So hey... anything I can do to help?

Ack! You got interviewed!

...and the first thing that catches my eye is, "21-year-old."

Suddenly I feel very lackluster.

P.S. your message box is full.

That was after you went dark ? Boy, how time flies ...

I'm joining to the group of folks who are waiting for this mod.

Just little question: is there a possibility of finding enchantment for weapon that provides some sun damage for the opponent?

Just checking on this thread now that I've recovered its data files from my failing harddrive. Many thanks, again, to everyone who helped.


Heh, I feel like on some level the fact that I grew up with this stuff means my age would be an advantage more than anything.


Yes, the "Magnificent" prefix. You can see the full list of affixes http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/User:DragoonWraith/Mods/ARES.

No excuse for me, my father was a firmware programmer and I've had a computer in the house since I was 5. (That's 1982, folks!) Granted, you probably had programming classes in high school, whereas until meaningful internet access reached me (late 90s) all I had was dusty 6502 assembly references... but I think I've had enough time and opportunity since then to figure more stuff out than I actually have.

On a different note: NifSE has been on the front page for days, but you didn't touch this thread... until now! Does that mean a more significant update on the near horizon?

This is a great idea. I thought ages ago about doing something like this but never got around to it. The way you describe of doing it in the OP is very nice. Keep up the great work.

That's pretty cool though - I haven't really messed much with assembly. And really, my computer classes in high school were a joke; a friend of mine and I taught our teacher more than she taught us, in sophomore year... (she was new; the old teacher had been better, dunno why they got her). I think having the Internet plus the free time inherent in being a teenager is more to blame.


Well, if you've read the NifSE thread in the past few days, heh, you'd see that my harddrive died and I very, very nearly lost all of NifSE and ARES. So that's why it's been on the front page.

Anyway, the plan is to run NifSE support for a bit while we make sure that the alpha is solid, wrap up a few odds and ends with it (ensuring backwards compatibility is most important; currently it's not), and releasing v1.0 not-alpha version. After that, yes, I'll be back to work on ARES - though, IIRC, it's going to need a fair amount of rewriting, just based on the stuff I learned while writing NifSE that I didn't know when writing ARES.

Which has pretty much been the process all along. Working on ARES caused me to learn how to do some things that didn't work right in the original NifScript, which is how NifSE v1.0 got started in the first place, but then in writing NifSE I learned a lot of things that go back to ARES, sooo... yeah. They feed off of each other. They're pretty similar projects; ultimately, both are primarily about tracking and organizing data structures and passing them to Oblivion as needed (nifs for NifSE, magic effects for ARES).

Ack! No, I hadn't even looked at the thread after reading your first post. NifSE isn't relevant to anything I'm working on, so I figured I'd just wait patiently for you to drift back over here... blissfully ignorant of your distaster! At least there's good news with the recovery.

Heh, except I probably managed to kill my processor doing it A very http://xkcd.com/349/, I feel.

You know what's annoying? Nagging [censored] who want you to spend all your time on their favorite project no matter how much you've got on your plate or what your priorities might be.

*cough*

Edit: Oh my god the Bethesda profanity filter oh my god. "Fanatical male-juveniles."

Holy smokes, this is still alive? Good to have you back DW, best of luck and really looking forward to this!

Indeed. I need to get the final release version of NifSE out (which is proving to be quite annoying thanks to the harddrive switch screwing up all my settings), then ARES will get moving again.

this mod shouldn't disappear

What he said!

With v0019 of OBSE out, NifSE should be done soon, and thus I'll be able to get this done. JRoush's OBME will be a real windfall for it, too.

How could you miss such an oppertunity to give your mod an acronym as awesome as A_R_S_E? (or on these boards: CENSORED)

Other than that, from what I've read it sounds pretty cool, hope it gets far

Heh, I actually got a PM a long while back offering to help with "[censored]" - took me a bit to figure out how that had happened. Amused me greatly at the time.

Saw some Diablo 3 videos just now, and so wanted ARES to come to Oblivion to get that Diablo feel here as well... keep working on this DragoonWraith :goodjob:

DragoonWraith, you are a genius. I've really cut back and altered my mod list recently for a more pure feel, but this is definately going in.

I hate how if no one posts in a thread for like a week, you stop subscribing to it. Isn't that the point of watching a topic?

Anyway, yes, not dead, but still working on NifSE. That's very nearly done, despite my succumbing to scope creep.

By the way, how are you creating the unique weapons? Are you cycling through a number of refs or something? I'm intregued.

Christ, that script's old. I'm pretty sure that what I did was try to keep track of forms that got kept, and when a form stopped being used, I added it back to a list of forms. Every time I wanted to create a new item, I'd check that list first, and re-use those forms before I made a new one.

But honestly, it's been, what, two years since I worked on that script? I don't really remember.

Oh... I should probably expand Formulator to equippable types, shouldn't I. That could be another meaningful chunk of your work done.

If you have a good way of determining when a Form is no longer in use, I'd love to see it.