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Posted by: Lopov Jan 14 2016, 10:45 PM
I found such thread in the Skyrim forums but not here so I'm starting one, the main purpose is not to clutter the regular screenshot thread because as new pics are posted there, some pics are hard to find after awhile. Feel free to post any kind of homes of your characters.
I'll start with Oberon's home northeast of Bruma, namely Snowdrift Manor. While this house is added by Better Cities, it's called Reagan's House by default and you can't own it. I removed its owner with the CS, renamed it to Snowdrift Manor and made Oberon as its owner.
Here are some pics:
http://shrani.najdi.si/?16/PZ/3OX2uBV9/sm1.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?N/Ow/2gsvlD9G/sm2.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?3N/4v/4UGcN5pX/sm3.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?1g/8m/4h3j2SK0/sm4.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?1L/Do/3lNa2SfS/sm5.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?U/1y/sjDnnOH/sm6.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?25/E4/1Qk7c9v/sm7.jpg
More pics of the interiors follow.
Posted by: mirocu Jan 14 2016, 11:07 PM
Oh, that is quite a posh place 
First I thought it was a thread to discuss the homes our characters could have. I guess that´s ok too? Not that I have too much to say, but still
Posted by: SubRosa Jan 14 2016, 11:35 PM
Neat manor house that Obe has!
Persephone has had several lairs.
http://i.imgur.com/SvlIHKI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UyXS4Ik.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1GZ8qRB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3Q0SK0W.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/R2Vmy7V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OXePbo5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZJ43X6t.jpg
Posted by: Acadian Jan 14 2016, 11:44 PM
Lopov - Nice to see some pix of Oberon's new manor overlooking Bruma!
SubRosa - Oh, I remember your customized 'Persephone's Tower'!
Posted by: Renee Jan 15 2016, 12:43 AM
Wow, what a great idea. I will add some too. Just wait'll you see RG3's cozy little cottage.
Posted by: Acadian Jan 15 2016, 01:53 AM
Buffy never stops moving. . . so her 'home' is under the moons and stars wherever she sets it up for the night. http://i.imgur.com/0d79taJ.jpg
Posted by: mirocu Jan 15 2016, 08:23 AM
I too remember Persephone´s tower. Quite nice, but I think the roof is leaking... 
http://i.imgur.com/0d79taJ.jpg
Ooh, cyrodiilic Buffy!! Haven´t seen you in such a long time!
That´s a nice bravilian style tent, don´t think I´ve seen that before
Posted by: Lopov Jan 15 2016, 12:32 PM
@SubRosa - so nice that Persephone's lair is in fact in an exterior cell. View from the observation post must be great. And the one featured in Living the high life is spectacular as well.
@Acadian - I was thinking about Buffy earlier, wondering whether she owns an actual home or not. For some reason I thought that she owns a house in Bravil. But her home is under the moons and stars is even better.
@Renee - I didn't know that Renee (not you but the other Renee) has a cottage! And we want to see Snaat Rayag's manor too.
I'm still "tidying up" Snowdrift Manor whenever he's at home which is unfortunately not often. There's a lot of alchemical clutter left behind and he doesn't have any use for it. Not to mention there are like thirty copies of Fundaments of Alchemy and Manual of Spellcraft all over the manor. The basement is in a complete disarray too but maybe it'll even stay that way, he doesn't care much about the basement.
Posted by: Acadian Jan 15 2016, 02:21 PM
Mirocu – Thanks! That tent is from the mod http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/37197/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Foblivion%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D37197%26preview%3D&pUp=1by Maskar. The mod provides tents that differ in size and ‘city coloring’.
Lopov – You are right.
At the close of Buffy’s book ‘Do You Know the Way to Kvatch?’ she was broken, despondent and heading for Valenwood to perhaps find herself. At the time she did indeed own the house in Bravil – and her dear archery master Daenlin was paying the taxes on it. Off the record, she did return to Bravil but ran into severe depression problems, too much Tamikas, poor choices, self-destructive behavior. . . . Daenlin and Kud-Ei conducted an ‘intervention’ that included selling her house (to Winter Wolf’s character) and forcing her to live in the Mages Guild under 'supervision' for awhile. It worked and Buffy did emerge strong enough to actually have a tiny role in garnering support from various cities to help Martin and Champion Sir Mazoga end the Oblivion Crisis.
After the crisis, she ended up primarily based out of the University, where Boderi agreed to share her apartment upstairs in the Mystic Archives whenever Buffy needed a place to stay (custom mod by King Coin called ‘Buffy’s Apartment’). Here is a http://i.imgur.com/DGh4SBX.jpgfrom inside the apartment. You can see the shield of Savlian Matius behind her near the window.
Good luck as Oberon goes about the fun task of making Snowdrift Manor his own!
Posted by: Grits Jan 15 2016, 04:12 PM
Lopov, Snowdrift Manor is beautiful! What a view. I like the picture of Oberon at his desk the best.
SubRosa, Persephone’s open-air lair suits her perfectly. High Life is my favorite. I love her spirit.
Acadian, I love that you captured the nirnroot in Buffy’s camp picture. I can imagine it singing her to sleep. What a beautiful shot of Buffy inside her apartment!
I love seeing how characters choose and decorate their living spaces. 
Posted by: mirocu Jan 15 2016, 04:39 PM
Buffy is so beautiful in that dress! 
Edit: Inspired by this thread I decided to talk about Lothran´s homes in his own thread. Something I should have done already but for some reason decided against it.
Posted by: Renee Jan 15 2016, 08:09 PM
Buffy never stops moving. . . so her 'home' is under the moons and stars wherever she sets it up for the night. http://i.imgur.com/0d79taJ.jpg
This is Lady Saga too. The only homes she's got are under the stars, mostly. And she 'rents' the slave houses at Lord Drad's place.
Lopov: I love the sunset pictures.
SubRosa: Love the guest beds!
Posted by: Renee Jan 15 2016, 11:44 PM
Here are a couple from Joan of Arkay's game. She owns Battlehorn Castle. 
http://i.imgur.com/eu7RZhy.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/FhrF2bJ.jpg?1
It's hard to take pics of Battlehorn; it's hard to make an entire portion of it fit in a camera shot! ... No tfc command on Xbox.
Posted by: Acadian Jan 16 2016, 01:51 AM
Oh I like seeing those shots of Battlehorn! That is the one DLC that I don't have. It came out after my 'all in one' DLC disc was released.
Posted by: Renee Jan 16 2016, 03:26 AM
Oh I like seeing those shots of Battlehorn! That is the one DLC that I don't have. It came out after my 'all in one' DLC disc was released.
From what I've gathered, most people weren't thrilled by this DLC, but my Joanie loves the place. It's like all the sudden, she's realizing Battlehorn is hers, know what I mean?
Posted by: mirocu Jan 16 2016, 05:47 AM
I´m with Acadian here. My sealed copy of the DLC disc doesn´t have Battlehorn either, so it´s fun to see the castle at long last
Posted by: ghastley Jan 16 2016, 05:46 PM
When Clark was made Earl of Gweden, he also acquired the home of the late Jakben, Earl of Imbel, now known as Imbel Manor. The furnishings differ a little, as his tastes weren't quite the same as the previous vampire owner, and of course the cellar connection to the catacombs has been blocked off.
http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ImbelDome.jpg
There are extra display cases and bookshelves in the http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ImbelDesk.jpg near the desk.
It's all a long way from his first shack on the waterfront where he discovered that http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ShackBasementDoor.jpg led to http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ShackBasement.jpg where a pair of strange sisters were hiding.
He doesn't count most of the other places he lives as his home. The sisters took over Arborwatch, and bought Rosethorn Hall, so even though he has a stake in those properties, he considers them theirs. Eyja lives at Rosethorn, and takes care of the place for them. She much prefers her new employment to working for Gunder, especially with the smart http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/Eyja.jpg (Please excuse the somewhat blurred image.)
He has a bed at Gweden, and another at the Red Dragon Club, but those are best described as http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/JulianaWaits.jpg
He has accommodations in Moonshadow (http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/MoonshadowGuesthouse.jpg, http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/MoonshadowGuesthouseInterior.jpg, http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/MoonshadowGuesthouseAttendant.jpg) and http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/EvergloamCastleGuestRoom.jpg when he visits those realms, but Drelka and Cyndil are using those, so they're their homes, rather than his.
Posted by: Acadian Jan 16 2016, 06:02 PM
Nice tour of Clark's properties, ghastley. Seems he never has to crawl into a cold bed! 
Posted by: Renee Jan 17 2016, 01:29 AM
Yes, nice to see some ... some. 
Phew lordy!
Time to play some TES IV whoo hoo!
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 17 2016, 01:38 AM
Time to play some TES IV whoo hoo!
Seconded. But I'm stuck for a while batch running tes4ll on Tamriel Heightmaps to rebuild the neglected landscape, takes a while, so reading forums to get in the mood.
As for homes, I usually hang out at Emma's Aleswell Cottage, nothing grand, just a very cosy mod, with a great view. But my current character is an Argonian and I'm afraid she thinks that the Waterside Shack is the best thing going. Well, at least it's cheap.
Posted by: Acadian Jan 17 2016, 02:03 AM
I like homes that are simple and cozy so a cottage in Aleswell sounds like a good choice. And with Emma's name on it, I'm sure it is a nice mod.
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 17 2016, 02:55 AM
I like homes that are simple and cozy so a cottage in Aleswell sounds like a good choice. And with Emma's name on it, I'm sure it is a nice mod.
I recommend it highly. And it has Fingerbowl Cave out in the back yard for a bit of convenient dungeon diving. It's pretty cheap, but you have to do the Zero Visibility quest first (which ain't exactly hard).
Posted by: Renee Jan 17 2016, 05:31 AM
I have Aleswell Cottage in one of my games too. I have yet to find out how to move in though. I think the Waterfront shack is perfect for an Argonian. ha ye.
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 17 2016, 05:45 AM
I have Aleswell Cottage in one of my games too. I have yet to find out how to move in though.
Oh, you do the Zero Visibility quest, and then go talk to Diram Serethi, who offers it to you at (dunno) 3000, 5000 septims, whatever.
[Damn, we need a unicode septim character, trying to think what it would look like. Maybe a pipe | with a tilde ~ superimposed. Sort of like a dragon mebbe. Ish.]
Posted by: Renee Jan 17 2016, 04:25 PM
Oh, you do the Zero Visibility quest, and then go talk to Diram Serethi, who offers it to you at (dunno) 3000, 5000 septims, whatever.
Gah gah gah.. spoilers!
Sorry man, I wanted to figure this on my own! I'm old-skool like that.
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 17 2016, 08:59 PM
Gah gah gah.. spoilers!
Sorry man, I wanted to figure this on my own! I'm old-skool like that.Oh. But it's in the mod's readme, right there in the first section! (Mind you, readmes can be a little casual about spoilers. Which is not as bad a sin as not providing a readme at all. I hate trying to figure out what an oddly-named installer I downloaded 3 months ago and forgotten about is supposed to do, when a short note would have told me instantly.)
Oh, and it's 3,000 drakes. Very underpriced.
Posted by: Lopov Jan 17 2016, 10:03 PM
Oh, you do the Zero Visibility quest, and then go talk to Diram Serethi, who offers it to you at (dunno) 3000, 5000 septims, whatever.
Gah gah gah.. spoilers!
Sorry man, I wanted to figure this on my own! I'm old-skool like that.Hey, it's not like they're 10 ten quests available in Aleswell and you have to do the right one to get the cottage.
Posted by: Renee Jan 18 2016, 02:00 AM
I don't read Readmes for spoiler info though. I might read one for installation / compatibility info, but not for spoilers.
I've got several potential homes and potential quests (potential followers, whatever) in my games, and I have no idea how to start these potentials moving, because I'd rather stumble across the answer on my own, you see? I like surprises that happen real-time.
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 18 2016, 02:34 AM
I don't read Readmes for spoiler info though. I might read one for installation / compatibility info, but not for spoilers.
I read all readmes religiously (many mod authors' single biggest complaint is that a huge percentage of users don't read the readmes at all, leading to a lot of pointless online questions). I don't, however, read the spoilers if they're 'below the fold' and flagged as such or (preferably) in a separate document. In this case, the info is near the top of the document, in the 5th para; and it is also in the 5th para of the Nexus page. (In fact, I just don't think Emma was setting this up as a kinda quest thing, all she was doing was adding one small condition to the home purchase.)
OK, Renee, I'm sort of trying to assure you that I do not do spoilers...
Posted by: mirocu Jan 18 2016, 10:06 AM
I have written about Lothran´s homes in his fanfic thread but here´s a short summary: First he got the Imperial City waterfront shack for storage purposes, then he got the house in Bruma since Bruma quickly became his new home town and finally he got the house in Bravil because he needed a place to store collectibles from Shivering Isles.
I don´t have many good shots of his homes but I´ll try to rectify that at some point.
Posted by: Renee Jan 18 2016, 01:36 PM
Interesting, crow. RG3 also uses the Waterfront Shack more for storage than living.
OK, Renee, I'm sort of trying to assure you that I do not do spoilers...
It's okay man, I don't do spoilers if I can help it, that's how I role (see what happened there ha ha). I have a pretty bad memory. Chances are one day I'll go into Aleswell and find a quest waiting for me that I didn't expect.
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 18 2016, 03:20 PM
Interesting, crow. RG3 also uses the Waterfront Shack more for storage than living.
I have a pretty bad memory. Chances are one day I'll go into Aleswell and find a quest waiting for me that I didn't expect.
Actually, I used to do this too, leaving mods strewn round the landscape, used to have lots of mysterious houses and inns from stuff I'd forgotten I installed. Unfortunately I know what it all is now, I rather miss the mystery.
As regards house quests, not sure what the biggest one is, since I don't much care for really grand houses. (Never quite finished the Verona House questline, but I like to have the mod there for the town). I think the biggest and questiest I've owned is Hoarfrost Castle, a fine questline, great castle and location, but I haven't had a character want to actually live there. Too draughty maybe...
As for the Waterside Shack, my Argonian (who is no primitive, Mages Guild and everything) wonders how your people can neglect such a prime bit of real estate in favour of all those ghastly dry places they like to live in (if you're lucky, all you get is a little bit of rising damp). It's a bit small, but that hardly matters when the whole of Lake Rumare is your back garden.
Posted by: Grits Jan 18 2016, 10:31 PM
Jerric loves his Waterfront Shack. It stands in for his imaginary Anvil beach hut.
http://i.imgur.com/uRXwTm6.png
http://i.imgur.com/uXDoORM.png
Posted by: Acadian Jan 18 2016, 11:29 PM
Grits, so nice to see Jerric in his Anvil beach cottage. I have always considered your use of fast travel to support that arrangement to be the most creative idea for fast travel I have heard. Indeed, I have mentioned it a couple times during some of those delightfully cordial BethSoft forum threads about fast travel.
Posted by: SubRosa Jan 19 2016, 12:19 AM
The shack looks a lot nicer than I remember it! Maybe its because Chris Hemsworth is standing in it!
Posted by: tegeus-Cromis Jan 19 2016, 12:33 AM
...those delightfully cordial BethSoft forum threads about fast travel.
Someone should make a list of phrases of that ilk (so Oblivion threads could come with trigger warnings). Off the top of my head:
Fast travel
Efficient levelling
Beat(ing) the game
Minmaxing
Nexus Mod Manager
Horse armor DLC
Skyrim
Metagaming
[Actually all fiction is metafiction and all gaming is metagaming. IMO. And so it begins
]Posted by: Grits Jan 19 2016, 04:11 AM
The shack looks a lot nicer than I remember it! Maybe its because Chris Hemsworth is standing in it!
That would be my number 1 most favorite decoration!
Acadian, that made me grin. Delightfully cordial indeed.
I confess I usually don’t have the nerve to peek into those discussions!tegeus-Chromis, I think “toon” deserves a place on the list. It hurts me to even type it, but I know that for some it’s a term of endearment.
In housing news, I have a picture or two somewhere of Lil’s Shetcombe Farm from when she lived there. I just need to rummage around a little. Abiene lives in the Chorrol chapel somewhere, but I don’t think she’s decorated at all. I’ll take a look and see if she spread any of her stuff around. I’m pretty sure she at least put out some flowers.
Posted by: mirocu Jan 19 2016, 08:30 AM
How nice and neat Jerric´s home looks, Grits. Lothran´s is full of things all over the place
Posted by: Grits Jan 19 2016, 03:45 PM
Yeah, Vania the cleaning lady must have just come by. Jerric isn’t a collector. Most of the things in his inventory are for giving to other people.
I expect that Lothran also has a low table and chair(s) in front of the fire. Jerric didn’t buy all of the furnishings. He needs room to move.
Posted by: Lopov Jan 19 2016, 05:10 PM
I really like Jerric's shack, it's small but cozy and it's not too cluttered. Very creative to use it as an imaginary shack on Anvil Coast, I didn't know about this until now.
Posted by: Darkness Eternal Jan 19 2016, 06:07 PM
Shavaash is lame. He bought some cheap house in Leyawiin and later purchased more homes.
Never had the ability to, uh, modify his abode. 
Posted by: Acadian Jan 19 2016, 06:49 PM
DE, I didn't realize that you had brought Shavaash from your wonderful story into Cyrodiil as a playing character. Kewl!
Posted by: Darkness Eternal Jan 19 2016, 07:10 PM
DE, I didn't realize that you had brought Shavaash from your wonderful story into Cyrodiil as a playing character. Kewl!
Shavaash is too cool for slavery
Leyawiin is good due to the khajiit population. And the fact that it once belonged to Elsweyr.
Posted by: Lopov Jan 25 2016, 01:16 PM
Upstairs of the Snowdrift Manor - http://shrani.najdi.si/?1x/mE/1WUsGMcs/sm9.jpg going to bed in his white night gown.
The rest of interiors will be shown once I finish the MQ because he's still decorating Snowdrift Manor with various stuff.
Posted by: mirocu Jan 25 2016, 03:15 PM
Ooh, it´s such a nice looking place
Posted by: Acadian Jan 25 2016, 05:35 PM
The slanted roof line and deep window really enforces the point that Oberon's bedroom is way up in the top of his manor.
Posted by: mirocu Jan 27 2016, 09:01 PM
For anyone interested, I have now added pictures of Lothran´s homes in his Fan Fiction section thread
Time travel and loading of postcards was needed
Posted by: Decrepit Jan 28 2016, 06:50 PM
As is well known, my avatar considers Weye Manor in Weye Village his primary residence. He spends more nights there than anywhere else.
http://i.imgur.com/pjDx94p.jpg.
http://i.imgur.com/dtjThim.jpg. My avatar spends many an evening at its fireplace before retiring to his upstairs bedroom.
http://i.imgur.com/51RdkEr.jpg.
http://i.imgur.com/2HY69yY.jpg. He often eats breakfast and late evening snacks here, and enjoys its view of the Imperial City and Lake Rumare.
http://i.imgur.com/qCioLxj.jpg, where their mounts and Groucho are kept.
My avatar owns no 'city' homes save one, Benirus Manor. Here he is http://i.imgur.com/HvYBykF.jpg and also http://i.imgur.com/X34JZSl.jpg.
They own http://i.imgur.com/hUUHfpO.jpg but spend no time there to speak of.
http://i.imgur.com/ATgSTLt.jpg.
Posted by: mirocu Jan 28 2016, 06:59 PM
Such a nice collection of pictures from the Tireless Crusader´s homes!
I really like the balcony at Weye manor, I understand why he often eats his breakfast there. But I did miss the pic where the sun glares at the manor through the Imperial City. That pic is amazing
Posted by: Renee Jan 28 2016, 07:55 PM
I really like the balcony pic. So pastoral. And also the pic of them all sitting around the table looks like fun.
Lopov: Where did yours get that white nightgown? RG3 wants that big-time.
Posted by: Acadian Jan 28 2016, 09:08 PM
Nice, Decrepit! Thanks for the tour of Weye Manor.
Posted by: Grits Feb 5 2016, 12:44 PM
Lopov, I love the wood and warm light in Oberon’s bedroom. That window is gorgeous. I like Oberon’s white nightshirt.
Decrepit, Weye Manor looks lovely. I like the lively dining table, cozy fireplace, and beautiful view from the private balcony. Plus, location! What a great place to live.
Posted by: Lopov Feb 7 2016, 11:55 PM
Nice pictures of the avatar's manor, Decrepit, I believe it must truly be a gorgeous view from the balcony.
Quite a lot of staff is employed at his manor.
I like plants growing inside the farm, it makes it seem like it's outside at first glance.
That's vanilla white monk robe. Oberon took one from the Weynon Priory.
Posted by: Renee Feb 10 2016, 03:27 AM
http://i.imgur.com/NYxXnHm.png?1, we're going to be showing the cottage to some sort of people in an alternate reality. Best behavior, okay?
... Today we will have a look at Lucitia's place, aka Renee Gade III. Come along. All credits to go Maple Cottage by Emma, except for any sort of mess you notice. RG3 is a bit of a slob.
In this first picture, she arrived to her home http://i.imgur.com/BCttnNR.png. I took a pic just for the sake of contrast.
And here we are in http://i.imgur.com/f07zH8J.png?1. I cheated with this pic. It kept frickin' raining on this day, and so I finally had to fw 38eee!
http://i.imgur.com/sJPN1xT.png. Well, let's have a look inside, shall we?
What is it? http://i.imgur.com/9n4hokz.png Can't you see we're busy? ... Bards *sigh*.
http://i.imgur.com/lcOWYwF.png.
And come on, http://i.imgur.com/8fqeP93.png. Only one bed up here. http://i.imgur.com/14kgkD0.png. Gabby usually sleeps up here. A bit too "girly" for my Renee.
http://i.imgur.com/w3Ov9B6.png. Don't mind the giant glowing orb thingie. It barks sometimes but it's really friendly.
And now, the http://i.imgur.com/dBfpOmz.png?1. Not too bad, actually. At least she didn't throw her armor all over the floor this time.
Posted by: Acadian Feb 10 2016, 03:45 AM
What a fun tour of Chez Renee! Looks like a wonderful cottage.
Posted by: SubRosa Feb 10 2016, 03:51 AM
Very fun tour of the girly and non-girly parts. Sign me up for the girly room with Gabrielle!
Posted by: mirocu Feb 10 2016, 08:12 AM
Nice place, Renee
I´m not too sure about that orb, though..
Posted by: Renee Feb 10 2016, 05:08 PM
I'm really impressed by the window shade meshes (or is it textures? I always get them confused). Those off-white hangings Emma added there. Really intricate.
I'm not sure where we found that glowing orb. 
That's not an official part of Emma's work!
Posted by: Lopov Feb 10 2016, 05:37 PM
Lovely shots of Lucitia's home, Renee. Bushes around the cottage look absolutely FAB!
Gabrielle showered in rain! Better than showered in gold, I guess.
Interiors are inspired by Cheydinhal architecture, it seems to me. Love the curtains.
Wow, I really like the bedroom upstairs. As you say, it's small but cozy.
RGIII has the most spacious room but I like upstairs more just because of the window.
Posted by: mirocu Feb 10 2016, 05:38 PM
Gabrielle showered in rain! Better than showered in gold, I guess.
Not so sure I´d agree on that
Posted by: Lopov Feb 10 2016, 05:43 PM
It depends from which perspective you look at it. I meant the "other" meaning of "showered in gold".
Posted by: Renee Feb 10 2016, 08:36 PM
It depends from which perspective you look at it. I meant the "other" meaning of "showered in gold".
Nope, nothing is showered in gold in RG3's place; just a cozy little cottage is all she's got. Maybe that'll change someday. The window hangings must be expensive though.
I must say, Emma packed a whole lot of features in there. Apparently Renee can craft jewelry, tan her own hides, and craft her own armor. And even brew alcohol.
She's not really patient enough to learn how to do any of this stuff, but if you look at the first basement pic, the gold necklace (and other objects) lying there has something to the crafting part, at least. Posted by: Grits Feb 20 2016, 09:59 PM
Better than showered in gold, I guess.
*spits tea*
Renee, what a charming cottage! Though I love her Xena cleavage cuirass, Ms Gade III looks fabulous in her griffen armor. Gabby is adorable, as ever. I’d be willing to sleep on the floor in her gorgeous room. What a fun tour, culminating in the bedchamber of Lucitia herself. I love that the mess changes according to what she’s been doing. It’s not just arranged and left that way forever. Really neat, and spacious enough to accommodate her entourage.
Thank you for the tour!
Posted by: Renee Feb 21 2016, 04:08 AM
Gabby is adorable, as ever.
Now this makes me happy because I tried my best to make her look like Renee 'o Connor.
http://i.imgur.com/YBzzcMX.png
As we can see, the original looks nothing like Gabby at all, it's like the mod author just picked some random face and walked away!
Thank you for the tour!
OH yeah, you betcha.
Posted by: Renee Apr 17 2016, 03:43 AM
I figured I'd do Kahreem's home now, since he just arrived. There's not much to it, he's a guy. Kidding.
http://i.imgur.com/lMsEHjE.jpg?1 ... The Marie Elena. For some reason he gravitated here from the moment he'd almost gotten killed by the pirates who used to live here. He is not home too often, but when he does show up, it's like he's got the best house on the Waterfront. The biggest, anyways. And they all know it and allow him to continue living there.
http://i.imgur.com/DdX6p5l.jpg?1. (Almost all my characters put some sort of large vegetables outside their front door).
http://i.imgur.com/g0Asgyl.jpg?1 ... Kahreem never sleeps up here though, he prefers mid-deck for some reason.
http://i.imgur.com/ptfHUhn.jpg?1, and that's not even half the keys he's got stored here, or carries around on his person. Kahreem definitely has the largest collection of keys of all my characters.
http://i.imgur.com/oeEJCb9.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/bHHyoKr.jpg?1
.... and that's pretty much it, ha ha.
Posted by: mirocu Apr 17 2016, 06:57 AM
He sure could have picked a worse home. Sleep on a a boat, and cheap too
Posted by: Acadian Apr 17 2016, 03:54 PM
I imagine the Marie Elena makes a great home - once you clear the pier and ship of riffraff.
The pumpkins and watermelons look like housewarming gifts from Baa and Mooch!
Posted by: Lopov Apr 18 2016, 05:31 PM
Kahreem of Weet the Locksman!
I knew that Marie Elena is his home but I didn't know that he doesn't prefer the captain's bed.
Nice pix, Renee!
Posted by: mALX Apr 28 2016, 04:35 AM
I figured I'd do Kahreem's home now, since he just arrived. There's not much to it, he's a guy.
Kidding. http://i.imgur.com/lMsEHjE.jpg?1 ... The Marie Elena. For some reason he gravitated here from the moment he'd almost gotten killed by the pirates who used to live here. He is not home too often, but when he does show up, it's like he's got the best house on the Waterfront. The biggest, anyways. And they all know it and allow him to continue living there.
http://i.imgur.com/DdX6p5l.jpg?1. (Almost all my characters put some sort of large vegetables outside their front door).
http://i.imgur.com/g0Asgyl.jpg?1 ... Kahreem never sleeps up here though, he prefers mid-deck for some reason.
http://i.imgur.com/ptfHUhn.jpg?1, and that's not even half the keys he's got stored here, or carries around on his person. Kahreem definitely has the largest collection of keys of all my characters.
http://i.imgur.com/oeEJCb9.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/bHHyoKr.jpg?1
.... and that's pretty much it, ha ha.
Maybe he prefers sleeping mid decks because those two men knock on the door continuously the rest of the game unless you kill them?
On Glathir's key ... did you check the wastebasket when you first sneak into his door?
As is well known, my avatar considers Weye Manor in Weye Village his primary residence. He spends more nights there than anywhere else.
http://i.imgur.com/pjDx94p.jpg.
http://i.imgur.com/dtjThim.jpg. My avatar spends many an evening at its fireplace before retiring to his upstairs bedroom.
http://i.imgur.com/51RdkEr.jpg.
http://i.imgur.com/2HY69yY.jpg. He often eats breakfast and late evening snacks here, and enjoys its view of the Imperial City and Lake Rumare.
http://i.imgur.com/qCioLxj.jpg, where their mounts and Groucho are kept.
My avatar owns no 'city' homes save one, Benirus Manor. Here he is http://i.imgur.com/HvYBykF.jpg and also http://i.imgur.com/X34JZSl.jpg.
They own http://i.imgur.com/hUUHfpO.jpg but spend no time there to speak of.
http://i.imgur.com/ATgSTLt.jpg.
Ooh, like that Verona House! It won "Best Quest mod" too! So, are you SenileSarg on Nexus? Looked like your Avatar in the screen.
Awesome shots!
Posted by: mALX Apr 28 2016, 05:05 AM
http://i.imgur.com/NYxXnHm.png?1, we're going to be showing the cottage to some sort of people in an alternate reality. Best behavior, okay?
... Today we will have a look at Lucitia's place, aka Renee Gade III. Come along. All credits to go Maple Cottage by Emma, except for any sort of mess you notice. RG3 is a bit of a slob.
In this first picture, she arrived to her home http://i.imgur.com/BCttnNR.png. I took a pic just for the sake of contrast.
And here we are in http://i.imgur.com/f07zH8J.png?1. I cheated with this pic. It kept frickin' raining on this day, and so I finally had to fw 38eee!
http://i.imgur.com/sJPN1xT.png. Well, let's have a look inside, shall we?
What is it? http://i.imgur.com/9n4hokz.png Can't you see we're busy? ... Bards *sigh*.
http://i.imgur.com/lcOWYwF.png.
And come on, http://i.imgur.com/8fqeP93.png. Only one bed up here. http://i.imgur.com/14kgkD0.png. Gabby usually sleeps up here. A bit too "girly" for my Renee.
http://i.imgur.com/w3Ov9B6.png. Don't mind the giant glowing orb thingie. It barks sometimes but it's really friendly.
And now, the http://i.imgur.com/dBfpOmz.png?1. Not too bad, actually. At least she didn't throw her armor all over the floor this time.
I like this cottage! (didn't know it had a basement). I saw a vid of it on Youtube where the quest was bugged and Neils was not dead and kept popping up everywhere,
Great shots, but my favorite is the adorable Renee!
I found such thread in the Skyrim forums but not here so I'm starting one, the main purpose is not to clutter the regular screenshot thread because as new pics are posted there, some pics are hard to find after awhile. Feel free to post any kind of homes of your characters.
I'll start with Oberon's home northeast of Bruma, namely Snowdrift Manor. While this house is added by Better Cities, it's called Reagan's House by default and you can't own it. I removed its owner with the CS, renamed it to Snowdrift Manor and made Oberon as its owner.
Here are some pics:
http://shrani.najdi.si/?16/PZ/3OX2uBV9/sm1.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?N/Ow/2gsvlD9G/sm2.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?3N/4v/4UGcN5pX/sm3.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?1g/8m/4h3j2SK0/sm4.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?1L/Do/3lNa2SfS/sm5.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?U/1y/sjDnnOH/sm6.jpg
http://shrani.najdi.si/?25/E4/1Qk7c9v/sm7.jpg
More pics of the interiors follow.
GAAAAAH! I want to see more of the interior!
Neat manor house that Obe has!
Persephone has had several lairs.
http://i.imgur.com/SvlIHKI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UyXS4Ik.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1GZ8qRB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3Q0SK0W.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/R2Vmy7V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OXePbo5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZJ43X6t.jpg
Maxical is going to visit and sleep in that bed, lol. Somewhere I have screens of Persephone's tower in Maxical's game, but ... I don't know where. I was inspired to make it so Maxical could spend time with Persephone up there, lol. Awesome shots, especially dancing on the board so high up - I guess the undead don't have to worry about falling? Lol. Awesome shots and mod, I loved this tower and was inspired by it.
When Clark was made Earl of Gweden, he also acquired the home of the late Jakben, Earl of Imbel, now known as Imbel Manor. The furnishings differ a little, as his tastes weren't quite the same as the previous vampire owner, and of course the cellar connection to the catacombs has been blocked off.
http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ImbelDome.jpg
There are extra display cases and bookshelves in the http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ImbelDesk.jpg near the desk.
It's all a long way from his first shack on the waterfront where he discovered that http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ShackBasementDoor.jpg led to http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/ShackBasement.jpg where a pair of strange sisters were hiding.
He doesn't count most of the other places he lives as his home. The sisters took over Arborwatch, and bought Rosethorn Hall, so even though he has a stake in those properties, he considers them theirs. Eyja lives at Rosethorn, and takes care of the place for them. She much prefers her new employment to working for Gunder, especially with the smart http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/Eyja.jpg (Please excuse the somewhat blurred image.)
He has a bed at Gweden, and another at the Red Dragon Club, but those are best described as http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/JulianaWaits.jpg
He has accommodations in Moonshadow (http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/MoonshadowGuesthouse.jpg, http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/MoonshadowGuesthouseInterior.jpg, http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/MoonshadowGuesthouseAttendant.jpg) and http://ghastley.org/Oblivion/images/EvergloamCastleGuestRoom.jpg when he visits those realms, but Drelka and Cyndil are using those, so they're their homes, rather than his.
First off, very cool cave below the IC shack !!! Secondly = Eyja's makeover - WOO HOO !!!! I LOVE the interior of the Ayleid Moonshadow guest house, AWESOME !!!
Posted by: Renee Apr 30 2016, 10:36 PM
On Glathir's key ... did you check the wastebasket when you first sneak into his door?
That's a good question. I know what's in there because at least one of mine looked in his wastebasket once. I'm not sure if Kahreem ever found this.
Posted by: mALX Apr 30 2016, 10:46 PM
On Glathir's key ... did you check the wastebasket when you first sneak into his door?
That's a good question. I know what's in there because at least one of mine looked in his wastebasket once. I'm not sure if Kahreem ever found this.
That was a really cool little surprise Bethesda threw in there, lol.
Posted by: Renee Apr 30 2016, 10:58 PM
That was a really cool little surprise Bethesda threw in there, lol.
Oh yes. It's the last place you'd expect to look, too. Wastebaskets are not usually classified as actual containers.
Posted by: mALX Apr 30 2016, 11:25 PM
That was a really cool little surprise Bethesda threw in there, lol.
Oh yes. It's the last place you'd expect to look, too. Wastebaskets are not usually classified as actual containers.
I think that is why it took so long for everyone to find, they didn't think to look at it. I didn't know about it for years, but in one game I broke into and robbed every house of every single item whether it could be sold or not - just for something to do. It was my "Bubba" character. The Thieves Guild told him to practice stealing, so he went all out; going city to city and literally cleaning them out.
I love surprises like that, though. Just some unusual secret -type thing - doesn't take much to entertain me,
Posted by: Grits Jul 17 2016, 05:29 PM
Renee, what a fun visit to Kahreem’s house! I think the mid-deck bed is cozier.
I like the pumpkins and watermelons outside the door. Some of mine have done that, too. I wondered if they got that from me as some kind of Maryland thing. Even Christmas decorations always had a bunch of fruit in them.
Posted by: gpstr Aug 25 2016, 07:55 PM
Neat manor house that Obe has!
Persephone has had several lairs.
http://i.imgur.com/SvlIHKI.jpg
Ah... I know that tower well.
One of my favorite house mods is Phitt's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/20993/? (though it's so quirky that I don't have a character who would actually choose to live there - though I like it so much that I plan on creating a character just for that purpose). It sits in just about that exact spot though. There's a compatibility patch for it, but all it does is fix the land tears and raise it a bit so that the door isn't buried - the two towers are still butted up against each other.
So some time back (when I was trying it out for a home for Bogmok, which didn't work out since the place terrified him), I did my own patch and moved it to the next peak over - to the left from the stairs up to the top rather than to the right.
http://imgur.com/a/CpUkk
http://imgur.com/a/fH2TD
That was Hanna the elf - the animal conjurer who most recently adventured in the Shivering Isles - in the first pic. Since I've hit something of a wall with Bob, I spent last night traveling with her, so when it came time to get those shots, I just loaded up her game and fast traveled up there. She's actually in the middle of finally dealing with the Orrery quest.
But that's not pertinent to this thread. Houses... that's pertinent to this thread.
This'll take a while, and multiple posts, so I'm going to work my way through the existing posts, and add my own stuff here and there. First, I want to get out of the way the handful of characters I have who live in vanilla houses, since I can just mention them and everybody knows what the houses look like.
Bob (in his first incarnation) owned all the houses. He kept his best stuff in Rosethorn Hall, but mostly worked out of the Waterfront Shack.
Jean the Redguard is a permanent resident of the Shivering Isles and lives in the Duke of Dementia's quarters.
Tim the Enchanter lives in the Archmage's quarters.
Kyla the noble Dunmer lives in the Bruma house. She fell in love with Bruma early on, and it was a natural.
Lydia the Breton ginger lives in the Cheydinhal house.
Jana the Nord goddess lives in Battlehorn Castle.
Z'ren the Khajiit stealth fighter and Arlowe Clanler the (randomly generated) Imperial petty thief both live, in their own games, in the IC Waterfront Shack.
And that's it. I've got some characters who haven't settled down anywhere specific yet, and a few more who are wanderers by nature and aren't going to settle down (and, notably, Hale the Nord dolt, who doesn't know enough to even come in out of the rain), and everyone else lives in modded houses of one sort or another. I'll deal with those over time. I've got screenshots of some of them already, but this post has gone on long enough.
Posted by: Acadian Aug 25 2016, 08:20 PM
Neat, gpstr! So many characters. Lol.
Buffy generally lives under the stars out of her mare's saddlebags or in the local MG guild hall. When at the Arcane University, she stays in a custom mod (made by King Coin for Buffy) in an added apartment upstairs in the Mystic Archives that she shares with Boderi Farano. It is basically a redo of the Skingrad house bedroom.
Oh, here's a http://i.imgur.com/DGh4SBX.jpg.
Posted by: SubRosa Aug 25 2016, 10:51 PM
The Mad Mage Tower is pretty neat. I like the look of it. It is like the Seattle Space Needle.
That looks really cool with the two towers side by side.
And Buffy has herself a swinging bachelorette pad at the University! Toga Party!
Posted by: gpstr Aug 26 2016, 06:47 PM
Seriously - how awesome is it that Buffy is so beloved that other people make mods for her?
The Mad Mage's Tower really is awesome - I can't recommend it enough. But it'd take a special sort of mage to actually live there - it was built by a literal mad mage, and it shows. There are portals, sort of like the ones in Frostcrag Spire, except that they take you through a screaming vortex along the way and spit you out at the other end. There's a chest with legs that moves around. The walls breathe - audibly and visibly - you can not only hear them, but actually see them flexing in and out. It's definitely unsettling, but it's very cool.
So... first off, the first mod house I ever did for Oblivion - http://imgur.com/a/DxIZy (with its owner - Jibran the Redguard swordsman - in front)
It's on the northeast shore of Niben Bay, a little east of due south of Cropsford. http://imgur.com/a/JtV6tThat's Fort Grief to the right, and the ImpeREAL Empire fort (I forget the name of that specific one, but it's the one along the road to Leyawiin) in the distance behind it. The dock in the foreground is a vanilla structure some might recognize.
I discovered the location first, and decided it would be a great place for a house, then I tried to figure out who might want to live there. I had been spending a fair bit of time with Jibran the Redguard swordsman at that point, and it seemed like it might appeal to him, so I loaded up his game and had him travel there so that he could check out the constuction in-game (since it was my first house mod, there was a lot of trial and error involved). An interesting side effect of that is that it pretty much ended Jibran's career. Once it was done, he just didn't seem very interested in leaving. I've taken him out a few times since then, but he doesn't go far and doesn't stay long before he starts itching to get home again.
http://imgur.com/a/yNPyn
It's all vanilla items, but I was pleased with the way it worked out. I particularly like the light - I experimented a lot and learned a lot about placing light sources from that house (I generally don't use any statics that emit light themselves - instead I use strategically placed separate lights that correspond with fake candles and such, so I can place the statics relatively close to the walls but place the actual light further out into the room, so it's a bit more diffuse and the glare on the walls isn't so strong).
In the end, it's not notable in any particular way, but I like it, and Jibran likes it, and it was a great learning experience.
Posted by: Acadian Aug 26 2016, 07:08 PM
Aww, thanks, gpstr.
Your Niben house looks great - both inside and out. I never got beyond simply doing very minor tweaks to already existing mods.
Posted by: mALX Aug 27 2016, 12:30 AM
Neat manor house that Obe has!
Persephone has had several lairs.
http://i.imgur.com/SvlIHKI.jpg
Ah... I know that tower well.
One of my favorite house mods is Phitt's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/20993/? (though it's so quirky that I don't have a character who would actually choose to live there - though I like it so much that I plan on creating a character just for that purpose). It sits in just about that exact spot though. There's a compatibility patch for it, but all it does is fix the land tears and raise it a bit so that the door isn't buried - the two towers are still butted up against each other.
So some time back (when I was trying it out for a home for Bogmok, which didn't work out since the place terrified him), I did my own patch and moved it to the next peak over - to the left from the stairs up to the top rather than to the right.
http://imgur.com/a/CpUkk
http://imgur.com/a/fH2TD
That Mad Mages Tower by Phitt is fantastic, he has some extremely unique items in there (like the dancing table that I tried to replicate in Skyrim and couldn't) - really nice place!
Persephone's tower - I made a "Persephone's Tower in my game too:
http://imgur.com/a/XswZc
My character doesn't live there, she just visits Persephone there, lol.
Neat, gpstr! So many characters. Lol.
Buffy generally lives under the stars out of her mare's saddlebags or in the local MG guild hall. When at the Arcane University, she stays in a custom mod (made by King Coin for Buffy) in an added apartment upstairs in the Mystic Archives that she shares with Boderi Farano. It is basically a redo of the Skingrad house bedroom.
Oh, here's a http://i.imgur.com/DGh4SBX.jpg.
D'aawwww!!!!! Miss Buffy in her apartment at the Arcane that King Coin built her!
Seriously - how awesome is it that Buffy is so beloved that other people make mods for her?
The Mad Mage's Tower really is awesome - I can't recommend it enough. But it'd take a special sort of mage to actually live there - it was built by a literal mad mage, and it shows. There are portals, sort of like the ones in Frostcrag Spire, except that they take you through a screaming vortex along the way and spit you out at the other end. There's a chest with legs that moves around. The walls breathe - audibly and visibly - you can not only hear them, but actually see them flexing in and out. It's definitely unsettling, but it's very cool.
So... first off, the first mod house I ever did for Oblivion - http://imgur.com/a/DxIZy (with its owner - Jibran the Redguard swordsman - in front)
It's on the northeast shore of Niben Bay, a little east of due south of Cropsford. http://imgur.com/a/JtV6tThat's Fort Grief to the right, and the ImpeREAL Empire fort (I forget the name of that specific one, but it's the one along the road to Leyawiin) in the distance behind it. The dock in the foreground is a vanilla structure some might recognize.
I discovered the location first, and decided it would be a great place for a house, then I tried to figure out who might want to live there. I had been spending a fair bit of time with Jibran the Redguard swordsman at that point, and it seemed like it might appeal to him, so I loaded up his game and had him travel there so that he could check out the constuction in-game (since it was my first house mod, there was a lot of trial and error involved). An interesting side effect of that is that it pretty much ended Jibran's career. Once it was done, he just didn't seem very interested in leaving. I've taken him out a few times since then, but he doesn't go far and doesn't stay long before he starts itching to get home again.
http://imgur.com/a/yNPyn
It's all vanilla items, but I was pleased with the way it worked out. I particularly like the light - I experimented a lot and learned a lot about placing light sources from that house (I generally don't use any statics that emit light themselves - instead I use strategically placed separate lights that correspond with fake candles and such, so I can place the statics relatively close to the walls but place the actual light further out into the room, so it's a bit more diffuse and the glare on the walls isn't so strong).
In the end, it's not notable in any particular way, but I like it, and Jibran likes it, and it was a great learning experience.
Great cabin and dock !!!
Posted by: Renee Aug 27 2016, 01:48 AM
That's a good idea, gpster... seeing all those names. I bet I can list all of mine too. This will take awhile.
I have been waiting all week do so some gaming though, that's going to come first tonight.
Acadian: Buffy's got nails and jewelry. How did you make this happen? I want too.
Posted by: Acadian Aug 27 2016, 02:01 AM
Thanks, Renee. Everything Buffy's wearing in that shot came from the Apache Goddess Store.
Posted by: SubRosa Aug 27 2016, 02:17 AM
Seriously - how awesome is it that Buffy is so beloved that other people make mods for her?
The Mad Mage's Tower really is awesome - I can't recommend it enough. But it'd take a special sort of mage to actually live there - it was built by a literal mad mage, and it shows. There are portals, sort of like the ones in Frostcrag Spire, except that they take you through a screaming vortex along the way and spit you out at the other end. There's a chest with legs that moves around. The walls breathe - audibly and visibly - you can not only hear them, but actually see them flexing in and out. It's definitely unsettling, but it's very cool.
So... first off, the first mod house I ever did for Oblivion - http://imgur.com/a/DxIZy (with its owner - Jibran the Redguard swordsman - in front)
It's on the northeast shore of Niben Bay, a little east of due south of Cropsford. http://imgur.com/a/JtV6tThat's Fort Grief to the right, and the ImpeREAL Empire fort (I forget the name of that specific one, but it's the one along the road to Leyawiin) in the distance behind it. The dock in the foreground is a vanilla structure some might recognize.
I discovered the location first, and decided it would be a great place for a house, then I tried to figure out who might want to live there. I had been spending a fair bit of time with Jibran the Redguard swordsman at that point, and it seemed like it might appeal to him, so I loaded up his game and had him travel there so that he could check out the constuction in-game (since it was my first house mod, there was a lot of trial and error involved). An interesting side effect of that is that it pretty much ended Jibran's career. Once it was done, he just didn't seem very interested in leaving. I've taken him out a few times since then, but he doesn't go far and doesn't stay long before he starts itching to get home again.
http://imgur.com/a/yNPyn
It's all vanilla items, but I was pleased with the way it worked out. I particularly like the light - I experimented a lot and learned a lot about placing light sources from that house (I generally don't use any statics that emit light themselves - instead I use strategically placed separate lights that correspond with fake candles and such, so I can place the statics relatively close to the walls but place the actual light further out into the room, so it's a bit more diffuse and the glare on the walls isn't so strong).
In the end, it's not notable in any particular way, but I like it, and Jibran likes it, and it was a great learning experience.
A very nice little cabin. That is the kind of home I prefer. Something that fits into the game world without being overwhelming.
I dug up some pictures of the house in Riverwood that I modded for my Altmer barbarian Hera.
http://i.imgur.com/SnNJJkg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3aXeveV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3yeOkYj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Os4Pksu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/djMRJLO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rzML6di.jpg
Posted by: mALX Aug 27 2016, 02:33 AM
Seriously - how awesome is it that Buffy is so beloved that other people make mods for her?
The Mad Mage's Tower really is awesome - I can't recommend it enough. But it'd take a special sort of mage to actually live there - it was built by a literal mad mage, and it shows. There are portals, sort of like the ones in Frostcrag Spire, except that they take you through a screaming vortex along the way and spit you out at the other end. There's a chest with legs that moves around. The walls breathe - audibly and visibly - you can not only hear them, but actually see them flexing in and out. It's definitely unsettling, but it's very cool.
So... first off, the first mod house I ever did for Oblivion - http://imgur.com/a/DxIZy (with its owner - Jibran the Redguard swordsman - in front)
It's on the northeast shore of Niben Bay, a little east of due south of Cropsford. http://imgur.com/a/JtV6tThat's Fort Grief to the right, and the ImpeREAL Empire fort (I forget the name of that specific one, but it's the one along the road to Leyawiin) in the distance behind it. The dock in the foreground is a vanilla structure some might recognize.
I discovered the location first, and decided it would be a great place for a house, then I tried to figure out who might want to live there. I had been spending a fair bit of time with Jibran the Redguard swordsman at that point, and it seemed like it might appeal to him, so I loaded up his game and had him travel there so that he could check out the constuction in-game (since it was my first house mod, there was a lot of trial and error involved). An interesting side effect of that is that it pretty much ended Jibran's career. Once it was done, he just didn't seem very interested in leaving. I've taken him out a few times since then, but he doesn't go far and doesn't stay long before he starts itching to get home again.
http://imgur.com/a/yNPyn
It's all vanilla items, but I was pleased with the way it worked out. I particularly like the light - I experimented a lot and learned a lot about placing light sources from that house (I generally don't use any statics that emit light themselves - instead I use strategically placed separate lights that correspond with fake candles and such, so I can place the statics relatively close to the walls but place the actual light further out into the room, so it's a bit more diffuse and the glare on the walls isn't so strong).
In the end, it's not notable in any particular way, but I like it, and Jibran likes it, and it was a great learning experience.
A very nice little cabin. That is the kind of home I prefer. Something that fits into the game world without being overwhelming.
I dug up some pictures of the house in Riverwood that I modded for my Altmer barbarian Hera.
http://i.imgur.com/SnNJJkg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3aXeveV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3yeOkYj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Os4Pksu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/djMRJLO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rzML6di.jpg
This place is Awesome! I especially think my thief character (Bubba Khan the Redguard) will enjoy slipping in while Hera is off adventuring and visiting that table full of cash! Bwaahaa!
Posted by: SubRosa Aug 27 2016, 03:32 AM
Ooops, that was for the wrong game. I didn't realize this was an Oblivion topic. I'll have to dig for some pics of Nykteria's Cadlew Chapel home.
Posted by: mALX Aug 27 2016, 03:51 AM
Well, no matter where I live in Cyrodiil or anywhere else in Tamriel; there is one thing you will always find somewhere in my home:
A card game and a "Still" in the basement, BWAAHAA!!!!
Posted by: Renee Aug 27 2016, 04:33 AM
Whoa, playing cards. Holy crap!
Acadian: No kidding. I've already got Apachi Goddess Store in RG3's game. She's not really as girly as I think she is, though, and tends to not shop there as much as I would if I lived in Cyrodiil. But nails and jewelry. I can see her going in there for those touches.
Back on topic
gpster: I like how Jibran doesn't like to stray too far from his cabin, that's neat.
Posted by: Acadian Aug 27 2016, 01:00 PM
Oh, I remember the fabulous work SubRosa did with Cadlew Chapel for her necrodude huntress.
Oh, mALX, don't forget the nearly ever present red hair.
Posted by: mirocu Aug 27 2016, 02:02 PM
Oh, I remember the fabulous work SubRosa did with Cadlew Chapel for her necrodude huntress.
Yeah, it turned out really nice. Maybe you could include that short little video as well, SubRosa? It displays it quite good
Posted by: gpstr Aug 27 2016, 08:11 PM
@SubRosa - it is a nice house though - just in a different province.
Funny that you have an Altmer barbarian too. I actually spent some time with mine - Lemdel - last night, but we weren't really gaming. In the interest of this thread, there's a house he particularly likes - http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/26595/, but the location just isn't right for him - turns out he's not all that barbaric a barbarian and likes being around cities and people too much to be that live that far out in the wilderness. So off and on, and again last night, I'll spend some time in his game, wandering around and trying to find a suitable location to move that house to. Still didn't find one though.
I also spent some time with my sultry Dunmer mage Maelyn (had to pull her out of the Shivering Isles first), trying to get some good screenshots of her home - the http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/35894/. The weather just wouldn't cooperate though - even when I forced clear weather, it stayed foggy, and inevitably crept back to rain. Lots of good screenshots at the end of that link though, and since my version is only mildly modded, that'll likely do. It is a tremendous house, and perfectly suited to a fabulously wealthy, powerful and proud retired courtesan turned mage/adventurer.
And since it appears I'm posting without screenshots (I still have some of some of my own later houses, but I'm saving those for the time being), I should mention Vorlin the Bosmer hunter, who lives in http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/32652/, pitched in whatever forest clearing appeals to him at the moment. It's just a simple and rustic tent, and suits him well.
For that matter, I might as well mention Hanna, my lovely elfin archer and animal summoner, who lives in one of the most impressive mod houses I know of - AtomicDryad's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/13237/. I plan on getting some shots of it, just because I like it (and her) so much, but just in case I don't, it's here anyway.
Posted by: mALX Aug 27 2016, 08:27 PM
Oh, I remember the fabulous work SubRosa did with Cadlew Chapel for her necrodude huntress.
Oh, mALX, don't forget the nearly ever present red hair.
That is only in the house when the girls are there, though;
I modded that card game and drinking to go on whether she is home or not, NPC's show up to play cards and drink, it is hilarious because some NPC's that are not modded to be there show up! Once at my waterfront shack front porch card game in the Imperial City Malvulis the Pirate wandered up and sang a song to Maxical, drank and talked to the other NPC's, then wandered back to the Maria Elena!!! Posted by: mALX Aug 27 2016, 09:09 PM
For that matter, I might as well mention Hanna, my lovely elfin archer and animal summoner, who lives in one of the most impressive mod houses I know of - AtomicDryad's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/13237/. I plan on getting some shots of it, just because I like it (and her) so much, but just in case I don't, it's here anyway.
This place is Awesome !!!
The Island in the Sky was great, but I have yet to see any new floating city/home any better done than FlintOne's "Theryon," it remains one of my favorite mods of all time:
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/32699/?
Posted by: SubRosa Aug 28 2016, 02:02 AM
I found my pics of Cadlew Chapel, after Nykteria fixed it up and moved in.
http://i.imgur.com/sCKcOuu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dqDLBez.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7CMS4BT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GmEp9Ar.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KJGbV4z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vU2haQ1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3ED982nh0
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/41135/
Posted by: Acadian Aug 28 2016, 03:01 AM
Your Cadlew Chapel is just as wonderful as I remember. Where does she keep her massive collection of black robes harvested from dead necrodudes?
Posted by: gpstr Aug 28 2016, 08:27 PM
@mALX - that Theryon does look nice. So nice that I'm even a bit tempted to try it out, which is actually saying something, since I generally don't even bother to keep reading descriptions when I get to the part where the house includes trainers and vendors. That one just might be worth it anyway though...
@SubRosa - I know that Chapel well too - it's in a couple of my games (nobody lives in it though - it's just much more pleasant than the vanilla version).
So here's the second house mod I did for Oblivion, though it's not entirely appropriate for this thread, since I still don't have a character who actually lives there.
What happened was that I first found the spot and decided it'd be a great spot for a house. It's south of the Orange Road, a bit closer to the Chorrol end than the Bruma end, almost due south from the waterfall pond that's clearly visible and close to the road. If you're coming from Chorrol, the road there swings up toward the northeast, then there's a switchback right at that waterfall pond and it swings back to the southeast. The spot is pretty much due south of there, in the space bracketed by those two sections of the road. None of the vanilla houses seemed quite right for it though, so it sort of languished for a while (I use Map Marker Overhaul, so I put a custom map marker on it so I could find it again). Then, at some later point, I came across http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/42737 and I knew before I even downloaded it that it was going in that spot.
http://imgur.com/a/EToFP
http://imgur.com/a/5Ngdd
Since it's in that sort of v-shaped space between the roads, there are actually two approaches to it - one from each side. The Chorrol side is more scenic though - the Bruma side starts out below the cabin and you can't even really see it until you're almost on top of it.
http://imgur.com/a/sW4WV
It's still one of my favorites of my houses, and I really want someone to live there, but it's just not quite right for any of my characters. It exists in all of their games though, and sometimes one or another of them will spend a night if they're in the area. And maybe someday...
Posted by: Renee Aug 28 2016, 11:50 PM
My gosh, I'm getting swamped with ideas for new dwellings because of this thread!
Posted by: gpstr Aug 30 2016, 01:30 AM
A couple of quick and minor ones today.
The first is a modded version of Agarmir's house in the Talos Plaza district. It's another one that i did without a specific occupant in mind, then looked for someone who would want to live there. This time though, I found one - Dawn, my spoiled and willful Breton spellsword. It's not as lush as she'd prefer, but it's the best she can do for now, and at least it's better than that grimy shack - there was no *way* she could live *there*.
http://imgur.com/a/qTwtJ
http://imgur.com/a/eewvg That includes a thing I've put in most of my houses since - static, leveled alchemy equipment. They're statics, set as activators, running a script that temporarily adds a full set of alchemy equipment of the correct level for the character's alchemy skill to their inventory.
http://imgur.com/a/q0V2D.
http://imgur.com/a/WF5nX
http://imgur.com/a/284yp
The other one is Belladonna's pocket dimension room. It was built off of the http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/36105/ (which is a terrific mod if you ever get the urge to build a pocket dimension home - it's just all of the necessary scripts and activators - you supply the pocket dimension). Hers is really simple - just a single tower room with a teleport pad in one corner and some necessities spread around the room. It initially came about because she changes clothes far too often, and couldn't carry her entire wardrobe and I was tired of taking her back and forth to the IC. I considered something along the lines of a Bag of Holding, but liked this idea better.
http://imgur.com/a/3RrY0 It actually suits her quite well, since it provides a no-fuss place to stash the stuff she's accumulated and her rather extensive wardrobe, and a place to sleep, and that's really all she either needs or wants.
Posted by: mALX Aug 30 2016, 02:06 AM
I found my pics of Cadlew Chapel, after Nykteria fixed it up and moved in.
http://i.imgur.com/sCKcOuu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dqDLBez.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7CMS4BT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GmEp9Ar.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KJGbV4z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vU2haQ1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE3ED982nh0
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/41135/
This place is Awesome! I'm dying to know how you got rid of the blood stained interior of that chapel !!!
@mALX - that Theryon does look nice. So nice that I'm even a bit tempted to try it out, which is actually saying something, since I generally don't even bother to keep reading descriptions when I get to the part where the house includes trainers and vendors. That one just might be worth it anyway though...
@SubRosa - I know that Chapel well too - it's in a couple of my games (nobody lives in it though - it's just much more pleasant than the vanilla version).
So here's the second house mod I did for Oblivion, though it's not entirely appropriate for this thread, since I still don't have a character who actually lives there.
What happened was that I first found the spot and decided it'd be a great spot for a house. It's south of the Orange Road, a bit closer to the Chorrol end than the Bruma end, almost due south from the waterfall pond that's clearly visible and close to the road. If you're coming from Chorrol, the road there swings up toward the northeast, then there's a switchback right at that waterfall pond and it swings back to the southeast. The spot is pretty much due south of there, in the space bracketed by those two sections of the road. None of the vanilla houses seemed quite right for it though, so it sort of languished for a while (I use Map Marker Overhaul, so I put a custom map marker on it so I could find it again). Then, at some later point, I came across http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/42737 and I knew before I even downloaded it that it was going in that spot.
http://imgur.com/a/EToFP
http://imgur.com/a/5Ngdd
Since it's in that sort of v-shaped space between the roads, there are actually two approaches to it - one from each side. The Chorrol side is more scenic though - the Bruma side starts out below the cabin and you can't even really see it until you're almost on top of it.
http://imgur.com/a/sW4WV
It's still one of my favorites of my houses, and I really want someone to live there, but it's just not quite right for any of my characters. It exists in all of their games though, and sometimes one or another of them will spend a night if they're in the area. And maybe someday...
In Theryon - I think the vendors and trainers are all located in the town below the Player home part itself; but that said - I did find a woman coming down the steps to the outside from the pool area; and she was dressed as if she had been swimming. She is the only one I ever found in the house itself; and I'm like you = don't like NPC's wandering in my home uninvited, lol.
Stroti's cabin is one of my favorite of his mods ... oh well, everything he makes is my favorite, lol. But that furniture he made to go with it has graced several of my houses, too.
You did an excellent job setting up the interior!
Posted by: mALX Aug 30 2016, 02:24 AM
A couple of quick and minor ones today.
The first is a modded version of Agarmir's house in the Talos Plaza district. It's another one that i did without a specific occupant in mind, then looked for someone who would want to live there. This time though, I found one - Dawn, my spoiled and willful Breton spellsword. It's not as lush as she'd prefer, but it's the best she can do for now, and at least it's better than that grimy shack - there was no *way* she could live *there*.
http://imgur.com/a/qTwtJ
http://imgur.com/a/eewvg That includes a thing I've put in most of my houses since - static, leveled alchemy equipment. They're statics, set as activators, running a script that temporarily adds a full set of alchemy equipment of the correct level for the character's alchemy skill to their inventory.
http://imgur.com/a/q0V2D.
http://imgur.com/a/WF5nX
http://imgur.com/a/284yp
The other one is Belladonna's pocket dimension room. It was built off of the http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/36105/ (which is a terrific mod if you ever get the urge to build a pocket dimension home - it's just all of the necessary scripts and activators - you supply the pocket dimension). Hers is really simple - just a single tower room with a teleport pad in one corner and some necessities spread around the room. It initially came about because she changes clothes far too often, and couldn't carry her entire wardrobe and I was tired of taking her back and forth to the IC. I considered something along the lines of a Bag of Holding, but liked this idea better.
http://imgur.com/a/3RrY0 It actually suits her quite well, since it provides a no-fuss place to stash the stuff she's accumulated and her rather extensive wardrobe, and a place to sleep, and that's really all she either needs or wants.
How odd that I never thought of using Agamir's house after he was killed! Very good idea !!!
That portable house idea is awesome !!!
Posted by: mirocu Aug 30 2016, 09:57 AM
Nice work with Agarmir´s house, gpstr. And a really nice touch with the alchemy set being static and set as activators
Posted by: gpstr Aug 31 2016, 12:17 AM
One of my more ambitious houses - this one was built for a specific character.
My cool and collected little elf archer and claymore fighter Cressida is also one of my longest-lived and favorite characters. After many adventures in Cyrodiil, she spent a long time in the Shivering Isles, exploring everywhere (and notably, being calm and collected and all-business, she came out of it just as she went into it - entirely sane).
I had long wanted to do my own version of the Cheydinhal house that Llevana Nedaren lives in, and Cressida was about ready to retire, and she's used pretty much nothing but http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/4804/, and the vendor for those lives in a house north of the road to Cheydinhal, and all of that came together, and I decided to give her a version of that house somewhere near that road.
After exploring and experimenting, I ended up putting it on top of one of the hills east of the IC.
https://imgur.com/a/RA12T
http://imgur.com/a/Qn45D
http://imgur.com/a/qMs4D - the living area is all vanilla pieces, but the kitchen (as with most of the kitchens in my houses) depends heavily on Stroti's meshes. I particularly like the stove.
http://imgur.com/a/C4kEj - nothing really special there - it's just cozy.
http://imgur.com/a/TSanE- an enchanted garden and alchemy lab (with leveled static equipment).
She's another character who rarely leaves her house now, but I was prepared for that this time. And actually, since I spent some time taking those shots, I took her out for a while last night and ran through a couple of nearby dungeons, which made it all worth it by itself.
Posted by: Acadian Aug 31 2016, 01:09 AM
Nice work, gpstr! A good combo of cozy and stately. It is nice that Cressida has a beautiful semi-retirement place to relax.
Posted by: SubRosa Aug 31 2016, 02:04 AM
Now that is the kind of place I would love to live in.
Posted by: mALX Aug 31 2016, 09:35 AM
One of my more ambitious houses - this one was built for a specific character.
My cool and collected little elf archer and claymore fighter Cressida is also one of my longest-lived and favorite characters. After many adventures in Cyrodiil, she spent a long time in the Shivering Isles, exploring everywhere (and notably, being calm and collected and all-business, she came out of it just as she went into it - entirely sane).
I had long wanted to do my own version of the Cheydinhal house that Llevana Nedaren lives in, and Cressida was about ready to retire, and she's used pretty much nothing but http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/4804/, and the vendor for those lives in a house north of the road to Cheydinhal, and all of that came together, and I decided to give her a version of that house somewhere near that road.
After exploring and experimenting, I ended up putting it on top of one of the hills east of the IC.
https://imgur.com/a/RA12T
http://imgur.com/a/Qn45D
http://imgur.com/a/qMs4D - the living area is all vanilla pieces, but the kitchen (as with most of the kitchens in my houses) depends heavily on Stroti's meshes. I particularly like the stove.
http://imgur.com/a/C4kEj - nothing really special there - it's just cozy.
http://imgur.com/a/TSanE- an enchanted garden and alchemy lab (with leveled static equipment).
She's another character who rarely leaves her house now, but I was prepared for that this time. And actually, since I spent some time taking those shots, I took her out for a while last night and ran through a couple of nearby dungeons, which made it all worth it by itself.
This place is Awesome! Just gorgeous!
Now that is the kind of place I would love to live in.
Ditto!!!
Posted by: gpstr Sep 1 2016, 01:10 AM
Thanks all. I like it and Cressida likes it, but I wasn't sure about the tastes of either of us...
The next one is someone else's creation, only somewhat modded by me. It's the home for my scruffy Orc ex-adventurer turned thief, Lud gro-Dalum - http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14556/.
It's the standard narrow IC house (the same model as Agarmir's house, except flipped left to right).
http://imgur.com/a/LIJXW
http://imgur.com/a/8ydk7
Yes - the apartment includes a maid - Molly. Lud thought that would be pretty nifty - he's a bit of a social climber, and he quite liked the idea of having a maid, and a pretty one to boot. The problem though... well http://imgur.com/a/fMUxK. That's one of her friendlier faces.
In the early days, he'd come home and she'd be there and he'd go to talk to her, and she'd give him that look (or worse), and he'd slink up the stairs. Now he pretty much just sees that she's there, and slinks up the stairs.
Her dress, by the bye, is one of Retma's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/25014/ - a mod I've had knocking around for years now and never had an opportunity to use.
Lud's not really attached to the ground floor anyway, so it's not that much of a problem (save for those uncomfortable moments when he's slinking from the door to the stairs, and feeling her eyes burning into his back). But the other part of the house he likes is through the basement door, and for that, it might as well be on the other side of the planet.
When you go through the basement door, it goes down one flight, http://imgur.com/a/n9SlW. It's a cozy little magic library and alchemy lab, and he'd actually like to spend some time there. But just another flight down from there is http://imgur.com/a/0Jzr3. That's actually just the front room of it - mostly storage, and that wonderful fireplace. There's another room with her bed and the rest of her personal stuff, but there's no way he's going to even go near that door.
I've actually considered modding her out of the game, and playing it that he fired her, but I honestly don't think he'd have the courage to confront her directly enough to fire her. And really, it sort of amuses me to torture him.
Posted by: mALX Sep 2 2016, 04:47 PM
Thanks all. I like it and Cressida likes it, but I wasn't sure about the tastes of either of us...
The next one is someone else's creation, only somewhat modded by me. It's the home for my scruffy Orc ex-adventurer turned thief, Lud gro-Dalum - http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14556/.
It's the standard narrow IC house (the same model as Agarmir's house, except flipped left to right).
http://imgur.com/a/LIJXW
http://imgur.com/a/8ydk7
Yes - the apartment includes a maid - Molly. Lud thought that would be pretty nifty - he's a bit of a social climber, and he quite liked the idea of having a maid, and a pretty one to boot. The problem though... well http://imgur.com/a/fMUxK. That's one of her friendlier faces.
In the early days, he'd come home and she'd be there and he'd go to talk to her, and she'd give him that look (or worse), and he'd slink up the stairs. Now he pretty much just sees that she's there, and slinks up the stairs.
Her dress, by the bye, is one of Retma's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/25014/ - a mod I've had knocking around for years now and never had an opportunity to use.
Lud's not really attached to the ground floor anyway, so it's not that much of a problem (save for those uncomfortable moments when he's slinking from the door to the stairs, and feeling her eyes burning into his back). But the other part of the house he likes is through the basement door, and for that, it might as well be on the other side of the planet.
When you go through the basement door, it goes down one flight, http://imgur.com/a/n9SlW. It's a cozy little magic library and alchemy lab, and he'd actually like to spend some time there. But just another flight down from there is http://imgur.com/a/0Jzr3. That's actually just the front room of it - mostly storage, and that wonderful fireplace. There's another room with her bed and the rest of her personal stuff, but there's no way he's going to even go near that door.
I've actually considered modding her out of the game, and playing it that he fired her, but I honestly don't think he'd have the courage to confront her directly enough to fire her. And really, it sort of amuses me to torture him.
You had me rolling with the "Molly,"
- Yeah, she most def would have gotten the axe from my game before installing unless she had some great dialogue or something. What bothers me so much on this mod (other than Molly) is the downstairs - someone has oversized the furniture so it fits into the spaces; and it looks really strange; kind of like that room in Aarkved's Tower.
Posted by: gpstr Sep 2 2016, 09:18 PM
@mALX - actually, that was probably me. I'm not sure now - I know I edited that house a fair bit, but it was mostly upstairs. I didn't do much downstairs, but I might've done that. I know those upper class bookshelves have long irritated me because the proportions are all wrong for bookshelves - the shelves are generally too short to stand books up on them - and I remember at least experimenting with upscaling them, and would presume, since that one's clearly upscaled, that that was where and when. The "couch" looks a bit oversized, but that's just a trick of perspective.
I hadn't thought about it, since I haven't done a house with upper class furniture lately, but now that I've figured out how to get around in Blender, I think I'll see if I can put together some better upper class shelves - what I've always wanted is something about the proportions of the middle class ones or even the wall shelves. I can already visualize how to edit the meshes to work, but the textures are potentially going to be a problem...
Next up is just an edit - Frostcrag Spire, as it exists for the home of my arrogant and ambitious Orc mage Ughoth gro-Sharam.
This started with http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14840/, which is just a clean and simple few tweaks to make it a bit more reasonable - more and better furniture, better lighting, better landscaping and the like. I then tweaked that a bit, and ended up with this.
http://imgur.com/a/4YuXM It's not radically different from the original, and I think it's mostly what came with Disannoyed - as I remember, I just added a few containers.
http://imgur.com/a/8t8gJ This is changed more from the original (though I can't say for certain at this point exactly what's different, since this is my edit of someone else's edit). It includes a set of leveled static alchemy equipment, and the detail I'm most pleased with. If you look at the alchemy table, you can see two silvery rectangles at either end of the front. Those are Crystal Chests from SI, downscaled, rotated and embedded in the table model, so it has two containers - one for ingredients and one for potions.
I have a long term goal of doing something with the underground storage room, but I might not get around to actually doing it, since I sort of doubt that Ughoth is going to use it anyway - he already has pretty much all the storage he needs, and if he does want some more, there's still a good bit of wasted space on the main floor.
Posted by: SubRosa Sep 2 2016, 11:09 PM
mALX: http://i.imgur.com/OHEJnw7.jpg
gpstr: Your simplified Frostcrag looks a lot more inviting than the vanilla version. I never used it for any of my characters. It is too far from everything, and I just never really liked the dwarven stuff.
Posted by: mALX Sep 3 2016, 07:34 AM
I hadn't thought about it, since I haven't done a house with upper class furniture lately, but now that I've figured out how to get around in Blender, I think I'll see if I can put together some better upper class shelves - what I've always wanted is something about the proportions of the middle class ones or even the wall shelves. I can already visualize how to edit the meshes to work, but the textures are potentially going to be a problem...
Next up is just an edit - Frostcrag Spire, as it exists for the home of my arrogant and ambitious Orc mage Ughoth gro-Sharam.
This started with http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/14840/, which is just a clean and simple few tweaks to make it a bit more reasonable - more and better furniture, better lighting, better landscaping and the like. I then tweaked that a bit, and ended up with this.
http://imgur.com/a/4YuXM It's not radically different from the original, and I think it's mostly what came with Disannoyed - as I remember, I just added a few containers.
http://imgur.com/a/8t8gJ This is changed more from the original (though I can't say for certain at this point exactly what's different, since this is my edit of someone else's edit). It includes a set of leveled static alchemy equipment, and the detail I'm most pleased with. If you look at the alchemy table, you can see two silvery rectangles at either end of the front. Those are Crystal Chests from SI, downscaled, rotated and embedded in the table model, so it has two containers - one for ingredients and one for potions.
I have a long term goal of doing something with the underground storage room, but I might not get around to actually doing it, since I sort of doubt that Ughoth is going to use it anyway - he already has pretty much all the storage he needs, and if he does want some more, there's still a good bit of wasted space on the main floor.
I also preferred the middle and lower class styles in Oblivion = agree the upper shelves were not made to actually hold books; they are nearly impossible to add books to without using a lot of calculations on the axes (axixes)
What I did in my mods was to retexture the wood on the middle and low class furniture to make a very pleasing result that was also more utile than the upper class furniture.
That table sounds Awesome!!!! I don't have Shivering Isles for my PC game, really sad because they had so many things I would have loved to use in my mods!
mALX: http://i.imgur.com/OHEJnw7.jpg
gpstr: Your simplified Frostcrag looks a lot more inviting than the vanilla version. I never used it for any of my characters. It is too far from everything, and I just never really liked the dwarven stuff.
Molly Hatchet!!!
and ...
*cough...cough...er, Persephones Tower ...cough* BWAAHAA!
One of the very few things I didn't like about vanilla Oblivion was the lack of food on the tables. Other than card games; my houses always got a good dose of food around the dining areas - and if food was on a plate and a cup beside it, that cup was never empty. Same as in Fallout, I don't like to see empty plates, lol.
What I did was make the plates respawning containers and created food to go in them that was a little better than what one might find in the game (sort of like how Eyja's Shepherd's Pie was a cut above any other food in the game). That way the table always had food at it, and the player could actually sit down and eat something = interactive.
Here is an example of both a retex of the lower class furniture and the food in the dining area. This is the Leyawiin house with a coat of yellow paint. The room divider was just retexed with a carpet texture. The lower class gray wood was replaced with a warm blonde wood texture, and the lower class cloth seats I used some cleaner white cloth texture.
The dinner plates at the table each contain a portion of what you are seeing; I even created the gravy to go with those ribs. The food on the shelves is alsol respawning containers of whatever you see. The bread has slices of bread inside that the Player can eat; the apple pie has slices of apple pie inside. (the cheese plate has wedges of cheese, etc.) The drinks are the same, either ale, beer, wine, or mead depending on what you see:
Posted by: SubRosa Sep 3 2016, 03:17 PM
I really love that lower class wood retexture. It looks simpler and not-expensive, but not all rickety and falling apart like the vanilla textures do.
Posted by: gpstr Sep 3 2016, 05:59 PM
@SubRosa - the only thing that makes Frostcrag workable for Ughoth is that he has a teleport spell to get up there in the first place, then the Mages Guild portals to get back down to any of the cities. If it wasn't for that, he wouldn't use it.
@mALX - Mmm... yeah. The respawning plates are a good idea. I was familiar with the underlying concept, since Stroti did a bunch of meshes like that - food statics that are actually containers. I often use some of them - a ham shank hanging on a hook, a round of cheese on a plate, a box of potatoes.
But my houses generally don't have food on the table. The way I see it is that the only time that a table would normally have food on it is when people are actually sitting there eating. The rest of the time, they either have nothing on them other than maybe a centerpiece, or have whatever's accumulated since the last meal, so that's generally the way I set up the tables in my houses.
On to another house, and this one is going to be... a bit disturbing.
This is almost entirely untouched. It's aoringo's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/32830/ - a mansion in the Elven Gardens district, and it's the ancestral home of my vile scumbag of an Imperial mage/assassin Clive.
It's built into the dead end in the middle outer wall of the EG district. http://imgur.com/a/8Bj7M
http://imgur.com/a/nmoPF. More accurately, that's half of the main room - the other half is a bar, which at that moment had two naked maids behind it. The maids aren't actually set to be naked - they have a relatively complex scripted system for dressing and undressing on schedule, but the "problem" with that (it's not a problem for Clive, though it sort of is for me) is that they can get stuck on the undressed side of one of the scripted transitions, then they keep spawning that way unless I hang around long enough to get them over to the dressed side of it. Molly, in Lud's apartment, actually has the same set of scripts, and the same problem, but that doesn't make her any less intimidating to Lud - just the opposite in fact.
http://imgur.com/a/JlbCU. This actually sits above a trophy room that I didn't bother to get a shot of, since it's mostly empty pedestals and empty shelves, since Clive hasn't accumulated many trophies yet. And as I think about it, I should mod some older stuff in that would've come from his ancestors... Yeah... I think I'll be doing that later. Anyway... the door you can see in this pic leads off to the guest wing, which is just a guest wing, then the maid's wing beyond that. There's another door around the corner that leads up another flight of stairs to Clives rooms.
http://imgur.com/a/GoVd7. That's the large IC upper story model. The first shot is from the loft looking down into the room, the second shot's from the end of the room looking back toward the loft and the third shot is the magic library and alchemy lab inside the room with the sliding doors. This is the only room that I edited much, and I just rearranged furniture and lights a bit and added some cabinets.
Now we start getting into the unsettling stuff.
The maids wing includes a http://imgur.com/a/qzPLw that they use on schedule every evening (and is one of the reasons that they're scripted to undress and dress on schedule). In the library, directly below Clive's rooms, there's a hidden entrance to a secret passage. The secret passage leads to http://imgur.com/a/rNATo.
That's just a little creepy. The next one - the house has an enormous basement, with a network of rooms - storage, wine cellar and the like. One room has a pair of cabinets built into the walls, facing each other. One is a cabinet, but the other opens onto a locked door. The door, when unlocked, leads down to a really disturbing sort of sexual http://imgur.com/a/qXSZJ. It's the sort of ad hoc "arena" model that's built into the basement of the fighters guild hall in Leyawiin - you can see the viewing area in the background of the first pic - except obviously not set up for combat. Something much more sinister and disturbing goes on down there.
When I first poked around in the house after downloading it, years ago, it really sort of creeped me out, and I never thought I'd use it. After I got Clive going and figured out just what sort of person he is, I remembered that house and tried it out in his game, and (unfortunately?) it's a perfect fit for him - large and old and obviously stately once but now a bit shabby and timeworn, and creepy.
Posted by: mALX Sep 3 2016, 08:38 PM
I really love that lower class wood retexture. It looks simpler and not-expensive, but not all rickety and falling apart like the vanilla textures do.
Thank you! I actually like it better than the upper class look; although I prefer the middle class round table (because no slats). I also switched to the middle class bed with this same wood retex on it for the Leyawiin; Bravil; and Waterfront Shack player homes. (retextured the bed covers also)
Posted by: mALX Sep 3 2016, 09:04 PM
@SubRosa - the only thing that makes Frostcrag workable for Ughoth is that he has a teleport spell to get up there in the first place, then the Mages Guild portals to get back down to any of the cities. If it wasn't for that, he wouldn't use it.
@mALX - Mmm... yeah. The respawning plates are a good idea. I was familiar with the underlying concept, since Stroti did a bunch of meshes like that - food statics that are actually containers. I often use some of them - a ham shank hanging on a hook, a round of cheese on a plate, a box of potatoes.
But my houses generally don't have food on the table. The way I see it is that the only time that a table would normally have food on it is when people are actually sitting there eating. The rest of the time, they either have nothing on them other than maybe a centerpiece, or have whatever's accumulated since the last meal, so that's generally the way I set up the tables in my houses.
On to another house, and this one is going to be... a bit disturbing.
This is almost entirely untouched. It's aoringo's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/32830/ - a mansion in the Elven Gardens district, and it's the ancestral home of my vile scumbag of an Imperial mage/assassin Clive.
It's built into the dead end in the middle outer wall of the EG district. http://imgur.com/a/8Bj7M
http://imgur.com/a/nmoPF. More accurately, that's half of the main room - the other half is a bar, which at that moment had two naked maids behind it. The maids aren't actually set to be naked - they have a relatively complex scripted system for dressing and undressing on schedule, but the "problem" with that (it's not a problem for Clive, though it sort of is for me) is that they can get stuck on the undressed side of one of the scripted transitions, then they keep spawning that way unless I hang around long enough to get them over to the dressed side of it. Molly, in Lud's apartment, actually has the same set of scripts, and the same problem, but that doesn't make her any less intimidating to Lud - just the opposite in fact.
http://imgur.com/a/JlbCU. This actually sits above a trophy room that I didn't bother to get a shot of, since it's mostly empty pedestals and empty shelves, since Clive hasn't accumulated many trophies yet. And as I think about it, I should mod some older stuff in that would've come from his ancestors... Yeah... I think I'll be doing that later. Anyway... the door you can see in this pic leads off to the guest wing, which is just a guest wing, then the maid's wing beyond that. There's another door around the corner that leads up another flight of stairs to Clives rooms.
http://imgur.com/a/GoVd7. That's the large IC upper story model. The first shot is from the loft looking down into the room, the second shot's from the end of the room looking back toward the loft and the third shot is the magic library and alchemy lab inside the room with the sliding doors. This is the only room that I edited much, and I just rearranged furniture and lights a bit and added some cabinets.
Now we start getting into the unsettling stuff.
The maids wing includes a http://imgur.com/a/qzPLw that they use on schedule every evening (and is one of the reasons that they're scripted to undress and dress on schedule). In the library, directly below Clive's rooms, there's a hidden entrance to a secret passage. The secret passage leads to http://imgur.com/a/rNATo.
That's just a little creepy. The next one - the house has an enormous basement, with a network of rooms - storage, wine cellar and the like. One room has a pair of cabinets built into the walls, facing each other. One is a cabinet, but the other opens onto a locked door. The door, when unlocked, leads down to a really disturbing sort of sexual http://imgur.com/a/qXSZJ. It's the sort of ad hoc "arena" model that's built into the basement of the fighters guild hall in Leyawiin - you can see the viewing area in the background of the first pic - except obviously not set up for combat. Something much more sinister and disturbing goes on down there.
When I first poked around in the house after downloading it, years ago, it really sort of creeped me out, and I never thought I'd use it. After I got Clive going and figured out just what sort of person he is, I remembered that house and tried it out in his game, and (unfortunately?) it's a perfect fit for him - large and old and obviously stately once but now a bit shabby and timeworn, and creepy.
BWAAHAA! Clive is a bit of a voyeur, huh?
Well, if you don't like seeing food on tables; you really won't like this: Aside from having a signature card game going on in all my player homes, another signature of them is a used chamber pot,
It is a ceramic wide mouthed urn or pot with a small amount of yellow colored water in the bottom ... along with a strategically placed (black soul gem) - and these pots are all actually sit-able for player or NPC's too - I have seen Vilja taking a potty break on one many times, (in fact, I blame her for the black soul gem in the pot, lol !!!! )
Posted by: gpstr Sep 3 2016, 09:42 PM
Well... Clive is certainly a voyeur, but more to the point, he's a sadist.
That actually extends to his approach to surviving in the world. He not only doesn't use weapons - he doesn't even use overtly offensive magic. That's just not his thing. Instead, he uses illusion and conjuration so that someone or something else is doing the work for him, and he just stands back and watches. Superficially, he considers it beneath his dignity to do anything that seems like his own labor, but underneath it all, a lot of it is just that he's sort of craven, and that he just likes to watch violence and death. The closest he gets to direct violence is reverse-pickpocketing a poisoned apple or a shock enchanted hood onto someone else, which is really just a slightly more personal way to get to the point at which he can stand back and watch them suffer and die. It's not for nothing that I stress that he's a vile scumbag - he really is.
It's not that I dislike seeing food on tables - I'm used to it. I just don't put it on tables in my own houses, since it makes more sense to me for the table to be mostly clear. Thinking about it, that would likely be my response to the chamberpot too - I don't mind the basic idea, but I'm pretty sure that after a while of seeing that same chamberpot with the same contents, I'd be thinking, "For gods' sake, doesn't anybody ever empty that thing?" And with that, I'd be more likely to just make it empty from the start if it was in one of my houses.
To each their own though, as they say...
Posted by: gpstr Sep 4 2016, 07:36 PM
And this'll likely be the last one (or two, more precisely), at least for now. I have one more that's mostly finished, and another in the planning stages, but with this one, I'll have covered all of the ones that currently exist in my games.
First, a quick one - Tina the Imperial's version of Shetcombe Farm. It's a long story, but she did the MQ and went a bit sideways and ended up joining the DB, then went a bit sideways again and ended up just wandering Cyrodiil, lonely and unhappy. When she happened on Shetcombe, she loved it - it was just such an quiet and idyllic spot, where she could finally stop a while and maybe even relax. I didn't touch the exterior at all, but completely redid the interior. http://imgur.com/a/l7fUv The best part of it, to me, is that it worked - Tina finally knows some peace. The only (predictable) downside is that she's not very interested in leaving.
And the last one - Claudia's Shoreline Cottage.
This is my favorite, which is good, since Claudia is probably my all time favorite character. She was my first female character, and my first real roleplaying character, so she's been around for a long time now. I actually put off building her house for a while, because I wanted to make sure it was right when I finally did it.
It's on the northwest shore of Lake Rumare - just north of the turn-off to Chorrol, on the lake side of the road. It's one of Stroti's village houses.
http://imgur.com/a/rd9uE
http://imgur.com/a/yzmSw
http://imgur.com/a/4xxBY This includes a feature I'd been threatening to do for some time. The books are mostly rare, and whenever possible, complete series, but a lot of them are not the vanilla books, since there are a number of series that use different models for the different volumes in the series, and a number of the individual books that are skill books. Whenever that's the case, I added another version of the book that used a matching model and/or was not a skill book, just to complete the series. So, for instance, the long row of purple ones is actually a complete set of the 2920 series, all using that model and none of them skill books.
http://imgur.com/a/Q4y5K Mostly empty table and lots of Stroti meshes in the kitchen.
http://imgur.com/a/YCSb2 Not coincidentally, the most cozy room in the house.
Like Jibran and Cressida and Tina, Claudia doesn't go far these days - she loves her house too much to stay away for too long. I take her out from time to time, just because I enjoy being with her so much, but I can feel her itching to get back home again, so it never lasts long.
Posted by: mALX Sep 5 2016, 01:47 AM
I also love Shetcombe Farm and have made it into a nice player home with a quest that involves completing the original quest for it before being able to take possession and get the upgraded interior. But I fixed it up nice inside; added a basement; fixed up the stable some; added a Player horse; and created a third quest for the Player that puts some of those garden ingredients to use in a "Still" making "Kvatch Kickapoo," (White Lightning) in a "Still" set up in the stables.
It gives the Player a way to earn some income and something to do finding the previous "Customers" to build up his clientele list; and he can sell it to fences or people like "Shady Sam." If the Player takes a drink of the Kvatch Kickapoo there is a scripted event that occurs - really funny. But it does give him various boosts that last a while afterward.
The "Still" in the stables: 
Posted by: Renee Sep 5 2016, 04:11 AM
I agree about Shetcombe. My first character who discovered it (whoever she was) was awed by the place.
Claudia sounds very special, for sure. First real roleplay, Yeah I can dig that.
Posted by: gpstr Sep 5 2016, 05:55 PM
http://imgur.com/a/j3vyT came about through a synthesis of a few things.
At that point, I had played the original version of Bob, and a Redguard named Jean, who was really only different in that he was a Redguard, and favored heavy armor instead of light. Otherwise, he was just another who was bulldozing through everything and had no particular personality.
I was spending a fair bit of time on the Beth forums, and reading Acadian's Buffy stories and bobg's Angel stories. And one day, Jean met Tamika, and I thought she was beautiful and decided right then and there that I wanted a green-eyed Redguard woman in my game. So I created the original version of Claudia.
When I started trying to play her, I ran into problems fairly quickly, since I was suddenly aware of the fact that she wasn't me-in-the-game. I don't think I'd ever really come to terms with that before - I had some vague notion that the characters had their own personalities, but it didn't translate into actually doing the things they'd choose to do. I still just did whatever I'd choose to do. But between the simple fact that she's female, the fact that I saw her from the beginning as a separate individual (the green-eyed Redguard I wanted in my game) and what I'd seen of what Acadian and bobg were doing with their characters, I came to see that she was her own person. So then I had to figure out how to make her her own person.
That was a bit of a struggle really, and with some fits and starts and poor decisions on my part, but it all worked out in the long run. Luckily, it was also my first experiment with a slow character build, and she ended up with one of the slowest I've ever done (at almost 300 hours, she's still only level 17). That gave me plenty of time to do things with her and get her sorted out. And she's a very pleasant and sunny personality, which provided a good justification for the erratic path she's taken - she's just a bit overly enthusiastic and easily distracted. She falls into things, and has a wonderful time doing them, then other things grab her attention and she just blithely shifts direction and keeps on going. In fact, in the long run, the way in which I explained away what really came as a result of me not yet being able to fully sort out her personality and her desires ended up being one of her most endearing qualities.
A few years ago, back when she was dabbling with being a thief (and she was a very successful one, aside from the fact that she didn't much like stealing from people, and ended up mostly stealing from jerks like Alval Uvani), http://imgur.com/a/tGARi.
Nothing much to do with player homes, but I have a hard time passing up an opportunity to blather about my characters...
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