Thanks much Aoikani. Up to you if you want a separate thread. I'm done on my end, it'll be awhile before I have time to reinstall everything and work on the mod again.

Have to say again, as I go through everything, I'm still very impressed. You did some lore search too, I noticed. I've not started to do anything yet except examining things and correcting some errors, plus cleaning. No worries there, it was relatively clean as you know I already told you.
I'll tell you what is on the agenda that I see so far for what to do to release this now.

-Melee-Magthere and Tower of Sorcere are left to finish for Tier-Breche College for Drow. I'll add those to an ESM update later.

-Noble's District in Menzoberranzan. Another update to Underdark.esm

-Addition of the Abyss domain to (Shadows of Old Shanatar)
-TRoN transformation to SoOS
-World Map/traveling
-Gythyenki
-playable classes and races (finally)
-dwarven clocks~by Metallicow


and that's about all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there's more.

Also, I think I should turn over what we have to testers so I can be free to manage the rest. Any takers? Just leave a reply.

Aoikani, for some reason I can't send you a message so I'll throw this up here. People are having issues with Illi and the new Underdark release:

"I had a little trouble with this mod. I installed him along with the newest version of the underdark, and he kept spawning as a naked dark elf with a staff and wouldn't talk to me. I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I rolled back to the .59 version of Underdark, and he worked perfectly. It seems like 1.0 of Underdark and Illi are incompatible for some reason."

Both users who complained about the issue fixed it by rolling back to 0.59.

Any help in figuring out what is going on there would be greatly appreciated.

-Deep

Naked dark elf, means that the armor Illi uses must have been left out of 1.0 Reverting to 0.59.1b will fix it.
1.0 fixes adds just a few things to close up that mod. I'll release a quick patch for Illi and post it at the link.

@ShadowLance

Awesome rendition of what I assume is the Kou-tan deity, Blibdoolpoolp. If I get the time, I'll remodel that into one mesh.

Indeed it is blipopbodoop! In all her glory, thanks much

This mod is great. I get lost a lot though. I see you intend to make Githyenki, that's good. I made a Githzerai Race for by personal use http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/5032/screenshot223.png. I just started playing some classic CRPGs and just started Baldur's Gate 2 for the first time. It has kinda got my creative juices flowing. So if you need anything I might be able to help out.

Nice pic

So far, this is the facial features I've worked on for the Gythyenki, but I haven't worked on it for quite some time. I'm waiting for Nivea on some work that she is doing for this race.
http://img241.yfrog.com/img241/5470/screenshot1tw8.jpg

Thanks. Those Githyenki look really good so far. Races aren't really my forte. I specialize in armor and weapons mostly. So anything like that I could do rather quickly. I would really like to help.

Do you mean model armor? If so, the Gythyenki (please note spelling is correct) could use some special items like you mentioned. Although, I'll be up front. What Nivea is working on is armor and their texture. Though she is really busy, so I'm not sure when it will happen. Armor for that race is going to be really skimpy, which most likely won't be too hard. The big thing I need is a body texture unique for them, in which it will fit appropriately for the gaunt and skinny look they'll have. I could do these, but I need to work the mod first before that. Not to mention I have a couple models I'm working on that will be unique as well. Currently I'm about 95% complete of merging the skeletons for a ridable spider (aka Steeder) for the Duergar (deep evil dwarves) and the last being a companion (this type does not exist yet) in which I've got permission to use DeepFreeze's scripts and assistance from Sulteric Drums to construct. But that's way down the road.

Okay, I don't want to step on any toes, so I will make some Githyenki armor, skimpy and skiny.

You're help is much appreciated :thumbsup:

Would be the coolest thing to animate their deity as a boss

@ShadowLance,

Opened a new topic and set it for http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1084182-wipzthe-underdark-shadows-of-old-shanatar/, which wil be Underdark version 2.0 upon release. Got hand it to you, it looks awesome! There are so many good ideas you implemented.
I've been converting the cells 000AK(UpperdarkMainCavern and UpperdarkNorth) and it's going well. So you can expect to see the Main areas where Ched Nasad and Blingdenstone are located to be similar in settings much like as it is seen in the first parts of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfBHUmKs2c.

I finished the Gith armor I said I would make.

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6599/screenshot225.png

The body extremely skinny, I am not too sure how well it came out. Who should I give the files to? Oh, and should I be posting in the new thread?

Hey that's awesome

That will work really good. You can pm me for the files, I'm surprised you did that so fast. :blink: Is the body part armor? or is the armor just skimpy? And would you be interested in doing the sword?

cool, you even put their claws in.

There's a new mod release on adding particles to armor by addk1k, now I'm thinking "silver cord"... hehe

Corthian, would you like me to PM you the Gythyenki.esp that has the facials? You can get an idea of what I started. It looks pretty good, but may have to sculp a special head. One other thing, I want to ask AlienSlof for use of some specific hair that she uses for her males that would be absolutely perfect for the Gythyenki. Not sure on that though, if I remember right her male hair, I think was specially made by a japanese friend.

Well, got to say it

that looks so retro "Gary Gygax" style. :drool:

Well, speed is my specialty. The past week, I made half a dozen new creatures, three sets of armor, and a sword. I got a little time on my hands. I might be able to come up with some weapons. Anything in particular? I'll see what I can do.

The gythyenki style as in the pics, but I'm sure there are more available pics elsewere with better renditions.

Going away for a few days, so I won't be available. Also, I've left the MainCavern and I'm working on Northdark area for the Worldspace conversion now. ^^

n/m

I think we still need a gith silver sword (or a few varieties, whatever you're up for)

Awesome work on that gith armor btw

and thanks aoikani!

Well, I was going to update my FAQ post #2, but I seem to cannot edit my own post.

FAQ

I seem to not be able to interract with drow in the city of Menzoberranzan, I'm always attacked, is this how it is suppose to be?

Yes, you may interact with some merchants. There are three that you may make transactions with, but I want to point something out. First I know it's impossible for everyone to read through every last post .. and I certainly wouldn't for that matter or recommend to anyone that they should. Though, a lot of info can be found in the posts here at the download links. I try to answer to everyone as quickly as I can. Sorry, I've been away for the weekend for the past few days though. :teehee:

These changes are current for v 1.0. If you have v.0.59.1b, an update to the AI's will be changed with the new version, however there are conflictions currently with Illi the Mindslayer Companion that I have not fixed yet. I'll have that fixed soon as possible.

Onto the NPC's:
Anyway, Verfelavel ath'Noquund can be found between the tower and the temple.
Bregan's Fence can be found at the top of the fighter's college, Melee-Magthere.
Dyrr, the drow lich but he will not have any dealings with you until we place more city quests within.
Akordril ath'Arabep friendly
Brizeyl ath 'Lymxyra friendly
Dipree ath'Kilsek NOT friendly
Seh'lascla ath 'Lymxyra Some drow do not follow Lolth, in fact there are many factions that some drow follow, and of a few that follow and worship dragons. This NPC has the favor of a KEY Dragon personality. NOT FRIENDLY
Tregahn ath'Kilsek NOT friendly
Aleanath ath'Torlyl NOT friendly and is NOT Suppose to be. She is one of few Blackguards.
Ahvanna ath'Oussath NOT friendly
G'eldvier, is in a dual-side-by-side house in Menzoberranzan.
Tregahn ath'Kilsek, can be found usually at the Temple front. But his AI has secret meetings with Dyrr. He will attack any non-drow on sight.
Any drow that is recognized as the normal drow class type, will attack on sight. e.g., sword master, assassin, arachnomancer, etc.
Any key personalities, e.g., Triel Baenre, Mother Matron's, Quenthel ath'Baenre, Liriel ath'Baenre, Jaggred Baenre the Draegloth, etc..

So in a nut shell, you can get by, but watch out for those drow who will not let you pass, as one told me once, " You..will..not..pass!"
We'll take suggestions in all seriousness to better the mod should anyone have ideas to contribute. :thumbsup:

Some of the NPC's above have stories about them and some are in some of Sutlteric Drum's quests. So you see though the quest are not all there completely for them, and certainly this will not be all the NPC's, players will have to be patient as the mod goes along and NPC's are completed. Be aware that a few already have AI's and do things for some ODD reason :wacko: in Menzoberranzan