My Riften House Mod Options

[mALX]

Made a few changes to my Riften Player house:



http://imgur.com/a/PYx2u

[ghastley]

It wasn't the new, or bright textures I meant, but the lack of scattered clutter - the things someone just put down, because they haven't yet found the right place for them (and probably never will). Perhaps I should have said it was too tidy, rather than too clean.

That's always my problem when I'm making homes for the games. I have to consciously go and add more irrelevant stuff to make the places look like someone lives there. A few loose coins on a table near the front door, where someone emptied their pockets of small change. A book on the bedside table. Something that got knocked off a shelf (Oblivion's havok settings would often do that one for you). A kid's room looks uninhabited if it's tidy!

I seem to remember a TES alliance cluttering service back when we were all making Oblivion mods. "Experts" would add more junk to your houses to make them look more lived-in.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jan 30 2015, 03:06 PM

[mALX]

@ Mirocu - Oh, this mod was just a diversion. It was/is excruciatingly grueling scanning and re-installing all my files back onto the laptop. I got bored and decided to do something else for a little while.

I spent a little bit of time on Nexus looking at mods, then stuck in the game for a few minutes to play a bit. I was in Riften, and feeling a bit irked by all the gray around me when the sky was blue above; and (like Grits pointed out) was very disgusted by that basement. My old house had a basement that used to give me the creeps, and it was cleaner than that Riften basement.

I started off just to clean up the basement, but then wanted to make that deck overlooking the lake a bit nicer. It just went from there; but to be honest all that was done in a few hours. The two things that took the longest was choosing which colors to use where (had to re-do everything several times till I was happy with it) - and placing sandboxing all over the exterior so the player could sit up on that deck and watch the NPC's busy below, lol.

Thanks Mirocu!

It wasn't the new, or bright textures I meant, but the lack of scattered clutter - the things someone just put down, because they haven't yet found the right place for them (and probably never will). Perhaps I should have said it was too tidy, rather than too clean.

That's always my problem when I'm making homes for the games. I have to consciously go and add more irrelevant stuff to make the places look like someone lives there. A few loose coins on a table near the front door, where someone emptied their pockets of small change. A book on the bedside table. Something that got knocked off a shelf (Oblivion's havok settings would often do that one for you). A kid's room looks uninhabited if it's tidy!

I seem to remember a TES alliance cluttering service back when we were all making Oblivion mods. "Experts" would add more junk to your houses to make them look more lived-in.

Oh, okay! But actually, I really would like to age that overly red wood just a tad, weather it just a bit. Just enough so it doesn't look so brand new.

On the clutter - I actually have the Oblivion TESA Clutter pack still! - But I don't have any of my mesh and texture files re-installed yet since the crash of my laptop; so haven't even begun cluttering in there yet; but I've already thought of a few things I will want to do - not too many, just because the place is so small and it will be a fine line between pleasing and too much in such cramped quarters.

There are a few retextures I'll do with the clutter when I get my own texture files re-installed - example the baskets. - My favorite two basket textures (if you can see them in there) or on the left and right; the center basket (on the left of the table) is the vanilla basket color, and I don't like it at all:


http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsc9547d00.jpg


But yeah, I most def planned to add some clutter; in fact I was already considering a few changes in that basement especially.

What is so odd - In that basement I didn't take anything out or add anything except a couple weapon mounts on the wall; but that basement looked full with the dirty textures. With the clean textures it looks empty! Nothing is changed but the lighter colored walls and floor!

TESA still has one expert clutterer, but she is doing it in her own mods = Elianora! She is AWESOME! I could just pore over her rooms for hours!

I'll never be that good, but this house will def have more clutter when I'm done with it (and get my files back in on the laptop).

Thank you very much Ghastley!


@ SubRosa - On those Siberian pictures - did you notice that there were no hard nipples? Man, those Siberian people must be tough as nails!!!!! It most def gave me a new insight into how skimpy an armor my character would be capable of pulling off and still be believable!

You are very right on that basement, it was the biggest feeling of offense I had of all Riften and Honeyside; that filthy basement; I could readily feel the mildew creeping directly up to the Player bedroom - it had to go. That basement is what really spurred this mod.

I dug up some original screens of Riften to highlight the differences/changes the mod makes a little better (you may recognize the last screenshot, hope you don't mind me posting that, it is from your thread:


Riften Player House:


http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2012110...eyside_view.png


http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2012110...ide_kitchen.png


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-KaViYFXb...reenShot268.jpg


http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2012013...es/9/99/MAN.jpg




Riften Township:


http://www.giannipc.com/josh/guide/sr_atlas_9a-005.jpg


http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2012110..._Bunkhouse2.png


http://smg.photobucket.com/user/subrosa_fl...rim337.jpg.html


Thank you so much SubRosa!



@ Grits - Oh yeah, that basement gave me the willies too. I am not a basement type person, don't like dark or damp or dank places at all - that basement looked like it was all three. I loved that back deck (and proximity to the stables = not having to enter town to go home) so much that I wanted Misa to live there, but would not move in with that basement as it was.

It was the first change I made in the inside of the house. I've been down there numerous times since and never felt creeped out in the slightest - I actually do love the basement now!

Now, I have been wondering if I should set up an area for children in that basement, does Hearthfire change the basement structure or just redecorate it? Does anyone know? I wonder if it will undo my nice walls and floors down there? I might have to test that out.

On Iona - I do like Iona; I kind of get a kick out of how she moans and sighs like she is worn out by working so hard to keep the Dovahkiin fed and comfortable - kind of like she has the rheumatism, but keeps working anyway - but wants to make sure you know the sacrifice she is making to do it,

So far she has never once had a bad reaction when Misa has entered; which really used to bug me about the girl in Solitude (who used to say something like "What are you doing here!" - Like Misa didn't own the house, she did). I came close a few times to telling her to follow her Thane into some Draugr dungeons,


Thanks, Grits!


If I ever get my files unloaded from the external hard drive, I'll post some screens of my Megaton house make-over, lol.