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I can agree, to some extent at least, but of course above should be served with WS! Otherwise - bleah Though still, onion and garlic are cool ;D

No matter what kind of meat there is, it has no proper taste without this!

Don't worry, whether you make LOD models or not, they won't be visible on my copy of Oblivion ;p

Once I checked on that script and well... it's not the best way of doing such things me thinks, stock script or not... You can make working secret door in much much simpler way (thus less prone to errors). You need only three things: - barrel door as persistent reference with unique name (eg. BarrelDoorRef) - your activator (candle) - script attached to your activator. And here's such script: scn HiddenEntranceScript short Open begin onActivate if BarrelDoorRef.isAnimPlaying == 1 Return endif if Open == 0 BarrelDoorRef.playgroup Forward 1 set open to 1 else BarrelDoorRef.playgroup Backward 1 set open to 0 endif end Pretty short, isn't it? Well, if you'll think for a while you may come to conclusion that all that junk in original script is not really necessary to make this work... of course disabling/enabling linked path points may be useful sometimes but that's another story...

>> Alright, so how much would it cost to get a new PC? That can at least play it at medium settings. Have no idea as requirements haven't been published yet. We can only guess... something new, quite cheap but still decent around 1000$ or less (inc. LCD) perhaps? no more I think. Or is it an option I could just upgrade some hardware on my current laptop? The only hardware that you could make an upgrade to in your laptop are RAM and HDD. But it won't make any difference in the end, as Skirim won't work anyway because of CPU and GFX card which you can't replace. Where can I find if I have any PCI-E x16 slots? Nowhere. As Thomas and echonite's posts are related to PC upgrade, not laptops.

err guys, what IxFlashPointxI listed is the spec of his notebook, so no any upgrades are possible except some changes to the amount of RAM and HDD ;] And sorry to say that, but I don't think it will be possible to play Skyrim on such notebook... Intel GMA 4500M is good for office work, Internet browsing, etc. and eventually for older and less demanding games. It is quite likely that Skyrim won't even start on it, but if it manages to show menu somehow, then the game won't be playable apart from the lowest settings, end even then it will be not smooth at all. And these are not my presumptions but facts as IMA is really a poor gfx card for newer games. As for the upgrade... well, if you want to play some Skyrim, then your only option is to buy either another notebook (with far better gfx card and other stuff), or console, or decent PC - there's no any way to improve in significant way this notebook you have...

I changed rotation values by negating certain numbers. In controller manager there are sequences which use interpolators - you only need to change values in rotation keys they use.

You should not thanks Tamira "anyway" but "primarily" ;] I was just too lazy to make this from scratch and used her animated mesh instead ;p I did only couple of tweaks to it though.

Changing such simple anims is easy in Nifskope if you know what to look for ;] Check this: http://www.file-upload.net/download-3507867/UndtraphingedoorAnim.7z.html

you need to load CS with obse loader, as these scripts require OBSE to work correctly...

in edit mode with selected faces: CTRL + N recalculates normals outside or W 0 (press W then zero) flips them

I didn't notice any issues with official sites today, all working fine for me even now, skyrim's included.

HY - please do not create urban legends about SSD to scare people away from them ;D Let me clarify some things... ;] It's not like SSD has finite number of reads - it only has finite number of writes. You can read from it infinite number of times without any degradation of the drive. So, let's say, after those five or more years of using it there will be no possible to write anything on some of its cells, but still those cells will be possible to read - in other words it will become a read-only medium over time ;] To prolong the life of current SSDs, companies install some additional unused cells in them, and in case of any basic cells degradation these will be replaced by those unused ones. Besides in normal use shear amount of activities on drives are reads and not writes - you usually install system, game, program once and later these are usually read from the drive and loaded into memory. Thus some additional system optimizations are recommended in case of SSD - like moving swap file to other drive or even delete it if your system has a lot of memory, turn off indexing files service under windows, move system folder locations for temporary files to conventional drive, etc. And as for that "self defragmenting" thing I can only say that any defrag- word should never be used in case of SSD - ever ;D Defragmentation can improve things a bit on conventional HDD drive, but its completely pointless for SSD, and even degrades SSD by unnecessary writes. The word you seek here is TRIM function ;] Without TRIM command the SSD needs to empty the content of previously written cell (even while such a cell is no longer used) each time when it needs to write something there and only after that it can write data to it. And TRIM command just empties such unused cells in background and in advance before they will be overwritten, so it speeds up the write process by various amounts (10% or sometimes even much more). Well, anyway, with or without TRIM command, in RAID config or else, SSD is always an improvement in speed over traditional HDD. Even while it is supposed to degrade its write capability over time - such period is still so long for casual user (many years - at least 5, 10, more?) that the whole system spec may change once or twice during this time until any replacement will be needed for such SDD ;] And those who install their systems on SDD never want to turn back to HDD anymore ;]

SSD is not for storage (at least not yet due to price/capacity ratio), but for putting OS and all programs there as they will load much faster than from HDD.

Also it is worth to check the name of NiMaterialProperty. If it set to something else than EnvMap2 then the reflection map Oblivion uses is the same everywhere for particular object no matter where it is placed - in exterior or in interior. But if that material property name is set to EnvMap2, then engine will be using different reflection map for interiors - and that's that cheap plastic foil effect which looks acceptable for only specific kinds of objects, imho. So I try to avoid it for all costs on most of my reflective objects ;]

And if you want to mirror a whole mesh along one of the axis and not only the part of it (good for cloning any kind of clothes or armor - boots, gloves, pauldrons, etc.), then you may want to use mirror modifier in object mode as it doesn't make the normals inverted, and you do not need to move your mesh later to that opposite symmetrical position.

Have no idea what it was, but probably some inaccurate yet obscured and not so well documented collision settings... anyway, I made a new convex collision for the pot in Blender, and tested it in game - worked fine after few hard loads. Try to test it yourself - here - but make sure to use a clean save from the time until you tested it before!

Can you post a picture from NifSkope with collision and its properties visible? Or better, upload this file somewhere and post a link to it for inspection.

some other things worth of checking... You can easily check whether item has been added to that chest by opening it. If the item is there and the merchant doesn't sell it still, then: Is that container has an ownership assigned to that merchant? As vendors don't sell objects from containers which are other than their own. Is this merchants sells such category the item belongs to? You can check this in merchant's AI settings windows.

Witty wants i7 processor and these support triple channel memory architecture and so like motherboards for them such as that asus mentioned in spec.

Try to run convex hull script on object and do not touch this shape manually later, and do not change it to polyheder type (just leave that field blank), and export such collision instead and see whether it works.

Where's SSD for OS? :]