The Ancient Profession 2024-06-24

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On 9/23/2026 at 5:53 PM, Highborn said:

Hi, mate. Are you still working on the mod in the meantime? Or we should consider it on hiatus?

 

Wish I had better news, but I'm not able to work on this right now, and I don't know when I'll be able to get back to it.

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On 9/11/2024 at 4:46 AM, akerue said:

 

Hi, recently spent some time making an ostim standalone conversion version of this. Compared to SexLabToOStim bridge, it offers better automatic animation selection and improved handling of orgy scenes. It requires the latest version of OStim SA (currently 7.3.1a), no need for SexLab.

 

Due to the different ways OStim and SexLab handle interactions, most of my time was spent working on orgy scenes (especially in the Temple quest) and troubleshooting the OStim tagging system.

 

I’ve tested the following quests, and they all run smoothly (with creatures disabled):

• Main Quest
• License Quest and related miscellaneous quests
• Dibella’s Garden
• Benjen
• Dibella’s Temple
• Vanikseth
• Tlatha
• Succubus System
• Freelance Whoring System

However, I haven’t figured out how to trigger Broluk or Marcus-related quests, so those haven’t been tested, though there shouldn’t be any issues. Additionally, there’s a problem with handling Khajiit damage—it failed to retrieve OStim thread information for some reason, so I had to disable that part.

 

Because OStim uses manual scene control instead of automatic, some events bound to specific scenarios now need to be manually triggered by the player.

• For scenes registered with ‘orgasm,’ one needs to reach orgasm.
• For scenes registered with ‘scenechanged,’ the player needs to ensure there’s some manual or passive change in the animation (e.g., clicking around the navigation menu).

 

Scenes registered with ‘orgasm’:

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1. In the Political Favor quest, the servant only walks in after orgasm with Gisli.
2. In Audacity Killed the Cat, Chaser-Of-Cats only appears after orgasm.
3. In Necrophilic Necromancy, it’s best to reach orgasm to absorb the soul.
4. In Succubus, if you don’t have the required skill, you must have orgasm to absorb the soul. Ending a scene too early will prevent this.

Scenes registered with ‘scenechanged’:

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1.  In the Political Favor quest, when kissing Falk, a ‘scenechanged’ trigger is needed to progress to the next stage.

 

One important note: scene dialogue won’t display while using free camera, which OStim uses by default.

If you have a voice pack, you’ll still hear the dialogue, but there won’t be subtitles.

Without a voice pack, you might miss some information.

 

Lastly, although I’ve done my best to convert SexLab tags to OStim equivalents and detect certain types of animations (e.g., FFFF), OStim sometimes includes a default idle animation, falsely indicating the presence of such sex animations. If you don’t have female or male solo animations installed, it may still play idle animations, making the scene a little weird.

 

(the attached compressed file only contains the files that need to be replaced, not the entire mod)

The Ancient Profession - Ostim SA.zip 24.22 MB · 390 downloads

Here are the fixed psc files that should stop the ctd. Basically only these scripts changed. Please compile to .pex and ship as loose files so they override the BSA. Especially TAPQSexUtilScript and TAPQSolitudeLicenseScript.

TAP_OStimSA_FFFFFFFF_fix_v3.zip