My Riften House Mod Options

[mALX]

Made a few changes to my Riften Player house:



http://imgur.com/a/PYx2u

[Grits]

That looks great, mALX! The downstairs is so nice and clean. I especially love the horse sheltered under the porch, the window boxes, and the plants along the walkway. Very nice!

[ghastley]

That looks great, mALX! The downstairs is so nice and clean. I especially love the horse sheltered under the porch, the window boxes, and the plants along the walkway. Very nice!

Actually, that's my only criticism. It may be too clean. OK if you're a house-proud woman, but I can't see Jerric living there.

[mALX]

@ SubRosa - Thank you so much, SubRosa! I loved that deck out back, and Iona; she is like a dour Scot - I grew up with a family of dour Scots, lol. I guessed she was Skaal, for her personality.

But the gray coloring of the place was a huge turn-off (to me); the brown just looks warmer and more inviting imho.

Actually, that's my only criticism. It may be too clean. OK if you're a house-proud woman, but I can't see Jerric living there.

Yeah, just a little too new (my son agrees with you). I might need to keep digging for wood log textures that are just a tad more aged than those; a little less bright. I had the right color wood to do it, but it was in board form and removed the full log look that I loved, so I went with the brighter red instead.

That said, one of my major complaints about Bethesda games is the total lack of any clean or well preserved buildings in any of their games; even the palaces are grimy and decrepit; the Noble families all live in equal filth as the poorest in the game (actually, the Skingrad Player house was much cleaner and better preserved than the Castle - Hassildor needed to fire his staff and hire Eyja )

I was also stunned to see the Jarls' faces were as dirty as the beggars - to me that loses the immersion it was meant to create. In Fallout, people could not bathe because the water was irradiated, but Skyrim? The cold would not stop people from bathing or washing their faces, surely.

I Googled Siberia, these people look pretty clean to me:



NPC's had clean faces:


https://smallestlaunch.files.wordpress.com/...cclife_snow.jpg



And clean bodies:


http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/HEALTH-A...te%20trunks.jpg



And here is a poor area housing similar to Riften, which is kind of what I used as a guideline for my retexture:



http://www.goingrussia.com/wp-content/uplo...ck_92368345.jpg



House interior is neat and clean, just a bit cluttered:



http://rusmania.com/perch/resources/20140426-dscf3440.jpg



And the workshed is immaculate:


https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8264/86206236...6255510a9_z.jpg



Even the really poor houses are clean and well preserved:


https://greenswancreations.files.wordpress....11/russian2.jpg


http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/interior-ru...ba-22858267.jpg



So I can't buy into Bethesda's viewpoint that these people of this environment would be this filthy in their bodies or living conditions.

I lived in central Germany for two years in an average neighborhood, the houses were hundreds of years old, but no matter rich or poor these houses were immaculate inside and out, even the stoops were scrubbed down every Saturday morning so they would be inviting to enter. The stone and wood may have been slightly weathered, but still held its beauty, color, and was clean.

(example of a house in that area):


https://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/...um/15237599.jpg


So yes, I agree with you that I most def need to tone the color a bit and weather it a bit, maybe a happy medium between what Bethesda represents and what I have here would be better,






@ Renee - Thanks! I have been going back and forth on whether I should upload it or not, lol.




This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 30 2015, 01:01 AM