Lykaios Males!

[nerogoth]

 

I'm curious, did you get the tails to be HDT? ...

 

YES! I did. Groovtama helped me get it working.

 

Its only a basic HDT tail and does have the usual slight twitching and bug out glitch that most HDT tails have, but it works well enough to release.

 

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I have done:  ((A HELL LOT!! THANK YOU!!!))        

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[robbedragon]

*Watches this thread* 

 

I still love the old mod, but with each preview I am so much more excited. Even more to see these ones. Only cause I've been sitting here trying to make a addon sheath. XD For my own use...but I am not a modder it seems. XD

 

I was trying to take this sheath, http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4445/?tab=4&&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fcomments%2F%3Fmod_id%3D4445%26page%3D10%26sort%3DDESC%26pid%3D0%26thread_id%3D506216&pUp=1and make it add on to equip to a few characters. I'm suppose to be a asleep XD But I've been trying to mod it for about four hours now.

[**TheSKYRIM_Lover**]

 

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I'm curious, did you get the tails to be HDT? I remember some time ago you were trying to get HDT tails to work but not sure how it went krittakitty.

YES! I did. Groovtama helped me get it working. :DIts only a basic HDT tail and does have the usual slight twitching and bug out glitch that most HDT tails have, but it works well enough to release.I'm hoping someone who knows HDT better than I do will improve it once the whole mod is released. I did contact the author of the equipable HDT tail and ears mod about how to make the HDT as smooth as theirs, but it was a bit beyond my skills and they are still ill as far as I know.EDIT: the HDT tail is optional btw, there is a fully rigged and working 'Vanilla' type version of the tail included in the mod options.

 

 

 

 

By the way, Kritta, it kinda looks like the seems on the legs could use some work too.You know, something that bothers me is that I have never seen anyone make a mesh where seams overlap. Why doesn't anyone do that?! It would make it SOOO much easier to blend textures if you could have one of them fade out on top of the other!

They usually dont overlap the actual mesh seams because otherwise the smoothing will bug out since technically the mesh is still 'one piece, which is cut up into flat sections for your UV map the seams do break when you convert to a .nif, but they are still 'one' so that it forms a smooth mesh. If to combat that you just overlap your UV maps, then is the issue that when you would bake your normals you would get a conflict on the shading. so you'd have a band where the mesh overlaps that would have the conflicting normals and still get a seam there anyway.The only way to have a nonexistent seam is to have a single solid colour with no pattern or have a program where you can paint across seams in 3d.This particular seam is because the texture is made to work on 2 different male bodies, and there is the slightest little difference in the mesh and texture direction from one to the other which is super noticeable close up but blends away at a reasonable distance.

Hm, this is completely beyond my knowledge then. It really isn't as simple as overlapping a fading texture? There's NO way to do that?

You would have to create a separate mesh which sits over the seam with its own separate UV maps.I did similar with the tail mesh to achieve the layered fur look. The problem you would have then is sometimes It might clip with the body underneath if its not weighted just perfectly, and then there is also some issues with the light hitting the mesh just right, If you look at the fur trims on the Ronzo race, you'll see what I mean about the mismatch with the lighting normals making the fur stand out from the body.AND..its heaps of extra work when really the seam isn't THAT bad, or visible from a playing distance.

Sheesh, his thighs are big! Or maybe his neck is too thick...I can't tell. Somethings out of proportion in my opinion. That's all I know.XDAnyways, I understand it isn't that bad of an issue. It's just that I have a very keen eye for detail, and me having the mindset that everything has a easy solution, somewhere somehow, I thought it could be easily patched up. Apparently not. Whatever the case, it's looking awesome! I'm very much looking forward to the update!Speaking of which, any chance you could whip up a brief update on the mod's progress? Simply telling us what all is finished, what's yet to be done, and what you're currently working on and how close you are to finishing that part?

He's just set to Max weight, you can always make him skinnier in your own game.I have done:

• All body textures, CBBE, UNP/Vanilla, SOS, Anthro X 'Smooth', 'Furry', 'Bare', and then in two different colour options. So that is like 20 different diffuse textures, and then the matching normal maps and specular maps (so that makes it more like 50+ if you count the 4 different options for SOS, hand and head meshes as well as all the msn and Sk maps)
• 'Anthro' body meshes for both genders, rigged and weight sliding
• Feet for both genders rigged and weight sliding
• Head meshes re-made and neck seam fixed
• Fluffy Tails for both genders in both HDT or Vanilla bone weighting.
• SOS Lykaios canine addon + SOS 'Lykaios Human' addon (that way you can have both if you want)
• All facial tintmasks re-made for the new meshes and both sexes (another 40+ textures)
• 13 new warpaints + 3 different 'husky' facial markings
• added in more and better 'colour' options for skin tones/hair and warpaints
• Racemenu Body overlays for Males (another 40+ textures)
• 30+ different eye colour variants

Hair meshes and matching textures: (unisex) so X two for all of these

• Lion/wolf mane + with fringe + with braids + with feathers/beads
• Braided ponytail + with braids/feathers/beads
• Mohawk + Mohawk with feathers
• Short crop + Short crop with fringe
• flipped forward (think emo fringe)
• Long messy hair
• Dreadlocks + with beads (in two colour variants, light or dark)
• 3 'improved vanilla' hair styles (I fixed them up and made them a little more stylish with better textures)
• Tied style (this style is a bit hard to describe, there are lots of tufts and braids)
• (possibly more I have forgotten)

Racial abilities fixed:

• Now have a small fire damage penalty to compensate for the frost resistance
• Lowered disease resistance to help in contracting vampirism
• balanced the 'claws' unarmed damage so its a little less over powered
• lowered starting stats to (almost) vanilla
• 'Summon pack' ability which summons 3 wolf pack members to fight for you for 90 seconds. (once a day power)
• Better detect life ability
• removed 'night eye' ability

____________ I still need to:

• Finish Racemenu Body overlays for females (another 40+ textures)
• Add all the male hairs into CK
• Get the SOS patch working
• Add the Eye Glow variants
• Esm-ift the mod, then make the NPCs and mod.
• Voice acting for NPCs.
• (optional) wild shape shifting power. You turn into a 'real' wolf for a few minutes

_____After release:

• Child Lykaios race
• Keep working on Facial .tri files
• custom 'race' armor sets - going to be based on a mix of native american and mongolian clothing
• custom race home - a portable 'Yurt' for lykaios - I'll be setting up camps of Lykaios much like you see the wandering Khajiit caravans
• Custom voice type/effect - with canine whines barks and other things
• Make new armor race for Lykaios that works...(so that the edited clothing don't overwrite any Khajiit armors)
• Add in the edited armor/footwear/helmets

Are you going to make it compatible with SAM? Or at least an optional patch to make it compatible? I'd love to play as a chubby wolfy!

It looks so incredibly good

cannot wait anymore I'm looking forward to the end result   

Keep it up

[Ixum]

Ye this waiting is killing me... the closer we get the harder it is... like when ur on ur way home and u have to pee... and when ur at ur door ur like almost bursting in ur pants... its toture. You are torturing us Kritta!1111 No not rly ofc.

[Shadowscale]

Oh, no, I totally get you. The very reason I've experimented with so many different HDT tail mods/sets, and tried my hand at modifying the xml's for them is that I need the tail to not make me think I'm still playing a game from 2001. On that front, Kritta, I'm very glad to hear you're trying to work out good implementation of HDT on the tails. Just for the love of god don't get too ambitious and try to put HDT on the male's balls...that one SOS mod by GRT...I applaud the effort/concept...but actually watching it function in-game is very often some exorcist-level shit XD

 

 

I don't know why, but your last sentence had me laughing til I had difficulty breathing. Maybe its the caffeine withdrawl speaking.

[KiWolfGirl]

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

 

 

  Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

[Taven]

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

 

 

  Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

 

 

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

[GlitchyComic]

 

 

 

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

 

Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

I'm about 99% sure that's exactly what he does. He's actually asked for other people to do the voicing sometimes, like with his Amorous project.

[Subject2Host]

 

 

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

I'm about 99% sure that's exactly what he does. He's actually asked for other people to do the voicing sometimes, like with his Amorous project.

 

Amorous??? Are you talking about the mod? And if that being so, means Jason made that?!

[frear]

So......I've made a 'stand in' add-on for the Lykaios race, which works like the usual SOS add-ons.

 

Please note this one is just until we get the fully animated sheath working! For now it will be released as a patch with the Race when it is ready for Beta testing in the next few weeks, and also as a stand alone addon for SOS in general if there is enough demand for it. 

 

I'm having some trouble at the moment getting the SOS patch for the Lykaios race to work, but as soon as I do It will be full steam ahead to having this released.  I still also need to fix the slight texture mismatch at the groin seam, but other than that this is working perfectly in game!

 

...and yeah the sheath is a bit wrinkly and not very 'canine' but its better than nothing at all!

Also I think the textures make up for the dodgy mesh work on my part. This mesh is a combo of the amazing mesh work on the shaft by Porsche, and the sheath and balls are edited by yours truly from VectorPlexus's regular schlong.

 

So far it is running and animating fine with SOS, and racemenu scales and sliders are working great too.

 

My apologies for the terribly blocky shadows on the 'erect' pic. Those black lines aren't there if you are running a better PC than I am and have your shadows set higher.

 

That looks fantastic. Will the final version include a fur texture for the balls? The testicles on the pics look very human-like.

[Shadowscale]

 

 

 

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

I'm about 99% sure that's exactly what he does. He's actually asked for other people to do the voicing sometimes, like with his Amorous project.

 

Amorous??? Are you talking about the mod? And if that being so, means Jason made that?!

 

 

They mean this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16614940/which is basically a visual novel. Only 2 (3ish) routes in, all males.

[GlitchyComic]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

I'm about 99% sure that's exactly what he does. He's actually asked for other people to do the voicing sometimes, like with his Amorous project.

Amorous??? Are you talking about the mod? And if that being so, means Jason made that?!

They mean this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16614940/which is basically a visual novel. Only 2 (3ish) routes in, all males.

As far as I know, they will all be male. But yeah, that's the one I'm talking about.

[Shadowscale]

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

I'm about 99% sure that's exactly what he does. He's actually asked for other people to do the voicing sometimes, like with his Amorous project.

Amorous??? Are you talking about the mod? And if that being so, means Jason made that?!

They mean this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16614940/which is basically a visual novel. Only 2 (3ish) routes in, all males.

As far as I know, they will all be male. But yeah, that's the one I'm talking about.

 

 

6 males, 5 females, 1 herm is planned.

[Subject2Host]

 

 

 

 

 

What? What's wrong with the voices Jason uses? At least they're pretty high quality. What, are you just disturbed thinking about how they went about to produce the voices?

 

XD

I can just imagine them jerking off with the mic laying beside them.

Thanks for making it worse. Yes and also theyre always so effeminate.

Eh, jerking off with the mic nearby would be a little bit of a challenge, you'd be squirming and stuff. I honestly believe they just moan into the mic, send it off for approval, and if it doesn't sound right, try again. Don't see what makes it so bad.

I'm about 99% sure that's exactly what he does. He's actually asked for other people to do the voicing sometimes, like with his Amorous project.

 

Amorous??? Are you talking about the mod? And if that being so, means Jason made that?!

 

 

They mean this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16614940/which is basically a visual novel. Only 2 (3ish) routes in, all males.

 

Nvm. I thought you meant a mod here on Loverslab that is also called Amorous.

[KiWolfGirl]

That looks fantastic. Will the final version include a fur texture for the balls? The testicles on the pics look very human-like.

 

I was going to ask this as well, if you can get a verysion with furry balls.

[krittakitty]

Hey all...

 

Just a quick note to say I'm going to be away from this mod for a while. I only just flew back home to my family this morning to the news my Mum was admitted to hospital last night.

 

At this point she is very very ill and it isn't looking very good for her to make a recovery. I'm a bit devastated at the moment and have a lot of things to sort out while I am here, so this project is going to be put on hold yet again unless a miracle happens.

 

Anyway, I'll apologize now for the lack of any further updates.

 

Kritta

 

[Artlan]

Hey all...

 

Just a quick note to say I'm going to be away from this mod for a while. I only just flew back home to my family this morning to the news my Mum was admitted to hospital last night.

 

At this point she is very very ill and it isn't looking very good for her to make a recovery. I'm a bit devastated at the moment and have a lot of things to sort out while I am here, so this project is going to be put on hold yet again unless a miracle happens.

 

Anyway, I'll apologize now for the lack of any further updates.

 

Kritta

 

Take all the time you need - family always is more important! You, your family, and your mum are in our prayers.

[Meteox]

 

Hey all...

 

Just a quick note to say I'm going to be away from this mod for a while. I only just flew back home to my family this morning to the news my Mum was admitted to hospital last night.

 

At this point she is very very ill and it isn't looking very good for her to make a recovery. I'm a bit devastated at the moment and have a lot of things to sort out while I am here, so this project is going to be put on hold yet again unless a miracle happens.

 

Anyway, I'll apologize now for the lack of any further updates.

 

Kritta

 

Take all the time you need - family always is more important! You, your family, and your mum are in our prayers.

 

 

Exactly what Artlan said, take your time. I hope your mother gets better.

[krittakitty]

Thanks guys. Am hoping she starts to improve tomorrow, got to give the dr's time to figure out the best way to treat her.

 

Anyway. i'm off to bed because I feel like shit and all I'm doing is staring at the screen for no reason.

 

If for some reason anything else goes wrong and I'm too shattered to finish this right away I'm going to just pack everything I have done on the mod and upload it as a modders resource for anyone to finish or use. That way it will still get out there to you all no matter what happens.

 

Take care all.

[frear]

I am really sorry to hear that. I hope your mother gets better soon.

[nerogoth]

Thanks guys. Am hoping she starts to improve tomorrow, got to give the dr's time to figure out the best way to treat her.

 

Anyway. i'm off to bed because I feel like shit and all I'm doing is staring at the screen for no reason.

 

If for some reason anything else goes wrong and I'm too shattered to finish this right away I'm going to just pack everything I have done on the mod and upload it as a modders resource for anyone to finish or use. That way it will still get out there to you all no matter what happens.

 

Take care all.

 

 

First SAFE travels if you need to do more. 

 

Second, REALLY sorry about your Mom. It is tough, and just hope the small amount of us here saying HUGS and being supportive will have some small measure of solace during this crisis. 

 

Third, while I hope she does improve measurable and recovers quickly, if it is that dire, I hope the pain fades and she will see all the family around her, smiling to her last breath knowing how you all were there with her and she got to express your undying love for each other. 

 

Fourth, not being heartless, but communication is the key to these forums as you know, so if there is a time for grieving or otherwise (touch and go for weeks) then please just a quick note to SHUT UP everyone just tossing on there (maybe a MOD can lock it ??? till you till them your coming back so it won't be "well where is it" all the time and make things worse FOR YOU) 

 

Hugs, prayers, blessings for painless journey no matter the path for her and yourself. Please keep in mind these words from us all and most of all every reason she makes you laugh and smile.. repeat those over and over.. never let them wane and it may make it a bit more bearable. 

[Meteox]

Thanks guys. Am hoping she starts to improve tomorrow, got to give the dr's time to figure out the best way to treat her.

 

Anyway. i'm off to bed because I feel like shit and all I'm doing is staring at the screen for no reason.

 

If for some reason anything else goes wrong and I'm too shattered to finish this right away I'm going to just pack everything I have done on the mod and upload it as a modders resource for anyone to finish or use. That way it will still get out there to you all no matter what happens.

 

Take care all.

 

Please, don't say stuff like "if it goes wrong", you are really making me feel super sad. 

[lj123]

Thanks guys. Am hoping she starts to improve tomorrow, got to give the dr's time to figure out the best way to treat her.

 

Anyway. i'm off to bed because I feel like shit and all I'm doing is staring at the screen for no reason.

 

If for some reason anything else goes wrong and I'm too shattered to finish this right away I'm going to just pack everything I have done on the mod and upload it as a modders resource for anyone to finish or use. That way it will still get out there to you all no matter what happens.

 

Take care all.

 

Aww, I feel for you. Well, I really hope things get better for you.

[Doggyknot]

So sorry to hear about your Mom, I wish her a fast recovery! Take all the time you need, your family needs you far more than we do.

[tanuhk]

Thanks guys. Am hoping she starts to improve tomorrow, got to give the dr's time to figure out the best way to treat her.

 

Anyway. i'm off to bed because I feel like shit and all I'm doing is staring at the screen for no reason.

 

If for some reason anything else goes wrong and I'm too shattered to finish this right away I'm going to just pack everything I have done on the mod and upload it as a modders resource for anyone to finish or use. That way it will still get out there to you all no matter what happens.

 

Take care all.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family; I hope all goes well, and take all the time you need. Family is the most important thing on this planet.