Gold Road HYPE

I am excited for ONE thing, and ONE thing only.

Fennorian House guest!!!! Found in the datamines!

LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Todd looks like he needs another couple of drinks before he's gotta deal with Elon. Third dude behind though... "Oh that mf'er" face, straight up.

Todd Howard is a lying coward who has helped stagnate Bethesda as a game company of course but god damn imagine having to deal with Elon at a professional event your company is mainlining where you couldn’t just leave the conversation without it being a headline. Genuinely a nightmare

Close-up of the Joshua's sleeve design sewed on by the Dead Horse tribe. I decided to go with a realistic and lovely pattern closer to Native American craftsmanship. Which also made me sit and consider the meanings of the designs. The circle often represents the full cycle of birth, life, and death. Both the sun and the four elements are also represented by a circle, although depicted a little differently.. To be honest, I was wracking my brain until I stumbled on a site that, to my surprise, had nearly the exact symbol I was looking for.

The website itself states: The Relation of Two symbol consists of two concentric circles, one within the other. It represents a relationship between two people, either through a family connection or through a partnership.

If this is the correct symbol, then I think the NV devs did a good job incorporating some of the real-world symbolism into their work. And hopefully, my re-creation appeals to y'all as well.

As for other news. Don't get your hopes set up for the Joshua Graham "re-creations" showing up on the Nexus images page. One of the posters uses Mobius's old version of Joshua's armor mixed with parts from one of the modern FPS and the ported head bandages from NV. It's not my work he's using. The other, who posted a video of their version of Joshua as a FO4 companion, using Japanese, is all ports from FNV. Their outfit is either their personal port or bought from a for-profit asset porter. None of it can be released on Nexus.

As for that big F3/NV follower pack, I have no clue. I blocked them months ago because I don't want to feel rushed to get my mod out. I'm not getting paid so I'mma work on my time, lol.

But yeah, all the textures are done. I want to work on getting the face bandages to move when he speaks, and I have been working on the intro scene for most of the day. There is a lot of dialogue, so I feel that I'll be going back and forth with my proofreader to check for errors. Hopefully not too many.

The bandage wrappings. These are finished. There's a bit of a seam, but trying to line this shit up on the god forsaken mesh is... beyond frustrating. Like, it's like whoever was in charge of making the body mesh gave up 75% in and just said "Fuck it, time to paint.". LMAO.

And, we're back at it with an entirely custom-made armor mesh by yours truly. Put several hours into learning Marvelous Designer, relearning 3ds Max, and jumping between Substance Painter and photoshop/Gimp/paint.net. Working on the bandages right now in Blender. I'll jump back and get those stitching designs added to his shirt also. The bonus is that the UVs are on one file!

You have no idea how true that is.

wizard time

legates

Those old textures don't go with it, especially with the all new UV maps. The patterns I followed got me to this point, as well as tutorials. Still got the rest of the pouches to make and stitch on, and the boots. I have had to restart the pouches from scratch 6 times already, but they will get there.

Karlach's outfit is just about ready to throw through the CK. Just have to upgrade the textures and place them where they need to go, and swap out this body mesh for the same cbbe 3ba one because I forgot I was turning the tears in her pants to alpha enabled, so we need skin there. So there the body, the gloves, and the boots. 3 separate meshes so you can add your equip different boots/gloves. No, there's no hdt physics, as I don't know how to make that yet. Give me time, and I'll eventually figure it out, lol. And as I keep making more of the various BG3 outfits, I'll just be updating this mod, as it contains all the folders already, just not the product. Bodyslide will be included also, that's a given. Himbo for the guys as well. Stay tuned for more periodically.

Alright everyone. I had a day to think about where I'm going to go from here. Starting from today, the Alpha version of my Joshua Graham follower mod will no longer be up. I do not support any reuploads anywhere else on the internet, but the internet is the internet, so... meh. I will continue updating and working on the new version of Joshua, and will post updates for all you following and supporting my efforts. It's only right to share the progress I'm making with you all because I am real proud of what I have accomplished so far, and despite difficulties, I am soldiering on. Joshua will be posted on the Nexus when he is finished. No, I will no support the other mod author who has taken my ideas and plans to incorporate into his mod, and I do not give permission for anyone to use my assets for his mods. I will support Jash's followers, and even provide patches for npc banter. I have come a LONG way learning how to mod for Fallout 4, and it's a trip. Joshua will have his own unique skin texture, with added scar overlay. His skin is crafted in Substance Painter, the first time using that sob lol, and the final version will be polished. The clothing/armor he will be using is also crafted by me and no longer using vanilla assets. I have Material Designer, and along with blender, his outfit will be entirely my own. All the way down to the textures. Since these are my creations and I haven't offered them to any project to use, I will give permission to the F4SE team to use them and the character model if they don't already have one made. If they do, then I will grant permission to whoever asks to make a patch using my assets. Hopefully, I can remember to add that to the perms page. Voice assets are entirely AI generated. I've manipulated the settings enough to give him a more human-sounding tone, as well as including breaths. If you have some issue with AI voices, then you are welcome to pay the OG VA to have him voice the character. I do not have the funding to do so, and because I do not own the rights to the character, I can not hire the VA to revoice him. I would like to add that I have obtained permission from Bethesda via e-mail to go ahead and create the follower. I wanted to cover my ass because this is a character from another one of their games, but not Fallout 4, and I didn't want them to frown upon my work.

Not "formal", but a thumbs up as long as the mod is not for profit, or being used for shitty purposes. There, that's out of the way. So, a bit of an explanation of what I am doing in the mod itself to make it stand out as a real, living character that you won't just use for a mule: I am giving him a regard system and affinity system. I know I already spoke on this before, but to re-iterate, Joshua's demeanor towards you will grow or shrink depending on your actions in the commonwealth, and with dialogue choices. Thanks to Larian, I am trying to develop a large dialogue tree for Joshua that has many choices for the player, and some will be locked behind your gender or which factions you wish to RP as representing. There will also be options for players who want to RP as the Lone Wanderer or as Courier Six. He will be more familiar with Six, and his dialogue will reflect that. There will also be a lot of Religious talk that echoes the belief system of Mormons for immersion purposes. I will flag these as a particular topic so that if it's something that bothers you, you have the option to ask him to chill with the bible talk. There will be a lot of choices, dialogue, ambient dialogue and he will even speak to other npcs. And thanks to Jash, he should also already equip his Light Shining in Darkness. I would like to have him actually be a higher level than you, due to experience. Even though I am really making the mod for myself, I hope you enjoy what I do share. Since I only have 1 fallout NPC to deal with, my attention can be directed to this one character. But, yeah, that's all I have to say at this time. :)

Part of the other project I'm going to be slowly chipping away at. If you know, then you played the best game of the decade.

the fire around me

Yup, you are seeing that right. Getting a new body texture made and set up for Joshua Graham. My husband got me substance painter, so now I need to learn the ropes of the program. And what better way to start than to make a fully scarred up body and head? Body still has a few touches I need to go back and do, but the head looks VERY much how he should have looked from the cover art of Honest Hearts. I didn't want him to look like a ghoul of course, that wouldn't work in my opinion. Also got my hands on Marvelous designer 9, So that's going to be a fun tool for me to dive into. On other news:

I have a good number of armors from BG3 I'm working to port over to Skyrim. Once I have them finished, I'll make a link for them, and they will be free, not locked behind a paywall. Donations welcome but not necessary. Anywho, that was my work for the past couple of days. Starting to figure out that having multiple things to go through sorta helps, even if it's at a slow and steady pace.

Oh boy... Ok. I will throw my two cents in because I actually have a hand in the modding world. I do not, and will not support paid mods, be it through Patreon or Bethesda. People who create mods and expect payment are in the wrong line of content creation. As for Elianora, that's an absolute shit take for you to have. You are only facilitating corporate greed with your own greed. And your viewpoint that free mod content comes from a hive mind.... speaks a lot about how you see the rest of the community. If you want to get paid for your time, then get hired on by Bethesda, like Grilled Turkey and Ropie. I'll stan those guys all day long.