2 hours ago, ArkPlays11 said:

Hello, Love your mod. It is seriously one of the best player homes/areas.

 

I was facing issues with some of the beds in mansion which have the command use bed, character just stands for few secs and then starts moving again. The beds with Sleep command work perfectly fine tho.

 

(also does this have map markers/layout? Because whenever I open map in L , its just a big green world space showing)

 

Thanks for the awesome mod

Thanks for reporting!

I didn't focus much on furniture and usability because I see this as a screenshot location first and as a player home second. But yes, things placed should work, I'll look into it.

 

I assume you are referring to the worldspace map of Villa Adraa?

There really isn't that much too it, it's mostly background decoration for the villa to get a nice landscape. I don't have any plans to continue building on that worldspace so map markers don't make sense. 

 

 

 

Malicia : « Hi, Mr Native.

 

              I just wanna say that this video is very nice, and very well done ; but there's still dead people inside, uh.

 

              And so if you wanna pick some place for vacations, you're not going to pick one where people have been eaten like tin cans, you see ?

 

               Anyway, Tirloque is very ashamed of himself, but he says the garden looks very good.  »

5 hours ago, Tirloque said:

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Malicia : « Hi, Mr Native.

              I just wanna say that this video is very nice, and very well done ; but there's still dead people inside, uh.

              And so if you wanna pick some place for vacations, you're not going to pick one where people have been eaten like tin cans, you see ? »

Thanks, given that you have very little other options for vacation right now, I think Nora's place is definitely not the worst option for vacation, you see?

 

5 hours ago, Tirloque said:

 

               Anyway, Tirloque is very ashamed of himself, but he says the garden looks very good.  »

Tell him. that not betatesting is no problem.

One week was a fairly short time and people have lives to live, I completely understand.

 

 

 

 

Honestly, I cannot get enough of this place. There is nothing else like it. The attention to detail is insane, and, frankly, I'm beyond jealous of your skill.

I could go on and on about how awesome it is, but instead I'll just say thank you.

 

28 minutes ago, Noxide said:

Honestly, I cannot get enough of this place. There is nothing else like it. The attention to detail is insane, and, frankly, I'm beyond jealous of your skill.

I could go on and on about how awesome it is, but instead I'll just say thank you.

 

Thank you very much for these kind words!

Glad people are enjoying it. 

This is still as impressive as ever. Just to confirm... none of the containers in this mansion respawn, correct? I know it's meant more for screenarchery than as a playerhome, but dear God I want to use it as the latter so bad...

53 minutes ago, Lucifeller said:

This is still as impressive as ever. Just to confirm... none of the containers in this mansion respawn, correct? I know it's meant more for screenarchery than as a playerhome, but dear God I want to use it as the latter so bad...

Yes, I just checked again, all containers in the main building do not respawn.

Some of the barrels in the basement do however, but they don't look like appropriate storage area anyway. 

 

26 minutes ago, Alter Native said:

Yes, I just checked again, all containers in the main building do not respawn.

Some of the barrels in the basement do however, but they don't look like appropriate storage area anyway. 

 

Thanks! Definitely using this, even if I feel bad about free houses. It just looks too good...

Just now, Lucifeller said:

Thanks! Definitely using this, even if I feel bad about free houses. It just looks too good...

Thanks!

You can always remove 100 k gold from your character via console and pretend you bought it  

Thank you for this!  I like to play a dunmer or bosmer cannibal dedicated to Namira, and this fits in very well.  

Normally I don't like playing vampires, but the video was almost enough to convince me...it's got the whole  decadent gothic horror atomsphere down perfectly.  Strahd von Zarovich and Dracula would be insanely jealous of such a manor.

2 hours ago, Nickolos1818 said:

Thank you for this!  I like to play a dunmer or bosmer cannibal dedicated to Namira, and this fits in very well.  

 

2 hours ago, Celedhring said:

Normally I don't like playing vampires, but the video was almost enough to convince me...it's got the whole  decadent gothic horror atomsphere down perfectly.  Strahd von Zarovich and Dracula would be insanely jealous of such a manor.

Thank you both!

Glad you like it, it's functional as a player house, but it's mostly intended for screenshots.

great mod definitely one of the best looking homes i have encountered til now. I just run quickly through because i didn't had time to really dig in to it but from what i saw it is absolutely amazing. I just wished it would be possible to make npcs use the areas like

You get home and the npcs have started a banquette and your all like how dare you start the party without me ?

Thanks. Probably is the best house for vampires in the game.

 

I found a problem with MO; If i try to extract the files, MO shows an error. The names of the some files are too long. This did not happen with the previous version.

 

A question: Why the manor is so close from Castle Volkihar? I always thought that Nora Hates Harkon.

On 6/20/2020 at 8:15 AM, santardo said:

great mod definitely one of the best looking homes i have encountered til now. I just run quickly through because i didn't had time to really dig in to it but from what i saw it is absolutely amazing. I just wished it would be possible to make npcs use the areas like

You get home and the npcs have started a banquette and your all like how dare you start the party without me ?

Thank you!

I probably won't do NPCs in this mod and even if I'd tried the scene you're suggesting wouldn't look as lively as you want it to be.

But I appreciate the suggestion. 

4 hours ago, Raikano said:

Thanks. Probably is the best house for vampires in the game.

I found a problem with MO; If i try to extract the files, MO shows an error. The names of the some files are too long. This did not happen with the previous version.

A question: Why the manor is so close from Castle Volkihar? I always thought that Nora Hates Harkon.

Thanks for the report. I'm using MO my selves and didn't have any problems installing the mod. Are you talking about the .bsa? Some texture names are indeed pretty long.

 

The location in my story is different from the location in the mod. If you look at the exterior shots of Karlov Manor in my story it's located on a Hill and not at the coast and supposed to be at a not nearer specified location in Skyrim.

For the location in the mod I was looking for a place that has low mod conflict potential and is easy to build. For example if I had build it somewhere inland you have to worry about a believable location from all sites, build fences probably, maybe a garden... stuff like this. It get's a lot of work pretty quickly and I didn't want to change large vanilla areas due to conflicts and collision with vanilla locations.

It's actually much harder than you may think to find a free spot for a manor of that size in Skyrim...

Yes: I am talking about the bsa. With MO (old) shows an error if i try to extract the files (A warning about hashes and broke some files).

 

I was able to extract the files with a external tool. 

 

You right, some files have long names, but i think the problem is that some files have names with special characters. That is not a good thing. 

 

About the location, well, it is true the location has no conflicts, there is no enemies at that point (i think) and the terrain is "flat". For their design and Architecture, it have sense their location (perhaps not the coast) but yes Haafingar. 

 

8 hours ago, Raikano said:

Yes: I am talking about the bsa. With MO (old) shows an error if i try to extract the files (A warning about hashes and broke some files).

 

I was able to extract the files with a external tool. 

 

You right, some files have long names, but i think the problem is that some files have names with special characters. That is not a good thing. 

Yeah, I think it's mostly some of the witcher 3 ressources that have these crazy long names for whatever reason. Might change that in a future version. Thanks for reporting.

 

8 hours ago, Raikano said:

About the location, well, it is true the location has no conflicts, there is no enemies at that point (i think) and the terrain is "flat". For their design and Architecture, it have sense their location (perhaps not the coast) but yes Haafingar. 

Probably tons of conflicts with lesser known mods, but it's not one of the common spots like riverwood or whatever. So that should help.

Wow. Just....wow. Thank you so much for this work of art!

4 hours ago, Bluegunk said:

Wow. Just....wow. Thank you so much for this work of art!

Thank you very much!

any chance you can add children's room

2 hours ago, sfdrake said:

any chance you can add children's room

In a vampire castle?

What a parent are you? No I won't do that, ever.

What can i say? I like a lot everything 

 

I have spended many time walking in the house and the other areas and i can say you have a very good taste and a lot of talent.

 

having said that, if you are open to new ideas or "fix" some details, i left here some comments about sometime things i have seen:

 

1: Could you enable the bed in the guest room? It is very strange to have a guest room and can't use it.

 

2: The chair at the Amelie's Room is disabled.

 

3: There is a bedroom at the first floor is dirty which bed is dirty with some blood and some glasses.  The floor is dirty with a pile of ashes and there is a chair thrown.

 

Could you add a switch (clean room/dirty room) for that bedroom and a switch (turn on light/turn off light) too?

 

4: Could you add some drawing or painting to the Painting/Drawing Room? All of the Folios have nothing.

 

5: Perhaps the main Bedroom needs a true Jewelry Box (Vanilla Box is a little strange).

 

6: The main manor needs at least one more bathroom, the only bathroom there is in the manor is for exclusive use the lord/lady of the manor.

 

7: There is a mirror at the living room, above the fireplace (In the center of the first floor). I wonder what is the purpose to put a mirror there. Perhaps a Painting will looks better.

 

8: Perhaps a wardrobe for Valentina's Room.

 

9: This is more secondary a lot, but the  staff of the manor (maiden, cook,  stableman, etc)  they needs a place where they could sleeping and a place where they can take a bath. 

 

A special case is a place for the thrall master (perhaps a bedroom at the cellar?).

 

Of course, all of these things are only suggestions. The manor is beautiful and awesome. I really enjoy with this mod.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

Thank you very much! That's very valuable feedback, I wish I'd get more feedback like this.

 

 

13 hours ago, Raikano said:

1: Could you enable the bed in the guest room? It is very strange to have a guest room and can't use it.

2: The chair at the Amelie's Room is disabled.

Thanks, I'll fix that in the next update.

 

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3: There is a bedroom at the first floor is dirty which bed is dirty with some blood and some glasses.  The floor is dirty with a pile of ashes and there is a chair thrown.

Could you add a switch (clean room/dirty room) for that bedroom and a switch (turn on light/turn off light) too?

Good idea. Should have done this, the ashen abandoned version was a last minute decision before releasing version 1.0. 

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4: Could you add some drawing or painting to the Painting/Drawing Room? All of the Folios have nothing.

I'll have to see about that, not sure. The idea is that it's a painting painted with blood and I need to find an artwork that reflects that and that I'm allowed to use, so I'm not sure.

 

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5: Perhaps the main Bedroom needs a true Jewelry Box (Vanilla Box is a little strange).

Not sure about this one, if I find a good model maybe.

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6: The main manor needs at least one more bathroom, the only bathroom there is in the manor is for exclusive use the lord/lady of the manor.

9: This is more secondary a lot, but the  staff of the manor (maiden, cook,  stableman, etc)  they needs a place where they could sleeping and a place where they can take a bath. 

A special case is a place for the thrall master (perhaps a bedroom at the cellar?).

What this would come down to is adding a bunch of rooms that should be there from a realism standpoint (I agree) but that wouldn't add anything to the place imo. 

Just a bunch of "boring" rooms that are just "there" without anyone doing anything with it. 

I can't add too much more to the main karlov manor cell for performance reasons and would need to add something like a servant wing with a bunch of small bedrooms, a bathroom etc. That's a fair amount of work that I prefer to spend elsewhere.

Best case scenario I need one of those rooms for my story and start to add more commoners rooms, but no promises about any of that.

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7: There is a mirror at the living room, above the fireplace (In the center of the first floor). I wonder what is the purpose to put a mirror there. Perhaps a Painting will looks better.

I considered a painting there as well. 

The initial idea for this room came from this artwork:

Which has a mirror. I don't think a painting would make sense over a fireplace cause it'd just wear out really quickly due to the heat and the smoke... 

I tested a painting at some point (version 1.0 had it) and prefer the mirror.

 

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8: Perhaps a wardrobe for Valentina's Room.

The room has little space, but there should be a wardobe, let's see if I can make room, thanks for the suggestion.

 

Thanks for the feedback, let me know if you have found anything else.

 

On 9/10/2020 at 1:39 PM, Alter Native said:

Thanks for the feedback, let me know if you have found anything else.

 

Well, i have written a complete report about all areas:

 

1: Church of Bal

 

1a: All of the wooden benches are disabled.

 

1b: The throne is disabled.

 

1c:  In the future (long future?), you could consider to add an animation/switch to the Molag's altar. The pray to Dibella has an animation that could look well at the altar of the Molag.  First Pray, then take a drink (and receive their blessing if Molag feels generous ?) 

 

1d: The "Ritual" Bowls of Blood have a "switch", but it nothing happens when i activate. I suppose in that case it is something about vanilla game, not from the mod, but i am not sure.

 

 

2: Cellar/Basement

 

2a: 

 

 

Just nothing, but remember you have a simple space here, if in the future you want or need to do something in that area.

 

2b: Wake/Get up some thralls. Perhaps adding some simple schedule for them. It is not very immersive that all of them are sleeping every hour. 

in addition to the immersion, there is a reason to do that. Sometimes if you try to feed from a "sleeping thrall", you can be trapped between the shelfs and the sleeping bags.

 

3: Guest Bedroom

 

3a: There are two switch next one of the windows, but it nothing happens when activate it (Gargoyles).

 

4: Valentina's Room

 

4a: The chair next to the desk is disabled.

 

4b: The switch light it does not work, or yes? I am not sure. What that switch does? When i activate that switch i can see a flicker, but nothing more. Does it change something in the lights or the room ?

 

 

5: Main Bedroom and Bathroom:

 

5a: The small chair in front the mirror is disabled. (Bathroom)

 

5b: The small chair in front the fireplace is disabled. (Bathroom)

 

5c: The switch in the bathtub is very big. It takes a lot of space. I think it could be a good idea move that switch to the handles (one for water, one for the foam).

 

5d: Could you enable some drawer, furniture or put some small box or something to save letters? (Main Room).

 

 

 

6: Library

 

6a: Both chairs next to the desks are disabled. Also the chair behind of one of the chaises.

 

(The library, as the basement too) would be a perfect place to add a secret space/room for something).

 

 

7: Of blood and Pleasure - Locations: 

 

7a:  It is not important, but there are not any locks on the minimap.

 

8: Stensia - Bedroom:

 

8a: Both chairs, next to the bookshelves and the ladder is disabled.

 

8b: Both chaise are disabled. This furniture works well with normal sit animation and animation sitting throne. Even with lay down animation, but unfortunately this last animation do not looks good.

 

8c: There is a switch for the "lord chair" But it nothing happens when i activate. The other chair (next to the painting) is disabled.

 

9: The Duchess ' Room (Anor Londor): 

 

9a: The bed is disabled.

 

10: Noble House - First Floor: 

 

10a: All furniture in this room is disabled. It is a pity because this bedroom is so beautiful.

 

11: Noble House -  Cellar:

 

11a: The chairs are disabled.

 

11b: The bed needs a switch (clean bed/dirty bed).

 

12: Villa Valek:

 

12a: There is not too much to say about this place. Even in ruins, it is a beautiful place. I like the "magic trick" with the butterflies.

Perhaps, to increase the inmersion to this area, you could add some "lore" about this place in somewhere of the villa. A letter or a diary that talk about this place, their history, their people, or something that gives and idea what happened at this place. Something indirect. 

 

13 Villa Adra:

 

13a: This area is the most beautiful place i have never seen. I like how you mix red and white on exteriors to create and unique and pretty garden and house. The garden is pretty. I like to how you use the light between exterior and interiors. Also the paintings.

 

Having said this, i understand this area is very incomplete .

 

Most of the furniture here is disabled (except some stone benches in the garden and a bed on the first floor). 

 

The switch of fireplaces does not work. There is a sound, but the fire does not appears. 

 

The switch for the light in the "main bedroom" at the second floor does not work.

 

 

 

Uffff. Until here.

 

PD: I say it again, All areas is so beautiful and awesome. Thanks a lot again. 

 

I will be waiting to see the next version. Perhaps it will comes as a gift for Christmas?

 

PD2: I almost forgot, In the future you could thinking about add a small (and perhaps secret) room to save gold and other treasures.

Gold and the reaches are very important for vampires, to keep their luxury lifestyle.

 

 

 

 

I love it.