I solved this problem by never undressing. Ever. The human race owes me a huge debt of gratitude.
The worst thing about the beast races -- which were, of course, far cooler in MW -- is that they seem like an afterthought. Filler. Parenthetical asides. And so on. What they need to do is make a TES game that focuses on Black Marsh or Elsweyr, particularly the latter, as the Khajiit lore you stumble across paints a fascinating picture; it'd be interesting to see some of the race variations...but you know they'd have to fit the goddamn Altmer in there somewhere. But what are we getting?
Nords, apparently. The name "Skyrim" has been trademarked by Bethesda (
The Future of TES Games). Now, I like a viking simulation as well as the next hornhead, but why, exactly, would a Bosmer (for example) be in Skyrim? Cyrodiil is one thing (and Vvardenfell was stretching it), but the ice-locked north? Ooh, wait...
the return of the Falmer! *sigh*...keep dreaming, dude.
Yes...although Xianxi prefers the term "Khovian crack mack".
My TV watching is limited to
Big Bang Theory and
Two and a Half Men. Oh, and
CSI. And
The Soup (however, I find their half-hour of poking fun at celebrities doesn't quite offset the 23-and-a-half hours of E!'s incessant celebrity ass-kissing...so Jude Law blows a goat and I'm supposed to care?).
Gary, Unmarried is surprisingly good, and
House is still okay. I stopped caring about most shows, however, when they'd get cancelled almost immediately no matter how good they are. Sports, meanwhile, I absolutely refuse to watch. It's one thing to play a game yourself, but to watch others doing it? No thanks. Everyone else can watch until their eyes fall out, but I just can't do it.
Part of it is the hypocrisy shown by my Fellow Americans: one visible nipple created outrage among people who didn't like it messing up their annual paean to homoerotic gladatorial display. Big sweaty guys wearing tight pants in close contact with each other? Good. Female nipple? Bad.
Okay, so the nipple thing was a cheap, cynical stunt by Ms. Jackson -- I'm nasty -- to sell records (which failed miserably). Still, I maintain that we're a bunch of retards when it comes to these things.
Anyway, I have a couple of screens. Hooray for me. Btw, the woad pics that Photobucket deleted...yeesh. I hate those people. I reuploaded them and they haven't been deleted again, but for sanity's sake I relocated them to The Vault.
I've been working on the Xi dagger a bit...In NifSkope:Good thing I left all that black space in there, huh?
As I was looking at all of the angles of the dagger, I looked down...and was *I* surprised...After several weeks of agony, I finally found out how to move a mesh *up"...for example, a sword ported over from MW that was held too low in the player's hand? The answer was right in front of me, but I didn't realize it until yesterday.
So, the Red Dragon Nodachi, improved placement:With this knowledge I was able to correct the placement of several other items imported from MW, such as the Daedric claymore. Darknut's textures make them Oblivion-worthy (although you have to make normal maps for them yourself), and I'm looking forward to getting the Daedric Dai-katana in-game. I'll have to add it to the world, as messing with leveled lists is a pain in the ass.
Anyway, I think I finally found the right combination of textures for the K1 race. I took the "tan" face texture from v2 of the Lattamer race (seen v3 on a normal head mesh? Scary.), gave it dark lipstick, dropped the brightness of the high-rez Exnem body texture by 15%, and...
She actually looks good in all manner of lighting now.
Btw, this is the only "blink" pic I've kept:
I'm accumulating enough changes, tweaks, and additions to warrant another Upgrade, aren't I?
