Guest Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014   I don't know, but anyone wanting to fight monsters shouldn't wind up as one of them.  Also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsPopularNowItSucks Just because a mod is popular doesn't make it 'good' by default.  It means the people who download a shit mod and then praise it are dupes.  It wasn't 'good' to begin with.  If pointing out that makes me a villian, so be it.  I made an off-hand reply to cobra and someone wanted 'an explanation'.  I gave it in detail only to be baited AGAIN.  whud-ever.  At 800x magnification on gimp it all looks grainy but i did notice the files for some of the high res mods (2K) were about ten times larger than most of the textures i looked at from the skyrim high-res DLC's ( i think they are 1k only, right?). As for normal mapping i just discovered how much of a difference a custom normal can make in the quality of a re-texture. I've been thinking about going through the few mods i have posted here and reposting them with custom normals but i want my skills at making them to be better before i make the jump, but without people pointing out what normals can really do for a texture i would have been rather oblivious. Perfectly reasonable normals can be made in GIMP by removing the alpha layer, desaturating the image to gray and adjusting the bump maps.  That's what I do.  For more detailed normals, baking is the way to go.  If a diffused texture doesn't need it then why go through the trouble?  No reason to bake and shake if you don't need to.  IMO.    Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was flame-baiting you, Mr Kendo. It's just your point was quite interesting, and yeah I do have a feelingthat my particular ENB preset (RealVision, I didn't try a lot of ENBs so I can't say all of them are bad) is not worth the resources and stability it takes away. So, if you have time, can you point me to the tutorial that explains how to change certain graphical features of Skyrim?
Kendo 2 Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Sorry if I gave you the impression that I was flame-baiting you, Mr Kendo. It's just your point was quite interesting, and yeah I do have a feelingthat my particular ENB preset (RealVision, I didn't try a lot of ENBs so I can't say all of them are bad) is not worth the resources and stability it takes away. So, if you have time, can you point me to the tutorial that explains how to change certain graphical features of Skyrim? Not a problem. Â This is my 'go to' place for tweaks. Â http://www.tweakguides.com/
Guest Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 @corespore: Well, I'm not looking for mods, what I was talking about is how to use vanilla resources to change skyrim tone/AA and stuffs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but ENBs feel like video filters to me: They are gorgeous but they slow down your computer since basicly when you stack 2 things on top of each other, it will not run as smooth, and stable as just one no matter how graphical heavy that one "thing" is...
Rayblue Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Today: the Italian who made all the Populated mods just got blackballed for uploading his renamed version of Erkeil's ERSO --Â "Multiple accounts for the purpose of ban evasion.".
ElectricSheep Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Many have tried to reason with the Nexus staff and all of them failed utterly. You can be polite, use logical arguments, but at the end of the day you cannot talk sense into someone who simply enjoys being an asshole. Dorken issued a country-wide ban once and then completely ignored users banned over nothing who were patiently asking for assistance, so yeah, best of luck. You made a mistake by contacting them after making a new account, you should have stayed quiet, as one of the Nexus moderators advised me once.
GrimReaper Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Today: the Italian who made all the Populated mods just got blackballed for uploading his renamed version of Erkeil's ERSO --Â "Multiple accounts for the purpose of ban evasion.". Â The fun thing is, if you watch any kind of mod reviews (like brodual and the like), at least half of the links to the mods being reviewed won't work after half a year because the author was banned for no reason at all. I don't consider myself a part of the nexus doomsday cult but if they keep this up this site won't be around much longer. Modders are a limited ressource after all, it takes a lot of time and practice to get anything done. In two years or so the only available mods will be house mods, mods that enable unplayable content by ticking a box in the CK and vanilla weapons/armors with extreme overpowered stats because they will have banned every talented and experienced modder by then.
CoxcombCornking Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Hi "guy whore". Â I advise you to just let it go. The magic Nexus pixies causing grief are based in jolly old England. The British Isles may be completely underwater by the end of this year. Â Glub glub glub.
Guest GuyWhoAbruptlyDisappeared Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 So, my best option at this point is to wait for them to grow up? :I
Kendo 2 Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 So, my best option at this point is to wait for them to grow up? :I I waited, started in 2006. Â It didn't happen and it still hasn't happened.
XunAmarox Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 ENBs There are settings in the game loaders and in the ini's that will do exactly what these ENB things do. Â Reading a good tweak guide and following the instructions will enable all sorts of marvelous things. Â Bloom, HDR, sharpening, depth of field, LOD, lens decal FX, tonal mapping, shadow depth and detail, sun rays, water reflections, etc. can ALL be done (depending on the game) without a freak'n mod. I think you may be exaggerating a little? I mean, bDoDepthOfField is set to 1 by default (enabled) but it only affects the menus as far as I know. I don't think you could get a DoF effect like an ENB just using the ini. You can do SSAO in video drivers but I really don't know about some of those things... Â I'd be very interested in how to achieve those things without an ENB.
GrimReaper Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 I don't know about the ENB for Fallout, but the one for Skyrim can do some crazy shit that isn't possible with the Skyrim engine alone.
Kendo 2 Posted February 17, 2014 Posted February 17, 2014 Out of the three ENBs I tried off of Nexus none of them did a real DOF effect. Â I don't think a gaussian blur applied on a radial and a zoom effect qualifies as DOF. Â THAT is what I meant when I included ENBs as 'shit mods'. This is the ENB I use now http://enbdev.com/mod_falloutnv_v0150.htm and it does in fact make my game do things it normally can't do...and I DID NOT get it off of Nexus, which was my point.
GrimReaper Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 You won't get the ENB from the nexus anyway because they don't allow the upload of the enb .dll. All you can get from the nexus are the presets for ENB. Â But I do agree that most ENB presets you can get from the nexus are really shitty. Too bright, too dark and oversaturated are the most common problems among the presets available. Seom authors don't know how to handle ligthing, so the night and interiors will be pitch black while torches will illuminate like nothing at all. Some presets are literally unplayable. Some presets are so bright, even at night, that it will literally hurt your eyes when playing. And most of them look like someone just puked the color orange all over the place.
srayesmanll Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Today: the Italian who made all the Populated mods just got blackballed for uploading his renamed version of Erkeil's ERSO -- "Multiple accounts for the purpose of ban evasion.".  Erkeil's got his own site (which most who know Erkeil already know), and it looks like he'll be hosting the Populated mods over there ( http://erkeilmods.altervista.org/skyrim/welcome/ ). They're not up yet, but there is a note that they will be added.  The ban itself states that relliosavini was erkeil in disguise ...   Previously banned user: erkeil although the note on Erkeil's site seems to indicate it was truly someone else. Doesn't matter, as long as there is a way to get them, that's all that matters. rellio shouldn't have added Erk's mods. As soon as I saw him posting some of Erk's stuff outside of the Populated series, I knew the whistle of the banhammer would be heard soon...
Rayblue Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 I'll bookmark that. Thanks. Â Frankly it's a risky move for a modder to upload a banned author's work, but otherwise ERSO's fucking good. Â Â Â Today: the Italian who made all the Populated mods just got blackballed for uploading his renamed version of Erkeil's ERSO --Â "Multiple accounts for the purpose of ban evasion.". Â The fun thing is, if you watch any kind of mod reviews (like brodual and the like), at least half of the links to the mods being reviewed won't work after half a year because the author was banned for no reason at all. I don't consider myself a part of the nexus doomsday cult but if they keep this up this site won't be around much longer. Modders are a limited ressource after all, it takes a lot of time and practice to get anything done. In two years or so the only available mods will be house mods, mods that enable unplayable content by ticking a box in the CK and vanilla weapons/armors with extreme overpowered stats because they will have banned every talented and experienced modder by then. Â Â Now I'm thinking about that Landa, and of course all they care are the ones kissing their fat asses. Â Man, there'll come the day when someone could possibly dox the staff, and find dirt on them.
Contessa Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 I've shared this sentiment before but it's best to just download and leave. It's truly a shame when people are afraid to interact with a community.
Guest Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Â One day, I was inexplicably banned for reason "Multiple accounts". Â While I really believe moderators and admins can do mistakes because we're all human, I really can't stand to the fact they banned your ip when you tried to ask an explanation. Since they keep track of everything, it would have been normal at least sending you a mail with "here, these are the reasons, look, we have these proofs of what you did: ... ... ...". I think what happened to you is bad, is really bad, definetely worser than many other bans I'm aware of.
contaejus Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 This stuff is hilarous dude! xD and true to skyrim's crap as well, the nexus lost someone good that day.
Guest Ragna_Rok Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 when youre offline for a while, and read more of that N-crap when youre on again, its not hilarious anymore. its only one thing, a fucking shame. from what i know nexus is responsible for the modding community to grow in its early days. so after all it seems to have had a purpose a while back. Â its like a good manager. at first succesful, and inspiring. then at a later time, he gets too much used to the social status he achieved and the simple minds admiring him, the fame goes to his head... and someone visionary becomes a narcistic arrogant son of a bitch, for who the folks around him are just there to praise him. actually im not sure anymore if i can really blame robbin robin or the other fuckfarts for turning to the asshole-side. Â lets simply hope that the shit they do ruins their enterprise that is built no more on an idea, a vision, but only on profit, humiliation, exploitation and the pleasure of the staff to treat other folks like crap.
Guest GuyWhoAbruptlyDisappeared Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Over the past few days, I've discovered that while the moderators are incredibly strict, they aren't very attentive.I switched IP's on my router and re-registered with the username that got banned backwards, and have been around the forums and chat. It seems that the moderators are so busy banning people that they don't notice when one of the banned changes his shirt and runs back in.Â
gvman3670 Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Over the past few days, I've discovered that while the moderators are incredibly strict, they aren't very attentive.  I switched IP's on my router and re-registered with the username that got banned backwards, and have been around the forums and chat. It seems that the moderators are so busy banning people that they don't notice when one of the banned changes his shirt and runs back in.  LMAO! Yeah, not too observant or attentive I suppose.
Mercer Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Nexus moderators are complete cunts. That is all I have to say on the matter.
Tensu_Makadi Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Ok seen this topic for a while always avoided it because well, not that I don't have any sympathy for those who have been banned, I'm not. However recently I have been seeing hearing stories about mod authors getting banned because they used a creation kit not downloaded from steam? I actually found the mod the guy made on steam and he says the same thing so how is it Nexus knows he didn't get a legitimate copy and steam doesn't? I mean if he didn't get a legitimate copy from the only place I know of that you can get it how is he able to post his mods there and not get banned or worse arrested/fined for bootlegging/pirating?
Guest Ragna_Rok Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 nexus doesnt know, nexus assumes. another indicator for immature trigger happy asshole moderation of the site.
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