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Senior Level Designer for Starfield gave me a shoutout!

They love JS Rumpled Rugs! That's so cool haha

"Of all the mods that I’ve used over the years though my favorite has to be Rumpled Rugs mod for Skyrim. It’s this hilarious mod that gives enemies a chance to trip over the corners of rumpled up rugs. It’s just the kind of thing that you would never even think to build in a mainstream AAA game but it adds this element of surprise and zaniness that I find deeply satisfying."

Two More!

The Ring of Pure Mixtures & Nightweaver Band, finally in-game. Both are wearable, though I might do some tweaking on the Nightweavers gems, needs a bit more OOMPH! All the other rings that I've shown are also wearable too!

As for me, I'm feeling better energy-wise. No problems with being on the computer for long periods again, but still got no apetite really and I don't know if it is lingering covid effects but I feel like I lose focus easily. I plan to get another ring in-game tomo...

It finally got me

Sorry for the lack of updates this week, things were going really well, as far as I can remember, I got all of the currently finished rings in game, both on fingers and ground objects and then...

I got covid. What a nightmare this has been. I spent the entire week in bed alone, no energy, delirious, struggled to breathe, head hurting like crazy, completely lost all of my taste and smell, still can't stop coughing and wanting to sleep. I had nothing to eat for the entire week, tried on f...

[Update] XB1 Ports

A few XB1 ports added to Bethesda.net

• JS Torture Tools 
• JS Knapsacks (Grey version) 
• JS Misplaced Septims (requires Simple Workaround Framework)

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Ilas-Tei's Ring (will work on gemstone more) Bonehawk Ring, Fjola's Wedding Band and The Ring of the Erudite all in game!

Assortment

Another five done!

The Silver-Blood Family Ring, Calcelmo's Ring, The Bond of Matrimony, Viola's Ring and Asgeir's Wedding Band!

Two

Ahzidal's Ring of Necromancy and Ahzidals Ring of Arcana, both in game! The gems do need a bit of tweaking though, especially on the Arcana Ring, I'm not very happy with those. Need a bit more life and glow and maybe a color scheme change, I dunno :P

Guaranteed this mod will be released next month seeing as we're almost there. I won't have to redo the Enchanted Ring either, I figure I'll just go full detail like this and still manage to keep the poly count under 10k (which is fine becau...

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In-game shots of the Ring of Hircine & The Ring of Namira!

I was thinking of putting glowing eyes on the Ring of Hircine for the Cursed version. What do you guys think?

Progression

The first ring to enter the game, Madesi's Silver Ring! Half of the rings in-game models are done and baked, just got to texture them. So far only the Enchanted Ring was a problem but I might be able to remedy it by going full detail like this one (this is only 1k polygons too!) Haven't skinned any for wearing yet either. Need to find a happy medium where they'll look good on fingers and gauntlets.

[Release] JS Knapsacks for Skyrim LE

Requested by popular demand and backported to Skyrim LE!

Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/114704 

Lackluster Update

Nothing exciting to share other than to mention that I'm in the retopology/test bake stage of all of the rings, making sure they're usable as game models. So far, the Enchanted Ring is probably going to need a revision or remake because it won't bake nicely without significant distortion. Rather than waste time on it now, I'll come back to it when everything else is done. 

Hopefully have some in-game previews soon and more important, on to the next project! I've been thinking up so...

Bonus Round

I was going to skip doing Asgeir's Wedding Band, but thought I should probably do something simple for him since you can still get the ring after the quest. That makes all rings done with the exception of the ones that go on the Daedric Gauntlet :P

I'll start turning these into game models tonight maybe! 

Lusting for Blood

The Ring of Bloodlust and (final I think?) ring in the series. This one went through multiple remakes and eventually I just settled on a large blood drop gem. I might add some gold edging in the final, it looks like it might work in my head anyway haha. The tiny gems won't be 3d because it'll be too much of a waste of polygons.

Now the big question: Should the rings all have their own texture files or should I merge texture files and put 3-4 rings in one? The benefit to this will be cut...

[Update] Archmage Khadgar's Robes (SE)

• Removed Weight Limit Script
• Normal Maps are now BC7 (previously uncompressed)
• Plugin is now ESL flagged
• Archives reduced 50% in size

Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32348

JS Emissive Eyes SE also got a hotfix

• Fixed incorrect formID for Chaurus Hunters (SPID version)

Link: 2023-06-28 17:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Werewolf Things

The Ring of Instinct! I went for something completely different with this, I'm not sure if it fits with a typical werewolf theme, if that's even a thing. The design is meant to signify "slashes" with the spiral on the gem relating to the time-slowing effect of the ring itself. What do guys think?

If my list is correct, there are only two left, one of which is a wedding band, which I may just use one of the ones I've already made since it doesn't really do anything and isn't used in a qu...

[Update] JS Emissive Eyes SE

Small update to JS Emissive Eyes SE

• Removed Vampire Lord, Werewolf & Werebear from plugin (SPID version)
• Added Vampire Lord, Werewolf & Werebear lines to DISTR file
• Fixed Dragon Priest SPID line

You only need to update if you're using the SPID version!

Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/60108

A re-write of the mo...

Round Two

The new version of the Ring of Erudite (second pic is the old one for comparison!). Thought the old design was too boring and didn't have enough going on to make it really unique but I decided to keep the twin emeralds as a throwback to the original. I'll probably rough it up a tiny bit before texturing :P

What do you guys think?

Thanks again

Just like to say thanks for your continued support and for the new patrons that joined recently! It means the world to me and at some point this year, I want to make a discord with a patron-only channel, maybe that would be easier to post updates on?

I also have to apologize (again) I'm currently ill with a stomach bug and made the mistake of doing a squat workout prior to being ill, so my legs are in absolute agony still so that makes things worse. Been resting for the past 2 days, whi...

Woof Update

Decided to go with some thorns on the side of the Ring of Hircine, mostly because it's really come up with anything that shouts "cursed!". These will be baked flat for optimization, so they won't be as 3d as they look in the sculpt but will still look like they're a detail on the ring.

I've decided I'm probably remaking the Ring of Erudite. I don't like what I made previously and think I can do something more interesting. After that I believe there is only Asgeir's Wedding Band, Ring of...

Woof

The Ring of Hircine! Oh boy was this annoying, I HATE sculpting anything that is organic, I've always preferred man-made objects or products! I think I must have restarted this thing maybe 4 or 5 times until I got something I was happy with. I don't know about the rest of the ring, I might add some design but the vanilla one is kind of bare too and it *is* a cursed ring, so maybe it shouldn't be overly designy? (I say that with an intricate wolf head haha) I don't know what would make sense e...

Apologies

Sorry I haven't posted anything in 2 weeks, I feel a bit bad that I got a little sick of looking at rings and somehow got into playing Genshin Impact. Haven't really played anything over the past few years, so this was a nice change. Lots of really cool weapons and armors in that game, some of them I want to make for Skyrim eventually :P

Anyone else play Genshin?

I have started the Ring of Hircine today, though sculpting a wolfs head isn't going to be fun! after these rings are do...

Blood & Claws

Ring of the Hunt from the Dragonborn DLC. A bit more shape-orientated than the last one, trying to change it up somewhat to make every ring not samey. Might bash it up slightly before export :P

Apologies for the delay in posting too, been feeling a bit lazy this week in regards to making stuff for Skyrim. Maybe I'm just sick of these rings, I should have done the swords! Those will be the next Unique Utopia release for sure...scabbards though >:(

I might also skip doing the set...

Bring Me To Life

After a weekend of being ill, finally finished with Ahzidal's Ring of Necromancy! Definitely wanted something a bit more evil looking, took some inspiration from World of Warcraft's Lich King for this one. My biggest time waste when it comes to unique models is the concept, I think I remade this one at least 5 times before settling on a design I could go forward with, just glad it's over and I can move on to the next one! *wipes brow*

Welcome to the new patrons too! I appreciate you all...

A Song of Ice and Fire

Ahzidal's Ring of Arcana from the Dragonborn DLC. I'm really happy with this one, I've not beat it up yet and might just leave that to texturing only. I was going to make Ahzidal's Ring of Necromancy similar but I don't think they should be a set, so I'll probably go for something deathly with skulls or something.

Like it / hate it?

Bark at the Moon

Ring of the Beast from the Dawnguard DLC, went for a claw design since it increases the damage of claw attacks. I did want to keep it fairly simple, so this is what I came up with. Yay/Nay?

Look To La Luna

The Ring of the Moon from the Dragonborn DLC, for Werewolves only! Been a bit sick this week, so only got a tiny bit of progress made but at least that's another ring's model finished, only 9000 more to do!

If you didn't get the title reference, it's from the original Mortal Kombat :P

No One Escapes Cidhna Mine

The Silver-Blood family ring, in the style of a sovereign ring. Unlike some of the others, this one is actually useful and adds +15% to smithing, so it's worth keeping!

Hoping to get this mod finished up soon, then I'm going to work on another replacer and somewhere in there, fix up JS Emissive Eyes so that it uses MCM Helper and try to fix up the scripts a little so that it runs nicer :)

Never seen this in-game

My new version of the Bone Hawk Ring, apparently when you wear it, it shows 3 of them on each finger. Simple design, didn't want to stray too far from vanilla :P

Round #2

The new version of the "Enchanted Rings" from Saarthal. This one makes a lot more sense to me, though it might be a bit of a pain when it comes to making the low poly :P

Sorry for the lack of updates this week too, been a kind of meh week. I might take a short pause on these and get something else out, seems that there's hasn't been that much cool looking stuff released lately :(

Sneaky

Nightweavers Band, from the quest "A Recipe for Disaster". 

What a pain this was and it's not even that complicated! Couldn't come up with a design, went through 3 complete redesigns, then this versions files corrupt, so I had to remake 50% of it! The celtic pattern on the sides is entirely original, showing off the two stages of Sneaking. There's a Dark Brotherhood hand on the far side too! Final textured thing will probably be silver, like the one in the game :P