Saturday, April 30, 2011

OH NOEZ! SCUTTLES!!

OH NOEZ! SCUTTLES!!










Screenshooter's Note:
Click to enlarge.
No crabs have been harmed during the screenshooting session.

Credit goes to HoneyVanity and Eiries for the awesome mudcrab.
Who knew that having a dinner in a seafood restaurant gave me this inspiration.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Phew.. That Was Helluva Lots of TGM and TCL... And A Screenshooter's Note..

Awrite, everything is done according to the plan.
My Oblivion is back to its pristine condition, the MQ is all done, not even touching the side quests, and.. now I'm back to TestingHall. How I miss this place already..

In any case.. I have been having a struggle on my own. It sounds cheesy and unimportant.. but.. I think I'm transferring the flagship of my trademark from Kaleeya to my new character, Karenina.

This is a very mixed up feeling. On one hand, Kaleeya has been my trademark for years, a very old character since the beginning of her save file upload to Nexus. Nuh uh, she's far more older than that.
Aha! Since when she began her conception in the lab's computer :D
On the other hand, Karenina is fresh, and she's inspired from many Indonesian beauties (especially Balinese.. heh, talking about the mystical beauty of the Island of The Gods itself  ^__^;) and Emanuela de Paula.

So... Yea.. You might not see Kaleeya as frequent as she used to be. Somehow I shall follow the steps of my fellow Shooters to embrace Head06-based races.

Also, this guilty relief makes me wonder....
What would happen to me if I had really obsessed and invested all of my time making the comics based on Kaleeya and her sisters, and suddenly I had this.. change of heart?
I don't know :|
Maybe I would have gone insane, feeling there was something missing from my mind...

I guess I shall adapt to this change. Hopefully Kaleeya doesn't mind, she has had helluva lots of fun times for years anyways.
Oh and don't get me wrong, I won't delete her.

Awritez, it's time to gather inspiration to create more new characters based on Head06.

Cheerio for now ^__^

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

All This Has Happened Before...

... and hopefully doesn't have to happen again.

Speaking of vicious cycle of fate and eternity...

Anyways, I have made my decision. I will restart anew without any major armour/clothings/weapons mods. Yesterday I made another cut and now there are only 212 mods running. Let's see how quick I can finish the main quest.

Sometimes... just sometimes... restarting fresh usually brings new atmosphere. Hopefully that's true.

*grabs leather armour, silver bow, and silver arrows*

Time to Get Chatty...

April 27th.

Dear diary--

Wait, this ain't a diary. It's a blog, kind of silly if I really open up myself way too wide but.. I guess that's today's trend in blogging. Anyways, I'm having a bit of technical problem for my Oblivion.

It's not a big thing though, it's just... one mod doesn't want to be deactivated, as if it has developed self-sentience and doesn't like if he gets deleted. Meh, speaking of Matrix and Cylons...

Anyways, I have been merging lots of mods. Weapons, clothings, and armours mods into one big helluva compilation mod. I do this because:

1. COC Testinghall convenience. I put several Ayleid casks containing all weapons, armours, and clothings I have merged from various mods.

2. Cutting down the number of running mods for my Oblivion. I have cut 40+ mods, and now my total number of mods is 218.

Now... here's the kicker.
This particular mod (UFF Formal Wear), doesn't want to be deactivated. I mean... I know it's a great mod containing beautiful dresses for lasses and elegant outfits for the lads. Imagine that if you want to RP for having a ball, royal wedding (heh, what a coincidence :D), or simply making romantic screenshots, this mod is the way to go. Credit goes to Terry Malick and fellas (as written in the readme) for the mod.

Now by meaning that it doesn't want to be deactivated, my game crashes if I untick the mod from being active. Checking with TES4Edit, there's nothing unusual there. Clothings and armours are tucked in containers, and they are placed both in Hawkhaven (coc Hawkhaven ftw) and Anvil's Private Quarter... if you want to get them in hardcore way.

In the mean time, I will keep the mod activated (just this one) until fellow modders give me the answers for my confusion.

I think I'm obsessed in deactivating just this one mod, I don't know why... blame it to my OC tendency :|

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Well... Sure It's Nice Being Solitary

Hulloes there!

It's Angga here. Or you may call me PJ, or Pujangga.
Actually, my name is Angga Cahyadi Santoso.

If you do know about the history in Oblivion's screenshooting, particularly where I used to hang out in the main hub, you will probably notice that I and many fellow Shooters have resorted back to Oblivion-related forums. Some others post blogs on their own.
This does not meant that I went rogue, ragequit, Q___q, or even proclaimed I would take down an entire site, just to get noticed. Naaaah, never had any such intentions.

Creating a blog is one of my sole intention of showcasing that... I... play... Oblivion... in pretty much a wrong way.

Aye, that's it!

Oblivion is a wonderful game. It's been years since I got my Oblivion, started playing it, got stuck, joined forums, and eventually embraced myself to modding and screenshooting scenes.

My first mod is Screenshooter's Illumination. As a modder, I say that it's a wonderful mod.
Like.. *doh*.. Every modders will say that their creations are awesome, ain't it?

My mod, to be honest, was invented because I was so curious about screenshooting; how many wonderful Shooters out there could pull colourful shots.
It turned out that the shots they took were well lit, natural lighting source in the game, such as the crystals in Ayleid ruins, torches in the caves, sunlight piercing through the holes, you name it.

That's why I invented my illuminating gem, derived inspiration from other mods which also work as an artificial light sources. With these gems, you can pretty much go everywhere with dark surrounding, drop the gems, and voila! Let there be light!

Mmmkay, that's enough for my modding experience. Now onto my hobby as a screenshooter...
I take shots because... I don't know how to explain it...
How do you explain why philatelists collect stamps? Scooter mania cruises from city to city solely on his/her scooter/motorcycle? Why do some people invest in gears and equipments for airsoft gun tourneys and paintball big matches?
It's all about fun.
It's about amusing one's self. Sometimes I take shots for my own enjoyment, they turn into guilty pleasure because of the nature of my shots.

To be honest, I was despised due to my screenshooting style by some so-called 'elite artists'. They made judgment about what screenshooting was, how screenshots should be created, how artistic value should be noted, etc etc.
I saw few of his shots. It's nothing more than a bland, plain screenshots, with the HUD still active, and the character is in the center of the monitor, as if he took it straight away with that PRTSCN button when he was playing the game.

From that moment, I went to prove myself that I could do better. Up until now, this pleasure for vengeance is still carried on. It motivates me to get better in screenshooting and image-editing.

That would be all for now.

Cheerio!