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I have been modding for 9 years now. I recently started a new run, May or something since then i had more then 100 clean installs, i think i lost count. But i want this to be perfect.
Few more months.
I truly do not get this whole delayed driving thing. My daughter is 30 and she got her license while as a sophomore in college, I sort of understood that since she lived on campus. To be fair, the only reason she got it was to get her passport.
For a young male to say no thank you, I don't need no extra freedom or responsibilities, I'm good sitting home with mom and dad, nope I don't get it at all.
If you had fun doing it, that is all that matters. It gets quoted a lot around here, "modding is the game".
rofl - practicing for perfection
Anyway time to start a load of laundry, prep some dog meals and find some spacers to shoot ~.~
Maybe it's just the time of the season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ecsAI3FhY
It's nice to know I'm not alone, but it's just hard to find the energy to dive in head first and update a couple of hundred mods right now... Maybe when it cools down a little, but by then I'll be eyeball deep in the snowbird migration
It is interesting that we all seem to be in something of a gaming slump. I think Starfield derailed some of the Old Farts. Unfortunately, it could not hold my attention in the same way Skyrim and the Fallout games do.
As for opening and immediately closing a story -- I'm right there with you. I have a very rough first draft of a 60,000-word manuscript that needs a LOT of work. But each time I open Scrivener and look at it, I immediately close it. The task just feels so overwhelming that I hardly know where to start. And yet, I know exactly where to start. At the beginning.
Funny thing is, I used to write five days a week whether I felt like it or not. It's what was expected of me to earn a paycheck, so I did it without thinking. But now that I'm not getting paid to write, it's very hard to make myself do it. But it's almost harder beating myself up for not doing it.
How do you find Scrivener? I was thinking of saving up for it, but I've a feeling I might just end up overwhelmed...
As for me I've been working on modding Skyrim for the past day or so. Mainly started with the biggest mod in the game and one of my favorites the LOTDB and I'm still working on it and haven't even started on patches yet. Forgot how much was needed for modding this game. But after Playing BG 3 the past year I miss the dragons and skyrim itself. And being able to Craft things like armor and weapons and make your own potions etc. So I figured I'd pull the trigger and try a new build especially with the Anniversary stuff added.
@Corinze hope things get better for you and the wife I'll keep her in my prayers and hope that the surgery goes well.
@Avrie I think I'll check out that Black Briar mod you mentioned in your recent list. But if I'm remembering correctly isn't that one of the places for which one of the Beranzine<SP> stones are you need to pick up for the thieves guild. There is something like 20 of them? If so wonder how it affects the placement of that stone?
Well folks I'm off to modding more of the game might be back later. Take care.
Have fun DM. I'm back from work and considering the next episode of Cat's in Space! LOL
Avrie hope you had a great and profitable day at work. How is the weather out in Az this week?
Apologies in advance for the long, long post. As you can probably tell, this is a subject that I am passionate about.
I love Scrivener. I think it is well worth what I paid -- half the regular price thanks to NaNoWriMo. More on that below.
I should note that I did find the program extremely overwhelming. I messed with it for several weeks, got so frustrated that I gave up. A year later, I went back to it again and took my time learning only the very basics (left pane). What a difference for this old brain!
If you do decide to get it (and I hope you do), then ignore stuff in the right pane. Instead, focus only on the meat of the program, the stuff in the left pane (Manuscript, Characters, Places, Research).
The left pane will look familiar, like seeing folders on your hard drive. Except that main folder will be "Manuscript" with drop down folders "Part" (what I think of as an Act) then Chapter and Scene. Once you get used to it, you'll find that bouncing back to other scenes or chapters to make changes will be much easier on Scrivener than in MS Word. Want to move around chapters? Again, so much easier in Scrivener.
Suggestions:
1. Get the free 30-day trial. It is not just 30 days from the first time you use it. It is actually 30 days of working with it. If you open it just three days a week, you'll get 10 weeks of use from the trial. Do note that most of the tutorial videos you'll see are writers working with Mac. Since you are also a gamer, my guess is that you'll be using the Windows version, which is a tiny bit different.
Scrivener main page: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
Lots of videos but I like this one for a good overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPkD3k2olo8
And this one is good for getting started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJyGox2ldHo
2. Sign up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) which takes place every November. If you participate and complete your word goal (which you set up yourself), you can "win" a code for 50% off Scrivener. NaNoWriMo calls it a "win" but there's actually no winners, no losers, no competition of any sort. But if you don't complete your writing goal, you'll get a 20% discount code on Scrivener.
NaNoWriMo main page: https://nanowrimo.org/
Last year's NaNoWriMo discounts: https://nanowrimo.org/offers
One more quick note:
I initially used Scrivener's corkboard because it was very much like my manual corkboard plotting method. But I now use Plottr:
https://plottr.com/
edited to add:
Yikes! Plottr lifetime price is double what I paid for it five years ago. Might want to stick with Scrivener's corkboard for planning your scenes.
I was making some changes inside a texture.bsa of a major follower mod with quests and custom housing* and there were two thumb.db files in the mod that Cathedral Assets Optimizer wouldn't include in the new archive. (textures><mod subfolder>>architecture>thumb.db and textures><mod subfolder>>books>thumb.db)
At first I thought it was an AV issue, but disabling my AV didn't make a difference.
The follower modpage and the CAO modpage had nothing to say on thumb.db files, and it is a waste of time trying to contact this mod author directly. Googling the matter indicated that thumb.db files are usually auto-generated thumbnail caches??
So my question is twofold: Any insight as to why CAO might not have accepted these or alternatively if it will hurt anything to leave them out.
My gut says they are probably harmless and may have been in there because of mod author error/ignorance, but the little voice in the back of my head is wondering if the lack of those files might foul up some of the mod's quests 20 or 30 hours down the line. If anybody has ideas, you have my thanks.
*BTW the texture edits worked, and they had to be done within the archive-I first tried a loose file overwrite that didn't work.
@Mik That is all new to me, I can't offer any insight, but admit I would like to look into it, this is the stuff that fascinates me.
Just for giggles did you open the 2 .db files with something like notepad++? I guess a thumbnail would not work without them somewhere or something minor like that, as a guess.