[WIP] The Vampires of House Serentin : IV - Oblivion

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:43 am

willl vampire hunters be included?

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:08 pm

Wow this seriously looks great. Can't wait to see this finsished and welcome back StarX!!

» Sat May 28, 2011 10:17 am

This sounds.... AWESOME!

Just my 2 cents:
When you become patriarch you get to rule your own coven, this is great!
But a nice thing would be if f.x like Vince bly's mountain shack mod you'd had to fix your newly aqquired coven up.
Like some small quests after you have completed the MQ.
A thing that would be nice is quest-bonuses.
1 of the things i've allways liked about the dark brotherhood was that you could get a bonus in the quests if you did them in a specific way.

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:56 am

This and Unholy Darkness look frickin' awesome
i cannot wait to get back into Vamp Oblivion.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:47 am

It looks like vampire mods are getting a boost and it will be hard for me to decide which one to use. This one looks incredible.

» Sat May 28, 2011 7:55 am

yes, theres certainly a rise in vampire mod projects at the moment

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:43 am

Something I forgot to say SX, the custom icons you made for this are top notch. Among the best I've seen.

Kudos.

» Sat May 28, 2011 2:55 am

Thanks for the encouraging words all!

one problem I had when I played your mod was that the strongholds were way to big in scale and featured to many light sources, npc's, & placables that made the entire area they were in both inside and out laggy as hell. It was a real shame too as I remember liking just about everything in your mod, I am glad that your back at it though and I will definately give the finished mod a download.

Yup, the dungeons of SVVR are pretty CPU heavy on some occasions. Now that I build my dungeons from scratch, I have taken this into account.

Even though I'm making a vampire mod, I can't ignore the fact that it looks like you are putting a lot of good effort into this. Great luck with it, and I look forward to trying it out

Just saw your thread about it! Unholy Darkness has some awesome features, Madmole. And it seems like both mods can be used alongside eachother.

StarX Im really looking forward to this. That being said Im not a fan of the ranking system that you have in place.

Newborn = Neonate
Leecher = Fledgling

Patriarch = Elder
Arch-Patriarch= Patriarch

I dunno ArchPatriarch seems to be a little overkill. If it really is a House(which simply at least in the traditional sense of the word) means that they are all decended from the same line, therefore there should not be multiple patriarchs out there.

Thats my two cents anyways.

Thanks for the suggestions! I really like the Neonate and Fledgling ranknames. On the patriarchs: each coven of a vampire House will be lead by a Patriarch/Matriarch. The Arch Patriarch is the ruler of the entire House. I thought abou using Elder as well, but I feel that by using the Patriarch/Arch Patriarch system I can stay in line with the vanilla vampire hierarchy and at the same time point out the supremacy of the Houses over their "feral" cousins by having an Arch Patriarch.

Wow it is so good to see you around the forums again StarX, SVVR was one of my most anticipated mods ever announced for Oblivion. In the end I chose not to use it given its unfinished state but I loved what you were doing and where you were going with the mod; I especially liked the alternate vampire world with the super awesome creepy castle. I also loved the hell out of the initial work with the vampire hunters guild.

I hope that you don't mind that I also speak honestly here, I by no means intend to put down your newly announced mod, but I am disappointed that you decided to work on a mod which focuses on vampire players. See there are a whole lot of vampire player mods out there and there's basically nothing to enhance npc vampires as enemies, except for Duke Patrick's mod which I haven't yet installed but will!

I detest playing vampires in games like Oblivion, the game was never meant to really focus on the experience of roleplaying a vampire imo, so when I need my fix I go to Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. But since vampires exist in Tamriel, I really wanted to see them become a fearsome enemy with their own quests, lore, lairs, armors, powers that would challenge me instead of being just another bandit that can magically spread a disease to me by hitting me with his weapon. Anyway, I don't mean to sound negative, I just wanted to be honest.

I'm sure House Serentin or whatever you finally decide to choose to call it will have a spectacular background and interesting quests to add to Oblivion but sadly only to those that want to experience being a vampire as opposed to those who want to hunt and fight them. I wish you the best with this new mod, I'm certain it will exceed the high quality that SVVR was showing.

And welcome back! :foodndrink:

Hey Atreides! It's been a while indeed, mate! How are you? :foodndrink:

As you may remember I also enjoy playing as a vampire hunter with some of my characters. The problem with SVVR was that it became to big for me at one point. I wanted to add so much, while I have little time to mod. The Vampire Hunters Guild from SVVR needed tough opponents indeed so the vampires in SVVR were more than suited to defend themselves, but it also brought on loads of work for me, without having a chance to flesh out the backgrounds and quests in a proper way. I could have taken more time ofcourse, but I was so eager to share the SVVR experience that I wanted a quick release. In the end creating SVVR wasn't fun anymore and RL stuff also kicked into play. I'm going to take my time on The vampires of House Serentin and have fun while working on it as much as I can.

But who knows, once this is finished I can pick up the Vampire Hunters again and tie it in with the House of Serentin. For now I want to focus al my attention on this mod and do it to the best of my abilities, without hasting things.

willl vampire hunters be included?

Not as a main faction or a constant source of worries to the vampire player. Though there might be a chance of some hunters popping up in a quest.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:54 pm

Ah, another great vampire mod yet to be released! I can't wait, either! The modding community has yet to release a proper vampire faction.

Remember, head on over to http://tesalliance.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index&c=9 if you ever end up needing some help from us voice actors!

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:26 am

This sounds.... AWESOME!

Just my 2 cents:
When you become patriarch you get to rule your own coven, this is great!
But a nice thing would be if f.x like Vince bly's mountain shack mod you'd had to fix your newly aqquired coven up.
Like some small quests after you have completed the MQ.
A thing that would be nice is quest-bonuses.
1 of the things i've allways liked about the dark brotherhood was that you could get a bonus in the quests if you did them in a specific way.

Well, you can upgrade your personal room in Greywind Castle, but it sounds good for the coven as well. On the bonus items: I liked that as well in the DB quests, so sometimes you will receive a useful bonus-item after completing a quest.

Ah, another great vampire mod yet to be released! I can't wait, either! The modding community has yet to release a proper vampire faction.

Remember, head on over to http://tesalliance.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index&c=9 if you ever end up needing some help from us voice actors!

Thanks Vereta. I should check tesalliance more (as well as other sites as a matter of fact), it's a cool website.

» Sat May 28, 2011 4:52 am

New picture added that shows the male and female version of the Serentin Warrior armor (armor name is a placeholder).

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/StarX_GFX/VampiresSerentin/WarriorOutfit01.jpg

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:17 pm

New picture added that shows the male and female version of the Serentin Warrior armor (armor name is a placeholder).

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/StarX_GFX/VampiresSerentin/WarriorOutfit01.jpg

Looking really good, keep it up :goodjob:

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:46 pm

Thanks for the suggestions! I really like the Neonate and Fledgling ranknames. On the patriarchs: each coven of a vampire House will be lead by a Patriarch/Matriarch. The Arch Patriarch is the ruler of the entire House. I thought abou using Elder as well, but I feel that by using the Patriarch/Arch Patriarch system I can stay in line with the vanilla vampire hierarchy and at the same time point out the supremacy of the Houses over their "feral" cousins by having an Arch Patriarch.

No problem amigo. Neonate has such a ringing name to it. I still dont like Arch-Patriarch but oh well.
Im really loving how this is coming along. How long have you been working on this? And im also really diggin the symbol used for the House. Inspirations?

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:00 am

No problem amigo. Neonate has such a ringing name to it. I still dont like Arch-Patriarch but oh well.
Im really loving how this is coming along. How long have you been working on this? And im also really diggin the symbol used for the House. Inspirations?

I've been working on this since a couple of weeks on and off. I created the symbol for SVVR and now it's back into this mod. Glad you like it!
Inspirations? Not really, I just tried to design a symbol with a "vampire" feel to it.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:05 pm

New picture added that shows the male and female version of the Serentin Warrior armor (armor name is a placeholder).

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/StarX_GFX/VampiresSerentin/WarriorOutfit01.jpg

That looks incredible. Can't wait

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:44 am

That looks incredible. Can't wait

Thanks! I spend a while on creating the female version of the special Nightblade armor, I like the outcome a lot. The picture shows the vanilla body, but converting it to Exnem/HGEC or UFF should be a piece of cake.

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/StarX_GFX/VampiresSerentin/SerentinNightbladeF01.jpg

Cheers!

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:21 am

Thanks! I spend a while on creating the female version of the special Nightblade armor, I like the outcome a lot. The picture shows the vanilla body, but converting it to Exnem/HGEC or UFF should be a piece of cake.

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u15/StarX_GFX/VampiresSerentin/SerentinNightbladeF01.jpg

Cheers!

Looks awesome!

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:19 pm

Looks awesome!

Yes, the screenshots and information provided so far looks very promising. StarX good luck with completing this mod!

» Sat May 28, 2011 5:42 am

Thanks! I'm still experimenting with the male version of that armor by messing around in NifSkope and Photoshop. And things have been busy at RL work. So no new pictures or info at the moment I'm affraid.

BTW: Good to see you again, Belljack! :wave:

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:54 am

Thanks! I'm still experimenting with the male version of that armor by messing around in NifSkope and Photoshop. And things have been busy at RL work. So no new pictures or info at the moment I'm affraid.

BTW: Good to see you again, Belljack! :wave:

StarX, thank you for remembering me! Cheers! :foodndrink:

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:59 pm

Umm, yeah.

This will be an utterly useless post.

I have no criticism. Sorry, but it's just too damn well-covered even already at this stage.

Fantastic work, you're the Vampire Arch Patriarch of the oblivion community.
You've deserved an icecream! :icecream:

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:41 pm

Wow. I picked the perfect time to return from my annual Oblivion hiatus, lol. Quality vampire mods are popping up all over the place! :celebration: I'm a svcker for new books, and the misty coffin chamber looks amazing. The arch-patriarch is easily the most bad ass and downright scary vampire I have ever seen, lol. Bookmarked so I can follow the progress

Looking forward to a beta on this.

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:22 am

Great to see you around again, man. This project sounds great! Looking forward to it! :tops:

» Sat May 28, 2011 6:08 am

Looking forward to this! My girls do not do ugly vanilla vampirism, so I might get myself a slinky vampire char when this comes out!

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:22 pm

It's been a busy week, so modding was on a hold. I should have more time this weekend to finish the male version of the Nightblade armor and use the rest of the week to build locations.

Umm, yeah.

This will be an utterly useless post.

I have no criticism. Sorry, but it's just too damn well-covered even already at this stage.

Fantastic work, you're the Vampire Arch Patriarch of the oblivion community.
You've deserved an icecream! :icecream:

Thanks for the icecream!

Wow. I picked the perfect time to return from my annual Oblivion hiatus, lol. Quality vampire mods are popping up all over the place! :celebration: I'm a svcker for new books, and the misty coffin chamber looks amazing. The arch-patriarch is easily the most bad ass and downright scary vampire I have ever seen, lol. Bookmarked so I can follow the progress

Looking forward to a beta on this.

Yup, it seems there are a good ammount of vampire mods in the works at the moment. Thanks for the encouragement!

Great to see you around again, man. This project sounds great! Looking forward to it! :tops:

Hey dev! Glad to be back! Looks like FCOM is slowly nearing the 1.0 status. It has made amazing progress since the first time I was one of the initial testers of FranOOOMMM! B)

Looking forward to this! My girls do not do ugly vanilla vampirism, so I might get myself a slinky vampire char when this comes out!

Thanks, hope you will enjoy the final result!