Regarding the implementation of whales, there were some factors that I wanted to do, but that were not possible. Skyrim is a limited game, with a very bad engine to work with. Nor were we provided with good tools to work around animations. We almost always do not do what we wanted, but what is possible. If the whales are bigger, they will be practically standing in the same place, if they fly higher the game will not render them, if they flap their wings more slowly they will appear motionless as they fly, if they were animated like a non-aggressive dragon that does not land you will not hear their sound and you will still hear the dragon roar implanted in the flight animation itself. I study all the possibilities before implementing a creature, if it looks like it would look better in another way, there is a great chance that I would have thought of that too, but for some reason it was unfeasible. Regarding the quantity, due to the very few spots where they appear, I decided to add at least 2 per place, although some places have only 1, and some rare have 3. The great concentration on Sovngarde is justified, as I explain in the description. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THIS MOD HAS A SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: to avoid the whales to become invisible when you are very far away from them, you should have some specific resolution setting on your game. If you play in High or Ultra High quality, the settings are already correct for the good result. But if you play on Low or Medium, you can stay with the settings, but you need to go on Options > Advanced > View Distance, and put Object Fade and Actor Fade with at last lvl 7 and 6 respectively, to be able to see them properly
Ok hear me out. Levias from Skyward Sword. Super rare encounter. Levias certainly looks like something the Nords would worship. If anyone can make Amazing Legend of Zelda mods its you!
I could set and watch these guys all day irl. Sometimes my heart grows heavy, when all I wish for is to live in a fantasy world, like in my dreams. This stuff is as close as I will ever get. Thank you Mihail, really.
The models are beautiful and I love their sounds. As some other comments said, it'd be cool if they were made bigger and slower, flying over larger archs and flapping their wings less often, would look even more majestic
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THIS MOD HAS A SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: to avoid the whales to become invisible when you are very far away from them, you should have some specific resolution setting on your game. If you play in High or Ultra High quality, the settings are already correct for the good result. But if you play on Low or Medium, you can stay with the settings, but you need to go on Options > Advanced > View Distance, and put Object Fade and Actor Fade with at last lvl 7 and 6 respectively, to be able to see them properly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRO8j8H39bs
Thanks for the hard work you're doing, and looking forward for that quest mod.