Hey Danae, thanks!
I like the new look for the cottage, nice and cosy!
Yeah, the animations could be a pretty good idea. If you wanted to, you could use a Messagebox in your script to let the player
choose from a small set of different poses.
(I've seen that one in "Welcome to the Arena" for the champion, its pretty cool.)
As for the exterior cell, I like how its set up. Since its a normal exterior cell, it should play nicely with my laptop, too.
If you want a recommendation for your kitchen layout, you might try looking at some other mods for inspiration.
(Not to copy from, but just for ideas, you know?)
I always liked the layout of the kitchen from Korana's Xenterra Keep, classy and functional.
(It had one issue with NOM though, it had this lovely grilltop area that couldn't actually be used for cooking,
and a fireplace hearth grill that could be, but no oven at all. I would've set the fireplace as an oven, and
set the grills as activators so they could, well, actually grill, you know? Lovely layout, though.)
Anyway, nice guard Tower and pantry, fits nicely with the rest of the property.
I'd love to have mannequins with different poses, I got this one by sheer luck: I was testing Liztail's anim kit and realised it affect the mannequins as well since they are npcs, so I gave them Oshan's animation. I'll do some more tweaking and testing...
I love Korana's kitchens, particularly the one from the rose cottage (and the gril grills
)
I run MW on a laptop as well and run fine on the Estate. The fps gain was one the the reasons that tilted the balance in favour of real exterior actually.
'Welcome to the arena is dled and installed but I have yet to play the mod: I haven't played MW for a very long time... but I'll have a look, see if I can undertand enough of how it's done to learn sthg.
What about a light above that slowly shifts among a series of colors? A ghostly chaplain? Many bouquets of a single flower, associated with one of the gods, that auto-change every 24 hours? Perhaps add changes of the banners and an appropriate statue--torches with different colored flames?--and you might have a chapel that magically changes worship every day?
Just some random thoughts on the spur of the moment, and probably worth as much.
As for the Chapel, I'm an Imperial Cult man myself, but I could give the Temple a try sometime.
I hope you'll be providing the shrines and such for both, for religious completeness, eh?
Also, you might try a little something for the Daedra Cultists, hmm?
Perhaps a little shrine in the crypt, or in a secret passage, complete with little statuettes of
various Daedric Princes to decorate it with, probably in a container so you could set out the one
to match your favorite god or goddess. I think I saw a modders resource for this once,
"Morrowind Toy Shoppe", I think? If I recall, the actual statuette models were included originally in
the Construction Set, but were unused in the vanilla game.
(And an Ash Statue for Dagoth Ur, "The lord of the Sixth House demands your flesh!", or somesuch. -_^)
The chapel actually has both and Imperial alter and a tribunal shrine. I'm hoping to implement a quest to 'sanctify' the altar/shrine of the player's choice, until that is done, the alters/shrine are merely decorative. That being said, I should add a worshipping corner to the crypt. I have the statuettes of the Deadra princes so it won't be a problem. Oh, and I love the toy shoppe, in fact, I love toys, that's why I made the board games and the trading cards
Changing colours, ...hum, ... oh! :shocking: idea! I think I could make 4 chapels, identical in shape but each one with its set of colours/shrines/plants/banners and script the door so it takes you to the chapel of your choosing. What do you think?
Thanks again for your ideas! (random thoughts on the spur of the moment really do help, I just wish I could implement all of them)