very harsh mod, even with its Lite setting I thought it was too harsh. I mean, just a month ago we were all walking around in 15 degree weather where I live, right? And we were okay. Cold, but okay. Certainly nowhere near death. Frostfall makes it seem like the pc goes from 40 degree weather (Solitude / no snow) to -30 F, or something, wherever any snow is.

We've been talking about walking around in 15 degree weather this past winter. But how many of us are wearing lightweight GoreTex parkas and polypropylene underwear and gloves/boots insulated with Thinsulate? These things have been available for only about 20 years or so. I recall as a child growing up with wool, bundling up in such thick down outerwear that we could hardly move, and yet waiting 10 minutes for the school bus in 15 degree weather put us at risk for frostbite. I've always gotten frozen toes every winter, narrowly escaping real frostbite on several occasions. And that's with two or three layers of thick wool.

So no, I don't think Frostfall is unrealistic given what is available for materials. Leather. Fur. Linen. And Frostfall does have customizable settings for custom armor (read mods) that you can set. When I used the light armors Nordic Ranger Outfit and Grace Darklings Ranger Armor I set their hypothermia ratings on FULL and roleplayed that when Alise forged them, she made them highly Frost Resistant as well. Now that would be the Skyrim equivalent of the modern technology so many of us now buy from North Face and Columbia (very popular around here).

BTW, those two armors are Alise's favorites. She will not wear anything else. Her housecarl Argis doesn't mind the view, either, when they're out in the wilds.

This post has been edited by haute ecole rider: Apr 18 2015, 01:53 PM