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The author has locked this comment topic for the time beingIt sucks asking for help, but I don't know where else to go. This is one of the most downloaded mods on the Nexus and I spent almost a decade working on this and other mods on this site. I have replied to over 5000 questions and did all this during a severe illness that has rendered me disabled to this day.
While I am alive and kicking, I also have two small children and I am a single parent. I know it sucks reading people ask for help and I don't mean to sound envious but there are people who are creating collections earning THOUSANDS a month on Patreon while modders of the mods they use earn peanuts. These collections are also totally bypassing our mod pages so direct donations no longer happen. My goal is to have enough patrons so I can get back to modding, open the comment section and support the mod again. It's just hard when the reward is so minor and the demand is so high.
I earn about $30-60 a month on my mod (I am happy to prove this) and I believe it's in the top 20 or so most downloaded mods of all time. Yet collection creators have discords with thousands of people, and hundreds of patrons earning up to $3000 a month. Absolute insanity when the real work was done by us, the mod authors.
I am having severe financial issues and I am literally begging here for help. I don't own a phone, I don't even have more than a few pair of pants and a couple of shirts. My car recently broke down and I can't even afford to repair it. My son just had his birthday and I couldn't even afford a proper gift. I just repaired an old computer of mine and let him use it, and we got a cheap cake from the store.
If anyone can help, PLEASE DONATE as it would take a lot of stress off me and give my kids and I some freedom. I can't leave my house much without transport, I feel isolated and depressed. I have spoken to One Door Mental health for some support but they can only help me with speaking to therapists. I will be honest, I haven't left my home in 6 months.
Please check my Patreon below or donate directly if you can. My goal is to just get a cheap car so I can once again leave the house, visit family and feel like a normal human being.
I am sorry if this upsets anyone, but I dunno what else to do.
The direct donation link should be on the mod page and my patreon is below. If I got $1 for every unique person that downloaded my mod, I would make $40,000 a month - my life would be changed forever.
Please help. Thank you! <3
My Patreon Link is here! Help support my family!
Directly donate any amount as a once off here! Help support my family!
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My Patreon! Help support my family!
Directly donate any amount as a once off here! Help support my family!
My health is not the greatest right now. It's been an ongoing issue now since 2007. My life was saved with 5 surgeries back in 2014 but many problems exist.
I still have two small children and I am a single parent. Covid and inflation has just made things so difficult, especially on minimum wage government payments.
It has reached a point where I feel like I need to get back to modding despite my health issues just to somehow get more support. This isn't easy for me because people think I earn a lot from the mod but I really don't.
So once again, thank you to those who have joined the Patreon. It's been almost 10 years of offering this mod, supporting it and I still answer all the DM's I am getting - and I do get MANY. They are usually kind comments, so it's heart warming at least and an improvement from past difficulties with the community.
So thank you once again.
I no longer care about endorsements, I don't care about downloads and I don't care about any so called "fame" around being a modder. It was a lot of hard work and people don't realise it. It was many years ago and I have supported it through tough times.
So I am finally just letting go of it all.
Enjoy. Please do not message me in private - I will not respond.
I am officially retired from modding and have little concern with issues regarding it.
I have devoted a good chunk of my life to this mod, but the effort to reward is very low and there are numerous people who have benefited more than me on this work. Including the sites its been uploaded to, and people who have made YouTube videos on it.
I am just happy to be kicking on still in life and there are more important things to me than reading negative comments from entitled people.
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It was a fun ride (not really).
September 2024 Update:
PLEASE NOTE THE PERMISSIONS OF THIS MOD HAVE CHANGED AND RLO IS NO LONGER FREE FOR EDIT. The new permissions and readme of the mod superceed comments above in this post, but the sentiment of why I retired from modding remain. I also expect to be asked before anyone adds any component of this mod to a collection. Seeing it get brutally chopped out to fill a service no one else has offered is disgusting. It is also disgusting that I have a family friendly mod (lighting/photography) and it's being used to just make screenshots of sexualized Skyrim. Then Nexus won't allow me to have it removed, even after my own kids found my name attached to part of a Skyrim sex collection and asked me why "i did that?" when I didn't. Go touch grass please.
Even years later, people still continue to profit off this mod, more than the modders themselves, from this sites devs, to Bethesda to now collection curators who laugh in our faces and ban us from their discords when we politely ask for our mod to get taken out. They then are surprised when we tell them to f*** off. In fact they take people away from our mod pages, to their discords and spam their patreons in everyones faces. Then Nexus thinks its a great idea to not even reward us based on downloads from collections but "manual interaction" on this site.
What a joke.
I proved my point that no one took this mod to make it better. Not a single person in all these years who would message me out of anger saying they could do it better did. In fact it was many of the silent modders who actually spent hours working away that have successful mods.
This version removes theft protection the mod had where people were selling the mod for console use. I also updated the permissions and added extra info to the readme.
Since you are removing your mods I think I will remove my patreon support.
Trying so so hard...streaming games and also making channel art for people. If you need a channel rebrand or thumbnails, please DM me.
I have returned to streaming after 5 years to try and at least pay for my dinner each night. I want to thank everyone who has supported me during this really difficult time. Streaming has been helping me as it keeps me busy and helps me meet new people and pass time and have a laugh, temporarily forgetting my problems.
If you want to help me further, a simple way is to subscribe to my channel and come to some of the streams, or even simply leave the streams up to help me get my watch time up so I can be monetized sooner.
Please visit my channel, I would appreciate the support!
https://www.youtube.com/@Masked_Official
Below are some examples of my silly content! I have also added some timestamps of funny moments. I hope you guys like the thumbnails and channel branding!
BRAND NEW TRAILER!!!
Please watch the entire video (it's just 1 min 35 seconds) as it will help my watch time!!!
It's free and helps me out so much!!!!
#positivity!
Please like and subscribe! Streaming and selling my services (thumbnails/graphics/branding/logos) is now my full-time job.
I have the entire JK skyrim pack, all the cities all the towns.
But since I didn't install every city one at a time, your installer won't let me download the patch for Riverwood and Whiterun :(
However, recently I had a problem with Vivid, and had to uninstall it. In its place I put Rustic Weathers, which I find much better.
However, now the interiors are very, very dark. Even on shops I need to use a torch to be able to see the details.
If I adjust brightness it becomes too bright outside.
Removed RLO and everything had turned back to normal.
Put RLO again and its dark again.
Then put RLO at end of load order, before only Realistic Waters Two. Still dark.
Im using the patches for CRF and IC.
Any way to configure it? I will have to remove it.
With ELFX I needed to add a mod to let me make torches cause I never had enough!
RLO, everything seems SO bright in comparison. Trying to recall how I configured it, might have to check again though.
But I'm not sure why yours is so dark.
RLO did not dim the daylight of the template or ambient, they did not dim the blue effect, they did not reduce the glaring fires, and did not move a single light in this cave. In fact they didn't touch a single record in it. Now the base file for fires have a warmer color but the blue effect near water is now green. My bandits walk about a day lit cave with torches and there is almost no darkness for hiding in a massive underground cave. Using a darkening mod with this mutes everything in a bad way. So what about Lost Knife Cave Hideout? The only change is two DEFAULTCANDLE01 were changed to BORDERWALLSMOKE.
I always appreciate work done and the willingness to share but the result here baffle me to no end. This mod does nothing for stealth in the dark and is no where near realistic. The Winking Skeever, Embershard Mine, just a warmer fire color, some color changes I don't like, and a pinch more contrast. It seems this mod has fixed all lighting bugs so that is good. Eye adaption in games I find useless because your eyes will do this naturally if the game has proper lighting. Before you tell me I am a fool turn off your ENB or reshade and your weather mods. Test vanilla then with this in any cave. Then delete the lighting template, set ambient directional colors to zero, and if you can set the base lights to 50% of their color. You will be amazed at how real it is.