Jinxxed

Some Updates

Hello everyone. I'm currently trying to do work preemptively so that I have more free time to work on mods. The work I do has months deadlines has to be done so I can pay bills. Most of my free time is spent dealing with real life stuff. Nothing crazy or life threatening. Nothing medical. Just general life stuff.

The current plan is to get ahead of my non-mod work so I can have at least two months to complete the entire backlog. Once the backlog is complete, I'll probably keep the patreon paused for a while longer so that I can eventually work on making clothing Bodyslide support for most if not all the followers. That way way people can make their own body shapes for the followers. I *might* add CBBE support for the SSE versions. The problem is that I customize the skin for all my followers. So that means I'd have to go back and edit the CBBE version of the skin if there even is one for the skin I used.

I have a lot of different plans/ideas for mods, but can't get to them until I get through the backlog. I definitely need better time management too.

Progress Updates

Things are moving slowly but steadily. I just finished up another follower. I've gotten a bit better with my time management. Sorry to those still waiting for their followers for all this time. I don't have an ETA for all the followers, but You'll be messaged when I'm close to finishing yours.

I'll probably start posting screenshot previews again. Some are in the discord if you want a quick look. 

Now that I'm able to do stuff in Blender, things just take a while now, especially custom weapons and getting them set up correctly. I'm trying to push for a bit more quality overall. One day I'll look into doing other body types, I was looking into "CBBE 3BA", but I had to stop myself because it would just delay stuff even further.

I hate to talk about far in the future plans with such a big backlog, but I just want to be transparent about where my head is at right now. Once the backlog is done, I think I might start releasing the outfits and their bodyslides for all the followers, that way people can apply whatever body shapes they want to them and to the followers easily. So when I do that, I'll probably look into making CBBE Bodyslide outfit files for them as well. And then maybe CBBE alternate shapes (this part is a big maybe).

I'm mostly interested in CBBE 3BA because of the shapes that can be made with it. The same reason I've always preferred UUNP over the standard CBBE. But this still is way in the future since the backlog is still pretty big.

More Updates

Hey everyone, there's not much to report in terms of mods.

I've been out of commission most of the month due to being sick. Nothing major. I just couldn't a ton of stuff done, including my other work. Not covid related as far as I know. I'm better now though. Not 100%, but I think i'm getting there, especially in the last few days. I'll likely being releasing Abigail early next month. Now that I'm better I'm going to make an attempt to get these followers done faster because it's taking way too long.

I've been trying to make the outfits a little less janky when there's minimal resources available, so hopefully it'll be worth the extra time it's taking each follower. I can at least say I've learned a lot about Blender. Not enough to make much from scratch though.

Abigail Williams (Fate Series) Screenshot Previews

Updates

Dec-5th edit: Feeling pretty much back to normal. I'm not sure if it was a cold or a flu. But I'm doing better now. I should be finished making Abigail in a few days. I'll have a lot of testing and tweaking to do.

Nov-30th edit: I'm feeling a lot better, but still not 100%. I should be back to normal by the end of the week

I've been feeling sick for the last couple of days, so I'm gonna take the next few days to rest and wont be getting much done. I'll update this post if anything changes. I think it's a cold.

Abigail Williams (Fate Series) WIP

I'm still adjusting the colors. The hair is oversaturated and the clothing is likely too darkand the colors are too muted. The models are also in Outfit Studio, so the lighting is completely off. I'll wait until I can see every thing ingmae before making final adjustments. I'm putting her together in the CK today and will probably do some testing tomorrow. Hopefully the weapons and spells I have planned end up working with no issues.

Updates and such

I'm still working my way through followers. I wanted to update everyone on what exactly it is I've been doing, aside from that. I've finally figure out the critical parts for making melee weapons from 3D model assets. Namely figuring out how to get weapons to have blood decals/textures when attacking.

I've come up with some new ways to make unique spells that i'll be able to apply to some of the followers with different spells.  A lot of this stuff is taking extra time, but the more I do it, the faster it should get. Learning it, applying it, and figuring out why it's not working takes up the most time. 

I'm still trying to figure out animated meshes, but haven't had any luck with it so far. There's almost no documentation on it that I can find, but I'll keep trying.

Updates

This month is another busy month for me.

However, next month will be less chaotic and I'll have more time to work on the followers and get some stuff released. December should hopefully be less chaotic as well, but it will depend on what my family has planned for the holidays.

January will definitely be chaotic just like this month...A lot of real life things and other obligations are just taking up so much of my time now days. But I'll eventually get back on track.

Floating Spell Tomes Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109303 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/56473 

Adds floating spell tomes for each school of magic. Both wearable types and summonable types.

Frederica Baumann (reZero) Follower Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109342 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/56574 

Updates

This month was pretty crappy for progress, but I got a lot of stuff out of the way. So August should be good. I think I only have 3 or 4 days to deal with real life stuff.

I'm learning to animate meshes in the game. Not every follower will benefit from it, but it should be neat for some is I can actually pull it off. I want to try and release one follower to the the nexus, but my biggest priority is finishing the backlog.

I had to go through 3 mice before I found one that (hopefully) works out. My new Logitech G502 started double clicking, then i got an  Alienware 510M and that started double clicking (the firmware and software for it is impossible to install too), and now I'm on the Razer Basilisk Ultimate which I was recommended on a discord all about computer mice. So hopefully this is it. You wouldn't think it, but a crappy mouse that keeps double clicking can really screw up and slow down your work flow.

The long wait is frustrating for me as I'm sure it is for everyone else, but hopefully it'll be worth the wait. Back to the follower cave to finish making them.

Updates and Such

Hello everyone. Just wanted to give some kind of update since there's a lack of anything else right now. I'm currently using some of my spare time to learn some new stuff with the creation kit and modding in general. For those of you who have gotten custom followers, you know one of the hardest things to do with unique followers is coming up with spells that can replicate the character's. Some characters are just really powerful and don't have practical abilities that would work for a Skyrim Follower. Some have crazy abilities that would need advanced scripting knowledge.

I'm currently working on some ways to do a little bit more. I don't want to make any promises yet, but I'm going to be working on trying to make better spells for followers when possible. I've got guns figured out, finally. Now I want to get spells figured out. Some stuff wont be possible for me just yet, like followers that can transform (something I've been trying to figure out for years),but I'll hopefully be able to figure out how to make a follower cast a meteor shower. Or turn the ground into lava for a few seconds or something. And then being able to use the basis for spells like that to create other spells, like instead of the floor being lava, the floor could have a puddle of light that heals people or something.

I'm going to try to have something released in early July. I have a few things in various stages of completion that I don't feel like I need to redo completely. It's just a matter of finishing some up and testing them. I'll figure out time management one of these days...

Updates and such

Just keeping everyone posted on what I'm doing right now and will be doing for the next few months while the patreon is paused. I'm working on my other non-mod related stuff at the beginning of the month and then then work on the followers for the rest of the month.

When I get to the followers, I also want to release them as I make them so that I don't force myself to go back and update them. Which happens a lot with the old followers. I'll look at the ones i made a while back and feel compelled to redo their faces from scratch. Maybe only half of them, I think are fine. The ones I think are fine though, I end up wanting to add stuff. So once they're uploaded, I feel less compelled to go back and add stuff, which takes up a lot of time.

Lady Alcina Dimitrescu Dress Release

• LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/107660/ 
• SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/49597/ 

It's technically still WIP, but I will update it when it can. The follower will come out eventually. Right patron requests are the main priority.

Updates and such

I'm going to pause the patreon for at least a month starting with June. Likely two or three months total. It's the only way I can realistically catch up after thinking about it.

In other news, I've uploaded the Bodyslide Shape Presets to SSE and have updated them with more follower shapes. You can check the list there for some of the upcoming followers. I'll probably be in hermit mode for the rest of the month working on stuff.

Bodyslide Presets:

• LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/96785 
• SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/49526/ 

Lady Dimitrescu WIP Screenshots

Since I have something worth showing, I figured I'd post some screenshots for you.

These weren't made from scratch, but rather some assets I got the license to and have do a ton of tweaking in Blender, Substance Painter, and Outfit Studio. Since I won't be able to give anyone permission to use most of these assets, I plan on releasing this as an outfit as well as releasing a Lady Dimitrescu follower. The Follower will be UUNP, but the outfit will support UUNP, BHUNP, and CBBE. For both LE and SSE. I just have to install all the stuff for it first.

This also isn't the bodyshape of the follower. It's the standard UUNP shape for Bodyslide.

May 2021 Vote

Since it's mother's day month, I figured why not do a mother character again, but this time, have her daughter with her as well.

• Elastigirl and Violet (Incredibles): Elastigirl's power is possible to do to an extent. I thought thought it would be impossible to do stretchy powers, but I can at least make it almost look like she's punching with stretchy arms by using similar methods I use to have whip weapons. Violets powers will be a lot easier to mimic.
• Donna and Roberta Tubbs (Family Guy/Cleveland Show): In the Show, Donna used to star in a show where she was a vigilante/crime fighter named Hot Cocoa. Both their abilities will be based on this persona and they'll use guns. Roberta will basically have a similar but made up persona similar to Hot Cocoa. Something to imply that she's inspired by her mom.
• Francine and Haley Smith (American Dad): In the show Francine is adopted by a family from China and she's shown to know martial arts and fighting in general. In one episode that I can recall, she fought her sister and they both used swords. Haley is revealed to be a sleeper agent thanks to her dad brain washing her when she was a kid. She's basically a trained killer. Overall though, I think I would take inspiration from one episode, "Dungeons and Wagons" where Haley plays a fantasy video game where she becomes "Morwin Nerdbane". I would design Haley to be like that and design Francine to be how I would imagine her character if she were to play "Dungeons and Wagons", which would essentially be an Eastern/Asian version of Haley's outfit.

Updates and such

Hello everyone. I'm still really behind on getting followers made, but I've made a ton of progress behind the scenes, learning a lot more Blender related stuff which will allow me to make more higher quality stuff like armor/clothes and weapons. I might also be able to get some more hairstyles.

I might pause the patreon in June and/or July, but I'll wait to see how things go in May. I plan on releasing the Kill la Kill followers, but wanted to apply some stuff I'd learned to make them a little better. So I'll be releasing them soon along a couple other followers. I also have some other mods in the works that aren't directly related to followers. Mods I just felt compelled to make and figured out how a while back.

SiN Episodes Followers Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/102808/ 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/48575/ 

Follower Weapon Updates

Finally figured out how to reposition weapons properly. It took me a few weeks, but at least now I can do it going forward.  They aren't perfect in the above post, but they're much better when she's wielding them normally. I almost feel sorry for the bandit I kept resurrecting for her to shoot over and over during testing.

I still need to test Automatic Crossbow weapons. If everything goes well, I'll probably release the mod on the nexus sometime this coming week. 

Updates

I've been learning to use stuff  like Substance painter for a few day. I think it'll maybe come in handy with some stuff but not everything. You can check the discord to see what I've been working on, including secret stuff that I posted screenshots of in the patron only chat. I'm going to be working on getting some followers up on the nexus and then later in the month back to working on the backlog.

News and Updates

The patreon will resume in April.

I'm still backed up by a lot, but I've also got a lot done. So much that I probably can't remember all of it. All the faces and bodies have been made, most of the assets have been gathered, some are pending on permissions.

I've learned some new stuff, like making different types of guns, though I still have more to learn. Some followers are going to take longer to make than others, but others will be shorter. What I also want to do is just start releasing followers right after I make them rather than trying to release them in any kind of order, but who knows how that'll work out.

I'm hoping to release at least 4 followers next month if not more. I have two almost ready to go.

Juliet Starling (Lollipop Chainsaw) Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106700/ 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/46047/ 

Zoomed in image because Patreon's adult image detection is really bad.

Erza Scarlet (Fairytale) Follower Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106670/ 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45858/ 

Pausing the Patreon for March as well

I thought about this for a long time. I'm going to pause the vote for March to give me some more time to catch up on everything. There are more followers that I want to touch up than I realized.

So the plan right now is to release the ones that are ready, or at least prep them for release so that all I have to do is press a button to publish them on the nexus. I don't want to release them all at once and flood the site. And then in March I'm going to focus on finishing the followers whose faces I just finished making. Since there's so many followers that need releasing, once I'm caught up with finishing the current ones, I'm going to shift my focus on releasing the ones I'm satisfied with without being concerned about the order I made them in.

The followers that I need to rework a lot of stuff on (new faces, new clothing/armor) will just have a lower priority for the time being. And I'll push up the ones that are ready or just need texture adjustments.

Sturm (Granblue Fantasy) Follower Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106621/ 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45715/ 

Face Previews

All of these characters are from "How Not to Summon a Demonlord". There are some more I still need to go over and i'll post their previews later.

Minamoto no Raikou Follower Release

LE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/106498 

SSE: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45220 

Follower Mortality Vote. Essential or Protected?

Hello, I've been thinking about this for a while and figured I'd ask you guys. Would you prefer followers to be set to essential or Protected?

Essential:

• This means they'll never die, no matter what. Not even you can kill them.
• They will instantly heal after every battle.

Protected:

• The only way they can die is if you deal the killing blow. NPCs wont be able to kill them
• Followers wont instantly heal after battle, they either need regen enchantments or you need to heal them or they rely on natural health regen.

On one hand, you can never kill them by mistake if they are essential, but the game might be made too easy with the nearly instant healing after each battle. With the Protected status, you might kill them by mistake, but there's an added challenge. And you could always load the game or use a modded revive spell. I've been thinking about setting future followers to Protected for these reasons, but if most people are against it I can continue to keep them essential.

I don't think I'd ever make them neither, where any NPC could just kill them. That's a little too much for me. Honestly, if I could just keep them essential and remove the instant health regen, I would just do that instead.

Feel free to discuss as well if you'd like either here or in the discord.

Screenshots of Faces

Probably one more set of faces to go after this and then I'll start making them into NPCs. I'll also try to start releasing some of the other followers on the Nexus.