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Birthday '15: Celebrated DeviantArt's 15th birthday
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My Bio
I don't consider myself an artist, but I enjoy creating meshes, textures, poses, animations and coding to realize a certain dragon from my imagination in any 3d environment suitable enough.

Mostly this will be in the form of game mods, lacking a better environment to work in. Currently it's for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

This dragon or its race isn't the only thing I'm creating though. I just enjoy creating virtual things in general.

I also started writing down the story of this dragon, which I was dreaming of and imaginating over several years now. But I'm a little behind and the story still continues almost every night. What I've written down by now is only 1% of what's in my memory. I really have to keep up before something gets lost forever.

Favourite genre of music: all that sounds good, not thinking in boxes
Operating System: Mac OS-X currently
MP3 player of choice: Media Player/QuickTime Player
Personal Quote: "The only thing I know is I don't know anything."... and even this I don't know

Favourite Movies
I don't have one single favourite of anything
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
I don't care for bands or musicians, just enjoy the pieces
Favourite Games
The Elder Scrolls series
Other Interests
programming, robotics, 3d virtual worlds, dragons

End of an Era?

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"You're doing it for all the wrong reasons." "You're no real author." "Take your mods and go away." "You will be easily replaced. Your work is not unique." "Your leaving will not be any loss." "The more of you go the better this place will be." ...I guess I read it 1 too many times now. But I'm starting to see a pattern, I'm not seeing much else at all anymore, and I'm no longer feeling fine with what I see. Last I was told these things in the Nexusmods Mod Authors section from a Wabbajack mod list author of all people, considering themselves a "part of the team", while simultaneously picking a fight with over a dozen of famous and high profile mod authors with much bigger, more important mods than mine, some of whom being pillars of the community for way longer than even my membership now. But that's not the real problem. We have these guys regularly popping up and trying to stir the pot. They come and go, never really remain for long. Calling themselves authors and proclaiming how
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Status Report

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Oh my, it's been quite a while since I last published anything on here! Nevertheless I've been all but inactive during all that time. First of all, I'm still alive. Well, that was not much of a surprise. I have been through quite some health issues recently, and am still not exactly done, but I'm doing fine enough right now, and that is all that counts, isn't it? My current work schedule still doesn't allow for much, but from time to time I'm getting/taking a little of such and put it into making some progress with my current modding projects. Speaking of which, it's not at all exactly the same you might remember from years ago anymore eith
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How long have you been on DeviantArt? 5 years, 2 months and 7 days now. Though I've been a silent admirer and lurker here already for years before I began finally giving something back. What does your username mean? Drake the Dragon is the protagonist of a story of mine I came up with in my dreams many, many years ago and until recently have been continuing every night and sometimes also during the day. He's also become the main character in almost every video game RPG I played since then, and in games where modding is possible I also tried to recreate him inside the game as close to the story as possible. First sub-chapters of the story can
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Can you spare some points?

I'm afraid I don't have any. My balance says 0.

Many thanks for the llama. It's very lovely. Now, to think of a name for it. :)

I made fanart for your Drake anthro dragon mod. I hope you will enjoy it and this drawing will be inspiring:

Anthro dragon in TES Oblivion

Thank you for the heads-up, though I already stumbled upon it in my recommendations before I even got a chance to check my comments here.


I'm glad you like it, and I'm definitely enjoying your fan art very much. Thank you!

Do you know how to port things from Oblivion to Oldrim or SSE?

I'm afraid not. I'm still only modding Oblivion, if at all these days, and know about modding Skyrim et al only peripherally.


But I do know the answer will be hard to find, if it is not further specified "what type" of assets is to be converted, as everything is done vastly differently depending on what type of asset it is.


Texturing has changed how normal and replacement maps work or are created, and also how it is applied onto a mesh in a NIF.

Models have changed the way how textures are applied and there's additional shaders for certain things, something Oblivion didn't have.

I don't know about collision in those games' NIFs. But it's not unlikely this also changed some way.

The rigging pose and how animations work has also changed, so direct 1:1 conversion of clothing, armor items or even body or creature parts also won't work, or not without first heavy modification in a modeling app.


What I'm now still lacking of all this, is knowledge of how it has to be in Skyrim/SSE. I may know almost everything about what to convert things from, but literally nothing about what to convert it into.


I'm sorry.