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Forever Darkness Embers of Valkyries GAVRIELLA NEW 1

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  1. siempre
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    How have I not heard of this project before? Really hope it will get released soon. Everything from the images to the letter and background story are amazing.
  2. Xamafost
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    I've been looking forward to this and following it for a while. For what it's worth, I'm rooting for you. I believe you'll do one hell of a job with this mod series!

    P.S: this is, if memory serves since I have a very bad one, the first time ever for me to leave a comment on the nexus. Such impressive work so far, if I may say so, that someone like me was budged to comment!
  3. DiscipleOfCarnage
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    I'll wait for as long as it takes; this will be worth it. The pics posted here and in your deviant art site are amazing; Eris is currently adorning my computer screen with all of her evil, seductive beauty as I type this.

    Keep up the good work, kayinv!
  4. rayneia
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    All I can say is that this looks freaking amazing!
  5. tetrodoxin
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    Amazing project kayin.
    Wish I could help you, but everything I see looks already 100x better than anything I made in the past.
    :/
  6. KageTenshi
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    Definitly great pictures. I'm sure I will love the mod when it will come out !
    Keep up! =)
  7. cyxou
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    So long waiting. So few info.
    Waiting...
    1. kayinv
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      Hey hey, I sacrifice a lot of social life to work on this mod.

      And that includes women. You know, that weird gender that doesn't like to come into our caves and we actually need to go out and hunt for?

      That's hardcore dedication right there. Yes sir.
    2. FFSWTFLOL
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      Hahaha!
    3. KageTenshi
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      Good luck for your hunt ! xD
  8. FFSWTFLOL
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    Well I have to agree with cyxou about info.

    We only get like 20 Gavriella looks not knowing which one will be right one (same goes for Eris). I believe this is very much final look for her.She looks epic. This is not a criticism. I love your screenshots a lot but each one makes me even more inpatient.

    I have to ask tho, how are you going on making new places (castles...etc) ? Why don't you release some pics of those? i repeat this is not a criticism but this screens makes me think you are still stuck on Gavriella and Eris.

    PS: i accidently spotted your retexture of Apex werewolf by Zerfrost.I must say it looks Epic.Will you include it in your mod?
    1. kayinv
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      New places are only concepts right now and won't be a part of the initial release for either mod. Custom voices, races, textures, armors, companion NPCs, etc. is quite enough on it's own. I'm trying to have 2-3 different mash-up armors for Eris and Gavriella. Right now I'm still editing the voice files before they get anywhere near the CK. I'm very good graphically, but I'm a piss poor sound engineer. Both characters combined are hundreds of lines and a crap ton of files to manage.

      I'd say most of the editing is going towards Eris since I want to add spooky effects to her voice whenever she speaks. Karen (Gavriella's voice) is a professional, so her recordings are pretty much perfect, but I still have multiple lines to go through with multiple recordings of each line (which Karen and Marcy both did to give me more options on their tone or which words to emphasize.)

      Both Eris and Gavriella have about a dozen different "random" lines that they speak whenever they are in your company. This way you don't keep hearing them complain about the weather like you did with Serana. Some of these lines will only be spoken in specific areas, and trust me when I say I've picked on a few nuances with Skyrim dialogue from comments to why the guards always complain about their knees to very scary threats about the PC character trying to propose marriage and have it done at the Temple of Mara.

      It's also pretty much a solid bet that Eris will spend much of her time belittling you, while Gavriella will be your superheroic best friend. Both are very different in how they treat your character. If anything, Eris is my biggest worry with her negativity, but hey...evil characters aren't nice. Hopefully it gets balanced out with her constant seductive promises of power...if you're a willing servant that is.

      As for the TEXTURE side of things, I am trying to make 4096 body and facial textures for females AND MALES. Most custom races to date have done nothing to update or improve male textures beyond the face. These mods will have improved body textures as well. And while there a lot of options to work from with females, there is only upscaled/slightly tweaked vanilla body textures out there for males. The things are so damn blurry it's hard to tell where the arm and leg hair should be! Males are proving to be a challenge and sucking up a lot of time.

      For updated info though...well, screenshots is the most effective and means of doing so in terms of time. The trailers are very dated right now compared to their current designs, but making new big trailers takes up a lot of time and I'm already getting complaints about working on that instead of the mod. Hell, I STILL get complaints in the latest comments and both trailers were done several months ago.

      Yes people, it's true, I only spend a whole day on body textures so I can release another trailer. You found me out.

      So I ask people this: pick this project apart and see how many different mods could be done separately from it and still be considered a lot of work on their own. It's only then that you realize how huge it really is.

      Oh, and there's also the stories with each mod. Have I mentioned that part 1 of the background story for Eris is over 11 pages long, single-spaced? I'm spending countless hours writing a detailed story that will be impossible to put in the actual game, and without it the project would be meaningless to me. Eris and Gavriella are far more then "cool-looking" characters. You're going to learn more about them then any of the vanilla characters in the game. Making a mod that centers itself around the origin of vampires needs to be done right, and be much more then short summary on the description page.

      Will people care about the downloadable file for the story? Some will, some won't. But without it this mod is nothing but vapid characters whose only purpose is to help you kill dragons. I don't know about you, but there's plenty of other companion characters that fit that role. Mine, however, will not.
    2. Userper
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      This mod truly sounds awesome.

      I'm hoping we can get a 3.1 gig fix so we can use this with the mega texture mods.

      Can't wait dude. Good luck with the rest of this project.
  9. tjrock3
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    When will this be released? I'm looking forward to this mod!
  10. Edmond Dantes
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    This has the making of a truly fantastic mod. And I love the voice over for Gavriela. Hope to see a release eventually, but take your time polishing it up. Good luck.