Oh. My. Gosh. I had to look up what "That Guy From Your MFA" meant, but YES!!! It's soooo accurate, I almost died laughing. Just....oooh. I hate even talking with Elliot to get the interaction points, he's so annoying. And the original portrait doesn't help, frankly if that wasn't the intended personality then they should've given him a default expression that wasn't "I'm smarter than you, better than you, and have nicer hair, but I'll deign to pay attention to you if you're pretty enough and I think you'll sleep with me. You'll definitely sleep with me, I'm also super charming."
Does this work with Seasonal Cute Characters? I haven't gotten it to work with my game personally, and the log doesn't have any issues, it just always loads the ''correct'' Seasonal Cute Characters version of vanilla Elliott...
It would make sense for that to overwrite. This one is very simple. You would want to download dialogue only for Elliott, but to replace it - it would be the Sophia from Cuter Seasonal, the second download from Poltergeister.
I can put that together for you to work properly, the only issue really is that I'd have to redo the sprites for every season. Not impossible, just I haven't gotten to that part of the mod yet. :)
Yes, it is Poltergeister's Seasonal Outfits - Slightly Cuter Aesthetic mod!
No worries, I would love to use it one day whenever you get around to it. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong in my downloading or putting it into my mods folder!
Do you have permission to be using the alternate Isla portraits? They're by AEscraed, not Poltergeister - if you check Isla Reimagined's permissions tab, you'll see that the only parts that are credited to Poltergeister are portraits for two minor characters, for which AEscraed has edited Poltergeister's base portraits, and a flower in two of Isla's outfits, so Isla's alt portraits do not fall under Poltergeister's open permissions.
Oh my gosh! I thought I read this over and over to make sure it was Poltergeister and even messaged them. I am so sorry, and I've messaged them to correct the problem.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for telling me about that oversight. I'll post an update once I can get in contact with them. For now, I'm leaving photos up but taking the download offline for now.
I'm confused, i like the idea of rewriting Elliott's character but is the sophia replacement optional? I don't understand the Sophia replacement in the first place
You can just do the dialogue pack to keep original Elliott if you like him as he is.
You can choose to use Sophia from SVE as Elliott (Elliott is a gender neutral name. I personally know men and women with the name) and have a female Elliott.
And then I'm working toward adding other options to Elliot Replacements (I don't care for his portrait, he's very snooty and I rewrote the whole character.) as I'm working on my own pixel art and portraits!
Does that help clear up? I added one more, but I accidentally asked the wrong person for permission. As soon as I hear back, I'll have that settled.
Your character arc and dialogue sound pretty interesting! Have you considered making a new custom NPC instead of a replacement since your take is so different? I'd love to use them but uh, I'm kind of running my own Elliott dialogue mod XD
I have considered it! I haven't had experience in custom NPC modding myself, but if you have a trusty rec in mods that work well so I can explore it, I'd love to!
Hm... Wellwick's English translation might be a good example because it's both fairly simple but also updated to use CP instead of TMXL like older mods do. (Though no marriage dialogue/spouse rooms if you're keeping them dateable.) If you're on Discord, you might also find the Stardew Modmakers Community or East Scarp (which has a lot of newbie NPC makers learning together) helpful!
Once you get over the intimidation factor of something new, schedules and such aren't that hard to understand. If you can create this mod, I'm sure you could do a custom NPC from scratch. :) I really do recommend the Discords though, especially if you want a dateable character, since I don't know of any easy and clean examples of spouse room conversions out right now and Tiled can be a beast.
(I'm in both and you can find me under this name if you want to ping me - I'm working on a pair of custom NPCs right now so I can share my newbie knowledge :D)
I've always envisioned Elliot as a want to be Lockheart from HP. Now he can sound and act like Lockheart "researching" his next book. Remember his favorite color is lilac. His hair and smile are his most important features.
That will also mean that marriage and children are just part of the "research" and will obligate everyone when he his done. If possible create a 15 or 16 heart event where Elliot doves the kids, divorces you and makes the entire town forget you were married, then disappears for two years comes back to rinse and repeat. May be to much, just spit ballin'.
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With the text base only, it allows you to use Mari's (@stanloona420) better Elliott which does come seasonal.
I'll give it a think to see if that's something I'd like to add or add as an attachment. :)
Gag.
Definitely using this mod, amazing!
If the original modder is open to making a compatible patch for it, I'd love to work with them!
I'm not as familiar with it, and i'm nose-deep in a to-do list right now, but it's definitely not out of the question!
It would make sense for that to overwrite. This one is very simple. You would want to download dialogue only for Elliott, but to replace it - it would be the Sophia from Cuter Seasonal, the second download from Poltergeister.
I can put that together for you to work properly, the only issue really is that I'd have to redo the sprites for every season. Not impossible, just I haven't gotten to that part of the mod yet. :)
No worries, I would love to use it one day whenever you get around to it. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong in my downloading or putting it into my mods folder!
Thanks for the quick reply!!!
However the dialogue only is so that it is compatible for mods like that!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for telling me about that oversight. I'll post an update once I can get in contact with them. For now, I'm leaving photos up but taking the download offline for now.
THANK YOU AGAIN.
I really appreciate you letting me know.
THANK YOU!
You can just do the dialogue pack to keep original Elliott if you like him as he is.
You can choose to use Sophia from SVE as Elliott (Elliott is a gender neutral name. I personally know men and women with the name) and have a female Elliott.
And then I'm working toward adding other options to Elliot Replacements (I don't care for his portrait, he's very snooty and I rewrote the whole character.) as I'm working on my own pixel art and portraits!
Does that help clear up? I added one more, but I accidentally asked the wrong person for permission. As soon as I hear back, I'll have that settled.
(I'm in both and you can find me under this name if you want to ping me - I'm working on a pair of custom NPCs right now so I can share my newbie knowledge :D)
WATCH OUT PIERRE.
Remember his favorite color is lilac. His hair and smile are his most important features.
Thank you for the feedback!!!