Insanity's AV Packages

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1360923-relwip-automatic-variants-2/

After hearing about Automatic Variants from StarX and seeing the fun he was having creating the textures, I decided I'd join in

Released:

Name: Insanity's AV Package - Chickens
Release: 08/04/2012
Version: 1.0
Download: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1183-insanitys-av-package-chickens/
Screenshots: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/378/305-insane-creations/

Name: Insanity's AV Package - Draugr
Release: 24/03/2012
Version: 1.0
Download: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1171-insanitys-av-package-draugr/
Screenshots: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/378/305-insane-creations/

Name: Insanity's AV Package - Skeever
Release: 24/03/2012
Version: 1.0
Download: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1168-insanitys-av-package-skeever/
Screenshots: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/378/305-insane-creations/

Name: Insanity's AV Package - Skeletons
Release: 26/03/2012
Version: 1.0
Download: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1173-insanitys-av-package-skeletons/
Screenshots: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/378/305-insane-creations/

Sweet! Will download tonight! And I admit it's all my fault.

...good to see the other one of "tesa's textures bunch" joining in here ...will be straight added to my variants

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Pity its not on nexus...

TESA is fine now, try again

Now look at what you did. IS started with Skeever! O_o
I bet after those draugr there will be some mudcrabs! ^_^

You never know

Draugr are done:

Name: Insanity's AV Package - Draugr
Release: 24/03/2012
Version: 1.0
Download: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1171-insanitys-av-package-draugr/
Screenshots: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/378/305-insane-creations/

How are you assigning the textures to female draugr?

I spawned me some dozen 03B547 via console and I'm only getting males. They do use all the different variants though.

The pink skeever is all my fault.

They're using the same group in the CK, so I just set the males in the spec file and AV took care of the rest. Works fine for me.


Yus it is, should have made a note in the readme

You made a grown man create pink skeevers! That's so mean!

Yes it is

http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/image/19571-skellies/

New Release:

Name: Insanity's AV Package - Skeletons
Release: 26/03/2012
Version: 1.0
Download: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1173-insanitys-av-package-skeletons/
Screenshots: http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/378/305-insane-creations/

Why are all my skeevers pink!?!?

Your Draugr package is causing a bug: http://imgur.com/a/wlpiN and it overrides the Deathlord template by removing its helm and making it look like any other Draugr.

All your skeever's are pink?, Well there must be something wrong with your game causing the spawns to mess up, I actually had a hard time getting one on screen so I could take a screenshot.

AV shouldn't be able to touch the inventory of the draugr, so there is something else modifying them.

Don't know what to tell you.

http://imgur.com/a/wlpiN : Picture above is is autovariant.esp turned off. Picture below is autovariant.esp turned on, and yours is the only package with Draugr I'm using.

Like I said in my AV thread, post this in the main AV thread. The armor textures shouldn't be affected by this, as they don't use the draugr. dds texture. Maybe Leviathan knows why that happened.

Which one of these Skeevers is the pink and violet ones? I need to delete them because its breaking immersion for me.

Heads up:
AV may be http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1364221-relwip-automatic-variants/page__view__findpost__p__20591970.

Will probably do option #1.. which will make you have to reupload your packages.
Hate to do it, but it'll make things much more powerful down the road.

I'll let you know when the new structure becomes official/released.

"@sonaipr. AV now has the possibilty to disable packages and parts of a package. So you don't have to delete the textures you don't like, just disable them. Probably it would be best if the authors of the AV packages would include a (screenshot) list of what is in a package with their names so ppl can easy disable them. StarX provides a screenshot showing all its variants (cool). Insanity shows miscellanious screenshots. Porscha does not show any screenshots. Perhaps ALL could provide screenshot(s) of their textures along with a name (shown in AV) which would enable everyone to quie easy disable parts of package which they personally would not like or find immersion breaking. Perhaps Leviathan could give/insert some guidelines in his README apart from a directory structure etc how to do this in an consistent way. Yes it would mean going that extra mile for AV creators but in the long run would make AV that more enjoyable (easy adjustable) for the users of it.

Thought about it a bit longer. Afaik every texture is placed in a directory structure in a consistent way. Lets take StarX draugr for example. All the created draugr variants are put in SkyProc Patchers\Automatic Variants\AV Packages\StarX AV Package\Draugr. This directory contains multiple draugr subdirectories like STXDraugr01, STXDraugr02 etc. Each subdirectory contains 1 or more .dds files, for example draugr.dds or draugr_n.dds (night version). If an OPTIONAL draugr.jpg (and/or draugr_n.jpg) file which shows how the specific texture for a NPC looks like in game (again look at StarX screenshots) could be put there, AV could show this screenshot in AV when you browse through the list of packages and it contents. Hence you see directly what a certain texture looks like and you can enable/disable. An alternative would be for AV just to show how a .dds file looks like (or if a .jpg does not exist) . Just open a .dds file in Irfanview to see what I mean, you see just a flattened texture. Of course only possible if there are classes out there which enable Leviathan to easy show them. When AV creates a av.esp and moves around all .dds files the .jpg file just will be left alone. Perhaps there is a better way to do it but this popped up in my mind. YES it would mean that AV creators would have to do a bit more (OPTIONAL) work.

I should have made this info a bit more structured, but have to leave in a few hours and have zillion things to do. Wanted to share this though...."

Yea, well, I need to know WHICH one are pink and violet. The folders are named VarXX. Had to look by the hairs in .dds. It was Var13 and Var14

@sounaipr. Glad you find out. Hope in the future you just see the NPC texture in AV as I suggested.

That would have been the easiest thing to do instead of waiting for me to tell you.


That sounds like a real pain in the ass for modders

Yes well, not everybody knows how to open the .dds files. And with your folder-naming system there's no way knowing which VarXX is pink/violet, therefore a lot of people won't know which one to turn off. On top of that, the Skeever textures are pretty much totally white, so it's impossible to make out what color the body is. Only by the small hairs can you make out the color of the fur.

It doesn't bother me, since I solved my problem. It just might bother others. Not everybody wants pink/violet Skeevers. Some of us like to keep things more or less lore-friendly.