Hey, friend! Another amazing creation! I haven't gone to find it for real yet, and probably won't until at least next week. But I had to test it in game. So I used the console to get 2 copies, and immediately I knew this was going to get used in my game. I still need to test various metal combinations, but the glowing/pulsing letters on the ebony band look amazing! I uploaded some images to show how the ebony version looks in my game. So a bit of background...
I have been working on my private mine mod all this past week - and Rigani (the owner of Rigani's mine) will be getting this ring. Either as a gift from me, or maybe a copy of it - I will decide that later. Rigani herself was another modder's creation that was supposed to be part my very first mod, even before Laoshan99 and I collaborated on Mavis and Eloise. A joint effort to add Rigani and my mine, where the special forms of Malachite that make up my various Ebony Glass weapons is found, and the weapons themselves. Sadly, I lost contact with that modder before we got even close to publishing the mod. Later, after becoming friends with Laoshan99, we created Mavis and Eloise and they have some of my special weapons, but Rigani's mine was never part of that. Anyway, while I can't show Rigani since she is not my creation, I feel safe showing her hand with your amazing new ring. And it is my hand to show the male version. And of course, Alex was with me while I was working on several improvements to the mine... so while she doesn't have the ring, she was included in 2 of the images.
Hello my friend, glad you liked this one too. Let me know if you're able to find it. The glowing was something I wasn't sure about, but mainly because I have some items on my 'table' which will have this effect as well. But not going to reveal more about it yet. The glowing only looks really good on the darker metals, and to change the color of the glowing letters, you have to edit the nif file itself. This was the main reason I didn't add multiple glowing color versions to it. But I'm pretty sure you'll going to change that as well if you want another metal version. :)
Would love to see Rigani, but I respect your reasoning for not posting a picture, but the mentioning of your personal malachite mine reminded me that I also have a texture for malachite. Not the biggest fan of it but since the ring will be something for Rigani, she may appreciate a ring in malachite. Just checked it in nifskope and the ring didn't look too bad with this texture, So I dropped the extra textures for you. Thanks for the pictures, but Alex didn't look too happy. Hope this hasn't anything to do with the fact that you and Rigani wear matching rings. :D
Thanks - I will check it out. While the mine doesn't have any normal Malachite ore (although I might add a few deposits), I can always adjust for that for Rigani's version of the ring. The mine has Blue (for Mavis), Red and Sun/Yellow (for Eloise), Pink (for my daughter's daggers and a few other young female followers), and especially for me - Black Malachite, the key ingredient in my favorite sword, named the Black Blade. But my original glass weapons were the normal/green and special blue versions. So for Rigani, I will try your green texture and I will probably also rotate the colors to a blue version that matches as close as possible to what would make sense for Blue Malachite. Haha, or Stormquiver Blue as it was called in Mavis's mod. I think that the blue might end up working better with the glowing letters. I can tweak a copy of the mesh to adjust the color and intensity of the letters for her version of the ring.
By the way, if you wondered how the special malachite ores worked in the Mavis and Eloise mods since the mine was never released, I provided a transmute spell for Mavis, and a few spells for Eloise, to transmute normal Malchite ore to the special versons. Eloise also had some custom dialogue where you could give her several pieces and she would transmute all of them for you. The transmuted ores could be refined into ingots and used for crafting and tempering the weapons.
As for Alex, I think she is more bored than worried about Rigani and I wearing matching rings in the images. Or at least, that is what she told me! But seriously, Alex and Sonila already have very specially selected rings from your "Ave's SkyRing" mod, because there is a very special connection between both of them and my PC character. Alex is my best friend, but Sonila would make a better Mama to my adopted daughters. I need to marry one of them, but I keep putting the decision off. But they each have two rings, one ruby ring and one emerald ring for each of them. Alex loves red/maroon/ruby items, and Sonila loves emeralds that match her eyes. And of course... I have red hair and green eyes too! But the rings they wear are an indication of the connection between all 3 of us, since all 3 of us actually met in Cyrodiil during the Oblivion Crisis, and we were all very close with each other in my Oblivion game as well.
Hahaha, I should have put this all in a spoiler, but my friends already know how weird I am, and for the rest... who cares!
Edit: I just voted for your mod for Mod of the Month. I know it is way too late to make any difference, but this mod and ring has obviously become important to me - and it deserves the vote for sure. Thanks again!!
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I have been working on my private mine mod all this past week - and Rigani (the owner of Rigani's mine) will be getting this ring. Either as a gift from me, or maybe a copy of it - I will decide that later. Rigani herself was another modder's creation that was supposed to be part my very first mod, even before Laoshan99 and I collaborated on Mavis and Eloise. A joint effort to add Rigani and my mine, where the special forms of Malachite that make up my various Ebony Glass weapons is found, and the weapons themselves. Sadly, I lost contact with that modder before we got even close to publishing the mod. Later, after becoming friends with Laoshan99, we created Mavis and Eloise and they have some of my special weapons, but Rigani's mine was never part of that. Anyway, while I can't show Rigani since she is not my creation, I feel safe showing her hand with your amazing new ring. And it is my hand to show the male version. And of course, Alex was with me while I was working on several improvements to the mine... so while she doesn't have the ring, she was included in 2 of the images.
Would love to see Rigani, but I respect your reasoning for not posting a picture, but the mentioning of your personal malachite mine reminded me that I also have a texture for malachite. Not the biggest fan of it but since the ring will be something for Rigani, she may appreciate a ring in malachite. Just checked it in nifskope and the ring didn't look too bad with this texture, So I dropped the extra textures for you.
Thanks for the pictures, but Alex didn't look too happy. Hope this hasn't anything to do with the fact that you and Rigani wear matching rings. :D
Happy treasure hunting.
By the way, if you wondered how the special malachite ores worked in the Mavis and Eloise mods since the mine was never released, I provided a transmute spell for Mavis, and a few spells for Eloise, to transmute normal Malchite ore to the special versons. Eloise also had some custom dialogue where you could give her several pieces and she would transmute all of them for you. The transmuted ores could be refined into ingots and used for crafting and tempering the weapons.
As for Alex, I think she is more bored than worried about Rigani and I wearing matching rings in the images. Or at least, that is what she told me!
Hahaha, I should have put this all in a spoiler, but my friends already know how weird I am, and for the rest... who cares!
Edit: I just voted for your mod for Mod of the Month. I know it is way too late to make any difference, but this mod and ring has obviously become important to me - and it deserves the vote for sure. Thanks again!!