People who have seen my Mouse Guars seem to adore them. My play-tester fell in love with them... they're about knee-high. Check the city screen shots on the Keening website and look closely...

BETA

I'm probably going to package up a playtesting beta for the city and island in a week or so. The main quest will be inaccessible, and unfinished locations will be locked 100. But, the landmass will be available for exploration and the city will be functioning.

I want to make it available to other modders in this community who are willing to explore it and take notes of their impressions, glitches, requests, etc. There will be no public link to it right now, and you will have to download some other mods to go along with it, as I'm still working on gaining permissions and sorting out what files are needed. So, let me know here or in PM if you're interested and I'll message you the link when I'm ready to share.

I did this a couple months ago with a playtester, and it was a very positive experience.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1360739-pros-and-cons-of-releasing-a-beta/.

Count me in.

I went all the way to the bottom and saw the Geti and laughed my head off. XD Geti is one of the creators of http://kag2d.com/. Whats even more funny is the look.

You know what would be even better than pint sized guars?
White pint sized Guars!
I think theres also Black ones available at PES.
That would be seriously cute!

Moshi - if you can link to the white guar resource, I'll do it up! That sounds great!

Pink ones, green ones, blue ones. XD A dark red one with a few model adjustments to make it look evil would look cool.

White guars are in the game already. It's black guars he was talking about.

Oh, that's right! I forgot about the White Guar from the ashlander's quest. I've seen the black guar in http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/423790_3459094117514_2139448912_n.jpg.

Some character screenshots:

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/472827_277978552279372_250637605013467_626985_681741190_o.jpg - Freija the Green, Founder of the Mages Council. Under the influence of this eccentric woman, Keening City has developed differently over time than cities back in Tamriel.

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/557537_277977338946160_250637605013467_626983_315648443_n.jpg - A Khajiit that loves fire. Voice files that amuse me have been recorded.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/474395_277966958947198_250637605013467_626918_1908801663_o.jpg - Chief Dwemer Archaeologist. Eccentric, brilliant, and under-appreciated, this man has been cobbling together new Dwemer devices.

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/416387_277965818947312_250637605013467_626915_162118682_o.jpg - Part of the Lawson family (who have adopted a last name to fit in better with the Imperials) of Bosmer found in Keening, she runs the alchemy shop despite it not being her passion. Best selection of vegetarian ingredients.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/460960_272713602805867_250637605013467_613841_1920489757_o.jpg - One of the last remaining rebels in Balmora: Aftermath.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/327963_255051254572102_250637605013467_572748_2144418072_o.jpg - The first companion can be found on the docks at Fort Frostmoth, and will accompany you to Milastah Barrow in Solstheim for the first quest. She will have actual opinions about the choices you make.

EDIT: these screenshots may not work properly. >_<

all those screens need Downloading, except one, and it's tiny.

Yeah, I need to set up my FTP on my PC so that I don't have to switch to OSX in order to share screenshots properly. Looks like facebook has finally put a stop to people using it as an imagehost.

I made a blog to host my screens, blogspot has a nice screenshot viewer.

Superkitten, upload the pics onto imgur, it works better.

Feedback, Eydis Fire-Eye looks like shes about to fall asleep on her feet. Other than that, the rest (other than Remid Zan) are

Hi, i am a friend of Kagz and he has asked me, if i could post on this thread
and tell you that he has managed to fix the rats for you.
He has written to you by e mail but thought maybe you dont check that e mail address much,
also posted what he was doing, in the thread at GHF.
He just wants to know, if you want the modified rats or not,as its all working now.

Thanks, Alice! I will take a look over at GHF! Thanks!!!

I just finished attaching unique voice greetings to 90% of the characters.... some are new recordings, some are files from bethesda that you rarely hear. We have to go back to the studio to record a few more. I have a pauldron texture to do, and some tapestry textures, and then I think I'll package up the files and send the link to download out to people that requested it. There will be some mods that need to be downloaded in order to run Keening, but a number of them will be absorbed partially or in full once I figure out how to get all the right files out of them and, for some, get permissions. People may complain that they need to download a few required mods, but to them I just say: The idea of building a mod based on existing resources that you don't see in-game was one of the reasons that Keening was created. It's something that I wish more modders would do... but for lack of that, I decided to do it.

One of the mods is a clothing mod that adds over ten clothing stores to Morrowind, some of which aren't very vanilla-friendly in the appearance of their exteriors, but it's always possible to have an .esp available that removes them while keeping the clothing items - it might be disrespectful if I release that .esp myself, but since it is a required mod, the topic is up for discussion. But that's still up in the air because one of the creators, Korana, changed her user name here and I don't know what her new user name is to contact her.

I'm putting the package together now - I really wish I'd been more careful about keeping the files that are needed organized. I'm going to finish the package and then drop it into a fresh install of Morrowind and check it out before I send it out to anyone.

List of people that have asked to try out the private beta:
- Sam Sanderson
- Tonal Architect
- Jada [GHF]
- Shadowsolid
- Lucevar

Thanks, this worked. Kagz walked me through it and I understand it now.

NEW TRAILER:

http://youtu.be/inmX9isMPec

This trailer deals with humour and voice acting centering around the Keening City portion of Keening. Hope you get a kick out of it!

I like how the video is put together, some of the jokes are very nice, it all looks solid, yet the replacers I do not like at all.

Thanks!


Well, Keening is not a replacer mod. There are a number of replacers depicted in the video that have been added to my own game over the years - the origin of which I've mostly forgotten. I can tell you that Westly's Azura statue replacer, Darknut's Dwemer retexture are depicted. So, whatever texture replacers you use, Keening should not interfere with them. I'm actually looking forward to seeing screen shots and videos from other players as to how it looks in various games, and especially with MGE XE.

But just in case, which ones are you referring to, exactly?

I enjoyed watching that, and once again I really admire your attention to detail. The "such useless creatures" scene was particularly amusing.

I found the trailer VERY amusing

When I play the final version of this, those tiny guar and I are going to conquer Keening. Nothing will stand against the might of my hammer and their cuteness!! Nothing!!