modding

I have been sort of struggling with this whole Naidi thing for a bit. I felt very guilty because she annoys me, and the simple reason that she does so is because she looks rather skanky. I felt bad, because in real life, I would never choose a friend based on their appearance, and I really feel there is such a thing as "inner beauty". It shouldn't matter how a person looks.

However, I thought about it, and came to the conclusion that I should lighten the heck up. It's a game! There is a big huge difference between game behavior and real life behavior. For example, in real life, I would never bash anybody over the head with a sword. Honestly. :P So, I said to myself..."Self, just give Naidi a makeover already". I am pleased with the results, actually. Now, I am going to work on Ulora. She isn't skanky looking, but she could use a bit of "ooomph".

I really do dislike that term "skinning farmgirl". It makes me feel like the serial killer Buffalo Bill from the movie Silence of the Lambs. But, I guess that is what you modders call making a new face. I prefer the term "makeover" myself. ^^

Anyway, regarding my skinning thing. I took a picture of Angelina Jolie and resized it and all that to make this face. The DS farmgirl doesn't really look much like Jolie at all, but I think for a rank amateur...I did ok on my first ever skin.

[IMG]http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h56/kathycf/screenshots/angelina_jolie_wallpaper_1600x1200.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls...

Well, what does that have to do with this blog entry? Nothing, really. ^^

New spell icons

Tweaked the spell so creature has more health to start off with and gains more health at higher levels of combat magic skill. The spell now requires combat magic 7, along the lines of the killer gremal spell.

Suzy and friend

I have been experimenting over yesterday and today and came up with a couple of things:

I added a new skin to the playable gargoyle in dsrevived loa...
I redid the jade gargoyle to be a pink girly gargoyle
I made a small stand alone npc mod...I can now add in either Caitlin (melee) or Aine (pronounced AHN-ya...it's Irish) nature mage. I have gotten a little bored with the regular NPCs and decided to "make" a couple of girls. I am still playing around with what skins I want for them, plus the ever exciting task of making new hair ribbons. Right now I can add them in using the +party command and template name with the dark/light elf mod gui thingy, but I think I will try to make them summonable, similiar to the summon npc spell mod. Strictly for my own private use, since I would have to use the summon npc mod as a base to work from. I don't like plagiarism, hence the private use thing. Still, it has been fun. ^^

Made a new hairstyle for elves today.

Unfortunately I think I picked the ugliest face (at close ups) to go with it. But nonetheless, this is Lena.

Now Forrester has some good company.

I was looking through the Skrit + Template Cross Reference made by frilly_wumpus and I can really recommend it for your modding as you are familiarizing yourself with the game's parts. Here's what it looked like when I was checking out the Necro Lithid.

Poor Farmgirl, it isn't her fault the game designers decided to make armor look so ugly on her. Even pretty colors and flowers don't help all that much. I made up a few new armors to try out.

Some examples of a5 and a6 armor on a few different female characters: Elfgirl, Catmansion girl and Farmgirl.

Lady Blue...this one isn't horrible on Farmgirl, but it isn't all that great either.