AeolianMode In reply to RobinBluEyes [2019-01-26 00:49:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, it's nice to hear from you again ^^  I don't check DA much but you can hit me up on Discord: Aeolian#9732

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AeolianMode In reply to DrakeTheDragon-1980 [2017-12-09 03:43:14 +0000 UTC]

Hey Drake! Been a while! Hope you're well!

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DrakeTheDragon-1980 In reply to AeolianMode [2017-12-09 19:47:02 +0000 UTC]

Oh, indeed it has. I'm fine, thanks. Hope you, too!

Just exceptionally busy as usual, but every once in a while I'm still making progress with my free time/modding projects.

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AeolianMode In reply to DrakeTheDragon-1980 [2017-12-10 20:14:23 +0000 UTC]

Still doing mods for Oblivion? How're they coming along?

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DrakeTheDragon-1980 In reply to AeolianMode [2017-12-10 21:52:48 +0000 UTC]

Yes, as often as I can steal away from work. Slowly, but steadily. I did make quite some progress in many projects over the past years.

I did make a public status report over a year ago: drakethedragon-1980.deviantart…

Since then several new projects were added and several others made progress. Currently I'm working on a creature version of my dragon, for Kaira suddenly demanded "riding" on Drake. And I'm adding support for ridden creatures which can fly to my Gliding Flight approach, 'cause what's the sense in riding a dragon, if it can't fly?

I regularly kept people posted about my progress via images and deviations on the Nexus and here, if you want to see some pics. All but a little side-project about a dragon rider outfit fitting the other work (sta.sh/21oey1nnwjpn ).

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AeolianMode In reply to DrakeTheDragon-1980 [2017-12-12 22:21:27 +0000 UTC]

I checked through the images and these are looking impressive. One of these days I gotta reinstall Oblivion. Do you have a beta of any of these mods that I can try out?

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DrakeTheDragon-1980 In reply to AeolianMode [2017-12-13 15:56:50 +0000 UTC]

Not quite yet, I'm afraid. Still only loose resources for testing around. But I can always whip something up, if need be.
And I will whip something up definitely anyways, once the creature dragon is in a more completed state, model-and-animation-wise.
It's still not even part of its own mod but just stuck into my one-for-all testing plugin to play around. 

I do need to figure out where I stuck all the clothing items into as well. Did I make these a stand-alone plugin already at least?... Or was it even the other way round?
The Gliding Flight scripts and animations are inside their own plugin, that much I remember. I planned to make that one like a framework other plugins or mods can use to make their people, races, creatures etc. fly. It's even designed in a way so it doesn't need to be a "master" of other plugins for them to be able to use its function. It just has to be installed and the actors/races/creatures/etc. from other mods or the Vanilla game have to configured to fly inside its INI files, then they'll be able to fly.

I wanted to make a first public beta release when the new anthro-dragon anatomy and scripting was done, but then the scripting approach attempt failed horribly, and without it there's even less sense now in releasing some half-a**ed new assets. If the new scripting approach would've worked out already, there'd still not've been much sense in releasing the unfinished new assets quite yet, but at least then I would've been able to release at least parts of it all one by one. I'm making so little progress these days, it'd massively help, if I could just release one new thing at a time at least, to keep people posted. But I'm definitely not going to make another public release with the old and outdated-by-years aged scripting approach of my last pre-beta release.

But thinking of it, I could whip up the Gliding Flight approach one day. The scripting's just "getting there" now, and the animations, at least for the already released Anthro-Dragon anatomy of mine and any regular humanoid races, either winged themselves or by use of the included wing gliders, are almost complete as well. The wing glider flight is finished so far, the winged races just almost, and the scripting only needs a few last fixes and maybe some tweaking, then it'd be good to go... Why did I interrupt finishing the last missing animations again and switched to other projects?... I can't remember anymore.

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AeolianMode In reply to DrakeTheDragon-1980 [2017-12-19 04:17:55 +0000 UTC]

Sounds like you've been climbing a mountain, to me. I've been out of the scene so long I've almost forgotten what a "plugin" even is, haha. (Don't worry, I'm not that far gone.)
Well, I'll try to be following you for updates at the very least. Hopefully you'll be able to make some headway on your projects soon!

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DrakeTheDragon-1980 In reply to AeolianMode [2017-12-19 13:11:37 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I hope so, too. But I'm getting along eventually.

Just yesterday I finished a 2nd iteration of the Dragon Rider Armor set, this time with Dalish elements from Dragon Age and quite long dresses in place of shirts. The long drapes turned out not really fit for riding though, and the rigging of them was totally off still, yet it does make for some nice off-dragon garment to accompany the set. I swear I'm slowly turning into a clothing designer here, and this isn't even any of my main projects.

I exported the almost-finished dragon model, now with neck and no Rayman gaps anymore, and gave it a test run inside the game. The neck's texturing is way too warped still, for the source textures do not have such a long neck, and the overall rigging still looks like s**t, but it did have some merits finally having the thing 'complete' inside the game. Sadly the game crashed when I executed some bogus console command in the wrong situation, before I could take some pics. (Update3D is very dangerous indeed.)

And I also managed to test my "turn the dragon towards where I'm looking" approach I added into my scripts. ...Needless to say I initially mixed up directions of course and turning left was going right.  But it did turn by use of the mouse, not only by pushing the steering buttons, so that's a win, no?

I'll see where I'll get with this the next days. Especially the holidays 'might' prove beneficial for this.

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AeolianMode In reply to Contraltissimo [2017-12-09 03:43:38 +0000 UTC]

Oh hey, long time no see! Sorry, I don't check DA much these days. Nice to hear from you though! I am mostly over on my Tumblr these days.

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AeolianMode In reply to zabadoohp [2014-04-29 14:38:16 +0000 UTC]

Aww thanks! But I'm afraid you met my partner in crime, Cocky-as-a-Rooster ! I wasn't able to personally attend No Brand Con, but you surely saw some of my artwork there. :> 

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zabadoohp In reply to AeolianMode [2014-04-30 01:11:02 +0000 UTC]

Indeed! :>

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AeolianMode In reply to Flurrin [2014-01-02 18:55:36 +0000 UTC]

His tears have a magical property of curing constipation.

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Flurrin In reply to AeolianMode [2014-01-02 18:56:35 +0000 UTC]

But they don't work on him.

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AeolianMode In reply to Flurrin [2014-01-02 17:26:37 +0000 UTC]

This is canon

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Flurrin In reply to AeolianMode [2014-01-02 17:42:39 +0000 UTC]

yes good

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AeolianMode In reply to Sketch-Zap [2013-12-20 21:31:35 +0000 UTC]

Isn't it though!? Glad you like it!

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Sketch-Zap In reply to AeolianMode [2013-12-20 21:45:50 +0000 UTC]

I always love your stuff.

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AeolianMode In reply to GlitterStarChar [2013-12-20 21:31:54 +0000 UTC]

Hey, sorry it took me so long to reply to you. I usually neglect to check my feedback messages. Thanks for stopping by! <3

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AeolianMode In reply to Contraltissimo [2013-12-20 21:32:11 +0000 UTC]

Danke schon! This was very kind of you~ <3

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