Conina the Hairdresser, becoming a mod Options

[ghastley]

I already built Conina as a follower, but didn't place her in the game world.

I'm considering putting her in the Sleeping Giant in Riverwood, so potential Nijels can find her early in the game.

My Nijel has just started Lakevoew Manor, and she saw the small house and thought it would be perfect as a hairdressing salon, especially as the main house behind it can have an alternative entrance from any balcony. So I'm thinking for Lakeview only, take away the Entryway option, and replace with Salon.

So what equipment would a Tamriel hairdressing salon contain? Chair for the customer with plenty of space around it Large bowl and jug for washing, but what else? Large mirrors seem to be unknown. Small ones would be rare, too, and the game engine doesn't offer a reflective surface for one.

[ghastley]

So I got around to working on this at the weekend. There are five varieties to work on at once: LE full, LE light, SE full, SE light, and Xbox, which only gets full, as the light version requires the use of console commands. Most of the effort was in consolidating meshes and textures into dedicated folders, which means editing all the meshes for the new texture locations.

To make it really laborious, the full versions require starting a new game to test them. I override an item that gets baked in the moment the game starts, so there's no way around testing from new. Even a save after chargen is too late. I'm shortening it with Skyrim Unbound and LAL, but a test run still takes forever.

Still, I did get to run two SE Nijels and a Rincewind through construction, and found what I hope are all the bugs. Some were in the LE version before porting, so I had to port the fixes back, as well. There's a good chance I may eventually get this project finished.

I still need to decide how to make the Rincewind outfit available on XBox1. I may just have Lucan sell it.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Nov 7 2017, 09:51 PM