The links to the Playstation ports: https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/1035394c-2182-4624-919c-5c8276f238eb/PS4_Version_Lenora___CVR_Custom_Voiced_Merchant_Fo https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/2bd4142e-9c0a-42c7-9fb4-6ee80809c1e5/PS5_Version_Lenora___CVR_Custom_Voiced_Merchant_Fo
Hi there, She doesn't have a custom body so her body and face will look according to your installed mods. She does use a KS hair. It doesn't look like vanilla but maybe you can give her a wig if you want specifically SMP vanilla hair for her.
Fantastic job! I appreciate your efforts and energy you put in this free mod. I don't understand why people think it is ok to bash whether A.I voiced, spliced or w/e. I fully believe that when VA say no to using their voices, it is because so many make money off of them or turn their voice into a sex slave. I have no problem with studio performances like SDA for instance, but he makes a ton of money off of donations and sponsors, making it harder for hobbyist, or beginners to enter into that arena. Keep up the fantastic work. Also, this isn't a dig at SDA that is a fantastic mod that I have enjoyed more than one play through. thank you for your work!
Now for my question, have you ever used the mod Levelers Tower v4.4 at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community ? The merchant in the basement is hands down best merchant in the game for the past decade. WilliamSea, as far as I am concerned was and still is the greatest mod author Nexus had ever seen. His Leveler's tower was pushing the limits of Skyrim since the start of LE. Sorry I have talked too long on that.
His merchant (scripting) allowed you to go into stealth, change the merchants amount of gold she carried, as well as reset her inventory to clear it so that it didn't become clogged with all of your selling, and all you had to do when she ran out of her gold to purchase, was end the conversation, and start again, and like magic, she had her gold again to start selling. The only negative, if you call it that, was you had to go to her, she was not a follower. Also of note, if you didn't want to take advantage of those bonus inventory resets and gold, you didn't have to. Her inventory would clear and reset just like any other merchants. one last thing, if you reset her inventory via stealth, it didn't give you new items to purchase, it would clear it, and it would fill in as normal merchants do if you bought out all their stock. All she would have when clearing is a couple bottles of ale or a sweet roll, very little.
Your follower/merchant is well done and fantastic, if you could implement that merchant behavior, as described above, she would be legendary.
Thank you so much for this gift you have given, even if you don't ever implement the changes!
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback What you suggested is a good mechanism. I'll consider it in the future. Sadly, if I'll go for it, it would really be in the (far) future as I'm tied up with out-of-Skyrim creations these days (months).
Completely understandable. I appreciate you taking the time to read my comment and responding. Good luck in all of your endeavors, whatever you are doing I am sure there are people appreciative. Thank again!
Awesome little mod, I like that I can teleport a merchant to me to unload stuff who is a sparky lil' firecracker and isn't a scary evil dremora. For extra role-play points it would be awesome if there was a spell to teleport her home. Feels bad teleporting her a hundred miles then leaving her to walk home.
lol yes, same here. She is certainly awesome to have a merchant at our fingertips ready to "unburden" my overburdeness LOL. I also added LotD as her master and she sells books and coins from the museum :D
Hi, CVR is not AI. It is a project managed by Kerstyn Unger, which is also the voice actress of Lenora. It is a resource containing a variety of voice types, male and female, performed by a few voice actors and Kerstyn herself. Link is in the description.
You didn't seem to have understood my question.. But I'll consider that there was no voice actress hired to perform exclusively for your follower only. And with this in mind, I'm also guessing you used the same set of dialogue lines as other follower mods using the CVR voice resource
You asked if the Follower is AI Voiced, They answered your question, the Follower isn't AI voiced.
Your second question was, if the Follower was voiced by a Voice actor specifically, saying specific Lines for the Character. They answered your question, the Voice comes from a project that offers "Voice Resources" from Human living Voice actors. Basically non-specific Lines of Dialogue, Mod authors can use for free, to voice their characters. Taking pieces and putting them in places for certain reactions of Dialogue.
I don't see where the author did not understand or answered your questions. That the follower is CVR-Voiced, already answered your question, if a Voice actor was hired to voice the character.
Lol, you keep squaring back to your previous points ignoring the terms EXCLUSIVE and PERSONALLY HIRED twice, bro And I asked 3 questions in the beginning, which you addressed 2 parts and not the the 3rd one in proper manner. I already got that you used CVR voicing pack which is done by a real voiced actress, but that wasn't my point. My point initially on the 3rd question was IF YOU HIRED THE VOICE ACTRESS PERSONALLY TO VOICE FOR YOUR FOLLOWER. Pardon me, but I had to write that sentence in capital letters so you can focus on that portion only. But that was just what the 3rd question in my initial comment was referring to. And in my 2nd comment, I didn't ask anything else furthermore because I have already understood that you did not personally hire the voice actress to voice for your follower exclusively, like how a lot of custom voiced followers are created where the authors manage their own voice actor or actress to perform for their follower. Hence this is what your response to my 3rd question should have been "No, I did not hire any voice actress exclusively for my follower but I used a free to use CVR resource where voice actresses have their audio files added" - but we should have already summed up our confusions by now
Yusehiko - Thank you so much for clarifying. CrimsonJackXXX - Sorry. I assumed my answer covered your question and then I assumed Yusehiko's answer covered you question. "I'll consider that there was no vvoice actress hired to perform exclusively for your follower only" - Correct! I didn't ask Kerstyn to record unique lines for Lenora. I used the Merchant voicetype from her resource (CVR). "I'm also guessing you the same set of dialogue lines as other follower mods using the CVR voice resource" - CVR has many voicetypes. I used female Merchant. If there are, or there will be more mods using female Merchant voicetype then yes, the same set of dialog lines will be heard in them as well. Maybe with the slight change of some splicing I did specifically for Lenora and some implementation of voice lines which appeared under category A and I thought category B was more appropriate or funny to do. Let's call it "personal touch".
She has a dialog option "Can you carry some stuff for me?" which is the vanilla Skyrim trade menu (not the buy/sell menu). You don't have that dialog option?
Nah, I'm a lazy person Instead of implementing a carry bag, I just gave the vanilla trade dialog where you can also give her armor to wear and weapons to use.
Hi, The first thing to check: Is you Skyrim version older than 1.6.1130 and if so, are you using BEES (in the mod's requirements section for older Skyrim versions).
Any plans to make hiring her less immersion-breaking? It's kinda strange to just walk up to her and tell her to follow without even any lead-up dialogue. Other than that, I like her so far (only spent a little while with her at this point).
Thanks! I hope you're enjoying the mod. Lenora and Aronel are based on a pre-existing voice resource. These are pre-recorded lines and in order to add more lines, I need to actually ask the voice actors for more lines. Also, Kerstyn asked (and I totally agree with her) that AI won't be used on her voice to generate new lines, and I don't have enough material to do a decent splicing for a totally new content. Long story short, at this point, I don't have a way to add new voice content to her, such as an immersive recruitment dialog.
I have no problem with Followers having some read-only dialogue to flesh them out... I'd rather read new comments and info from my follower that i can respond to than NOT have any at all (spoken lines only).
I get what you say. That indeed opens a door to new possibilities. Two reasons I don't plan to do it at this point are: 1. Well... Lenora IS based on the CVR recording lines. Unlike Eilgird and Melana, here I didn't actually write anything. Just implemented the voice files, so I feel kinda awkward basing a character on Kerstyn's recordings and adding lines without any voice (while she is a voice actress). 2. The domino effect it'll lead me into is not something I have the time to at the moment. If I add a few read-only lines, I won't be able to stop myself and I'll try to contact Kerstyn to record those lines and if that succeeds, I'll plan a lot of content to add to her. I'm not gonna lie to you - I do want to do it but I'm pretty much low on free time at the moment, and I don't even know if Kerstyn is available for it as well.
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Thanks once again for the port permissions.
Thanks for the port.
She doesn't have a custom body so her body and face will look according to your installed mods.
She does use a KS hair. It doesn't look like vanilla but maybe you can give her a wig if you want specifically SMP vanilla hair for her.
I have no problem with studio performances like SDA for instance, but he makes a ton of money off of donations and sponsors, making it harder for hobbyist, or beginners to enter into that arena. Keep up the fantastic work. Also, this isn't a dig at SDA that is a fantastic mod that I have enjoyed more than one play through. thank you for your work!
Now for my question, have you ever used the mod Levelers Tower v4.4 at Skyrim Special Edition Nexus - Mods and Community ? The merchant in the basement is hands down best merchant in the game for the past decade. WilliamSea, as far as I am concerned was and still is the greatest mod author Nexus had ever seen. His Leveler's tower was pushing the limits of Skyrim since the start of LE. Sorry I have talked too long on that.
His merchant (scripting) allowed you to go into stealth, change the merchants amount of gold she carried, as well as reset her inventory to clear it so that it didn't become clogged with all of your selling, and all you had to do when she ran out of her gold to purchase, was end the conversation, and start again, and like magic, she had her gold again to start selling. The only negative, if you call it that, was you had to go to her, she was not a follower. Also of note, if you didn't want to take advantage of those bonus inventory resets and gold, you didn't have to. Her inventory would clear and reset just like any other merchants. one last thing, if you reset her inventory via stealth, it didn't give you new items to purchase, it would clear it, and it would fill in as normal merchants do if you bought out all their stock. All she would have when clearing is a couple bottles of ale or a sweet roll, very little.
Your follower/merchant is well done and fantastic, if you could implement that merchant behavior, as described above, she would be legendary.
Thank you so much for this gift you have given, even if you don't ever implement the changes!
Thanks for the feedback
What you suggested is a good mechanism. I'll consider it in the future.
Sadly, if I'll go for it, it would really be in the (far) future as I'm tied up with out-of-Skyrim creations these days (months).
She's a traveling merchant. She needs to travel once in a while anyway.
CVR is not AI.
It is a project managed by Kerstyn Unger, which is also the voice actress of Lenora.
It is a resource containing a variety of voice types, male and female, performed by a few voice actors and Kerstyn herself.
Link is in the description.
You asked if the Follower is AI Voiced, They answered your question, the Follower isn't AI voiced.
Your second question was, if the Follower was voiced by a Voice actor specifically, saying specific Lines for the Character. They answered your question, the Voice comes from a project that offers "Voice Resources" from Human living Voice actors. Basically non-specific Lines of Dialogue, Mod authors can use for free, to voice their characters. Taking pieces and putting them in places for certain reactions of Dialogue.
I don't see where the author did not understand or answered your questions. That the follower is CVR-Voiced, already answered your question, if a Voice actor was hired to voice the character.
CrimsonJackXXX - Sorry. I assumed my answer covered your question and then I assumed Yusehiko's answer covered you question.
"I'll consider that there was no vvoice actress hired to perform exclusively for your follower only" - Correct! I didn't ask Kerstyn to record unique lines for Lenora. I used the Merchant voicetype from her resource (CVR).
"I'm also guessing you the same set of dialogue lines as other follower mods using the CVR voice resource" - CVR has many voicetypes. I used female Merchant. If there are, or there will be more mods using female Merchant voicetype then yes, the same set of dialog lines will be heard in them as well. Maybe with the slight change of some splicing I did specifically for Lenora and some implementation of voice lines which appeared under category A and I thought category B was more appropriate or funny to do. Let's call it "personal touch".
Hope it answered your question.
You don't have that dialog option?
Instead of implementing a carry bag, I just gave the vanilla trade dialog where you can also give her armor to wear and weapons to use.
The first thing to check: Is you Skyrim version older than 1.6.1130 and if so, are you using BEES (in the mod's requirements section for older Skyrim versions).
Other than that, I like her so far (only spent a little while with her at this point).
Lenora and Aronel are based on a pre-existing voice resource. These are pre-recorded lines and in order to add more lines, I need to actually ask the voice actors for more lines. Also, Kerstyn asked (and I totally agree with her) that AI won't be used on her voice to generate new lines, and I don't have enough material to do a decent splicing for a totally new content.
Long story short, at this point, I don't have a way to add new voice content to her, such as an immersive recruitment dialog.
I'd rather read new comments and info from my follower that i can respond to than NOT have any at all (spoken lines only).
Two reasons I don't plan to do it at this point are:
1. Well... Lenora IS based on the CVR recording lines. Unlike Eilgird and Melana, here I didn't actually write anything. Just implemented the voice files, so I feel kinda awkward basing a character on Kerstyn's recordings and adding lines without any voice (while she is a voice actress).
2. The domino effect it'll lead me into is not something I have the time to at the moment. If I add a few read-only lines, I won't be able to stop myself and I'll try to contact Kerstyn to record those lines and if that succeeds, I'll plan a lot of content to add to her. I'm not gonna lie to you - I do want to do it but I'm pretty much low on free time at the moment, and I don't even know if Kerstyn is available for it as well.