Looking to make good pics. Beginner tips?

[raptor4d4]

After a long time of just looking at pics and screenshots, I’ve decided to make some of my own to share with friends.  Now I’m just starting to learn and I have a lot of questions about what I can/can’t do and how to do various things.  Anybody who takes the time to read this and reply, I greatly appreciate all your help. 

 

Past few days when I’ve had the opportunity I’ve been experimenting with the camera.  Been playing around with the tfc and FOV commands to take various pics at various angles.  Steadily I’ve been trying to work up to more stuff.  I’ve downloaded the Creation Kit some time ago but haven’t really done anything with it.  Thought about making my own small mods but that felt too daunting at the time.  Would prefer to stick to mods already made for making my pics but I’ll try and do something with the Creation Kit if needed.  Assuming someone can help walk me through what needs to be done. 

 

1 – ENB.  People have recommended I try an ENB.  Never have before but if I want higher quality pics I think it might be time.  Any recommendations on one?  I’ve heard they can be taxing on a PC so I hope they’re not too taxing. 

 

2 – Poses.  I know there are a lot of mods out there that generate poses.  One I recently downloaded I think is called Halo’s Poser or something.  I also have the Zaz animation pack which gives me spells that have a lot of good bondage poses.  What other mods let you pose characters like this?  Player and NPCs?  I only just started using Halo’s Poser but so far I’ve only figured out how to make the player strike poses.  Anyone know how to make NPCs do it?  And do any of them have guides or something with pictures showing what each pose looks like?  Some like Halo’s have many and the labeling doesn’t say much. 

 

3 – Freezing Poses.  Is there any way to make an NPC permanently assume a pose or animation, at least until I tell them to stop?  The closest I’ve been able to find to what I’m talking about is Amazing Follower Tweaks (AFT).  This mod lets you order your followers to assume certain poses and then dismiss them like this.  To my knowledge they then stay like this indefinitely until you talk to them again and tell them to stop.  Are there any other mods that let you do this?  Say I use Halo’s Poser to make an NPC assume a sexy pose or Zaz Animations to make them dance.  How can I make them pose/dance someplace indefinitely until I tell them otherwise?  Is this possible? 

 

4 – Positioning.  What is the best way to get an NPC into a position you want?  So far with my experimenting I’ve been using AFT and a Mind Control Circlet mod I found here to make an NPC a follower and to make them sit/stand wherever while I take a pic.  Sometimes the NPC isn’t always cooperative and this get shard.  Are there any easier ways to do this? 

 

5 – Interactions/Poses.  I’m not sure how to describe this question.  One Poser mod, Zaz I think, can put the character or an NPC in a pillory.  But as soon as the character moves or you interact with someone, the pose ends.  How can you put someone in a pillory or something similar and then allow a character to have sex with them while in the pillory?  I could see myself wanting to make a pic where a character is in a pillory and then have several naked men lined up behind her.  One is fucking her and the rest are waiting their turn. 

 

6 – Sex Scenes.  I actually made a separate topic about this already but I’ll put it here too.  Sex scenes will naturally be a big part of all this but sometimes I may want to trigger specific ones.  I have Sex Addicts, Matchmaker (I think that was the name), Amorous Adventures, a mod that lets you have sex instead of paying gold for training and a Slut Shout mod.  I believe those are all the mods I have that trigger sex scenes.  I’m not sure where all of them draw their animations from.  Sex Addicts I think I can get to work without Sex Lab so it doesn’t draw its animations from that.  Fortunately with SA you can press buttons to cycle through animations until you find the one you want.  But what about the others?  Do they all draw their animations from Sex Lab?  I also have another mod called “Non-Sex Lab Animations” that has a variety of sex poses in it.  However I don’t know how many of them I’ve ever seen.  How can I specify which sex scenes I want? 

 

7 – Other Mods.  If anyone wants to throw in any other recommendations for good sex mods (poses, animations, items, etc.) feel free to do so.

[Zerosleepless]

HI

 

Myself i use air enb , 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56020/?

I also use Imaginator and Dynavision to control colors,saturation,brightness and depth of field manually.

My posers are kinoko,Halo and SAM , i disable their esp's and use racemenu to pose.

For the followers i use EFF to make'em pose 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12933/?

For positioning you'll probably want jaxonz positionner (somehow it works on npcs for me)

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52583/?

And finally a very helpful mod is screenshot assist:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33521/?

That's about all i use and recommend 

 

 

 

[bcofer]

Shamelessly copied from another post (I hand wrote it down, please come get your credit):

 

Console commands ~ (the tilde key above tab, usually)

 

Click on NPC (have to be close enough to get talk dialog prompt)

 

tai freezes NPC

 

+detect NPC doesn't look around

 

tc (in 3rd person) take control - NPC mimics your movements

 

recycleactor NPC returns to default state 

 

Also Google "skyrim" "screenarchers"

[raptor4d4]

Thanks for the tips you two.

 

That "tai" command is useful but it has one downside.  If I freeze an NPC in a pose, if I leave the area and return they are no longer doing the pose.  They are instead standing like a mannequin.  I have to unfreeze them and pose them again.  Wish there was a way to pose them permanently.  But it should work as long as I don't leave the cell.

 

I've only tested that Positioner and Screenshot assist for a little bit but they are working well so far. 

 

Anyone know if the Halo Poser only works on the player or if there is a way to apply the poses to NPCs? 

[Swordwraithe]

Thanks for the tips you two.

 

That "tai" command is useful but it has one downside.  If I freeze an NPC in a pose, if I leave the area and return they are no longer doing the pose.  They are instead standing like a mannequin.  I have to unfreeze them and pose them again.  Wish there was a way to pose them permanently.  But it should work as long as I don't leave the cell.

 

I've only tested that Positioner and Screenshot assist for a little bit but they are working well so far. 

 

Anyone know if the Halo Poser only works on the player or if there is a way to apply the poses to NPCs? 

 

You should have spells as well as the rings. The spells will take the place of your shouts. Once you find a pose you'd like an NPC to do, equip the corresponding "shout" (i.e. Halo 2 Select ring goes with Halo 2 Player shout) and hit the NPC with it. To get them to stop, shout at them again. Sometimes re-shouting at them won't get them to stop, so you may have to disable and enable them in the console to get them back to normal.

 

Also, you can take screenshots with the console open. Just type "tm", without the quotes, and all UI will go away. Take your screenshot and type ''tm" again. Keep in mind that ALL menus and UI will disappear, so you wont be able to see what you are typing into the console once you hit enter.

 

Hope this is helpful